Education
Ph.D. - University of Chicago 1994
Diploma in Korean Language - Yonsei University 1986
M.Sc. - London School of Economics 1988
B.A. - Yale University 1984

Current Departmental Service
Director of Graduate Studies

Interests and Research
Associate Professor Charles Armstrong specializes in modern Korean, East Asian, and international history. His current projects include a study of North Korea in the Cold War international system and a history of modern East Asia .

Affiliations
Associate Fellow, The Asia Society
Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Association for Asian Studies
Member, National Committee on North Korea (www.ncnk.org)
Member and founding co-chair, The Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (www.asck.org)

Current Departmental Service
Undergraduate Education Committee, Space Committee

Interests and Research
Janaki Bakhle, associate professor, specializes in Modern South Asian history. Her areas of specialization include Indian political history, Indian feminist history, nationalism, gender and culture.Her first book, Two Men and Music: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition was published by Oxford University Press, 2005. She has published in CSSH, and is currently engaged in her second book project about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, known as the chief ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism, and is writing about sedition, colonial surveillance, and the emergence of Hindu fundamentalism in late nineteenth century India.

Education
Ph.D. - University of Rochester 1987
M.A. - University of Rochester 1981
B.A. - Wesleyan University 1978

Interests and Research
Casey Nelson Blake, professor, specializes in modern U.S. intellectual and cultural history and American studies, with an emphasis on topics at the intersection of modernist art and politics in the twentieth century.  He is also  a faculty member in the American Studies program.

Affiliations
Editor, book series on “The Arts and Intellectual Life in the United States,” University of Pennsylvania Press (2003-)
Member, Board of Advisory Editors, American Quarterly (2005-2008)
Editor, Co-Editor, Intellectual History Newsletter (1995-2001)
Member, Advisory Board, Rethinking History (1996-)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, culturefront (1995-2000)
Member, Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly (1994-95)
Associate Editor, Journal of American History (1991-93)

Education
Ph.D. - Harvard University 1979
A.M. - Harvard University 1975
A.B. - Princeton University 1971

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE

Interests and Research
Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History.From 2003 to 2008, he was University Provost, and for three years before that chair of the Department of History.  He been at Columbia since 1991 and taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, and the City University Graduate School.In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Oxford, forthcoming 2009); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, forthcoming 2010).  His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Media Studies Center, Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he has been the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia.  He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a trustee of Oxford University Press, a trustee of the National Humanities Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, Princeton, and the City University of New York Graduate School.  He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

Affiliations
Chairman, Board of Trustees, The Century Foundation
Member, Editorial Board, The American Prospect
Fellow and Member of Executive Board, Society of American Historians
Trustee, The Dalton School, 1999-2005
Member, Board of Directors, New York Council for the Humanities, 1995-2003
Executive Committee of the Delegates, American Council of Learned Societies,  2000-2003
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American History, 1993-1996
Organization of American Historians:  Program Committee, 1987; Co-chair, Program Committee, 1992; Executive Board, 1990-1993
Member, Visiting Committee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Humanities Department, 1996-2003
Member, History Department Visiting Committee, Princeton University, 1983-1990

Education
D. Phil. – Balliol College, Oxford University 1994
B.A. - Yale University 1990

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE

Interests and Research
Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of eighteenth century Britain, the early modern British Empire, and the comparative history of slavery and abolition, with secondary interests in the age of revolutions and the history of the Atlantic world. He is now at work on two projects, one on British experience along the West African coast in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and a second on the decline and fall of the British Planter class in the era of abolition and emancipation. 

Affiliations
The American Historical Association
North American Conference on British Studies
Associates of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies
Association of Caribbean Historians
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction

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Education
Ph.D. – Harvard University 2004
M.Phil. - University of Cambridge 1998
A.B. - Harvard University 1997

Current Departmental Service
Committee on Programs and Standing, Barnard College

Interests and Research
Deborah R. Coen, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in modern central European history and the history of science. Her current research, on the history of climatology and seismology, centers on the Habsburg Empire’s status as a laboratory for studies of the relationship between nature and culture. Her other research interests include the emergence of scientific concepts of “error” and the intersections between science and private life.

