University of Massachusetts Amherst

Faculty Associated with the UMass/Five College Graduate Program

This list groups faculty (including Five College, adjunct, and full-time visiting faculty) by subject area.  Included are the names and institutional affiliations of faculty at other Five-College history departments. For more information, visit the department/school web pages: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College.

Geographical Specializations: African Asian European Latin American Middle Eastern United States	Chronological and Thematic Specializations: Ancient and Medieval Global and Comparative Public History Science/Technology/Medicine/Environment Women's/Gender/Sexuality/Family

African History

JOYE L. BOWMAN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1980). Professor and Chair. History of Africa; political and economic history of Portuguese Africa.

HOLLY HANSON (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D. University of Florida, 1997. Associate Professor. Agrarian change in Africa, social history of the Buganda kingdom, precolonial African political culture, globalization as a historical process

JOHN HIGGINSON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Michigan, (1979). Professor. Africa, South Africa, and comparative labor history.

DAVID NEWBURY (Smith College): Professor emeritus. Historiography of Africa, kingship and kinship on Ijwi Island, and the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s.

Ancient and Medieval History

CARLIN BARTON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1984). Professor. Ancient History.

ANNE F. BROADBRIDGE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (2001). Associate Professor. Medieval Middle East; Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517); Ottoman Empire (1300-1924).

RICHARD LIM (Smith College): Ph.D., Princeton (1991). Associate Professor. Ancient Mediterranean, Greek, and Roman History; religions of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds in late antiquity.

FREDERICK MCGINNESS (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Professor and Chair. Medieval Europe, Renaissance and Reformation, Church History.

ROBERT SULLIVAN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison (1991). Associate Professor of German. Medieval Germany, literature and cultural history, Crusades.

CAROLE STRAW (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1979). Professor. Late antique and medieval history, church history, classical traditions and Christianity, martyrdom, monasticism.

ANNA TAYLOR (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Texas (2006). Assistant Professor. Late antique and medieval history, monasticism, literary culture.

Asian History

AUDREY L. ALTSTADT (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (1983). Professor. Soviet History; Soviet nationalities, especially Azerbaijan, Central Asia.

RICHARD T. CHU (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Southern California (2003). Associate Professor. Philippine Colonial History; Chinese Diaspora.

JERRY P. DENNERLINE (Amherst College): Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations. China, East Asia.

DANIEL GARDNER (Smith College): Ph.D., Harvard. Professor and Chair. Intellectual and cultural history of pre-modern China.

LILI KIM (Hampshire College): Ph.D., University of Rochester. Assistant Professor of Global Migrations. 20th century U.S. Race and Ethnicity, Asian-American Women, Immigration.

JONATHAN LIPMAN (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., Stanford University (1981). Professor. China, modern Japan, ethnicity and nationalism, global history.

TRENT MAXEY (Amherst College) Assistant Professor. Japanese History
STEPHEN R. PLATT (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Yale (2004). Associate Professor. Chinese History, 1600 to the present.

SIGRID SCHMALZER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (2004). Associate Professor. Modern China; history of science; popular culture.

European History

AUDREY L. ALTSTADT   (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (1983). Professor. Soviet History; Soviet nationalities, especially Azerbaijan, Central Asia.

ERNEST BENZ (Smith College): Ph.D., University of Toronto (1988). Associate Professor. Modern European.

JOYCE AVRECH BERKMAN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Yale (1967). Professor. U.S., British and European Women’s History.

JAY BERKOVITZ (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Brandeis, (1983). Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies.

DARCY BUERKLE (Smith College): Assistant Professor. Modern European Cultural History with a research agenda and publications in German Jewish history and women’s history.

ANDREW DONSON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2000). Assistant Professor of History and German. German women, youth, workers, and minorities, German nationalism, socialism, liberalism, intellectual history.

CATHERINE EPSTEIN (Amherst College): Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998. Associate Professor. Central Europe, 20th-century Europe, modern Germany.

SERGEY GLEBOV (Smith College): Ph.D. Rutgers. Five College Assistant Professor. Russian and Soviet History; history of nationalism and multinational states.

