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: Mondays: 1-2pm; Thursdays, 10:00-11am

White Burkett Miller Professor of History
Nau 421
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30PM and by appointment

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

Associate Professor of History, Affiliated Faculty, Department of French
Office Hours: In person, Wednesdays and Thursdays 1-2PM; Over Zoom Thursdays 2-4PM

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 1:30 - 3:00 pm, and by appointment
Associate Professor
Nau 435
Office Hours: ON LEAVE

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

David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies & Professor of History
Nau 438
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:30PM

Professor
Nau Hall 496
Office Hours: Mondays, 11-12PM

Associate Professor
Nau 235
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Mondays, 1:15 - 2:30 pm, and by appointment

Professor
282 Nau
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Wed. 1:30-3:30pm (or by appointment)

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: On Leave
Graduate Student

Nau 396



Graduate Student




Nau Hall 396
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:00-3:30pm

National Security Policy Center
Office Hours: By appointment

Office Hours: Mondays, 1:00-3:00 PM, and by appointment

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


Instructional Designer, A&S Learning Design & Technology
295 New Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Contact me.
