Faculty
The faculty and staff in the History Department at the University of Minnesota are deeply committed to instilling in students an appreciation for and understanding of the past. The approximately forty full-time faculty have varied academic backgrounds and possess diverse and interdisciplinary research interests.
The department also draws upon visiting lecturers and scholars who bring their expertise in many areas of study. Our graduate students come from all over the world and occupy a unique position as both students and graduate assistants/instructors who bring their diverse research interests to their teaching. Furthermore, the staff members in the department offer many years of experience at the University of Minnesota, provide professional support to faculty and students and keep the department running smoothly. Together faculty, graduate students, and staff are dedicated to providing students with the support they need to learn and excel in today's complex world.
Full-Time Faculty
Name | Contact | Office Hours | Specialty |
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Susanna Blumenthal Professor |
436 Mondale Hall 612-626-5694 blume047@umn.edu |
Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm | American Cultural and Intellectual History, Anglo-American Legal History, and History of Human Sciences |
Giancarlo Casale Associate Professor |
1214 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu |
Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Pre-Modern and Early Modern World History | |
Sarah Chambers Professor |
1218 Heller Hall 612-625-6376 chambers@umn.edu |
Colonial Latin America; Gender, Cultural, and Legal History | |
David Chang Distinguished McKnight Professor and American Indian Studies Chair |
1143 Heller Hall 612-624-9045 dchang@umn.edu |
Race and Nationalism, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and 19th and 20th Century United States | |
Anna Clark Professor |
1051 Heller Hall 612-624-8015 clark106@umn.edu |
Mondays 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Wednesdays 3:00pm - 4:00pm | British, Irish, European, Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Tracey Deutsch Associate Professor |
1045 Heller Hall 612-624-8547 tdeutsch@umn.edu |
Fall Sabbatical | The United States, Women's History, and Business |
Gail Dubrow Professor |
1016 Heller Hall 612-625-6191 dubrow@umn.edu |
United States, Urban, Women, Asian-American, and Public History | |
Kirsten Fischer Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies |
1049 Heller Hall 612-626-4456 kfischer@umn.edu |
Tuesdays 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Colonial and Revolutionary America, United States, and Social and Intellectual |
Andrew Gallia Associate Professor |
1041 Heller Hall 612-626-4268 abgallia@umn.edu |
Mondays 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Ancient History |
Assistant Professor
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sganor@umn.edu | ||
Katharine Gerbner Professor McKnight Land Grant Professor |
1239 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 kgerbner@umn.edu |
Atlantic World, Early America, Comparative Early Modern, Caribbean, Religion, and Race | |
J. David Hacker Associate Professor |
1235 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hacke010@umn.edu |
Demographic History, Quantitative History, and American Civil War | |
Carol Hakim Associate Professor |
1216 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu |
Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm | Modern Middle East |
Assistant Professor
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arhall@umn.edu | ||
Allen F. Isaacman Regents Professor |
910 Heller Hall 612-624-8037 isaac001@umn.edu |
Central and Southern Africa | |
Christopher M. Isett Associate Professor |
920 Heller Hall 612-624-1505 isett003@umn.edu |
Mondays and Tuesdays 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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Post-War East Asian Political Economies, Global and Post-War Capitalism, East Asia's Cold War, Comparative Economic History, Agrarian, and 18th–20th Century China |
William P Jones Professor and Director of Graduate Studies |
1118 Heller Hall 612-625-6418 wpjones@umn.edu |
On Sabbatical | 20th Century United States, Race, and Labor History |
Regents Professor
Distinguished McKnight Professor Rudolph J Vecoli Chair in Immigration History Director of the Immigration History Research Center |
1012 Heller Hall 612-625-5573 612-624-9569 erikalee@umn.edu |
20th Century United States, Asian-American, Immigration, and American West | |
Mai Na Lee
Associate Professor |
937 Heller Hall 612-625-6124 mainalee@umn.edu |
Wednesdays 11:45am - 12:45pm | Southeast Asia |
Malinda Lindquist Associate Professor |
1139 Heller Hall 612-626-4263 lindqust@umn.edu |
Wednesdays 2:30pm - 3:30pm | African-American and United States |
Patricia Lorcin Professor Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities |
1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu |
On Sabbatical | Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial and Postcolonial, and Mediterranean |
Howard Louthan
Professor |
1116 Heller Hall 612-624-7834 hlouthan@umn.edu |
Early Modern Europe; Central Europe; Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious History | |
Michael Lower Professor |
1220 Heller Hall 612-626-1796 mlower@umn.edu |
Crusades, Medieval Mediterranean, and Christian-Muslim relations | |
Saje Mathieu Associate Professor |
1233 Heller Hall 612-625-7769 smathieu@umn.edu |
Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment only | African-American, American Social and Political History, and Comparative Immigration |
Elaine Tyler May Regents Professor |
207 Scott Hall 612-626-7847 1110 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 mayxx002@umn.edu |
United States, American Studies, and American Women | |
Mary Jo Maynes Professor |
1010 Heller Hall 612-624-9330 mayne001@umn.edu |
Mondays 11:45am - 1:00pm, Tuesdays 10:00am - 11:30am | Modern Germany, European Social, and Women |
Patrick McNamara Associate Professor |
1212 Heller Hall 612-624-6531 pjm@umn.edu |
Fall Sabbatical | Latin America and Mexico |
Hiromi Mizuno Associate Professor |
941 Heller Hall 612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu |
Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm | Modern Japan, Gender and Sexuality, and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology |
Kevin Murphy Professor |
1047 Heller Hall 612-624-9021 kpmurphy@umn.edu |
Tuesdays 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Urban, Gender and Sexuality, Political, and Cultural |
Jean O'Brien Distinguished McKnight Professor |
1014 Heller Hall 612-624-5794 obrie002@umn.edu |
Colonial American and Native American
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Assistant Professor
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918 Heller Hall
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Tuesdays 1:30pm - 3:30pm | Environmental history, Middle East, Modern Muslim World, Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Kurdistan |
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Associate Professor |
935 Heller Hall 612-624-8079 pohla001@umn.edu |
Africa, South Africa, Social and Cultural history, and Comparative Women's History | |
Kathryn L Reyerson Professor |
1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu |
Thursdays 1:30pm - 3:30pm | Medieval Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Medieval France, Social and Economic History, and Legal History |
Steven Ruggles Distinguished McKnight Professor Regents Professor |
945 Heller Hall 612-624-4081 ruggl001@umn.edu |
On Sabbatical | American Demographic and Social History |
Daniel Schroeter Professor Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History |
1018 Heller Hall 612-624-9526 schro800@umn.edu |
Wednesdays 9:30am - 11:30am | Jewish, North African, and Mediterranean |
JB Shank Professor |
922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu |
Mondays 10:30am - 11:30am, 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, and History of Science |
Ajay Skaria Professor |
924 Heller Hall 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu |
South Asia and Environmental History | |
Theofanis G. Stavrou Professor |
1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 stavr001@umn.edu |
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:10am - 1:00pm | Russia, Modern Greek studies, and Eastern Orthodoxy |
Andrea Sterk Associate Professor and Associate Chair |
1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 sterk@umn.edu |
Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Byzantine History | |
Assistant Professor
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943 Heller Hall 612-626-7598 itchouka@umn.edu |
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Ann Waltner History Department Chair and Professor |
912 Heller Hall 612-624-3810 waltn001@umn.edu |
Mondays 10:00am - 12:00pm | Traditional China |
Liping Wang Associate Professor |
939 Heller Hall 612-624-4834 lipin003@umn.edu |
Modern Chinese Social and Cultural | |
Barbara Y. Welke Distinguished McKnight Professor of History & Law |
1039 Heller Hall 612-624-7017 welke004@umn.edu |
Tuesday 5:45pm - 6:45pm, Thursday 4:00pm - 5:30pm | American Legal and Constitutional, American Women's, and Modern American history |
Thomas Wolfe Associate Professor |
914 Heller Hall 612-624-1886 wolfe023@umn.edu |
On Sabbatical | European Union, Soviet Union, History of Media and Communications, and Pragmatism |
Affiliate Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Keletso Atkins Associate Professor |
852 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9847 atkin013@umn.edu |
Afro-American and African Studies |
Jon Butler Adjunct Research Professor |
butle115@umn.edu | |
Brenda Child Associate Professor |
104 Scott Hall 612-624-4190 child011@umn.edu |
American Studies |
Victoria Coifman Assistant Professor |
825 Social Sciences Building 612-624-5709 coifm001@umn.edu |
Comparative Tropical |
Christine DeLisle Assistant Professor |