DANIEL GORDON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Chicago (1990). Professor. The Enlightenment, Europe 1600 to the present, law and society, Constitutional History.

JENNIFER HEUER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Chicago (1998). Associate Professor. France, Modern Europe, European Women’s History and Gender Studies.

MARGARET HUNT (Amherst College): Ph.D., New York University (1986). Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies. Reformation Europe, the Enlightenment, early modern European women’s history and social history.

JEREMY KING (Mount Holyoke Collge): Ph.D., Columbia University (1997). Associate Professor. Modern Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

FREDERICK MCGINNESS (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Professor and Chair. Medieval Europe, Renaissance and Reformation, Church History.

BRIAN OGILVIE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (1997). Associate Professor. Renaissance history, history of science.

JON OLSEN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2004). Assistant Professor. Germany, Modern Europe, Cold War, Memory Culture, and Public History.

ROBERT SCHWARTZ (Mount Holyoke Collge): Ph.D., University of Michigan (1981). Professor. Environmental history of Europe from the seventeenth century to present; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France; Victorian England and industrializing Britain.

JUTTA SPERLING (Hampshire College): Ph.D., Stanford (1995). Associate Professor. Early modern Europe, Gender.

JAMES WALD (Hampshire College): Ph.D., Princeton University (1997). Associate Professor. Modern Germany and Central Europe, cultural history.

JAMES YOUNG (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., California at Santa Cruz, (1983). Professor of English and Chair of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.

Global and Comparative History

AVIVA BEN-UR (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Brandeis University (1998). Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. American Jewish History; Ladino and Sephardic Studies; Hispanic/Sephardic relations.

JOYCE AVRECH BERKMAN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Yale (1967). Professor. U.S., British and European Women’s History.

CARLIN BARTON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1984). Professor. Ancient History.

RICHARD T. CHU (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Southern California (2003). Associate Professor. Philippine Colonial History; Chinese Diaspora.

HOLLY HANSON (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D. University of Florida, 1997. Associate Professor. Agrarian change in Africa, social history of the Buganda kingdom, precolonial African political culture, globalization as a historical process

JOHN HIGGINSON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Michigan, (1979). Professor. Africa, South Africa, and comparative labor history.

LILI KIM (Hampshire College): Ph.D., University of Rochester. Assistant Professor of Global Migrations. 20th century U.S. Race and Ethnicity, Asian-American Women, Immigration.

BRIAN OGILVIE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (1997). Associate Professor. Renaissance history, history of science.

LARRY OWENS (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Princeton (1987). Professor and Graduate Program Director. History of Science and Technology; Cold War; history of computing.

MARY C. WILSON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): D.Phil., Oxford University (1984). Professor. Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, social/political.

Latin American History

AVIVA BEN-UR (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Brandeis University (1998). Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. American Jewish History; Ladino and Sephardic Studies; Hispanic/Sephardic relations.

LOWELL GUDMUNDSON (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1982). Professor. Latin American/Central American history, rural, social history.

JOSÉ ANGEL HERNÁNDEZ (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (2008). Assistant Professor. Latin America; Mexico, US Borderlands.

RICK A. LOPEZ (Amherst College): Ph.D., Yale (2001). Associate Professor. Modern and Colonial Latin America, US Latino, Mexican Revolution, Indigenous Politics, US-Mexican Borderlands, Environmental History, Latin American Art.

PETER STERN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1985). Associate Professor of History, Librarian. Colonial Latin American history, modern Mexico, Spanish Borderlands.

ANN ZULAWSKI (Smith College): Ph.D., Columbia, (1985). Professor. Latin American social history, Bolivia.

JOEL WOLFE (University of Massachusetts): Ph.D., University of Wisconsin -- Madison (1990). Professor. Modern Latin America, Brazil.

JOSE CELSO CASTRO ALVES (Amherst College) Latin America, Black diaspora.

Middle Eastern History

ANNE F. BROADBRIDGE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (2001). Associate Professor. Medieval Middle East; Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517); Ottoman Empire (1300-1924).

MONICA RINGER (Amherst College): Assistant Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations. Modern Middle East, Iran, Ottoman Empire.

