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Faculty & Staff

History Department Faculty & Staff

Diego Armus

Professor

Co-chair

History

Contact

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

    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4-5 p.m.
    & by appointment

  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. Trotter 212
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:15-5:15 p.m.

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Megan Brown

Assistant Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6097
  2. Trotter 219
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays, 12-2 p.m., or by appointment

  1. Profile

Interests: modern Europe, European integration, empire

Professor Megan Brown

Timothy Burke

Professor

Co-Director of the Aydelotte Foundation

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter 206
  3. Parrish W201
  4. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays, 2-4:30 p.m. & Thursdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment

  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

History

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3978
  2. Trotter 207
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

  1. Profile

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

Professor BuYun Chen

Bruce Dorsey

Professor and Co-chair

History

Contact

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

    Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m.; Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
    & 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 a.m.-1 p.m.

  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, 1-3 p.m., or by appointment

  1. Profile
Professor Vivian Truong

Bob Weinberg

Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations

On leave 2022-23

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8133
  2. Trotter 218
  1. Profile
  2. Weinberg CV [pdf]

Interests: Russia, modern Europe, modern Jewish

Professor Bob Weinberg among the Redwoods

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

Allison Dorsey

Professor

Emeritus History

Contact

  1. Profile

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