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Department of History


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Marc Van De Mieroop, Ph.D.
622 Fayerweather
Tel: 212.854.4646


Vice Chair: Rashid Khalidi, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies: Charles Armstrong, Ph.D.
605 Fayerweather
Tel: 212.854.1721


Dissertation Sponsors

Charles Armstrong:
Associate Professor (History), Ph.D., Chicago, 1994
Interests: Modern Korean history; contemporary Korean history and historiography, international history of East Asia; and ideology and international relations in the Asia Pacific; issues of ethnicity and boundary making in Northeast Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Roger S. Bagnall:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Toronto, 1972
Interests: History of the Hellenistic and Roman East; late antiquity; papyrology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Janaki Bakhle:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Modern South Asian history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Karen Barkey:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1988
Interests: Comparative historical sociology; political sociology, historical methods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Volker R. Berghahn:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1964
Interests: Modern Europe, Germany, European-American relations
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard A. Billows:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1985
Interests: Greek and Hellenistic history; history of the Roman Republic
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Blackmar:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1981
Interests: U.S. history, urban history, and social history.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Casey N. Blake:
Professor, Ph.D., Rochester, 1987
Interests: American studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alan Brinkley:
University Provost, Ph.D., Harvard, 1979
Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christopher Brown:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1994
Interests: The history of 18th century Britain; the early modern British Empire; the comparative history of slavery and abolition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard W. Bulliet:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1967
Interests: Medieval and modern Middle East
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elisheva Carlebach:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: Modern Jewish history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark Carnes:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: American social and gender history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John Coatsworth:
Dean, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1967
Interests: Latin America, Mexico, economic history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deborah Coen:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2004
Interests: Europe, science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Matthew Connelly:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1998
Interests: International history, Modern Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Victoria DeGrazia:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1976
Interests: Modern Western Europe, consumer culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mamadou Diouf:
Professor, Ph.D., Paris I Sorbonne, 1981
Interests: Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicholas B. Dirks:
Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History, Ph.D., Chicago, 1981
Interests: Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, philosophy of history, colonialism; British Empire, South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Esch:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New York, 2004
Interests: American studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barbara J. Fields:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1978
Interests: U.S. Southern history, African American history, 19-century social history, and the transition to capitalism in the United States.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eric Foner:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Civil war; Reconstruction; slavery; 19th-century America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre Force:
Professor, Ph.D., Habilitation, Sorbonne, 1987, 1994
Interests: 17th- and 18th-century literature and philosophy; Pascal; Moliere; the moralist tradition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carol Gluck:
George Sansom Professor of History, Director of Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Modern Japanese history, international relations, World War II, history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jahyun Kim Haboush:
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Korean studies; pre-modern and early modern Korean history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Evan Haefeli:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2000
Interests: Colonial North America, the Atlantic world
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
William V. Harris:
Professor, D. Phil., Oxford, 1968
Interests: Greek and Roman history, especially the growth of the Roman Empire; social and economic history of the Roman Empire; ancient emotions
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Martha Howell:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1979
Interests: Early modern European history; social, economic, legal, and cultural history of northern Europe, especially the greater Low Countries, 1300-1600; particular interests in gender.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Hymes:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1979
Interests: Medieval and early modern Chinese social and cultural history (Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties); anthropological approaches to history; elites; religion; print culture; social and cultural networks.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kenneth T. Jackson:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1966
Interests: American urban and social history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Matthew Jones:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2000
Interests: Early modern Europe, history of science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ira Katznelson:
Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1969
Interests: American politics; comparative politics; political theory, urban politics, European studies, race relations, class formation, ethnicity and religion, education, urban geography, identities and interests, social movements, political parties
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joel Kaye:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1991
Interests: Medieval intellectual history; economic history; history of science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alice Kessler-Harris:
Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1968
Interests: American history, women and gender
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rashid Khalidi:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1974
Interests: Middle Eastern history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Herbert Klein:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Chicago, 1963
Interests: Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dorothy Ko:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Stanford, 1989
Interests: Chinese cultural history, gender, body and material culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rebecca Kobrin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2002
