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Department of History: professors and courses

Course codes HIS

Who teaches here

Department of History professors and instructors
NameTeaches
Professors · 66
Kamran S AghaieAssociate professorIslamic studies · Shi’ism · modern Iranian and Middle Eastern history · secondary areas of interest: world history
No classes listed this year
Chad Alvarez CVAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Santiago Munoz Arbelaez EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
HIS 346J, HIS 346K, HIS 378W, HIS 394H
Alex A Beasley EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
HIS 355N, HIS 392
Douglas G Biow CVProfessorcultural · literary · art · medical
No classes listed this year
HIS 315L, HIS 317L
HIS 315K, HIS 315L, HIS 356S
HIS 301J, HIS 306N, HIS 310P, HIS 364Q
Erika M Bsumek Evaluations CVProfessorenvironmental history · digital history · educational technology
UGS 302
Matthew J Butler Evaluations CVProfessorMexico & Latin America · history of Catholicism · agrarian & rural history · taurine history
HIS 346W, HIS 347P, HIS 352F, HIS 352G
Jorge Canizares EvaluationsCVProfessor
HIS 320W
Lina Maria Del Castillo EvaluationsCVAssociate professor
HIS 346L
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Department of History professors and instructors, continued
NameTeaches
Professors · 66
HIS 366N, HIS 368S
Judith G Coffin Evaluations CVProfessorfood · cooking · novels · Europe and elsewhere
HIS 347L, HIS 353, HIS 354F, HIS 366N
Jonathan Cortez Evaluations CVAssistant professorImmigration History · Borderlands History · Relational Ethnic History with emphasis on space · geography
HIS 317L, HIS 320W, HIS 385P
Amira Rose Davis Evaluations CVAssistant professor
HIS 317L
Janet M Davis CVProfessorU.S. cultural · social · and environmental history · popular culture
No classes listed this year
HIS 366N, HIS 378W
Oloruntoyin O Falola EvaluationsCVProfessor
HIS 310, HIS 317L, HIS 359R, HIS 364F
Ashley Farmer CVAssociate professorAfrican American History · African American Women’s History · Black Political Thought
HIS 317L
Amanda Faulkner Evaluations CVAssistant professor
HIS 317L, HIS 320W
Signe P Fourmy Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instructionSlavery · Resistance · Motherhood · and the Law
HIS 315K, HIS 317L, HIS 345L, HIS 355S, HIS 378W
HIS 320W
HIS 320W
Jennifer Graber Evaluations CVProfessorAmerican religions · religion in the American West · Native American religions · religion and violence
HIS 315K, HIS 317L
Laurie B Green Evaluations CVAssociate professor
HIS 317L, HIS 378W
Lauren Jae Gutterman Evaluations CVAssociate professorHistory of Women · Gender and Sexuality · American Studies · LGBTQ Studies
HIS 315G
HIS 343W, HIS 350L
Isabelle Headrick EvaluationsCVAssistant professor of instruction
HIS 307Q, HIS 317L
Samuel E Horewood Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instructionEarly Modern America · Britain · & Empire · Digital
HIS 315K, HIS 318N, HIS 366N, HIS 375N
Bruce J Hunt CVProfessorHistory of science and technology
HIS 329P, HIS 378W
Kate A Imy Evaluations CVAssociate professorRace · gender · religion · and war in the British Empire
HIS 350L, HIS 362F, HIS 366N, HIS 380L
No classes listed this year
Monica A Jimenez Evaluations CVAssociate professorHistory of empire · law and race · 20th Century nationalist movements · racialization in the Caribbean
HIS 345O, HIS 347J, HIS 365G
Peniel E JosephProfessorservice and volunteering · traveling · yoga · spending time with family
No classes listed this year
Neil D Kamil Evaluations CVAssociate professor
HIS 350R
Manav Kapur Evaluations CVAssistant professorSouth Asian History · Legal History · Decolonization and Empire Studies · Migration and Citizenship
