Faculty: Department of History - Northwestern University

Ken Alder

Professor of History, Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900; Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie; Medieval and Early Modern European History; Global History

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Legal and Criminal History; Environmental History

Phone number: 847-491-7260
Office location: Kresge 3-213
k-alder@northwestern.edu

Michael J. Allen

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-491-7172
Office location: Harris 204
m-allen1@northwestern.edu

Lydia Barnett

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Gender and Sexuality History; Religious History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Environmental History

Phone number: 847-491-7421
Office location: Harris 305
lydia.barnett@northwestern.edu

Josef Barton

Professor Emeritus

j-barton@northwestern.edu

Robin Bates

Ian Sanders Chair in History and Assistant Professor of Instruction

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History; Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History; War and Empire in History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-467-3896
Office location: Harris 223
robin.bates@northwestern.edu

Kathleen Belew

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Environmental History; War and Empire in History; Political and Policy History

belew@northwestern.edu

Shana Bernstein

Clinical Associate Professor of Legal Studies

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Environmental History; Urban History

Phone number: 847-467-6850
Office location: 620 Lincoln Ave, #205
s-bernstein@northwestern.edu

Henry C. Binford

Professor Emeritus

hcbin@northwestern.edu

Martha Biondi

Professor of African American Studies

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; African Diaspora and African American History

Phone number: 847-491-4806
Office location: Email me
m-biondi@northwestern.edu

Haley Bowen

Assistant Professor

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): ; Gender and Sexuality History; Religious History; Political and Policy History

Phone number: 847-467-2305
Office location: Harris 242
hebowen@northwestern.edu

Kevin Boyle

William Smith Mason Professor of American History / Department Chair

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History; African Diaspora and African American History; Legal and Criminal History; Urban History

Phone number: 847-491-4963
Office location: Harris 110 on M-W, Harris 227 on Thursdays
kevin.boyle@northwestern.edu

Jonathan Brack

Assistant Professor

Geographic Field(s): Asian History; Global History; Middle Eastern and North African History; Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-467-3086
Office location: 235
jonathan.brack@northwestern.edu

T.H. Breen

Professor Emeritus

t-breen@northwestern.edu

Lina Britto

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Latin American and Caribbean History

Thematic Field(s): Gender and Sexuality History; Legal and Criminal History; Political and Policy History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-491-7412
Office location: Harris 304
lina.britto@northwestern.edu

John Bushnell

Professor Emeritus

j-bushnell@northwestern.edu

Geraldo L. Cadava

Professor of History, Wender-Lewis Teaching and Research Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History

Phone number: 847-491-3152
Office location: Harris 210
g-cadava@northwestern.edu

Peter J. Carroll

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Asian History

Thematic Field(s): Urban History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-491-2753
Office location: Harris 216
p-carroll@northwestern.edu

S. Hollis Clayson

Professor Emerita

shc@northwestern.edu

Deborah Cohen

Richard W. Leopold Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): Global History; Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History; Religious History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-467-2414
Office location: 720 University Place, Room 103
Deborah-Cohen@northwestern.edu

Sarah Cushman

Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Senior Lecturer, History

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

Thematic Field(s): Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-467-4408
Office location: Kresge 3-210
sarah.cushman@northwestern.edu

Jeff Eden

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe; Asian History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; ; Urban History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-491-7448
Office location: Harris 329
jeff.eden@northwestern.edu

Dyan Elliott

Professor Emerita; Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Gender and Sexuality History; Religious History

Phone number: 847-491-7652
d-elliott@northwestern.edu

Lane Fenrich

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Phone number: 847-491-7560
Office location: 1922 Sheridan Road
Fenrich@northwestern.edu

Joseph Ferrie

Professor of Economics

Phone number: 847-491-8210
Office location: Arthur Andersen Hall, Room 340
ferrie@northwestern.edu

Caitlin Fitz

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Before 1900

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-467-2906
Office location: Harris 205
c-fitz@northwestern.edu

Benjamin Frommer

Associate Professor, Associate Chair of the History Department

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

Thematic Field(s): Legal and Criminal History

Phone number: 847-491-7191
Office location: Harris 237
b-frommer@northwestern.edu

Carola Frydman

Harold L. Stuart Professor of Finance

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; Economic and Labor History

Phone number: 847-467-4457
Office location: GLOBAL Hub 4383
c-frydman@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Brett Gadsden

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; African Diaspora and African American History

Phone number: 847-467-0872
Office location: Harris 303
brett.gadsden@northwestern.edu

Paul Gillingham

Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies

Geographic Field(s): Latin American and Caribbean History

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; Legal and Criminal History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-467-4829
Office location: Harris 323
paul.gillingham@northwestern.edu

