Faculty by Topical Area
Includes cultural encounters, diasporas, empires, capitalism and labor, orientalism, decolonization.
FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran
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
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
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington Campus): 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.
BRENDAN KANE (Ph.D. Princeton; Assistant professor): Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World
CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor): Modern Germany; Holocaust
MATTHEW MCKENZIE (Ph.D., New Hampshire; Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator, Avery Point Campus): 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime 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
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
HELEN ROZWADOWSKI (Ph.D., Pennsylvania; Associate Professor, Avery Point Campus): history of science, U.S. and Britain
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
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
Includes history of the body, masculinity, sexuality, gender; intersection with class, race, ethnicity, and systems of power; feminist/gender theory; women’s history.
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
CORNELIA H. DAYTON (Ph.D. Princeton; Associate Professor): Early British North America; U.S. law, women and gender, history of mental disorders and disabilities
JUDITH P. MEYER (Ph.D., Iowa; Associate Professor, Waterbury Campus): Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern France
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
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
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
Includes intellectual and political foundations, human rights movements, state formation and human rights, genocides, peace and reconciliation, humanitarianism.
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington Campus): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies
EMMA GILLIGAN (Ph.D., Melbourne; Assistant Professor): Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide
LAWRENCE GOODHEART (Ph.D., Connecticut; Professor, Hartford Campus): Nineteenth-century social and intellectual
CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor): Modern Germany; Holocaust
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
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
ALTINA WALLER (Ph.D., Massachusetts; Professor): 19th-century social and cultural; family; community
Includes intellectual and cultural history, political and economic thought, theories of history, history and memory, modes of transmission, science and culture, medicine and society, religious cultures, history of the senses; historiography and historical epistemology.
FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran
DANIEL CANER (Ph.D., UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor): Ancient and Late Antique History
CHRISTOPHER CLARK (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor): U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America
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
ALEXIS DUDDEN (Ph.D., Chicago; Associate Professor and Director, Foundations of Humanitarianism Program): Modern Japan, imperialism, Korea
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington Campus): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies
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; early modern Atlantic World
CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor): Modern Germany; Holocaust
MATTHEW MCKENZIE (Ph.D., New Hampshire; Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator, Avery Point Campus): 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history
JUDITH P. MEYER (Ph.D., Iowa; Associate Professor, Waterbury Campus): Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern France
SHERRI OLSON (Ph.D., Toronto; Associate Professor): Medieval Europe
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
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
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
Includes foreign relations, migration, transnational labor flows, decolonization, neo-liberalist economics.
FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran
JOEL BLATT (Ph.D., Rochester; Associate Professor, Stamford Campus): Politics and International Relations of France, Italy, and Europe, 1914-1945
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
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
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington Campus): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies
EMMA GILLIGAN (Ph.D., Melbourne; Assistant Professor): Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide
CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor): Modern Germany; Holocaust
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
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
GUANHUA WANG (Ph.D., Michigan State; Associate Professor): 20th-century Chinese social and cultural; popular movements; communication
Includes comparative legal cultures; crime and society; law and human rights; constitutional history (U.S. and other societies); public order.
FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran
RICHARD D. BROWN (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor and Director, Humanities Institute): Colonies; Revolution and Pre-Industrial Society and Culture; Micro-history
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
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington Campus): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies
EMMA GILLIGAN (Ph.D., Melbourne; Assistant Professor): Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide
LAWRENCE GOODHEART (Ph.D., Connecticut; Professor, Hartford Campus): Nineteenth-century social and intellectual
JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR (Ph.D., Indiana; Associate Professor): Twentieth Century, African-American
SHERRI OLSON (Ph.D., Toronto; Associate Professor): Medieval Europe
SYLVIA SCHAFER (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor): Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender
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
Includes racial and ethnic consciousness, systems of social hierarchy, history of minorities, concepts of race, comparative slavery, formation of local, national, transnational identities.
FAKHREDDIN AZIMI (D.Phil., Oxford; Professor): Modern Middle East; Iran
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.
LAWRENCE GOODHEART (Ph.D., Connecticut; Professor, Hartford Campus): Nineteenth-century social and intellectual
BRENDAN KANE (Ph.D. Princeton; Assistant professor): Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World
CHARLES LANSING (Ph.D. Yale; Assistant professor): Modern Germany; Holocaust
JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR (Ph.D., Indiana; Associate Professor): Twentieth Century, African-American
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
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
JANET S.K. WATSON (Ph.D., Stanford; Associate Professor): Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender
Includes social and historical dimensions of space and place; environmental history; rural history; urban history; industrial development; peasant societies; maritime history.
PETER C. BALDWIN (Ph.D., Brown; Associate Professor): American Urban History; social and cultural history
CHRISTOPHER CLARK (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor): U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America
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
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.
MATTHEW MCKENZIE (Ph.D., New Hampshire; Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator, Avery Point Campus): 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history
SHERRI OLSON (Ph.D., Toronto; Associate Professor): Medieval Europe
MARK OVERMYER-VELAZQUEZ (Ph.D., Yale; Associate Professor): Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos
HELEN ROZWADOWSKI (Ph.D., Pennsylvania; Associate Professor, Avery Point Campus): history of science, U.S. and Britain
NANCY SHOEMAKER (Ph.D., Minnesota; Professor): American Indian History
WALTER WOODWARD (PhD, Connecticut; Assistant Professor and Connecticut State Historian): Early American history, History of Connecticut
Includes political cultures, movements, ideologies; modernities and traditions; nationalism; war and society; political mobilization; local and community political structures; cultural expressions of power.
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
JOEL BLATT (Ph.D., Rochester; Associate Professor, Stamford Campus): Politics and International Relations of France, Italy, and Europe, 1914-1945
RICHARD D. BROWN (Ph.D., Harvard; Professor and Director, Humanities Institute): Colonies; Revolution and Pre-Industrial Society and Culture; Micro-history
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
ROBERT FORBES (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Torrington Campus): Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies
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; early modern Atlantic World
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
SYLVIA SCHAFER (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor): Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender
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
JANET S.K. WATSON (Ph.D., Stanford; Associate Professor): Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender
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