Faculty and Staff
Chair: Susannah Ottaway, (507) 222-5446
Administrative Assistant: Nikki Lamberty, (507) 222-4217
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...
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Director of Latin American Studies
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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Director of European Studies
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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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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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 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. See Presentations.
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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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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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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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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 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...
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. 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.




