Affiliations
Editorial Advisory Board, Isis
Advisory Board, Institute for the Study of Europe

Current Departmental Service
Director, Columbia University and London School of Economics MA Program in International and World History
Graduate Education Committee

Interests and Research
Matthew Connelly, professor, works in international and global history. He received his B.A. from Columbia (1990) and his Ph.D. from Yale ( 1997). His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002), and Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008).  He has written research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American Historical Review, The Review française d’histoire d’Outre-mer, and Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest.

Nicholas B. Dirks is the Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, where since September 2004 he has been Vice President for the Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty. Dirks came to Columbia in 1997 when he was asked to chair and rebuild the department of Anthropology. Before coming to Columbia, Dirks was Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he had also been the founding Director of the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and History, Director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Director of the Advanced Study Center of the International Institute.

Dirks did his undergraduate degree in Asian and African Studies in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University, graduating in 1972. He then joined the Ph.D. program in the department of History at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He taught in the Division of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology between 1978 and 1987, when he accepted a professorial position at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and has held a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics.

His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2001); and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Harvard University Press, 2006). He has edited several books, including Colonialism and Culture, (University of Michigan Press, 1992), Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (Princeton University Press, 1994), and In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the end of the Century (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and published more than forty articles on subjects ranging from the history and anthropology of South Asia to social and cultural theory, the history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, and globalization. He has done extensive archival and field research in India as well as in Britain. He is currently working on a book concerning imperial sovereignty with special reference to the historical relationship between Britain and India.

Dirks has held numerous fellowships and scholarships and received several scholar honors, including a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lionel Trilling Award for his book Castes of Mind. He has directed book series at Princeton and Columbia University Presses. He also serves on numerous national and international bodies, as advisor or member of the board, and is a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. As Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty at Columbia, he is responsible for the academic administration and direction of 29 departments (covering the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences), 27 institutes and centers, and 6 schools (Columbia College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of International and Public Affairs, the School of the Arts, the School of General Studies, and the School of Continuing Education). In addition, he oversees the operational and financial management of the Arts and Sciences in conjunction with long-term academic and financial planning.

Education
Ph.D – Princeton University 2003
M.A. – Princeton University 1997
B.A. – Rutgers University 1995

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE

Interests and Research
Marwa Elskakry, Associate Professor, specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East.  She received her M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2003) from Princeton.  Her first book, entitled, Reading Darwin in the Middle East is forthcoming in 2010.  Among her publications are “The Exegesis of Science in Twentieth Century Arabic Interpretations of the Qur‘an” in Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (eds), Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue (2009), “Knowledge in Motion: The Cultural Politics of Modern Science Translations in Arabic”, Isis, (December 2008), “Darwinian Conversions: Science and Translation in Egypt and the Levant” in Anne-Marie Moulin (ed.), Modernité et modernisation dans l’Empire ottoman du XIXe siècle à nos jours (2008), and “The Gospel of Science and American Evangelism in Late Ottoman Beirut”, Past and Present, (August 2007).

Education
Ph.D. – Oxford University, 1968
M.A. – Oxford University, 1964
B.A. – Oxford University, 1961

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE

Interests and Research
William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. His books include Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (2009), Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), Ancient Literacy (1989), and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (corrected edition, 1985).  His edited books include Rethinking the Mediterranean (2005) and The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans (2008). He has written a number of articles about the economic history of the Roman Empire, and is seeing through the press a collection of them that is provisionally entitled Rome's Imperial Economy.  W.V. Harris is the Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. Read Harris's articles "The Mediterranean and Ancient History", published in *Rethinking the Mediterranean* (Oxford University Press, 2005), "Quando E Come L’Italia Divenne Per La Prima Volta Italia?Un Saggio Sulla Politica Dell’Identità", and "The Late Republic", from the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World. 

Education
Ph.D. – University of Chicago 1966
M. A. – University of Chicago 1963
B. A. – University of Memphis 1961

Current Departmental Service
Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History

Interests and Research
Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, specializes in urban, social, and military history.

