Areas of Study:
 
 
 
   
     
 
History and Theory

With a number of faculty trained as historians and many others working with a historical orientation in other disciplines, the Rhetoric Department can support interdisciplinary work in a wide range of theoretical and empirical subjects. Faculty are particularly interested in intellectual and cultural history, social history, literary history, and the philosophy of history.		  
 
 

Faculty

David Bates
European Intellectual history; France

David Cohen
Social history; Ancient Greece

Marianne Constable
Legal history

Michael Mascuch
Early modern social and cultural history; Britain

Carol Clover
Medieval culture

Daniel Melia
Folklore; Medieval culture

Michael Wintroub
History of science; Early modern cultural history

Victoria Kahn, Affiliated faculty
Renaissance Europe

Martin Jay, Affiliated faculty
European Intellectual History

Barbara Shapiro, Emerita faculty
Early modern intellectual history; history of science