Faculty and Research

Faculty by Field

African Diaspora History
African History
Ancient History
Asian History
British History
Cultural History
Early Modern European History
Eastern European History
Family History
History of Gender and Sexuality

Jewish History
Latin American History
History of Medicine
Medieval History
Middle Eastern History
Modern European History
Russian History
U.S. History
Teaching College History
World History

African Diaspora History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
Claude Clegg Professor Department Chair	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 702 (812) 855-3929	The African diaspora of the Atlantic world, Social movements, African Americans in the U.S. South
Arlene Diaz Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 817 (812) 855-2195	18th to 20th century Venezuela and Caribbean, Latin American social and gender history
Jeffrey L. Gould Rudy Professor	1125 E. Atwater Ave. (812) 855-9098	Central America: social movements, ethnic relations
Matthew Pratt Guterl Adjunct Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 522 Memorial Hall East, Rm. M35 (812) 855-7525	Histories of race, nation, slavery, emancipation, and empire
John Hanson Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 731 (812) 855-5212	West African history, Muslim communities, social/cultural history
Jason McGraw Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 736 (812)-855-5106	Latin America and Caribbean, slavery/emancipation/race, popular culture
Marissa J. Moorman Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 725 (812) 855-5384	Popular cultural practices and politics, gender, sexuality, Africa, and nation
Khalil Gibran Muhammad Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 816 (812) 855-7504	Race-relations and racial ideology; (im)migration and urbanization (Northern U.S.); social science and social reform; racial politics of criminal law, policing, juvenile delinquency, and punishment
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 733 (812) 855-2030	Black women, African American history, nineteenth century U.S., the old South, social history, race, gender, sexuality and violence, freedom and citizenship
Steven M. Stowe Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 824 (812) 855-6290	The U.S. South: cultural and social, history of American medicine and health, historical writing and historical practice

African History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
John Hanson Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 731 (812) 855-5212	West African history, Muslim communities, social/cultural history
Marissa J. Moorman Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 725 (812) 855-5384	Popular cultural practices and politics, gender, sexuality, Africa, and nation

Ancient History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
David Brakke Adjunct Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 217 (812) 855-5117	Ancient Christianity, late antiquity, Coptic and Syriac studies
Matthew R. Christ Adjunct Professor	mrchrist@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall, Rm. 548 (812) 855-6651	Athenian Legal and Social History, Greek Historiography, Greek Rhetoric and Oratory
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 708 (812) 855-3431	Early medieval Europe, medieval historiography, urban change in late antiquity, material culture and archaeology
J. Albert Harrill Adjunct Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 207 (812) 855-8654	New Testament studies, early Judaism, ancient mediterranean world, religious studies
Eric Robinson Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 730 (812) 855-1745	Archaic and Classical Greece, democracy, political and military history
Edward Watts Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828 (812) 855-6882	Roman history, Greek intellectual culture from the Second Sophistic to the reign of Heraclius, late antique religious, social, and intellectual history, anti-Chalcedonian (Monopysite) culture
Steve Weitzman Adjunct Professor	sweitzma@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 331 (812) 855-1174	Biblical and early Jewish literature and religion

Asian History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
Purnima Bose Adjunct Associate Professor	(812) 855-5334 Ballantine Hall, Rm. 431	Post-colonial studies, Indian and Irish nationalism, Indian diaspora, globalization
Michael S. Dodson Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 726 (812) 855-6286	South Asian cultural history, British imperial history, postcolonial theory
Robert Eno Adjunct Associate Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 247 (812) 855-0856	Early Chinese history and intellectual thought, philology and inscriptional texts
Klaus Mühlhahn Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 729 (812) 855-1124	Modern and contemporary China social and cultural, Chinese law, colonialism and imperialism
Scott O'Bryan Assistant Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 332 Ballantine Hall, Rm. 737 (812) 855 2454	Intellectual history of political-economics; cultural, intellectual, and environmental history of modern Japan
Michael Robinson Adjunct Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 227 (812) 855-3635	Intellectual history of modern Korea and Japan, colonialism, popular culture, nationalism
Ron Sela Adjunct Professor	rsela@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall, Rm. 141 (812) 856-7017	History and historiography of Islamic Central Asia, 16th-19th c., Central Asia's Role in the History of the Muslim World, Apocryphal Traditions in Central Asia and the Middle East
Lynn Struve Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 720 (812) 855-5229	Premodern China, Chinese political/intellectual/cultural

British History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
Judith Allen Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 811 (812) 855-0037	Comparative nineteenth and twentieth century feminism, gender sexuality, gender studies
Konstantin Dierks Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 734 (812) 855-6288	Early America, early modern Atlantic world, communications, middle class, agency
Michael S. Dodson Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 726 (812) 855-6286	South Asian cultural history, British imperial history, postcolonial theory
Sarah Knott Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 710 (812) 856-0092	Early America, women: gender and feminism, revolutionary Atlantic world
Dror Wahrman Ruth N. Halls Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 714 (812) 855-1534	Britain, cultural history, gender and sexuality, eighteenth century, jewish Studies

