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College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Faculty List
Office of the Chair
1029 Tisch Hall
734-763-2289

Geoff Eley, Chair, ghe@umich.edu
Kali Israel, Associate Chair, kisrael@umich.edu
Connie Hamlin, Executive Secretary, chamlin@umich.edu
Sueann Caulfield, Director of Graduate Studies, scaul@umich.edu




Paulina Alberto
Assistant Professor 
palberto@umich.edu 		2705 Haven Hall 
734-647-4869  		Afro-Brazilian culture; modern Latin American history     
George Alter
Professor 
altergc@umich.edu 		ICPSR 2154 Perry Bldg. 
734-615-7652  		Demography     
Francis Blouin
Professor 
fblouin@umich.edu 		1150 Beal (Bentley Library) 
734-764-3482  		Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory; United States Social History, Michigan history.      
Michael Bonner
Professor 
mbonner@umich.edu 		4147 Thayer Bldg.  
734-764-0314  		Medieval Near East, medieval Islam     
Charles Bright
Professor 
cbright@umich.edu 		201 Greene House - East Quad 
734-764-7414  		20th century world history, history of punishment, history of Detroit     
Kathleen Canning
Professor 
kcanning@umich.edu 		2719 Haven Hall 
734-763-9937  		Modern Germany, modern European women and gender, labor and social movements, welfare state, history of the body     
John Carson
Associate Professor 
jscarson@umich.edu 		1765 Haven Hall 
734-647-7378  		American intellectual/cultural history; history of science; history of the human sciences; modern European intellectual      
Pär Cassel
Assistant Professor 
cassel@umich.edu 		1658 Haven Hall 
734-647-4868  		Late imperial and modern China; legal and institutional history of China; Sino-Japanese relations.      
Sueann Caulfield
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor 
scaul@umich.edu 		2751 Haven Hall 
734-647-7946  		Latin America, gender, Brazil     
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Chun-shu Chang
Professor 
  		1757 Haven Hall 
734-763-2294  		History and civilization of China, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 1800: Archaeological-anthropological, political, socio-cultural, intellectual-literary, military-diplomatic, historiography, science and technology; the Classics; historical literature.

Modern China: political, cultural, intellectual, historiography.

Chinese language (oracle bone and shell inscriptions [chia-ku wen]; bronze inscriptions[chin-wen]; Ch’in-Han writings including bamboo and wooden documents [chien-tu], philology); poetry and drama.

   

