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Fairfield University
Fairfield University Dept. of History
1073 N. Benson Rd.
Fairfield, CT 06824-5195
Phone: 203.254.4000
Email: pbehre@fairfield.edu
Website: https://www.fairfield.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/history/


The Department of History at Fairfield University is dedicated to teaching its students to understand today’s world through the study of the past. We examine and record the daily lives, conflicts, cultures, relationships, work, beliefs, and morals of people throughout time.


Chair: Patricia Behre
Degrees Offered: BA
Academic Year System: SEM
Areas of Specialization: US, Europe, Russia, East and South Asia, Islamic world
Undergraduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $57450
   Out-of-state: $57540

Enrollment 2024-25:
Undergraduate Majors: 42
Students in Program: 0
New Graduate Students: 0
Full-time Graduate Students: 0
Part-time Graduate Students: 0
Degrees in History: 0 AA 11 BA 0 BS 0 MA 0 MS 0 PhD
Students in Undergrad. Courses: 2221
Students in Undergrad. Intro Courses: 1017
% of Online-Only Courses: 2
Undergraduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://www.fairfield.edu/admission-and-aid/
   Financial Aid: https://www.fairfield.edu/admission-and-aid/financial-aid/

Areas of Specialization: US, Europe, Russia, East and South Asia, Islamic world

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Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 0
PhD applications received: 0
New PhD students: 0
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 0
% of students receiving stipends: 0


Abbott, William M. (DPHIL, Oxford, 1982; ; assoc. prof.) Britain, Tudor-Stuart England, British Empire; wmabbott@fairfield.edu
Adair, Jennifer (PHD, NYU, 2013; ; assoc. prof.) Latin America; jadair@fairfield.edu
Behre, Patricia E. (PHD, Yale, 1991; ; assoc. prof. and chair) early modern Europe, France, Jewish-Christian relations; pbehre@fairfield.edu
Greenwald, Richard A. (PHD, NYU, 1998; ; prof. and dean; Coll. of Arts & Sciences) American economic/political/labor/urban; rgreenwald@fairfield.edu
Hohl, Elizabeth (PHD, Union Inst., 2010; ; asst. prof. of the practice) 19th-century US, women, African American; ehohl@fairfield.edu
King, Shannon (PHD, SUNY, Binghamton, 2006; ; assoc. prof.) African American, urban, 20th century; sking2@fairfield.edu
Lawrence, Anna M. (PHD, Michigan, 2004; ; assoc. prof.) colonial and revolutionary America, religious, women and gender; alawrence3@fairfield.edu
Li, Danke (PHD, Michigan, 1999; ; prof.) modern China and Japan, East Asia, women in China; dli@fairfield.edu
Lord, Kevin L. (PHD, Yale, 2019; ; asst. prof. of the practice) medieval world, early modern Europe, religion; klord@fairfield.edu
Marsans-Sakly, Silvia (PHD, NYU, 2010; ; assoc. prof. of the practice) Islamic world, Middle East; smarsans-sakly@fairfield.edu
McFadden, David W. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1990; ; prof.) US foreign relations, Russia and former Soviet Union, 20th-century US; dmcfadden@fairfield.edu
Purushotham, Sunil (PHD, Cambridge, 2013; ; assoc. prof.) South Asia, decolonization, modern imperialism; spurushotham@fairfield.edu
Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. (PHD, UCLA, 1996; ; prof.) modern Germany, collective memory, 20th-century Europe; grosenfeld@fairfield.edu
Ruffini, Giovanni R. (PHD, Columbia, 2005; ; prof.) Roman late antiquity, Greco-Roman Egypt, Christian Nubia; gruffini@fairfield.edu
Rutter, Nick (PHD, Yale, 2013; ; asst. prof. of the practice) Cold War, modern Germany, modern Russia; nrutter@fairfield.edu
Bucki, Cecelia (PHD, Pittsburgh, 1991; ; prof. emerita) US social and labor, 20th-century US, New Deal; cbucki@fairfield.edu
Coury, Ralph M. (PHD, Princeton, 1984; ; prof. emeritus) Middle East, Islamic world, Orientalism; randmcoury@gmail.com
Deangelis, Richard C. (PHD, St. John's, NY, 1975; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) China, Southeast Asia, US military; rdeangelis@sbcglobal.net
Awtrey, Jonathon Derek (PHD, Louisiana State, 2018; ; vis. asst. prof.) American Revolution/Enlightenment, religion/politics, early American Jews; jawtrey@fairfield.edu
Kamali, Maryam (PHD, Tehran, 2013; ; vis. asst. prof.) medieval Middle East/Central Asia, Persian historiography, Iranian studies; mkamali@fairfield.edu
Palmer, Louise Y. (PHD, Yale, 1998; ; vis. asst. prof.) science, medicine; lpalmer1@fairfield.edu
Rowley, Matthew P. (PHD, Leicester, 2019; ; vis. asst. prof.) violence, religion, Protestantism; mrowley@fairfield.edu
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