Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor James Masschaele, 113B Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7941)
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, 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
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
South Asia; slavery; gender; social history
Paul G.E. Clemens, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Early American; history of the South
William Jelani Cobb, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
United States; African American
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of Labor Studies, History, and 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
Rachel Devlin, Associate Professor of History, SAS, Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century American culture and gender
Leah DeVun, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Medieval and Renaissance; science, gender and sexuality
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
Marisa Fuentes, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Post-colonial theory and analyses of sexuality and gender in the early Black Atlantic world
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
Jonathan Gribetz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History,
SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Mideast history; Zionism; Jewish-Arab encounter
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
Wenwei Hu, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Zhejiang(China)
p53; tumor suppressor; stress response; apoptosis; single nucleotide polymorphism;
microRNA; tumor; development and reproduction entry for Wenwei Hu from Cell and
Developmental Biology
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
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
Byzantine; religion
Seth Koven, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Britain; women's gender and sexuality; cultural history of modern Europe
Aldo
A. Lauria-Santiago, Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D.,
Chicago
Latin America; Central America; peasantry; revolution
T.J. Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. cultural and intellectual
Suzanne Lebsock, Board of Governors 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
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; Executive Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences-Camden and the Graduate School-Camden, FAS-C; Ph.D., Rutgers
United States; gender and medicine; gender and culture; sexuality and reproduction
James P. Masschaele, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Medieval Europe; English economic
Matt
Matsuda, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles)
Modern Europe; France; cultural; global
Jennifer Mittelstadt, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Twentieth-century U.S. politics; gender, race, and the state; women; military
Karl F. Morrison, Lessing Professor of History and Poetics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Medieval Europe; Renaissance; humanist tradition, aesthetics, and hermeneutics
Donna Murch, Associate 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
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
Gary Rendsburg, Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Ancient Israel and Egypt; Bible; history of Hebrew language
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
Johanna Schoen, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., North
Carolina
Twentieth-century United States; public health
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; modern Europe
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
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; early America
Gail Triner, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Latin America; Brazil
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, Board of Governors Distinguished Service 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
Paula Fass, Visiting Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
America
since 1607; social; cultural; family
James Jones, Professor of Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
U.S. religions
John Emmett Lesch, Visiting
Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Science;
biology and life sciences
Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty
Sandy Russell
Jones, Instructor in History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Women in
Islam; Islamic law; sociology of religion
