Laura Beers
,Assistant Professor
Professor Beers's research focuses on modern Britain. She is particularly interested in the ways in which politics both influences and is shaped by cultural and social life, and in the role of the mass media in modern society. Her first book, Your Br... [More]
CAS - History
Lawrence Black
,Visiting Associate Professor
Lawrence Black is a Visiting Professor at AU in 2012-13, teaching European, British and US history. He specializes in modern British history and has written and edited 6 books. His last book, "Redefining British Politics", explored the history of pol... [More]
CAS - History
Richard Breitman
,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]
CAS - History
Rose Chou
,Senior Administrative Assistant
Rose joined the History Department in October 2012 and has been a Part-time Reference Librarian at Bender Library since January 2012. Previously, she worked as Reference Archivist at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and in circulat... [More]
CAS - History
Mary Ellen Curtin
,Assistant Professor
Mary Ellen Curtin has a Ph.d from Duke University and is a historian of modern African American and women's social and political history. Her first book Black Prisoners and Their World documented the experiences of black convict laborers in the South... [More]
CAS - History
Anton Fedyashin
,Executive Director of Initiative for Russian Culture and Assistant Professor
Anton Fedyashin received his BA from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he studied the Great Books. He completed an MA at Harvard University in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies and went on to defend his doctoral dissertation ... [More]
CAS - History
Eileen Findlay
,Associate Professor
Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Findlay's first book, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 was published with ... [More]
CAS - History
Kathleen Franz
,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]
CAS - History
Max Paul Friedman
,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 first book, Nazis and Good Nei... [More]
CAS - History
Mary Giandrea
,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]
CAS - History
Claire Goldstene
,Professorial Lecturer
Claire Goldstene is an historian of the United States with interest in intellectual history, labor history, and political economy. Her research has focused on the idea of equal economic opportunity in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries... [More]
CAS - History
Kate Haulman
,Assistant Professor
Kate Haulman is a historian of early North America whose teaching and research interests also include women’s/gender, social and cultural history. She is the author of The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolin... [More]
CAS - History
Justin Jacobs
,Assistant Professor
Justin Jacobs is a historian of modern China. His research explores the transformations and legacies of the Chinese empire during the twentieth century. His first book project, “China Preserved: The Pursuit of Political Legitimacy in Modern Xinjiang,... [More]
CAS - History
Daniel Kerr
,Assistant Professor
Dan Kerr has recently published Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio where he seeks answers to the question, "Who benefits from homelessness?" The book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of Cleveland's history fro... [More]
CAS - History
Alan Kraut
,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]
CAS - History
Peter Kuznick
,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]
CAS - History
Lisa Leff
,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]
CAS - History
Allan Lichtman
,Distinguished 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]
CAS - History
Eric Lohr
,Director of Initiative for Russian Culture and Associate Professor
Eric Lohr is a historian of Russia and East Europe with an affiliate appointment in the School of International Service. He directs the AU Initiative for Russian Culture. He received his M.A. in Russian Studies and Ph.D. in History from Harvard Unive... [More]
CAS - History
Pamela Nadell
,Chair, Department of History
Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches a variety ... [More]
CAS - History
Pedram Partovi
,Assistant Professor
Pedram Partovi is a historian of the medieval and modern Muslim world. His current research focuses on the mass media as a vehicle for popular "civil religion" in modern Iran. In studying how Iranians have re-worked older courtly and devotional pract... [More]
CAS - History
Lauren Pav
,Administrative Assistant
Lauren Pav joined the History Department as a staff member in May 2011 after receiving a bachelors degree in history at American University in Spring 2011. When she is not assisting faculty and students and planning events for the department, she can... [More]
CAS - History
Gautham Rao
,Assistant Professor
Gautham Rao is a historian of revolutionary America and the Early American Republic. He specializes in legal history and the history of capitalism and the state. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Chicago and has he... [More]
CAS - History
April Shelford
,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 professors... [More]
CAS - History
Kimberly Sims
,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]
CAS - History
Katharina Vester
,Director of American Studies
Katharina Vester is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in cultural theory, transnational studies, and the dynamics of power in everyday practices. She... [More]
CAS - History
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