History Faculty

Below the faculty members of the Department of History are listed.  Many members of the History faculty at Fordham are also involved in the university's many fine interdisciplinary programs.

Sal Acosta (2010), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Arizona. US Latino/a; Family; Gender; Popular Culture; Immigration and Ethnicity; Southwest US. (Global)

Mattie Armstrong (2018), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Modern Britain; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Empire; Global Labor History. (Global)

Doron Ben-Atar (1996), Professor of History. Ph.D., Columbia. Revolutionary and early-national United States; early American foreign policy; psychohistory.

Edward Bristow (1986), Professor of History and Director of the B.F.A. Program. Ph.D., Yale. Modern Europe and Modern Britain.

Scott G. Bruce (2018), Professor of History. Ph.D., Princeton. Religion and culture, ca. 400-1200 CE; monasticism, hagiography, and reception of the classical tradition.

Elizabeth Comuzzi (2020), Assistant Professor of History, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Medieval social and economic history; women, family and demography; urbanization, labor and guilds; notarial culture; the Mediterranean; the Pyrenees; the Crown of Aragon/Catalonia  

Saul Cornell (2009) Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History. Ph.D., Pennsylvania. Legal/constitutional history, early American history, and American intellectual and cultural history.

Christopher Dietrich (2012), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. 18th to 20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations; International History; Intellectual History; Political History. (Global)

Claire Gherini (2016), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins. British Atlantic World; Colonial North America and the Caribbean; History of Medicine; Women and Gender; Slavery and Emancipation; Human and Non-Human Animal Relationships. (Global)

Barry Goldberg (1975), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Columbia. Late 19th and 20th century social history; history of labor; race and ethnicity.

David Hamlin (2004), Professor of History. Ph.D., Brown. Modern Germany; cultural and economic history.

Stephanie M. Huezo (2020), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Indiana University,
Bloomington. Central America; Latin America; El Salvador; Salvadoran Diaspora; Immigrant
Movements; Popular Education; Oral History; Memory and Commemoration.

Amir Idris (2022), Professor of History. Ph.D., Queen’s University, Canada. Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Empires, States - Africa in global and transnational history.

Samantha Iyer (2016), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Modern United States, Modern Middle East, Modern South Asia, Political Economy, Environmental History, Agrarian History (Global)

Christopher Maginn (2004), Professor of History. Ph.D., National University of Ireland, Galway. Early modern Irish and British History; Gaelic Ireland; the Tudor state; British state formation.

Michael Marmé (1989), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., California-Berkeley. Socio-economic history of late Imperial China.

Yuko Miki (2013), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., New York University. Iberian Atlantic World; Latin America; Brazil; African Diaspora; Slavery and Emancipation; Indigenous Societies; Race Relations and Racial Thought; Race, Citizenship, and Nation-Building; Law, Gender, and Violence. (Global)

Wolfgang P. Mueller (2000), Professor of History. Ph.D., Syracuse University. Dr. Phil. Habil., Univ. Augsburg (Germany). Law and Institutions in Medieval Western Society. (Global)

Uponita Mukherjee (2023), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Columbia University. Modern South Asia; British India; Colonialism; History of Science; Forensic Science; Legal History; History of Crime and Policing.

W. David Myers (1990), Professor of History. Ph.D., Yale. Intellectual and religious history of early modern Europe, particularly Germany; the Catholic Reformation. Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Rose Hill. (Global)

Mark Naison (1970), Professor of African and African American Studies. Ph.D., Columbia. African-American history; 20th century social and labor history.

Silvana Patriarca (2001), Professor of History. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Modern Italy, Socio-Cultural history, History of Nationalism and Racism. (Global)

Nicholas Paul (2006), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., M. Phil., Cambridge. Social and Cultural History of the Medieval Nobility; Historiography and Memory; Crusades; Angevin Empire, France, Catalonia, and the Low Countries. (Global)

S. Elizabeth Penry (1997), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Miami. Colonial Latin America; Andean ethno history; cultural history. (Global)

Thierry Rigogne (2005), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Princeton. 18th-century France; social and cultural history; early modern communication and consumption. Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Lincoln Center. (Global)

Grace Shen (2011), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Harvard. History of modern China, history of science, science and religion, and national identity. (Global)

Asif Siddiqi (2005), Professor of History, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. History of science and technology; modern Russian history; popular culture; postcolonial science. (Global)

Daniel Soyer (1997), Professor of History. Ph.D., NYU. American immigration and ethnicity; urban history (especially New York City); Jewish history. (Global)

Steven Stoll (2008), Professor of History. Ph.D., Yale University. American environmental history; agrarian society.

Kirsten Swinth (1997), Professor of History. Ph.D., Yale. U.S. since 1945; U.S. gender history and history of sexuality., U.S. cultural and social history; American Studies; history of visual culture.

Magda Teter (2015), Professor of History and Shvidler Chair in Jewish Studies, Ph. D. Columbia. Jewish history; religious and cultural history of early modern Europe; eastern Europe, especially Poland; history of the book; historiography; Jewish-Christian relations, and Catholic-Jewish relations. (Global)

Ebru Turan (2006), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Chicago. Sixteenth-century political, cultural and intellectual Ottoman, Islamic and Mediterranean history; early modern state formation and empire building. (Global)

Rosemary Wakeman (2000), Professor of History. Ph.D., California-Davis. Modern France; 20th century Europe; urban history. (Global) Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.

Thomas Worcester, S.J. (2023), Professor of History. Ph.D., Cambridge University. Religious and cultural history of early modern France.