Ordinary Faculty
Edward E. Andrews
Professor of History
Assistant Department Chair
Early American Colonial and Atlantic World; race, religion, and slavery
Jessica Blum-Sorensen
Assistant Professor of Classics
Latin poetry of the early empire and the epic tradition
Patrick H. Breen
Associate Professor of History
American Ante-Bellum; Slavery; Nat Turner
Matthew Dowling
Assistant Professor of History
French Colonialism; French colonial Polynesia
Vefa Erginbas
Associate Professor of History
Early Modern Ottoman Empire; Modern Turkey; Middle East
Robin Greene
Associate Professor of History
Hellenistic poetry; ancient and natural history and popular science; Greek historiography; early Christian narrative
Thomas Grzebien
Assistant Professor of History
Medieval Europe
Karen Holland
Assistant Professor of History
Early Modern Europe (England and France); Women and Gender in Ireland; Material Culture
Melissa Huber
Assistant Professor of Classics
Ancient Roman History, Topography of Rome, Latin Historiography
Jennifer Illuzzi
Associate Professor of History
Modern Europe; Romani populations; Modern Germany; Modern Italy
D. Colin Jaundrill
Associate Professor of History
Modern Japan; East Asian history
Jeffrey A. Johnson
Professor of History
Graduate History Program Director
Gilded Age and Progressive Era; American West; Labor
John Lawless
Assistant Professor of History
Ancient Greece
Alyssa Lopez
Assistant Professor of History
20th Century African American History; film history; race, culture, and activism
Margaret Manchester
Associate Professor of History
US Diplomatic History; Modern Middle East, Cold War; Puritan Women
Sharon Ann Murphy
Professor of History
Department Chair
19th century Social, Economic, and Business history; Financial history; history of capitalism
David Orique, O.P. Ph.D.
Professor of History
Age of Exploration; Spanish and Portuguese contact, conquest, and colonization of America
R. Alexander D. Orquiza, Jr.
Associate Professor of History
20thcentury US cultural history; Immigration history; Food history; Asian American Studies; Modern Philippines
Constance M. Rousseau
Professor of History
Medieval Europe; Italian Renaissance history; 11th-13thcenturies; Medieval Canon Law; Western Civilization; Women, Family, and Gender history
Osama Siddiqui
Assistant Professor of History
Modern Britain; British Empire; Modern South Asia; intellectual history and the history of economic thought; history of translation
Francesca Silano
Assistant Professor of History
Late-imperial and early-Soviet Russian history; Orthodox Christian life in twentieth-century Russia
Steven Carl Smith
Associate Professor of History
The American Revolution; the Early American Republic; history of the book in the US; history of media and communications; the history of New York; Urban history
John Vidmar, O.P.
Associate Professor of History
Monasticism; The Popes; The Inquisition; The Reformation; 19th century Catholicism; American Dominican History
Adrian Chastain Weimer
Professor of History
Colonial America; early modern religion and politics; intellectual history; constitutional history; toleration
