Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Ziva Galili, 113D Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (732/932-8493)
Vice Chairperson for Graduate Education: Professor Alastair Bellany, 113B Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (732/932-7941)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Michael P. Adas, Abraham Voorhees Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Comparative history; colonialism and technology
Mia Elisabeth
Bay, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
African-American history; American intellectual and cultural history
Rudolph M. Bell, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., CUNY
Europe; quantitative history
Alastair Bellany, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton Early modern Britain
Herman L. Bennett, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Colonial Latin American history; early modern Iberian history
Carolyn Brown, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
African history; labor history
Christopher L. Brown, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; D.Phil., Oxford
Early America; Afro-American history; comparative history
Kim D. Butler, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Brazilian studies; African diaspora history; Afro-Latin and Afro- Caribbean studies
Jack L. Cargill, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Ancient Greek history and epigraphy; ancient Rome
John W. Chambers, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century U.S. history: especially war and peace studies, film
and history, political history, U.S. foreign relations
Indrani Chatterjee, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., London South Asia; slavery; gender; social history
Paul G.E. Clemens, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Early American history and history of the South
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Labor and women's history
Barbara Cooper, Associate Professor of History and African Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Boston
African history, gender and culture
Susan Lisa Curruthers,
Associate Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Leeds U.S. foreign
relations; media and war; culture and cold war; empire
Belinda
Davis, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann
Arbor) Modern European history; Germany; women's history
Prachi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Tufts
South Asian history
Ann F. Fabian, Associate Professor of
American Studies and History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale American cultural and
intellectual history
Leslie Ellen Fishbein, Associate Professor of American Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Women's history
David Foglesong, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
History of American foreign relations
Ziva Galili, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Social, economic, political history of modern Russia; Eastern Europe
Lloyd C. Gardner, Charles and Mary Beard Professor Emeritus of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
American diplomatic history
Michael N. Geselowitz, Director, IEEE History Center, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
History of technology and science
Angus Kress Gillespie, Professor of American Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
American folklore
Howard Gillette, Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. urban history; urban policy
William Gillette, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Civil war and reconstruction
John R. Gillis, Professor Emeritus of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Modern European social history and British history
Janet Golden, Associate Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Boston
U.S. women's history; U.S. social history; history of medicine
Peter B. Golden, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Medieval Eurasia
James Goodman, Associate Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Modern U.S. race relations and politics; literature as history
Ann D. Gordon, Associate Research Professor, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
(Madison) Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
David Greenberg, Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies,
FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia Twentieth-century United States; political and
cultural history
Sumit Guha, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard South Asian history
Paul Hanebrink, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Twentieth-century eastern Europe, the Habsburg Empire, 20th-century
Europe
Mary S. Hartman, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Nineteenth-century France; women's history
Joseph Held, Associate Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Rutgers
Eastern Europe
Jochen Hellbeck, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Soviet Union
Lisa Herschbach, Assistant Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., Harvard
History of medicine, science, and technology
Nancy Hewitt, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
American women; 19th-century U.S. and comparative women
Allen M. Howard, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
African history; world history
Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania American urban, business culture
Paul B. Israel, Managing Editor, Thomas A. Edison Papers, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
History of technology
Reese V. Jenkins, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Modern science and technology
Jennifer M. Jones, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Early modern European; France, old regime and revolution; European women's history
Benjamin Justice, Assistant Professor of Education, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Stanford History of education; prison education; religion in public
schools; 19th- century United States
Temma Kaplan, Professor
of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard Comparative women's history; history
of Latin America; Spanish history
Donald R. Kelley, James Westfall Thompson Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
European history
Samantha Kelly, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Northwestern
Medieval Europe
Tia Kolbaba, Assistant Professor of Religion, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Toronto Byzantine history; history of religion
Steven Lawson, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; post-1945 United States; civil rights movement
T.J. Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
American cultural and intellectual history
Suzanne Lebsock, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Virginia
History of women, U.S. social history, history of the south
Dina LeGall, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Ottoman history; modern Middle Eastern history
Jan E. Lewis, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Michigan
U.S. family and women's history; early American history
Xun Liu, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Southern California
Modern China, traditional China, Daoism, history of Chinese medicine, modern East Asia
James Livingston, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Northern Illinois
Nineteenth- and 20th-century American intellectual and economic history
Julie Livingston, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Emory
African history, history of medicine
Jonathan Lurie, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Legal history
Phyllis Mack, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Early modern European history; women's history; history of religion
Neil Maher, Assistant Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
American environmental history; history of technology; medicine and
health; 20th century, U.S. social, and political history
Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) African-American; race, racism and radical
identity; African diaspora theory; modern United States
Norman D. Markowitz, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
American political and radical movements
Margaret Marsh,
Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences-Camden and the Graduate School-Camden, FAS-C; Ph.D., Rutgers
Gender and medicine; gender and culture; sexuality and reproduction
James P. Masschaele, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Toronto
Medieval history; English economic history
Matt Matsuda, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California
(Los Angeles) Modern European history; France; cultural history
Jennifer L. Morgan, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Early American history; African-American history; women's history
Karl F. Morrison, Lessing Professor of History and Poetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Humanist tradition in western Europe, chiefly aesthetics and hermeneutics, in the Middle Ages
Martin Mulsow, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Munich European intellectual history
Donna Murch, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) African-American history
Frederik Nebeker, Senior Research Historian, IEEE History Center, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
History of technology
William L. O'Neill, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century U.S. history
Philip J. Pauly, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
History of science
Clement Alexander Price, Professor of
History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers Afro-American history and culture; U.S.
urban and social history
James W. Reed, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard U.S. social and intellectual history
Stephen W. Reinert, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California
(Los Angeles) Byzantine, medieval Balkan, early Ottoman history
Michael Aaron Rockland, Professor and Chair of American Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Minnesota
American popular culture
Donald T. Roden, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Modern Japanese social and intellectual history
Said S. Samatar, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Somali; modern Africa; African nationalism; African literature and religion
Beryl E. Satter, Associate Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. women; American medicine
Susan R. Schrepfer, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Riverside)
American social and environmental history
Joan W. Scott, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study;
Ph.D., Wisconsin Feminist history and theory
Philip B.
Scranton, Board of Governors Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania American economic history; history of business and
technology
Richard Sher, Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Social history of communications, technology, and enlightenment
Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Early modern and modern Jewish history; Eastern European history
Bonnie G. Smith, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rochester
Modern European history; women's history
Sarolta A. Takács,
Associate Professor of Classics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los
Angeles) Imperial and late antique Rome; cultural history
Gail Triner-Besosa, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Latin America; Brazil
Keith Wailoo, Professor of History,
FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania History of medicine and history of science;
U.S. cultural and intellectual history; African-American history
Mark Wasserman, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern Latin American history; history of Mexico
Deborah G. White, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Illinois
Afro-American history; women's history
Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
U.S. cultural history; women's history; history of immigration
Yael Zerubavel, Professor of History, FAS-NB, and Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Jewish social, cultural, intellectual, and literary history
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Henry W. Bowden, Professor of Religion, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
American religious history
James Jones, Associate Professor of Religion, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Brown
U.S. religions