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

Leila Fawaz

Professor

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

Academic Leave

elizabeth.foster@tufts.edu

Ayesha Jalal

Mary Richardson Professor

South Asia, the Muslim World

ayesha.jalal@tufts.edu

Gary Leupp

Professor

History of Japan

gary.leupp@tufts.edu

Kris Manjapra

Professor

African Diaspora; Modern Caribbean; Modern South Asia; Transnational Studies; Critical Race and Colonialism Studies; Postcolonial Theory

kris.manjapra@tufts.edu

Beatrice Manz

Professor

Middle East and Inner Asia

beatrice.manz@tufts.edu

H. Muoki Mbunga

Assistant Professor

Modern East Africa

muoki.mbunga@tufts.edu

David Proctor

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

alisha.rankin@tufts.edu

Hugh Roberts

Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East

North Africa, Middle East

hugh.roberts@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

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

kerri.greenidge@tufts.edu

J. Matthew Harrington

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