Jonathon Glassman

Professor Emeritus

Geographic Field(s): African History

Thematic Field(s): African Diaspora and African American History; Urban History; Legal and Criminal History

j-glassman@northwestern.edu

Daniel Greene

Adjunct Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900; Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

daniel.greene@northwestern.edu

Joanna Grisinger

Associate Professor of Instruction in Legal Studies

Thematic Field(s): Legal and Criminal History

Phone number: 847-491-3987
Office location: 620 Lincoln St. #201
joanna.grisinger@northwestern.edu

W. Walker Hanlon

Associate Professor of Economics

Phone number: 847-491-8218
Office location: KGH 3323
whanlon@northwestern.edu

Sean Hanretta

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Global History; Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie; African History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; Gender and Sexuality History; African Diaspora and African American History

Phone number: 847-491-7557
Office location: Harris 310
sean.hanretta@northwestern.edu

Leslie M. Harris

Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900; American History, Before 1900

Thematic Field(s): Urban History; Gender and Sexuality History; African Diaspora and African American History

Phone number: 847-491-3153
Office location: Harris 340
leslie.harris@northwestern.edu

Peter Hayes

Professor Emeritus; Professor of History and German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies

p-hayes@northwestern.edu

Laura Hein

The Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): Asian History

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; Urban History; Economic and Labor History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-491-3408
Office location: Harris 325
l-hein@northwestern.edu

Daniel Immerwahr

Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities

Geographic Field(s): Global History; American History, Before 1900; American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History; War and Empire in History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Phone number: 847-491-7418
Office location: Harris 225
daniel.immerwahr@northwestern.edu

Emily Kadens

Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Legal and Criminal History

Office location: Levy-Mayer 286
kadens@law.northwestern.edu

Richard Kieckhefer

Professor Emeritus; Professor of Religious Studies

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History

kieckhefer@northwestern.edu

Doug Kiel

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900; American History, Before 1900

Thematic Field(s): Legal and Criminal History; Environmental History; Political and Policy History

Phone number: 847-467-4821
Office location: Harris 229
doug.kiel@northwestern.edu

Rajeev Kinra

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Asian History; Middle Eastern and North African History; Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire; Global History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History

Phone number: 847-467-1241
Office location: Harris 307
r-kinra@northwestern.edu

Michaela Kleber

Assistant Professor

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie; American History, Before 1900

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-467-3776
Office location: Harris 215
michaela.kleber@northwestern.edu

Ashish Koul

Assistant Professor

Geographic Field(s): Asian History

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; Religious History

Phone number: 847-467-3879
Office location: Harris 212
ashish.koul@northwestern.edu

Jacob Lassner

Professor Emeritus

j-lassner@northwestern.edu

Henri Lauzière

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Middle Eastern and North African History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History

Phone number: 847-467-3654
Office location: Harris 333
h-lauziere@northwestern.edu

Juan Fernando León

CCHS Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Geographic Field(s): Latin American and Caribbean History; Medieval and Early Modern European History; Global History

Thematic Field(s): Environmental History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Religious History

Office location: Harris Hall
juanferleon@u.northwestern.edu

Robert E. Lerner

Professor of History Emeritus; Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities Emeritus

rlerner@northwestern.edu

Tessie P. Liu

Professor

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie; Global History

Thematic Field(s): African Diaspora and African American History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-491-3150
Office location: Harris 327
t-liu@northwestern.edu

Melissa Macauley

Wayne Jones II Research Professor in History

Geographic Field(s): Global History; Asian History

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History; Legal and Criminal History; War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-491-3418
Office location: Harris 344
m-macauley@northwestern.edu

Kate Masur

John D. MacArthur Professor, Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): American History, Before 1900

Thematic Field(s): African Diaspora and African American History; Urban History; Gender and Sexuality History; Political and Policy History; Legal and Criminal History

Phone number: 847-491-2849
Office location: Harris 202
kmasur@northwestern.edu

Sarah Maza

Professor Emerita; Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History; Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie

Thematic Field(s): Legal and Criminal History; Gender and Sexuality History

scm@northwestern.edu

Ajay K. Mehrotra

Professor of Law

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History; Legal and Criminal History

Phone number: 312-988-6500
Office location: 750 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 4th Floor
ajay.mehrotra@law.northwestern.edu

Rose Miron

Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library

Geographic Field(s): American History, Before 1900; American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): ; Gender and Sexuality History

mironr@newberry.org

Joel Mokyr

Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire; Global History

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Phone number: 847-491-5693; 847-467-2739
Office location: KGH #3335; Harris 315
j-mokyr@northwestern.edu

J. Michelle Molina

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History; Latin American and Caribbean History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-491-2620
Office location: Crowe 4-142
molina@northwestern.edu

E. William Monter

Professor Emeritus

monter@northwestern.edu

Edward Muir

Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History and Italian

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; Urban History; Legal and Criminal History

Phone number: 847-491-3653
Office location: Harris 244
e-muir@northwestern.edu

Barbara Newman

Professor of English; John Evans Professor of Latin

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History

Phone number: 847-491-5679
Office location: University Hall 304
bjnewman@northwestern.edu

