Faculty

Judith Allen

Distinguished Professor and Walter Professor, Department of History; Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction; Associate Editor, Journal of American History; Affiliate Professor, Department of Gender Studies; Adjunct Professor, Department of American Studies

juallen@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0037

History of sexuality, reproduction, birth control, demography and sexology/sex research; History of feminism and related sexual politics movements since the late eighteenth century; History of crimes and criminalization in Western and overseas settler societies since 1750; Comparative histories of Anglophone cultures

19th century 20th century British History U.S. History Cultural History Gender and Sexuality

Peter Bailey

Visiting Professor, Department of History; Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manitoba

baileypc@indiana.edu

Social and cultural history of leisure, popular culture and sexuality in modern Britain, 1815 to the present. Ongoing projects: music hall and the variety stage; popular musical theatre; Americanisation in British popular culture; the history of jazz and critical commentary in Britain; humor as social text

British History Gender and Sexuality Music

Liza Black

Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies

blackli@iu.edu

20th century Borderlands Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Family History Film, Photography and Visual Culture Labor and Work Law and Society Race and Ethnicity

Maria Bucur

John W. Hill Chair of East European History and Professor, Department of History

Gender; Citizenship; War and memory; Eastern Europe

20th century Global History Russian and Eastern European History Western European History Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Gender and Sexuality Public History and Memory

Cara Caddoo

Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Professor, Media School

ccaddoo@indiana.edu

Race; Film, Media and Popular Culture; Native American and Indigenous Studies

20th century U.S. History Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Film, Photography and Visual Culture Race and Ethnicity

Thomas Chan

Assistant Professor, Department of History

chanta@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6934

Asian History, Cultural History, Global History

19th century 20th century East Asian History Citizenship and Belonging Film, Photography and Visual Culture Historical Teaching and Practice History of Medicine Material Culture State Violence and Human Displacement

Kalani Craig

Associate Professor, Department of History; Co-Director, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Affiliated Faculty, Learning Sciences; Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Science

craigkl@indiana.edu
(812) 856-5721; (812) 855-0829 (IDAH)

Digital history, including spatial history, natural language processing and network analysis; History pedagogy; Medieval historiography; Conflict resolution in late Antique and medieval Europe.

500 to 1350 Western European History Digital History Historical Teaching and Practice Public History and Memory Religion and Society

Nick Cullather

Professor, Department of History; Professor, International Studies; Editor, Diplomatic History

ncullath@indiana.edu
(812) 855-8036; (812) 855-1602 (Atwater)

Diplomatic history; Modernization theory; U.S.-Asian relations; Intelligence

20th century U.S. History Food and Food Cultures

Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis

Professor, Department of History

ddeliyan@indiana.edu
(812)-855-3431

Late antique and early medieval Europe; Medieval historiography; Urban change in Late Antiquity; Material culture and archaeology

To 500 500 to 1350 Western European History Cultural History Material Culture Religion and Society Urbanism and Architecture

Arlene Díaz

Associate Professor, Department of History

ardiaz@indiana.edu
(812) 855-2195

Spanish-Cuban-American War; Empire; Coloniality; Slavery; Race and Gender in Latin America; Caribbean History; Digital Humanities; Teaching and Learning

19th century 20th century Latin American History African Diaspora History Age of Revolutions Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Digital History Empire and Colonialism Gender and Sexuality Historical Teaching and Practice Military History and Warfare Race and Ethnicity Slavery and Postemancipation

Konstantin Dierks

Associate Professor, Department of History;

kdierks@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6288

19th-Century U.S. History; U.S. Foreign Relations; Globalization; Early America / Atlantic World / British Empire; Communications and Knowledge; Liang Qichao

1350 to 1800 19th century British History Global History U.S. History Cultural History Digital History

Michael S. Dodson

Professor, Department of History

msdodson@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6286

19th century 20th century British History Global History South Asian History Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Music Urbanism and Architecture

Janine Giordano Drake

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of History; Advance College Project History Liaison

jgdrake@iu.edu
(812) 855-6289

US Religious History; Comparative Labor and Working Class History; Race and Ethnicity; US Immigration History; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; US Women's and Gender History; US Cultural and Intellectual History

19th century 20th century Citizenship and Belonging Historical Teaching and Practice Labor and Work Race and Ethnicity Religion and Society Social and Revolutionary Movements

Colin Elliott

Associate Chair, Department of History; Associate Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies

cpe@indiana.edu
812-855-3929

Economy and society of the Roman Empire; environmental history; ancient diseases and epidemics; money and coinage; historical methodology.

