Leah Shopkow

Chair, Department of History; Professor, Department of History

• shopkowl@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1938

Medieval intellectual and cultural history; Historiography; History Pedagogy

• 500 to 1350Western European HistoryHistorical Teaching and PracticeReligion and Society

Nick Roberts

Administrative Services Program Manager

• nirobert@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-3236

Deana Hutchins

Part-Time Receptionist

• dhutchin@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7581

Claire Cumberland

Assistant to the Chair; Scheduling Officer

• histca@iu.edu
• 812-855-7582

Shaina Sanders

Financial Administration Coordinator

• shaisand@iu.edu
• (812) 856-0309

Kalani Craig

Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Chair, 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)

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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 1350Western European HistoryDigital HistoryHistorical Teaching and PracticePublic History and MemoryReligion and Society

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Ruth N. Halls 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 centuryU.S. HistoryAfrican Diaspora HistoryGender and SexualityRace and EthnicitySlavery and Postemancipation

Alexia Bock

Graduate Records Secretary

• gradsec@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8234

Elizabeth Wilson

Graduate Admissions & Placement Secretary

• histadm@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8233

Eric Robinson

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

• ewr@indiana.edu

Archaic and Classical Greece; Democracy; Political and military history

• To 500Western European HistoryHistorical Teaching and PracticeMilitary History and WarfarePolitics and Constitutional History

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 180019th centuryEast Asian HistoryBorderlandsEnvironment and SocietyRace and Ethnicity

Amanda Lueck, Primary Academic Advisor, Department of History

• histadv@iu.edu

George Andrei, Academic Advisor, Department of History

• histadv@iu.edu

Dale Spicer, Academic Advisor, Department of History

• histadv@iu.edu

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 180019th centuryIndiana HistoryU.S. HistoryEmpire and Colonialism

Dawn Bakken

Associate Editor, Indiana Magazine of History

• imaghist@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-4139

Justin Hawkins

Graduate Assistant Editor, Indiana Magazine of History

• imaghist@indiana.edu

Susan Ferentinos

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.

• 20th centuryGender and SexualityHistorical Teaching and PracticePublic History and Memory

Meg Galasso

History Librarian

• galasso@iu.edu
• (812) 856-3175

Meg Galasso supports the teaching, learning, and research of faculty and students in History, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies. This work includes selecting and purchasing relevant materials, collaborating with faculty to provide engaging workshops for their students, hosting research consultations, and connecting researchers with the tools and services available to provoke and explore new and compelling questions.