 
Rita Chin
Assistant Professor 
rchin@umich.edu 		2526 Haven Hall 
734-615-9320  		Late modern Europe, especially post-1945; Germany; comparative European migrations; transnationalism; ethnic minorities; gender; intellectual history; cultural studies.      
David William Cohen
Professor 
dwcohen@umich.edu 		1743 Tisch Hall 
734-615-3451  		Pre-colonial and 20th century African, Eastern and Southern Africa; historical anthropology; the production of history     
Joshua Cole
Associate Professor 
joshcole@umich.edu 		1640 Haven 
734-763-4159  		Modern France, Europe, social and cultural, gender, memory, violence, colonial, postcolonial      
Juan R. Cole
Professor 
jrcole@umich.edu 		2725 Haven Hall 
734-763-1599  		Modern Middle East, Muslim South Asia, social and cultural     
James W. Cook
Associate Professor 
jwcook@umich.edu 		1634 Haven Hall 
734-763-7860  		19th and 20th-century U.S. history; cultural history and American studies; popular/mass culture; culture and capitalism; race and ethnicity; visual culture.      
Fernando Coronil
Associate Professor 
coronil@umich.edu 		201 B West Hall (Anthropology) 
734-647-4434  		Historical anthropology, state formation, capitalism, popular culture, gender; Latin America     
Matthew Countryman
Associate Professor 
mcountry@umich.edu 		2759 Haven Hall 
734-647-2434  		African American Social Movements, The Politics of Race in the United States Since World War II, 20th U.S. Political and Social History     
Deborah Dash Moore
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History  
  		2111 Thayer, Judaic Studies 
734-647-7862  		American Jewish history; 20th century urbanization, migration, and acculturation; community building     
Christian de Pee
Assistant Professor 
cdepee@umich.edu 		1632 Haven Hall 
734-763-6968  		Tang-Song-Yuan China, representations of imperial power, text and writing, archaeology      
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Philip Deloria
Professor 
pdeloria@umich.edu 		3700 Haven Hall (American Culture) 
734-763-1460  		Issues of culture and representation, particularly concerning American Indian people; Environmental and Western American history.      
Gregory Dowd
Professor 
dowdg@umich.edu 		3672 Haven Hall 
734-763-1460  		Native American history, early American history     
Geoff Eley
Department Chair, Professor  
ghe@umich.edu 		1029G Tisch Hall  
734-763-2289  		German, British, modern Europe, historiography, cultural studies. Research: European Left, 1848-present; German liberalism 1848-1933; cinema and the construction of the national past; conceptions of class in history and politics; nationalism, fascism, state formation     
Todd M. Endelman
Professor 
endelman@umich.edu 		1666 Haven Hall 
734-764-7308  		Modern Jewish history     
Hussein Fancy
Assistant Prof/Post Doc Mich Society of Fellows  
fancy@umich.edu 		2641 Haven Hall 
734-647-5409  		Medieval Europe and North Africa; the Mediterranean; the Crusades; the Cultural, Social, and Intellectual History of Religious Interaction; Ritual, Violence, and Kingship; Latin, Arabic, Romance, and Judeo-Arabic Paleography.     
Albert Feuerwerker
A.M. & H.P. Bentley Professor Emeritus of History 
afeuer@umich.edu 		734-668-8742  Modern China; East Asian economic history     
Sidney Fine
Professor Emeritus of History 
sidneyf@umich.edu 		734-662-8468       
John Fine
Professor 
  		1642 Haven Hall 
734-763-2231  		Medieval and modern Balkans, Byzantium     
Dario Gaggio
Associate Professor 
dariog@umich.edu 		2765 Haven Hall 
734-763-2297  		Modern South European history; history of technology; European economic history     
Kevin Gaines
Professor 
gaineskk@umich.edu 		4700 Haven Hall (CAAS) 
734-764-5513  		U.S. and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; the global dimensions of U.S. struggles over the meaning of citizenship      
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Dena Goodman
Professor 
goodmand@umich.edu 		2144 Lane Hall 
734-647-0771  		Early Modern France, Enlightenment, Women and Gender     
Thomas A. Green
Professor 
tagreen@umich.edu 		342 Hutchins Hall (Law School) 
734-764-1457  		England and America, constitutional and legal; criminal responsibility and the criminal trial jury     
Raymond Grew
Professor Emeritus of History  
rgrew@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
  		Modern European History, especially social history and the history of France and Italy; comparative studies; religion and society; global history.      
Myron Gutmann
Professor 
gutmann@umich.edu 		1120A Perry Bldg 
734-615-8400  		Historical demography of Europe and America; early modern Europe; population and environment; environmental history      
David J. Hancock
Associate Professor 
hancockd@umich.edu 		2767 Haven Hall 
734-763-7859  		Early America; 17th-18th Century British Empire; Early-Modern Atlantic Social, Economic and Business      
Gabrielle Hecht
Associate Professor 
hechtg@umich.edu 		2666 Haven Hall 
734-647-7937  		History of technology; nuclear power and proliferation; colonialism and postcoloniality; globalization; labor; national identity; modern Africa (Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa); modern France.      
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Assistant Professor 
jessehg@umich.edu 		3751 Haven Hall 
734-647-0253  		Modern Latin American and Caribbean history, Latina/o Studies, international migrations and transnationalism, music and popular culture, cities, the poor and social movements, and oral history.      
Joel D. Howell
Professor 
jhowell@umich.edu 		6312 Med Sci I (Medical School) 
734-647-4844  		Medicine; Internal Medicine; history of medicine; history of human experimentation; history of technology     
Diane Owen Hughes
Associate Professor 
dohughes@umich.edu 		2507 Haven Hall 
734-764-8547  		Medieval and Renaissance; cultural, social, legal     
Nancy Rose Hunt
Associate Professor 
nrhunt@umich.edu 		1735 Haven Hall 
734-647-4887  		Africa; gender history; medicine, health, and the body; colonial studies; historical ethnography and anthropological history; objects—their histories and semiotics; childbirth and reproductive medicine; comics and cultural production; religious movements; experiments in narrative form; francophone central Africa; African cities; Ghana, Burundi, Rwanda, and especially Congo (Zaire)     
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Kali Israel
Associate Chair of Department, Professor 
kisrael@umich.edu 		1029H Tisch Hall 
734-763-2289  		Modern Britain, women's history, modern Europe, cultural studies     
