History

The Faculty History Project documents faculty members who have been associated with the University of Michigan since 1837. Key in this effort is to celebrate the intellectual life of the University. This Faculty History Website is intended as a component of the effort to document the extraordinary academic achievements of Michigan’s faculty in building and sustaining one of the world’s great universities. It provides access to a comprehensive database of information concerning the thousands of faculty members who have served the University of Michigan.
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The Bentley Historical Library serves as the official archives for the University.

List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Daniel Whedon	1845 - 1851	Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and History
Erastus Otis Haven	1852 - 1881	President of the University of Michigan Chair of Latin Language and Literature, History and English Literature
Andrew Dickson White	1858 - 1863	Professor of History & English Literature Co-Founder & President of Cornell University
Charles Kendall Adams	1862 - 1885	Professor of History
Richard Hudson	1879 - 1911	Professor of History Dean of Literature, Science and the Arts
Andrew Cunninghman McLaughlin	1886 - 1906	Assistant Professor of American History
Herman Vandenburg Ames	1891 - 1894	Acting Assistant Professor of American History
Earle Wilbur Dow	1892 - 1938	Professor of History
David Ellsworth Spencer	1892	Acting Professor of History
Frank Haigh Dixon	1896 - 1898	Acting Assistant Professor in Political Economy
Arthur Lyon Cross	1899 - 1940	Professor of History
Claude Halstead Van Tyne	1903 - 1930	Professor of History
Frederick Logan Paxson	1906 - 1910	Junior Professor of History
William Alley Frayer	1909 - 1918	Professor of History
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips	1911 - 1928	Professor of History
Edward Raymond Turner	1911 - 1924	Professor of History
Arthur Edward Rommilly Boak	1914 - 1958	Professor of History
William Lytle Schurz	1915 - 1918	Assistant Professor of Latin American History
David Duncan Wallace	1917 - 1918	Acting Professor of History
Preston W. Slosson	1921 - 1962	Professor of History
Albert Beebe White	1921	Professor of History
Arthur Louis Dunham	1923 - 1956	Professor of History
Albert Hyma	1924 - 1963	Professor of History
Benjamin Webb Wheeler	1924 - 1959	Professor of History
Arthur Scott Aiton	1926 - 1954	Professor of History
Leonard Manyon	1926 - 1932	Instructor in History
Howard Meredith Ehrmann	1927 - 1968	Professor of History
Seaman Morley Scott	1927 - 1943	Assistant Professor of History
Lewis George Vander Velde	1928 - 1961	Professor of History Director Michigan Historical Collections
Karl H. Reichenbach	1929 - 1974	Associate Professor of History and American Culture
Arthur Hen ry Hirsch	1929	Professor of History of Art
Verner W. Crane	1930 - 1959	Professor of History
Dwight Lowell Dumond	1930 - 1965	Professor of History
Robert Harbold McDowell	1931 - 1946	Assistant Professor of History
Dwight Clark Long	1934 - 1964	Associate Professor of History & African and African American Studies
Howard H. Peckham	1936 - 1979	Professor of History Director Clements Library
Palmer Allan Throop	1938 - 1971	Professor of History
William Bradford Willcox	1941 - 1969	Professor of History
William Raymond Leslie	1945 - 1978	Professor of History
Andrei A Lobanov Rostovsky	1945 - 1962	Professor of History
Gerald S. Brown	1946 - 1981	Professor of History
John W Hall	1948 - 1961	Professor of History Director Center for Japanese Studies
Sidney Fine	1951 - 2001	Andrew Dickson White Professor of History
Finley A. Hooper	1951	Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Charles E. Odegaard	1952 - 1958	Professor of History Dean of LSA 1952-1958
Andrew S. Ehrenkreut	1954 - 1987	Professor of History
Stephen J. Tonsor	1954 - 1994	Professor of History
Stanley I  Mellon	1954 - 1959
Richard P. Mitchell	1956 - 1983	Professor of History
Jacob M. Price	1956 - 1990	Professor of History
John W. Baldwin	1956 - 1961	Assistant Professor of History
Robert M. Warner	1957 - 1980 1985 - 1990	Professor of History Director of the Michigan Historical Collections Professor of Library Science
Alexander DeConde	1957 - 1961	Professor of History
Paul J. Alexander	1958 - 1968	Professor of History
William S. Hanna Jr.	1958	Assistant Professor of History, Asian Languages and Culture
Albert Feuerwerker	1959 - 1996	Professor of History
Richard A. Soloway	1959 - 1968	Assistant Professor of History
Gerhard L. Weinberg	1959 - 1974	Professor of History
John Bowditch	1960 - 1983	Professor of History
John Higham	1960 - 1971	Professor of History
Roger F. Hackett	1961 - 1993	Professor of History
Sylvia L. Thrupp	1961 - 1974	Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
Yung Shih Yu	1962 - 1966	Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Chinese, History
Michael Altschul	1962	Assistant Professor of History of Art
Arthur P. Mendel	1962 - 1988	Professor of History
Bradford Perkins	1962 - 1997	Professor of History
Ying-Shih Yu	1962 - 1966	Assistant Professor of History, Chinese History and Language Visiting Associate Professor of Far Eastern Language and Literature