To 500 Middle Eastern History Western European History Empire and Colonialism Environment and Society History of Medicine Law and Society Money, Political Economy and Commercial Life

Wendy Gamber

Byrnes Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Faculty, Department of American Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender Studies; Affiliated Faculty, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

wgamber@indiana.edu
(812) 855-5876

Nineteenth-century United States (social and cultural aspects); Women and gender

19th century 20th century U.S. History Family History Gender and Sexuality Historical Teaching and Practice Labor and Work Urbanism and Architecture

Sara Gregg

Associate Professor, Department of History

smgregg@iu.edu
812-855-4150

Environmental History; Land policy; Modern US

19th century 20th century Borderlands Digital History Empire and Colonialism Environment and Society Law and Society State Violence and Human Displacement

Clare Griffin

Assistant Professor, Department of History; Assistant Professor, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

clgriff@iu.edu
(812) 855-1525

Global History; History of Medicine; Russian History

1350 to 1800 Global History Russian and Eastern European History Empire and Colonialism Food and Food Cultures History of Medicine Material Culture Military History and Warfare

Peter Guardino

Provost Professor, Department of History

pguardin@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6108

Mexico; Latin America; political culture, war

19th century Latin American History Age of Revolutions Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Historical Teaching and Practice Military History and Warfare Politics and Constitutional History Race and Ethnicity Social and Revolutionary Movements

John Hanson

Interim Chair, Department of History; Professor, Department of History

jhhanson@indiana.edu
(812)-855-5212

Africa; Religion; Intellectual and cultural

19th century 20th century African History Middle Eastern History African Diaspora History Cultural History Religion and Society

Ke-Chin Hsia

Assistant Professor, Department of History

khsia@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1534

Modern East Central Europe; The First World War; Welfare State; Democratization and Bureaucracy; Nationalism in Multinational Empire; Citizenship; Disability

19th century 20th century Global History Russian and Eastern European History Western European History Citizenship and Belonging Empire and Colonialism Military History and Warfare Politics and Constitutional History Social and Revolutionary Movements State Violence and Human Displacement

Karen Inouye

Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor and Director of Asian American Studies Program

kinouye@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7718

Asian American and Asian Canadian studies; transnational American studies; afterlife of wartime incarceration; wartime prisons on Native land

20th century U.S. History Citizenship and Belonging Empire and Colonialism Military History and Warfare Public History and Memory Race and Ethnicity State Violence and Human Displacement

Carl Ipsen

Professor, Department of History; Director, IU Food Institute; Adjunct, Department of Geography

cipsen@indiana.edu
(812) 855-8976

Italy: fascism, population, children, smoking, food

19th century 20th century Western European History Family History Fascism Film, Photography and Visual Culture Food and Food Cultures Material Culture

Benjamin H. Irvin

Associate Professor, Department of History; Executive Editor, Journal of American History

bhirvin@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7311

early American history; the American Revolution; social and cultural history; disability

1350 to 1800 19th century U.S. History Age of Revolutions Empire and Colonialism Gender and Sexuality Politics and Constitutional History

Daniel James

Mendel Chair, Department of History

dajames@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6321

Latin American social, cultural and labor history

20th century Latin American History Cultural History Film, Photography and Visual Culture Gender and Sexuality Labor and Work Social and Revolutionary Movements

Sarah Knott

Sally M. Reahard Professor, Department of History; Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute of Sex, Gender and Reproduction; Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies;

saknott@indiana.edu
(812) 856-0092

United States and Atlantic World; history and life writing; women, gender, maternity, care

1350 to 1800 19th century 20th century British History U.S. History Age of Revolutions Cultural History Gender and Sexuality Historical Teaching and Practice Public History and Memory Social and Revolutionary Movements

Lara Kriegel

Professor, Department of History; Professor, Department of English; Director, Victorian Studies Program; Co-Editor, Victorian Studies

lkriegel@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6290

Victorian Culture, Society, and Literature; History of Britain and the British Empire; Military Culture; Diaries, Memoirs and Life Writing; Museum History and Public History

