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Faculty and Staff

History

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Faculty

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 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
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

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

Brendan P. LaRocque
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in History
Office: Leighton Hall 208
Phone: x4213
Masebo Masebo
Visiting Instructor in History
Office: Leighton Hall 214
Phone: x4207
Victoria Morse
Associate Professor of History
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Off Campus: Fall 2009
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.

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 R. Ottaway
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 211
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.

David G. Tompkins
Assistant Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 210
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. Bibliography; Homepage: http://people.carleton.edu/~dtompkin

George H. Vrtis
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and History
Off Campus: Fall 2009 through Winter 2010
Office: Hoppin House 205
Phone: x5410

Since 2006. Marquette University B.S., Northwestern University M.A., Georgetown University Ph.D. American and World Environmental History, the History of the American West, United States History: Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Bibliography

Harry M. Williams
Laird Bell Professor of History
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
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 R. Zabin
Associate 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 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.

Kirk Jeffrey
Professor of History, Emeritus
Phone: x4217

1970-2008.  Harvard B.A., Stanford M.A. and Ph.D. U.S. history 1848-present; technological change, medicine, business corporations in American history.  Books: Understanding Quantitative History, co-author with Loren Haskins (MIT Press & McGraw-Hill, 1990); Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Bibliography

Philip Niles
Professor of History, Emeritus
Diethelm Prowe
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emeritus
Office: Leighton Hall 221
Phone: x4216
Carl D. Weiner
W. H. Laird Professor of History and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Office: Leighton Hall 213
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.

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
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. She most recently spoke at the South Asia Seminar of the University of Minnesota on April 22, 2009,   "Connected Peoples: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Structure of the Ambedkar Movement."

 

Staff

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.