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Indiana University

Indiana University Dept. of History
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Ballantine Hall 844
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-3236
Fax: 812.855.3378
Email: histadm@iu.edu
Website: https://history.indiana.edu/

Together with their colleagues across IU’s College of Arts and Sciences, History’s faculty members contribute to IU’s international reputation a destination for students seeking a world-class liberal-arts education that prepares them to deal with the global challenges of the 21st century.

Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. In addition to the usual geographical and chronological strengths, the IU history department has thematic fields of study in African Diaspora, Cultural History, History of Gender and Sexuality, and Jewish History.

B. Special Programs. We have a number of centers and institutes which offer training, research and employment for our graduate students; history department faculty are involved in all of the following: African Studies; American Studies; Ancient Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Center for the Study of History and Memory; Central Eurasian Studies; Diplomatic History; East Asian Languages and Cultures; India Studies; Indiana Magazine of History; Institute for European Studies; Institute of German Studies; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Organization of American Historians/ Journal of American History; the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction; Medieval Studies Institute; the Polish Studies Center; Population Institute for Research and Training; Renaissance Studies; Russian and East European Institute; Victorian Studies.

C. Financial Aid. Currently we promise funding to the vast majority of PhD-track students. Typically we offer five-year packages which include at least one year with no teaching duties; in the other years students work as teaching or editorial assistants. Students who exhaust this funding or who enter without multi-year packages compete annually for teaching positions. We also grant fellowships for dissertation research on a competitive basis. In addition, many of our students work as editorial assistants at the three journals affiliated with the Department, Journal of American History, Indiana Magazine of History, and Diplomatic History. These journals usually fill positions through their own hiring process, but they only hire our students. Editorial assistantships, like teaching assistantships, are compensated with a fee remission, health insurance, and stipend.

D. Degree Requirements. We require an introduction to history course, 6 history readings courses, 2 history research courses, and a minor outside of history (usually 3-4 courses). The number of languages required varies according to field. Students undergo a third-semester review, based on work completed up to that point; an oral qualifying exam in their major and minor history fields; a dissertation proposal defense; and a dissertation defense.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 95
PhD applications received: 89
New PhD students: 13
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 85
% of students receiving stipends: 85

Andrews, Stephen Douglas (PHD, Stanford, 2005adj. prof.; interim editor, Journal of American History) 19th-century US social and intellectual, literature and popular culture, religion standrew@iu.edu

Bannon, Cynthia J. (PHD, Michigan, 1991prof.; Classical Studies) ancient Rome, Roman law, Latin literature cbannon@iu.edu

Barton, Keith C. (EDD, Kentucky, 1994prof.; Education) history education, curriculum, US South kcbarton@iu.edu

Bertoloni Meli, Domenico (PHD, Cambridge, 1988prof.; History and Philosophy of Science) medical and mathematical disciplines, Renaissance to the 19th century dbmeli@iu.edu

Bjørnstad, Hall (PHD, Oslo, 2006prof.; French and Italian) 17th-century French literature and culture hallbjor@iu.edu

Bose, Purnima (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1993prof.; English and International Studies) modern South Asian gender/social/cultural, postcolonial theory pbose@iu.edu

Bouchard, Vincent (PHD, Montréal, 2006prof.; French and Italian) Francophone cultures in West Africa and North America, cultural studies vbouchar@iu.edu

Bovingdon, Gardner (PHD, Cornell, 2002assoc. prof.; East Asian Languages and Cultures) historiography in China, modern Xinjiang, nationalism and ethnic conflict gbovingd@iu.edu

Bowles, Brett C. (PHD, Penn State, 1998assoc. prof.; French and Italian) 20th-century France and Germany, film and media, social and political bowlesb@iu.edu

Caner, Daniel F. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1998prof.; Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures) late antique social and cultural history; early Christian and Byzantine history dcaner@iu.edu

