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Associated Faculty

Adjunct Appointments

Ira Harkavy

Founding Director and Associate Vice President, Penn Center for Community Partnerships; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

U.S. urban, social

Arthur Kiron

Curator of Judaica Collections at the Penn Library; Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Atlantic Jewish history, history of the Jewish book

Bruce Lenthall

Director, Center for Teaching and Learning; Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

20th-century U.S., cultural, political, media

 

Eric Schneider

Associate Director for Academic Affairs; Adjunct Professor of History

U.S. urban history, 20th century U.S., the history of adolescence, and the history of crime and deviance

Yechiel Y. Schur

Director, Public Programs for the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

medieval Jewish History

Members of the History Graduate Group from Other Departments

David Barnes

Associate Professor, History & Sociology of Science

19th and 20th century France

Aditya Behl

Associate Professor, South Asia Studies

India and religious history

Leslie Callahan

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

African American religion and history

Max Cavitch

Assistant Professor, English

Early America

Rita Copeland

Professor, Classical Studies and English;
Chair, Comparative Literature

Medieval literature and intellectual history

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Bers Professor, History & Sociology of Science

19th and 20th century U.S., gender, technology, and medicine

Talya Fishman

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Jewish history

Gautam Ghosh

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

South Asia

Paul R. Goldin

Professor & Chair, East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Chinese Thought

Melvyn Hammarberg

Associate Professor, Anthropology

U.S. politics and religion

Theodore Hershberg

Professor, Public Policy

U.S. urban and policy

G. Cameron Hurst

Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations;
Director, Center for East Asian Studies

Modern Japan and Korea

 

Ayako Kano

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Modern Japan

Amy Kaplan

Professor, English

American studies, U.S. imperialism

Robert E. Kohler

Professor Emeritus, History & Sociology of Science

History of biology and environmental history

Henrika Kuklick

Professor of History and Sociology of Science

History of the human and field sciences, sociology of knowledge

William R. LaFleur

Saunders Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Modern Japan, Buddhism

M. Susan Lindee

Professor, History & Sociology of Science

Technology and medicine in the U.S.

Tina Lu

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Chinese literature and culture

Victor H. Mair

Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Chinese literature and culture

E. Ann Matter

Professor, Religious Studies

Medieval history, religion and gender

Jeremy McInerney

Associate Professor, Classical Studies

Ancient Greece

Lisa Mitchell

Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies

Modern South Asia

Kevin Platt

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures

History, politics and cultural life in Modern Russia

Wendell Pritchett

Assistant Professor, Law School

U.S. urban history

 

Daniel M.G. Raff

Associate Professor of Management, Wharton School

U.S. and comparative economic and business history

Jorge H. Salessi

Associate Professor, Romance Languages

Latin America, history of sexuality

Heather Sharkey

Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

History of the Middle East and North Africa

Larry Silver

Farquhar Professor, History of Art

Northern Renaissance Art

Nathan Sivin

Professor Emeritus, History & Sociology of Science

History of Chinese science and technology

Rogers M. Smith

Christopher Browne Professor, Political Science

U.S. politics, 1789-present

Peter Stallybrass

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of English

History of the book

Mark J. Stern

Professor of Social Welfare and History, School of Social Policy & Practice;
Director, Urban Studies Program

Urban history, public policy, and historical demography

Frank Trommler

Professor Emeritus, Germanic Languages & Literatures

Modern Germany

Robert Vitalis

Associate Professor, Political Science

Middle Eastern history and the history of international relations

Susan Watkins

Professor of Sociology

Historical demography, Africa and Europe

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing

U.S. women’s history

Tukufu Zuberi

Professor, Sociology;
Director, Africana Studies Program

Historical demography, Africa and African-American