Faculty

Fabian Drixler's picture Fabian Drixler

Professor of History

Cultural history and historical demography, climate, Japanese and East Asian history

Paul Freedman's picture Paul Freedman

Chester D Tripp Prof History

Medieval social history, the history of Spain, comparative studies of the peasantry, and history of food and cuisine. 

Jay Gitlin's picture Jay Gitlin

Lecturer in History

History of the French in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes, American Indian history, the history of the American West, Canadian history, and the suburbanization of America.  

Robert Harms's picture Robert Harms

Henry J. Heinz Prof History & African Studies

African history, environmental history, colonialism, history of the slave trade. 

Hi'ilei Hobart's picture Hi'ilei Hobart

Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies

Settler colonialism; environment; Indigenous sovereignty; food studies; cultural memory; Hawai’i

Benedict Kiernan's picture Benedict Kiernan

A Whitney Griswold Prof of History

Southeast Asian history, environmental History of Viet Nam, history of genocide, climate, agriculture

Joseph Manning's picture Joseph Manning

William K & Marilyn Milton Simpson Prof of Classics & History; Sr Rsrch Scholar Law Sch

History of the Ancient world, legal and economic history, climate history

Alan Mikhail's picture Alan Mikhail

Professor of History

Environmental history of the early modern and modern Middle East, history of human-animal relations, irrigation and natural resource management, agrarian history

Peter Perdue's picture Peter Perdue

Professor Emeritus of History

Modern Chinese social and economic history, environmental history, history of frontiers, and world history.