MARY C. WILSON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): D.Phil., Oxford University (1984). Professor. Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, social/political.

JAMES YOUNG (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., California at Santa Cruz, (1983). Professor of English and Chair of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.

Public History

DAVID GLASSBERG (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1982). Professor. Modern U.S., Cultural, Public and Environmental history.
RACHEL MARTIN (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
MARLA MILLER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997). Associate Professor. U.S., Early American History, Women’s History, and American Material Culture, as well as Public History.

JON OLSEN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2004). Assistant Professor. Germany, Modern Europe, Cold War, Memory Culture, and Public History.

MAX PAGE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1995). Associate Professor of Architecture and History. Modern U.S., urban, architectural, and public history.

KEVIN SWEENEY (Amherst College): Ph.D., Yale University (1986). Professor of History and American Studies. Colonial America, Material Culture.

JAMES YOUNG (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., California at Santa Cruz, (1983). Professor of English and Chair of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.

Science, Technology, and the Environment

ROBERT S. COX (University of Massachusetts): Ph.D., University of Michigan (2002). Head, Special Collections & University Archives. Early Republic; history of natural sciences; history of religion.
DAVID GLASSBERG (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1982). Professor. Modern U.S., Cultural, Public and Environmental history.

DANIEL GORDON (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Chicago (1990). Professor. The Enlightenment, Europe 1600 to the present, law and society, Constitutional History.

LAURA LOVETT (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, (1998). Associate Professor. U.S. Cultural and Social History and Comparative Gender History.

DAVID NEWBURY (Smith College): Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies. Historiography of Africa, kingship and kinship on Ijwi Island, and the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s.

BRIAN OGILVIE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (1997). Associate Professor. Renaissance history, history of science.

LARRY OWENS (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Princeton (1987). Professor and Graduate Program Director. History of Science and Technology; Cold War; history of computing.

SIGRID SCHMALZER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (2004). Associate Professor. Modern China; history of science; popular culture.

ROBERT SCHWARTZ (Mount Holyoke Collge): Ph.D., University of Michigan (1981). Professor. Environmental history of Europe from the seventeenth century to present; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France; Victorian England and industrializing Britain

JOHN W. SERVOS (Amherst College): Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1979). Professor. History of science and medicine.

United States History

CHRISTIAN APPY (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Harvard. Associate Professor. Modern US History, Vietnam War.

AVIVA BEN-UR (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Brandeis University (1998). Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. American Jewish History; Ladino and Sephardic Studies; Hispanic/Sephardic relations.

JOYCE AVRECH BERKMAN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Yale (1967). Professor. U.S., British and European Women’s History.

AARON BERMAN (Hampshire College): Ph.D., Columbia University. Professor. United States.

RICHARD T. CHU (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Southern California (2003). Associate Professor. Philippine Colonial History; Chinese Diaspora.
FRANCIS G. COUVARES (Amherst College): Ph.D., University of Michigan (1980). E. Dwight Salmon Professor of History and American Studies. 19th and 20th century U.S. social and cultural history.
ROBERT S. COX (University of Massachusetts): Ph.D., University of Michigan (2002). Head, Special Collections & University Archives. Early Republic; history of natural sciences; history of religion.

DANIEL J. CZITROM (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor. American cultural and political history, history of New York City, American media history.

JOSEPH J. ELLIS (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., Yale (1969). Ford Foundation Professor of American History. American Revolution and Early Republic, Vietnam War.

JENNIFER FRONC (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Ph.D., Columbia University (2005) ; M.A., New School for Social Research (1999). Progressive Era U.S., Urban, Immigration, Women and Gender.
DAVID GLASSBERG (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1982). Professor. Modern U.S., Cultural, Public and Environmental history.

JENNIFER GUGLIELMO (Smith College): Ph.D., University of Minnesota (2003). Associate Professor. U.S. social and cultural history, with a specialty in labor radicalism, social movements, im/migration, women’s history, race and ethnic relations.

JOSÉ ANGEL HERNÁNDEZ (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Chicago (2008). Assistant Professor. Latin America; Mexico, US Borderlands.

