Faculty | Department of History

Faculty

Core Faculty

James Rice

Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History and Department Chair of History

Early American, Native American, and Environmental History

james.rice@tufts.edu

Rachel Applebaum

Associate Professor

Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the cultural Cold War, global communism, transnational history

rachel.applebaum@tufts.edu

Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe

Professor and Darakjian Jafarian Chair of Armenian History

Armenia and Cross-Cultural World Early Modern Europe

ina.mccabe@tufts.edu

Virginia Drachman

Arthur Stern, Jr. Professor of American History

Women in the Professions in America; GIrlhood in Post World War II America; Love and War in World War II; Medicine and Society in Amrica

virginia.drachman@tufts.edu

David Ekbladh

Associate Professor

U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History

david.ekbladh@tufts.edu

Khaled Fahmy

Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East

Military, medical, legal and social history of the modern Middle East

khaled.fahmy@tufts.edu

Leila Fawaz

Issam M. Fares Chair in Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Middle East

leila.fawaz@tufts.edu

Kendra Field

Associate Professor

Nineteenth-century U.S., African American, Native American

kendra.field@tufts.edu

Elizabeth Foster

Professor

Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa

elizabeth.foster@tufts.edu

Ayesha Jalal

Mary Richardson Professor

South Asia, the Muslim World

ayesha.jalal@tufts.edu

Diego Luis

Assistant Professor

Colonial Latin America, Global History, Pacific World, Racial Formation, Diasporic Histories

diego.luis@tufts.edu

Kris Manjapra

Professor

Global Black Studies African Diaspora; Modern Caribbean; Modern South Asia Transnational and Global History

Academic Leave

kris.manjapra@tufts.edu

H. Muoki Mbunga

Assistant Professor

Modern East Africa

muoki.mbunga@tufts.edu

David Proctor

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations

david.proctor@tufts.edu

Alisha Rankin

Professor

Early Modern Europe, the History of Science and Medicine, Women's History, the History of the Body and Sexuality

Academic Leave

alisha.rankin@tufts.edu

Reed Ueda

Professor

Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration

reed.ueda@tufts.edu

Man Xu

Associate Professor

Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture

man.xu@tufts.edu

Affiliate Faculty

Heather Curtis

Warren S. Woodbridge Professor in Comparative Religions

Global Christianity American Religious History Religion, Humanitarianism and Philanthropy Religion, Health and Healing Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Religion and Reform Movements Gender and Women's Studies in Religion

Academic Leave

heather.curtis@tufts.edu

Jennifer Eyl

Associate Professor

Pauline Studies, New Testament, Christian Origins Divinatory Practices and so-called "Magic" Gender & Sexuality in Antiquity Hellenistic Philosophy and Moral Psychology Apocryphal Acts and the Greek Novels Saint and Relic Veneration Constructions of the Afterlife Translation Theory and New Testament Studies Theory of Religion Digital Humanities

jennifer.eyl@tufts.edu

Kerri Greenidge

Mellon Assistant Professor

Colonialism and decolonization; race and racial politics; gender and sexuality; Arab and Muslim Americans; policing and urban protest

Academic Leave

kerri.greenidge@tufts.edu

J. Matthew Harrington

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Ancient Art and Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (PIE Linguistics), Roman Satire, Post-Augustan Literature, Latin and Greek Pedagogy

matthew.harrington@tufts.edu

Steven Hirsch

Associate Professor

Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, and ancient Chinese history

steven.hirsch@tufts.edu

R. Bruce Hitchner

Professor and Department Chair of Classical Studies

Roman history, archaeology, North Africa in Antiquity, Ancient History, Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and International Relations

bruce.hitchner@tufts.edu

Elisabeth Leake

Lee E. Dirks Professorship in Diplomatic History

Global history; decolonization; Cold War; South Asia; borderlands; international relations and global governance; internationalisms; transnational anti-colonialism

elisabeth.leake@tufts.edu