Faculty

Meet the History Faculty

Konrad Hamilton, Chair
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998

Penny Gold
Burkhardt Distinguished Chair in History
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977
"My love of research has had a pervasive impact on my teaching. One of the joys of teaching is to inspire students to ask their own questions, and to see them through the process of finding answers."

Michael Schneider
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996

George Steckley
Robert M. & Katherine Arnold Seeley Distinguished Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972
"My research involves sea stories told in English court rooms. I have found a fascinating mixture of history, law and the art of storytelling in Admiralty Court cases of the 17th Century."

Catherine Denial
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2005
"My most recent research is on early nineteenth century Minnesota and the rules and responsibilities associated with gender identity in different communities in the years before the Civil War."

Emre Sencer
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2008
"As a specialist in modern European history, I'm fascinated with the connection between politics and culture, especially under authoritarian regimes."

Danielle Steen Fatkin
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007

Cooperating faculty from other programs

Weihong Du
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Ph.D., Chinese, 2009, University of Minnesota.
"Currently I am researching cross-cultural interactions between China and the West during the 1930s."

Brenda Fineberg
Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991
"Just as a question asked in the classroom often contributes a nuanced perspective to my research, I find that my research continually energizes what happens in the classroom."

Stephen Fineberg
Szold Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1975
"I am working on a book on the god Dionysos. The evidence I draw upon comes from literary and visual sources, especially the Athenian vase paintings."

Frederick Hord
Professor of Black Studies
Ph.D., Union Graduate School, 1987
"My most immediate projects are in the areas of Black Studies theory, African American literary criticism, Black psychology traditions, and the status of Blacks in Latin America."

Emeriti faculty
Stephen Bailey
Professor Emeritus of History

Rodney Davis
Szold Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
Co-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center