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Fall, 2008-Spring, 2011, Chair: Annette Igra (507) 222-5240
Administrative Assistant/Department Office: Nikki Lamberty, (507) 222-4217

To contact Professor Emeritus Philip Niles, e-mail: nlambert@carleton.edu, or call (507) 222-4217.

NEW 2008-09 HISTORY FACULTY INTERNAL DEPARTMENT CALENDAR

History Department Members, 1875-present

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History

  • Phone: (507) 222-4217
  • Fax: (507) 222-7900

Faculty

Clifford Clark
Clifford E. Clark, Jr.
Professor of History and M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies
Office: Leighton Hall 206
Phone: x4208

Since 1970. Yale B.A., Harvard M.A. and Ph.D. American cultural, material, intellectual history, architecture, religion, and the literature of exploration of the natural environment.
Bibliography.

Andrew Fisher
Andrew B. Fisher
Assistant Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 220
Phone: x4189

Since Fall, 2003. Stanford University B.A., University of California, San Diego M.A. & Ph.D. He has also studied Nahuatl in Mexico as well as at Yale University and UCLA. Latin American history, society and culture, the comparative topics of slavery, obstacles to nation-building, and the role of race and ethnicity in colonial and postcolonial settings. Bibliography.

Annette Igra
Anna Igra
Associate Professor of History
Chair of History
Office: Leighton Hall 207
Phone: x5240

Since 1994. UCLA B.A., Sarah Lawrence M.A., Rutgers Ph.D. American women's history and women's studies. History of American women, gender & work, labor history, social welfare, historiography, women's studies. Bibliography

Kirk Jeffrey
Kirk Jeffrey
Professor of History, Emeritus

Since 1970. Harvard B.A., Stanford M.A., Ph.D. U.S. history post-1865, technology, business, and medicine. Bibliography.

Adeeb Khalid
Adeeb Khalid
Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 205
Phone: x4214

Since 1993. University of the Punjab, Lahore B.A., McGill University, Montreal B.A., University of Wisconsin Madison M.A., Ph.D. Russia, Central Asia, Middle East, politics of cultural reform in the Muslim world, cultural/intellectual history. Bibliography.

Jamie Monson
Jamie Monson
Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 211
Phone: x4213

Since 1991. Stanford B.A., UCLA M.A.A.S., Ph.D. Interests in China-Africa Historical Relations, Eastern and Southern African history, African environmental history; Maji Maji War; Memory and Narrative in African History. Bibliography.

Victoria Morse
Victoria Morse
Associate Professor of History
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Office: Leighton Hall 203B
Phone: x4210

Since 1999. University of California, Berkeley B.A., M.A., Ph.D. History of Italy; spirituality and religious life; history of cartography, geography, and the medieval world view; urbanism. Bibliography.

Bill North
William L. North
Associate Professor of History
Director of European Studies
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Office: Leighton Hall 203A
Phone: x4202

Since 1999. Princeton A.B., University of California, Berkeley M.A., Ph.D. Medieval Europe (esp. to 1150) and Byzantium (Late Antiquity-1453); Christian thought (esp. political and social), asceticism, and institutions; crusades; late antique and medieval historiography and hagiography. Research interests: medieval Germany; ecclesiastical conflict and reform in Byzantium and the West; medieval biblical exegesis and social thought; institutional culture in the Middle Ages. Bibliography. See also: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration Webpage

Susannah Ottaway
Susannah R. Ottaway
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 213
Phone: x5446

Since 1998. Carleton College, B.A., Brown, M.A., Ph.D. Early Modern European social, cultural & intellectual history. Comparative popular culture of Continental & British history & history of Anglo-Irish-Scottish relations in pre-modern period. Research focus on family history of 18th c. England, history of aging. Bibliography.

Diethelm Prowe
Diethelm Prowe
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emeritus
Office: Leighton Hall 214
Phone: x4216

Since 1966. Kent State B.A., Stanford Ph.D. German history specialist and Editor of the German Studies Review, the journal of the German Studies Association. Contemporary political and diplomatic German history, modern European, German, and East-Central European history. Bibliography.