19 Scott Hall 612-625-3821 cdelisle@umn.edu |
American Indian Studies |
Vincente Diaz Associate Professor |
19 Scott Hall 612-625-2376 vmdiaz@umn.edu |
American Indian Studies |
Assistant Professor
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266 Nicholson Hall
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Classical and Near Eastern Studies
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Sally Kohlstedt Professor |
123 Pillsbury Hall 612-624-9368 sgk@umn.edu |
Science and Nature Study Movement |
Nabil Matar Professor |
330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu |
Modern Arabic Literature and Arab-Islamic Civilization |
Keith A. Mayes Assistant Professor |
827 Social Sciences Building 612-624-5202 mayes@umn.edu |
African American |
Stuart McLean Professor |
523 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3507 mclea070@umn.edu |
Latin America and Demography |
Karen Painter Associate Professor |
132 Ferguson Hall 612-624-7512 kpainter@umn.edu |
Germany Musicology |
Librarian
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15 Anderson Library
612-624-6895
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Paul Stone Assistant Professor |
152 Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs 612-626-0728 stone069@umn.edu |
United States Trans-Mississippi Western & North American frontier, American Church & Religious, and 20th Century Southwestern |
Eva von Dassow Associate Professor |
245 Nicholson Hall 612-626-4787 vonda001@umn.edu |
Near East |
John Watkins Professor |
312 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu |
Sovereignty and Queenship, Medieval and Early Modern Diplomacy, Premodern Political Culture, and Classical and Medieval Origins of the Renaissance |
Benjamin Wiggins Affiliated Assistant Professor |
180 O. Meredith Wilson Library 612-624-0535 benwig@umn.edu |
United States, Insurance, Risk, and Digital Humanities |
Post Doc
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Post-Doctoral Associate
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adeckrow@umn.edu |
Public History
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Emeriti Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Bernard S. Bachrach
Professor Emeritus |
Renaissance and Medieval Eras and Medieval Military
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Iraj Bashiri
Professor Emeritus |
Islamic World and Literature
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Gary Cohen
Professor Emeritus |
Austria and Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Modern European Social and Political History
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John K. Evans
Professor Emeritus |
Ancient and Ancient Rome
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Sara M. Evans
Regents Professor Emerita |
20th-Century US Social and American Women
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Edward L. Farmer
Professor Emeritus |
Modern China, Comparative Early Modern, and World
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David Good
Professor Emeritus |
European Economic and Austria
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George D. Green
Professor Emeritus |
American Economic and Business
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John Howe
Professor Emeritus |
Political and 18th- & 19th-Century American
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Thomas Kelly
Professor Emeritus |
Ancient and Ancient Greece
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David O. Kieft
Associate Professor Emeritus |
European Diplomatic
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David Kopf
Professor Emeritus |
India and Comparative World
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Byron K. Marshall
Professor Emeritus |
Japan
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Lary May
Professor Emeritus |
American Studies and United States
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Russell R. Menard
Professor Emeritus |
Colonial America
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Michael F. Metcalf
Professor Emeritus |
Scandinavia
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Lisa Norling
Professor Emerita |
American Revolution, 18th and 19th Century America, Women and Gender, and Maritime
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Carla Rahn Phillips
Professor Emerita |
Early Modern Europe, Social & Economic, and Spain
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William D Phillips
Professor Emeritus |
Medieval & Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean, and Spain
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Richard L. Rudolph
Professor Emeritus |
Modern European Social & Economic, and Eastern Europe
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John A. Thayer
Professor Emeritus |
European Intellectual and Italy
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James Tracy
Professor Emeritus |
Renaissance & Reformation and 16th-century Europe
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