62 faculty and 3 courses in History at Yale University.
- John Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History h-index 39
Cold War history; Historical methodology; Biography; Grand Strategy Bio: John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the Cold War, grand strategy
Notable: “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past” (2003) · 482 citations
- Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History h-index 33
Great power relations, 19th & 20th centuries; Military & naval history; British foreign & imperial history; Contemporary global security issues; United Nations history Bio: Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth P
Notable: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000” (1989) · 971 citations
- Lauren Benton, Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law h-index 29
Comparative empires; history of international law; Atlantic history; global and international history; British and Iberian empires Bio: A comparative and world historian, Benton writes about global legal history and the history
Notable: “The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries.” (1990) · 804 citations
- Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor Emeritus of History, History of Medicine & American Studies h-index 26
Notable: “In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity” (1986) · 1,072 citations
- Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History h-index 26
Chinese history Bio: Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University. He has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization, Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and historical methodology. He i
Notable: “The City in Late Imperial China” (1978) · 455 citations
- David Blight, Sterling Professor of History and Black Studies h-index 22
Civil War & Reconstruction era; African American history; American cultural & intellectual history Bio: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003
Notable: “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” (2002) · 608 citations
- John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus History h-index 21
Notable: “Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance” (1968) · 530 citations
- Gilbert Joseph, Farnam Professor Emeritus of History h-index 19
Notable: “Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico.” (1996) · 208 citations
- Joseph Manning, William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History h-index 19
Ancient Greek history, especially Hellenistic history; eastern Mediterranean through the Roman period; ancient law, the ancient economy; Ancient Egyptian history; Ancient North African history Bio: Manning has a specialized his
Notable: “Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization” (2017) · 282 citations
- Carolyn J. Dean, Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French h-index 18
Cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe; history of gender and sexuality; genocide studies and the Holocaust of European Jewry Bio: Carolyn J. Dean is Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French. She is a histo
Notable: “The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy.” (1996) · 250 citations
- John Faragher, Howard R. Lamar Prof Emeritus of History & American Studies h-index 18
U.S.: United States frontier & western history; Native American borderlands; Native American history Bio: John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in southern California, where he attended the University o
Notable: “Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie” (1987) · 112 citations
- Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History h-index 17
Notable: “The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, National History, and State Formation in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala” (2005) · 172 citations
- Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History h-index 17
Modern South Asian, Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean history; the history of migration and diasporas; environmental history, especially the history of water and climate; the history of port cities Bio: Sunil Amrith is the Renu
Notable: “New Histories of the United Nations” (2008) · 133 citations
- Paola Bertucci, Professor of History and History of Medicine h-index 17
Science and technology in the early modern world, cultures of collecting and display; artisanal knowledge, the early modern body, scientific travel, material culture, experimental philosophy Bio: My work focuses on science, tec
Notable: “Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology” (2021) · 153 citations
- Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History h-index 17
World History; Southeast Asia, early & modern especially Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia & East Timor; Comparative colonialism; Nationalism; Communism; Genocide; Environmental history Bio: Professor Kiernan obtained his Ph
Notable: “The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Death Tolls in Cambodia, 1975-79, and East Timor, 1975-80” (2003) · 156 citations
- Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History h-index 17
Notable: “Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia” (1993) · 71 citations
- Matthew Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History h-index 16
US cultural history; 19th & 20th century immigration, ethnicity & race; US expansionism Bio: Matthew Frye Jacobson is Sterling Professor of American Studies and History. He is the author of eight books on race, politics
Notable: “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (2017) · 1,181 citations
- Joanne Meyerowitz, Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and Professor of American Studies h-index 16
Notable: “The Grounding of Modern Feminism” (1988) · 640 citations
- Deborah Coen, Professor of History and History of Science & Medicine h-index 16
History of the modern physical and environmental sciences; Central European intellectual and cultural history Recent Publications “ Atmospheric Influence : History at the Nexus of Climate and Life,” Fieldsights (April 2026) “ Monster
Notable: “Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (2013) · 158 citations
- Paul Bushkovitch, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of History h-index 15
Notable: “Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” (1993) · 76 citations
- Abbas Amanat, William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus h-index 15
Modern Middle East, early modern and modern Iran, Sh’ism and the Persianate world Bio: Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. A graduate of Alborz high school, he received