Christ, Matthew (PHD, Princeton, 1987prof.; Classical Studies) classical Athens, legal, social and cultural mrchrist@iu.edu

De Groot, Michael Benjamin (PHD, Virginia, 2018asst. prof.; International Studies) Russian and US foreign relations, 20th-century international, political economy mbdegroo@iu.edu

English, Beth (PHD, William and Mary, 2003adj. assoc. prof.; exec. dir., OAH) US labor and working class, US South, gender, globalization bethengl@iu.edu

Frazier, Lessie Jo (PHD, Michigan, 1998prof.; Gender Studies & American Studies; editorial board, Journal of Women's History) Latin America/US/western Europe, empire/transnational/global, political culture, memory, ethnographic history, gender/sexuality/race, nationalism/militarism/fascism/state/democracy, human rights frazierl@iu.edu

Furey, Constance (PHD, Chicago, 2000Halls Prof.; Religious Studies) early modern Europe, Protestant and Catholic Reformations cfurey@iu.edu

Gonzalez, Luis A. (PHD, Minnesota, 1998adj. asst. prof.; librarian, Univ. Libraries) Brazil, Latin American social/legal/agrarian, library research methods luisgonz@iu.edu

Imhoff, Sarah (PHD, Chicago, 2010prof. and Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies; Religious Studies and Borns Jewish Studies Prog., co-ed., American Religion) religion, gender, American Judaism, disability seimhoff@iu.edu

Jelks, Randal Maurice (PHD, Michigan State, 1999Ruth N. Halls Prof.; African American and African Diaspora Studies) comparative Black histories rmjelks@iu.edu

Johnson, Colin R. (PHD, Michigan, 2003assoc. prof.; Gender Studies) modern US, LGBT/gender/sexuality, rural social and cultural/agriculture/environment crj2@iu.edu

Kamp, Marianne R. (PHD, Chicago, 1998prof.; Central Eurasian Studies) 20th-century Central Asia, gender, oral mkamp@iu.edu

Lee, Sonia Song-Ha (PHD, Harvard, 2007assoc. prof.; American Studies) Black and Latinx studies, social movements, constructions of race and ethnicity, trauma and healing, mental health, abolition soslee@iu.edu

Macekura, Stephen (PHD, Virginia, 2013prof.; International Studies) US foreign relations, international development and political economy, environmental smacekur@iu.edu

Michelson, Patrick Lally (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 2007assoc. prof.; Religious Studies) modern Russian Orthodoxy, modern European Christian thought, religious studies plmichel@iu.edu

Myers, Kathleen A. (PHD, Brown, 1986prof.; Spanish and Portuguese) colonial Latin America, women, chronicles myersk@iu.edu

Newman, William R. (PHD, Harvard, 1986Dist. Prof. and Ruth Halls Prof.; History and Philosophy of Science) Europe and America, medieval and early modern science wnewman@iu.edu

Oxenboell, Morten (PHD, Copenhagen, 2009assoc. prof.; East Asian Languages and Cultures) medieval Japan, violence, premodern political/social mortoxen@iu.edu

Pinaud, Clémence (PHD, Sorbonne, Paris, 2013assoc. prof.; International Studies) Africa, military, women cpinaud@iu.edu

Ransford, Amy R. (PHD, Indiana, 2022research assoc.; Journal of American History) early America, age of revolutions, women, social and economic amypurvi@iu.edu

Raun, Toivo U. (PHD, Princeton, 1969prof.; Central Eurasian Studies) Baltic and Scandinavia, non-Russian nationalities, modern Russia and Soviet Union raunt@iu.edu

Schott, Jeremy M. (PHD, Duke, 2005prof.; Religious Studies) Rome and Byzantium jmschott@iu.edu

Sela, Ron (PHD, Indiana, 2004assoc. prof.; Central Eurasian Studies) 16th- to 19th-century Central Asia, Islamic world rsela@iu.edu

