Historians in the Corcoran Department of History working in political history understand it as an eternal human process of contests, cooperation, collaborations, and compromises over power and rights, broadly defined. We study many and varied historical means for executing, exerting, and expressing power and rights. Within different temporal, spatial, cultural, and environmental constraints of historically researchable human experiences, political maneuverings occur among individuals, families, clans, tribes, ethnicities, states, cultures, nations, empires, international alliances, interest groups, and social categories based on age, class, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, and sectarian differences. Such maneuverings have sometimes been conceptualized as “elite” or “popular” in domestic settings and in terms of other binaries in global contexts. We, however, investigate political relations as multi-layered and multi-dimensional phenomena. While we fundamentally value the power of the archives, we also appreciate and take advantage of research methodologies, tools, and theories that have been developed and deployed in other fields of history and branches of social sciences.
Political History
Faculty
James Madison Professor, Emeritus
Professor
256 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10-11am; Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 pm; and by appointment
White Burkett Miller Professor, Emeritus
Nau 421
Office Hours: On Leave
Research Professor of History, Editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
Associate Professor of History, Affiliated Faculty, Department of French
Nau 354
Office Hours: TR, 11:00AM-1:00PM; Students should schedule meetings at https://calendly.com/profsessions
Professor of Sociology and History
Randall 202
Office Hours: N/A
Professor of Law, Professor of History
Law WB 302D
Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty, Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Affiliate Faculty, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
234 Nau Hall
Office Hours: On Leave: Spring and Fall 2024
Associate Professor
Nau 435
Office Hours: W, 1:30-3:30PM
David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies & Professor of History
Nau 438
Office Hours: M/W, 3:00-4:30PM
William W. Corcoran Professor of History
Nau Hall 496
Office Hours: On Leave
Associate Professor
Nau 235
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Professor
Nau 282
Office Hours: W, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Associate Professor of French
317A Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Associate Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor of German and History, Director, European Studies Program, Director, Center for German Studies
NCH 233
Office Hours: M, 10:30AM-12:30PM
Nau 396
Assistant Professor (Research)/Assistant Editor, Papers of James Madison
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30 (virtual) and by appointment
Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies
Nau 236
Office Hours: On Leave
National Security Policy Center
Office Hours: By appointment
Instructional Designer, A&S Learning Design & Technology
295 New Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Contact me.
Graduate Student
487 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:50-4:50 PM
Graduate Student
PhD Candidate
Office Hours: Nau Hall 396
PhD Candidate
296 Nau Hall