Cultural History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
John Bodnar Chancellor's Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 722 (812) 855-4491	Modern U.S. history, social and cultural
Maria Bucur John W. Hill Chair Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 719 (812) 855-1993	Gender, culture, war and memory, Eastern Europe
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 708 (812) 855-3431	Early medieval Europe, medieval historiography, urban change in late antiquity, material culture and archaeology
Konstantin Dierks Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 734 (812) 855-6288	Early America, early modern Atlantic world, communications, middle class, agency
Michael S. Dodson Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 726 (812) 855-6286	South Asian cultural history, British imperial history, postcolonial theory
Lessie Jo Frazier Adjunct Assistant Professor	frazierl@indiana.edu Memorial Hall West, Rm M08 (812) 856-0402	Latin America, political culture, gender and sexuality
Jeffrey L. Gould Rudy Professor	1125 E. Atwater Ave. (812) 855-9098	Central America: social movements, ethnic relations
Michael Grossberg Sally M. Reahard Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 721 (812) 855-3882	American legal history, history of children and the family, history of American social policy
Peter Guardino Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 709 (812) 855-6108	Mexico, Latin America, political culture
John Hanson Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 731 (812) 855-5212	West African history, Muslim communities, social/cultural history
Daniel James Mendel Chair	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 825 (812) 855-6321	Latin American social, cultural, and labor history
Colin Johnson Adjunct Assistant Professor	Memorial Hall West, Mezzanine 10 (812) 855-6702	Nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. social and cultural history, LGBTQ history/history of gender and sexuality, rural social and cultural history, history of agriculture and the environment
Sarah Knott Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 710 (812) 856-0092	Early America, women: gender and feminism, revolutionary Atlantic world
Michael McGerr Paul V. McNutt Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 830 (812) 855-6113	Modern American history, American political, cultural, and social history
Marissa J. Moorman Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 725 (812) 855-5384	Popular cultural practices and politics, gender, sexuality, Africa, and nation
Eric Sandweiss Carmony Chair and Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 822 (812) 855-0210	Cultural landscape studies, urban history, architecture, public history and museums, visual culture, American popular music, Indiana
Robert A. Schneider Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 712 (812) 855-1320	Early modern Europe, Ancient régime France, cultural history
Rebecca Spang Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 711 (812) 855-2437	Cultural history and social/economic theory; modern Europe; France, 1715-present
Steven M. Stowe Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 824 (812) 855-6290	The U.S. South: cultural and social, history of American medicine and health, historical writing and historical practice
Kirsten Sword Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 735 (812) 855-6289	Early America, American women's history, law and society, antislavery and feminism, history and the new media
Jeffrey Veidlinger Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 834 (812) 855-5877	Modern Jewish history, east European Jewish history, modern Russian history, cultural history
Dror Wahrman Ruth N. Halls Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 714 (812) 855-1534	Britain, cultural history, gender and sexuality, eighteenth century, jewish Studies
David Zaret Adjunct Professor		Historical sociology, social theory, sociology of knowledge

Early Modern European History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
Arthur Field Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 827 (812) 855-5164	Italian Renaissance
Constance Furey Adjunct Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 227 (812) 855-6678	Christianity in the Renaissance and Reformation, friendship and community formation, devotional poetry, gender, religion, and subjectivity
Matthias B. Lehmann Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 836 (812) 855-4250	Early modern and modern Jewish history, sephardic studies
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Adjunct Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 130 (812) 855-8746	History of science (Renaissance and Early Modern), history of mathematical and medical disciplines, history and philosophy of science
William Newman Adjunct Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 109 (812) 855-3071	Europe and America, medieval and early modern science, history and philosophy of science
Robert A. Schneider Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 712 (812) 855-1320	Early modern Europe, Ancient régime France, cultural history

Eastern European History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
Maria Bucur John W. Hill Chair Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 719 (812) 855-1993	Gender, culture, war and memory, Eastern Europe
Owen Johnson Adjunct Associate Professor	Ernie Pyle Hall, Room 104 (812) 855-0506	Eastern European/European/Russian journalism and mass media, nineteenth and twentieth century east central Europe, modern Czech and Slovak, Ernie Pyle
Padraic Kenney Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 716 (812) 855-1923	Poland, eastern Europe, communism and social movements
Hiroaki Kuromiya Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 717 (812) 855-4150	Modern Russia, modern Ukraine, Soviet Union
Matthias B. Lehmann Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 836 (812) 855-4250	Early modern and modern Jewish history, sephardic studies
Toivo Raun Adjunct Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 234 (812) 855-4907	Baltic and Finnish history
Mark Roseman Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 732 (812) 855-8325	History of the Holocaust; 20th Century German history; European post-1945 reconstruction; comparative history, including German-Japanese comparisons
Jeffrey Veidlinger Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 834 (812) 855-5877	Modern Jewish history, east European Jewish history, modern Russian history, cultural history

Family History

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Areas
Maria Bucur John W. Hill Chair Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 719 (812) 855-1993	Gender, culture, war and memory, Eastern Europe
Ellen Dwyer Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 819 (812) 855-2287	Psychiatry and neurology in the U.S., 1830-present, history of gender in the U.S., medicine and law in the U.S., 1830-present
Wendy Gamber Professor