Faculty Profiles

Brian DeLay

Professor Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States

I’m a scholar of 18th- and 19th-century North America, specializing in transnational, borderlands, and Native American histories. Most of my writing explores connections between U.S., Latin American, and Indigenous histories in order to better understand power and inequality in the Western Hemisphere.

My first book, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale University Press), recovers...

Dmitri Brown

Assistant Professor North America

Cathryn Carson

Professor Chair, Department of History Education

AB, 1990, University of Chicago, history and philosophy of science; also completed requirements for AB, physics, and SB, mathematics

AM, 1993, Harvard University, physics

PhD, 1995, Harvard University, history of science

Research Interests Primary fields History of 20th-century science: conceptual, cultural, social, political Relations between science and philosophy and between scientists and philosophers History of science in Germany and the United States Nuclear history History and ethnography of...

Dzovinar Derderian

Assistant Adjunct Professor Middle East and Late Modern Europe

Dr. Dzovinar Derderian is a social and cultural historian focusing on Armenians in the Middle East and the Caucasus. Her interest lies in peoples at the margins of empires, and their roles in imperial processes of modernization. She examines discursive and social practices of provincial Armenians to understand how they navigated their multi-ethnic and multi-religious milieus, and as such how they maintained and transformed orders of power in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. As part of an effort to...

Thomas James Dandelet

Professor Education

BA, History, St. John's University, Minnesota, 1982
MDiv, Church History, Princeton Theological, Princeton, NJ, 1988
PhD, History, University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Research Interests

Early Modern Europe

Spanish Empire Italy Mediterranean Social Cultural Political Professional Experience

University of California, Berkeley, Professor (2015-present)
University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor (2001-2015)
Princeton University, Assistant Professor of History (1997-2000)
Bard College, Assistant Professor of...

John Connelly

Professor Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professorship of European History Education

PhD, 1994, Harvard University, History
MA, 1988, Harvard University, History
BSFS, 1982, Georgetown University, International Relations, magna cum laude

Research Interests Modern East and Central European Political and Social History Comparative Education History of Nationalism and Racism History of Catholicism Academic Honors & Awards

Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Spring 2007
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2002-03
George L....

Diliana Angelova

Associate Professor

Mark Brilliant

Associate Professor Director, Interdisciplinary American Studies Program

Born in New York City and raised in Denver, Colorado, I received my bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1989. I then taught social studies at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, New York from 1990 through 1994, after which I headed to Stanford...

Andrew E. Barshay

Professor Dr. C. F. Koo & Cecilia Koo Chair in East Asian Studies Books The Gods Left First The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956 (UC Press, 2013...

Janaki Bakhle

Professor Education

Columbia University, New York, NY, 1997-2001
PhD, Department of History

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1996
MA, Department of History

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1984-1988
PhD candidate, Department of Mass Communications

University of Bombay, Bombay, India, 1979-1983
BA, Major: Economics

Research Interests Intellectual History of Religion Politics and Modern India Employment

Director, South Asia Institute, Columbia University, 2009-2016

Associate Professor with tenure,...