Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Paul Clemens, 113D Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (732-932-8493)

Vice Chair for Graduate Education: Professor Seth Koven, 113B Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7941)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Michael P. Adas, Abraham Voorhees Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Global and comparative; colonialism; technology

Mia Elisabeth Bay, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
African American; American intellectual and cultural

Rudolph M. Bell, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
European social; Renaissance Italy; quantitative methods

Alastair Bellany, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton             
Early modern Britain

Herman L. Bennett, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Duke
Colonial Latin America; early modern Iberia; African diaspora  

Carolyn Brown, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Africa; labor

Kim D. Butler, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Brazil; African diaspora; Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean studies

Susan Lisa Carruthers, Associate Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Leeds (UK)    
U.S. foreign relations; media and war; culture and Cold War; empire

John W. Chambers, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; war and peace studies; film and history; political and U.S. foreign relations

Indrani Chatterjee, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., London (UK)  
South Asia; slavery; gender; social history

Paul G.E. Clemens, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Early American; history of the South

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of Labor Studies and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SMLR/SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Labor; women and gender 

Barbara Cooper, Professor of History and African Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Boston
Africa; gender and culture

Belinda Davis, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Modern Europe; Germany; women's history

James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Atlantic world; history of science; early modern; Enlightenment

Alice Echols, Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Gender, music, sexuality/gay/lesbian

Ann F. Fabian, Professor of American Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
American cultural and intellectual

Melissa Feinberg, Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender's Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Central and Eastern Europe; gender history; human rights and citizenship

Leslie Ellen Fishbein, Associate Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Women and gender

David Foglesong, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
American foreign relations; Soviet

Ziva Galili, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Russia; Eastern Europe

Michael N. Geselowitz, Director, IEEE History Center, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Technology and science

Angus Kress Gillespie, Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
American folklore

Howard Gillette, Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. urban history and policy

William Gillette, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Civil War and Reconstruction

Janet Golden, Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Boston
U.S. women; U.S. social; medicine

Peter B. Golden, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Medieval Eurasia

James Goodman, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Modern U.S. race relations and politics; literature as history

Ann D. Gordon, Research Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

David Greenberg, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and History, SCILS; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; political and cultural

Sumit Guha, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard                                           
South Asia

Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Twentieth-century Eastern Europe; the Habsburg Empire; 20th-century Europe

Mary S. Hartman, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Nineteenth-century France; women's history

Jochen Hellbeck, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Soviet Union

Nancy Hewitt, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
American women; 19th-century United States and comparative women

Allen M. Howard, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Africa; global and comparative; urban and spatial

Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania           
U.S. urban; business culture

Paul B. Israel, Director, Thomas A. Edison Papers, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Technology

Reese V. Jenkins, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Modern science and technology

Jennifer M. Jones, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Early modern Europe; France; European women

Toby C. Jones, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford                     
Modern Middle East; political Islam; technology and environment

Benjamin Justice, Assistant Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Stanford
Education; prison education; religion in public schools; 19th-century United States

Tarek Kahlaoui, Assistant Professor of Art History and History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Islamic history and culture in the Mediterranean

Temma Kaplan, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard                       
Comparative women's and gender; Latin America; Spain

Samantha Kelly, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Medieval Europe

Tia Kolbaba, Associate Professor of Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto (Canada)            
Byzantine; religion

Seth Koven, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Britain; women's and gender; social and political history

Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, Associate Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Latin America; Central America; peasantry; revolution

Steven Lawson, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; post-1945 United States; civil rights movement

T.J. Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. cultural and intellectual

Suzanne Lebsock, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Virginia
Women's and gender; U.S. social; U.S. South

Sukhee Lee, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Middle period China; early modern China; early modern Europe

Jan E. Lewis, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Michigan
U.S. family and women; early American

Xun Liu, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
China; Daoism; Chinese medicine; modern East Asia

James Livingston, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Northern Illinois
Nineteenth- and 20th-century U.S. intellectual and economic

Julie Livingston, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Emory
Africa; medicine

Kathleen López, Assistant Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Caribbean; Latin America; diaspora studies

Jonathan Lurie, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Wisconsin
U.S. legal

Phyllis Mack, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Early modern Europe; women's and gender; religion

Neil Maher, Associate Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., New York                     
U.S. environment;  technology; medicine and health; 20th-century U.S. social and political

Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
African American; race, racism and radical identity; African diaspora; modern United States

Norman D. Markowitz, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
U.S. political; radical movements

Margaret Marsh, Professor of History; Dean of the College 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, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto (Canada)
Medieval Europe; English economic

Matt Matsuda, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Modern Europe; France; cultural; global

Karl F. Morrison, Lessing Professor of History and Poetics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Medieval Europe; Renaissance; humanist tradition, aesthetics, and hermeneutics

Donna Murch, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
African American; African diaspora 

Frederik Nebeker, Senior Research Historian, IEEE History Center, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Technology

William L. O'Neill, Professor Emeritus of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century United States

Stephen Pemberton, Assistant Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., North Carolina
Twentieth-century medicine; public health; biomedical services and technology

Clement Alexander Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
African American; U.S. urban and social

James W. Reed, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard                                     
U.S. social and intellectual

Stephen W. Reinert, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Byzantine; medieval Balkan; early Ottoman history

Michael Aaron Rockland, Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota 
U.S. popular culture

Donald T. Roden, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Modern Japan; social and intellectual

Said S. Samatar, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Modern Africa; nationalism; African literature and religion

Beryl E. Satter, Associate Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. women; medicine

Susan R. Schrepfer, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Riverside)
U.S. social and environmental

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                                                                                                                             
U.S. economic; business and technology

Richard Sher, Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Communications, technology, and enlightenment

Peter Silver, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Colonial and revolutionary North America; American Indian

Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia                                                                                                                                 
Early modern and modern Jewish; Eastern Europe

Bonnie G. Smith, Board of Governors Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Rochester
Modern Europe; women's and gender; global history 

Jacob S. Soll, Associate Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Cambridge                  
Early modern Europe; medieval; Renaissance and Reformation 

Sarolta A. Takács, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Rome; cultural

Paola Tartakoff, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Religious and cultural history of medieval Europe

Camilla Townsend, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers         
Latin America; Native America; women's and gender

Gail Triner-Besosa, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Latin America; Brazil

Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Medicine and science; U.S. cultural and intellectual; African American

Mark Wasserman, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern Latin America; Mexico

Deborah G. White, Board of Governors Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
African American; women's and gender

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
U.S. cultural; women's and gender; migration

Yael Zerubavel, Professor of History, SAS; Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Jewish social, cultural, intellectual, and literary

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Henry W. Bowden, Professor of Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
American religious history

James Jones, Professor of Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
U.S. religions