Faculty by Topical Area
| Colonialism, Imperialism, and Migrations Includes cultural encounters, diasporas, empires, capitalism and labor, orientalism, decolonization. | |
| Fakhreddin Azimi | Modern Middle East; Iran |
| Roger N. Buckley | War and Society; India |
| Jason Oliver Chang | Modern Mexico, Asian Americans, Transnationalism |
| Christopher Clark | U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America |
| Frank Costigliola | Foreign Relations, Twentieth Century |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Cornelia H. Dayton | Early British North America; U.S. law, women and gender, history of mental disorders and disabilities |
| Michael Dintenfass | European Cultural History; Historiography; Economic and Business History |
| Alexis Dudden | Modern Japan, imperialism, Korea |
| Robert Pierce Forbes | Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies |
| Robert A. Gross | Colonial, Revolution, and Early Republic; History of the Book; New England, American Studies |
| Brendan Kane | Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World |
| Charles B. Lansing | Modern Germany; Holocaust |
| Matthew McKenzie | Marine environmental history, 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history |
| Amii Omara-Otunnu | East Africa; 19th and 20th Century Africa |
| Mark Overmyer-Velazquez | Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos |
| Melina Pappademos | Twentieth-century Cuba, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Latin America |
| Helen M. Rozwadowski | History of science, environmental history, oceans, U.S. and Britain |
| Nancy Shoemaker | American Indian History |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Fiona Vernal | Africa; 19th century South African history; Christianity in South Africa; slavery |
| Janet S.K. Watson | Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender |
| Walter Woodward | Early American history, History of Connecticut |
| Gender and Sexuality 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 | U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America |
| Frank Costigliola | Foreign Relations, Twentieth Century |
| Cornelia H. Dayton | Early British North America; U.S. law, women and gender, history of mental disorders and disabilities |
| Micki McElya | 20th & 21st Century U.S., Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History |
| Judith P. Meyer | Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern France |
| Sylvia Schafer | Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender |
| Nancy Shoemaker | American Indian History |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Guanhua Wang | 20th-century Chinese social and cultural; popular movements; communication |
| Janet S.K. Watson | Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender |
| Human Rights Includes intellectual and political foundations, human rights movements, state formation and human rights, genocides, peace and reconciliation, humanitarianism. | |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Robert Pierce Forbes | Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies |
| Emma Gilligan | Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide |
| Lawrence B. Goodheart | Nineteenth-century social and intellectual |
| Mark Healey | Modern Latin America, Environment, Cities and Citizenship |
| Charles B. Lansing | Modern Germany; Holocaust |
| Micki McElya | 20th & 21st Century U.S., Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History |
| Amii Omara-Otunnu | East Africa; 19th and 20th Century Africa |
| Mark Overmyer-Velazquez | Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Luis van Isschot | Modern Colombia, Andean Region, Politcial Violence, Human Rights |
| Ideas, Ideologies, and Imagination 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 | Modern Middle East; Iran |
| Daniel F. Caner | Late Antique & Early Church History; Greek & Latin |
| Jason Oliver Chang | Modern Mexico, Asian Americans, Transnationalism |
| Christopher Clark | U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Michael Dintenfass | European Cultural History; Historiography; Economic and Business History |
| Alexis Dudden | Modern Japan, imperialism, Korea |
| Robert Pierce Forbes | Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies |
| Emma Gilligan | Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide |
| Kenneth Gouwens | European Cultural and Intellectual History, 1300-1600; Italian Renaissance |
| Robert A. Gross | Colonial, Revolution, and Early Republic; History of the Book; New England, American Studies |
| Brendan Kane | Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World |
| Charles B. Lansing | Modern Germany; Holocaust |
| Micki McElya | 20th & 21st Century U.S., Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History |
| Matthew McKenzie | Marine environmental history, 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history |
| Judith P. Meyer | Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern France |
| Sherri Olson | Medieval Europe |
| Melina Pappademos | Twentieth-century Cuba, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Latin America |
| Shirley A. Roe | History of Science; Early Modern European Intellectual |
| Sylvia Schafer | Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Guanhua Wang | 20th-century Chinese social and cultural; popular movements; communication |
| Janet S.K. Watson | Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender |
| Walter Woodward | Early American history, History of Connecticut |
| International Relations, Transnationalism, and Globalization Includes foreign relations, migration, transnational labor flows, decolonization, neo-liberalist economics. | |
| Fakhreddin Azimi | Modern Middle East; Iran |
| Joel Blatt | Politics and International Relations of France, Italy, and Europe, 1914-1945 |
| Jason Oliver Chang | Modern Mexico, Asian Americans, Transnationalism |
| Christopher Clark | U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America |
| Frank Costigliola | Foreign Relations, Twentieth Century |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Michael Dintenfass | European Cultural History; Historiography; Economic and Business History |
