Faculty Listing

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 323 860-685-2399 Chair, History 860-685-2399 Faculty Fellow, College of the Environment 284 High Street 304 860-685-3346 wpinch@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Virginia
MA University of Virginia
PHD University of Virginia

http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013

South Asia; British Empire; Mughal Empire; Religion and History; Maritime History; World History

NEH, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS-SSRC, FLAS, AIIS, Meigs

http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/research/

BA Oberlin College
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PHD University of Texas Austin

Spring 2012: Tuesdays 2:30-3:00 and Thursdays 2:30-4:00.

Assistant Professor of History Public Affairs Center 220 860-685-2326 Assistant Professor of Letters Butterfield Unit C 512D 860-685-2326 jcastro@wesleyan.edu

BA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
MA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
PHD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

COL223 - 01
Theater and Society

HIST362 - 03
Issues Contemp Historiography

COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium

HIST255 - 01
History of Spain

Fall 2012: 

Public forms of literature (satire, theater) and the formation of the public sphere in early modern Madrid. The Spanish Empire as a global entity.

Early Modern Spain and Spanish Empire Satire and political life (16th-17th centuries) History and literature

American Historical Association

BA University of Chicago
MPHIL Oxford University
DPHIL Oxford University

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 134 860-685-2394 Tutor, College of Social Studies 860-685-2394 relphick@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Toronto
MA University of California, Los Angeles
PHD Yale University

CSS240 - 01
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe

HIST230 - 01
History of Southern Africa

CSS240 - 01
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe

CSS240 - 02
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe

Fall 2012: 

Assistant Professor of History Public Affairs Center 420 860-685-5748 Assistant Professor, Science in Society 860-685-5748 Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies 860-685-5748 perickson@wesleyan.edu

BA Harvard University
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison

HIST221 - 01
History of Ecology

HIST336 - 01
Science and the State

HIST254 - 01
Science in Western Culture

HIST307 - 01
Economy of Nature and Nations

ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2011-2012

BA Dartmouth College
PHD Stanford University

AFAM203 - 01
Early African American History

HIST159 - 01
War and National (Re)formation

AFAM119 - 01
What Is History?

Fall 2012:

History and Culture of the Americas Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation

BA Columbia University
MA Columbia University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University

HIST152 - 01
American Material Culture

HIST239 - 01
19th Century U.S. History

ON LEAVE FALL 2012

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 215 860-685-2376 ngreene@wesleyan.edu

BA Brown University
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University
MAA Wesleyan University

HIST164 - 01
France at War 1934-1944

HIST203 - 01
Modern Europe

HIST158 - 01
Soph Sem: Appeasement/Origins

HIST220 - 01
France Since 1870

Fall 2012:

France in the 1930s

European history since 1789 Modern French history Modern Spanish history

BA Brigham Young University
MSC London School Economic & Political Science
MPHIL Cambridge University
DPHIL Oxford University

HIST268 - 01
Origins of Global Capitalism

HIST319 - 01
The Weimar Republic

http://condor.wesleyan.edu/egrimmer/

ON LEAVE FALL 2012

Modern German history, economic and social history, modern European history

BA City College
MA University of Chicago
PHD University of Chicago
MAA Wesleyan University

HIST362 - 02
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST383 - 01
French Existentialism And Marx

Fall 2012:

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 135 860-685-2375 Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures Professor, East Asian Studies 860-685-2375 Professor, Science in Society 860-685-2375 wjohnston@wesleyan.edu

BA Elmira College
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

Fall 2012:

My current research topics are: Syphilis in Early Modern Japan Warfare and State Formation in Sixteenth Century Japan The Historiography of Amino Yoshihiko

Modern Japanese History

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 202 860-685-4479 Professor of Letters Butterfield Unit C C412 860-685-2323 ekleinberg@wesleyan.edu

BA University of California, Berkeley
MA University of California, Los Angeles
PHD University of California, Los Angeles

CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship

COL245 - 01
Senior Colloquium

CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship

Fall 2012:

BA University of Toronto
MA Dalhousie University
PHD Dalhousie University

John E. Andrus Professor of History 860-685-2395 Professor of History Public Affairs Center 137 860-685-2395 bmasters@wesleyan.edu

BS Georgetown University
PHD University of Chicago
MAA Wesleyan University
TU
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HIST234 - 01
20th Century Middle East

HIST311 - 01
Ethnic Rel Class Mideast & Bal

ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013

Current project:Arabistan: Ottomans and Arabs, 1516-1916-a book length manuscript exploring the political and cultural interactions between the Ottomans and their Arabic-speaking subjects from the initial conquest through World War I. Published works include: The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 East (1988); Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World (2001); The Ottoman City between East and West, co-authored with Edhem Eldem and Daniel Goffman (1999); Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, co-authored with Gabor Agoston (2009); Contributions to The Cambridge History of Turkey (2006) and The Cambridge History of Islam (2010).