Vogt, Nicholas (PHD, Columbia, 2012assoc. prof.; East Asian Languages and Cultures) early China, cultural/religious, ritual studies pnvogt@iu.edu

Weinberg, Carl R. (PHD, Yale, 1995adj. assoc. prof. and sr. lect.; Coll. of Arts and Sciences) 20th-century US social and political, US labor, evolutionism and creationism crweinbe@iu.edu

Bruno, Andy R. (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011prof. and Stephen F. Cohen Chair) Russia and Soviet Union, environmental, global brunoan@iu.edu

Bucur, Maria (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1996prof. and John W. Hill Chair) modern eastern Europe, gender, disability mbucur@iu.edu

Chan, Thomas Arthur Kwok Wah (PHD, California, San Diego, 2023asst. prof.) modern China, violence, science and medicine, drugs chanta@iu.edu

Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf (PHD, Pennsylvania, 1994Donald A. Rogers Prof.) early medieval, intellectual and cultural, historiography/archaeology/material culture ddeliyan@iu.edu

Diaz, Arlene J. (PHD, Minnesota, 1997assoc. prof.) Latin America, gender, social and cultural ardiaz@iu.edu

Dierks, Konstantin (PHD, Brown, 1999assoc. prof.) early American Republic, 19th-century US, US foreign relations, globalization, empire, cultural kdierks@iu.edu

Dodson, Michael S. (PHD, Cambridge, 2003prof.) South Asian intellectual and cultural, architecture/urbanism, music/sound and ethics, British imperialism msdodson@iu.edu

Elliott, Colin (PHD, Bristol, 2012prof.) ancient Rome, money/markets/connectivity, Mediterranean ecology and disease cpe@iu.edu

Foray, Jennifer L. (PHD, Columbia, 2006assoc. prof.) modern Europe and global, imperialism and decolonization, history and memory of World Wars I and II jlforay@iu.edu

Gregg, Sara M. (PHD, Columbia, 2004assoc. prof. and dir., grad. studies) environmental, land policy, agriculture, modern US smgregg@iu.edu

Guardino, Peter F. (PHD, Chicago, 1992Provost Prof. and Bernardo Mendel Chair) Mexico, Latin America, political culture pguardin@iu.edu

Hanson, John (PHD, Michigan State, 1989prof.) African social/cultural/religious; Muslim world jhhanson@iu.edu

Hsia, Ke-chin (PHD, Chicago, 2013assoc. prof.) modern central Europe, Habsburg Empire, war/welfare/citizenship khsia@iu.edu

Ipsen, Carl D. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1992prof.) modern Italy, population, fascism, food studies cipsen@iu.edu

Irvin, Benjamin H. (PHD, Brandeis, 2004assoc. prof.) early America and revolutionary era, US social and cultural, disability bhirvin@iu.edu

Machado, Pedro A. (PHD, SOAS, London, 2005assoc. prof.) Indian Ocean and global, social/cultural/economic/environmental, slavery/material culture/South Asian merchant networks/commodity exchange/pearling histories pmachado@iu.edu

McGerr, Michael (PHD, Yale, 1984Paul V. McNutt Prof. of American History) US social/cultural/political mmcgerr@iu.edu

McGraw, Jason Peter (PHD, Chicago, 2006assoc. prof.) Latin America and Caribbean, postemancipation societies, labor/race/popular culture jpmcgraw@iu.edu

Pergher, Roberta (PHD, Michigan, 2007assoc. prof.; dir., Institute for European Studies and dir., Europe Gateway Berlin) modern Italy, fascism, empire rpergher@iu.edu

Robinson, Eric W. (PHD, Pennsylvania, 1994prof. and dir., undergrad. studies) archaic Greece, classical Greece, political and military ewr@iu.edu

Roos, Julia (PHD, Carnegie Mellon, 2001assoc. prof.) modern Germany, gender, propaganda, race roos@iu.edu