19th century British History Cultural History Gender and Sexuality Historical Teaching and Practice Military History and Warfare Public History and Memory

Alex Lichtenstein

Professor, Department of History; Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies

lichtens@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7504

U.S. labor history; South African history; Civil Rights; Communism and Anticommunism; U.S. South

20th century African History U.S. History African Diaspora History Film, Photography and Visual Culture Labor and Work Public History and Memory Race and Ethnicity Slavery and Postemancipation Social and Revolutionary Movements

Pedro Machado

Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Dhar India Studies Program

pmachado@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1320

Global and Indian Ocean History; Commodity Histories; Globalization; Merchant and Commercial Networks; Oceanic Perspectives and Frameworks; Comparative and Connected Slaveries; South Asian and African History

1350 to 1800 19th century African History Global History South Asian History African Diaspora History Empire and Colonialism Environment and Society Gender and Sexuality Historical Teaching and Practice Material Culture Money, Political Economy and Commercial Life

Michael McGerr

Paul V. McNutt Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Professor, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

mmcgerr@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6113

Modern American history; American political, cultural, and social history

19th century 20th century U.S. History Cultural History Money, Political Economy and Commercial Life

Jason McGraw

Associate Professor, Department of History

jpmcgraw@indiana.edu
(812) 855-5106

Latin America and Caribbean; slavery/emancipation/race; popular culture

19th century 20th century Latin American History African Diaspora History Citizenship and Belonging Gender and Sexuality Music Race and Ethnicity Slavery and Postemancipation Social and Revolutionary Movements

Juan Ignacio Mora

Assistant Professor, Department of History; Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

jimora@iu.edu

20th century Latin American History U.S. History Borderlands Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Food and Food Cultures Labor and Work Race and Ethnicity

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor, Departments of History and Gender Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of American Studies

Black Women; African American History; Nineteenth-Century U.S.; The Old South; Slavery; Social History; Race, Gender, Interracial Sex, and Sexuality; Freedom, Citizenship, and Power

19th century U.S. History African Diaspora History Gender and Sexuality Race and Ethnicity Slavery and Postemancipation

David Nichols

Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies and Carmony Chair, Department of History; Editor, Indiana Magazine of History

davinich@iu.edu
(812) 855-6298

1350 to 1800 19th century Indiana History U.S. History Empire and Colonialism

John Nieto-Phillips

Associate Professor, Department of History; Vice Provost, Diversity & Inclusion (2017-2022); Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Diversity & Development (2016-2017); Director, Latino Studies (2007-2008; 2010-2014); Founding Editor, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures (2016-2021); Associate Editor, Journal of American History (2006-2010); Affiliated Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES)

jnietoph@indiana.edu
(812) 855-3642

19th century 20th century Latin American History U.S. History Borderlands Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Fascism Public History and Memory Race and Ethnicity Social and Revolutionary Movements

Scott O'Bryan

Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

spobryan@indiana.edu
(812) 855-2454

Modern Japanese history, environmental history, history of horticulture and botany, urban history, history of consumerism, history of social science; chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

20th century East Asian History Environment and Society Money, Political Economy and Commercial Life Urbanism and Architecture

Carolina Ortega

Assistant Professor, Department of History; Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

caorte@iu.edu
(812) 855-4051

20th century Latin American History Borderlands Citizenship and Belonging Cultural History Labor and Work Race and Ethnicity Religion and Society

Roberta Pergher

Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Institute for European Studies

rpergher@indiana.edu
(812) 855-4151

Modern Europe with an emphasis on Italy and Germany; Fascism; Imperialism; Migration and population settlement; Borderlands; Comparative and transnational history; Oral history

20th century Western European History Borderlands Empire and Colonialism Fascism

Amy Ransford

Visiting Assistant Professor; Assistant Editor, Journal of American History

amypurvi@indiana.edu

U.S. History, Western European History, Global History

1350 to 1800 U.S. History Western European History Age of Revolutions Borderlands Empire and Colonialism Gender and Sexuality Labor and Work

Eric Robinson

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History; Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Professor, Department of Classical Studies

ewr@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1745

Archaic and Classical Greece; Democracy; Political and military history

To 500 Western European History Historical Teaching and Practice Military History and Warfare Politics and Constitutional History