Paul C. Johnson
Director, Anthro & History PhD Prog, Assoc. Prof. 
paulcjoh@umich.edu 		4628 Haven Hall (CAAS) 
734-763-5518  		History and ethnography of the religions of the African Diaspora in Brazil and the Caribbean; religion and race; religion and migration; modern history of Brazil; theories of religion, and history of the study of religion     
Martha S. Jones
Associate Professor 
msjonz@umich.edu 		2703 Haven Hall  
734-647-5421  		African American history; 19th century United States history; women's history; critical race theory, Atlantic world slavery and law     
Susan Juster
Professor 
sjuster@umich.edu 		2521 Haven Hall 
734-763-7858  		Early American history, women, religion, evangelical culture in Britain and America      
Carol F. Karlsen
Professor 
ckarlsen@umich.edu 		2508 Haven Hall 
734-647-4884  		American women, early American social and cultural     
Mary Kelley
Professor 
mckelley@umich.edu 		2672 Haven Hall 
734-647-7941  		19th and 20th century American intellectual history; women's history     
Valerie A. Kivelson
Professor 
vkivelso@umich.edu 		2743 Haven Hall 
734-763-2049  		Early modern Russia, witchcraft, cultural history, gender, religion, history of cartography, empire     
Scott Kurashige
Associate Professor 
kurashig@umich.edu 		2757 Haven Hall 
734-647-3341  		Asian American history, U.S. urban history, Los Angeles, Detroit, comparative race and ethnicity, African American history, social movements      
Matthew Lassiter
Associate Professor 
mlassite@umich.edu 		2513 Haven Hall 
734-647-4618  		20th century United States, urban/suburban, political, social, Southern, popular culture     
James Lee
Professor 
jql@umich.edu 		1148 Perry Bldg 
734-615-7846  		Late imperial and contemporary China; comparative demography and sociology of populations; social-scientific history     
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Gerard Libaridian
Visiting Professor  
glibarid@umich.edu 		2640 Haven Hall 
734-763-4555  		Armenian history     
Victor B. Lieberman
Professor 
eurasia@umich.edu 		1741 Haven Hall 
734-763-4771  		Southeast Asia, pre-modern Burma     
Gerald Linderman
Professor Emeritus of History  
  		1029 Tisch Hall 
734-971-8562  		     
Rudi P. Lindner
Professor 
rpl@umich.edu 		1672 Haven Hall 
734-763-2290  		Byzantine, Turkish and Inner Asia; discovery and exploration; modern astronomy     
Michael MacDonald
Professor 
mmacdon@umich.edu 		2725 Haven Hall 
734-763-0120  		Early modern Britain; social cultural; mentalities     
Howard Markel
Professor 
howard@umich.edu 		100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, 0725 
734-647-6914  		History of U.S. medicine and public health, history of U.S. immigration, U.S. urban immigration     
Jonathan Marwil
Lecturer 
jmarwil@umich.edu 		2632 Haven Hall 
734-647-5418  		Modern European history; war, historiography, photography     
Tomoko Masuzawa
Professor 
masuzawa@umich.edu 		2634 Haven Hall 
734-615-3602  		Religion, European intellectual     
Michelle McClellan
Lecturer 
mmcclel@umich.edu 		2637 Haven Hall 
734-647-5408  		US history     
Terrence J. McDonald
Dean, College of LS&A; Professor 
tmcd@umich.edu 		2005 LSA 
734-764-0322  		Modern American history, political, urban, historiography     
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Barbara Metcalf
Alice Freeman Palmer Professor  
metcalf@umich.edu 		2519 Haven Hall 
734-647-5414  		History of the Indian subcontinent, especially the colonial period; history of the Muslim population of India and Pakistan     
Farina Mir
Assistant Professor 
fmir@umich.edu 		2528 Haven Hall 
734-647-5416  		Colonial and postcolonial South Asia; linguistic, cultural, and religious nationalisms; Islam in South Asia; cultural history of the British Empire; history of literature and print     
Jeffrey Mirel
Professor 
jmirel@umich.edu 		4144 School of Education Building, 610 E. University 
734-615-8983  		History of American urban education, high school curriculum, civic education     
Anthony Mora
Assistant Professor 
apmora@umich.edu 		3767 Haven Hall 
734-xxx-xxxx  		19th century United States, historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S., Mexican American history, Latino/a history, the History of Sexuality.     
Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Professor 
reginann@umich.edu 		2664 Haven Hall 
734-763-2296  		Women's and gender history, history of the family, sexuality, the body, and medicine, race and ethnicity, Jewish American history     
Ian Moyer
Assistant Professor 
ianmoyer@umich.edu 		2520 Haven Hall 
  		Ancient Greek history, especially of the Hellenistic period; Late Period, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt; non-Greeks and Hellenism; ethnicity and culture in the ancient world; historiography and ethnography; religion and magic      
Rudolf Mrázek
Professor 
rdlf@umich.edu 		2749 Haven Hall 
734-764-6588  		Southeast Asia, modern Indonesia     
Jeremy Mumford
Assistant Prof/Post Doc Mich Society of Fellows  
mumfordj@umich.edu 		2657 Haven Hall 
734-647-5412  		Colonial Latin America; Americas in the Early Modern World      
Rhoads Murphey
Professor Emeritus of History 
  		at home: 2012 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 
734-668-8239  		Asia - all periods     
Rachel Neis
Assistant Professor 
rneis@umich.edu 		202 S. Thayer #2151 
734-615-8476  		Late Antique Judaism, Rabbinics, Hekhalot, Visuality, Law      
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Douglas Northrop
Associate Professor 
northrop@umich.edu 		4163 Thayer 
734-647-0099  		Modern Central Asia; USSR/Russia; world history; social/cultural; empire; gender; environmental.      
Martin S. Pernick
Professor 
mpernick@umich.edu 		1727 Haven Hall 
734-647-4876  		U.S. cultural history; history of medicine, health and the body     
Leslie Pincus
Associate Professor 
lpincus@umich.edu 		1707 Haven Hall 
734-764-6381  		Modern Japan, intellectual, cultural, social; cultural studies, aesthetics and nationalism     
Brian Porter-Szűcs
Associate Professor 
baporter@umich.edu 		1751 Haven Hall 
734-764-6803  		Modern Eastern Europe; 19th & 20th century Poland; 19th and 20th century Roman Catholicism; Modern European intellectual history      
Ellen Poteet
Lecturer 
poteet@umich.edu 		2735 Haven Hall 
734-763-2091  		Pre-colonial Africa, Christianity and Islam before 1500, nomadism and migration in African history     
Helmut Puff
Associate Professor 
puffh@umich.edu 		3142 MLB 
734-647-0251  		Primary interests: Medieval and early modern history of Europe; gender history; history of sexuality

