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United States History Experts by Topic

Antisemitism and Religious Persecution • Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown

University• Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University

of California, Santa Barbara• Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish

History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American JewishHistory, New York University

• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University ofPittsburgh School of Law

• Cheryl Greenberg, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor ofHistory, Trinity College

• Donald Schwartz, California State University, Long Beach

Business and Economics (Includes Capitalism, Welfare State, Poverty and Social Policy, Trends in Inequality)

• Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and FlorenceKelley Professor of History, New York University

• Ajay K. Mehrotra, Executive Director & Research Professor, ABFand Professor of Law & History, Northwestern University

• Premilla Nadasen, Associate Professor of History, BarnardCollege, Columbia University

• Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of GraduateStudies, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Scott A. Sandage, Associate Professor of History, CarnegieMellon University

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights • Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown

University• Edward Countryman, University Distinguished Professor,

Southern Methodist University• Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History,

Vanderbilt University• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of

Pittsburgh School of Law

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights, continued • Eliga H. Gould, Professor and Department Chair, University of

New Hampshire• Cheryl Greenberg, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of

History, Trinity College• Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History,

and codirector of the Center for Law, History, and Culture, University ofSouthern California

• Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential TeachingScholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

• Joan Hoff, Research Professor of History, Montana StateUniversity, Bozeman

• William P. Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota• Bruce Kuklick, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania• Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director,

The Black Feminist Think Tank, Georgia Institute of Technology• Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, emerita, Yeshiva University• Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California

State University, Los Angeles; research affiliate, Center for the Study ofWomen, UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles

• Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, Universityof Connecticut

• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa• Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in

Global Affairs, Professor of History and Public Affairs, University ofTexas at Austin

• Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan• Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor and Chair of History Department University

at Buffalo, State University of New York

Crime and Violence • Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director,

The Black Feminist Think Tank, Georgia Institute of Technology• Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan

Elections/Electoral College/Voting Rights • Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History,

Vanderbilt University• Todd Estes, Professor of History and Department Chair, Oakland University• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of



Elections/Electoral College/Voting Rights, continued • Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential Teaching

Scholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs• Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of Graduate

Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara• Ted Ownby, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study

of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi• Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University

of Connecticut• Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History,

George Mason University

Environment and Natural Resources • Adam Rome, Professor of History, University at Buffalo, State University of

New York

Immigration and Migration • Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown


Southern Methodist University• Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish

History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American JewishHistory, New York University

• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University ofPittsburgh School of Law

• Mario T. García, Professor of Chicano Studies and History, University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara

• Walter D. Kamphoefner, Professor of History, Texas A&M University• Donald Schwartz, California State University, Long Beach• Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Asian

American Studies, Black Studies, Religious Studies, East Asian Studies, andthe Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, SantaBarbara

• Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor and Chair of Asian AmericanStudies, University of California, Irvine

International Relations • David C. Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, and

Chair, Department of History, Brandeis University• Eliga H. Gould, Professor and Department Chair, University of

New Hampshire


International Relations, continued • Jason M. Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University• Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History and Political

Science, Vanderbilt University

Labor and Working Class • Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of

California, Santa Barbara• Kevin Boyle, William Smith Mason Professor of American History,

Northwestern University• Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History,

Vanderbilt University• William P. Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota• Premilla Nadasen, Associate Professor of History, Barnard

College, Columbia University• Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of Graduate

Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa• Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor and Chair of History Department University


Latino/a • Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown

University• Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of

California, Santa Barbara• Mario T. García, Professor of Chicano Studies and History, University of

California Santa Barbara

Legal and Constitutional • Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of

Pittsburgh School of Law• Eliga H. Gould, Professor and Department Chair, University of

New Hampshire• Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History,

and codirector of the Center for Law, History, and Culture, University ofSouthern California

• Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the Historyof American Law and Liberty, Princeton University

• Ajay K. Mehrotra, Executive Director & Research Professor, ABFand Professor of Law & History, Northwestern University


Legal and Constitutional, continued • Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California


• Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History,George Mason University

Mass Communications • Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and Florence

Kelley Professor of History, New York University• Michelle Nickerson, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University,

Chicago• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa

Medicine/Social Welfare and Public Health (Includes Reproductive Rights and Family Violence)

• Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and FlorenceKelley Professor of History, New York University

• Elizabeth Lunbeck, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University• Premilla Nadasen, Associate Professor of History, Barnard

College, Columbia University• Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History, University of Illinois at

Urbana- Champaign• Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California


Native Americans/American Indian • Frederick E. Hoxie, Professor of History, emeritus, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign• Jason M. Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University

Philanthropy • Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of Graduate

Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Politics • Todd Estes, Professor of History and Department Chair, Oakland University• Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential Teaching

Scholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs


Politics, continued • Michelle Nickerson, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University,

Chicago• Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of Graduate

Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara• Ted Ownby, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study

of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi• Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director,

