The Early Modern European history program is recognized as a leader in the field. Organized around an introductory reading course  (PDR in Early Modern History), topical colloquia taught by distinguished scholars, and a year-long history seminar, the early modern European specialization draws upon the history department's strength in cultural, social, intellectual, women's and gender, and comparative and global history. Students find their work enriched by the graduate program's parallel specializations: Early America, the Atlantic world, medieval history, and modern European history.Designed for highly qualified applicants, graduate studies in Early Modern European history provides an excellent foundation for academic careers in teaching and research.

    Rudolph BELL  (Ph.D., 1969, City University of New York)
Professor Bell's specialties include popular religion, saints, and the history of reading. Currently he is working on female mystics in modern Italy, as well as on Italian widowhood in the period 1200-1600. His works include Party and Faction in American Politics: House of Representatives, 1789-1801 (1973); Fate and Honor, Family and Village: Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy since 1800 (1979); Saints and Society (1982, with Donald Weinstein); Holy Anorexia (1985); How to Do It (1999); and The Voices of Gemma Galgani (2003, with Cristina Mazzoni). Professor Bell teaches courses on European history, with a focus on Italian cultural history. I

    Alastair James BELLANY (Ph.D., 1995, Princeton)
Professor Bellany specializes in early modern British history. He is the author of The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660 (2002)Cambridge University Press),  a study of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham (with Tom Cogswell) titled, England's Assassin: John Felton and the Killing of the Duke of Buckingham (forthcoming).

     James DELBOURGO (Ph.D. 2003, Columbia)

Professor Delbourgo is a historian of early modern science and the Atlantic world.  His interests range from physical science and experiment to natural history and travel, and the intersections between them in the long eighteenth century, embracing topics such as history of the body, scientific instruments, collecting, and the geographical displacement of persons, objects and techniques through global networks. He is the author of A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America (Harvard, 2006)., Science and Empire in the Atlantic World, co-editor with Nicholas Dew (Routledge, 2008)., and co-editor of The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820  (forthcoming).

    Jennifer JONES (Ph.D., 1991, Princeton)
Professor Jones is author of Sexing la Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France (2004). Her research focuses on gender and urban culture in 18th-century France. Currently she is writing a book titled Therese's Enlightenment: Women in the Shadows of the Public Sphere, which uses the life Jean-Jacques Rousseau's mistress, as an entry into an exploration of women's experience of the the Englightenment. Professor Jones teaches courses on women's history, early modern history, French history, and fashion and commercial culture.

    Samantha KELLY (Ph.D., 1998, Northwestern University)
Professor Kelly has a special research interest in the political and intellectual history of late-medieval Italy. She is the author of The New Solomon: Robert of Naples (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship ( 2003). Her current research project deals with historiography and civic identity in late-medieval Naples.

    Phyllis MACK (Ph.D., 1974, Cornell)
Professor Mack specializes in early modern Europe, women's history and religious history. Author of Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544-1569 (1978); Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe. co.ed with Margaret Jacob (1987) and Visionary Women Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (1992),  In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the 20th Century, co-edited with Omer Bartov, ( 2001). and Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism (2008)

Associated Faculty
   
    Indrani Chatterjee (Ph.D., U. of London)
        South Asia, slavery, gender, social history.
    Peter Golden (Ph.D., 1970, Columbia).
        Medieval; Turkic nomads of  the 4th to the 13th century.
    James Masschaele (Ph.D., 1989, Toronto).
        Medieval History;England;  European Social and Economic History.
    Karl F. Morrison  (Ph.D., 1961, Cornell).
        Late Roman and early Medieval History, with an emphasis on  art and theology.
    Paola Tartakoff (Ph.D., 2007 Columbia),
        Medieval religion and spiritiuality; Iberia, Jewish history.

     Stephen W. Reinert (Ph.D., 1981, UCLA).
        Byzantine and Early Turkic History.  Balkan and Ottoman political and
        intellectual history.
    Nancy Sinkoff (Ph.D. Columbia University)
        Early modern/modern East European Jewish Intellectual History.