Ottoman Empire Modern Middle East Ireland

American Historical Association Middle East Studies Association Turkish Studies Association

Associate Professor of History Public Affairs Center 405 860-685-2387 Tutor, College of Social Studies 860-685-2387 cmiller@wesleyan.edu

BA LeTourneau College
MPHIL University of St Andrews
DPHIL Oxford University

HIST216 - 01
European Intellectual History

HIST294 - 01
Political Fiction

HIST294 - 02
Political Fiction

HIST141 - 01
Theories and Models

HIST215 - 01
European Intellectual History

http://cmiller.faculty.wesleyan.edu

Fall 2012:

European Intellectual History See: http://www.europeanintellectualhistory.org

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 213 860-685-2382 Professor of Letters Butterfield Unit C 315 860-685-2382 Professor, Medieval Studies 860-685-2382 lnussdorfer@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MSC London School Economic & Political Science
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

COL243 - 01
Junior Colloquium

FGSS269 - 01
Gender and History

COL106 - 01
The Italian Renaissance

HIST202 - 01
Early Modern Europe

http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Fall 2012:

I'm a historian of early modern Rome (1500-1800). My research explores a wide range of topics in political, social, and cultural history from popular politics, print culture, urban space, and legal practices to artists' organizations and men's households. Recently I published the book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Currently I'm working on Baroque Rome as a "city of men," where males substantially outnumbered females and the clergy held the reins of both domestic and political power.

early modern Italy, Baroque Rome, notaries and notarial documents, history of masculinity

American Historical Association, Society of Italian Historical Studies

Rome Prize, SSRC, ACLS, APS

http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/

BA Yale University
MA University of California, Berkeley
PHD University of California, Berkeley
PHD University of California, Berkeley

http://mprinty.site.wesleyan.edu/

European intellectual and religious history, German history, the Enlightenment

American Historical Association
German Studies Association

http://mprinty.site.wesleyan.edu/publications/

Professor of History Public Affairs Center 306 860-685-2384 Tutor, College of Social Studies 860-685-2384 rschatz@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Wisconsin
MAT Harvard University
PHD University of Pittsburgh
MAA Wesleyan University

HIST210 - 01
History of American Jewry

HIST342 - 01
Rise of Conservatism America

HIST171 - 01
SS:Exploring Middletown's Hist

HIST266 - 01
American Labor History

Fall 2012:

Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies Public Affairs Center 303 860-685-2383 Professor of History Public Affairs Center 303 860-685-2383 Professor, East Asian Studies 860-685-2383 vschwarcz@wesleyan.edu

BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
PHD Stanford University
MAA Wesleyan University

HIST224 - 01
Modern China

HIST308 - 01
The Jewish Experience in China

http://between2walls.com

ON LEAVE FALL 2012

the role of truth in the wake of historial trauma history of landscaped spaces

Chinese Intellectual History, Comparative Memory Studies Poetry and History Truth and Historical Narative

association for asian studies

Guggenheim Fellowship 1989-1990 Founders Fellowship, AAUW 1988-89 American Council of Learned Societies, 1996 National Academy of Sciences: 1979-80

http://between2walls.com/

Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs North College 309 860-685-2707 Professor of History Public Affairs Center 206 860-685-2373 Professor, Medieval Studies 860-685-2373 Associate Editor, History and Theory 860-685-2373 gshaw@wesleyan.edu

BA McGill University
DPHIL Oxford University

http://gshaw.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Fall 2012: by appointment only. DEAN OF DIVISION II & IX

later medieval social life; information and social networks;the nature of the self since the Middle Ages; the philosophy of history; historiography

Medieval Europe; Britain; Historiography

Assistant Professor of History Public Affairs Center 860-685-3293 Assistant Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies 860-685-3293 Tutor, College of Social Studies vsmolkin@wesleyan.edu

BA Sarah Lawrence College
PHD University of California, Berkeley

HIST219 - 01
Russian & Soviet Hist 1881/Pre

HIST323 - 01
Religion and History

CSS340 - 01
Jr Tut: Relig., Secularism &

CSS340 - 02
Jr Tut: Relig., Secularism &

HIST184 - 01
Communist Experience

Fall 2012:

Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies 860-685-5356 Professor of History 222 Church Street 203 860-685-5356 Chair, Medieval Studies Program Professor, Medieval Studies 860-685-5356 Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 860-685-5356 mteter@wesleyan.edu

MA Warsaw University
MA Columbia University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University

http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu

ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013

As a scholar of Jewish history, eastern European history, and of early modern religious and cultural history, I specialize in Jewish-Christian relations. My first book, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 (pbk, 2009), challenges the perception that the Catholic Church triumphed in Poland and demonstrates the superficiality of the re-Catholicization of the ruling elites, whose economic interests trumped their religious loyalties. My new book, Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, 2011) tells a story of affirmation of Catholic dogmas after the Reformation, not necessarily though religious education and propaganda but through the application of criminal law, and the courts' treatment of "the sacred" and, thus, also of the "sacrilege." The book addresses one of the most notorious examples of "sacrilege" -- the accusation that Jews desecrated consecrated communion wafers. "Sinners on Trial" combines political, legal, and cultural historical approaches. Far more than the Church's efforts to educate the laity, the lay courts' classification of Catholic spaces as the only "sacred spaces" and their adjudication of crimes of "sacrilege," were crucial for the (re)Catholicisation of Poland, and the shaping of the country's religious identity. "Sinners on Trial" crucially casts a new light on the most infamous case of sacrilege, the accusations against Jews for stealing and desecrating the host, situating it within a broader context of the politics of crime -- most specifically that of sacrilege, illuminating its post-Reformation character.