Secondary interests: Cultural history; Reformation history; history of printing; history of reading    

 
Sonya O. Rose
Professor Emeritus of History 
sorose@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
  		19th and 20th century Britain; gender and labor history; national identity; citizenship; history of sexuality     
William G. Rosenberg
Professor 
wgr@umich.edu 		2509 Haven Hall 
734-647-4888  		Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union; political, social, socio-cultural and socio-economics; labor; intellectual/religious; revolutionary movements     
Damon Salesa
Associate Professor 
salesa@umich.edu 		2529 Haven Hall 
734-647-4885  		The British Empire. New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Racial & colonial discourses, especially race ‘mixedness’. Indigenous histories (especially of the Pacific), the politics of history making and history writing. Comparative imperialisms and colonialisms. History of sport. Colonial medicine.      
Julius Scott
Lecturer 
jsscott@umich.edu 		4632 Haven Hall 
734-763-5133  		African American, early America, the Atlantic; Latin America     
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Rebecca J. Scott
Professor 
rjscott@umich.edu 		1749 Haven Hall 
734-763-4779  		Latin America; Cuban history; slavery and emancipation; race, law, and citizenship in the United States; slavery and the law      
John Shy
Professor Emeritus of History 
johnshy@umich.edu 		734-665-2165  Military; early American     
Julie Skurski
Lecturer 
skurski@umich.edu 		201A West Hall 
734-763-6872  		Historical Anthropology, Latin America, race and ethnicity, nation formation     
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Professor 
csmithro@umich.edu 		2122 Lane Hall 
734-647-0772  		Women's history, history of sexuality, early America     
Margaret Somers
Professor 
peggs@umich.edu 		4228 LSA 
734-764-2900  		Sociology of citizenship and rights; European studies and European union; political sociology     
Scott Spector
Associate Professor 
spec@umich.edu 		3204 MLB 
734-647-0401  		Modern Central European cultural and intellectual, modern Germany and Austria, German-Jewish, gender and sexuality.      
Paolo Squatriti
Associate Professor 
pasqua@umich.edu 		2727 Haven Hall 
734-647-4897  		Medieval History     
Nicholas H. Steneck
Professor Emeritus of History 
nsteneck@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
  		U.S. education; research and professional ethics     
Alexandra Minna Stern
Associate Professor  
amstern@umich.edu 		100 Simpson Memoria