The Department of History is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time periods and research interests. Its outstanding faculty specializes in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect undergraduate and graduate students with the excitement of historical discovery and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.
The department thrives on its close relationship with many other departments, centers and area studies programs in the humanities and social sciences at Cornell. The faculty includes more than a dozen prize-winning authors as well as winners of Cornell’s prestigious teaching and advising awards.
Associated Faculty
- Glenn Altschuler
- Edward E. Baptist
- John Barwick
- Ernesto Bassi Arevalo
- Richard F Bensel
- Judith A. Byfield
- Benedetta Carnaghi
- Derek Chang
- Zhihong Chen
- Raymond B. Craib
- Peter Robert Dear
- Ileen DeVault
- Mara Yue Du
- Ziad Fahmy
- Oren Falk
- Cristina Florea
- Chiara Formichi
- Paul Friedland
- Maria Cristina Garcia
- Durba Ghosh
- Lawrence B. Glickman
- Sandra Elaine Greene
- TJ Hinrichs
- Louis Hyman
- Ronald R. Kline
- Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
- Olga Litvak
- Tamara Loos
- Mostafa Minawi
- Nicholas Mulder
- Jon W. Parmenter
- David Stephan Powers
- Sara B. Pritchard
- Eric Rebillard
- Russell Rickford
- Kristin Roebuck
- Susana Romero Sanchez
- Aaron Sachs
- Naoki Sakai
- Nick Salvatore
- Casey Schmitt
- Suman Seth
- David Silbey
- Barry Stuart Strauss
- Eric Tagliacozzo
- Keith Weller Taylor
- Robert Travers
- Enzo Traverso
- Claudia Verhoeven
- Stephen Vider
