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History

Faculty and Staff

Connie Y. Chiang (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
U.S. West, social, environmental

Thomas D. Conlan
Professor of History and Asian Studies
Premodern Japan

Dallas G. Denery II (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Associate Professor of History
Medieval intellectual and cultural

David Gordon (on leave of absense for the spring 2013 semester)
Associate Professor of History
Africa

David Hecht (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Assistant Professor of History, Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
20th-century America, Cold War, History of Science

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

Matthew W. Klingle  (on leave of absence for the spring 2013 semester)
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Urban, environmental, 20th-century America

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

Durba Mitra
CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and Women’s Studies and History

Tom Okie
Visiting Assistant Professor of History

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

Meghan K. Roberts
Assistant Professor of History

Elizabeth Shesko
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Latin American Studies

Rachel Sturman
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
South Asia

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

Olufemi O. Vaughan  (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History
Modern African Political and Social History; Africa Diaspora Studies; Globalization

Allen Wells (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History
Latin America, Caribbean

Dolly Wilson
Adjunct Lecturer in History

Leah Zuo
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies

Research Associates

Peter John Bakewell
Research Associate in History

John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Research Associate in History

William Rosenberg

Research Associate in History

William B. Taylor
Research Associate in History

Emeritus Faculty

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

Randolph Stakeman
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Emeritus

Department

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

History Department Faculty by Regional Specialization

Africa David Gordon
Olufemi O. Vaughan
Latin America Allen Wells
Elizabeth Shesko
East Asia Thomas Conlan
Leah Zuo
South Asia Rachel Sturman
Durba Mitra
Europe and Great Britain Dallas Denery
Page Herrlinger
Meghan Roberts
Susan Tananbaum
United States Connie Chiang
David Hecht
Matthew Klingle
Sarah McMahon
Patrick Rael
Tom Okie