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Assistant Professor

On leave 2009/10, Kluge Fellow, Library of CongressProf. Aksakal teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the Middle East. During 2008/9 he taught HIST296 Ethnicity and Religion in the Ottoman World and HIST500 The Ottomans in the European ... [More]

Administrative Assistant

Assistant Professor

Professor Beers's research focuses on twentieth century British politics and society. Her first book, Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party will be published by Harvard University Press in Spring 2010. She is currently researching a ... [More]

Professor

Richard Breitman teaches courses in modern European history and German history. He is the author or co-author of nine books and many articles in German history, U. S. history, and the Holocaust. His most recent books are editions of the diaries of Ja... [More]

Assistant Professor

Anton Fedyashin was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up between Moscow, London, England, and Washington, DC. Growing up on both sides of the Iron Curtain, he speaks Russian and English fluently. He received his BA from St. John’s College in Annapolis,... [More]

Associate Professor

Eileen J. Findlays first book, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 was published with Duke University Press. In her article, “Courtroom Tales of Sex and Honor: Rapto and Rape in Late-Nineteenth Century Puert... [More]

Associate Professor

Prof. Franz holds degrees in museum studies and American Civilization from Brown University. She specializes in 20th Century US cultural history with a focus on popular culture and the history of technology. She's also an active curator and public hi... [More]

Associate Professor

Max Paul Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Tallahassee, and Cologne. His book, Nazis and Good Neighbors... [More]

Assistant Professor

Mary Frances Giandrea is the author of Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England, the first full-length study of the many roles, both secular and religious, of bishops in tenth and eleventh-century England. Her research interests include Anglo-Sa... [More]

Department Chair, History

Griffith is author of The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate, which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians. A Guggenheim Fellow, his articles and essays have appeared in many scholarly journ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Focusing on the history of the Early America, Kate Haulman’s teaching and research interests include cultural history, women’s/gender studies and material and visual culture. She is the author of “Fashion and the Culture Wars of Revolutionary Philade... [More]

Instructor

Dahpon David Ho joins the faculty at American University in fall 2009.He specializes in the history of modern China and East Asia and has written variously on ghostwriting and suicide, Tibet, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Anything from the 17t... [More]

Associate Professor

After growing up in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, Ira took his three degrees at Columbia University, enjoying Manhattan while writing many key articles in the Columbia Encyclopedia, and a light history of early modern Europe, and teaching at Queens Colle... [More]

University Professor

Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History and an affiliate faculty member in the School of International Service. He is a Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He specializes in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the... [More]

Associate Professor

The author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America and coeditor of Rethinking Cold War Culture, Professor Kuznick is currently writing a book about scientists’ opposition to the Vietnam War. As director of America... [More]

Associate Professor

Lisa Leff is a historian of Europe since 1789 whose research focuses on Jews in France. Her first book, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity (Stanford UP, 2006), examines the rise of Jewish international aid in 19th century France; her current research examine... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Andrew J. Lewis is a historian of early America who specializes in the history of science, cultural, and environmental history. He is the author of A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic (Penn, 2010) as well as articles... [More]

Professor

Allan J. Lichtman received his PhD from Harvard University in 1973 with a specialty in modern American history and quantitative methods. He became an Assistant Professor of History at American University in 1973 and a Full Professor in 1980. He was t... [More]

Associate Professor

Eric Lohr is author of Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during World War I (Harvard University Press, 2003), The Papers of Grigorii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi (Online publication by the Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ... [More]

Director, Jewish Studies Program

Pamela S. Nadell, the Inaugural Patrick Clendenen Professor of History, is the Program Chair of American University’s Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches a variety of courses in Jewish civi... [More]

Distinguished Historian in Residence

Anna K. Nelson teaches courses related to the History of American Foreign Relations from 1783 to the present. She wrote her dissertation and published on the diplomacy of the 19th century before moving her research into the post World War II period. ... [More]

Lecturer

Associate Professor

April Shelford is an intellectual historian of early modern Europe. Her first project was a study of the Republic of Letters in the seventeenth century, which focused on the French érudit Pierre-Daniel Huet (1621-1720). A two-year visiting pro... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professors Sims has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Charles Warren Center Dissertation Writing Fellowship. She has served as tutor, research assistant, and writing instr... [More]