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Department of History


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

Chair: Adam Kosto, Ph.D.
502 Fayerweather
Tel: 212-854-3005


Vice Chair (Fall 2007): Alice Kessler-Harris, Ph.D.
604 Fayerweather
Tel: 212-854-2420


Vice Chair (Spring 2008): Marc Van De Mieroop, Ph.D.
603 Kent
Tel: 212-854-4702


Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2008): Elizabeth Blackmar, Ph.D.
524 Fayerweather
Tel: 212-854-3016


Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 2007): Pamela Smith, Ph.D.
605 Fayerweather
Tel: 212-854-7662


Dissertation Sponsors

Charles Armstrong:
Associate Professor (History), Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994
Interests: modern Korean history and politics, the 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
Ellen R. Baker:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1999
Interests: American social and women's history; labor
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Janaki Bakhle:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Modern South Asian History
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Karen Barkey:
Professor (Sociology), Ph.D., Chicago, 1988
Interests: Comparative historical sociology, political sociology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Volker R. Berghahn:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1964
Interests: Modern Western Europe, Germany
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard A. Billows:
Professor (History), Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1985
Interests: Greek and Hellenistic history; Roman Republic history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Blackmar:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1981
Interests: American social and women’s history before 1919
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, D.Phil., Oxford, 1994
Interests: Early British Empire, Slavery, Atlantic World
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard W. Bulliet:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1967
Interests: Medieval and modern Middle East
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark Carnes:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: American social and gender history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John Coatsworth:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1982
Interests: Latin America, International Affairs
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deborah Coen:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2004
Interests: Europe, Science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Matthew Connelly:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1997
Interests: Modern European and international history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Victoria de Grazia:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1976
Interests: Modern Western Europe, Italy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mamadou Diouf:
Professor (Middle East and East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., University of Paris I Sorbonne, 1981
Interests: Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicholas B. Dirks:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago
Interests: Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, ethnology, peasant society, the state, critical theory; South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Esch:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 2004
Interests: American Studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barbara J. Fields:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1978
Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. history, the American South
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eric Foner:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Civil war; Reconstruction; slavery; 19th-century America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre Force:
Professor (French and Romance Philology), Ph.D., Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Habilitation, 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, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jahyun Kim Haboush:
Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), 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 U.S. history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
William V. Harris:
Professor (History), 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
Klein Herbert:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Chicago, 1963
Interests: Latin America
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., University of 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 women's history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rashid Khalidi:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1974
Interests: Middle Eastern history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dorothy Ko:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1989
Interests: Chinese History, Chinese cultural history, seventeenth to twentieth centuries, history of the body
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; social and intellectual history.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
William Leach:
Professor, Ph.D., Rochester, 1976
Interests: Modern American cultural history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eugenia Lean:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., UCLA, 2001
Interests: Chinese History; History of emotions and gender in China; urban culture and consumer society in late imperial and modern China; law and media in twentieth-century China
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Feng Li:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Chicago, 2001
Interests: Chinese History
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Natasha Lightfoot:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 2007
Interests: African-American, Caribbean
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Lurie:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gregory Mann:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, 2000
Interests: African history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Manning Marable:
Professor (International and Public Affairs, History and Political Science), Ph.D., Maryland, 1976
Interests: Black intellectual history and biography; social protest movements in Black America; African and Caribbean politics since 1900; Black American politics; political economy of Black America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark Mazower:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1988
Interests: Modern Greece, 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 (History), Ph.D.
Interests: U.S. and East Asia; Chinese Diaspora; World History; international identity documentation; global approaches to history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nara Milanich:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 2002
Interests: Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
José Moya:
Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1988
Interests: Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Samuel Moyn:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 2000
Interests: Modern European intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mae Ngai:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: U.S. History
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Susan Pedersen:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1989
Interests: Modern British history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gregory M. Pflugfelder:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Japanese literature;Early modern and modern Japanese history; historical constructions of gender and sexuality
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christine Philliou:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2004
Interests: Middle East History
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sarah Phillips:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Boston University, 2004
Interests: 20th century United States history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pablo Piccato:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Modern Latin America, Mexico
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Caterina Pizzagoni:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Kings (London), 2002
Interests: Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Samuel Roberts:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2001
Interests: African American history
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: 20th-century U.S. history; 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 Christ College, 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
Henry D. Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
Interests: Japanese history;Urban and cultural history of nineteenth-century Japan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pamela Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., John Hopkins University, 1991
Interests: Early modern European history, 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; History of Canon Law; medieval manuscripts.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael F. Stanislawski:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1979
Interests: Eastern European Jewish history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nancy Leys Stepan:
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., California -Los Angeles, 1971
Interests: Modern western Europe, disease, public health
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Anders Stephanson:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: United States foreign relations, historiography
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lisa Tiersten:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1992
Interests: Modern Western Europe, France
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Charles Tilly:
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Sciences (Sociology), Ph.D., Harvard, 1958
Interests: Contentious politics; state transformation; inequality; Europe since 1500
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gray Tuttle:
Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Harvard, 2002
Interests: 20th Century Sino-Tibetan relations;Tibetan history and relations with China from the Qing to the Republican periods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deborah Valenze:
Professor, Ph.D., Brandeis, 1983
Interests: Modern British history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marc Van De Mieroop:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1983
Interests: Ancient Near Eastern history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carl Wennerlind:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1999
Interests: Europe, Economic
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, Ph.D., Chicago, 1964
Interests: Imperial Russian History; Russian intellectual and institutional history; political representation and ceremony
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marcia Wright:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1966
Interests: Eastern and southern Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1966
Interests: Medieval and Modern Jewish History
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Madeleine Zelin:
Professor;Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1979
Interests: Chinese history;Modern legal history and the role of law in the Chinese economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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