Department of History Faculty

Europe

Martha Carlin, medieval history, Britain, London, food, daily life
Winson Chu, Germany, Modern Central Europe
Carolyn Eichner, France, women, and gender and politics
Carlos Galvao-Sobrinho, ancient history, Rome, early Christianity
Jeffrey Merrick, early modern France, intellectual and cultural history, gender and sexuality; Associate Dean for the Humanities
Neal Pease, Poland, eastern Europe
Helena Pycior, science, intellectual and cultural history, race and gender, animals
Philip Shashko, modern Russia and Balkans, intellectual history
Lisa Silverman, modern Jewish history, cultural history, and gender
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Renaissance and Reformation, women, Christianity, global history; Interim Director, Center for 21st Century Studies

United States

Jasmine Alinder, public history, visual culture and museum studies
Margo Anderson, U.S. urban and social history, quantitative methods
Joe Austin, modern U.S. urban, popular, and youth culture
Rachel Buff, modern U.S. social and cultural, immigration and ethnicity; Coordinator, Comparative Ethnic Studies Program
Greg Carter, modern U.S. social and intellectual, mixed-race, civil rights, popular culture
Michael Gordon, U.S. labor, public history
J. David Hoeveler, U.S. intellectual and religious history
Glen Jeansonne, 20th century, political history
Marc Levine, North American urban history, public policy, Canada and Québec; Director, Center of Economic Development; Director, Center for Canadian-American Policy Studies; Director, Consortium for Economic Opportunity, UWM Milwaukee Idea
Genevieve McBride, U.S. women, advertising and popular culture, Wisconsin
Stephen Meyer, 20th century U.S. social, labor, and cultural history, gender
Cary Miller, Native American
Katherine Paugh, Health and healing, early modern Caribbean, colonial and revolutionary America
Lex Renda, 19th century U.S.
Joseph Rodriguez, U.S. minorities, urban history
John Schroeder, 19th century U.S., naval, maritime, diplomatic
Amanda Seligman, U.S. urban and social history, public policy, community organizing; Director, Urban Studies Program
Robert S. Smith, African American history, Civil Rights, Race and Law

Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Middle East

Ellen Amster, North Africa and Middle East, history of medicine, women
Douglas Howland, Modern China and Japan, cultural interaction, international law and the state
Nan Kim, Modern Korea, family, war memory, intersections between history and anthropology
Aims McGuinness, Latin America, global history
Kristin Ruggiero, Latin America, Argentina; Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Associate Director, Center for International Education
Chia Youyee Vang, Southeast Asia, modern Hmong, immigration; Hmong Diaspora Certificate Program Coordinator