Saburova, Tatiana (PHD, Omsk State Pedagogical, 2006sr. lect.) imperial, Soviet Russia; generations/memory; cartography, photography, Russian empire's borderlands tsaburov@.edu

Schlesinger, Jonathan (PHD, Harvard, 2012assoc. prof.; dir., Individual Major Program and dir., Honors Program) late imperial China, environmental, fashion and material culture joschles@iu.edu

Shopkow, Leah (PHD, Toronto, 1984prof. and chair) medieval intellectual and cultural, historiography, scholarship of teaching and learning shopkowl@iu.edu

Spang, Rebecca L. (PHD, Cornell, 1993Halls Prof.; dir., Center for 18th-Century Studies and dir., Liberal Arts and Management) modern France, 18th- and 19th-century Europe, cultural/intellectual/economic rlspang@iu.edu

Wang, Fei-Hsien (PHD, Chicago, 2013assoc. prof.) modern China, book, law and economic life feihwang@iu.edu

Wu, Ellen D. (PHD, Chicago, 2006assoc. prof.; assoc. dir., CAHI) Asian American, race, immigration wue@iu.edu

Black, Liza (PHD, Washington, assoc. prof.; Native American and Indigenous Studies) Native American and indigenous, film, law and violence in American Indian history blackli@iu.edu

Caddoo, Cara (PHD, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2013assoc. prof.; Cinema and Media Studies) African American, Native American, race, film/media ccaddoo@iu.edu

Cullather, Nick B. (PHD, Virginia, 1992prof.; International Studies) US foreign relations, intelligence, modernization ncullath@iu.edu

Drake, Janine Giordano (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2014clinical assoc. prof.; Advance College Project) modern US, comparative labor/working class, cultural/intellectual jgdrake@iu.edu

Griffin, Clare (PHD, Univ. Coll. London, 2013assoc. prof.; Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute) early modern Russian Empire, medical drugs, violence, premodern global trade clgriff@iu.edu

Inouye, Karen Midori (PHD, Brown, 1999Halls Prof.; American Studies) Asian American and Asian Canadian studies, public history and memory, afterlife of wartime incarceration kinouye@iu.edu

Kriegel, Lara H. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2000prof. and Robert H. Ferrell Chair; dir. and co-ed., Victorian Studies; English) modern Britain, cultural, European empires lkriegel@iu.edu

Lichtenstein, Alex (PHD, Pennsylvania, 1990prof.; American Studies) US South, US labor, South Africa lichtens@iu.edu

Mora, Juan Ignacio (PHD, Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, 2021asst. prof.; Latino Studies) transnational US, race and ethnicity, labor and migration, food studies jimora@iu.edu

Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti (PHD, Rutgers, 2004Halls Prof.; Gender Studies) African American, women, 18th- and 19th-century US/South/social apmyers@iu.edu

Nichols, David Andrew (PHD, Kentucky, 2000prof. and Carmony Chair; ed., Indiana Magazine of History; Native American and Indigenous Studies) Native American, early America, frontier and borderlands studies davinich@iu.edu

Nieto-Phillips, John (PHD, UCLA, 1997assoc. prof.; Latino Studies) US/Latina/o, Mexican American, Latin America and Caribbean, Spain, Mexico, Hispanic World, fascism, espionage, diplomacy jnietoph@iu.edu

O'Bryan, Scott P. (PHD, Columbia, 2000assoc. prof.; East Asian Languages and Cultures) Japan, environmental, urban spobryan@iu.edu

Ortega, Carolina (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2021asst. prof.; Latino Studies) US and Latin America, labor, migration, Latinx studies caorte@iu.edu

Roseman, Mark (PHD, Warwick, 1987Dist. Prof. and Pat M. Glazer Chair; Jewish Studies) modern Germany, Holocaust, world wars and impact marrosem@iu.edu

