Faculty and Staff
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
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.
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.
Chair of History
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
Since 1970. Harvard B.A., Stanford M.A., Ph.D. U.S. history post-1865, technology, business, and medicine. Bibliography.
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.
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.
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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.
Director of European Studies
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Director of African/African American Studies
Since 1999. Seoul National University, B.A., Harvard A.M., Ph.D. Modern China, East Asian history, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, international relations. Bibliography.
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.
1967-2001 Wyoming B.A., Oregon M.A., Minnesota Ph.D. British History, American West, Environmental History, American Indian History. Bibliography.
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.
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
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.
Staff
German Studies Review Assistant
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.




























