Faculty and Staff Directory

Adminstration

Name Office Phone E-Mail Research Interests
Antoinette Burton, Department Chair 309 Gregory Hall 244-2075 aburton@uiuc.edu Britain and the Empire, history of Women and Gender, and World history
Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Director of Graduate Studies 305A & 433B Gregory Hall 244-3213, 244-2088 kjo@uiuc.edu U.S. 19th and 20th century intellectual and cultural history
Dana Rabin, Director of Undergraduate Studies 446D Gregory Hall 244-2090 drabin@uiuc.edu Early modern Britain, legal, cultural, and gender history

Faculty

For information on faculty by field, please consult the Fields of Study listings

Name Office Phone E-Mail Research Interests
Eugene Avrutin 446C Gregory Hall 333-4224 eavrutin@uiuc.edu Modern European Jewish History, emphasis Russia
R. Jovita Baber 447 Gregory Hall 244-2091 jbaber@uiuc.edu Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Iberia
James R. Barrett 304A Gregory Hall 333-3799 jrbarret@uiuc.edu 20th century US; social & labor history, the radical tradition in the US, race and ethnicity
Marcelo Bucheli 305 Wohlers Hall 333-4240 mbucheli@uiuc.edu Latin America, Business
Adrian Burgos Jr. 446N Gregory Hall 333-0024 burgosjr@uiuc.edu U.S. Latino history
Antoinette Burton , Department Chair 309 Gregory Hall 244-2075 aburton@uiuc.edu Britain and the Empire, history of Women and Gender, and World history
Vernon Burton 305 Gregory Hall 333-4327 vburton@ncsa.uiuc.edu U.S. social and political history, history of the south, race relations, Civil Rights movement, family & community studies, quantitative techniques
Sundiata Cha-Jua African-Amer. Studies & Research Prog. 333-7781 schajua@uiuc.edu Histories of African American Resistance and Community Building; Radical Black Intellectual Traditions; Culturally Relevant Pedagogies
Shefali Chandra 446B Gregory Hall 265-0516 sc23@uiuc.edu History of South Asia, women, gender and sexuality, feminist and postcolonial studies
Tamara Chaplin (formerly Matheson) 446A Gregory Hall 244-2587 tchaplin@uiuc.edu Cultural and intellectual history of modern France, the history of women, gender, and sexuality, and the history of the media
Kai-wing Chow 424 Gregory Hall
 244-7527 kchow1@uiuc.edu Intellectual and cultural history of Ming-Ch'ing China
Clare Crowston 433C Gregory Hall 244-2089 crowston@uiuc.edu France, labor history, history of women and gender
Kenneth M. Cuno 414 Gregory Hall 333-1245 kmcuno@uiuc.edu Social, economic, and legal history of modern Middle East
S. Max Edelson 433A Gregory Hall 244-2086 edelson@uiuc.edu Colonial America, Environmental History, U.S. South and Caribbean, Slavery and Plantation Societies
Augusto Espiritu 431 Gregory Hall 244-2095 aespirit@uiuc.edu Asian American Intellectuals, Transnationalism, post-Colonialism, Race and Gender, 1898 and American Empire
Rayvon Fouché 442 Gregory Hall 244-3445 rfouche@uiuc.edu History and African American Studies
Peter Fritzsche 300A Gregory Hall 244-2085 pfritzsc@uiuc.edu Germany, European, Cultural History
Poshek Fu 412 Gregory Hall 333-8860 poshekfu@uiuc.edu Modern China & Hong Kong; Popular Culture, Cinema Studies
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 406 Gregory Hall 244-2652 bghamari@uiuc.edu Global History
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert Native American House 265-9870 tewa@uiuc.edu Native American history, American Indian Studies, history of Indian education, history of the West
Caroline M. Hibbard 427 Gregory Hall 244-2588 hibbardc@uiuc.edu Tudor-Stuart court culture, international relations
Keith Hitchins 446G Gregory Hall 333-9891 khitchin@uiuc.edu Nationalism, Habsburg monarchy in the 18th & 19th centuries, Romanian and Hungarian history, Central Asia
Lillian Hoddeson 419A Gregory Hall 244-8412 hoddeson@uiuc.edu 20th century US science and technology, industrial research, particle physics, solid-state physics, big science, nuclear weapons
Kristin Hoganson 446H Gregory Hall 244-2081 hoganson@uiuc.edu

