Faculty and Staff

Connie Y. Chiang
Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies
U.S. West, social, environmental

Thomas D. Conlan on leave for the academic year 2007-08
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Premodern Japan

Dallas G. Denery II
Associate Professor of History
Medieval intellectual and cultural

Paul A. Friedland
Associate Professor of History
French Revolution, the "long" eighteenth century, intellectual and cultural

David Gordon
Assistant Professor of History
Africa, environmental

David Hecht
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
20th-century America, Cold War, History of Science

K. Page Herrlinger
Associate Professor of History
Late imperial Russia, Soviet, late modern Europe

Matthew W. Klingle
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Urban, environmental, 20th-century America

Daniel Levine
Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of History and Political Science Emeritus
Modern America, Denmark, welfare state

Sarah F. McMahon
Associate Professor of History, Chair of History Department
Colonial and early national America, family/community/gender, environmental

Patrick J. Rael
Associate Professor of History
19th-century America, African American, multiethnic

Peter Riesenberg
Research Associate in History

Kidder Smith
Professor of History and Asian Studies
China, East Asia

Rachel Sturman on leave for the academic year 2007-08
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies
South Asia

Susan L. Tananbaum
Associate Professor of History
Britain, modern Europe, Jewish

Allen Wells
Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History
Latin America, Caribbean

Department

Dept. Phone: (207) 725-3291
Dept. Fax: (207) 725-3929

History Department Faculty by Regional Specialization

Africa David Gordon
Latin America Allen Wells
East Asia Kidder Smith
Thomas Conlan
South Asia Rachel Sturman
Europe and Great Britain Dallas Denery
Paul Friedland
Page Herrlinger
Susan Tananbaum
United States Connie Chiang
David Hecht
Sarah McMahon
Patrick Rael
Matthew Klingle
Jill Pearlman (Environmental Studies)
Jennifer Scanlon (Gender and Women's Studies)