Active Faculty by Area

The faculty of the Department of History are internationally recognized scholars and teachers. They are committed to the highest caliber of research and publishing while maintaining the engagement with students and excellence in teaching for which Tulane University is justly renowned.

  • AFRICA

    • Laura Rosanne Adderley

      adderley@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1996)
      Laura Rosanne Adderley specializes in the history of the African Diaspora; the Atlantic Slave Trade, black enslavement in the Americas; Caribbean history; and African-American history. She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
      Phone: 504-862-8631 Office: Room 108 Office Hours: TBA

    • Elisabeth McMahon

      emcmahon@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., Indiana, 2005)
      Elisabeth McMahon specializes in East African History, with a particular focus on slavery, emancipation, identity formation, and gender among the coastal Islamic communities.
      Phone: 504-862-8625 Office: Hebert 203 Office Hours: TBA

  • ASIA

    • Brian DeMare

      bdemare@tulane.edu
      Professor (Ph.D., UCLA, 2007)
      Brian DeMare specializes in modern Chinese history. He serves as the Chair of the Department of History.
      Phone: 504-862-8607 Office: Hebert 303 Office Hours: TBA

  • EUROPE

    • James M. Boyden

      jboyden@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., UT Austin, 1988)
      James M. Boyden specializes in Early modern Spain; Renaissance; and court culture.
      Phone: 504-862-8613 Office: Hebert 211 Office Hours: TBA

    • M. Kathryn Edwards

      medward5@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph. D., University of Toronto, 2010)
      Kathryn Edwards specializes in modern French and French colonial history. Her research interests include war and remembrance, immigration and identity, and colonial reform.
      Phone: 504-862-8609 Office: Hebert 215A Office Hours: TBA

    • F. Thomas Luongo

      tluongo@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1998)
      F. Thomas Luongo teaches medieval European history, with a specialization in medieval and Renaissance Italian history, as well as topics in pre-modern religion.
      Phone: 504-862-8620 Office: Hebert 215C Office Hours: TBA

    • Marline Otte

      motte@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., Toronto, 1999)
      Marline Otte specializes in modern European history focusing on Germany and cultural history.
      Phone: 504-862-8621 Office: Hebert 215B Office Hours: TBA

    • Linda Pollock

      pollock@tulane.edu
      Professor (PhD, St. Andrews, 1982)
      Linda Pollock, the John Christie Barr Professor, is a historian of early modern England. She specializes in social history topics such as childhood, the family, religion and medicine. Her current research is on the history of emotions 1550 to 1700.
      Phone: 504-862-8615 Office: Hebert 121 Office Hours: TBA

    • Samuel C. Ramer

      ramer@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., Columbia, 1971)
      Samuel C. Ramer is a historian of modern Russia. His research and teaching are devoted to problems in Russia's political, social, and cultural history.
      Phone: 504-862-8604 Office: Hebert 119 Office Hours: TBA

  • LATIN AMERICA

    • Laura Rosanne Adderley

      adderley@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1996)
      Laura Rosanne Adderley specializes in the history of the African Diaspora; the Atlantic Slave Trade, black enslavement in the Americas; Caribbean history; and African-American history. She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
      Phone: 504-862-8631 Office: Hebert 108 Office Hours: TBA

    • Felipe Fernandes Cruz

      fcruz1@tulane.edu
      Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2016)
      Felipe Fernandes Cruz specializes in the history of Brazil and also researches histories of technology, frontiers and exploration. He also works on digital humanities projects.
      Phone: 504-862-8619 Office: Hebert 215H Office Hours: TBA

    • Kris E. Lane

      klane1@tulane.edu
      Professor (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1996)
      Kris Lane is the France B. Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History. He specializes in the colonial history of the Andes, mining, piracy, and global trade.
      Phone: 504-862-8622 Office: Hebert 209 Office Hours: TBA

    • Justin Wolfe

      jwolfe@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., UCLA, 1999)
      Justin Wolfe is William Arceneaux Professor of Latin American History and Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow. He specializes in Central America, particularly post-colonial social and cultural history. His research interests include nation-state formation, race and ethnicity, and the African Diaspora.
      Phone: 504-862-8630 Office: Hebert 205 Office Hours: Schedule an appointment

  • MIDDLE EAST

    • Xiaoyue Yasin Li

      yasinli@tulane.edu
      Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Michigan Ann Arbor, 2021)
      Xiaoyue Yasin Li research focuses on the interplay of infrastructure, political economy, and everyday politics in colonial Egypt.
      Phone: 504-862-8608 Office: Hebert 326A Office Hours: TBA

  • UNITED STATES

    • Laura Rosanne Adderley

      adderley@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1996)
      Laura Rosanne Adderley specializes in the history of the African Diaspora; the Atlantic Slave Trade, black enslavement in the Americas; Caribbean history; and African-American history. She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
      Phone: 504-862-8631 Office: Hebert 108 Office Hours: TBA

    • R. Blakeslee Gilpin

      rgilpin@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., Yale, 2009)
      R. Blakeslee Gilpin received his Ph.D. from Yale University in May 2009 and his dissertation won the 2010 C. Vann Woodward Prize from the Southern Historical Association for the best dissertation in Southern history. Gilpin's first book, John Brown Still Lives!: America's Long Reckoning With Violence, Equality, and Change, was published by UNC Press in November 2022, and was a finalist for Gilder Lehrman Center's Frederick Douglass Book prize. The book appeared in paperback in Spring 2014.
      Phone: 504-862-8611 Office: Hebert 207 Office Hours: TBA

    • Karissa Haugeberg

      khaugebe@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., Iowa, 2011)
      Karissa Haugeberg specializes in the history of American women, politics, religion and medicine.
      Phone: 504-862-8614 Office: Hebert 122 Office Hours: TBA

    • Laura Kelley

      kelleyld@tulane.edu
      Adjunct Faculty (Ph.D, Tulane, 2004)
      Laura Kelley specializes in U.S. History.
      Phone: 504-862-8600 Office Hours: By Appointment

    • Jana K. Lipman

      jlipman@tulane.edu
      Professor (Ph.D., Yale, 2006)
      Jana Lipman is a specialist in the 20th-century U.S., especially foreign relations, social and political history, Cuba and Vietnam.
      Phone: 504-862-8618 Office: Hebert 113 Office Hours: TBA

    • Shennette Garrett-Scott

      sgs@tulane.edu
      Associate Professor (Ph.D., UT Austin, 2011)
      Shennette Garrett-Scott is a historian of gender, race, and capitalism.
      Phone: 504-862-8608 Office: Hebert 215E Office Hours: TBA

    • Randy J. Sparks

      rsparks1@tulane.edu
      Professor (Ph.D., Rice, 1988)
      Randy Sparks specializes in Southern History, the Early Modern Atlantic World, and American Religious History.
      Phone: 504-862-8627 Office: Hebert 118 Office Hours: TBA