United States in world context, cultures of U.S. imperialism, globalization
Frederick Hoxie 316 Gregory Hall 333-8660 hoxie@uiuc.edu American social and political history; Native American history
Nils P. Jacobsen 418 Gregory Hall 333-2324 njacobse@uiuc.edu Peru, 1770-1930
Diane P. Koenker 301 Gregory Hall 244-2083 dkoenker@uiuc.edu 20th Century Russia and USSR, comparative labor and social history
Craig Koslofsky 419B Gregory Hall 333-6885 koslof@uiuc.edu Renaissance, reformation
Clarence Lang 1201 W. Nevada 333-7781 celang@uiuc.edu 20th century African American history, urban history, and comparative labor
Mark H. Leff 446E Gregory Hall 244-2087 mleff@uiuc.edu U.S. war & society, 20th century public policy
Bruce Levine 425 Gregory Hall 333-3835 blevine3@uiuc.edu The Civil War era; 19th century U.S. social, economic, cultural, and political
Harry Liebersohn 446F Gregory Hall 244-2590 hliebers@uiuc.edu European intellectual history, especially Germany
John A. Lynn 424A Gregory Hall 333-2035 johnlynn@uiuc.edu Absolutism and armies in France, 1600-1789; the formation of revolutionary armies, 1792-1796
Ralph Mathisen

446K Gregory Hall

 244-5249 ralphwm@uiuc.edu Late Antiquity, Roman History, Roman Law, Ancient Numismatics, Prosopography, Computer applications
Megan McLaughlin 445C Gregory Hall 244-2084 megmclau@uiuc.edu Medieval social and religious history, history of women and gender
Evan M. Melhado 202A Medical Sciences Building 333-6175 melhado@uiuc.edu Physical sciences in 18th and 19th century Europe, European and American medicine from the 17th century
Mark S. Micale 421 Gregory Hall 244-2592 msmicale@uiuc.edu

European cultural and intellectual history; history of medicine, especially psychiatry; masculinity studies
Jessica Millward 446J Gregory Hall 244-2594 millward@uiuc.edu Early US, African American, Comparative Slavery and Emancipation, Gender and Women's History
Kathryn J. Oberdeck 305A & 433B Gregory Hall 244-3213, 244-2088 kjo@uiuc.edu U.S. 19th and 20th century intellectual and cultural history
Elizabeth Pleck 314A Gregory Hall 244-2079 epleck@uiuc.edu 20th century U.S. women's history, history of women and gender
David Prochaska 423 Gregory Hall 244-2093 dprochas@uiuc.edu Cultural, France, North Africa, comparative colonialism
Dana Rabin 446D Gregory Hall 244-2090 drabin@uiuc.edu Early modern Britain, legal, cultural, and gender history
John Randolph 444 Gregory Hall 333-9770 jwr@uiuc.edu Russia, Europe since 1789, Cultural and Intellectual History
Leslie Reagan 445B Gregory Hall 333-2178 lreagan@uiuc.edu U.S. medicine and public health, history of women and gender
David Roediger 304 Gregory Hall 265-0518 droedige@uiuc.edu

