Faculty & Staff

History Department Faculty & Staff

Diego Armus

Professor

Department Chair, History

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8094
  2. Trotter Hall 220
  3. Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:45-4:45 p.m.

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Armus CV [pdf]
  3. 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. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:30 p.m.

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Photo of Farid Azfar

Megan Brown

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6097
  2. Trotter Hall 219
  3. Office Hours: On leave Spring 2025

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: modern Europe, European integration, empire

Professor Megan Brown

Timothy Burke

Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter Hall 206
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1-4 p.m. and Fridays, 9-11 a.m.

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Eight by Seven

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Professor Timothy J. Burke

BuYun Chen

Associate Professor

History

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3978
  2. Trotter Hall 207
  3. Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m.

Links

  1. Profile

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

Professor BuYun Chen

Bruce Dorsey

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8095
  2. Trotter Hall 214
  3. Office Hours: On leave 2024-25

Links

  1. Profile

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

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Brendan McGeever

Julian and Virginia Cornell Distinguished Visiting Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6478
  2. Trotter Hall 220

Links

  1. Profile

Elise Mitchell

Assistant Professor

History

Contact

  1. Trotter Hall 213
  2. Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9-11 a.m., or by appointment

Links

  1. Profile
Elise Mitchell

Ahmad Shokr

Associate Professor

On Leave - Spring

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8136
  2. Trotter Hall 205
  3. Office Hours: On leave Spring 2025

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: modern Middle East, capitalism, anti-colonialism/nationalism, social movements, environmental history

Professor Shokr.

Vivian Truong

Assistant Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8091
  2. Trotter Hall 211
  3. Office Hours: On leave 2024-25

Links

  1. Profile
Professor Vivian Truong

Bob Weinberg

Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations

Director, Honors Program

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8133
  2. Trotter Hall 218
  3. Office Hours: Mondays and Fridays, 1-3 p.m., Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., or by appointment

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Weinberg CV

Interests: Russia, modern Europe, modern Jewish

Professor Bob Weinberg among the Redwoods

Stephen Bensch

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8137
  2. Trotter Hall 204

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: medieval Europe, Near East

Professor Emeritus Stephen Bensch

Bob DuPlessis

Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History and International Relation

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8131
  2. Parrish Hall N374

Links

  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

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8134
  2. Parrish Hall N-281

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: China, Japan

Lillian Li

Marjorie Murphy

The James Hormel Chair Emerita of Social Justice

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8091
  2. Trotter Hall 211

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: American labor, social, women

Professor Marjorie Murphy

Allison Dorsey

Professor Emerita

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7676
  2. Trotter Hall 213

Links

  1. Profile

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

 

Photo of Allison Dorsey