HIS 307C, HIS 320W, HIS 366N, HIS 367J
Thanasis A Kinias CVAssistant professor of instruction
HIS 350L
HIS 366N
HIS 317L, HIS 357C, HIS 365G, HIS 378W
Huaiyin Li Evaluations CVProfessorModern Chinese history · Contemporary Chinese economy · society · and politics
HIS 340M, HIS 366N
HIS 307Q, HIS 350L, HIS 362V, HIS 366N
Ivan Y Chaar Lopez EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
HIS 315G
Alberto A Martinez Evaluations CVProfessorHistory of science and mathematics · Einstein · historical myths in science · political news media
HIS 320W, HIS 322R, HIS 350L
Monica Munoz Martinez Evaluations CVAssociate professorUS History · US-Mexico border · Texas · Latinxs in the United States
HIS 314K, HIS 320W
HIS 376G
Madeline McMahon Evaluations CVAssistant professorEarly modern Europe · history of scholarship and knowledge production · book history · material culture
HIS 325C, HIS 387J
HIS 315K, HIS 315L, HIS 317L, HIS 365G
A Azfar MoinAssociate professorArt · & Architecture of Early Modern Iran · Central Asia · and South Asia | Persian Historiography
No classes listed this year
HIS 317L
HIS 306C
Aaron O’Connell CVAssociate professor
HIS 366N, HIS 376F
Abena Dove Agyepoma Osseo-asare EvaluationsCVProfessor
HIS 350L, HIS 359D
Rachel L Ozanne Evaluations CVAssociate professor of instruction19th century religion in the United States · theory of religion and religious experience · intellectual history · history of psychology
HIS 315K, HIS 315L, HIS 355F, HIS 365G
Anna Piatigorsky Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instruction
HIS 366N
Megan Margaret Raby Evaluations CVAssociate professorHistory of Science · Environmental History · US and Caribbean · 19th and 20th c
HIS 322G, HIS 350L
Carlos E Ramos CVAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Mark Ravina CVProfessor
HIS 320W, HIS 342C
Justin Roberts Evaluations CVProfessorslavery · environmental history · early modern Atlantic World · British Empire
HIS 315K, HIS 317L
HIS 317L, HIS 378W
Cristina Soriano Evaluations CVAssociate professorColonial Latin America · Atlantic World · Caribbean
HIS 330S, HIS 346K, HIS 372Q, HIS 381
HIS 306K, HIS 375D, HIS 378W
Michael B StoffAssociate professorU. S. Political Culture and Public Policy · U.S. Foreign Relations · Second World War · Atomic Bomb
No classes listed this year
Jeremi Suri CVProfessor
HIS 315L
Shirley E Thompson CVAssociate professorAfrican American and African Diaspora Studies · Nineteenth Century US Cultural History · Law and Literature · Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures
HIS 365G
Charters S Wynn CVAssociate professor
HIS 343M, HIS 350L
Lecturers and instructors · 11
Benjamin Vaughn Allison CVLecturer
HIS 333M
Don E CarletonSenior lecturer
No classes listed this year
Mehmet Celik Evaluations CVLecturerHistory of the Ottoman Empire · Modern Middle East · Modern Turkey · History of the Islamic World
HIS 301J, HIS 331C
Javal Coleman CVAssistant instructor
HIS 321C
HIS 323L, HIS 350L
John E St Lawrence CVLecturer
HIS 309M
John Michael Lisle CVLecturer
HIS 366Q
Dean Murphy CVAssistant instructorAncient philosophy · literary theory
HIS 321
Dirk Ringgenberg Evaluations CVLecturerMilitary History · Military Technology · Society and War
HIS 349S, HIS 365G
Alina Isabella Scott CVLecturer18th and 19th-Century · Native American Culture and Politics · Protest · Petitions
HIS 317L
No classes listed this year
Graduate and other instructors · 5
Megan Ekstrom EvaluationsCV
HIS 334P
Sari Fein Evaluations CVPostdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity
HIS 304R
Michael Schmidt EvaluationsCV
HIS 320W
Marina Smith CV
HIS 317L
Timothy Vilgiate CV
HIS 322M