Early modern history, Jewish history, Poland, religious history, gender, eastern Europe, historiography

Association for Jewish Studies, American Historical Association, Sixteenth Century Studies, American Catholic Historical Association, Church History, AAUP

http://www.earlymodern.org

http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu/mteter_publications.htm

Associate Professor of History 222 Church Street 221 860-685-5389 Associate Professor, Science in Society 860-685-5389 Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 860-685-5389 Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 103 860-685-5389 jtucker@wesleyan.edu

BA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Johns Hopkins University

FGSS405 - 01
Senior Seminar

HIST362 - 01
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST269 - 01
Modern Britain, 1780-Present

http://jtucker.web.wesleyan.edu

Fall 2012:

Jennifer Tucker's first book, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Johns Hopkins University, 2005) explores the social and cultural relations of photography, science, and ideas of truth in Victorian London. Other research concerns include artistic exchanges in scientific colonialism; interactions between science and popular culture; science and gender studies; and photography in historical documentation and interpretation. She is currently at work on a book about life and art in the Victorian photographic studio and is writing a series of essays about photography and historical interpretation.

Social and cultural practices of science; Victorian Studies; visual culture; photographic history; history of women and gender.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies Grant; Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation Grant; British Marshall Scholarship (UK)

BA Duke University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University

HIST296 - 01
Colonial Latin America

HIST245 - 01
Latin American History

Fall 2012:

Professor of History Ann Wightman specializes in Latin American colonial history. Her award-winning Indigenous Migration and Social Change analyzes the impact of Spanish colonization on traditional Indian communities. She is continuing her research on Andean society in her current study of kinship ties within the Indian community of seventeenth-century Peru. In 1996, she won a university award for excellence in teaching.

SB Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison

Assistant Professor of History Public Affairs Center 329 860-685-3573 Assistant Professor of African American Studies Center for African American Studies 230 860-685-3573 Faculty Fellow (Spring) lmwright@wesleyan.edu

BA Dartmouth College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

http://lmwright.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Spring 2012: Thursdays, 2 - 4pm and by appointment (CHUM 206)

Leah M. Wright is an Assistant Professor of History & African American Studies at Wesleyan University. She received her B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Her research interests include 20th Century United States political and social history and modern African American history. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Federal History, Souls, Oxford African American Studies Center Online/African American National Biography, as well as in the anthology Making the South Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Archives/Presidential Libraries, and Oberlin College. Currently, she is working on a book, The Loneliness of the Black Conservative: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power; her project offers new insight into the relationship between African American politics, the American civil rights movement, and the Republican Party.

<p>American Historical Association; Association for the Study of African American Life and History; Organization of American Historians; American Political Science Association; American Studies Association </p>

Spring 2012: Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment.

Professor of History, Emerita jbrown@wesleyan.edu

BA University of California, Berkeley
MA University of California, Berkeley
PHD Johns Hopkins University

http://jbrown.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Issues pertaining to higher education. History of Early Modern Europe and Renaissance Italy. History of women, gender and sexuality.

Professor of History, Emeritus rbuel@wesleyan.edu

BA Amherst College
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

Professor of History and Science, Emeritus sgillmor@wesleyan.edu

BS Stanford University
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University
MAA Wesleyan University

Retired

MAA Wesleyan University

Professor of History, Emeritus dmorgan@wesleyan.edu

BA Haverford College
DPHIL Oxford University

Associate Editor, History and Theory 860-685-2398 William Armstrong Professor of History, Emeritus ppomper@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Chicago
MA University of Chicago
PHD University of Chicago
MAA Wesleyan University

http://ppomper.faculty.wesleyan.edu

Retired

BA Southern Methodist C
BA Oxford University
MA Oxford University
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University
MAA Wesleyan University

Patricia Hill

Claire Potter

Professor of American Studies
Center for the Americas 216
860-685-2377

cpotter01@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA New York University
PHD New York University

Personal Web Site:
http://cpotter01.faculty.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
On Leave Spring 2012

Research Interests:
Claire Potter focuses her research on the social and cultural dynamics of state formation in the 20th century. She is the author of a major study of the FBI's war on midwestern bandits in the 1930s and currently working on a book which explores the impact of historical writing about race and citizenship on nationalist discourse in the United States. A third project in its early stages focuses on the federal campaigns against pornography initiated in the Carter, Reagan and first Bush administrations. She teaches the survey courses on U.S. Foreign Relations (which highlights interhemispheric relations), Politics and Culture of the Southern States, and post Stonewall queer political thought; as well as seminars on the New Deal, crime, and the Cold War. Claire blogs at http://tenured-radical.blogspot.com/

Scholarly Keywords:
United States political and cultural history; queer studies; gender

Academic Associations:
American Historical AssociationOrganization of American HistoriansBerkshire Conference of Women HistoriansAmerican Studies AssociationAAUP