North America

Edward E. Andrews
Professor of History

Early American Colonial and Atlantic World; race, religion, and slavery

Patrick H. Breen
Associate Professor of History

American Ante-Bellum; Slavery; Nat Turner

Jeffrey A. Johnson
Professor of History
Gilded Age and Progressive Era; American West; Labor

Alyssa Lopez
Assistant Professor of History

20th Century African American History; film history; race, culture, and activism

Margaret Manchester
Emeritus Professor of History
US Diplomatic History, Modern Middle East, Cold War, Puritan Women

Darra D. Mulderry
Visiting Faculty
Modern European and American Intellectual History; U.S. Catholic History

Sharon Ann Murphy
Professor of History

19th century Social, Economic, and Business history; Financial history; history of capitalism

R. Alexander D. Orquiza, Jr.
Associate Professor of History

20th century US cultural history; Immigration history; Food history; Asian American Studies

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


History and Classics Department


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