Zavier Nunn

Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

Thematic Field(s): Gender and Sexuality History; Legal and Criminal History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

zavier.nunn@northwestern.edu

Akin Ogundiran

Professor of History, Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences

Geographic Field(s): African History

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History; Urban History; Gender and Sexuality History; ; Religious History; African Diaspora and African American History; Environmental History

Phone number: 847-491-8963
Office location: Harris 316
ogundiran@northwestern.edu

Robert Orsi

Professor of Religious Studies

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; Urban History

Phone number: 847-467-5175
r-orsi@northwestern.edu

Alexandra Owen

Professor Emerita

a-owen@northwestern.edu

Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe

Director, Office of Fellowships

Phone number: 847-491-2617
Office location: 1940 Sheridan Road
e-pardoe@northwestern.edu

Susan J. Pearson

Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Before 1900

Thematic Field(s): Legal and Criminal History; Political and Policy History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-491-3744
Office location: Harris 338
sjp@northwestern.edu

Kennetta Hammond Perry

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire

Thematic Field(s): African Diaspora and African American History; ; Political and Policy History

Office location: Crowe Hall, Room 5-113
kennetta.perry@northwestern.edu

Alexandra Montero Peters

Assistant Professor of Medieval European History

Geographic Field(s): Middle Eastern and North African History; Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; War and Empire in History; Religious History

ampeters@northwestern.edu

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe; Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; War and Empire in History; Urban History

Phone number: 847-467-3399
Office location: Harris 317
yps@northwestern.edu

Carl F. Petry

Professor Emeritus, Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Middle East Studies and Professor of History

c-petry@northwestern.edu

Paul Ramírez

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Latin American and Caribbean History; Global History

Thematic Field(s): Religious History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Phone number: 847-491-7444
Office location: Kresge 3-213
pramirez@northwestern.edu

John Rowe

Professor Emeritus

David Schoenbrun

Professor Emeritus; Professor of History

Geographic Field(s): African History

Thematic Field(s): History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Environmental History; Political and Policy History; Religious History; Gender and Sexuality History

dls@northwestern.edu

Michael S. Sherry

Richard W. Leopold Professor of History Emeritus

m-sherry@northwestern.edu

David Shyovitz

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History; Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

Thematic Field(s): History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Religious History

Phone number: 847-467-1967
Office location: Harris 314
davidshy@northwestern.edu

Carl Smith

Professor of English and History emeritus
American Studies

Jane S. Smith

Adjunct Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

j-smith5@northwestern.edu

Scott Sowerby

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History; Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History; Religious History; Legal and Criminal History

Phone number: 847-491-7356
Office location: Harris 207
sowerby@northwestern.edu

Amy Stanley

Orrington Lunt Professor of History, and Director of Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies

Geographic Field(s): Asian History; Global History

Thematic Field(s): Urban History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-467-6722
Office location: Harris 203
a-stanley@northwestern.edu

Lauren Stokes

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

Phone number: 847-467-3979
Office location: Harris 342
lauren.stokes@northwestern.edu

Holly Swenson

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in British History

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History;

holly.swenson@northwestern.edu

Taco Terpstra

Associate Professor of Classics

Geographic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern European History

Thematic Field(s): Economic and Labor History

Phone number: 847-491-8039
Office location: Kresge 4-353
taco.terpstra@northwestern.edu

Helen Tilley

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Britain and Its Empire; African History; Global History

Thematic Field(s): History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Legal and Criminal History; War and Empire in History; Environmental History

Phone number: 847-467-3014
Office location: Harris 335
helen.tilley@northwestern.edu

Aisha Valiulla

CCHS Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow

Geographic Field(s): Middle Eastern and North African History; Asian History; Global History

Thematic Field(s): Environmental History; Urban History

aishavaliulla2022@u.northwestern.edu

Michał J. Wilczewski

Assistant Professor with Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Phone number: (847) 467-6485
Office location: 1880 Campus Dr., Kresge Hall, Suite 3305 (Office 3359), Evanston, IL 60208
michal.wilczewski@northwestern.edu

Garry Wills

Professor Emeritus

g-wills@northwestern.edu

Keith Woodhouse

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; Environmental History

Phone number: 847-491-2877
Office location: Harris 206
keith.woodhouse@northwestern.edu

İpek K. Yosmaoğlu

Crown Professor of Middle East Studies

Geographic Field(s): Middle Eastern and North African History; Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe; Global History

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History

Phone number: 847-491-3154 (History); 847-491-4653 (Turkish Studies)
Office location: Harris 214; 1800 Sherman #3005 (Turkish Studies)
i-yosmaoglu@northwestern.edu

Ji-Yeon Yuh

Associate Professor

Geographic Field(s): Global History; American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History; Gender and Sexuality History

Phone number: 847-467-6538
Office location: Harris 306
j-yuh@northwestern.edu