John H. Broomfield	1963 - 1983	Professor of History Richard Hudson Research Professor of History Director Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies
John W. Eadie	1963 - 1986	Professor of History
Marian Low	1963 - 1966	Assistant Professor of History
Lionel Rothkrug	1963 - 1970	Associate Professor of History and Comparative Literature
Thomas N. Tentler	1963 - 2000	Professor of History
William Freehling	1964 - 1972	Professor of History
Raymond Grew	1964 - 1999	Professor of History
David J. Steinberg	1964 - 1973	Associate Professor of History and American Culture
Rhoads Murphey	1964 - 1990	Professor of History
Shaw Livermore Jr	1964 - 1990	Professor of History
Charles O. Hucker	1965 - 1983	Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures, History
Charles Gibson	1965	Professor of History
Jack P. Greene	1965	Associate Professor of History
Adrienne Koch	1965 - 1966	Visiting Honors Professor of History
David C. Lindberg	1965 - 1968	Assistant Professor of History
Robert Sklar	1965 - 1976	Professor of History
Timothy L. Smith	1965 - 1966	Visiting professor of History
Roman Szporluk	1965 - 1991	Professor of History
John H. D'Arms	1965 - 2000	Professor of Classical Studies, History Dean of the Graduate School Gerald F. Else Professor of Humanities
Guth DeLoyd	1966	Assistant Professor of History, Asian Languages and Culture
Sam B. Warner	1966 - 1972	Professor of History
Jerome M. Clubb	1966 - 1994	Professor of History Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
David D. Bien	1967 - 1996	Professor of History
Colin J. Heywood	1967	Assistant Professor of History
John W. Shy	1967 - 1995	Professor of History
William C. Rosenberg	1967 - 2010	Professor of History Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History Director of the Center for Russian & East European Studies
Ernest P. Young	1968 - 2002	Professor of History
Harold Wright Cruse	1968 - 1984	Professor of History Professor of Afro American & African Studies
Gerald F. Linderman	1969 - 1995	Professor of History
Charles H. Tilly	1969 - 1984	Professor of History and Sociology
John V.A. Fine Jr	1969 - 2016	Professor of History
Richard B. Latner	1970	Assistant Professor of History Women's Studies
Harold Livesay	1970 - 1978	Associate Professor of History & African and African American Studies
Kenneth A. Lockridge	1970 - 1992	Professor of History
Frank R. Rossiter	1970 - 1975	Assistant Professor of History
Godfrey N. Uzoigwe	1970 - 1984	Professor of History and African and African American Studies
James A. Vann III	1970 - 1985	Professor of History
Nicholas Steneck	1970 - 2006	Professor of History
Chester Starr	1970 - 1985	Professor of History Chair Department of History Bentley Professor of History
Charles Trinkaus	1970 - 1982	Professor of History
Oliver W. Holmes	1971 - 1974	Assistant Professor of History
Charles C. Bright	1971 - 2016	Professor of History and Judaic Studies Professor of Residential College
Robin M. Jacoby	1972 - 1989	Assistant Professor of History
Bruce W. McGowan	1972	Assistant Professor of History
Jehuda Reinharz	1972 - 1984	Professor of History
John C. Dann	1972 - 2007	Adjunct Professor of History Director of the William L. Clements Library of American History
Marvin B. Becker	1973 - 1995	Proefessor of History
Robert F. Berkhofer	1973 - 1991	Professor of History
James O. Horton	1973 - 1976	Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies
Elizabeth E. Pleck	1973 - 1978	Assistant Professor of History
Mary E. Berry	1974 - 1978	Assistant Professor of History
William A. Hunt	1974 - 1977	Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies
J. Mills Thornton III	1974 - 2010	Professor of History
Maris A. Vinovskist	1974 - 2019	Professor of History & Public Policy Research Professor Center for Political Studies ISR Research Professor Emeritus
Raymond A. Detter	1975	Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein	1975 - 1988	Professor of History
Thomas A. Green	1975 - 2009	John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law Professor of History
Norman G. Owen	1976	Assistant Professor of History
Donald Sanford	1976	Visiting Associate Professor of History
Michael E. Geyer	1977 - 1986	Associate Professor of History & African and African American Studies
David A Hollinger	1977 - 1992	Professor of History
Ronald G. Suny	1977 - 1994	Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History
Louise A. Tilly	1977 - 1984	Professor of History and Women's Studies
Francis X Blouin Jr	1977 - 2018	Professor of Information & History
Rudi P. Lindner	1977 - 2017	Professor of Astronomy and History
Barbara Jeane Fields	1978 - 1986	Associate Professor of History & African and African American Studies
Thomas C. Holt	1979 - 1988	Professor of History & African and African American Studies
Martin S. Pernick	1979 - 2020	Professor of History
Geoff Eley	1979 - 2022	Professor of Contemporary History
Cynthia B. Herrup	1981	Assistant Professor of History, Asian Languages and Culture
Ronald Grigor Suny	1981 - 1995	Professor of History & Politicl Science
Frederick Cooper	1982 - 2003	Professor of AfroAmerican & African Studies Profesor of History Charles Gibson Collegiate Professor of History
Diane Owen Hughes	1983 - 2016	Associate Professor of History
James C. Turner	1984 - 1995	Professor of History
