Department Chair: Mary Kupiec Cayton

Director of Graduate Studies:Wietse de Boer

Chief Department Advisor (undergraduates):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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Williams, Peter, 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.

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

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

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

 

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