- Eric Foner
Starting October 1, 2001 , Eric Foner will moderate a month-long open discussion on teaching about Reconstruction on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site provided below. From the HISTORY MATTERS home page select "Coming in October: Eric Foner on Reconstruction." To subscribe, choose "Join or leave list." Professor Foner will answer questions and lead a discussion on teaching about Reconstruction.
- Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian from India who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He attended Presidency College and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Calcutta. He also received a diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.
- Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton (sometimes Anthony T. Grafton) (born 21 May 1950) is a Jewish American historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is noted for his wide learning, and in particular for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he took his A.B. and Ph.D. in rapid succession.
- David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is noted for his study of slavery and abolitionism. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught for 14 years at in the Department of History at Cornell University before moving to Yale in 1970. He is currently Director Emeritus of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, …
- Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen is a professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. He was born in 1936 in Rochester, New York, grew up in the Washington, DC area, and was educated at the George Washington University and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1964). He has taught at Cornell since completing his graduate studies at Harvard. He began his career in the 1960s, and won his first renown, as a scholar of the colonial period of American history.
- Walter Lafeber
Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor and a Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is one of the nation’s most distinguished historians of United States Foreign Relations. The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him.
- Kenneth Pomeranz
Kenneth Pomeranz is a professor in the history department at the University of California, Irvine in the US. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988. Most of his research focuses on China and its economy.
- Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse (born June 21, 1940 in Birmingham, England) is a philosopher of science, working on the philosophy of the biology, and is well known for his work on the argument between creationism and evolutionary biology. He was born in England, took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (1970).
- Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father.
- Theodore M. Porter
Theodore M. Porter is a professor who specializes in the history of science in the Department of History at UCLA. He has authored several books, including "The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900"; and "Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life". His most recent book, published by Princeton University Press in 2004, is "Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age". Dr.
- Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, …
- Jon Wiener
Jon R. Wiener , PhD has been the assistant dean for academic affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) since 1999 and assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Therapeutics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1994. He received a BS and MS in microbiology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a PhD in microbiology from the University of Virginia.
- Maria Mavroudi
Fluent in both classical Greek and Arabic, Dr. Maria Mavroudi is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley. After earning her Philology degree from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece, Dr. Mavroudi earned her PhD in Byzantine Studies from Harvard University. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, author of "A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources", …
- Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason.
- Carl L. Becker
Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian. He was born in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin. Frederick Jackson Turner was his doctoral advisor there. Becker got his Ph.D. in 1907. He was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History in the Department of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941. He is best known for "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers" (1932), …
- Mark Leier
Professor Mark Leier , Department of History, Simon Fraser University : “ Canadian Bolsheviks is an important contribution to social, political, and intellectual history and has long deserved to be re-issued. Ian Angus confronts the accepted wisdom of the left and the right with thorough research, thoughtful arguments, and an obvious love for his subject.
- Deian Hopkin
Professor Deian Hopkin (born 1 March 1944) is Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of London South Bank University, UK. He is a historian, originally from Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker. Born and educated in Llanelli, South Wales, he attended the first ever Welsh-medium school to be established by a local authority, followed by a scholarship to Llandovery College. He graduated in history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he also completed his PhD.
- Rachel Weil
Rachel Judith Weil (1959-) is a teacher and scholar, specializing in gender and culture in 17th and 18th century England. She is currently an associate professor of early modern English political and cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
- David K. Wyatt
David K. Wyatt (September 21 1937 - November 15 2006) was a highly acclaimed American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book "Thailand. A Short History" has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959.
- Edward Tenner
Edward Tenner (born 1944) is a researcher at Princeton University and former editor at Princeton University Press. Tenner is also a technology writer who currently writes a column named "Megascope" for "Technology Review". He has written several books on the effects of technology on everyday life.
- Will Provine
Professor William B. Provine is an American historian of science, particularly of evolutionary biology and population genetics. He is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences at Cornell University and is a professor in the Department of History. He holds a B.S., M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago.
