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Faculty & Staff

History Department Faculty & Staff

Diego Armus

Professor

Coordinator of Latin American and Latino Studies

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8094
  2. Trotter 220
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4-5pm,
    & by appointment

  1. Profile
  2. Armus CV [pdf]
  3. Armus Academia page
  4. History Department publications page

Interests: Latin America, urban, diseases, migrations, social and cultural history

Diego Armus

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Trotter 212
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays, 10:30am-12:30pm

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Professor Azfar selfie in the city.

Megan Brown

Assistant Professor

On leave spring 2022

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6097
  2. Trotter 219
  1. Profile

Interests: modern Europe, European integration, empire

Professor Megan Brown

Timothy Burke

Professor

Co-Director of the Aydelotte Foundation

On leave 2021-2022

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter 206
  3. Parrish W201
  1. Profile
  2. Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
  3. Aydelotte Foundation

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Professor Timothy J. Burke

BuYun Chen

Associate Professor

On leave 2021-2022

History

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3978
  2. Trotter 207
  1. Profile

Interests: China, East Asia, women, science and technology

Professor BuYun Chen

Allison Dorsey

Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7676
  2. Trotter 213
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays 10-12pm via Zoom

  1. Profile

Interests: African American, African American women, U.S., South, food

 

Bruce Dorsey

Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8095
  2. Trotter 214
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays, 12:45-2:30pm,
    & by appointment
    Schedule an appointment

  1. Profile

Interests: Early America, 19th Century, U.S., gender, social and cultural history

Professor Bruce Dorsey

Ahmad Shokr

Assistant Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8136
  2. Trotter Hall 205
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:30-1pm

  1. Profile

Interests: modern Middle East, Egypt, capitalism, empire and decolonization, nationalism, social movements, environmental history

Professor Shokr.

Vivian Truong

Assistant Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8091
  2. Trotter 211
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays, 1-3pm

  1. Profile
Professor Vivian Truong

Bob Weinberg

Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations and Chair

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8133
  2. Trotter 218
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-4pm, Wednesdays 1-3pm
    & by appointment

  1. Profile
  2. Weinberg CV [pdf]

Interests: Russia, modern Europe, modern Jewish

Professor Robert Weinberg

Maddie LeSage

Administrative Assistant II

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8135
  2. Trotter 209
  1. Profile

Stephen Bensch

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Profile

Interests: medieval Europe, Near East

Professor Emeritus Stephen Bensch

Bob DuPlessis

Isaac H. Clothier Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations

History

Contact

  1. Profile

Interests: Cultural, economic, and social histories of Europe and the Atlantic world, 15th-18th centuries

Professor Emeritus Bob DuPlessis

Lillian M. Li

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Professor Emerita of History

History

Contact

  1. Profile

Interests: China, Japan

Lillian Li

Marjorie Murphy

The James Hormel Chair of Social Justice

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Profile

Interests: American labor, social, women

Professor Marjorie Murphy