Faculty by Field of Study
EARLY NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
RICHARD D. BROWN (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor and Director, Humanities Institute): Colonies; Revolution and Pre-Industrial Society and Culture; Micro-history
CORNELIA H. DAYTON (Ph.D. Princeton; Associate Professor): Early British North America; U.S. law, women and gender, history of mental disorders and disabilities
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies
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.
WALTER WOODWARD (PhD, Connecticut; Assistant Professor and Connecticut State Historian): Early American history, History of Connecticut
MODERN UNITED STATES HISTORY
PETER C. BALDWIN (Ph.D., Brown; Associate Professor): American Urban History; social and cultural history
MICHAEL D. BLUMENTHAL (Ph.D., Wisconsin; Assistant Professor, Waterbury Campus): U.S. Foreign Relations
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
MARY E. CYGAN (Ph.D., Northwestern; Associate Professor, Stamford Campus): Ethnic and Racial Minorities; Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
LAWRENCE GOODHEART (Ph.D., Connecticut; Professor, Hartford Campus): Nineteenth-century social and intellectual
MATTHEW MCKENZIE (Ph.D., New Hampshire; Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator, Avery Point Campus): 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history
JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR (Ph.D., Indiana; Associate Professor): Twentieth Century, African-American
HELEN ROZWADOWSKI (Ph.D., Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor, Avery Point Campus) history of science, U.S. and Britain
NANCY SHOEMAKER (Ph.D., Minnesota; Professor): American Indian History
ALTINA WALLER (Ph.D., Massachusetts; Professor): 19th-century social and cultural; family; community
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
CLEVELAND DONALD (Ph.D., Cornell; Associate Professor, Waterbury): Brazil
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
EUROPEAN HISTORY
JOEL BLATT (Ph.D., Rochester; Associate Professor, Stamford Campus): Politics and International Relations of France, Italy, and Europe, 1914-1945
PAUL M. CANNING (Ph.D., Washington; Associate Professor, Hartford Campus): Modern Britain and Ireland
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
MICHAEL DINTENFASS (Ph.D., Columbia; Associate Professor): European Cultural History; Historiography; Economic and Business History
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
BRENDAN KANE (Ph.D. Princeton; Assistant professor): Early modern Britain and
Ireland; Reformation
CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor): Modern Germany; Holocaust
JUDITH P. MEYER (Ph.D., Iowa; Associate Professor, Waterbury Campus): Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern France
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
JANET S.K. WATSON (Ph.D., Stanford; Associate Professor): Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender
ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL HISTORY
DANIEL CANER (Ph.D., UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor): Ancient and Late Antique History
SHERRI OLSON (Ph.D., Toronto; Associate Professor): Medieval Europe
ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY
FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran
AFRICAN HISTORY
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
FIONA VERNAL (Ph.D. Yale, Assistant professor) Africa; 19th century South
African history; Christianity in South Africa; slavery
ASIAN HISTORY
ROGER N. BUCKLEY (Ph.D., McGill; Professor and Director, Asian American Studies Institute): War and Society; India
ALEXIS DUDDEN (Ph.D., Chicago; Associate Professor and Director, Foundations of Humanitarianism Program): Modern Japan, imperialism, Korea
GUANHUA WANG (Ph.D., Michigan State; Associate Professor): 20th-century Chinese social and cultural; popular movements; communication
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