Affiliations
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Director's Council, Historic House Trust of New York City
Fellow, American Antiquarian Society
Advisory Board, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Member, Scholars and Archivists Committee, New York State Archives
Editorial Board, H-URBAN (an electronic message system of specialists)
Editorial Board, New York Journal of American History
Director, Henry R. Luce Foundation
Trustee, New-York Historical Society
Trustee, New York State Historical Association
Trustee, National Council for History Education
Trustee, Regional Plan Association
Trustee, The Society of American Historians, Inc.
General Editor, The Columbia History of Urban life
Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City
Steward, New York State Archives Partnership Trust

She specializes in Eurasian and Central Asian intellectual history, involving the late Russian empire and the former Soviet Union. Her research and teaching interests also include colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, Islam, nomadism, and cultural anthropology. Gulnar Kendirbai received her two PhDs from the Eotvos-Lorand University in Budapest (1987) and University of Tuebingen in Germany (2003). She is the author of Land and People. The Russian Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe, Berlin (2002). She also published her papers in the Encyclopedia The Turks, Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Papers, Asian Affairs, Central Asiatic Journal, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, and other journals.  She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the American Councils (ACTR/ACCELS), the DAAD, and the Thyssen Foundation in Germany. Currently she is working on a book on the Alash movement led by the Kazak intellectuals of the beginning of the 20th century.

Education
D.Phil. – Oxford University 1974
B.A. – Yale University 1970

Interests and Research
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974.  He is editor  of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle  East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from  October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of Sowing Crisis: American  Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage:  The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in  the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making  During the 1982 War (1986); and British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980), and was the co-editor of Palestine and  the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991).

Affiliations
Member, Search Committee for Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs
Member, Executive Committee, Middle East Institute
Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies
Member, Conseil Scientifique, Ramses2, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Member, Board of Trustees, al-Quds University, Jerusalem
Member, Board of Trustees, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
Member, Advisory Board, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna
Member, Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.
Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East.
Manuscript reader,  University of California Press;  Cambridge University Press;  University of Chicago Press;  Columbia University Press;  Harvard University Press;  University of Indiana Press;  Penn State University Press;  Princeton University Press;  University of Utah Press

William Leach, professor, specializes in modern American cultural history. He received his B.A. from Rutgers (1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1976). His publications include: Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life (1999); Land of Desire : Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993); and True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (1980). He is currently researching two books. The first focuses on the ways Americans have viewed nature since 1800, with emphasis on the study, collection, and culture of butterflies. The second surveys the history of American consumer capitalism from 1890 to the present.

Education
Ph.D. – New York University 2007
M.A. – New York University 2002
B.A. – Yale University 1999

Current Departmental Service
Undergraduate Education Committee
Space Committee

Interests and Research
Natasha Lightfoot, assistant professor, specializes in emancipation, race, and labor studies within the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History.  She is currently working on a project tracing grassroots resistance and identity formation among emancipated people in Antigua.

Affiliations
Member, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Member, The Conference on Latin American History
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Organization of American Historians

Education
Ph.D – Harvard University, 1990
M.P.P. – Harvard University, 1980
A.B. – University of Michigan, 1978

Interests and Research
Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, specializes in intellectual history, with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought.  Before moving to Columbia in 2007 he taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and at New York University.  A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007), The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001),and G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993).  He has also edited The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001) with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers, and The Public Face of Architecture (1987) with Nathan Glazer.  In Spring 2009 he will deliver the first Macmillan Lectures in Religion and Politics at Yale University: “Conversion: The Power of a Metaphor.”

Marco Maiuro is currently an Assistant professor in Ancient History. He received his BA in University of Perugia, MA-University of Siena, DeA in University of Clermont-Ferrand II, PhD University of Triest and University of Clermont Ferrand II (CNRS). He specializes in History of the Greek and Roman world, with a particular focus on social and economic history of the hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman Empire. As an archaeologist, he worked on many international projects in the basin of the Mediterranean, and he is currently responsible for the classical section in the international archaeological project of Villa Magna (Central Italy, see www.villa-magna.org). His publications include articles on Roman topography, administration, and economy and his book, “The Imperial Properties in High Imperial Italy: Economy, Administration and Geography” is forthcoming.

