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Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College Dept. of History
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397
Phone: 610.328.8135
Fax: 610.328.8171
Email: history@swarthmore.edu
Website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history


The courses and seminars offered by the History Department attempt to give students a sense of the past; an acquaintance with the social, cultural, and institutional developments that have produced the world of today; and an understanding of the nature of history as a discipline.


Chair: Diego Armus
Degrees Offered: BA
Academic Year System: SEM
Areas of Specialization: Africa, China, early modern/modern Europe and Ireland, Latin America, modern Middle East, Russia, US, African American, Atlantic, capitalism, US civil rights, craft and technology, cultural, decolonization, empire, food, gender, modern Jewish
Undergraduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $71110
   Out-of-state: $71110

Enrollment 2024-25:
Undergraduate Majors: 40
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: 307
Students in Undergrad. Intro Courses: 124
% of Online-Only Courses: 93.
Undergraduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-aid
   Financial Aid: https://www.swarthmore.edu/financial-aid

Areas of Specialization: Africa, China, early modern/modern Europe and Ireland, Latin America, modern Middle East, Russia, US, African American, Atlantic, capitalism, US civil rights, craft and technology, cultural, decolonization, empire, food, gender, modern Jewish

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Directory of History Dissertations

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


Armus, Diego C. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1996; ; prof. and chair) Latin America, urban, social; darmus1@swarthmore.edu
Azfar, Farid M. (PHD, Brown, 2009; ; assoc. prof.) early modern Europe, sexuality, Atlantic; fazfar1@swarthmore.edu
Brown, Megan (PHD, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2017; ; assoc. prof.) modern Europe, European integration, empire; megan.brown@swarthmore.edu
Burke, Timothy J. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1993; ; prof.) Africa, cultural; tburke1@swarthmore.edu
Chen, BuYun (PHD, Columbia, 2013; ; assoc. prof.) China, craft and technology, women; bchen5@swarthmore.edu
Dorsey, Bruce (PHD, Brown, 1993; ; prof.) US social and cultural, early America, gender; bdorsey1@swarthmore.edu
Mitchell, Elise A. (PHD, NYU, 2021; ; asst. prof.) Black Atlantic, Atlantic slave trade, Caribbean slavery, healing; emitche1@swarthmore.edu
Shokr, Ahmad (PHD, NYU, 2016; ; assoc. prof.) modern Middle East, decolonization, capitalism; ashokr1@swarthmore.edu
Truong, Vivian (PHD, Michigan, 2020; ; asst. prof.) Asian American, urban, social movements; vtruong1@swarthmore.edu
Weinberg, Bob (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1985; ; prof.) Russia, modern Europe, modern Jewish; rweinbe1@swarthmore.edu
Bannister, Robert C. (PHD, Yale, 1961; ; prof. emeritus) US political and intellectual since 1787; rbannis1@swarthmore.edu
Bensch, Stephen P. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1987; ; prof. emeritus) medieval Europe, Near East; sbensch1@swarthmore.edu
Dorsey, Allison Gloria (PHD, California, Irvine, 1995; ; prof. emeritus) African American, US civil rights, food; adorsey1@swarthmore.edu
DuPlessis, Robert S. (PHD, Columbia, 1974; ; prof. emeritus) early modern Europe, Atlantic, economic; rduples1@swarthmore.edu
Li, Lillian M. (PHD, Harvard, 1975; ; prof. emerita) China, Japan, cities; lli1@swarthmore.edu
Murphy, Marjorie (PHD, California, Davis, 1981; ; prof. emerita) American labor, Ireland, women; mmurphy1@swarthmore.edu
Wright, Harrison M. (PHD, Harvard, 1957; ; prof. emeritus) Africa, European expansion, historiography;
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