The Black Feminist Think Tank, Georgia Institute of Technology• Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California


• Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina• Randall Stephens, Associate Professor in History and American Studies,

Northumbria University• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa• Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in


• Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor and Chair of History DepartmentUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York

Populism • Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History,

Vanderbilt University• Todd Estes, Professor of History and Department Chair, Oakland University• Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and Florence

Kelley Professor of History, New York University• Stephen Kantrowitz, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison• Bruce Kuklick, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania• Ajay K. Mehrotra, Executive Director & Research Professor, ABF

and Professor of Law & History, Northwestern University• Michelle Nickerson, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University,

Chicago• Jason M. Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University• E. Anthony Rotundo, Alfred E. Stearns Instructor in History and

Social Science, Phillips Academy, Andover• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa• Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in



Populism, continued • Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor and Chair of History Department

University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Presidential (Includes Founding Fathers) • Daniel Feller, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor

of History, University of Tennessee• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of

Pittsburgh School of Law• Joan Hoff, Research Professor of History, Montana State

University, Bozeman• Elizabeth Lunbeck, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University• Michelle Nickerson, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University,

Chicago• Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Professor of History, Emeritus, University

of Virginia• Jason M. Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University• Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California


• Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in GlobalAffairs, Professor of History and Public Affairs, University of Texas atAustin

• Allan M. Winkler, Professor of History, Emeritus, Miami University• Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History,


Public History and Memory • Kevin Boyle, William Smith Mason Professor of American History,

Northwestern University• Stephanie Coontz, Professor, The Evergreen State College

Race • Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of

California, Santa Barbara• Kevin Boyle, William Smith Mason Professor of American History,

Northwestern University• Edward Countryman, University Distinguished Professor,

Southern Methodist University• Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History,

Vanderbilt University


Race, continued • Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of

Pittsburgh School of Law• Cheryl Greenberg, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of

History, Trinity College• Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History,

and a codirector of the Center for Law, History, and Culture, Universityof Southern California

• Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential TeachingScholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

• William P. Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota• Stephen Kantrowitz, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison• Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Professor of History, Emeritus, University

of Virginia• Jason M. Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University• Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director,

The Black Feminist Think Tank, Georgia Institute of Technology• Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University

of Connecticut• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa• Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor and Chair of History Department University


Religion • Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of

California, Santa Barbara• Edward Countryman, University Distinguished Professor,

Southern Methodist University• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of

Pittsburgh School of Law• Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential Teaching

Scholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs• Randall Stephens, Associate Professor in History and American Studies,

Northumbria University

Security State (Includes Wiretaps) • Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown


Southern Methodist University• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of



Security State (Includes Wiretaps) • Eliga H. Gould, Professor and Department Chair, University of

New Hampshire• Cheryl Greenberg, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of

History, Trinity College• Joan Hoff, Research Professor of History, Montana State

University, Bozeman• Bruce Kuklick, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania• Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, emerita, Yeshiva University• Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University

of Connecticut• Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa• Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in


Social Movements • Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential Teaching

Scholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs• Premilla Nadasen, Associate Professor of History, Barnard

College, Columbia University• Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina• Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan

Southern History • Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina

Teaching • Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of

Pennsylvania

Transnational and Comparative • Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in


Voting Rights (Includes Gerrymandering and Redistricting) • Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of

Pittsburgh School of Law• Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential Teaching

Scholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs


Voting Rights (Includes Gerrymandering and Redistricting), continued

• Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Ted Ownby, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi

• Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut

• Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History, George Mason University

Women (Includes Feminism and Antifeminism) • Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown

University • Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of

California, Santa Barbara • Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and Florence

Kelley Professor of History, New York University • Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History,

and codirector of the Center for Law, History, and Culture, University of Southern California

• Joan Hoff, Research Professor of History, Montana State University, Bozeman

• Premilla Nadasen, Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University

• Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director, The Black Feminist Think Tank, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

• Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles; research affiliate, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles

• Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina • Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa • Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History,



United States History Experts by Name

• Katherine Benton-Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University

Antisemitism and Religious Persecution, Civil Liberties, Security State, Immigration and Migration, Latino/a, Women

• Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Antisemitism and Religious Persecution, Labor and Working Class, Latino/a, Race, Religion, Women

• Kevin Boyle, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University

Labor and Working Class, Public History and Memory, Race • Stephanie Coontz, Professor, The Evergreen State College

Public History and Memory • Edward Countryman, University Distinguished Professor,

Southern Methodist University Civil Liberties, Security State, Immigration and Migration, Race, Religion

• Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Civil Rights, Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights, Labor and Working Class, Populism, Race

• Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, New York University

Antisemitism and Religious Persecution, Immigration and Migration

• David C. Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, and Chair, Department of History, Brandeis University

International Relations • Todd Estes, Professor of History and Department Chair, Oakland

University Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights, Politics, Populism

• Daniel Feller, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, University of Tennessee