Interests: American Jewish history, Jewish migration, East European Jewry and the politics of Jewish philanthropy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Adam Kosto:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1996
Interests: Medieval Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
William Leach:
Professor, Ph.D., Rochester, 1976
Interests: Modern American cultural history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eugenia Lean:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2001
Interests: Modern Chinese history, gender, history of science, urban studies, and consumer culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Feng Li:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 2001
Interests: Chinese history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Natasha Lightfoot:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New York University, 2007
Interests: Emancipation race and labor studies within the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African diaspora history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Lurie:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marco Maiuro:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Trieste (Italy), 2007
Interests: Urbanism in the ancient world, Roman Empire, Greece
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Greg Mann:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, 2000
Interests: Francophone Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Manning Marable:
Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Maryland, 1976
Interests: African American history, contemporary history, oral history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark Mazower:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1988
Interests: 20th-century Europe, international history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert A. McCaughey:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
Interests: American cultural and intellectual history since 1865
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Adam McKeown:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1997
Interests: Modern trans-Pacific history, with an emphasis on the Chinese diaspora
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nara Milanich:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Yale, 2002
Interests: Modern Latin America, Chile, history of the family
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
José Moya:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Rutgers, 1988
Interests: Migration, Latin America, Argentina
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sam Moyn:
Associate Professor, Ph.D. J.D., California (Berkeley), Harvard, 2000, 2001
Interests: European intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mae Ngai:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: U.S. history, immigration
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Susan Pedersen:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1989
Interests: Modern Britain, imperial history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gregory M. Pflugfelder:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese history, historical constructions of gender and sexuality in Japan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christine Philliou:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2004
Interests: Middle East history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pablo Piccato:
ILAS Director, Professor, Ph.D., Texas, 1997
Interests: Political economy of trade and investment ; Argentina
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Caterina Pizzagoni:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Kings College(London), 2002
Interests: Colonial history of Latin America, Mexico, Nahuatl
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Samuel Roberts:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2001
Interests: African American history; public health.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rosalind Rosenberg:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1974
Interests: U.S. women’s history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Rosner:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: U.S. history; public health; public health institutions and policy; environmental health history and the history of public health.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Rothman:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1964
Interests: American social history; history of medicine
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Simon Schama:
University Professor, M.A., Cambridge, 1969
Interests: 17th-century Dutch art, 18th-century French painting and politics; 16th–21st century British visual culture; landscape and environmental history; 20th- and 21st-century land and earth art; modern Western Europe, early modern Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Neslihan Şenocak:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Bilkent, 2002
Interests: Medieval Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Herbert Sloan:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1988
Interests: Early American history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pamela Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., John Hopkins, 1990
Interests: Early Modern Europe, history of science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Somerville:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1968
Interests: History of Christianity; medieval Christianity; history of canon law; papal and conciliar history; medieval manuscripts
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael F. Stanislawski:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1979
Interests: Eastern European Jewish history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Anders Stephanson:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: History, memory, historical research methods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lisa Tiersten:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Yale, 1991
Interests: Western Europe; empire
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gray Tuttle:
Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Ph.D., Harvard, 2002
Interests: Early 20th century views of Tibetan Buddhism in China
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deborah Valenze:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Brandeis, 1982
Interests: Western Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marc Van De Mieroop:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1983
Interests: Ancient history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carl Wennerlind:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Texas (Austin), 1999
Interests: 17th and 18th century political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Emma Winter:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 2005
Interests: 18th- and 19th- century Britain
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Isser Woloch:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Princeton, 1965
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Europe; French Revolution
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard Wortman:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Chicago, 1964
Interests: Imperial Russian history; Russian intellectual and institutional history; political representation and ceremony
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Madeleine Zelin:
Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Department of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Columbia East Asian National Resource Center, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1979
Interests: Modern Chinese social and economic history, early modern business, the meaning of "modernity" in early 20th century China, translation of 20th century Chinese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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