Faculty

NANDINI BHATTACHARYA

Professor of South Asia & Medical History
nsbhatta@central.uh.edu  

ADELA CEDILLO

Assistant Professor of Modern Mexican History
acedill6@central.uh.edu 

PRATIK CHAKRABARTI

NEH Cullen Chair in History & Medicine
pchakra7@central.uh.edu  

TSHEPO MASANGO CHÉRY

Associate Professor of African History
tmchery@uh.edu 

MATTHEW CLAVIN

Professor of American and Atlantic History
mjclavin@uh.edu  

XIAOPING CONG

Professor of Modern
Chinese History
xcong@central.uh.edu 

STEVEN DEYLE

Associate Professor of US History
shdeyle@uh.edu  

NORAH L.A. GHARALA

Associate Professor of Colonial Mexican History
nlgharala@uh.edu  

MARK GOLDBERG

Associate Professor of US and Latinx History
Director of Graduate Studies
magoldberg@uh.edu   

ALEXEY GOLUBEV

 Associate Professor of Russian History
avgolubev@uh.edu   

HANAN HAMMAD

Professor
AAEF Chair in Modern Arab History &
Director of the AAEF Center for Arab Studies
hhhammad@uh.edu  

DEBBIE Z. HARWELL 

Instructional Associate Professor with REA 
dzharwel@central.uh.edu 

KELLY HOPKINS

Associate Professor of Early American History & 
Associate Chair of History
kyhopkins@uh.edu 

GERALD HORNE

Moores Professor of History
ghorne@uh.edu 

PHILIP HOWARD

Professor of Latin America & Caribbean 
Director of Undergraduate Studies
pahoward@uh.edu 

MICHELE R. (SCOUT) JOHNSON

Instructional Assistant Professor 
& Associate Director of Graduate Studies
mrjohn25@central.uh.edu  

KAIRN KLIEMAN

Associate Professor of African History
kklieman@uh.edu  

DAVID MCNALLY

NEH-Cullen Chair in History & Business
djmcnally@uh.edu  

NATALIA MILANESIO

Professor of Latin American History
nmilanesio@uh.edu  

RICHARD M. MIZELLE, JR.

Associate Professor of US and Medical History
rmmizelle@uh.edu 

KRISTINA NEUMANN

Associate Professor of Ancient & Digital History
& Director of Communications
kmneuma2@central.uh.edu  

CATHERINE PATTERSON

Professor of Early Modern Britain 
Chair of the Department of History
cpatters@uh.edu  

RAÚL RAMOS

Associate Professor of US and Chicano/a History
Director for the Center for Arts and Humanities 
raramos@uh.edu 

JOSIAH J. RECTOR

LINDA REED

Associate Professor of African American History
lreed@uh.edu  

TODD ROMERO

Associate Professor of Early US History & Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
tromero2@uh.edu  

JOHN SBARDELLATI

Associate Professor of 20th-Century US History
jsbardel@central.uh.edu 

JAMES SCHAFER

Associate Professor of US and Medical History
jschafer@uh.edu  

SETH WHITTY

Instructional Assistant Professor
srwhitty@CougarNet.UH.EDU

NANCY BECK YOUNG

Moores Professor of History & Director of the Center for Public History
nyoung@central.uh.edu  

CIHAN YÜKSEL

Associate Professor of Ottoman History
ecyuksel@central.uh.edu  

LEANDRA ZARNOW