Administration and Staff : History : UMass Amherst

Anne F. Broadbridge

Department Chair

Anne F. Broadbridge is professor of history and department chair.

Stefanie Austin

Financial Manager

Jess Johnson

Outreach and Community Engagement Director

Susan Lofthouse

Department Administrator

Susan Lofthouse is the Department Administrator

Jon Berndt Olsen

Associate Chair

Professor Jon Olsen's first book, Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990  was published in January 2015 with Berghahn Books.

Emma O'Neill-Dietel

Communications Coordinator

Emma O'Neill-Dietel is a graduate student in the History Department at UMass Amherst.

Garrett L. Washington

Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Undergraduate Program

Emily Hamilton

Undergraduate Program Director

Assistant Professor Emily Hamilton specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine, focusing on modern U.S. and Europe.

Daniel Gordon

Honors Program Director

Daniel Gordon has published extensively on the French Enlightenment.

Jessica Keene

Undergraduate Career Advisor (On Leave)

Dr. Keene’s research interests center on early modern English gender and religious history.

Meredith Pustell

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Alison Russell

Internships and Career Advisor

Alison Russell is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in history.

Graduate Program

Alice Nash

Graduate Program Director

Alice Nash is an Associate Professor of History. Her research interests range from the impact of colonization on family and gender relations in Wabanaki history before 1800 to current issues such as the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Mary Lashway

Graduate Program Coordinator

Public History Program

Samuel J. Redman

Public History Program Director

Jillian Gochinski

Public History Assistant

Jillian Gochinski is a graduate student in the History Department at UMass Amherst.