Faculty

History Faculty

Baker, Keith M.
J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Early Modern European History. Jean-Paul Gimon Director, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
B.A., M.A., Peterhouse, Cambridge; Ph.D., University of London
Beinin, Joel
Donald J. McLachan Professor in History
Ph.D. University of Michigan (History);A.M.L.S. University of Michigan (Library Science); A.M. Harvard University (Middle East Studies); A.B. Princeton University (Near Eastern Studies) magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Bernstein, Barton
Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., Queens College
Camarillo, Albert
Professor of American History; Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor; Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Diversity in charge of the Faculty Development Initiative of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles; BA, University of California at Los Angeles
Campbell, James T.
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History
B.A., Yale University; M.A. Stanford University; Ph.D Stanford University
Carson, Clayborne
Professor of American History and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Ph.D., M.A., B.A., University of California at Los Angeles
Chang, Gordon
Professor of American History; Director, Center for East Asian Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University; B.A., Princeton University
Como, David
Associate Professor of Early Modern British History
Ph.D. Princeton 1999
Crews, Robert
Associate Professor, Russian Empire, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Islam Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Columbia University; B. A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daughton, James P.
Associate Professor of Modern European History; Co-Director, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Postdoctoral Program
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil., Cambridge University; B.A., Amherst College
Findlen, Paula
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History; Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; B.A., Wellesley College
Frank, Zephyr
Associate Professor of Latin American History
Ph.D Illinois 1999; M.A. UCLA 1993
Freedman, Estelle
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History
Ph.D., Columbia University 1976; M.A., Columbia 1972; B.A., Barnard College 1969
Haber, Stephen
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles; B.A., George Washington University
Hanretta, Sean
Associate Professor of African History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., University of Wisconsin; B.A., The Colorado College
Herzog, Tamar
Professor of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese History
Ph.D., Histoire et civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Hobbs, Allyson
Assistant Professor of American History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, with distinction; B.A., Harvard University, magna cum laude
Holloway, David
Raymond A. Spruance Professor in International History; Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studie
BA, University of Cambridge; MA, University of Cambridge; PhD, University of Cambridge
Jolluck, Katherine
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. & M. A. Stanford University; B.A. Harvard University
Kennedy, David M.
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus.
Ph.D., Yale University, 1968, American Studies; M.A., Yale University, 1964, American Studies; B.A., Stanford University, 1963, History
Kollmann, Nancy
William H. Bonsall Professor of History
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974, 1980; B.A., Middlebury College, 1972
Kumar, Aishwary
Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History and Modern Intellectual History
PhD, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2007; MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2002; BA, University of Delhi, 2000
Lewis, Mark E.
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture
B.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago
Lewis, Martin
Senior Lecturer in International History
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Lougee Chappell, Carolyn
Professor of Early Modern European History; Frances and Charles Field Professor in History and Martin Family; University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan; A.B., Smith College
Mancall, Mark
Professor of Modern World History, Emeritus
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard University.
Moon, Yumi
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., History and East Asian Language, Harvard University; M.A. and B.A. Seoul National University
Morris, Ian
Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Professor of history, and Fellow of the Stanford Archaeology Center
Ph.D., Cambridge University; B.A., Cambridge University
Mullaney, Thomas S.
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Columbia University, Department of History, 2006; M.A., Columbia University, Department of History, 2004; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center, 2000; B.A., Johns Hopkins University, East Asian Studies/ International Studies, 1999
Naimark, Norman
Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University; M.A., Stanford University; A.B., Stanford University
Proctor, Robert N.
Professor of History of Science
Ph.D. Harvard University 1984, History of Science; M.S. Harvard University 1977, History of Science; B.S. Indiana University (Bloomington) 1976, Biology
Rakove, Jack
William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies; Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) of Law
Ph.D., Harvard University 1975; A.B., Haverford College 1968
Riskin, Jessica
Associate Professor, History of Science
Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley 1995; B.A. - Harvard University 1988
Roberts, Richard
Director, Center for African Studies
Ph.D., University of Toronto; M.A., Simon Fraser University; B.A., University of Wisconsin
Robinson, Paul
Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968; B.A., Yale University, 1962
Rodrigue, Aron
Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture; Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center
Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1985; A.M., History, Harvard University, 1979; B.A., History, University of Manchester, England, 1978 (First Class Honours)
Saller, Richard
Professor of Classics and of History
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, B.A., Greek and History, University of Illinois
Satia, Priya
Associate Professor of Modern British History
MA/Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2004; M.Sc. LSE; BA/BS Stanford
Schiebinger, Londa
The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project
Ph.D. Harvard University
Seaver, Paul
Professor of Early Modern English History, Emeritus
Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., Haverford College
Sheehan, James
Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus.
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; A.B., Stanford University
Sheffer, Edith
Assistant Professor of Modern European History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008; B.A., Harvard University, summa cum laude, 1996
Sommer, Matthew
Associate Professor of Chinese History
Ph.D., UCLA, 1994; M.A., University of Washington, 1987; B.A., Swarthmore College, 1983
Stansky, Peter
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus
Ph.D. Harvard University; B.A. King's College, Cambridge; B.A., Yale College
Stokes, Laura
Assistant Professor of History
PhD, University of Virginia; MA, University of Virginia; BA. Reed College.
Uchida, Jun
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005; M.A., UC Berkeley, 1997; B.A., Cornell University, 1995.
Weiner, Amir
Associate Professor of Soviet History
Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., Columbia University; B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
White, Richard
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington.
Wigen, Kären
Professor; Chair, Department of History
PhD, University of California at Berkeley (Geography), 1990; MA, UC-Berkeley, 1985; BA, University of Michigan (Japanese Lit.), 1980
Winterer, Caroline
Professor of History and (by courtesy) of Classics
Ph.D., University of Michigan, History A.M., University of Michigan, History B.A., cum laude, Pomona College, History
Yaycioğlu, Ali
Assistant Professor of Middle East History
B.S., Middle East Technical University, Ankara; M.A., Bilkent University, Ankara; Ph.D. Harvard University.
Zipperstein, Steven
Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History
B.A., Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles