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Faculty and Staff

Chair: Susannah Ottaway, (507) 222-5446
Administrative Assistant: Nikki Lamberty, (507) 222-4217

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History Department Members, 1875-present

 

History

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

Faculty

Clifford Clark
Clifford Clark
Professor of History and M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies
Director of Cross Cultural Studies
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.  More...

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Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher
Associate Professor of History
Director of Latin American Studies
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.  More...

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Annette Igra
Annette Igra
Professor of History
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. More...

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Adeeb Khalid
Adeeb Khalid
Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History
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, the Ottoman Empire; the politics of culture in the Muslim world; nationalism; empire.  More...

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Amna Khalid
Amna Khalid
Assistant Professor of History
Phone: x4213

Since 2011. B.S. Lahore University, M.Phil, Ph.D., University of Oxford, St. Antony's College. South Asia, medicine, disease causation, sacred spaces, pilgrimages and public health.  British imperialism and colonialism in Indian subcontinent during 19th and early 20th centuries.  More...

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Victoria Morse
Victoria Morse
Associate Professor of History

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.  More...

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Bill North
William North
Associate Professor of History
Off Campus: Winter 2014 through Spring 2014
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. Please visit: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration Webpage.    More...

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Susannah Ottaway
Susannah Ottaway ’89
Professor of History
Chair of History
David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities
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. More...

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David Tompkins
David Tompkins
Assistant Professor of History
Director of European Studies
Phone: x4215

Since 2008. Columbia University Ph.D., M. Phil, M.A.;

University of Provence, licence in History; Rice University, B.A. Modern European history and culture, especially that of modern Germany and East Central Europe; the Cold War; Communism; Russia and the Soviet Union; Central European music and society; cultural history. More...

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George Vrtis
George Vrtis
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and History
Phone: x5410

Since 2006. Marquette University B.S., Northwestern University M.A., Georgetown University Ph.D. American and world environmental history, the American West, nineteenth-century America, and contemporary environmental issues.  More...

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Harry Williams
Harry Williams
Laird Bell Professor of History
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 interests George S. Schuyler (1895-1977).  Ghana programMore...

Professor Williams has been awarded a 10-month Fulbright Lectureship in China for 2011-12, in the Study of the United States. He will teach graduate and/or undergraduate courses in African-American social, cultural, intellectual history; serve as curriculum development and graduate theses adviser; conduct tutorials and informal meetings. See Presentations.

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Thabiti Willis
Thabiti Willis
Assistant Professor of History
Off Campus: Fall 2013 through Spring 2014
Phone: x4207

Since Fall, 2010.  Clark Atlanta University B.A., Cornell University M.A., Emory University M.A. & Ph.D.  African & African Diaspora History.  Nigeria, West Africa; Yoruba history, culture, and religion; masquerade and ritual performance; gender, slavery, ethnicity, religion, and performance in Africa.  More...

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Seungjoo Yoon
Seungjoo Yoon
Associate Professor of History
Off Campus: Fall 2013
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. More...

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Serena Zabin
Associate Professor of History
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. More...

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Carl Weiner
Carl Weiner
W. H. Laird Professor of History and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Phone: x4217

1964-2004 Queens College B.A., Columbia M.A. Western Europe, French history in comparative context with England, Spain and Italy.  More...

Brian Horrigan
Bigelow Teacher-In-Residence in History
Phone: x4209

Emeriti Faculty

Professor emeritus Robert Bonner, Carleton History department faculty from 1967-2001
Robert Bonner
Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Prof of History & the Lib Arts, Emeritus
Phone: x4212

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

Diethelm Prowe, Laird Bell Professor emeritus of Modern European History,
Diethelm Prowe
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emeritus

1966-2008, Laird Bell Professor Emeritus of Modern European History. Past Editor, German Studies Review, 2001-2011.  B.A. Kent State University, M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University.  More...

Bill Woehrlin
William Woehrlin
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emeritus
Phone: x4217

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

 

Eleanor Zelliot
Eleanor Zelliot
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emerita
Phone: x4217

1969-1997 William Penn College B.A., Bryn Mawr M.A., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. Fields of interest include the History of India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables and social movements.  More...

 

Kirk Jeffrey 1
Kirk Jeffrey
Professor of History, Emeritus

1970-2008.  Stanford University B.A., M.A., Harvard Ph.D. Fields of interest include modern United States, business and technology.

Staff

Nikki Lamberty
Nikki Lamberty
Administrative Assistant in History
Phone: x4217

1969-71 & since 1977. B.A. (cum laude), Concordia University, Organizational Management and Communications. Provide office staff supervision and training. Manage all aspects of department events, recruitment searches and guest speaker visits (budgets, scheduling, publicity, transportation, accommodations, catering). Provide organizational, statistical and administrative assistance for Chair and faculty. Oversight of department and endowment budgets, catalog, course schedule, Student Departmental Advisers (SDAs), Department Curriculum Committee (DCC), newsletter editors, library and media materials. Track majors’ History course requirements and comps. Build and maintain History department website and social media connections. Field department and campus questions for students, staff, faculty, alumni, visitors. Administrative Assistant for History, Carleton Humanities Center and Cross Cultural Studies, also support Program Directors of European Studies, Latin American Studies and the Medieval Renaissance Studies Programs.

 

Robert Hest ’13
Temporary Research Assistant
Phone: x4217