Parna Sengupta
Parna Sengupta
Assistant Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 208
Phone: x4207

Since 2000. University of California, Berkeley, B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D. South Asian civilization, gender & Indian nationalism, missionizing in Asia, comparative educational history in metropolitan Britain & its colonies, history of education in South Asia. Bibliography.

George Vrtis
George H. Vrtis
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Technology Studies and History
Office: Leighton Hall 222
Phone: x5410

Since 2006. Marquette University B.S., Northwestern University M.A., Georgetown University Ph.D. North American Environmental History, the American West, American Indian History, and the Atlantic World. Bibliography

Harry Williams, 1989-present
Harry M. Williams
Laird Bell Professor of History
Director of African/African American Studies
Office: Leighton Hall 212
Phone: x5241
Since 1989. Lincoln University B.A., Missouri M.A., Brown A.M., Ph.D. African American history with primary teaching interests in 19th c. slavery studies, social and intellectual history, black conservatism, and cultural studies. Secondary teaching interests include the Black Atlantic with emphasis on Ghana (Gold Coast) and the United States, and the Concord intellectuals. Research interest George S. Schuyler (1895-1977). Bibliography. Created and leads Carleton's Ghana Program: Ghana program.
Seungjoo Yoon
Seungjoo Yoon
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 209
Phone: x4211

Since 1999. Seoul National University, B.A., Harvard A.M., Ph.D. Modern China, East Asian history, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, international relations. Bibliography.

Serena Zabin
Serena R. Zabin
Assistant Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 219
Phone: x7160

Since 2000. Bowdoin B.A., U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill M.A., Rutgers Ph.D. Colonial America, Early Modern Atlantic World, Age of Revolutions, the Early Republic, women, race & gender in American history. Bibliography.

Robert Bonner
Robert E. Bonner
Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Prof of History & the Lib Arts, Emer
Office: Chapel 255
Phone: x4212

1967-2001 Wyoming B.A., Oregon M.A., Minnesota Ph.D. British History, American West, Environmental History, American Indian History. Bibliography.

Carl Weiner
Carl D. Weiner
W. H. Laird Professor of History and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Office: Goodsell Observatory 6B
Phone: x4209

1964-2004 Queens College B.A., Columbia M.A. Western Europe, French history in comparative context with England, Spain and Italy. Senior seminars in the history of Marxism, Nineteenth-Century Paris and War, State and Society." Interests include Early Modern and Modern Europe, Agrarian (history of food, particularly bread and wine), Urban History, especially Paris, and the history of bandits and outlaws. Led Paris Seminar that focused on Parisian history. Bibliography.

Bill Woehrlin
William F. Woehrlin
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emeritus
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: x4217

1962-1993 Harvard B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Russian, Soviet and Modern European Intellectual and Economic History, comparative revolutions. E-mail: WWoehrli@Carleton.edu

Eleanor Zelliot
Eleanor Zelliot
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emerita
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: x4217

1969-1997 William Penn College B.A., Bryn Mawr M.A., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. History of India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables, social movements. Co-founded Carleton's interdisciplinary program in South Asian Studies. Has written over eighty articles and edited three books on the movement among Untouchables in India led by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, on saint-poets of the medieval period, and on the current Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement. Bibliography.

Philip Niles
Professor of History, Emeritus
David G. Tompkins
Assistant Professor of History

Staff

Nikki Lamberty
Nikki Lamberty
Administrative Assistant in History
German Studies Review Assistant
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: x4217

1968-71 & since 1977. B.A., Concordia University, St. Paul, Organizational Management and Communication. Provides administrative support, organizational assistance, office staff supervision, and office management for Chair and faculty; answers History Department questions for students, staff, faculty, and campus visitors; maintains department web site. History Department Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. academic year only; summer 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. MTW, as needed, and 8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Th. The office is also staffed by student workers during the academic year and during Spring break.

Elizabeth E. Treat
Visiting Scholar in History
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: x4217