Kendrick C. Babcock Professor, race, ethnicity, labor, 19th-century U.S.
Mark Steinberg 416 Gregory Hall 244-2082 steinb@uiuc.edu Late imperial and revolutionary Russia, popular culture, urban history
Slavic Review 57 E. Armory 333-3621    
Carol Symes 419C Gregory Hall 333-9894 symes@uiuc.edu Medieval Europe, especially France and England; cultural history; history of information media and communication technologies; history of theatre
Ronald P. Toby 302 Gregory Hall 333-2450 rptoby@uiuc.edu Premodern, institutional, diplomatic, and social history of Japan
Maria Todorova 303 Gregory Hall 333-4931 mtodorov@uiuc.edu Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and History of nationalism.
Sharra Vostral 911 S. 6th Street 333-2990
 vostral@uiuc.edu Gender and Technoculture

Affiliated Faculty (0%)

Name Office Phone E-Mail Research Interests

Jean Allman

Journal of Women's History, 318 Gregory Hall

244-6735 jallman@wustl.edu West Africa; social history; gender and colonialism
James D. Anderson 366 Education Building 333-7404 janders@uiuc.edu History of American Education and African-American Education
William Brustein 303 ISB 333-6104 brustein@uiuc.edu Nazis, sociology of extremism, anti-semitism
Matti Bunzl 109 Davenport Hall 265-4068 bunzl@uiuc.edu Modern history and culture of Central Europe
Dianne Harris 101 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall 333-0176 harris3@uiuc.edu Architectural
Erik McDuffie 1201 W. Nevada 333-7781 emduffi@uiuc.edu African American
Michael Myers 912 S. First St. 333-7722 mdmyers@uiuc.edu  
Gary G. Porton 3004 FLB 333-0473 gporton@uiuc.edu Judaism in late antiquity, rabbinic literature, thought, and culture
David Price 3080 FLB 333-0473 dhprice@uiuc.edu Humanism, the Renaissance, religious history
Richard J. Ross 339 Law School 244-7890 rjross@law.uiuc.edu U.S. and early modern English legal history and U.S. colonial history

Adjunct and Visiting Professors

Name Office Phone E-Mail
Richard Esbenshade 301 Gregory Hall 244-2083 esbensha@uiuc.edu
John Ramsbottom 201 Gregory Hall 265-0637 jdrams@uiuc.edu
Robert Sampson 409A Gregory Hall 333-6658 rsampson@uiuc.edu

Emeriti

Name E-Mail
Walter Arnstein warnstei@uiuc.edu
Paul P. Bernard N/A
John Buckler jbuckler@uiuc.edu
Richard W. Burkhardt burkhard@uiuc.edu
Donald E. Crummey dcrummey@uiuc.edu
Ralph Fisher r-fisher@uiuc.edu
Frederic C. Jaher jaher@uiuc.edu
Robert Johannsen rjohanns@uiuc.edu
Blair B. Kling b-kling@uiuc.edu
Joseph Love j-love2@uiuc.edu
Robert McColley rmccolle@uiuc.edu
John P. McKay jpmckay@uiuc.edu
Richard E. Mitchell rmitchll@uiuc.edu
J. Alden Nichols N/A
John H. Pruett j-pruett@uiuc.edu
Paul W. Schroeder pschroed@uiuc.edu
Winton Solberg wsolberg@uiuc.edu
Clark Spence c-spence@uiuc.edu
Mary Lee Spence N/A
Charles C. Stewart ccs@uiuc.edu
William C. Widenor wwidenor@uiuc.edu

Staff

NAME OFFICE PHONE E-MAIL
Christopher Cosat Academic Advisor 244-2078 cosat@uiuc.edu
Name Office Phone E-Mail
Janet Abrahamson Clerical Assistant 244-2078 jabrhmsn@uiuc.edu
Thomas Bedwell Business Manager 244-2076 bedwell@uiuc.edu
Jan Langendorf Office Support Specialist 244-2075 janl@uiuc.edu
Elaine Sampson Office Manager / Graduate Program 244-2591 esampson@uiuc.edu
Tracy McAllister Office Support Associate 333-4193 tcmcalli@.uiuc.edu

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