Affiliated Faculty

Name	Contact	Minor Affiliation	Research Interests
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll	pahearne@umn.edu		Judaism in Egypt during Ptolemaic and early Roman periods, Jewish-Greek literature, religious practice in Ptolemaic Egypt
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll	sahearne@umn.edu		Historical and critical study of the New Testament in relation to the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean world
Jennifer Alexander History of Science, Technology, and Medicine	alexa056@umn.edu		Modern industrial/technological culture; science, technology, and religion; history of engineering; technology and the body; historiography; modern Europe, modern US
Elaine Auyoung English	eauyoung@umn.edu		19th-century British literature, the novel, psychology of reading, aesthetics
Bernard S. Bachrach History	bachr001@umn.edu	Medieval	Early Angevin history, Fulk Nerra, medieval Europe before 1200, medieval military, Renaissance
Victor D. Boantza History of Science, Technology, and Medicine	vboantza@umn.edu	Early Modern	Early modern physical sciences, Enlightenment science, the scientific and chemical revolutions
Timothy Brennan Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	brenn032@umn.edu		Intellectual history; cultural and political theory; the Marxist and phenomenological traditions; the avant-gardes, comparative and world literature, theories of colonialism and imperialism, problems of translation, and popular music
Tony Brown Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	tcbrown@umn.edu	Early Modern	Philosophy, literary, aesthetic and political theory, Enlightenment philosophy and anthropology, statelessness, the new world, the South Pacific, colonial and postcolonial literature and theory
Giancarlo Casale History	casale@umn.edu	Early Modern	Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Pre-Modern and Early Modern World History
Sinem Casale Art History	sinem@umn.edu	Early Modern	Islamic art
Cesare Casarino Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	casarino@umn.edu		Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory
Sarah Chambers History	chambers@umn.edu	Early Modern	Colonial Latin America; Gender, Cultural, and Legal History
David Chang History	dchang@umn.edu	Early Modern	Race and Nationalism, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and 19th and 20th Century United States
Juliette Cherbuliez French & Italian	cherbuli@umn.edu	Early Modern	17th-century literature and culture, theater studies
Gabriela Currie Music	ilnit001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Medieval music theory, intersections between music and scientific thought in the early and premodern eras
Andrew Elfenbein English	elfen001@umn.edu	Early Modern	British literature and history, 1700-1900; reading and cognition; queer theory; linguistics
Lianna Farber English	farbe004@umn.edu	Medieval	Medieval literature and thought
Ana Paula Ferreira Spanish & Portuguese Studies; Chicano & Latino Studies	apferrei@umn.edu		Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures; "Race" and Coloniality in the Global Portuguese and Spanish South; Women, Feminisms and Late Empire/Post empire
Kirsten Fischer History	kfischer@umn.edu	Early Modern	Colonial and Revolutionary America, United States, and Social and Intellectual
Andrew Gallia History; Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures	abgallia@umn.edu		Ancient History
Michael Gaudio Art History	gaudio@umn.edu	Early Modern	Visual arts in the early modern Atlantic world
Katharine Gerbner History	kgerbner@umn.edu	Early Modern	Atlantic World, Early America, Comparative Early Modern, Caribbean, Religion, and Race
Jessica Gordon-Roth Philosophy	gordo216@umn.edu	Early Modern	History of early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy
Anna Graber Earth Sciences	agraber@umn.edu	Early Modern	History of earth science and natural history; Enlightenment science; history of mining and metallurgy; science and empire; modern and early modern Russia
Daniel Greenberg Art History	gree2948@umn.edu	Early Modern	East Asian art
Ryan Greenwood Law School Library	rgreenwo@umn.edu	Medieval	Medieval Roman law, Magna Carta
Michelle Hamilton Spanish & Portuguese Studies	hamilton@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Cultural contact in medieval Iberia, Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe, religious studies and philosophies
Kelley Harness Music	harne005@umn.edu	Early Modern	Musicology / Ethnomusicology
Katherine Hayes Anthropology	kathayes@umn.edu	Early Modern	Historical archaeology, memory, forgetting, history, heritage, colonialism in North America, ceramic analysis, material culture studies
Christopher Isett History	isett003@umn.edu	Early Modern	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
Jeanne Kilde Religious Studies	jkilde@umn.edu		Theory and method in religious studies, religion in America, religious space and architecture
Michal A. Kobialka Theater Arts & Dance	kobia001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Eastern European theater, theater historiography, medieval theater
Nita Krevans Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures	nkrevans@umn.edu	Medieval	Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic literature, history of the book
Rebecca Krug English	krugx001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Late medieval literature, religion, culture, women's studies
Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. Philosophy	lewi1715@umn.edu	Early Modern	History of early modern philosophy, philosophy of race, and Africana philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of Anton Willhelm Amo (c.1700-c.1750)
