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Tithi Bhattacharya Associate Professor, Department of History Modern South Asia, Subaltern Studies, Marxism, histories of fear and superstition. tbhattac@purdue.edu	Rainer F. Buschmann Associate Professor, Department of History Global History rbuschma@purdue.edu
Cornelius L. Bynum Assistant Professor, Department of History U.S. 20th Century History, African American History My research focuses on intersections of race and class and how they have affected African Americans' pursuit of full citizenship in the twentieth century. bynum@purdue.edu	John J. Contreni Professor, Department of History European; Intellectual, religious, and political culture of the early medieval period (fifth to eleventh centuries) with special emphasis on the manuscripts, schools, and texts of Carolingian Europe contreni@purdue.edu
Susan Curtis Professor, Department of History American, American Intellectual and Cultural History curtis@purdue.edu	Charles R. Cutter Associate Professor, Department of History Latin American, Latin American history and the Spanish Southwest cutter@purdue.edu
Alicia C. Decker Assistant Professor, Department of History Sub-Saharan Women's History in the Twentieth-Century acdecker@purdue.edu	Ariel E. de la Fuente Associate Professor, Department of History Global History, Latin American History delafuen@purdue.edu
Darren T. Dochuk Assistant Professor, Department of History My research focuses principally on the intersection of politics, religion, and culture in post-1940 America. Overlapping with these research concerns are my primary teaching interests in twentieth-century American political, cultural, and religious history, the history of modern conservatism, and the history of American society in the post-World War II era. ddochuk@purdue.edu	Joseph C. Dorsey Associate Professor, Department of History and African American Studies Program Globalist, African American Studies jdorsey@purdue.edu
Raymond E. Dumett Professor, Department of History Global History, African, British Empire History rdumett@purdue.edu	James R. Farr Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History European History, Early Modern Europe jrfarr@purdue.edu
Vernard L. Foley Associate Professor, Department of History U.S. History, History of Science and Technology foleyv@purdue.edu	Jennifer L. Foray Assistant Professor, Department of History European Empire History jforay@purdue.edu
Nancy F. Gabin Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History Women's and gender history; American labor history; American politics and social movements; twentieth century U.S. history. ngabin@purdue.edu	William G. Gray Associate Professor, Department of History European History, Twentieth Century European History wggray@purdue.edu
Sally A. Hastings Associate Professor, Department of History and Director of Asian Studies Professor Hastings teaches courses on Japan and East Asia. Her primary research interest is gender in modern Japan. sahnolte@purdue.edu	Patrick J. Hearden Professor, Department of History U.S. History, U.S. Foreign Affairs phearden@purdue.edu
Stacy E. Holden Assistant Professor, Department of History Global History, Islamic Civilization History sholden@purdue.edu	R. Douglas Hurt Professor and Department Head, Department of History American Agriculture and American West Research interests include Agricultural, Rural, Western and Midwest History. doughurt@purdue.edu
Charles W. Ingrao Professor, Department of History European History, Early Modern Europe and Habsburg History ingrao@purdue.edu	Caroline E. Janney Assistant Professor, Department of History U.S. Women and Gender History, Civil War, Reconstruction, Memory, and Southern studies cjanney@purdue.edu
Rebekah A. Klein-Pejsova Jewish Studies Assistant Professor, Department of History Modern Jewish History rkleinpe@purdue.edu	Franklin T. Lambert Professor, Department of History My area of research and teaching interest is Colonial and Revolutionary America. flambert@purdue.edu
John L. Larson Professor, Assistant Department Head and Director of Graduate Education, Department of History U.S. History, U.S. Political and Early National, U.S. Business larsonjl@purdue.edu	Dawn G. Marsh Assistant Professor, Department of History Dr. Marsh specializes in indigenous North American history, from pre-contact through the 19th century with a special interest in indigenous women's history, place and identity. dmarsh@purdue.edu
Robert E. May Professor, Department of History I specialize in mid-19th century U.S. history, especially the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, as well as the U.S. South and U.S. foreign relations. My research and teaching has focused, to no small degree, upon Civil War causation. mayr@purdue.edu	Gordon R. Mork Professor, Department of History European History, Modern European and German History gmork@purdue.edu
Michael A. Morrison Associate Professor, Department of History 19th Century U.S. and American Political History mmorrison@purdue.edu	Yvonne M. Pitts Assistant Professor, Department of History U.S. Legal and Constitutional History ypitts@purdue.edu
Randy W. Roberts Distinguished Professor of History American, Modern American History and Mass Culture rroberts@purdue.edu	Michael A. Ryan Assistant Professor, Department of History and Assistant Director, MARS I am a specialist in the cultural and intellectual history of late medieval Europe, specifically the Iberian Peninsula. I teach the survey course of medieval history, as well as classes on medieval cultural history, apocalypticism, and late medieval crisis and change. ryan6@purdue.edu
Michael G. Smith Associate Professor, Department of History Michael G. Smith teaches undergraduate courses in Global History, Medieval and Modern Russian History, Political Violence and Conspiracy, and History of Aviation and the Space Age. For brief descriptions to these courses please see the link below. mgsmith@purdue.edu	A. Whitney Walton Professor, Department of History Professor Walton specializes in the cultural, social, and gender history of modern Europe, especially France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. Her current research interests are transnational and comparative. Her forthcoming book is a history of study abroad between France and the United States from 1890-1970. This research has been supported by a Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant for 2002, a College of Liberal Arts Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship in 2004, and a Fulbright Research Scholar Award in 2005. She is currently analyzing Jackie Kennedy in the context of Franco-American and international relations. awhitney@purdue.edu
Juan Wang Assistant Professor, Department of History Global History, Modern Chinese History wangjuan@purdue.edu	Melinda S. Zook Associate Professor, Department of History European, History of Tudor and Stuart England and women in the early modern era. mzook@purdue.edu

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