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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| Bernard S. Bachrach Professor |
1114 Heller Hall 612-624-3301 bachr001@umn.edu |
On leave | Renaissance and Medieval eras, Medieval Military |
| Iraj Bashiri Professor |
1043 Heller Hall 612-624-3314 bashi001@umn.edu |
Wed 11:15 - 12:00 | Islamic World and Literature |
| Susanna Blumenthal Associate Professor |
436 Mondale Hall 612-626-5694 blume047@umn.edu |
Thurs 15:30 - 16:30 | American Cultural and Intellectual History, Anglo-American Legal History, History of Human Sciences |
| Giancarlo Casale Associate Professor |
1214 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu |
On leave till 2023 | Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Pre-Modern and Early Modern World History |
| Sarah Chambers Professor |
1218 Heller Hall 612-625-6376 chambers@umn.edu |
Tues 12:45 - 14:00; Fri 11:00 - 12:00 | Colonial Latin America; Gender, Cultural, and Legal History |
| David Chang Distinguished McKnight Professor |
1143 Heller Hall 612-624-9045 dchang@umn.edu |
Wed 9:30 - 11:30 in Scott Hall 19. | Race and Nationalism, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, 19th and 20th Century United States |
| Anna Clark Professor |
1051 Heller Hall 612-624-8015 clark106@umn.edu |
Tues 9:30 - 10:30; Thurs 14:00 - 15:00 | British, Irish, European, Women, Gender, Sexuality |
| Tracey Deutsch Associate Professor |
1045 Heller Hall 612-624-8547 tdeutsch@umn.edu |
Tues & Thurs 11:00 - 12:00 | United States, Women's History, Business |
| Gail Dubrow Professor |
1016 Heller Hall 612-625-6191 dubrow@umn.edu |
United States, Urban, Women, Asian-American, Public History | |
| Kirsten Fischer Associate Professor |
1049 Heller Hall 612-626-4456 kfischer@umn.edu |
On leave until Fall 2019 | Colonial and Revolutionary America, United States, Social and Intellectual |
| Andrew Gallia Associate Professor |
1041 Heller Hall 612-626-4268 abgallia@umn.edu |
Mon 10:30 - 12:30 | Ancient History |
| Katharine Gerbner Assistant Professor McKnight Land Grant Professor |
1239 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 kgerbner@umn.edu |
Mon & Wed 15:30 - 16:30 | Atlantic World, Early America, Comparative Early Modern, Caribbean, Religion, Race |
| J. David Hacker Associate Chair and Associate Professor |
1235 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hacke010@umn.edu |
Thurs & Fri 11:00 - 12:00 | Demographic History, Quantitative History, American Civil War |
| Carol Hakim Associate Professor |
1216 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu |
On leave | Modern Middle East |
| Allen F. Isaacman Regents Professor |
910 Heller Hall 612-624-8037 isaac001@umn.edu |
On leave | Central and Southern Africa |
| Christopher M. Isett Associate Professor |
920 Heller Hall 612-624-1505 isett003@umn.edu |
On leave until Fall 2019 | Post-War East Asian Political Economies, Global and Post-War Capitalism, East Asia's Cold War, Comparative Economic History, Agrarian, 18th–20th Century China |
| William P Jones Professor |
1118 Heller Hall 612-625-6418 wpjones@umn.edu |
Mon 11:30 - 12:30; Tues 11:00 - 13:00; Wed 15:00 - 16:00 | 20th Century United States, Race, Labor History |
| Ruth Mazo Karras Professor |
1222 Heller Hall 612-625-8578 rmk@umn.edu |
On Leave | Medieval Europe, Women and Gender History |
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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 |
On leave until 2020 | 20th Century United States, Asian-American, Immigration, American West |
| Mai Na Lee Associate Professor |
937 Heller Hall 612-625-6124 mainalee@umn.edu |
Wed 11:45 - 12:45 | Southeast Asia |
| Malinda Lindquist Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor |
1139 Heller Hall 612-626-4263 lindqust@umn.edu |
On Leave | African-American, United States |
| Patricia Lorcin Professor Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities |
1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu |
Mon 10:00 - 11:00 & Wed 15:30 - 16:30 | Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial and Postcolonial, Mediterranean |
| Howard Louthan Professor |
1116 Heller Hall 612-624-7834 hlouthan@umn.edu |
Tues 16:00 - 17:15; Thurs 12:15 - 13:30
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Early Modern Europe; Central Europe; Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious History |
| Michael Lower Associate Professor |
1220 Heller Hall 612-626-1796 mlower@umn.edu |
Tues & Thurs 10:00 - 11:00 | Crusades, Medieval Mediterranean, Christian-Muslim relations |
| Saje Mathieu Associate Professor |
1233 Heller Hall 612-625-7769 smathieu@umn.edu |
On leave until Fall 2019 | African-American, American Social and Political History, 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, American Women | |
| Mary Jo Maynes Professor |
1010 Heller Hall 612-624-9330 mayne001@umn.edu |
Mon 11:00 - 12:00; Tues 16:00 - 17:00 | Modern Germany, European Social, Women |
| Patrick McNamara Associate Professor |
1212 Heller Hall 612-624-6531 pjm@umn.edu |
Mon 12:30 - 14:30 | Latin America, Mexico |
| Hiromi Mizuno Associate Professor |
941 Heller Hall 612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu |
Mon 14:30 - 15:30; Wed 14:30 - 15:00; Fri by appt. | Modern Japan, Gender and Sexuality, Cultural Studies of Science and Technology |
| Kevin Murphy Professor |
1047 Heller Hall 612-624-9021 kpmurphy@umn.edu |
Tues 14:30 - 16:00 | Urban, Gender and Sexuality, Political and Cultural |
| Jean O'Brien Distinguished McKnight Professor |
1014 Heller Hall 612-624-5794 obrie002@umn.edu |
Tues 14:30 - 16:00 |
Colonial American, Native American
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Assistant Professor
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918 Heller Hall
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Wed 15:00 - 17:00 | Environmental history, Middle East, Modern Muslim World, and the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Kurdistan |
| Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Associate Professor |
935 Heller Hall 612-624-8079 pohla001@umn.edu |
On leave | Africa, South Africa, Social and Cultural history, Comparative Women's History |
| Kathryn L Reyerson Professor |
1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu |
Tues & Thurs 11:15 - 12:15 | Medieval Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Medieval France, Social and Economic History, Legal History |
| Steven Ruggles Distinguished McKnight Professor Regents Professor |
945 Heller Hall 612-624-4081 ruggl001@umn.edu |
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 |
Tues 15:00 - 17:00 | Jewish, North African, Mediterranean |
| JB Shank Associate Professor |
922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu |
Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, History of Science | |
| Ajay Skaria Professor |
924 Heller Hall 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu |
South Asia, Environmental History | |
| Theofanis G. Stavrou Professor |
1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 stavr001@umn.edu |
Russia, Modern Greek studies, Eastern Orthodoxy | |
| Andrea Sterk Associate Professor |
1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 sterk@umn.edu |
Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History | |
| Ann Waltner Director of Graduate Studies and Professor |
912 Heller Hall 612-624-3810 waltn001@umn.edu |
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 |
On leave until Fall 2019 | American Legal and Constitutional, American Women's, and Modern American history |
| Thomas Wolfe Associate Professor |
914 Heller Hall 612-624-1886 wolfe023@umn.edu |
Wed 10:00 - 12:00 | European Union, Soviet Union, History of Media and Communications, 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 & 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 |
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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, Nature Study Movement |
| Nabil Matar Professor |
330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu |
Modern Arabic Literature; 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, Demography |
| Karen Painter Associate Professor |
132 Ferguson Hall 612-624-7512 kpainter@umn.edu |
Germany Musicology |
| 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; 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, 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, Digital Humanities |
Visiting Faculty
| Name | Contact | Office Hour | Specialty | |
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Lecturer
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1037 Heller Hall
612-625-6190
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Thurs 13:00 - 14:15 |
Modern U. S. History, Settler Colonialism, American Indian/Alaska Native History
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| Igor Tchoukarine Lecturer |
943 Heller Hall 612-626-7598 itchouka@umn.edu |
Tues 13:00 - 15:00 | 20th Century Europe, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, History of Tourism | |
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Nathan Weaver Olson
Lecturer
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1137 Heller Hall
612-624-6010
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Tues & Thurs 13:00 - 14:00 | Latin America | |
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Juergen Pirker
Visiting Assistant Professor
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1227 Heller Hall
612-624-9007
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Mon & Wed 14:30 - 15:30 | Modern Europe |
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Gary Cohen
Professor Emeritus |
Austria and Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, Modern European Social and Political History
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John K. Evans
Professor Emeritus |
Ancient, Rome
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Sara M. Evans
Regents Professor Emerita |
20th-Century US Social, American Women
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Edward L. Farmer
Professor Emeritus |
Modern China, Comparative Early Modern, World
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David Good
Professor Emeritus |
European Economic, Austria
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George D. Green
Professor Emeritus |
American Economic & Business
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John Howe
Professor Emeritus |
Political, 18th- & 19th-Century American
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Thomas Kelly
Professor Emeritus |
Ancient, Greece
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David O. Kieft
Associate Professor Emeritus |
European Diplomatic
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David Kopf
Professor Emeritus |
India, Comparative World
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Byron K. Marshall
Professor Emeritus |
Japan
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Lary May
Professor Emeritus |
American Studies, US
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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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John Kim Munholland
Professor Emeritus |
Contemporary Europe, 20th-Century France
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Lisa Norling
Professor Emerita |
American Revolution, 18th and 19th Century America, Women and Gender, Maritime
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Carla Rahn Phillips
Professor Emerita |
Early Modern Europe, Social & Economic, Spain
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William D Phillips
Professor Emeritus |
Medieval & Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean, Spain
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Richard L. Rudolph
Professor Emeritus |
Modern European Social & Economic, Eastern Europe
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John A. Thayer
Professor Emeritus |
European Intellectual, Italy
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James Tracy
Professor Emeritus |
Renaissance & Reformation, 16th-century Europe
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