Early Modern
Juliana Barr, Associate Professor in the Department of History
Associate Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1999) in American women’s history from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her B.A. (1988) from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the Duke University Department of History in 2015 after teaching at Rutgers University and... full profile »
Laurent Dubois, Professor of History
Office: 213 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3112
I am a specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti. I am the faculty director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University, and write for magazines including the New Republic, Sports Illustrated, and the New Yorker. I... full profile »
Janet J. Ewald, Associate Professor with Tenure
Office: 316 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-4280
My specialty in the history of Africa has led me, in both my teaching and research, to explore how Africans participated in the major currents of world history since about 1700. My first book Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves: State Formation and Economic Transformation in the Greater Nile Valley, 1700... full profile »
Barry Gaspar, Professor with Tenure
Office: 306 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-2109
Dr. Gaspar concentrates on comparative slave systems, with a special interest in the development of slave society and the evolution of slave life in the United States and the Caribbean. The Atlantic Slave Trade, Atlantic history and culture, the legacy of slavery in post-slave societies, historical... full profile »
John Jeffries Martin, Professor of History
Office: 323A Carr Bldg., 114 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 681-5499
John Jeffries Martin, Chair of the Department of History, is a historian of early modern Europe, with particular interests in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is the author of Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a... full profile »
Kristen Neuschel, Associate Professor with Tenure
Office: 233 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-2437
Dr. Neuschel concentrates on late medieval and early modern France and Europe. Her current research focuses on war and culture in northern Europe between 1400 and 1600. She teaches courses in the history of war, of gender relations and surveys of the history of medieval and early modern Europe. full profile »
Simon Partner, Professor in the Department of History
Office: 303 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-5464
Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society full profile »
Gunther W. Peck, Associate Professor of History
Office: 308 Carr Bldg, 136 Public Policy, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 668-5297
My research focuses on the long history of human trafficking and its relationship to the evolution of racial ideology, humanitarian intervention, and immigration policy in North America and Europe. In addition to mentoring both History and Public Policy graduate students, I regularly teach four... full profile »
Thomas Robisheaux, Professor of History
Office: 202 Carr Bldg, Department of History, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Phone: (919) 684-5979
As an historian of early modern Europe Dr. Robisheaux has particular interests in social and cultural history, German-speaking Central Europe, Renaissance culture, religious reform, popular religion and culture, and microhistory. Author of The Last Witch of Langenburg and Rural Society and the... full profile »
Peter Sigal, Professor in the Department of History
Office: 234 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
The relationships between gender, sexuality, and colonialism have intrigued me since I began my first book on Maya sexuality. I recently completed a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Nahua societies--The Flower and the Scorpion:... full profile »
Philip J. Stern, Gilhuly Family Professor
Office: History Dept, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 668-1695
My work focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). My first book, The Company-State, is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am currently... full profile »