Presidential


• Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Antisemitism and Religious Persecution, Civil Liberties, Security State, Civil Rights, Elections, Electoral College, Executive Orders, Executive Power, First Amendment and the Media, Immigration and Migration, Perjury in Confirmation Hearings and Elsewhere, Race, Religion, Voting Rights, Wiretaps

• Mario T. García, Professor of Chicano Studies and History, University of California Santa Barbara

Immigration and Migration, Latino/a • Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and Florence Kelley

Professor of History, New York University Family Violence, Mass Communications, Medicine, Populism, Reproductive Justice, Welfare State, Women

• Eliga H. Gould, Professor and Department Chair, University of New Hampshire

Civil Liberties, Security State, International Relations, Legal and Constitutional

• Cheryl Greenberg, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History, Trinity College

Antisemitism and Religious Persecution, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Race, Security State

• Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, and a codirector of the Center for Law, History, and Culture, University of Southern California

Civil Rights, Legal and Constitutional, Race, Women • Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of

American Law and Liberty, Princeton University Legal and Constitutional

• Paul Harvey, Professor of History and a Presidential Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Civil Rights, Elections, Electoral College, Politics, Race, Religion, Social Movements, Voting Rights

• Joan Hoff, Research Professor of History, Montana State University, Bozeman

Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Presidential, Security State, Women • Frederick E. Hoxie, Professor of History, emeritus, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign American Indian


• William P. Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota Civil Rights, Labor and Working Class, Race

• Walter D. Kamphoefner, Professor of History, Texas A&M University Immigration and Migration

• Stephen Kantrowitz, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Populism, Race

• Bruce Kuklick, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Civil Liberties, Populism, Security State

• Elizabeth Lunbeck, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University Medicine, Narcissism in the age of Trump; Trump's relations with his followers

• Ajay K. Mehrotra, Executive Director & Research Professor, ABF and Professor of Law & History, Northwestern University

American Bar Foundation, Business and Economics, Capitalism, Populism

• Premilla Nadasen, Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University

Business and Economics, Labor and Working Class, Social Movements, Social Welfare and Public Health, Women

• Michelle Nickerson, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago

Mass Communications, Politics, Populism, Presidential • Alice O'Connor, Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies,

University of California, Santa Barbara Elections, Electoral College, Labor and Working Class, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty and Social Policy, Trends in Inequality, Voting Rights

• Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Virginia

Presidential, Race • Jason M. Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University

American Indian, International Relations, Populism, Presidential, Race

• Ted Ownby, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi

Elections, Electoral College, Politics, Voting Rights • Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director, The

Black Feminist Think Tank, Georgia Institute of Technology Civil Rights, Crime and Violence, Politics, Race, Women


• Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Medicine, Women • Adam Rome, Professor of History, University at Buffalo, State University of

New York Environment and Natural Resources

• E. Anthony Rotundo, Alfred E. Stearns Instructor in History and Social Science, Phillips Academy, Andover

Populism • Scott A. Sandage, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon

University Capitalism

• Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, emerita, Yeshiva University Civil Liberties, Security State

• Donna C. Schuele, faculty member, Dept of Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles; research affiliate, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles

California Law and Politics, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Constitutional Law (civil rights, civil liberties, presidential power, state-federal relations, etc.), Courts and Judges (United State Supreme Court, federal and state courts),Family Law, Gender (law and politics), International Relations, Legal and Constitutional, Los Angeles Politics, Presidential, Reaganism and the Rise of the New Right, Reproductive Rights, Security State, Women

• Donald Schwartz, California State University, Long Beach Antisemitism and Religious Persecution, Immigration and Migration

• Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History and Political Science, Vanderbilt University

International Relations • Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of

Connecticut Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Elections, Electoral College, Security State, Race, Voting Rights

• Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Religious Studies, East Asian Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Immigration and Migration


• Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina

Conservative Women, Politics, Social Movements, Southern History, Women, Woman Suffrage Movement, Women’s Rights Movement

• Randall Stephens, Associate Professor in History and American Studies, Northumbria University

Politics, Religion • Landon R. Storrs, Professor of History, University of Iowa

Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Feminism and Antifeminism, Labor and Working Class, Mass Communications, McCarthyism, Politics, Populism, Race, Security State, 20th Century Women and Politics

• Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, Professor of History and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

Civil Liberties, Politics, Populism, Presidential, Security State, Transnational and Comparative

• Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan Civil Rights, Crime and Violence, Social Movements

• Allan M. Winkler, Professor of History, Emeritus, Miami University Presidential

• Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor and Chair of History Department University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Civil Rights, Labor and Working Class, Politics, Populism, Race • Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies,

University of California, Irvine Immigration and Migration

• Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History, George Mason University

Early American Women, Elections, Electoral College, Founding Fathers (especially Washington), Gerrymandering and Redistricting, U.S. Constitution, Voting Rights

• Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching


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