Graduate Fields of Study

The Department of History offers graduate degrees in the following subject areas; click on individual faculty members’ names to learn more about their specializations and advising interests.

Major Fields

Ancient World/Medieval and Early Modern Europe (to 1650)

• Maribel Dietz (Medieval; Late Antiquity)
• Sherri Johnson (Medieval)
• Christine J. Kooi (Reformation; the Netherlands)

Modern Europe (since 1500)

• Susan Grunewald (Modern Europe, Russia)
• Suzanne L. Marchand (Germany; Modern European Intellectual; 19th Century Europe)
• Leslie Tuttle (Early Modern Europe; France)
• Meredith Veldman (Modern Britain; Intellectual and Cultural)

Britain

• Victor L. Stater (Tudor-Stuart)
• Meredith Veldman (Modern)The United States
• Jessica Blake (Early America; Women and Gender; Slavery)
• Zevi Gutfreund (Modern U.S.; Race; Education)
• Julia Irwin (US Foreign Relations; 20th Century World)
• Catherine Jacquet (Modern U.S.; Women and Gender)
• Alecia Long (Louisiana; the South; post-1865 U.S.)
• Michael Pasquier (American Religious History)
• K. Stephen Prince (19th Century US; Southern History; Race)
• Kodi Roberts (African-American)
• Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Civil War; 19th-century U.S.)
• Charles J. Shindo (20th Century Cultural)

Other Areas of Study

Africa

• Gibril Cole (Africa; World)

Asia

• Asiya Alam (South Asia; Women and Gender)
• Margherita Zanasi (Modern China)

Latin America

• Andre Pagliarini (Latin America; US-Latin American Relations)