Top Young Historians: 119 — Katherine Carté Engel

BASIC FACTS Teaching Position: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2004 – Present Area of Research: Early American Religious History, German Immigration, Transatlantic Pietism, Backcountry Education: Ph.D., American History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003 Major Publications: Carté Engel is the author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), the 2010 [...]

Top Young Historians: 118 — Thomas A. Guglielmo

Thomas A. Guglielmo BASIC FACTS Teaching Position: Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies Department, George Washington University Area of Research: Race and ethnic studies, immigration, and twentieth-century U.S. social, cultural, and political history. Education: PhD, University of Michigan, 2000 Major Publications: Guglielmo is the author of White On Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, [...]

Top Young Historians: 117 – Premilla Nadasen

Premilla Nadasen, 43 BASIC FACTS Teaching Position: Associate Professor, History Department, Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Faculty Area of Research: African-American history, social movements, poverty and social policy, history of welfare, domestic service work. Education: Ph.D. in U.S. History, Columbia University, Dissertation: “The Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1975,” 1999 (nominated for the Bancroft Award) Major [...]

Top Young Historians: 116 – David Engerman

David C. Engerman, 44 BASIC FACTS Teaching Position: Professor of History, Brandeis University Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2001-. Area of Research: Russia in American life, including politics, culture, and foreign policy. Education: Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1998 Major Publications: Engerman is the author of Know Your Enemy: The [...]

Top Young Historians: 115 – Brian DeLay, 38

Basic Facts Teaching Position: Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 2010-Present Area of Research: US and the World; 19th-century Americas; transnational history; US-Mexico Borderlands; native peoples; the international arms trade Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March, 2004 Major Publications: DeLay is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican [...]

Top Young Historians: 114 – Malinda Maynor Lowery, 38

Top Young Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery, 38 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, July, 2009-present. Area of Research: Native American history, Southern history, 19th and 20th century U.S. History Education: Ph.D., History, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May, 2005. Dissertation: “Native American Identity in the [...]

Top Young Historians: 113 – Christina Snyder, 31

Top Young Historians Christina Snyder, 31 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, Indiana University 2009-present. Area of Research: Identity, race, and the intersection of Native American and Southern history Education: Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007 Major Publications: Snyder is the author of Slavery in Indian Country: [...]

Top Young Historians: 112- Jennifer Burns

Top Young Historians Jennifer Burns, 34 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia, 2007- present Area of Research: American political, cultural, and intellectual history Education: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History, 2005 Major Publications: Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford University [...]

Top Young Historians: 111 – Andrew Preston, 36

Top Young Historians Andrew Preston, 36 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Senior University Lecturer in History, and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University Area of Research: American diplomatic history; American-East Asian relations; American religious history Education: Ph.D., History, Cambridge University, 2001 Major Publications: Preston is the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and [...]

Top Young Historians: 110 – Thomas G. Andrews

Top Young Historians Thomas G. Andrews, 38 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado, Denver, Fall, 2007-present Area of Research: The social and environmental history of the Rocky Mountain West Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States History, May, 2003; Dissertation: “The Road to Ludlow: Work, Environment, and Industrialization in [...]

Top Young Historians: 109 – Daniel J. Sargent

Top Young Historians Daniel J. Sargent, 30 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Area of Research: Modern American History, American foreign policy Education: Doctor of Philosophy, History, Harvard University, 2008 Major Publications: Sargent is the author of A Superpower Transformed: Globalization and the Crisis of American Foreign Policy in [...]

Top Young Historians: 108 – Bethany Moreton, 39

Top Young Historians Bethany Moreton, 39 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and the History of Christianity Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, 2010-2011 Area of Research: History of capitalism, the twentieth-century cultural and religious history of the United States, [...]

Top Young Historians: 107- François Furstenberg

Top Young Historians François Furstenberg, 37 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Associate Professor of History, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation Chair in American Studies, Université de Montréal. Area of Research: U.S. and comparative nationalism, Political ideologies, The French Atlantic World, c. 1790-1820, Slavery and Society, c. 1770-1860 Education: Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University (2003); B.A., Columbia University [...]

Top Young Historians: 106 – Pekka Hämäläinen

Top Young Historians Pekka Hämäläinen, 42 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara and Co-Director of Indigenous Studies Minor Area of Research: U.S. History, Borderlands, Native American History Education: Ph.D. in History, University of Helsinki, 2001 Major Publications: Hämäläinen is the author of The Comanche Empire, New Haven: Yale [...]

Top Young Historians: 105 – Jeffrey A. Engel

Top Young Historians Jeffrey A. Engel, 37 Basic Facts Teaching Position: Associate Professor and Verlin and Howard Kruse ’52 Founders Professor and the Director of Programming, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Texas A&M University. Area of Research: Engel teaches courses in American foreign policy and the evolution of international strategy, [...]