Notable: “Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran” (1990) · 95 citations
- Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History h-index 14
Middle East, Early Modern Muslim World, Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Environmental History, Early Modern History, History of Medicine Bio: Alan Mikhail is the author of five books and editor of another. His work has helped to establi
Notable: “The Nature of Plague in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt” (2008) · 89 citations
- Carlos Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies h-index 13
Early modern Europe; Intellectual, social, cultural & religious history; Protestant and Catholic Reformations Bio: Carlos Eire, who was awarded the 2024 Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize by Yale College, re
Notable: “:Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century” (1988) · 223 citations
- Robert Harms, Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies h-index 12
Notable: “River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade” (1982) · 229 citations
- Ivan Marcus, Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History h-index 12
History of the Jews in medieval Europe; History of Jewish culture; Jewish-Christian relations; Jewish mysticism & pietism; The Jews & Islam Bio: Ivan G. Marcus is the Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History, Profe
Notable: “Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe” (1997) · 66 citations
- Valerie Hansen, Stanley Woodward Professor of History h-index 11
China to 1600; Chinese religious & legal history; History of the Silk Road Bio: Work History History Department, Yale University Stanley Woodward Professor of History, 2017-present Professor of History Associate P
Notable: “Body, Subject and Power in China” (1997) · 367 citations
- Jon Butler, Howard R Lamar Emeritus Professor of American Studies, History & Religious Studies h-index 10
Notable: “The Churching of America, : Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy.” (1994) · 369 citations
- Jean-Christophe Agnew, Professor Emeritus of American Studies & History h-index 8
American cultural & intellectual history; 19th & 20th centuries; Market relations & consumer culture; Cultural theory Bio: Professor Agnew is the author of Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American
Notable: “Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought” (1987) · 198 citations
- Glenda Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor Emeritus of History h-index 8
20th century United States history; African American history since 1865; U.S. women’s & gender history since 1865; History of the American South; Reform movements Bio: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. V
Notable: “Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina” (1997) · 207 citations
- Jay Gitlin, Senior Lecturer History & Associate Director Howard R. Lamar Center h-index 8
United States social and cultural history (especially music related & popular culture); French North America and Canadian history; American colonial; Urban and Suburban history; Native American & American West Bio: Jay
Notable: “Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past.” (1993) · 115 citations
- Joanne Freeman, Alan Boles, Class of 1929 Professor of History h-index 8
Revolutionary & Early National American history with special interest in politics & culture; Early American journalism & print culture Bio: Joanne B. Freeman, Alan J. Boles, Jr. Professor of History and American Stu
Notable: “Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic” (1998) · 105 citations
- Vanessa Ogle, Associate Professor of History; Senior Essay Director h-index 7
Economic history; history of capitalism; political economy; modern European history; global and intl. history; comparative empires and decolonization Bio: I am a historian of global Europe from the 18th century to the present
Notable: “Chabot: retrieval from a relational database of images” (1995) · 652 citations
- John Matthews, John M. Schiff Professor Emeritus of Classics & History h-index 7
Notable: “Indications of Proton-Dominated Cosmic-Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV” (2010) · 276 citations
- Elizabeth Hinton, Class of 1954 Professor of History and Black Studies h-index 6
20th Century United States History; political history; urban history; African American studies; criminalization; policing; incarceration. Bio: Elizabeth Hinton is Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law. Her research focus
Notable: “The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview” (2020) · 241 citations
- Anne Eller, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Rumors of Slavery: Defending Emancipation in a Hostile Caribbean” (2017) · 77 citations
- Adel Allouche, Lecturer Emeritus, History and Religious Studies h-index 5
Middle East: Medieval Middle Eastern history; Islamic history Bio: Professor Allouche teaches and researches Medieval Islamic history. Publications Books Osmanlì-Safevî Ili_kileri: Kökenleri ve Geli_imi. Istanbul: Anka Yayìnlar
Notable: “The Origins and Development of the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict (906-962/)” (1986) · 139 citations
- Daniel Magaziner, Professor & DUS History h-index 5
South Africa, modern Africa, religion, political thought, popular culture and the African Diaspora Bio: Dan Magaziner is a historian of 20 th century Africa. He is the author of three books: The Law and the Prophets: Black Cons
Notable: “Pieces of a (Wo)man: Feminism, Gender and Adulthood in Black Consciousness, 1968–1977” (2011) · 23 citations
- Fabian Drixler, Professor of History h-index 4
Japanese history; Demographic history around the world Bio: Fabian Drixler teaches Japanese history. He is particularly interested in cultural history and historical demography, approaches that converge in his dissertation, Inf
Notable: “Hidden in Plain Sight: Stillbirths and Infanticides in Imperial Japan” (2016) · 18 citations
- Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History; Associate DGS h-index 4
Medieval European and Islamic History; Medieval Iberia and North Africa; Social History; Intellectual History; Economic History; Legal History; Latin and Arabic Paleography Bio: Hussein Fancy is a historian of medieval Europe a
Notable: “Theologies of Violence: The Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers by The Crown of Aragon” (2013) · 7 citations
- Daniel Botsman, Sumitomo Professor of History h-index 4