Anatoly Liberman German, Scandinavian & Dutch	aliber@umn.edu	Medieval	Folklore, historical phonology and the origin of words, Scandinavian mythology, languages and literatures of the Middle Ages
Howard Louthan History	hlouthan@umn.edu	Early Modern	Early Modern Europe; Central Europe; Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious History
Michael Lower History	mlower@umn.edu	Medieval	Medieval Mediterranean, the Crusades, Christian/Muslim relations, North Africa
Nabil Matar English	matar010@umn.edu	Early Modern	Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature
Raúl Marrero-Fente Spanish & Portuguese Studies	rmarrero@umn.edu	Early Modern	Trans-Atlantic studies, colonial Latin American literature and culture, early modern Spanish literature and culture, colonial and post-colonial studies, global studies, feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, human rights, law and literature
Steven Matthews History (University of Minnesota, Duluth)	smatthew@d.umn.edu	Early Modern	History of Christianity, history of science
Mary Jo Maynes History	mayne001@umn.edu		Modern Germany, European Social, and Women
Stuart McLean Anthropology	mclea070@umn.edu		Anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union
Michael Bennett McNulty Philosophy	mcnu0074@umn.edu	Early Modern	Kant, history and philosophy of science, history and philosophy of mathematics
Susan Noakes French & Italian	noake001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Banking and economics in medieval literature, the global Middle Ages
Jean O'Brien History	obrie002@umn.edu	Early Modern	Colonial American and Native American
Steven Ostrow Art History	ostro133@umn.edu	Early Modern	Early Modern European Art, 1600-1750
James Parente German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	paren001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Renaissance, Reformation, and Baroque literature and culture; medieval, German, Netherlandic, and Scandinavian literature and culture
Zozan Pehlivan History	zozan@umn.edu		Environmental history, Middle East, Modern Muslim World, Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Kurdistan
Marguerite Ragnow James Ford Bell Library; CPS Director of Publications	ragn0001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Medieval history and early modern world trade
Kathryn Reyerson History	reyer001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Medieval Europe, Mediterranean Europe, medieval France, social and economic history
Matthias Rothe German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	mrothe@umn.edu		18th-century political philosophy; philosophical and literary presentability of economic practices; Brechtian and contemporary theater
Jennifer Row French & Italian	jjrow@umn.edu	Early Modern	Early modern theater and dance studies, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, history of sexuality
Nida Sajid Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	nsajid@umn.edu	Early Modern	South Asian Literature (Hindi-Urdu); Muslim Cultures of South Asia; Intellectual History and Paracolonial Networks; Global Eighteenth Century; Human Rights and Transnationalism; Gender, Caste and Religion in South Asia; Material Culture and Dress Studies
Arun Saldanha Geography	saldanha@umn.edu	Early Modern	Race, colonialism, tourism, ethnography, feminist theory, Marxism, continental philosophy
Andrew Scheil English	ascheil@umn.edu	Medieval	Anglo-Saxon language and literature, literatures of late antiquity/early Middle Ages
Katherine Scheil English	kscheil@umn.edu	Early Modern	Shakespeare, early modern lit, theatre, women writers, history of reading, 18th c lit
Daniel Schroeter History	schro800@umn.edu	Early Modern	Jewish, North African, and Mediterranean
Anna L. Seastrand Art History	annalise@umn.edu	Early Modern	South Asian art
Jole Shackelford History of Science, Technology & Medicine	schack001@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Early Modern European science and medicine, history of Paracelsianism
JB Shank History	jbshank@umn.edu	Early Modern	Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, and History of Science
Anurag Sinha Political Science	asinha@umn.edu	Early Modern	Modern political thought
Andrea Sterk History	sterk@umn.edu	Medieval	Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History
Rachel Trocchio English	trocc004@umn.edu	Early Modern	17th- through 19th-century American literature, puritan studies, early modern studies, religion and cognition
Eva von Dassow Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures	vonda001@umn.edu		Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Akkadian and Ugaritic
Ray Wakefield German, Scandinavian & Dutch	wakef001@umn.edu	Medieval	Medieval German culture, medieval mystics, Dutch, manuscript culture
Ann Waltner History	waltn001@umn.edu	Early Modern	Traditional China
John Watkins English	watki005@umn.edu	Medieval / Early Modern	Medieval and early modern diplomacy, premodern political culture, classical and medieval origins of the Renaissance
Peter Wells Anthropology	wells001@umn.edu	Medieval	Material culture, visual representation, European prehistory, Roman and early medieval periods, ancient Germans and Celts
Thomas Wolfe History	wolfe023@umn.edu		European Union, Soviet Union, History of Media and Communications, and Pragmatism
Travis Workman Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	tworkman@umn.edu		Korean literature, film, and intellectual history; state violence and historical memory; melodrama; nationalism; humanism and its critiques
Amit Yahav English	ayahav@umn.edu	Early Modern	18th century, the novel, aesthetics, theory