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Washington University in St. Louis News & Information > University Groups > Arts & Sciences >

History

Department chair and J. H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities: Jean Allman

Home Page: http://history.artsci.wustl.edu/

Location: 113 Busch Hall

Email: history@artsci.wustl.edu

Telephone: (314) 935-5450
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Iver Bernstein

Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

Iver Bernstein
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He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...


Expertise: 19th-century U.S. history, Civil War, Reconstruction, American political culture

Direct contact: (314) 935-5401 / icbernst@wustl.edu


Howard Brick

Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

Brick
Brick

Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...


Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4251 / hbrick@wustl.edu


Derek M. Hirst

William Eliot Smith Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

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Derek Hirst is a specialist in 17th-century British history and a longtime fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society. During the last decade, his studies have focused broadly on the meaning and consequences of the 17th-century English Revolution. Hirst is known for showing how cultural, societal ...


Expertise: 17th century British history, 17th-century English Revolution, 17th century literature and history, English republic, early modern Britain, 17th-century England, writing and political engagement in 17th century England, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5450 / dmhirst@wustl.edu


Ahmet Karamustafa

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Program

Ahmet Karamustafa
Ahmet Karamustafa
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Karamustafa is a medievalist/premodernist and works on the intellectual and social history of Islamic societies from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is an expert on Islam and the theory and methods of all religions. Karamustafa specializes in premodern Islamic thought. His most recent book, God's ...


Expertise: Understanding Islam, premodern Islamic thought, world religions, religious studies

Direct contact: (314) 935-4446 / akaramus@artsci.wustl.edu


Peter J. Kastor

Associate Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

Peter Kastor
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Expertise: The American presidency, role of the vice president, American political institutions, the Founding Fathers, federal governance and governing foreign peoples, American foreign policy in 19th century, early American republic, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-7663 / pjkastor@wustl.edu


Hillel J. Kieval

Chair of history and the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences

Professor Kieval's work focuses on transformations in Jewish culture and society in East Central Europe (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Poland) from the Enlightenment to the Second World War; more specifically, on the effects of modernization projects, ethnic and national struggles, social conflict, ...


Expertise: Jewish culture in East Central Europe, antisemitism on Jewish life, Jewish-Gentile relations, linguistic, cultural and communal affiliations among Jews, Jewish society in Bohemia, Jewish experience in Czech lands, …

Direct contact: 314-935-5426 / hkieval@wustl.edu


David T. Konig

Professor of History and Professor of Law

David Konig
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David Konig teaches colonial American history and civilization. His research interests include the development of constitutional and legal institutions in early America, Anglo-American legal history and American culture studies.


Expertise: Early America, Anglo-American legal history, American culture studies, colonial American history and civilization, constitutional origins in revolutionary America, constitutional law, the Bill of Rights, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5459 / konig@wustl.edu


Kenneth Ludmerer

Professor of History of Medicine

Ludmerer served as Instructor of internal medicine to the chief resident, Barnes Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine from 1976-79. He became professor of medicine and of history in Arts & Sciences in 1979, an appointment which he still holds. Other past positions held by Ludmerer ...


Expertise: history of medicine

Direct contact: (314)362-8073 / kludmere@im.wustl.edu


Linda Nicholson

Director, Women and Gender Studies Program

Linda Nicholson
Linda Nicholson
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Expertise: feminism, gender studies, relationships, women, men, social identity

Direct contact: (314) 935-7479 / lnichols@wustl.edu


Douglass North

Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences

Douglass North
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Douglass North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He recently participated in a global forum designed to weigh costs-benefits of investing relief dollars in efforts to address various critical global challenges, such as war, famine and disease. His current research ...


Expertise: global marketplace, transition to free markets

Direct contact: (314) 935-8509 / dnorth@wustl.edu



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