Department Chair: Mary Kupiec Cayton

Director of Graduate Studies, Wietse de Boer

Chief Department Advisor (undergraduate): D. S. Chandler

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Stephen Norris

Department secretary: Jeri Schaner

Faculty

Miami's history faculty is noted for the scholarship and professional activities of its members. They regularly publish work of distinction with leading scholarly and trade presses, journals, magazines, and newspapers. Many of the faculty contribute to more than one graduate field.

Elena Jackson Albarrán	Revolution and social movement in Latin America, World Childhoods
Sheldon Anderson	Cold War, Modern Eastern Europe, Sports History
P. Renée Baernstein	Early Modern Italy
Muriel Blaisdell	History of Science
Michael Carrafiello	England since 1485, Colonial America
Andrew Cayton	North America and British Empire 1700-1850
Mary Kupiec Cayton	U.S. cultural and Intellectual, Religion in the U.S., history of print
D. S. Chandler	Latin America
Daniel Cobb	American Indian History, 20th C. U.S.
Wietse de Boer	Early Modern Europe, Italian cultural history
Curtis W. Ellison	American regionalism
Sara First	U.S. print culture, history of celebrity
Carrie A. Foster	20th C. U.S.
Nishani Frazier	African-American history, U.S. in the 1960s
Mary E. Frederickson	U.S. women's, labor, and social history
Charlotte Newman Goldy	Medieval Europe, social and women's history, Jewish Studies
Matthew S. Gordon	Middle East and Islam, pre-modern world history
Kimberly Hamlin	American Studies, gender, science
W. Sherman Jackson	American constitutional history
Erik Jensen	Modern Europe, 20th C. Germany; gender and sport
Martin Johnson	Civil War, Modern Europe
Wenxi Liu	Medieval English constitution and law
Amanda McVety	U.S. foreign policy
Robert Meckley	Colonial America ; Interim Director, Colligan History Project
William Meier	Modern Britain and Ireland, British Empire
Johanna Moyer	Early Modern Europe, medical history
Caryn Neumann	20th century U.S., women, interdisciplinary
Stephen Norris	Russian cultural history since 1800, nationalism, visual history
Osaak Olumwullah	African history, environmental history
Kevin Osterloh	Ancient History, Jewish Studies, Classical Mediterranean
Yihong Pan	Tang history, China's Cultural Revolution
Carla G. Pestana	17th and 18th C. Atlantic World
Daniel G. Prior	Inner Asian history, nomadic culture
Lawrence Richards	U.S. labor history
Anne Rose	Modern Europe, women's history, social history of medicine
Rob Schorman	American popular culture
Tatiana Seijas	Colonial Mexico, Early Modern Latin America
Marguerite S. Shaffer	Public culture; environmental history
Susan V. Spellman	19th and 20th century U.S., business history, consumerism
Robert W. Thurston	Coffee, mass persecution, Russia
George Vascik	Modern Germany
Allan M. Winkler	20th C. U.S.

Affiliate Faculty
We encourage students to add an interdisciplinary dimension to their studies in history. Affiliate faculty teach historically informed courses in other departments of the university which may, with departmental approval, be substituted for some degree requirements. These faculty are also available to serve as second readers on graduate committees.

Kevin Armitage, assistant professor, The Western Program
Environmental history, Gilded Age/Progressive Era, intellectual, cultural

Osama Ettouney, professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
History of Technology

Scott Kenworthy , assistant professor, Department of Comparative Religion
Eastern Christianity, Religions of Russia and Eurasia

Kate Rousmaniere, professor, Department of Educational Leadership
History of Education

Helen Sheumaker, Visiting Associate Professor of American Studies and John W. Altman Fellow for the Humanities Center
Public History, 19th century domestic life

Peter Williams, distinguished professor, Department of Comparative Religion
American Religious History

Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty members are professional historians formally associated with the Department of History. While they do not regularly teach graduate courses, they are an important resource for service on graduate committees.

Robert Goldy
Ph.D. (1987) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
20th C. Jewish and Christian Intellectual History

Judith Kolbas
Ph.D, New York University
History of the Mongols, Numismatics

Jack White
Senior Historian Emeritus, Smithsonian Institute
U.S. Transportation

 

Emeriti
Jay W. Baird
Thomas M. Coakley
David M. Fahey
Richard M. Jellison
Burton Kaufman
Jeffrey Kimball
Edward (Bud) Parsons
Phillip R. Shriver
Dwight L. Smith
Max Welborn
Edwin M. Yamauchi
Judith P. Zinsser