Faculty
Celia Applegate William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Professor of History | Email 615-343-1983 Calhoun Hall 108 | |
Michael Bess Chancellor's Professor of History Professor of Communication of Science and Technology; Professor of European Studies | Email Website 615-322-3340 Benson Hall 208 | |
David Blackbourn Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History Professor of History | Email 615-343-7196 Calhoun Hall 106 | |
![]() | Ari Bryen Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions, History Department; Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies | Email 615-343-4115 Cohen Hall 216 |
![]() | Brandon R. Byrd Associate Professor of History Chancellor Faculty Fellow | Email 615-322-9370 Benson Hall 201 |
![]() | William Caferro Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Director and Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies; Director of Economics and History Program , Department of History | Email 615-322-0097 Benson Hall 219 |
![]() | Celso Thomas Castilho Associate Professor of History | Email 615-322-4734 Benson Hall 103 |
Lauren Clay Associate Professor of History | Email 615-322-5947 Benson Hall 210 | |
Julia Phillips Cohen Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History Associate Professor of History | Email 615-322-6206 Buttrick Hall 143 | |
William J. Collins Terence E. Adderley Jr. Professor of Economics Professor of History | Email Website 615-322-3428 Calhoun Hall 211B | |
![]() | Jefferson Cowie James G. Stahlman Professor of History | Email Website 615-875-8115 Calhoun Hall 114B |
Katherine Crawford Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Gender and Sexuality Studies and History Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies | Email 615-322-5080 Buttrick Hall 121 | |
Dennis C. Dickerson Reverend James M. Lawson Chair in History Professor of History | Email 615-343-4329 Benson 209 | |
![]() | Samuel Dolbee Assistant Professor of History | Email (615) 322-2575 Benson 127 |
Marshall C. Eakin Distinguished Professor of History | Email 615-322-3328 Benson Hall 100 | |
Gerald Figal Professor of History Professor of Asian Studies; Director, Asian Studies | Email Website Website 615-322-4712 Buttrick Hall 241 | |
![]() | Daniel Genkins Mellon Assistant Professor of History and Digital Humanities | Email Benson Hall 109 |
![]() | Emily Greble Chair of the History Department; Professor of History; Professor of German, Russian and East European Studies | Email 615-343-4849 Benson 234 |
![]() | Leor Halevi Professor of History; Professor of Law | Email 615-322-6134 Benson Hall 119 |
Joel Harrington Centennial Professor of History Professor of German Studies; Member, Graduate Department of Religion | Email 615-322-3372 Benson Hall 212 | |
![]() | Nicole Hemmer Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency. Associate Professor of History | Email Benson 112 (Temporary) |
James Hudnut-Beumler Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History Professor of History | Email 615-343-3978 | |
![]() | Yoshikuni Igarashi Professor of History Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program | Email 615-322-3334 Buttrick Hall 242 |
![]() | Sarah Igo Andrew Jackson Chair in American History Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Sociology; Dean of Strategic Initiatives, College of Arts and Science | Email 615-343-5692 Buttrick Hall 135 |
Ari Joskowicz Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and European Studies Associate Professor of History; Director, Max Kade Center for European and German Studies; Director European Studies | Email 615-322-7371 Buttrick Hall 243 | |
![]() | Paul A. Kramer Associate Professor of History | Email Website 615-322-2600 Benson Hall 225 |
Peter Lake University Distinguished Professor of History Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School; Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History; | Email 615-322-3333 Benson Hall 211 | |
Jane Landers Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History | Email 615-322-3403 Benson Hall 114 | |
Phillip Lieberman Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Law and Religious Studies Associate Professor of Islamic Studies; Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Classics | Email Website 615-343-2098 Cohen Hall 215 | |
Paul Chang-Ha Lim Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Associate Professor of History | Email 615-343-3975 231 Divinity School | |
Peter Lorge Associate Professor History Associate Professor of Asian Studies | Email 615-322-3707 Benson Hall 215 | |
