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Bottom row, from left to right: Karen Mota, Mary Gluck, Omer Bartov, Tara Nummedal Robert Self, Nancy Jacobs
Second row, from left to right: Howard Chudacoff, Ken Sacks, Burr Litchfield, Ethan Pollock, Tim Harris
Third row, from left to right: James McClain, Lea Williams, Cynthia Brokaw, Joan Richards
Fourth row, from left to right: Linford Fisher, Naoko Shibusawa, Jerome Grieder, Jorge Flores, Cherrie Guerzon, Mark Swislocki
Fifth row, from left to right: Mary Beth Bryson, Francoise Hamlin, Robert Cope, Maud Mandel, Julissa Bautista, John Bodel
Top row: from left to right: Carl Kaestle, James Patterson, James Green
Not pictured: Engin Akarli, Caroline Castiglione, Deborah Cohen, Carolyn Dean, Matthew Garcia, Elliott Gorn, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Karl Jacoby, Steven Lubar, Amy Remensnyder, Seth Rockman, Kerry Smith, Tracy Steffes, Michael Steinberg, Michael Vorenberg, Vazira Zamindar
About the History Department
As one of the first institutions in the United States to provide for historical studies, Brown’s Department of History has been marked through time by its high standards of scholarship and teaching. The history department houses a distinguished faculty and teaching staff at Brown University. Although the department has no single approach or pedagogic method, faculty members use methods of instruction most appropriate to the subject and to the students' level of knowledge. Currently, the department offers a wide variety of courses – ranging from the histories of classical, Greek, Roman civilizations to the histories of Europe, the Americas, and Asia – all concerned with changes of human experience through time. While certain courses may deal with special topics (e.g. 20th Century Science or Multi-Racial Societies in the Americas), others concentrate on the history of a particular country (e.g. Russia or France) or on a certain period of time (e.g. the Middle Ages or the Renaissance). By taking advantage of the variety of course offerings, students can engage in and develop broad perspectives on both the past and the present.