- Samuel Bemis
Dr. Samuel A. Bemis (1793 - 1881) was one of the earliest photographers in the United States. A small number of his daguerreotypes have survived. Bemis was a Boston dentist when in April 1840 he acquired an early camera and became one of the first Americans to take a photograph. His extant daguerreotypes include views of Boston and of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. These images are the earliest known American photographs of natural landscapes.
- Richard Bulliet
Richard W. Bulliet is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society. Bulliet grew up in Illinois. He attended Harvard, from which he received a B.A. in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1967. He is the grandson of Clarence Joseph ("C.J.") Bulliet, the art critic and journalist.
- Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky is a professor at Salem State College, a former professor at Bates College, and a former faculty research associate at Harvard University, specializing in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the eldest daughter of linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. She is able to speak and/or read seven languages.
- Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, …
- Nicholas Dirks
Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Profressor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, dean of the university's faculty, and Vice President of its Arts and Sciences division. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule. His most famous works include "The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom" (1987), "Castes of Mind" (2001), …
- Lois Banner
Lois Wendland Banner, more commonly known as Lois W. Banner, is an American feminist author. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She is the author of the textbook "Women in Modern America: A Brief History", which is commonly used in introductory Women's Studies college classes. In addition, her published works include: * "American Beauty" published by Alfred Knopf.
- Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol holds a three-year appointment, effective February 3, 2006, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as a senior advisor in the social sciences. Skocpol’s research focuses on US politics in historical and comparative perspective. She has studied the development of US social policies and, most recently, changing patterns of voluntary group activity and civic engagement in American democracy.
- Daniel Kevles
Professor Kevles recieved his BA from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his PhD from Princeton (History) in 1964.
- Robert Dallek
Robert Dallek, born May 16 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.
- Ayesha Jalal
Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia. She is the daughter of Hamid Jalal, a nephew of the famous Urdu fiction writer Manto and a civil servant. Ms. Jalal came to New York at the age of 16.
- Akira Iriye
Akira Iriye is a prominent historian of diplomatic and global history. He is the only Japanese citizen ever to serve as President of the American Historical Association. In 2005, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, one of Japan's highest civilian honors. Akira Iriye was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1934. He received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1957, and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard in 1961.
- Leora Auslander
Leora Auslander is Professor of European Social History at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. She specializes in the history of France and Germany, focusing on 19th and 20th century social history; material culture and consumption; gender history and theory; Jewish history; and the history of colonial and post-colonial Europe. Auslander also has plans for a future project on the architectural and urban history of Dakar.
- Cornell Fleischer
Cornell Fleischer is the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Dr. Fleischer received his PhD from Princeton University in 1982. After leaving Princeton, Dr. Fleischer held teaching posts at Washington University in St. Louis and The Ohio State University. In 1988, Dr. Fleischer was awarded a genius grant under the prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program. In 1993, Dr.
- Mark Mancall
Mark Mancall is a Professor of History at Stanford University. A graduate of Harvard, Mancall spent time in Helsinki, Leningrad, and Taiwan, becoming a scholar of diplomatic relations between Russia and China. His more recent academic interests include South Asia and Tibetan Buddhism. He pioneered coeducational housing as the Resident Fellow of Stanford's first co-ed house. He has been the Director of Stanford's Program in Structured Liberal Education since its inception.
- Michael McGerr
Michael McGerr is an accomplished professor of history at Indiana University. He recently received the Paul V. McNutt Award, an award given to outstanding Professors of American history. He also recently made a trip to Taiwan to teach. In his career, Michael McGerr has worked at MIT, Yale, as well as Indiana University. He is the author of "A Fierce Discontent" and a co-author of the text "Making a Nation".
- Shelby M. Balik
Received a Masters degree in History from the University of Michigan in 1994 Taught history at Masuk High School in Monroe, CT from 1995-1998
- John Bushnell
- Ellen Lagemann
- Maris Vinovskis