People
Faculty: Arranged Alphabetically
| Emmanuel K. Akyeampong | West African History, comparative slavery, social and cultural history |
| David Armitage | Atlantic history; British history; History of international law; History of political thought; Imperial history; Intellectual history; International and global history; Literature and history; Main period: 1500-1800 |
| Sven Beckert | Nineteenth century United States history; emphasis on social economic and transnational history |
| Ann Blair | Early Modern France; Early Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History; History of the Book; History of Science |
| Sugata Bose | Modern South Asian History; Indian Ocean History |
| Vincent Brown | Atlantic Slavery; Caribbean History to 1838; Early American History; American Revolutions in Atlantic Perspective; Diaspora Studies; Racial Politics; Death and Memorial in World History; History and the Audiovisual Media |
| Tomiko Brown-Nagin | Constitutional and social history; 20th century United States, including civil rights struggles; reform movements, law, and social change |
| Joyce Chaplin | Early American History; Intellectual History; Environmental History; History of Science |
| Lizabeth Cohen | 20th century US History, History of the Built Environment, Urban History, History of Consumption |
| Nancy F. Cott | Social, political and cultural history of the U.S. in the 19th and 20th century |
| Robert Darnton | History of the Book |
| Emma Dench | Hellenistic, Roman Republican and early Roman imperial history, especially questions of identity and historiography |
| Caroline Elkins | Modern Africa; British Empire; Twentieth Century Counter-Insurgencies |
| Drew Gilpin Faust | Cultural and gender histories of the antebellum and Civil War South |
| Niall Ferguson | International history; financial history; American and British imperial history |
| Alison Frank Johnson | Modern Central European History, International History; European Environmental History |
| Andrew Gordon | Labor, class and the social and political history of modern Japan |
| Peter Gordon | Modern European Intellectual History |
| Annette Gordon-Reed | American Legal History, Politics and law in the Early American Republic (1776-1828), American Slavery (1619-1865), Jefferson and Slavery at Monticello |
| James Hankins | Renaissance intellectual history; history of political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition |
| Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham | 19th and 20th century American History, African-American History, Women's History, Religious Studies |
| Patrice Higonnet | Comparative Historiography of the French and American Revolutions; the theme of suicide in French History and Literature, 17th-19th centuries; 19th and 20th century Political History; French History, 1750-1950 |
| Maya Jasanoff | Modern British and imperial history, with special attention to colonial South Asia, the British Atlantic world, and Britain's relations with Europe |
| Andrew Jewett | United States Since 1865, American Intellectual History, American Politics, Modern Social Thought, Science and Religion, History of the Social Sciences, American Higher Education |
| Walter Johnson | Nineteenth-century U.S., slavery, capitalism, imperialism; social and historical theory |
| Cemal Kafadar | Ottoman History; Turkish Studies; Modern and Modern History of the Middle East and the Balkans |
| William C. Kirby | Modern China; Business and economic development; Foreign relations; History of People's Republic of China; Contemporary Chinese business; Chinese higher education |
| Mark Kishlansky | History of Early Modern Britain, focusing on the History of Politics and the Parliamentary Armies; Tudor-Stuart Period |
| James Kloppenberg | Intellectual History of the U.S. and Europe; U.S. History |
| Jill Lepore | American History and Literature |
| Mary Lewis | 19th and 20th-century French and European Imperialism; Social, Legal and Political History; Immigration and Citizenship |
| Charles Maier | Comparative 20th century European political, economic, and social history; global and international history including comparative empires; Cold War and European-American relations; German and Italian national histories |
| Erez Manela | United States in the world; International History |
| Terry Martin | Russia/Soviet Union and Central Europe; Soviet history-nationalism; Politics; Sociology; Surveillance; Islam |
| Michael McCormick | Early Medieval History; cultures, societies, and economies of the late Roman and early medieval Mediterranean basin; biomolecular archaeology; computational philology; paleography and codicology |
| Lisa McGirr | Twentieth-century United States, emphasis on politics and social movements. Interests include: reform movements; intersection of religion and politics; state and civil society; United States and the world |
| Ian Miller | 19th- and 20th-century Japan, especially cultural and environmental history; comparative imperialism; history of exhibition; history of public health and medicine |
| Roy Mottahedeh | Pre-Modern Social and Intellectual History of the Islamic Middle East |
| Afsaneh Najmabadi | Socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality in Modern Middle East and South Asia |
| Kelly O'Neill | Imperial Russia; Economy and trade in the Black Sea; Social and Cultural History; Comparative History of Empires |
| Roger Owen | Economic and political history of the Middle East since 1800; Theories of imperialism including military occupations |
| Steven Ozment | Intellectual, Social, and Cultural History of Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe; Renaissance and Reformation |
| Serhii Plokhii | Intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe; emphasis on Ukraine |
| Emma Rothschild | European History; Economic and Social History; The History of Economic Thought |
| Daniel Lord Smail | Mediterranean Europe, 1000-1500; France and Italy; Early Global History; Historiography |
| Hue-Tam Ho Tai | Social and cultural history of modern Vietnam |
| Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Early American Social History; Women's History; Material Culture |
| Kirsten Weld | 19th- and 20th-century Latin American social and political history; US-Latin American relations; oral and ethnographic approaches to historical research |