Mohammad Ataie is a lecturer in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brandeis University in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Richard T. Chu received his A.B. from Ateneo de Manila University (1986), his M.A. from Stanford University (1992), and his Ph.D. from University of Southern California (2003).
Timothy C. Hart is a social historian of the ancient Roman borderlands, specializing in the textual and material culture of the 2nd – 5th centuries C.E.
Associate Professor of History & 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.
Professor of History & Interim Chair of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies
Professor Brian Ogilvie studied at the University of Chicago, where he received his B.A. (1990), M.A. (1992), and Ph.D. (1997), as well as at Cambridge University, where he was a member of Trinity College.
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.
Associate Professor of History and Public Policy & Director of Faculty Research, Institute for Social Science Research
Elizabeth Sharrow (they/she) is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of History (affiliated faculty in the Department of Political Science) and Director of Faculty Research at the UMass Institute for Social Science Research.
Professor Wolfe received his B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Matthew Wormer is a historian of Britain and the British Empire, with a particular focus on the British presence in Asia during the long nineteenth century.
Kevin Young’s interests are in social movements, labor, political economy, and imperialism in Latin America and the United States. His most recent book is Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won (PM Press, 2024). The book analyzes the power of the fossil fuel industry, how the climate and Indigenous movements have chipped away at it, and how other mass movements throughout U.S. history have defeated capitalists. His other books include Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (2017), the edited volume Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left (2019), the coauthored book Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (2020), and the coedited volume Trump and the Deeper Crisis (2023). Current research interests include revolutionary organizing in El Salvador in the 1970s, boycotts and divestment campaigns, and US climate politics.
