Faculty by Campus

Avery Point

MATTHEW MCKENZIE (Ph.D., New Hampshire; Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator): 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history

HELEN ROZWADOWSKI (Ph.D., Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor ) history of science, U.S. and Britain

Hartford

PAUL M. CANNING (Ph.D., Washington; Associate Professor): Modern Britain and Ireland

LAWRENCE GOODHEART (Ph.D., Connecticut; Professor): Nineteenth-century social and intellectual

Stamford

JOEL BLATT (Ph.D., Rochester; Associate Professor): Politics and International Relations of France, Italy, and Europe, 1914-1945

MARY E. CYGAN (Ph.D., Northwestern; Associate Professor): Ethnic and Racial Minorities; Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Storrs

FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran

PETER C. BALDWIN (Ph.D., Brown; Associate Professor): American Urban History; social and cultural history

RICHARD D. BROWN (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor and Director, Humanities Institute): Colonies; Revolution and Pre-Industrial Society and Culture; Micro-history

ROGER N. BUCKLEY (Ph.D., McGill; Professor and Director, Asian American Studies Institute): War and Society; India

DANIEL CANER (Ph.D., UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor): Ancient and Late Antique History

KORNEL CHANG (Ph.D., Chicago; Assistant Professor): Asian American History, Immigration and Borderlands, Western U.S.

CHRISTOPHER CLARK (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor): U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America

FRANK COSTIGLIOLA (Ph.D., Cornell; Professor): Foreign Relations, Twentieth Century

JOHN A. DAVIS (D.Phil., Oxford; Emiliana Pasca Noether Professor of Modern Italian History and Director, Center for European Studies): Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750

CORNELIA H. DAYTON (Ph.D. Princeton; Associate Professor): Early British North America; U.S. law, women and gender, history of mental disorders and disabilities

MICHAEL DINTENFASS (Ph.D., Columbia; Associate Professor): European Cultural History; Historiography; Economic and Business History

ALEXIS DUDDEN (Ph.D., Chicago; Associate Professor and Director, Foundations of Humanitarianism Program): Modern Japan, imperialism, Korea

EMMA GILLIGAN (Ph.D., Melbourne; Assistant Professor): Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide

KENNETH GOUWENS (Ph.D., Stanford; Associate Professor): European Cultural and Intellectual History, 1300-1600; Italian Renaissance

ROBERT A. GROSS (Ph.D., Columbia; Draper Professor of Early American History): Colonial, Revolution, and Early Republic; History of the Book; New England, American Studies.

BRENDAN KANE (Ph.D. Princeton; Assistant professor) Early modern Britain and
Ireland; Reformation

CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor) Modern Germany; Holocaust

JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR (Ph.D., Indiana; Associate Professor): Twentieth Century, African-American

SHERRI OLSON (Ph.D., Toronto; Associate Professor): Medieval Europe

AMII OMARA-OTUNNU (D.Phil., Oxford; Associate Professor, UNESCO Human Rights Chair, and Executive Director, UConn-ANC Partnership): East Africa; 19th and 20th Century Africa

MARK OVERMYER-VELAZQUEZ (Ph.D., Yale; Associate Professor): Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos

MELINA PAPPADEMOS (Ph.D., New York University; Assistant Professor) 20th century African Diaspora, Caribbean, Cuba

SHIRLEY A. ROE (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor and Chair): History of Science; Early Modern European Intellectual

SYLVIA SCHAFER (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor): Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender

NANCY SHOEMAKER (Ph.D., Minnesota; Professor): American Indian History

BLANCA G. SILVESTRINI (Ph.D., SUNY-Albany; J.S.M., Stanford; Professor and Director, Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies): Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society

KAREN SPALDING(Ph.D., California, Berkeley; Professor): Colonial Latin America

FIONA VERNAL (Ph.D. Yale, Assistant professor) Africa; 19th century South
African history; Christianity in South Africa; slavery

ALTINA WALLER (Ph.D., Massachusetts; Professor): 19th-century social and cultural; family; community

GUANHUA WANG (Ph.D., Michigan State; Associate Professor): 20th-century Chinese social and cultural; popular movements; communication

JANET S.K. WATSON (Ph.D., Stanford; Associate Professor): Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender

WALTER WOODWARD (PhD, Connecticut; Assistant Professor and Connecticut State Historian): Early American history, History of Connecticut

Torrington

ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies

Waterbury

MICHAEL D. BLUMENTHAL (Ph.D., Wisconsin; Assistant Professor): U.S. Foreign Relations

CLEVELAND DONALD (Ph.D., Cornell; Associate Professor): Brazil

JUDITH P. MEYER (Ph.D., Iowa; Associate Professor): Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern France