Faculty By Area
African, Asian, and Middle Eastern History
Medieval History
Modern European History
United States History
Latin American History
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
African, Asian, and Middle Eastern History
Lionel Jensen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1984), Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Concurrent Associate Professor of History specializes in the history of Chinese thought.
Asher Kaufman (Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2000), Assistant Professor of History, specializes in the Modern Middle East, particularly historiography and national movements, colonialism, boundaries and territoriality.
Dian Murray (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979), Professor of History works on modern Chinese history.
Jayanta Sengupta (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1995), Assistant Professor of History specializes in South Asia.
Julia Adeney Thomas (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993), Associate Professor of History, studies the history of Japan.
Medieval History
D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton (D.Phil., Oxford University, 1976; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1978), Concurrent Associate Professor of History, studies comparative Latin Christian social, cultural, and institutional history, ca. 1150 - 1550, especially of France and England; royal and nobiliary institutions, especially lordship, knighthood, and courts; and heraldry, sigillography, and diplomatic history.
Olivia Remie Constable (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1989),Professor of History, studies Medieval Spain, Mediterranean social and economic history, Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations.
Thomas F. X. Noble (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1974). Professor of History and Conway Director of the Medieval Institute, has particular interests in the Carolingian world, late antiquity, Papal history, and Medieval Rome.
John Van Engen (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976), Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History, works in Medieval history, especially religious and intellectual life.
Modern European History
Brad S. Gregory (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996), Associate Professor of History, studies Early Modern European history, especially history of Christianity and the Reformation.
Christopher S. Hamlin (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982), Professor of History, specializes in the history of science and technology in modern England.
Mikolaj Kunicki (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004), Assistant Professor of History, is a historian of twentieth century Poland and Eastern Europe.
Thomas Kselman (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978) Professor of History, works on social and religious history of nineteenth-century France.
Semion Lyandres (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992), Associate Professor of History, studies Russian and Soviet history.
Alexander M. Martin (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993), Associate Professor of History, studies the political, intellectual and social history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia.
Margaret Meserve (Ph.D., Warburg Institute, University of London, 2001), Assistant Professor of History, specializes in Early Modern European history and the Renaissance.
James Smyth (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1989), Professor of History. studies Irish and British history.
Robert Sullivan (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1977) Associate Professor of History and Director of the Erasmus Institute works on European intellectual history from1780 - 1900 and history of Christianity.
Kevin M. Whelan (Ph.D., National University of Ireland, 1981), Professional Specialist, has particular interest in Modern Irish history.
United States History
R. Scott Appleby (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985), Professor of History and Director of the Joan B. Kroc Insitute for International Peace Studies specializes in American Catholic history and world fundamentalism.
Gail Bederman (Ph.D., Brown University, 1992), Associate Professor of History, is particularly interested in gender, women's history, and cultural history.
Thomas Blantz, C.S.C. (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968), Professor of History. studies Modern American politics, especially the New Deal, and the history of Catholicism in America.
Jon T. Coleman (Ph.D., Yale University, 2003), Assistant Professor of History, specializes in: Colonial America, frontier/American West, world environmental history, and the history of human and animal relations.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1999), Concurrent Assistant Professor of History, is the Associate Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
Jay Dolan (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1970), Professor Emeritus of History. is particularly interested in American religious history, especially the history of Catholicism.
Daniel Graff (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2004). Assistant Professional Specialist in History, studies nineteenth-century American history, particularly the history of race, labor and politics.
Patrick Griffin (Ph.D., Northwestern Univeristy). Madden-Hennebry Professor of History, specializes in early American history, Atlantic history and Irish-America.
John T. McGreevy (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992), Professor of History and Chair of History Department, works on Catholic history, intellectual and social history, race relations, and urban history.
Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1980), Associate Professor of History, is particularly interested in American diplomatic history, especially in the period following World War II.
Mark Noll (Ph.D., Vanderbilt), Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, specializes in American religious history.
Richard Pierce (Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996), Associate Professor of History, studies African-American history; American urban history.
Linda Przybyszewski (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989), Associate Professor of History, specializes in U.S. legal history and nineteenth-century U.S. history.
Marc Rodriguez (J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 2001; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000), Assistant Professor and Concurrent Assistant Professor of Law, is particularly interested U.S. Latino/a history and U.S. legal history.
James Turner (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975), Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor of Humanities, works on American and British intellectual history, especially the history of academic knowledge and higher education.
Latin American History
Ted Beatty (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996), Associate Professor of History and Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies studies the history of Mexico.
Karen Graubart (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000), Associate Professor of History, specializes in colonial Latin American history, gender and race in Latin America, the history of the Andean region and perspectives on the “other” from Iberia to the New World.
Sabine MacCormack (D.Phil., Oxford University, 1974), Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., College of Arts and Letters Chair, jointly appointed in History and Classics studies late antiquity and colonial Latin America.
Jaime Pensado (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008), Assistant Professor of History, specializes in modern Mexican history, U.S. Operations in Central America, the Sixties in Latin America, Latin America through Film, the Cold War in Latin America, Revolutions, and Student Movements.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Christopher S. Hamlin (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982), Professor of History, specializes in the history of science and technology in modern England.
Philip R. Sloan (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1970). Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies, studies nineteenth-century life sciences and physical sciences.
Robert Goulding (Ph.D., Warburg Institute, University of London, 1999), Concurrent Assistant Professor of History, is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies.
Tom Stapleford (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003), Concurrent Assistant Professor of History, is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and works on the history of the human sciences in twentieth-century America.