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Gender Studies / Sexuality

A sizeable group of faculty in the Department of History (many with joint appointments in other units) teach and conduct research on the history of women, gender, sexuality, body, and family, with an unusually wide chronological and geographic reach and strong interdisciplinary connections to other schools and departments at Michigan. Nationally recognized and top-ranked, the faculty in this field include particularly strong clusters in early modern and modern Europe, African, Asian, and Latin American history, as well as all periods of American history, including new strength in African-American history, Latino history, African diaspora, and Native American history.  Sub-disciplinary expertise spans intellectual, cultural, social and political history, including particular strengths in history of sexuality; race, empire and imperialism; religion and history of ideas; material culture; bodies, medicine, eugenics and reproduction; feminism and social movements; citizenship and subjectivity; public history and memory; visual history; and history of violence. History faculty members participate in and advise students enrolled in the History & Women's Studies Joint PhD Program.

Grace Argo
PhD in History and Women's and Gender Studies (2024)
Eimeel Castillo
Doctoral Candidate in History and Women's and Gender Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies Certificate Fellow; Museum Studies Certificate Fellow; CRLT Graduate Teaching Fellow
Sueann Caulfield
Professor
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
2751 Haven Hall 734.647.7946
Lorena Chambers
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Inclusive History Project and the Department of History
Joshua H. Cole
Professor
Interim Department Chair
1672 Haven Hall
Katherine French
J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History
1733 Haven Hall 734.647.4899
Kelly Hannavi
Doctoral Candidate in History and Women's and Gender Studies
Jennifer Dominique Jones
Assistant Professor in History and Women's and Gender Studies
2526 Haven Hall
Valerie A. Kivelson
Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History
2743 Haven Hall
Victoria Langland
Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
2666 Haven Hall 734.763.4624
Helmut Puff
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages
3142 MLB
Carina Ray
A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History
2719 Haven Hall
Bryan Roby
Associate Professor of Jewish HIstory
2111 Thayer, 1608
phone: 734.615.8563
Sangita Saha
Doctoral Candidate in History and Women's and Gender Studies
LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Associate Professor of History & Women's and Gender Studies Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair, Women's and Gender Studies
Lane Hall
Lucy Smith
Doctoral Candidate in History and Women's and Gender Studies
Yi-Li Wu
Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies
2203 Lane Hall
Wang Zheng
Professor Emerita of History and Women's and Gender Studies
734.763.6635