Ordinary Faculty

Edward E. Andrews
Professor of History
Early American Colonial and Atlantic World; race, religion, & 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

Luz Colpa
Assistant Professor of History
Colonization/decolonization in Africa

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

Jennifer Illuzzi
Associate Professor of History
Modern Europe; Romani populations; Modern Germany; Modern Italy

D. Colin Jaundrill
Department Chair
Associate Professor of History
Modern Japan; East Asian history

Jeffrey A. Johnson
Graduate History Program Director
Professor of History
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

Sharon Ann Murphy
Professor of History
19th century Social, Economic, and Business history; Financial history; history of capitalism

David Orique, O.P.
Professor of History
Age of Exploration; Spanish and Portuguese contact, conquest, and colonization of America

R. Alexander D. Orquiza, Jr.
Assistant Department Chair
Associate Professor of History
20th century 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

Guolin Yi
Assistant Professor of History
Modern China, East Asia, World History (theories), Comparative Media

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