History Faculty

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Graduate Faculty

Audrey L. Altstadt, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, B.A., Illinois, 1975; M.A., Chicago, 1977; Ph.D., 1983.

Larry Owens, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Seattle, 1966; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1972; Ph.D., Princeton, 1987.

Carlin Barton, Professor,  B.A., City College, CUNY, 1970; M.A., Oregon, 1972; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1984.

Joyce A. Berkman,  Professor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1958; M.A., Yale, 1959; Ph.D., 1967.

Katherine Bliss, Associate Professor, A.B./A.M., Harvard, 1990; Ph.D., Chicago, 1996.

Anne F. Broadbridge, Assistant Professor, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993; M.A., Chicago, 1997; Ph.D., 2001.

Joye L. Bowman, Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 1973; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 1975; Ph.D., 1980.

Richard Chu, Assistant Professor (University of Massachusetts Amherst/Five College appointment),  B.A., Ateneo de Manila University, 1986; M.A., Stanford, 1994; Ph.D., Southern California, 2003.

David Glassberg, Professor, B.A., Chicago, 1976; M.A., Johns Hopkins, 1978; Ph.D., 1982.

Daniel Gordon, Professor, B.A., Columbia, 1983; M.A., Chicago, 1984; Ph.D., 1990.

Jennifer Heuer, Assistant Professor,  B.A., Chicago, 1991; M.A., 1992; Ph.D., 1998.

John E. Higginson, Professor, B.S.J., Northwestern, 1970; M.S.H., Michigan, 1975; Ph.D., 1979.

Robert E. Jones, Professor, B.A., Lafayette, 1963; Ph.D., Cornell, 1968.

Bruce Laurie, Professor, B.A., Rutgers, 1965; M.A., Pittsburgh, 1967; Ph.D., 1971.

Barry Levy, Associate Professor, B.A., Cornell, 1968; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1976.

John V. Lombardi, Professor and Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,  B.A., Pomona College, 1963; M.A., Columbia, 1964; Ph.D., 1968.

Laura L. Lovett, Assistant Professor,  B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1986; M.A., California at San Diego, 1990; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1998.

Gerald W. McFarland, Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1960; M.A., Columbia, 1964; Ph.D., 1965.

Marla R. Miller, Assistant Professor,  B.A., Wisconsin, 1988; M.A., North Carolina, 1991; Ph.D., 1997.

Richard H. Minear,  Professor, B.A., Yale, 1960; M.A., Harvard, 1962; Ph.D., 1968.

Alice Nash, Assistant Professor,  B.A., Hunter College, 1988; M.A., Boston University, 1989; Ph.D., Columbia, 1997.

Brian W. Ogilvie, Associate Professor, B.A., Chicago, 1990; M.A., 1992; Ph.D., 1997.

Stephen E. Pelz, Professor, B.A., Johns Hopkins, 1964; M.A., Harvard, 1966; Ph.D., 1971.

Stephen Platt, Assistant Professor in History and Five College Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies, B.A., Yale, 1993; M.A., Michigan, 1996; M.A., Yale, 1999; Ph.D., 2004.

Jane M. Rausch, Professor, B.A., DePauw, 1962; M.A., Wisconsin, 1964; Ph.D., 1969.

Charles W. Rearick, Professor, B.A., College of Idaho, 1964; M.A., Harvard, 1965; Ph.D., 1968.

Leonard L. Richards, Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1956; M.A., 1961; Ph.D., California at Davis, 1968.

Heather Cox Richardson, Associate Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1984; M.A., 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Sigrid Schmalzer, Assistant Professor,  B.A., Wesleyan, 1996; M.A., California at San Diego, 2001; Ph.D., 2004.

Ronald Story, Professor, B.A., Texas, 1963; M.A., Wisconsin, 1968; Ph.D., New York at Stony Brook, 1972.

Marvin Swartz, Professor, B.A., Princeton, 1963; M.A., Yale, 1964; Ph.D., 1969.

Mary C. Wilson, Professor, B.A., Oberlin, 1972; Ph.D., Oxford, 1984.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Ernest Allen, Professor of Afro-American Studies.

Aviva Ben-Ur, Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies.

Ernest Benz, Associate Professor of History, Smith College.

Jay Berkovitz, Professor of Judaic Studies.

John H. Bracey, Jr., Professor of Afro-American Studies.

Mavis Campbell, Professor of History, Amherst College.

Fredric L. Cheyette, Professor of History, Amherst College.

Francis Couvares, Professor of History and American Studies, Amherst College.

Daniel Czitrom, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

Abbott Lowell Cummings, Professor Emeritus, Yale University.

Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

Catherine Epstein, Assistant Professor of History, Amherst College.

Dayo Gore, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies.

Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History, Mount Holyoke College.

Holly Hanson, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

Thomas Hilbink, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies.

Judith Larrabee Holmes, Lecturer of Legal Studies.

Daniel Horowitz, Professor of American Studies and History, Smith College.

Margaret Hunt, Professor of History, Amherst College.

Bernie Jones, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies.

Jeremy King, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

Jennifer Klein, Assistant Professor of History, Smith College.

Richard Lim, Professor of History, Smith College.

Jonathan Lipman, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

Lynda J. Morgan, Professor of History,Mount Holyoke College.

Max Page, Associate Professor of Art.

Neal Salisbury, Professor of History, Smith College.

Martha Sandweiss, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Amherst College.

Mitziko Sawada, Associate Professor of History, Hampshire College.

Robert Schwartz, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

John Servos, Professor of History, Amherst College.

Manisha Sinha, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies.

Jutta Sperling, Assistant Professor of History, Hampshire College.

Peter Stern, Bibliographer, W.E.B. Du Bois Library.

Carole Straw, Associate Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College.

Robert Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Kevin M. Sweeney, Associate Professor of American Studies, Amherst College.

James Wald,Professor of History, Hampshire College.

Frederick S. Weaver, Professor of Economics and History, Hampshire College.

James Young, Professor of Judaic Studies.

Faculty Emeriti

Loren Baritz, Professor Emeritus (1991).

Winfred E.A. Bernhard, Professor Emeritus (1994).

Milton Cantor, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Miriam U. Chrisman,Professor Emerita  (1985).

Mario S. DePillis, Professor Emeritus(1991).

Fred W. Drake, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Louis S. Greenbaum,Professor Emeritus (1992).

Joseph M. Hernon, Jr.,Professor Emeritus (1995).

Vincent Ilardi, Professor Emeritus (1995).

Stephen B. Oates, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Robert A. Potash,Professor Emeritus  (1986).

Roland Sarti, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Neal R. Shipley, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Jack Tager, Professor Emeritus (2002).

R. Dean Ware, Professor Emeritus (2000).

Mary B. Wickwire, Professor Emerita (2001).

David Wyman,Professor Emeritus (1991).