| Alexis Dudden | Modern Japan, imperialism, Korea |
| Robert Pierce Forbes | Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies |
| Emma Gilligan | Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide |
| Charles B. Lansing | Modern Germany; Holocaust |
| Amii Omara-Otunnu | East Africa; 19th and 20th Century Africa |
| Mark Overmyer-Velazquez | Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos |
| Melina Pappademos | Twentieth-century Cuba, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Latin America |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Guanhua Wang | 20th-century Chinese social and cultural; popular movements; communication |
| Law, Society, and Culture Includes comparative legal cultures; crime and society; law and human rights; constitutional history (U.S. and other societies); public order. | |
| Fakhreddin Azimi | Modern Middle East; Iran |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Cornelia H. Dayton | Early British North America; U.S. law, women and gender, history of mental disorders and disabilities |
| Robert Pierce Forbes | Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies |
| Emma Gilligan | Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide |
| Lawrence B. Goodheart | Nineteenth-century social and intellectual |
| Matthew McKenzie | Marine environmental history, 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history |
| Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar | Twentieth Century, African-American |
| Sherri Olson | Medieval Europe |
| Sylvia Schafer | Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Luis van Isschot | Modern Colombia, Andean Region, Politcial Violence, Human Rights |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Identities 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 | Modern Middle East; Iran |
| Roger N. Buckley | War and Society; India |
| Daniel F. Caner | Late Antique & Early Church History; Greek & Latin |
| Jason Oliver Chang | Modern Mexico, Asian Americans, Transnationalism |
| William Jelani Cobb | Associate Professor of History and Director, Institute for African American Studies |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Lawrence B. Goodheart | Nineteenth-century social and intellectual |
| Mark Healey | Modern Latin America, Environment, Cities and Citizenship |
| Brendan Kane | Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World |
| Charles B. Lansing | Modern Germany; Holocaust |
| Micki McElya | 20th & 21st Century U.S., Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History |
| Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar | Twentieth Century, African-American |
| Amii Omara-Otunnu | East Africa; 19th and 20th Century Africa |
| Mark Overmyer-Velazquez | Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos |
| Melina Pappademos | Twentieth-century Cuba, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Latin America |
| Shirley A. Roe | History of Science; Early Modern European Intellectual |
| Nancy Shoemaker | American Indian History |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Fiona Vernal | Africa; 19th century South African history; Christianity in South Africa; slavery |
| Janet S.K. Watson | Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender |
| Space, Place, and Environment Includes social and historical dimensions of space and place; environmental history; rural history; urban history; industrial development; peasant societies; maritime history. | |
| Peter C. Baldwin | American Urban History; U.S. social history |
| Christopher Clark | U.S. social history; 18th and 19th century North America |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Robert A. Gross | Colonial, Revolution, and Early Republic; History of the Book; New England, American Studies |
| Mark Healey | Modern Latin America, Environment, Cities and Citizenship |
| Matthew McKenzie | Marine environmental history, 18th and 19th century American social history, maritime history |
| Sherri Olson | Medieval Europe |
| Helen M. Rozwadowski | History of science, environmental history, oceans, U.S. and Britain |
| Nancy Shoemaker | American Indian History |
| Walter Woodward | Early American history, History of Connecticut |
| State, Politics, and Political Culture 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 | Modern Middle East; Iran |
| Peter C. Baldwin | American Urban History; U.S. social history |
| Joel Blatt | Politics and International Relations of France, Italy, and Europe, 1914-1945 |
| Jason Oliver Chang | Modern Mexico, Asian Americans, Transnationalism |
| William Jelani Cobb | Associate Professor of History and Director, Institute for African American Studies |
| Frank Costigliola | Foreign Relations, Twentieth Century |
| John A. Davis | Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750 |
| Robert Pierce Forbes | Slavery and Abolition, 19th Century U.S. political and intellectual, American Studies |
| Emma Gilligan | Soviet History, Humans Rights and Genocide |
| Kenneth Gouwens | European Cultural and Intellectual History, 1300-1600; Italian Renaissance |
| Mark Healey | Modern Latin America, Environment, Cities and Citizenship |
| Brendan Kane | Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World |
| Charles B. Lansing | Modern Germany; Holocaust |
| Micki McElya | 20th & 21st Century U.S., Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History |
| Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar | Twentieth Century, African-American |
| Sherri Olson | Medieval Europe |
| Amii Omara-Otunnu | East Africa; 19th and 20th Century Africa |
| Mark Overmyer-Velazquez | Modern Mexico; transnational migration; U.S. Latinos |
| Melina Pappademos | Twentieth-century Cuba, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Latin America |
| Sylvia Schafer | Modern France; sexuality; feminist theory; gender |
| Blanca G. Silvestrini | Late 19th and 20th Century Caribbean; Puerto Rico; Gender History; Latinos in U.S.; Law and Society |
| Janet S.K. Watson | Twentieth-century European cultural; modern Britain; gender |