AMY JORDAN (Hampshire College): Assistant Professor of African American History. African American History and Women’s history.

LILI KIM (Hampshire College): Ph.D., University of Rochester. Assistant Professor of Global Migrations. 20th century U.S. Race and Ethnicity, Asian-American Women, Immigration.

BARBARA KRAUTHAMER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Princeton University (2000). Assistant Professor. Antebellum America, slavery and emancipation, African-American, Native American.

BARRY LEVY (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Pennsylvania University (1976). Associate Professor. Early America.

LAURA LOVETT (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, (1998). Associate Professor. U.S. Cultural and Social History and Comparative Gender History.

MARLA MILLER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997). Associate Professor. U.S., Early American History, Women’s History, and American Material Culture, as well as Public History.

LYNDA MORGAN (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., Virginia (1986). Associate Professor. African-American history, especially slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

HILARY MOSS (Amherst College): Ph.D., Brandeis University (2004). Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies. Antebellum social and urban history.

ALICE NASH (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Columbia University (1997). Associate Professor. Native American and Early American History.

LARRY OWENS (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Princeton (1987). Professor. History of Science and Technology; Cold War; history of computing.

MAX PAGE (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1995). Associate Professor of Architecture and History. Modern U.S., urban, architectural, and public history.

MARTHA SAXTON (Amherst College): Professor. United States History, American Women.

MARJORIE SENECHAL (Smith College): Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology. Louise Wolff Kahn Professor in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology. History of Mathematics, Invention, Science and Technology.

MANISHA SINHA (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Columbia University (1994). Professor of Afro-American Studies. Nineteenth Century U.S.: Political, African American, Southern History.

KEVIN SWEENEY (Amherst College): Ph.D., Yale University (1986). Professor of History and American Studies. Colonial America, Material Culture.

SUSAN TRACY (Hampshire College): Ph.D., Rutgers University. Professor of American Studies and History and Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies.

Women, Gender, Sexuality, and the Family

JOYCE AVRECH BERKMAN (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Yale (1967). Professor. U.S., British and European Women’s History.

DARCY BUERKLE (Smith College): Assistant Professor. Modern European Cultural History with a research agenda and publications in German Jewish history and women’s history.
JENNIFER FRONC (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Ph.D., Columbia University (2005); M.A., New School for Social Research (1999). Assistant Professor. Progressive Era U.S., Urban, Immigration, Women and Gender.

JENNIFER GUGLIELMO (Smith College): Ph.D., University of Minnesota (2003). Associate Professor. U.S. social and cultural history, with a specialty in labor radicalism, social movements, immigration, women’s history, race and ethnic relations.
JENNIFER HEUER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Chicago (1998). Associate Professor. France, Early Modern Europe, European Women’s History and Gender Studies.

MARGARET HUNT (Amherst College): Ph.D., New York University (1986). Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies. Reformation Europe, the Enlightenment, early modern European women’s history and social history.

LILI KIM (Hampshire College): Ph.D., University of Rochester. Assistant Professor of Global Migrations. 20th century U.S. Race and Ethnicity, Asian-American Women, Immigration.
BARBARA KRAUTHAMER (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Ph.D., Princeton University (2000). Assistant Professor. Antebellum U.S., Slavery and emancipation, African American history, Native American history, critical race and gender theory.

BARRY LEVY (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Pennsylvania University (1976). Professor. Early America.

JONATHAN LIPMAN (Mount Holyoke College): Ph.D., Stanford University (1981). Professor. China, modern Japan, ethnicity and nationalism, global history.

LAURA LOVETT (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, (1998). Associate Professor. U.S. Cultural and Social History and Comparative Gender History.

MARLA MILLER (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997). Associate Professor. U.S., Early American History, Women’s History, and American Material Culture, as well as Public History.

ALICE NASH (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Ph.D., Columbia University (1997). Associate Professor. Native American and Early American History.

MARTHA SAXTON (Amherst College): Professor. United States History, American Women.

JUTTA SPERLING (Hampshire College): Ph.D., Stanford (1995). Associate Professor. Early modern Europe, Gender.