Faculty and Staff
Chair: Susannah Ottaway, (507) 222-5446
Administrative Assistant: Nikki Lamberty, (507) 222-4217
2011-12 Faculty Dept Events Calendar
2011-12 Spring Office Hours and Course Schedules
2011-12 Winter Office Hours and Course Schedules
2011-12 Fall Office Hours and Course Schedules
History Department Members, 1875-present
History
- Phone: (507) 222-4217
- Fax: (507) 222-7900
Faculty
Director of Cross Cultural Studies
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Faculty Consultant to the Interim Librarian and Dean
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...
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. See also: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration Webpage. More...
Chair of History
David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities
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...
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...
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...
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). Ghana program. More...
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.
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...
Since 1999. Seoul National University, B.A., Harvard A.M., Ph.D. Modern China, East Asian history, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, international relations. More...
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...
1964-2004 Queens College B.A., Columbia M.A. Western Europe, French history in comparative context with England, Spain and Italy. More...
Emeriti Faculty
1967-2001 Wyoming B.A., Oregon M.A., Minnesota Ph.D. British History, American West, Environmental History, American Indian History. More...
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...
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. More...
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...
1970-2008. Stanford University B.A., M.A., Harvard Ph.D. Fields of interest include modern United States, business and technology.
Staff
1969-71 & since 1977. B.A. (cum laude), Concordia University, Organizational Management and Communications. Has served on a variety of campus committees, currently as a member of the Elizabeth Nason Distinguished Women Visitors Committee. Provides office staff supervision and training, full support for events, searches and guest speaker visits; organizational and administrative assistance for the Chair, department faculty, course schedule and catalog planner, newsletter editors, Comps Advisers, Student Departmental Advisers (SDAs), Department Curriculum Committee (DCC), and Program Directors (2011-12: the Humanities Center and the Cross-Cultural Studies Program); audits and tracks History majors’ course requirements; maintains History department website; fields department and campus questions for students, staff, faculty, visitors.