Who teaches each course

Department of History: who teaches each course
CourseTaught by
HIS 301JBenjamin Claude Brower, Mehmet Celik
HIS 304RSari Fein
HIS 306CMary C Neuburger
HIS 306KDenise A Spellberg
HIS 306NBenjamin Claude Brower
HIS 307CManav Kapur
HIS 307QIsabelle Headrick, Tatjana Lichtenstein
HIS 309MJohn E St Lawrence
HIS 310Oloruntoyin O Falola
HIS 310PBenjamin Claude Brower
HIS 314KMonica Munoz Martinez
HIS 315GLauren Jae Gutterman, Ivan Y Chaar Lopez
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Department of History: who teaches each course, continued
CourseTaught by
HIS 315KHenry W Brands, Signe P Fourmy, Jennifer Graber, Samuel E Horewood, Steven Mintz, Rachel L Ozanne, Justin Roberts
HIS 315LCarlos K Blanton, Henry W Brands, Steven Mintz, Rachel L Ozanne, Jeremi Suri
HIS 317LCarlos K Blanton, Jonathan Cortez, Amira Rose Davis, Oloruntoyin O Falola, Ashley Farmer, Amanda Faulkner, Signe P Fourmy, Jennifer Graber, Laurie B Green, Isabelle Headrick, Talitha L LeFlouria, Steven Mintz, Leonard Nathaniel Moore, Justin Roberts, Annette M Rodriguez, Alina Isabella Scott, Marina Smith
HIS 318NSamuel E Horewood
HIS 320WJorge Canizares, Jonathan Cortez, Amanda Faulkner, Joshua Frens-String, Seth W Garfield, Manav Kapur, Alberto A Martinez, Monica Munoz Martinez, Mark Ravina, Michael Schmidt
HIS 321Dean Murphy
HIS 321CJaval Coleman
HIS 322GMegan Margaret Raby
HIS 322MTimothy Vilgiate
HIS 322RAlberto A Martinez
HIS 323LBlaze Lawson Joel
HIS 325CMadeline McMahon
HIS 329PBruce J Hunt
HIS 330SCristina Soriano
HIS 331CMehmet Celik
HIS 333MBenjamin Vaughn Allison
HIS 334PMegan Ekstrom
HIS 340MHuaiyin Li
HIS 342CMark Ravina
HIS 343MCharters S Wynn
HIS 343WJulie Hardwick
HIS 345LSigne P Fourmy
HIS 345OMonica A Jimenez
HIS 346JSantiago Munoz Arbelaez
HIS 346KSantiago Munoz Arbelaez, Cristina Soriano
HIS 346LLina Maria Del Castillo
HIS 346WMatthew J Butler
HIS 347JMonica A Jimenez
HIS 347LJudith G Coffin
HIS 347PMatthew J Butler
HIS 349SDirk Ringgenberg
HIS 350LJulie Hardwick, Kate A Imy, Thanasis A Kinias, Tatjana Lichtenstein, Alberto A Martinez, Abena Dove Agyepoma Osseo-asare, Megan Margaret Raby, Charters S Wynn, Blaze Lawson Joel
HIS 350RNeil D Kamil
HIS 352FMatthew J Butler
HIS 352GMatthew J Butler
HIS 353Judith G Coffin
HIS 354FJudith G Coffin
HIS 355FRachel L Ozanne
HIS 355NAlex A Beasley
HIS 355SSigne P Fourmy
HIS 356SHenry W Brands
HIS 357CTalitha L LeFlouria
HIS 359DAbena Dove Agyepoma Osseo-asare
HIS 359ROloruntoyin O Falola
HIS 362FKate A Imy
HIS 362VTatjana Lichtenstein
HIS 364FOloruntoyin O Falola
HIS 364QBenjamin Claude Brower
HIS 365GMonica A Jimenez, Talitha L LeFlouria, Steven Mintz, Rachel L Ozanne, Shirley E Thompson, Dirk Ringgenberg
HIS 366NAdam John Clulow, Judith G Coffin, Yoav Di-Capua, Samuel E Horewood, Kate A Imy, Manav Kapur, Mark A Lawrence, Huaiyin Li, Tatjana Lichtenstein, Aaron O’Connell, Anna Piatigorsky
HIS 366QJohn Michael Lisle
HIS 367JManav Kapur
HIS 368SAdam John Clulow
HIS 372QCristina Soriano
HIS 375DDenise A Spellberg
HIS 375NSamuel E Horewood
HIS 376FAaron O’Connell
HIS 376GTracie M Matysik
HIS 378WSantiago Munoz Arbelaez, Yoav Di-Capua, Signe P Fourmy, Laurie B Green, Bruce J Hunt, Talitha L LeFlouria, Annette M Rodriguez, Denise A Spellberg
HIS 380LKate A Imy
HIS 381Cristina Soriano
HIS 385PJonathan Cortez
HIS 387JMadeline McMahon
HIS 392Alex A Beasley
HIS 394HSantiago Munoz Arbelaez
UGS 302Erika M Bsumek
Bachelor’s degrees2 programs
Master’s degrees1 program
Doctoral degrees1 program
Pay after graduationUp to $56,900
Median pay after graduation by field
Field of study1 year out4 years out
HistoryBachelor’s · History$42,200$56,900

Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs.

About the department

Department of History is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are HIS.

SourcesUT catalog, HB 2504

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