Seigel, Micol (PHD, NYU, 2001prof.; American Studies) race, policing, transnational mseigel@iu.edu

Williams, Jakobi (PHD, UCLA, 2008Ruth N. Halls Prof.; African American and African Diaspora Studies) African American, modern US/race/politics, civil rights/black power/Black Panther Party jakowill@iu.edu

Bodnar, John E. (PHD, Connecticut, 1975Chancellor’s and Dist. Prof. emeritus) modern US bodnar@iu.edu

Brooks, George E., Jr. (PHD, Boston Univ., 1962prof. emeritus) Africa, western Africa, world brooksg@iu.edu

Carmichael, Ann G. (MD, PHD, Duke, 1978assoc. prof. emerita) historical epidemiology carmicha@iu.edu

Demand, Nancy (PHD, Bryn Mawr, 1978prof. emerita) Greece, ancient Mediterranean, ancient medicine

Diehl, James M. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1972prof. emeritus) modern Europe and modern Germany diehl@iu.edu

Dwyer, Ellen (PHD, Yale, 1977prof. emerita) US medicine, women, crime and criminal justice dwyer@iu.edu

Field, Arthur (PHD, Michigan, 1980assoc. prof. emeritus) Italian Renaissance, early modern intellectual afield@iu.edu

Friedman, Lawrence J. (PHD, UCLA, 1967prof. emeritus; chair, Harvard Conference on Public Intellectuals) American and European intellectual and cultural, civil society ljfriedm@iu.edu

Gamber, Wendy E. (PHD, Brandeis, 1991Byrnes Prof. emerita) 19th-century US, women and gender, social and cultural, crime, childhood wgamber@iu.edu

Gould, Jeffrey L. (PHD, Yale, 1988Dist. and Rudy Prof. emeritus and Dist. vis. prof. of modern history; School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study) 20th-century Central America, social movements, documentary film gouldj@iu.edu

Grossberg, Michael C. (PHD, Brandeis, 1979prof. emeritus) US legal, constitutional, social grossber@iu.edu

James, Daniel Maddison (PHD, London, 1979prof. emeritus) Latin American social/cultural/labor dajames@iu.edu

Kuromiya, Hiroaki (PHD, Princeton, 1985prof. emeritus) modern Eurasia hkuromiy@iu.edu

Linenthal, Edward T. (PHD, California, Santa Barbara, 1979prof. emeritus) history and memory, American religion, 20th-century US etl@iu.edu

Madison, James H. (PHD, Indiana, 1972prof. emeritus) 20th-century US, World War II, Indiana madison@iu.edu

Martin, Phyllis (PHD, London, 1970prof. emerita) Central Africa, social and cultural martinp@iu.edu

Pace, David (PHD, Yale, 1973prof. emeritus) scholarship of teaching and learning, 19th- and 20th-century European intellectual and cultural dpace@iu.edu

Peterson, M. Jeanne (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1972prof. emeritus) Victorian England, gender and body, medicine and professions petersom@iu.edu

Rabinowitch, Alexander (PHD, Indiana, 1965prof. emeritus) Russian revolutions, Soviet-era Russia, World War II Soviet Union arabinow@iu.edu

Ransel, David L. (PHD, Yale, 1969prof. emeritus) modern Russia, social and cultural ransel@iu.edu

Riley, James C. (PHD, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971Dist. Prof. emeritus) old regime Europe, health, 20th-century world rileyj@iu.edu

Sandweiss, Eric (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1991retired prof.) US urban, public, American and European architectural sesandw@iu.edu

Schneider, Robert A. (PHD, Michigan, 1982prof. emeritus) Old Regime France, early modern Europe, social and cultural raschnei@iu.edu

Struve, Lynn A. (PHD, Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1974prof. emerita) premodern Chinese political/intellectual/cultural, 17th century struve@iu.edu

Thelen, David P. (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 1967Dist. Prof. emeritus) US

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