Carol F. Karlsen	1985 - 2011	Professor of History Professor of Women's Studies
Todd M Endelman	1985 - 2012	Professor of History & Judaic Studies
Sarah C. Humphreys	1987 - 2000	Professor of History, Anthropology, Classical Studies
W. Andrew Achenbaum	1987 - 1999	Professor of History Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology
Jane R. Burbank	1987 - 2002	Professor of History
Raymond H. Van Dam	1987 - 2016	Professor of History Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Laura Lee Downs	1988 - 2003	Associate Professor of History
Michael P. MacDonald	1988 - 2015	Professor of History
Kathleen M. Canning	1988 - 2018	Professor of History, Women's Studies, Germanic Languages & Literature Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professor of History
Keletso E. Atkins	1989 - 1996	Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Frank H. Mackaman	1989	Professor of History
Earl Lewis	1989 - 2004	Professor of History, Afro-American & African Studies Director of Center for Afro-American & African Studies Dean of Graduate Studies & Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Sabine MacCormack	1989 - 2003	Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History Mary Ann & Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of the Study of Human Understanding
Miriam E. Bodian	1990 - 1997	Assistant Professor of Judiac Studies
Robin D. G. Kelley	1990 - 1994	Associate Professor of History & African and African American Studies
Rudolf Mrazek	1990 - 2014	Professor of History & Judaic Studies
Fernando Coronil	1991 - 2008	Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics
Elsa Barkley Brown	1991 - 1997	Assistant Professor of History
Paul Forage	1991 - 1997	Assistant Professor of History, Asian Languages and Cultures
Susan L. Johnson	1992 - 1996	Assistant Professor of History Women's Studies
Susan Juster	1992 - 2023	Professor of History
George Sanchez	1993 - 1998	Associate Professor of History and American Culture
Sonya O. Rose	1993 - 2006	Natalie Zemon Davis Collegiate Professor Professor of History Professor of Sociology
Regina Morantz-Sanchez	1994 - 2016	Professor of History and Judaic Studies
Maria E. Montoya	1995 - 2006	Associate Professor of American Culture Associate Professor of History
Leslie Pincus	1995 - 2018	Associate Professor of History
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg	1996 - 2008	Professor of American Culture, History, Women's Studies
Michael A. Wintroub	1996 - 2003	Associate Professor of History
Matthew J. Connelly	1997 - 2002	Assistant Professor of History and Public Policy
Stephanie S. Platz	1997 - 2002	Assistant Professor of History
Nancy Rose Hunt	1997 - 2016	Professor of History and Judaic Studies Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Michele Mitchell	1998 - 2007	Associate Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies Associate Professor of History
Sumathi Ramaswamy	1998 - 2007	Professor of History
Stefanie B. Siegmund	1998 - 2008	Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of Judaic Studies
Gabrielle Hecht	1998 - 2017	Professor of History
Mamadou Diouf	1999 - 2007	Presidential Professor of History & African and African American Studies
Beate D. Dignas	1999 - 2006	Assistant Professor of History
Penny M Von Eschen	1999 - 2015	Professor of American Culture Professor of History
Kevin K Gaines	1999 - 2015	Professor of AfroAmerican & African Studies Professor of History
Tomoko Masuzawa	1999 - 2020	Professor of Comparatie Literature & History
David M. Halperin	1999 - 2021	Professor of English, History & Women's Studies
Liza E. Black	2000 - 2003	Assistant Professor of American Culture Assistant Profesor of History
Scott T Kurashige	2000 - 2014	Professor of American Culture & History
Dena Goodman	2000 - 2018	Professor of History & Women's Studies
Philip J. Deloria	2000 - 2018	Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History & American Culture Professor of History & American Culture Professor of Environment
Damon I Salesa	2001 - 2012	Associate Professor of American Culture Associate Professor of History
Myron P. Gutmann	2001 - 2014	Professor of Information Professor of History Research Professor Population Studies, ISR
Jeffrey E. Mirel	2001 - 2016	Professor of Education Professor of History
Martha S. Jones	2001 - 2017	Professor of History and Afroamerican & African Studies
Mark C. Elliott	2002 - 2003	Associate Professor of History
Wang Zheng	2002 - 2020	Professor of History & Women's and Gender Studies
Mary C. Kelley	2002 - 2023	Professor of History, American Culture & Women's and Gender Studies
Richard L. Turits	2003 - 2014	Associate Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies Associate Professor of History
Jonathan L. Sheehan	2005 - 2007	Associate Professor of History
George C. Alter	2007 - 2020	Professor of History Research Professor Population Studies Center Research Professor Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Sherie M. Randolph	2008 - 2016	Associate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies Associate Professor of History
Howard Brick	2008 - 2023	Professor of History
Brandi S. Hughes	2010 - 2018	Assistant Professor of American Culture & History
Sabastian Raphael Prange	2011 - 2012	Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies & History

