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

Professor
256 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10-11am; Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm

White Burkett Miller Professor of History
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
Office Hours: T, 2:00-3:00PM; TR, 11:00AM-12:00PM; or by appointment

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

Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty, Women, Gender, and Sexuality
234 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 2:30 - 4 pm, and by appointment
Associate Professor
Nau 435
Office Hours: TR, 2:30-4:30PM

Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies
Nau 236
Office Hours: On Leave

David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies & Professor of History
Nau 438
Office Hours: T, 1:00-1:50PM, TR, 3:20-4:30PM

William W. Corcoran Professor of History
Nau Hall 496
Office Hours: On Leave

Associate Professor
Nau 235
Office Hours: On leave 2023-2024

Professor
282 Nau
Office Hours: W, 1:30-3:30PM

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
Office Hours: T, 10:00AM-12:00PM

Nau 396
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30 (virtual) and by appointment


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


Graduate Student




PhD Candidate
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-1:00pm, or by appointment, in Nau Hall 296

Alumni
