Field-Of-Study: United States History

Lisa Lindsay’s academic interests situate African history in broad comparative contexts.  Her first book, Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003), begins with an Africanist observation—that the Yoruba-speaking women of southwestern Nigeria are well known for their history of active market trading and financial independence from men—and then asks

Lori D. Ginzberg is a historian of nineteenth-century American women with a particular interest in the intersections between intellectual and social history.  Educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1978) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1985), she is the author of several books, including Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United

Estelle B. Freedman is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University and a specialist in the history of women, feminism, and sexuality. She graduated from Barnard College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Columbia University. After teaching at Princeton University, in 1976 she joined the faculty at

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is the William Umstead Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 2002. Previously he was an Assistant, then Associate, Professor of History at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada (1989-97), before joining the faculty of the University of Florida

Known for the depth and scope of his historical writings, Sven Beckert has the rare ability to show the interconnectedness of social, cultural, political, and economic factors, and the reciprocal influences of the global and local in driving historical events or trends. His studies of various aspects of United States and global history have taken

A graduate of Yale University (B.A., 1994) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.A., 1997, Ph.D., 2003), Thomas G. Andrews was an award-winning author before he even completed his doctoral degree. Revisions of his Yale senior thesis and his master’s thesis earned the Eleanor Adams Award (2001) for best article in borderlands history and the

Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She received her M.A. degree from Columbia University (1973), and, while still a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Ph.D., 1979), she was hired as an instructor in history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She was subsequently

Mae M. Ngai is a historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism in the United States. She received her B.A. from Empire State College of the State University of New York in 1992 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998. She taught at the University of Chicago from 1998 to 2006 before

Karen Halttunen is a Professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, a position she has held since 2004. Her research specialties are Early American history and nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual history. Previously she was a Professor of History at Northwestern University (1979-91) and the University of California, Davis

Amy S. Greenberg, Professor of American History and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, is a scholar of antebellum America with particular interests in the transformation of gender norms and the relationship between the United States and the wider world. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and