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OAH Distinguished Lecturers

Below is a comprehensive list of OAH Distinguished Lecturers. An asterisk (*) denotes that the speaker joined the program in 2012–2013.

A

• Catherine Allgor, University of California, Riverside
• Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland, College Park
• Luis Alvarez, University of California, San Diego *
• Fred Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder
• Virginia DeJohn Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder
• Thomas G. Andrews, University of Colorado Denver
• Richard Aquila, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
• David Armitage, Harvard University
• Eric Arnesen, The George Washington University
• Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles and Autry National Center
• Gabriela F. Arredondo, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
• Eric Avila, University of California, Los Angeles
• Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond

B

• Robert Bain, University of Michigan
• Juliana Barr, University of Florida *
• Mia Bay, Rutgers University
• Sven Beckert, Harvard University
• Thomas Bender, New York University
• Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University
• Shana Bernstein, Southwestern University *
• Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin
• Stephen Berry, University of Georgia
• Marjorie Wall Bingham, Hamline University, Emerita and St. Louis Park High School, Retired
• Martha Biondi, Northwestern University *
• Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University
• Karen J. Blair, Central Washington University
• William A. Blair, Penn State University
• David W. Blight, Yale University
• John E. Bodnar, Indiana University
• Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis
• Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Terry Bouton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• J.D. Bowers, Northern Illinois University
• Anne M. Boylan, University of Delaware
• Kevin Boyle, The Ohio State University
• John H. Bracey, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Barry Bradford, Adlai E. Stevenson High School
• Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago *
• Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago
• Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School
• Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley *
• Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
• Janet Farrell Brodie, Claremont Graduate University
• Leslie Brown, Williams College
• Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina
• Victoria Bissell Brown, Grinnell College
• W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Charles F. Bryan Jr., Virginia Historical Society, Emeritus
• Paul M. Buhle, Brown University, Emeritus
• Lonnie G. Bunch III, National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Jennifer Burns, University of Virginia
• Edwin G. Burrows, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• Orville Vernon Burton, Clemson University
• Jon Butler, Yale University, Emeritus
• Victoria E. Bynum, Texas State University - San Marcos, Emerita

C

• Lendol Calder, Augustana College
• Albert Camarillo, Stanford University
• Ballard Campbell, Northeastern University
• James T. Campbell, Stanford University
• Margot Canaday, Princeton University *
• Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College
• Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
• Richard Carwardine, Corpus Christi College and Oxford University
• Andrew Cayton, Miami University
• Miroslava Chávez-García, University of California, Davis
• Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bruce Chadwick, New Jersey City University
• William H. Chafe, Duke University
• Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University
• Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
• Howard P. Chudacoff, Brown University
• Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University
• Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University *
• Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Charles L. Cohen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Annie Gilbert Coleman, University of Notre Dame
• Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University
• Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
• Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College
• Saul Cornell, Fordham University
• Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
• Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University
• Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University, Emeritus
• Margaret Creighton, Bates College
• Joseph Crespino, Emory University *
• Spencer Crew, George Mason University *
• Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College

D

• Kathleen Dalton, Phillips Academy Andover
• Pete Daniel, Independent Historian
• Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati, Emeritus
• Adrienne D. Davis, Washington University in St. Louis
• Cornelia H. Dayton, University of Connecticut
• Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan
• Sarah Deutsch, Duke University
• William Deverell, University of Southern California
• Bruce Dierenfield, Canisius College
• Hasia Diner, New York University
• John Dittmer, DePauw University
• Gregory Evans Dowd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Don H. Doyle, University of South Carolina *
• Thomas Dublin, Binghamton University, State University of New York
• Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California
• Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College
• Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
• Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

E

• Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas
• Michael H. Ebner, Lake Forest College, Emeritus
• Laura F. Edwards, Duke University
• Ted Engelmann, Independent Historian
• David C. Engerman, Brandeis University
• Stephen D. Engle, Florida Atlantic University
• Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University
• Todd Estes, Oakland University
• C. Wyatt Evans, Drew University

F

• Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine
• Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley
• Daniel Feller, University of Tennessee
• Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University, Emeritus
• John Ferling, University of West Georgia, Emeritus
• Sharla Fett, Occidental College
• Jill Fields, California State University, Fresno
• Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
• Deborah Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ellen Fitzpatrick, University of New Hampshire
• Donald L. Fixico, Arizona State University
• Michael W. Flamm, Ohio Wesleyan University
• Neil Foley, University of Texas at Austin
• Lacy K. Ford, University of South Carolina
• Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
• Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University
• François Furstenberg, University of Montreal

