Field-Of-Study: U.S. History

David C. Engerman is Ottilie Springer Professor of History at Brandeis University, where he has taught international history and modern American history since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.  His Berkeley dissertation, revised, appeared as Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Harvard, 2003)

Jacqueline Stevens writes about political theories and practices of membership since antiquity.  Her current studies of deportation law enforcement engage the quotidian of government documents revealing contemporary illegalities, including the unlawful deportation of United States citizens from the United States. She is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton UP, 1999) an

Daniel J. Sharfstein is a professor of law at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches American legal history, property law, and the legal history of race in the U.S.  His book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press, 2011), explores the history of race through the multigenerational

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is also chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program as well as a Harvard College Professor, an honor granted in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. During her Guggenheim Fellowship term,

Karl Jacoby has devoted his career to understanding the ways in which the making of the United States intertwined with the unmaking of a variety of other societies—from Native American nations to the communities of northern Mexico—and the ecologies upon which they rested. His scholarship is distinguished by its close attention to questions of narrative

Elaine Tyler May, Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota, received her Ph.D. in United States History from  UCLA in 1975.  She served as 2009–2010 President of the Organization of American Historians, and as 1995–1996 President of the American Studies Association.  She has taught at Princeton University, Harvard University, and

Jon T. Coleman is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. His books and teaching span colonial and contemporary America and integrate social, cultural, and environmental approaches. He is the author of Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (Yale UP, 2004), winner of the the W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western