John Hanson
Interim Chair, Department of History; Professor, Department of History
- jhhanson@indiana.edu
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Africa; Religion; Intellectual and cultural
Interim Chair, Department of History; Professor, Department of History
Africa; Religion; Intellectual and cultural
Associate Chair, Department of History; Associate Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Money, connectivity and economic integration in the Roman world; The Antonine plague and ancient pandemics; Environmental history of the Roman Empire; Social-scientific approaches to history.
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
Graduate Admissions & Placement Secretary
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History; Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Archaic and Classical Greece; Democracy; Political and military history
Professor, Department of History (on leave 2023-24)
Formation of centralized European state; Europe, Renaissance to the Revolution; Intellectual history of "absolutism"
Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies and Carmony Chair, Department of History; Editor, Indiana Magazine of History
Graduate Assistant Editor, Indiana Magazine of History
Graduate Career Coordinator; Public History Consultant
Dr. Susan Ferentinos provides graduate-career and professionalization services for the Department of History. As a public-history consultant, Dr. Ferentinos collaborates with the National Park Service, gives public presentations and tours of local historic sites, curates exhibits and other collections in libraries and archives, and advocates for a larger understanding of the public potential of historian's work. Her book, Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), was awarded the National Council on Public History's 2016 book prize.
History Librarian
Dr. Catherine Minter serves as librarian for Germanic Studies, French and Italian, History and Philosophy of Science, Classical Studies, and Linguistics and as Head of the Arts & Humanities department. Catherine holds a Ph.D. in German from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Library and Information Studies by the University of Aberystwyth.
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