Faculty : Columbia

Charles Armstrong was educated at Yale University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D....

Janaki Bakhle, assistant professor of modern Indian history,specializes in the modern, political, and cultural history of SouthAsia, feminist and postcolonial theory, and intellectual history. Shereceived her Ph.D from Columbia University, and her B.A. fromElphinstone College, Bombay University....

Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History, received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to Brown Universityin 1988 and to Columbia ten years later....

Alan Brinkley was the 20th Provost and is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in the City of New York. A native of Washington, D.C., he was educated at Princeton and at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1979....

Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of the British Empire in the early modern era, and in the comparative history ofslavery and abolition. He also has secondary interests in the Age ofRevolutions and the history of the Atlantic World....

Richard Bulliet, received his B.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from Harvard....

John Coatsworth, professor (joint with SIPA), received his B.A. from Wesleyan (1963) and his M.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught at Chicago and Harvard before coming in 2007 to Columbia, where he now serves as Acting Dean of the School of International and

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Matthew Connelly received his B.A. from Columbia (1990) and his Ph.D. from Yale (1997)....

Victoriade Grazia received her B.A. from Smith (1968) and her Ph.D. from Columbia (1976)....

Barbara J. Fields, professor, specializes in southern history and 19th-century social history. She received her B.A. from Harvard (1968) and her Ph.D. from Yale (1978)....

Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, with writings on intellectual history, international relations, post-war Japanese history, historiography and public memory in Japan and the west. She received her B.A. from Wellesley (1962) and her Ph.D....

Evan Haefelihas a B.A. from Hampshire College (1992) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2000)....

William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, received his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil from Oxford University. His publications include Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002); Ancient Literacy (1989); and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979)....

Matthew L. Jones, associate professor, specializes in the cultural history of science and philosophy in early modern Europe....

Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, specializes in American political development, as well as comparative politics and political theory. He earned his B.A. at Columbia (1966) and his Ph.D....

Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History. She is also Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Dr....

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, received his B.A. from Yale (1970) and his D.Phil. from Oxford (1974)....

Dorothy Ko, received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of Teacher of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (1994), and Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (2001). (Barnard)

Rebecca Kobrin received her B.A. from Yale (1994), and her M.Phil. (1995), and Ph.D. (2002) from the Universityof Pennsylvania. Professor Kobrin served as the Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University (2002–2004) and the American Academy of Jewish Research Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University (2004–2006)....

Adam Kosto received his B.A. from Yale (1989), his M.Phil. from Cambridge (1990), and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1996)....

Adam McKeown received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1987) and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1997). He has written on the Chinese diaspora, global migration, and the history of passports and migration control. He teaches courses on globalization...

Gregory Mann received his B.A. from the Universityof Georgia (1993) and his Ph.D. from Northwestern (2000)....

Manning Marable, professor (joint with Political Science and DIPA), has served since 2002 as the director of the Center for Contemporary Black History. Dr. Marable earned his A.B. from Earlham College (1971), M.A....

Mark Mazower has a B.A. in classics and philosophy from Oxford (1981), an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins (1983) and adoctorate in modern history from Oxford (1988).

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Nara Milanich has a B.A. from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University (2002). She is currently working on a book entitled The Children of Fate: Families, Class and the State in Chile, 1857–1930 (Duke UP, forthcoming). (Barnard)

José Moya, who received his Ph.D. from Rutgers (1988), taught Latin American history at UCLA for seventeen years and directed an equal number of doctoral dissertations before coming to Barnard in 2005....

Samuel Moyn received his A.B. from Washington University (1994), Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley (2000), and J.D....

Mae Ngai received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1998 and taught at the University of Chicago before returning to Columbia in 2006. She teaches courses on immigration history, Asian American history, and twentieth-century U.S. history....

Susan Pedersen received her B.A. (1982) and Ph.D....

Christine Philliou, assistant professor, specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Her forthcoming book, Biography of an Empire: Practicing Ottoman Governance in the Age of Revolutions (University of California Press) examines the changes in Ottoman governance leading up to the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-ninete...

Pablo Piccato received his B.A. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1990 and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. His publications include City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (2001); edition, with Cristina Sacristán, of Actores,...

Caterina Pizzigoni, assistant professor, specializes in Latin American history.  Her research interests include indigenous populations in colonial Latin America (principally Mexico), gender issues, church and government policies in colonial Latin America with respect to conversion, education, and integration of indigenous populations, and the study of Nahuatl, its translation and analy...

Anupama Rao received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1999) and her B.A. fromthe University of Chicago.  She specializes in the histories of gender, caste, and nationalism in South Asia, historical anthropology, political theory, law, human rights, and colonial andnon-Western histories....

David Rothman, Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of History, is director of the Center for the Study of Science and Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He specializes in social history and the history of medicine. He received his B.A....

Neslihan Senocak, assistant professor, specializes in medieval religious, intellectual and social history, in particular the medieval religious orders, the Franciscan transformation, popular religion, the rise of scholastic education, and the daily life in the thirteenth-century Italian communes.  Her most recent project is on the relationship of violent crimes and urbanization in thir...

Pamela Smith received a B.A. from the University of Wollongong (1979) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins (1990). Her books include: The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994); Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (ed. with P....

Anders Stephanson, James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, received a B.A. from Gothenburg (1975), an M.Phil from Oxford (1977), and a Ph.D. from Columbia (1986).  His published works include Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (1989) and Manifest Destiny (1995)....

Lisa Tiersten received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her Ph.D. from Yale (1991). Her publications include Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France (2001); “Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in...

Deborah Valenze specializes in 18th- and 19th-century British history. She received her B.A. from Harvard University (1975) and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University (1982). Her publications include: Prophetic Sons and Daughters:...

Marc Van De Mieroop specializes in ancient Near Eastern history. He received his B.A....

Carl Wennerlind holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas, Austin (1999). His current research projects include David Hume’s political economy and the intellectual and economic history of the British financial revolution. He has recently published in the...