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: TBAElisabeth 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: TBAM. 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: TBAF. 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: TBAMarline 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: TBALinda 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: TBASamuel 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: TBAFelipe 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: TBAKris 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: TBAJustin 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: TBAR. 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: TBAKarissa 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: TBALaura Kelley
kelleyld@tulane.edu
Adjunct Faculty (Ph.D, Tulane, 2004)
Laura Kelley specializes in U.S. History.
Phone: 504-862-8600 Office Hours: By AppointmentJana 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: TBAShennette 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: TBARandy 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