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
Nau 497
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:00pm

White Burkett Miller Professor of History, and Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Nau 421
Office Hours: Mondays, 10:00AM-12:00PM

Research Professor of History, Editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Associate Professor of History
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:00PM-3:00PM

Assistant Professor (Research)/Assistant Editor, Papers of James Madison

Professor of Sociology and History
Randall 202
Office Hours: N/A

Professor of Law, Professor of History
Law WB 302D

Associate Professor
234 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Assistant Professor
Nau 435
Office Hours: TW 11:00AM-12:00PM

Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History
236 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Mondays, 2-3:30 and by appointment

David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies & Professor of History
Nau 438
Office Hours: On leave Fall 2019

Associate Professor
282 Nau
Office Hours: Fall 2019: Wednesdays 9-11am (282 Nau) and Fridays 1:30-3:30pm (108 Minor)

Associate Professor of French
317A Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Assistant Professor
155 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:00-2:00pm and by appointment

Lecturer
Nau 336
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:00-12:00

Associate Professor Emeritus

Associate Professor of German and History, Director, European Studies Program, Director, Center for German Studies
Nau 255
Office Hours: MW 10:00am-12:00pm, and by appointment
Graduate Student

Doctoral Candidate, Editor-in-Chief, Essays in History, Jefferson Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 10:00-11:00 Nau 296

Ph.D. Candidate, Associate Editor, Essays in History


Nau 487
Office Hours: Monday 10:00 AM–12:00 PM and by appointment

20th Century U.S., American Political Development, American Legal History, History of Capitalism

