The study of cultural, intellectual and religious history is the study of ideas and beliefs in their historical context. Faculty members whose work falls under this category interrogate the ways overarching value systems, key words, and concepts—such as guilt, democracy, social order, equality—have been deployed by thinkers, writers, theologians, artists, and other cultural producers. Also important are the ways in which these concepts themselves mobilize broader society. More detailed information on below-listed faculty can be found on their faculty biography pages.
Patrick Barr-Melej
- Modern Latin America; Modern Period
- History of Chile
- Cultural Politics; History of Ideas; Popular Culture; Counterculture
Michele L. Clouse
- Europe; Early Modern Period
- Spain
- Medicine; Legal History
T. David Curp
- Europe; Modern Period
- Poland
- Ethno-National Relations; Religious Life; Church-State Relations
Joshua Hill
- East Asia; Modern Period
- China
- Political Ideas and Ideals; U.S.-China Relations
Alec Holcombe
- Southeast Asia; Modern Period
- Vietnam
- Colonialism; Socialist Reconstruction
Katherine Jellison
- United States; Modern Period
- Women and Gender; Consumer Relations
Victoria Lee
- Science and Technology; Modern Period
- Japan
- East Asia; Environment; Craft and Political Economy
Kevin Mattson
- United States; Twentieth Century
- Intellectual History; Culture and Politics
Jaclyn Maxwell
- Mediterranean; Ancient Period
- Roman Empire
- Early Christianity and Social History
Paul C. Milazzo
- United States; Twentieth Century
- Environment; Congress
Assan Sarr
- Africa; Late Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries
- The Senegal and Gambia River Basin
- Agrarian Society; Islam; Oral History
Brian Schoen
- Nineteenth Century United States; Early Republic and Civil War
- United States and the World
- Political Economy
Miriam Shadis
- Europe; Medieval Period
- Spain and Portugal
- Women and Gender; Religion; Political Life
Kevin Uhalde
- Mediterranean and Western Europe; Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
- Roman Empire and Medieval Europe
- Formation and Varieties of Christian Societies; Law and Legal Culture in Practice
Mirna Zakic
- Europe; Modern Period
- Germany
- National Socialism; Ideology and Society