Japanese history Bio: Daniel Botsman teaches courses on the history of Japan from 1500 to the present. Born in Lae, Papua New Guinea (site of one of the many brutal battles fought between Allied and Japanese forces during the S
Notable: “Freedom without Slavery? “Coolies,” Prostitutes, and Outcastes in Meiji Japan's “Emancipation Moment”” (2011) · 26 citations
- Jennifer Allen, Associate Professor of History; DGS h-index 3
Modern German history; cultural history of modern Europe; theories and practices of memory; grassroots activism; the politics of space; Europe after the Cold War Bio: Jennifer Allen is a historian of modern Germany with a parti
Notable: “Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories” (2019) · 190 citations
- Maura Dykstra, Assistant Professor of History h-index 3
Early modern China; Ming and Qing China; empire and governance; legal history; bureaucratic history; institutional history; economic history; municipal governance; histories of information and administration Bio: Maura Dykstra
Notable: “Complicated Matters: Commercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing from 1750 to 1911” (2014) · 9 citations
- Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History h-index 2
Native American history & Native American law Bio: Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is a Professor of History at Yale and was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A graduate of McGill Un
Notable: “Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians” (1999) · 349 citations
- Alvita Akiboh, Assistant Professor h-index 2
United States; US imperialism; Caribbean; Pacific; nations and national identity; material culture; the state; imperial administration Bio: Alvita Akiboh ( pronunciation ) is a US historian specializing in the history of US ove
Notable: “Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain” (2020) · 26 citations
- Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History h-index 2
Gilded Age and 20th century; political history; government and political development; ideology and social movements (esp. conservatism and radicalism) Bio: Beverly Gage is the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History. Her courses
Notable: “Why Violence Matters: Radicalism, Politics, and Class War in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era” (2007) · 18 citations
- Sergei Antonov, Associate Professor of History h-index 1
Russia after 1800 and Soviet Union; Russian and comparative legal history; Russian serfdom; global history of capitalism and credit; crime & criminal justice; secret political police; elites & power Bio: Sergei Antonov
Notable: “The Maiden and the Wolf: Law, Gender, and Sexual Violence in Imperial Russia” (2018) · 3 citations
- Annping Chin, Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Asia: Chinese intellectual history; Confucianism; pre-modern Chinese history; Chinese cultural history ; Studies in Chinese classical texts Bio: Annping Chin was born in Taiwan in 1950, to a mainland Chinese family tha
- Benjamin Bernard, Postdoctoral Associate
Early modern France, institutional history, education, book history, gender and sexuality Bio: Benjamin S. Bernard is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of History and attached to Yale President McInnis’s faculty
- Destin Jenkins, Associate Professor of Black Studies & History
Modern U.S.; African American Studies; Political Economy; Racial Capitalism; Urban History; Crime Bio: Destin Jenkins is an associate professor of History and Black Studies at Yale University. His research focuses on the politi
- Elaine Ayers, Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine; DUS, HSHM
Natural History; Colonialism; Art and Science; Collecting; Museum Studies; Botany Bio: Elaine Ayers works on the history of natural history, colonial violence, and collecting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She hold
- Isaac Nakhimovsky, Associate Professor
Intellectual history of Europe since the 17th century; history of political thought; historiography of international law and political economy Bio: Isaac Nakhimovsky is Associate Professor of History and Humanities. He is the a
- Jennifer Klein, Bradford Durfee Professor of History
- Joe Glynias, Assistant Professor of History
- Marcela Echeverri Muñoz, Associate Professor
History of social sciences, gender and nationalism; political theory and state formation; Spanish empire and Atlantic world; Revolutionary Age, race and ethnicity; slavery and abolition; twentieth-century Latin American social though
- Mark Peterson, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History
- Michael Brenes, Associate Director, Brady-Johnson Program; Lecturer in History
20th-century American foreign policy, political history, and political economy Bio: Michael Brenes is Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University. His research interests
- Naomi Lamoreaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Economics and History
US economic, business & technological history Bio: Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, Senior Research Scholar at the University of Mi
- Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History
Intellectual and cultural history of the modern Middle East; race, religion, gender, and sexuality in the modern Middle East; history of colonialism; psychoanalysis and critical theory Bio: Omnia El Shakry specializes in the in
- Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History
Medieval European history Bio: Professor Freedman specializes in medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, comparative studies of the peasantry, trade in luxury products, and the history of cuisine. His latest books ar
- Regina Kunzel, Larned Professor of History; Chair
20th-century U.S.; histories of gender and sexuality; incarceration; psychiatry; disability Bio: Regina Kunzel, Larned Professor of History and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, is an historian of the modern
- Samuel Moyn, Kent Professor of Law and History
Modern intellectual history, international history, and legal history Bio: Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, where he also serves as head of Grace Hopper College . His forthcoming book is
Notable: “Introduction: History, Ideology, and the Crisis of Legal Critique” (2021)
- Zeinab Azarbadegan, Assistant Professor of History
19th Century Middle East; Ottoman Empire; Iraq; histories of empire and inter-imperial relations; histories of science, technology (esp. print and photography), and medicine; Muslim pilgrimage Bio: Zeinab Azarbadegan is an assi
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