Education
Ph.D. – Northwestern University 2000
M.A. – Northwestern University 1995
B.A. – University of Georgia 1993

Current Departmental Service
Graduate Education Committee (Fall 2008)
Professional Development Officer

Interests and Research
Gregory Mann, associate professor, specializes in the history of francophone West Africa . He is currently working on two projects: a history of political belonging in the Sahel (1946-1978); and a study of political discourse on colonial history in African post-colonies.

Affiliations
Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall (Paris)
Member, Committee on the Global Core
Program Coordinator, African Civilizations Program
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for International History
Member, French Studies Interdisciplinary Committee
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Office of Global Programs
Member, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Member, African Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako, Mali
Member, Mande Studies Association
Member, Projet Point Sud—Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako, Mali

Education
D.Phil. – Oxford University 1988
M.A. – Johns Hopkins University 1983
B.A. – Oxford University 1981

Current Departmental Service
Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 2008), Graduate Education Committee Chair (Fall 2008), Personnel Committee, Space Committee, MA in International and World History Committee

Interests and Research
Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies, specializes in modern Greece , 20th-century Europe , and international history.  Current interests include comparative dimensions of the post-Ottoman experience in the Balkans and Middle East, war and population movements, and the history of international norms and institutions.

Affiliations
Director, Center for International History, Columbia University
Member, Editorial Board, Past and Present, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Historein,
Member of Judging panel, Longmans/History Today Book of the Year, 1999-2004
Member, Executive Committee, Council for European Studies, 1999-2001
Member, Conference Committee, Council for European Studies, 2000; Past and Present/Anglo-American, 2002

Education
Ph.D. – University of Chicago, 1997
M.A. – University of Chicago, 1991
B.A. – University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987

Current Departmental Service
Financial Aid Officer, Graduate Education Committee
Co-creator and co-coordinator, PhD in International and Global History, Columbia University
History Department, 2002 – present

Interests and Research
Adam McKeown, associate professor, teaches global history. He has written on the Chinese diaspora, global migration, and the history of passports and migration control. He teaches courses on globalization in history, world migration, international law, and the history of drugs and smuggling.  He is now researching the history of globalization since the 1760s.

Education
J.D. – Harvard University, 2001
Ph.D. – University of California – Berkeley, 2000
M.A. – University of California – Berkeley, 1995
B.A. – Washington University, 1994

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE 2008-2009

Interests and Research
Samuel Moyn, professor, works primarily on modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies.  Currently, he is working on a study provisionally entitled A New Theory of Politics: Claude Lefort and Company in Contemporary France and also on the recent history of human rights. He is the co-director of the New York area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.

Affiliations
Co-Director, Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
Editorial Board, Modern Intellectual History

Education
Ph.D – Harvard University, 1989
M.A. – Harvard University, 1983
B.A. – Radcliffe College, 1982

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE 2008-2009

Interests and Research
Susan Pedersen, Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum, specializes in British history, the British empire, comparative European history, and international history.  She is now writing a book on the mandates system of the League of Nations and its impact on the imperial order.

Affiliations
Advisory Boards, Twentieth Century British History, The Historical Journal, The National Archives
Member:  American Historical Association, North American Conference on British Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, American Association of University Women
Fellow, Royal Historical Society

Education
Ph.D – History, Princeton University, 2004
M.A. – Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 1998
B.A. – Columbia University, 1994

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE 2008-2009

Interests and Research
Christine Philliou, assistant professor, specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Her forthcoming book, Biography of an Empire: Practicing Ottoman Governance in the Age of Revolutions (University of California Press) examines the changes in Ottoman governance leading up to the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-nineteenth century. It does so using the vantage point of Phanariots, an Orthodox Christian elite that was intimately involved in the day-to-day work of governance even though structurally excluded from the Ottoman state.

Affiliations
Co-chair of University Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Columbia University

Education
Ph.D. – University of Texas at Austin, 1997
M.A. – University of Texas at Austin. Thesis, 1993
B.A. – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 1990

Current Departmental Service
Undergraduate Education Committee

Interests and Research
Pablo Piccato, associate professor, specializes in Mexican history. He has worked on the political and cultural history of Mexico, and on the history of crime. He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century.