![]() | Christopher P. Loss Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education Associate Professor of History | Email Website 615-343-4038 Payne Hall 210F |
![]() | Sara Mayeux Assistant Professor of Law Assistant Professor of History | Email 615-322-2615 Vanderbilt University Law School 252 |
![]() | Thomas McGinn Professor of History Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies | Email 615-343-4113 Benson Hall 202 |
Jonathan Metzl Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Director, Program in Medicine, Health and Society; Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of History | Email 615-343-0916 Calhoun Hall 300 | |
David Michelson Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Assistant Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Classical Studies; Affiliate Faculty Member in the Program in Islamic Studies | Email Website Website 615-343-3990 Divinity School 124 | |
Catherine A. Molineux Associate Professor of History | Email 615-322-9369 Benson Hall 221 | |
![]() | Ole Molvig Assistant Professor of History Assistant Professor Communications of Science and Technology; Assistant Professor Physics; Founder, emergent technology lab at the Wond'ry; Curator, Garland Historical Scientific Instruments Collection | Email Website Website 615-322-3413 Benson Hall 121 |
![]() | Moses Ochonu Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History | Email 615-322-3388 Benson Hall 220 |
Tiffany Ruby Patterson Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies Associate Professor of History; Director of Undergraduate Studies in AADS | Email 615-343-6390 Buttrick Hall 228 | |
![]() | David H. Price Professor of Jewish Studies Professor of History | Email 615.875.8445 Garland Hall 220 |
Tasha Rijke-Epstein Assistant Professor Britton Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in History | Email 615-343-5815 Benson Hall 218 | |
W. Frank Robinson Assistant Professor of History | Email 615-343-1935 Benson Hall 125 | |
![]() | Ruth Rogaski Associate Professor of History Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program | Email 615-322-5950 Benson Hall 112 |
Peter L. Rousseau Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Natural and Social Sciences Professor of History; Chair, Department of Economics | Email Website 615-343-2466 Calhoun 114B | |
![]() | Thomas Alan Schwartz Distinguished Professor of History; Professor of Political Science; Professor of European Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History | Email 615-343-4328 Benson Hall 102 |
Daniel Sharfstein Professor of Law Professor of History; Co-Director of the George Barrett Social Justice Program, Vanderbilt Law School | Email Website Website 615-322-1890 Vanderbilt University Law School 252 | |
Samira Sheikh Associate Professor of History Affiliated Faculty, Department of Asian Studies, Graduate Department of Religion, and the Islamic Studies Program | Email 615-322-4740 Benson Hall 223 | |
Helmut Walser Smith The Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History | Email 615-322-6220 Benson Hall 111 | |
Laura Stark Associate Professor at the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society Associate Professor of History | Email Website 615-322-0699 Garland Hall 113 | |
![]() | Arleen Marcia Tuchman Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Chair in History Professor of History | Email 615-322-8151 Benson Hall 110 |
![]() | Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History | Email 615-322-5949 Benson Hall 222 |
David J. Wasserstein Professor of History and Jewish Studies Eugene Greener, Jr. Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies; Affiliated Faculty in Arabic and Islamic Studies; Member, Graduate Department of Religion | Email 615-322-7801 Buttrick Hall 147 | |
![]() | Kimberly Welch Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of Law | Email Website 615-322-5948 Benson Hall 123 |
![]() | Alexis S. Wells-Oghoghomeh Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Assistant Professor of History | Email 615-875-9103 Garland Hall 306 |
![]() | Rhonda Y. Williams Professor of History, John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History | Email 615-343-3279 Calhoun Hall 114 |
![]() | Edward Wright-Rios Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities Professor of History | Email 615-322-3325 Benson Hall 234 |
![]() | Meng Zhang Assistant Professor of History Britton-Perry Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Economic History, Britton-Perry Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Economic History | Email Website 615-322-7628 Benson Hall 101 |