Julia Roos

Associate Professor, Department of History

roos@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1682

Modern Germany; Gender and sexuality; Race; Military occupation and postwar society; Propaganda; Children

20th century Western European History Film, Photography and Visual Culture Gender and Sexuality Race and Ethnicity Social and Revolutionary Movements

Mark Roseman

Distinguished Professor, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Professor in History; Adjunct Professor in Germanic Studies

marrosem@indiana.edu
(812) 855-8325

History of the Holocaust; Modern European History; Modern German History; Comparative history of genocide

20th century Russian and Eastern European History Western European History Jewish History State Violence and Human Displacement

Tatiana Saburova

Lecturer, Department of History

tsaburov@indiana.edu

Dr. Tatiana Saburova is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Indiana University and a former Co-Director of the Russian Studies Workshop in Indiana University. She has written books about the Russian intellectuals in the 19^th century and revolutionary Populism, and she has published articles on education, history and memory in Imperial and Soviet Russia. She specializes in visual and cultural Russian history and her current research focuses on photography, cartography, and exploration in the Russian empire’s borderlands.

19th century 20th century Russian and Eastern European History Borderlands Cultural History Digital History Empire and Colonialism Environment and Society Film, Photography and Visual Culture Public History and Memory

Eric Sandweiss

Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Department of History; Adjunct Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

sesandw@indiana.edu
(812)-855-0210

19th century 20th century Indiana History U.S. History Cultural History Environment and Society Historical Teaching and Practice Public History and Memory Urbanism and Architecture

Jonathan Schlesinger

Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, History Honors Program

joschles@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6882

China and Inner Asia; Environmental history; Early modern empires; Race and ethnicity; Commodities and consumption

1350 to 1800 19th century East Asian History Borderlands Environment and Society Race and Ethnicity

Robert A. Schneider

Professor, Department of History (on leave 2023-24)

raschnei@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1124

Formation of centralized European state; Europe, Renaissance to the Revolution; Intellectual history of "absolutism"

1350 to 1800 Western European History Cultural History Letters and Print Culture Politics and Constitutional History

Micol Seigel

Professor, Department of History; Professor, Department of American Studies

mseigel@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7707

Policing, prisons, and race in the Americas; popular culture; Brazil; the Cold War; postcolonial, racial and queer theory

20th century Global History Latin American History U.S. History African Diaspora History Gender and Sexuality Race and Ethnicity Slavery and Postemancipation State Violence and Human Displacement

Leah Shopkow

Professor, Department of History

shopkowl@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1938

Medieval intellectual and cultural history; Historiography; History Pedagogy

500 to 1350 Western European History Historical Teaching and Practice Religion and Society

Rebecca L. Spang

Distinguished Professor; Ruth N. Halls Professor, Department of History; Dean, Hutton Honors College

rlspang@indiana.edu
(812)-855-2437; 856-4671

Cultural history and social/economic theory; Modern Europe; France, 1715-present

1350 to 1800 19th century Western European History Age of Revolutions Cultural History Food and Food Cultures Historical Teaching and Practice Material Culture Money, Political Economy and Commercial Life Social and Revolutionary Movements

Fei-Hsien Wang

Associate Professor, Department of History (on leave 2023-24)

feihwang@indiana.edu
(812) 855-5877

Modern China; history of piracy and intellectual property right; history of books, law and economic life; popular culture; history of cooking and cook books

19th century 20th century East Asian History Global History Cultural History Empire and Colonialism Food and Food Cultures Law and Society Letters and Print Culture Material Culture

Jakobi Williams

Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor, Department of History, Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies;

jakowill@indiana.edu
(812) 855-3903

African American History; 20th Century United States History; Black Panther Party; Black Power/Civil rights movement; Social Justice movements; Diverstiy, Equity, and Inclusion issues

20th century U.S. History African Diaspora History Race and Ethnicity Social and Revolutionary Movements

Ellen Wu

Associate Professor, Department of History; Affilated Faculty, Asian American Studies Program; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

wue@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6344

20th Century U.S. History; Asian American History/Studies; Race; Migration; Citizenship; US-Asia relations; Pacific World

20th century U.S. History Citizenship and Belonging Digital History Race and Ethnicity

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