Kelly Brignac
Assistant Professor of History
History
When you study history at Colby, you’re signing on for an intellectually rigorous and rewarding experience.
Working alongside our accomplished faculty, you’ll examine the diversity of human experience by studying the evolution of your culture and others around the world.
About History
Colby’s history majors gain a broad knowledge of the rich human past and become critical readers, skilled problem solvers, disciplined researchers, and accomplished writers. Students explore the vast scope of human history from a comparative perspective, and also focus on specific time periods, regions of the world, and themes. Faculty expertise includes world history as well as the history of the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, Africa, the U.S., Europe, Russia, and the Soviet Union. Faculty specialize in global health, the environment, technology, Islam and other world religions, war, gender, Native American and African American history, and more.
History faculty are committed to student learning in a variety of pedagogical settings, including lectures, class discussions, historiographical seminars, senior research seminars, independent research and honors projects with individual faculty members, and study abroad.
Faculty and Staff
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Tizoc Chavez
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Inga Diederich
Assistant Professor of History
Sarah Duff
Associate Professor of History
Danae Jacobson
Assistant Professor of History
Linshan Jiang
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Zoe Shan Lin
Assistant Professor of History
Jesse Meredith
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Director of the Integrated Studies Program
Raffael Scheck
The John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History; Chair of Jewish Studies
Henry Snow
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Larissa Taylor
Professor of History
John Turner
Associate Professor of History; Associate Chair of History
Arnout van der Meer
Associate Professor of History; Chair of History
Teresa Van Deventer
Administrative Assistant – American Studies, CISI (Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative), History, and WGSS (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
Rob Weisbrot
Business Title Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History
Fatema Yusuf
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant
- Paul R. Josephson, M.A. ’08, Ph.D. (Antioch, Harvard, MIT), 2000-2022, Professor of History, Emeritus
- Elizabeth D. Leonard, M.A. ’05, Ph.D. (New Rochelle, California at Riverside), 1992-2019, John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita
- Richard J. Moss, M.A. ’90, Ph.D., 1978-2005, John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emeritus
- James L.A. Webb Jr., M.A. ’03, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), 1987-2018, Professor of History, Emeritus
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