Affiliations
Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University
Editorial board, Hispanic American Historical Review, Law and History Review
American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Council of Latin American History

Education
Ph.D. – King’s College,  London, UK, 2002
M.A. – University of London, 1998
B.A. – Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 1996

Current Departmental Service
Graduate Education Committee, Language Exams Officer, Development Committee

Interests and Research
Caterina Pizzigoni, assistant professor, specializes in Latin American history.  Her research interests include indigenous populations in colonial Latin America (principally Mexico), gender issues, church and government policies in colonial Latin America with respect to conversion, education, and integration of indigenous populations, and the study of Nahuatl, its translation and analysis of colonial documents (mainly testaments, or mundane documents).

Affiliations
Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, Mexico, D.F.
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F.
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F.
American Society of Ethnohistory
American Historical Association
Society of Latin American Studies
Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos

Education
Diploma in Medieval and Franciscan Studies – Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy, 2003
Licence in Mediaeval Studies – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2002
Ph.D. – Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002
M.A. – Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1997
B.S. – Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994

Current Departmental Service
Summer Session Representative, Undergraduate Education Committee

Interests and Research
Neslihan ?enocak, assistant professor, specializes in medieval religious, intellectual and social history, in particular the medieval religious orders, the Franciscan transformation, popular religion, the rise of scholastic education, and the daily life in the thirteenth-century Italian communes.  Her most recent project is on the relationship of violent crimes and urbanization in thirteenth-century Perugia.

Affiliations
American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of America

Education
Ph.D. – The Johns Hopkins University, 1991
B.A. – University Of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 1979

Current Departmental Service
Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2009), Co-Chair, University Seminar for the History and Philosophy of Science, Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Education Committee Chair (Spring 2009), Development Committee Co-Chair (Spring 2009), MA in International and World History Committee (Spring 2009)

Interests and Research
Pamela H. Smith, professor, specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. Her current research, which is supported by a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.
 
Affiliations
American Historical Association
       Executive Council, American Historical Association, 2004-2006
       Research Division Committee member, American Historical Association, 2005-2006
       American Historical Review, Editorial Board, 2008-2010                              
History of Science Society
       Committee on Education, History of Science Society 2000-2002, Chair 2001-2002
       Executive Council 2000-2002
       Nominating Committee 2000-2001, 2008-09
       Editorial Board, Isis, 1997-2000        
       Editorial Board, Osiris, 2000-2004
Society for Austrian and Habsburg History    Executive Council, 2003-2008
Renaissance Society of America
       Editorial Board Member, Renaissance Quarterly and Council Member, 2006-2009
       Gordan Prize Committee member, Renaissance Society of America, 2008-09.
Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek
    Advisory Board, 2008-present
Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science
       Editorial Advisory Board member, 2007-present
Historians of Netherlandish Art            
Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär
British Society for the History of Science        
American Association for Netherlandic Studies
Sixteenth-Century Studies                   
Society for the History of Technology
Historical Metallurgy Society
Huntington Dibner Fellowship Committee, 2008-10

Education
Ph.D. – Harvard University, 1979
A.M. – Harvard University, 1975
A.B. – Harvard College, 1973

Current Departmental Service
Undergraduate Education Committee (Fall 2008), Society of Fellows Committee (Fall 2008)

Interests and Research
Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, specializes in Jewish, European intellectual and Russian history.  In addition to his teaching, Professor Stanislawski directs the Contemporary Civilization Program and the Undergraduate Program in Human Rights..

Affiliations
Editorial Board, Shvut: Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture, Tel Aviv
       University
Academic Committee, The Rothberg School of Overseas Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Academic Committee, Program Judaica at the Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, International Advisory Committee on Jewish Studies, Central European University,  Budapest

Education
Ph.D. – University of Cambridge, 2005
M. Phil. – University of Cambridge, 1999
M.A. – St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 2001
B.A. – St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 1998

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE 2008-2009

Interests and Research
Emma Winter , assistant professor, specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and Germany and, to a lesser extent, France and Italy . She is particularly interested in the concept of taste, processes of taste-making, and the role of tastemakers; cultural change, intercultural transfer, and trans-national exchange; nationalism and the construction of national cultures; state promotion of the arts, aesthetic approaches to governance, and the interaction between art, politics, and religion.

Affiliations
Visiting Fellow, Cultural Transmission and Disciplinary Change, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge