Faculty
Principal Commitment
The faculty are committed principally to the discussion format inside the classroom and emphasize breadth of learning, command of basic research skills, precision in writing, and facility in oral presentation. They serve students actively as both academic and personal advisors and seek to foster an adventuresome intellectual climate that nurtures individual and collaborative inquiry, within and across disciplines.
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Caroline Acker
Associate Professor
A historian of medicine and public health whose research has focused on medical and scientific ideas about opiate addiction in the U.S. since about 1890... continue Bio
Susan Ambrose
Teaching Professor
Susan Ambrose is an historian and an administrator whose research has focused in three areas. Her most recent research has focused on faculty satisfaction and retention... continue Bio
Jay Aronson
Assistant Professor
Jay Aronson's research and teaching focus on the legal and political history of biotechnology... continue Bio
Allyson F. Creasman
Assistant Professor
Dr. Creasman's research interests focus on religious reform and confessional relations in early modern Europe. Her current research examines, in particular, the impact of censorship on the formation of public opinion and the construction of civic and religious identity in early modern Germany... continue Bio
Laurie Eisenberg
Associate Teaching Professor of History
Prof. Eisenberg is an historian of the modern Middle East. Her areas of research and publication include the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process and the interaction of multiple Middle East actors, particularly Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians... continue Bio
Paul Eiss
Associate Professor
Paul Eiss is a graduate of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, whose research focuses on Mexico... continue Bio
Edda Fields-Black
Associate Professor
Dr. Fields-Black is a specialist in early and pre-colonial African history whose research interests extend into the African Diaspora... continue Bio
Wendy Goldman
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Wendy Goldman is a political and social historian of Russia and the Soviet Union... continue Bio
Donna Harsch
Professor of History
Donna Harsch is a political and social historian of Germany, specializing in the twentieth century... continue Bio
David Hounshell
David M. Roderick Professor of Technology and Social Change
The David M. Roderick Professor of Technology and Social Change, Professor Hounshell studies innovation in both its technological and organizational dimensions... continue Bio
Katherine Lynch
Professor
Dr. Lynch is a social historian working in the fields of family history and historical demography of Europe, as well as the history of charity and welfare policy... continue Bio
Richard Maddox
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
An anthropologist, also holds advanced degrees in religious studies and humanities. He has done fieldwork in Mexico, Ecuador, and primarily in Spain... continue Bio
David Miller
Professor
Dr. Miller researches Irish social history, primarily between 1760 and 1870. He is currently at work on a book under the working title "Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Catholics, 1829-69."... continue Bio
Roger Rouse
Associate Teaching Professor of History
Professor Rouse’s work is concerned broadly with theoretical and empirical issues related to the cultural politics of class dynamics... continue Bio
Scott Sandage
Associate Professor
Professor Sandage is a cultural historian who specializes in nineteenth-century America... continue Bio
Judith Schachter (Modell)
Professor
Dr. Schachter is a Professor of Anthropology and History at Carnegie Mellon University... continue Bio
Steven Schlossman
Professor
Steven Schlossman is a social and policy historian who specializes in a variety of topics in 19th and 20th century U.S. history, including education, childhood, and parenting; juvenile and criminal justice and corrections; and the politics of military recruitment... continue Bio
John Soluri
Associate Professor
Trained in both Latin American history and environmental policy, Soluri's work focuses on the relationship between social and ecological change... continue Bio
Donald Sutton
Professor
Donald Sutton is a China historian working at the juncture of history and anthropology... continue Bio
Joel A. Tarr
Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy
Joel A. Tarr studies the environmental history of cities and the history and impact of their technological systems... continue Bio
Lisa Tetrault
Assistant Professor
Dr. Tetrault's research and teaching interests focus on the history of US women and is particularly interested in the history of women and social protest... continue Bio
Joe W. Trotter
Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice, Department Head
Joe William Trotter, Jr. is the Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and Department Head. He also directs Carnegie Mellon's Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy... continue Bio