History

List of Professors

Daniel Whedon

Erastus Otis Haven

Andrew Dickson White

Charles Kendall Adams

Richard Hudson

Andrew Cunninghman McLaughlin

Herman Vandenburg Ames

Earle Wilbur Dow

David Ellsworth Spencer

Frank Haigh Dixon

Arthur Lyon Cross

Claude Halstead Van Tyne

Frederick Logan Paxson

William Alley Frayer

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Edward Raymond Turner

Arthur Edward Rommilly Boak

William Lytle Schurz

David Duncan Wallace

Preston W. Slosson

Albert Beebe White

Arthur Louis Dunham

Albert Hyma

Benjamin Webb Wheeler

Arthur Scott Aiton

Leonard Manyon

Howard Meredith Ehrmann

Seaman Morley Scott

Lewis George Vander Velde

Karl H. Reichenbach

Arthur Hen ry Hirsch

Verner W. Crane

Dwight Lowell Dumond

Robert Harbold McDowell

Dwight Clark Long

Howard H. Peckham

Palmer Allan Throop

William Bradford Willcox

William Raymond Leslie

Andrei A Lobanov Rostovsky

Gerald S. Brown

John W Hall

Sidney Fine

Finley A. Hooper

Charles E. Odegaard

Andrew S. Ehrenkreut

Stephen J. Tonsor

Stanley I Mellon

Richard P. Mitchell

Jacob M. Price

John W. Baldwin

Robert M. Warner

Alexander DeConde

Paul J. Alexander

William S. Hanna Jr.

Albert Feuerwerker

Richard A. Soloway

Gerhard L. Weinberg

John Bowditch

John Higham

Roger F. Hackett

Sylvia L. Thrupp

Yung Shih Yu

Michael Altschul

Arthur P. Mendel

Bradford Perkins

Ying-Shih Yu

John H. Broomfield

John W. Eadie

Marian Low

Lionel Rothkrug

Thomas N. Tentler

William Freehling

Raymond Grew

David J. Steinberg

Rhoads Murphey

Shaw Livermore Jr

Charles O. Hucker

Arthur Hen ry Hirsch

Stanley I  Mellon