G

• Laura E. Gómez, University of California, Los Angeles *
• Matt Garcia, Arizona State University
• Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University
• Edith B. Gelles, Stanford University
• Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University
• Lori D. Ginzberg, Penn State University
• Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Susan A. Glenn, University of Washington
• Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina
• Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University
• Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
• Kenneth W. Goings, The Ohio State University
• David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Eric L. Goldstein, Emory University
• Risa L. Goluboff, University of Virginia *
• Edward E. Gordon, Independent Historian
• Lesley J. Gordon, University of Akron
• Linda Gordon, New York University
• Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania *
• Elliott J. Gorn, Brown University
• Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College
• James Green, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Laurie Green, University of Texas at Austin *
• Michael S. Green, College of Southern Nevada
• Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College
• Kenneth S. Greenberg, Suffolk University
• James N. Gregory, University of Washington
• Mark Grimsley, The Ohio State University
• Ariela J. Gross, University of Southern California
• Gayle Gullett, Arizona State University
• Ramón Gutiérrez, University of Chicago

H

• Pekka Hämäläinen, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Lisbeth Haas, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
• Jacquelyn D. Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• William M. Hammond, University of Maryland, College Park
• Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
• Claudrena N. Harold, University of Virginia
• Leslie Harris, Emory University
• Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California, Davis
• Susan M. Hartmann, The Ohio State University
• Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
• Joan Hoff, Montana State University, Bozeman
• Ronald Hoffman, College of William and Mary and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
• Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley
• Jonathan Holloway, Yale University
• Woody Holton, University of Richmond
• Michael K. Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma
• James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Daniel Horowitz, Smith College
• Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles, Emeritus and Oxford University, Emeritus
• Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
• Heather Huyck, College of William and Mary

I

• John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia
• Andrew C. Isenberg, Temple University

J

• Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
• Karl Jacoby, Brown University *
• Caroline E. Janney, Purdue University
• Robert F. Jefferson Jr., University of Alabama at Birmingham
• John W. Jeffries, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Michael P. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
• Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin
• Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Peniel E. Joseph, Tufts University

K

• Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University
• Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
• Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Steven M. Karr, Autry National Center, The Southwest Museum of the American Indian
• Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
• Harvey J. Kaye, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
• Mary Kelley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• David Kennedy, Stanford University, Emeritus
• William Howland Kenney, Kent State University
• Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
• Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University
• Alexander Keyssar, Harvard University
• Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
• Wilma King, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Michael J. Klarman, Harvard University
• Matthew Klingle, Bowdoin College
• Richard H. Kohn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emeritus
• Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware
• Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Emerita
• Robert Korstad, Duke University
• J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology
• Alan M. Kraut, American University
• Jon Kukla, Independent Historian
• Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota *
• Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University
• Peter J. Kuznick, American University

L

• Glenn W. LaFantasie, Western Kentucky University
• Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts Amherst *
• Jackson Lears, Rutgers University
• Jerry Lembcke, College of the Holy Cross *
• Elizabeth D. Leonard, Colby College
• Bruce Levine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Earl Lewis, Emory University
• Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers University, Newark
• Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University *
• Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Allan J. Lichtman, American University
• Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado Boulder
• Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
• James W. Loewen, University of Vermont, Emeritus
• Trish Loughran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Karen Lystra, California State University, Fullerton
• Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles

M

• Nancy MacLean, Duke University
• James H. Madison, Indiana University
• Chandra Manning, Georgetown University
• Maeva Marcus, New-York Historical Society and George Washington University
• James Marten, Marquette University
• Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley
• Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota
• Edith P. Mayo, National Museum of American History
• Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael McGerr, Indiana University
• Lisa McGirr, Harvard University
• Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University
• Carol L. McKibben, Stanford University *
• Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University
• Sally G. McMillen, Davidson College
• Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma
• Edna Greene Medford, Howard University
• Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky
• Martin V. Melosi, University of Houston
• Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
• Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ruth Milkman, Graduate Center, City University of New York *
• Marla R. Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Clyde A. Milner II, Arkansas State University
• Jeffrey Mirel, University of Michigan
• Michele Mitchell, New York University
• Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College
• Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego
• Barbara Molony, Santa Clara University
• Douglas Monroy, Colorado College
• Maria E. Montoya, New York University
• Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan
• Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia *
• Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University
• Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
• Kevin Mumford, University of Iowa
• Alice Yang Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz

N

• Mark E. Neely Jr., Penn State University
• Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William and Mary
• Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University
• Gregory H. Nobles, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University
• Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota
• Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University

O

• Carol A. O’Connor, Arkansas State University
• Susan O’Donovan, University of Memphis
• James Oakes, Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Barbara B. Oberg, Princeton University
• Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University
• Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia
• Jason M. Opal, McGill University
• David M. Oshinsky, University of Texas at Austin and New York University
• Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi

P

• T. Michael Parrish, Baylor University
• James T. Patterson, Brown University, Emeritus
• Gunther Peck, Duke University
• William Pencak, Penn State University, Emeritus
• Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University
• Elisabeth I. Perry, Saint Louis University, Emerita
• Lewis Perry, Saint Louis University, Emeritus
• Christopher W. Phillips, University of Cincinnati
• Kimberley L. Phillips, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
• Dwight T. Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University
• Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
• Robert A. Pratt, University of Georgia
• Clement Alexander Price, Rutgers University, Newark

R

• Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College
• Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis
• Leslie J. Reagan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *
• Carol Reardon, Penn State University
• Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
• Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College
• Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Randy W. Roberts, Purdue University
• Seth Rockman, Brown University
• Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University
• David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
• Joshua Rothman, University of Alabama
• Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University
• E. Anthony Rotundo, Phillips Academy Andover
• Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
• Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Edmund Russell, University of Virginia
• Robert W. Rydell, Montana State University

S

• Nick Salvatore, Cornell University
• George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California
• Todd L. Savitt, East Carolina University
• Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College
• Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico
• Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
• Donna Schuele, University of California, Irvine
• Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University
• Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina, Emerita
• Donald Schwartz, California State University, Long Beach, Emeritus
• Thomas Alan Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
• Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Anne Firor Scott, Duke University, Emerita
• Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University *
• Robert O. Self, Brown University
• Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
• Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College
• Stephanie J. Shaw, The Ohio State University
• Aaron Sheehan-Dean, West Virginia University
• Martin J. Sherwin, George Mason University
• Nina Silber, Boston University
• Bryant Simon, Temple University
• Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University
• Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Suzanne M. Sinke, Florida State University
• Sheila Skemp, University of Mississippi
• Merritt Roe Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Suzanne E. Smith, George Mason University
• Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton
• Paul R. Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Marjorie J. Spruill, University of South Carolina
• Carole Srole, California State University, Los Angeles
• Christine Stansell, University of Chicago
• Judith Stein, City College of New York and Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Brenda E. Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
• James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College, Emeritus
• Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas at Austin
• Cynthia Stout, Independent Historian
• Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
• Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
• Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin
• John Wood Sweet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

T

• David Thelen, Indiana University, Emeritus
• Athan Theoharis, Marquette University, Emeritus
• William G. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Barbara L. Tischler, Horace Mann School
• Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

U

• Reed Ueda, Tufts University
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

V

• Lara Vapnek, St. John's University
• Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia
• Penny M. Von Eschen, University of Michigan
• Michael Vorenberg, Brown University

W

• Mike Wallace, Gotham Center for New York City History and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
• Brian Ward, University of Manchester
• Susan Ware, Independent Historian
• Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Barbara Y. Welke, University of Minnesota
• Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania
• Elliott West, University of Arkansas
• Carmen Teresa Whalen, Williams College
• Jeannie Whayne, University of Arkansas
• Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University
• Shane White, University of Sydney
• LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Frank J. Williams, Supreme Court of Rhode Island
• Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University
• Michael Willrich, Brandeis University
• Francille Rusan Wilson, University of Southern California
• Sam Wineburg, Stanford University
• Kenneth J. Winkle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Allan M. Winkler, Miami University
• Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• Nan E. Woodruff, Penn State University
• Steven E. Woodworth, Texas Christian University
• David M. Wrobel, University of Oklahoma
• Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University

Z

• Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
• Jamil S. Zainaldin, Georgia Humanities Council
• Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University
• Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University