Emeritus Faculty

Fred Anderson received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He taught at Harvard before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1982-2018). His publications include Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000) and, with Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America,1500-2000 (2005).

Professor Anderson received her B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut and then, as a Marshall Scholar, earned an M.A. degree from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. She received A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. She is the author of three books: New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Creatures...

Lee Chambers recieved her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her background in American Studies, History, and Women's Studies shaped her interest in social and family history, women's history, and gender studies. She has published on antebellum single women, trans-Atlantic anti-slavery movements, nineteenth-century gender ideals in homicide trials, the performance of political womanliness in mourning rituals, family and vocation among abolitionists, and antislavery fairs. She is currently finishing two books...

Barbara Alpern Engel is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at the University of Colorado, USA. She is the author of numerous books, including Russia in World History (2015; with Janet Martin), Women in Russia: 1700-2000 (2004) and Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia (2011). She is also the editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008). She received her...

Professor Fenn taught courses addressing the history of epidemic disease, early America, Native America, and the early American West. Her books include Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Hill & Wang, 2001) and Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Hill & Wang, 2014).

Professor Ferry specializes in early Spanish American history. Professor Ferry teaches courses about the history Latin America and early Spanish America. Some of the courses he teaches include: "Latin American History to 1810," "History of Mexico to 1821," and "Aztecs, Incas & Spanish Conquest of the Americas." Professor Ferry received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is particularly interested in the changing composition of colonial societies. His first...

David L. Gross recieved his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His main area of specialization is Modern European Intellectual History from the eighteenth century to the present. Gross's research has dealt with issues having to do with the decline of tradition in the modern era, remembering and forgetting in contemporary culture, and the emergence of anti-modern forms of thought in the West since l789. Publications include: The Past in...

Professor Gutmann taught courses about the social history of the United States as well as about demographic history from a global perspective. His most popular course was "Recent U.S. Social History: Immigrants, Workers and the 1%." Professor Gutmann received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His publications include two books about early modern Europe, War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Princeton University Press, 1980), and Toward the...

Professor Martha Hanna specializes in the history of the First World War and Modern France. Professor Hanna teaches a variety of courses in modern European history including "Empire, Revolution & Global War: European History Since 1600," "The French Revolution of 1789" and "World War I in Europe." In 1993 Professor Hanna received the Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Hanna graduated with a B.A. (Honors) from the...

James Jankowski received his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1967, specializing in Middle Eastern history. He began his career at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of History in 1967 and served as the chair of the department from 1985-1989. He is a Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association, and he has authored several books including, Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930–1945 (Cambridge, 1995), with co-author Israel Gershoni.

Professor Kent specializes in modern British history, focusing on gender, culture, imperialism, and politics. Professor Kent teaches courses on modern British history and British imperialism from a global/comparative perspective. Some of the courses she teaches include: "Introduction to British History since 1660," "Introduction to Global History: Settler Colonialism, 17th century - present," and a seminar called "Revolts Against the British Empire, 1745-1929." In 2015, in recognition of exceptional service, teaching...

Gloria L. Main completed a Ph.D. in American history at Columbia University. Her 1972 dissertation on personal wealth in the Thirteen Colonies was the basis of her first book. She applies her economics training to her studies of colonial time periods. After a few years of lecturing part time in the New York area, Main joined the faculty at University of Colorado Boulder. As of 2015, she is a professor...

Marjorie K. McIntosh retired as a Distinguished Professor after teaching History for 28 years at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During her tenure, Dr. McIntosh received numerous fellowships, grants and awards from institutions such as Harvard University, Cambridge University, and the University of Colorado. Community-Based Historical Research Projects organized by Dr. McIntosh: Organizer and principal coordinator, Boulder County Latino History Project, a community-based study of a century of Latino...

Professor Pittenger retired in December 2020. He taught courses on nineteenth and twentieth-century American thought and culture. His courses examined the emergence of American mass culture and modernist art. Some of the courses he taught include: "Nineteenth-Century American Thought and Culture," "Culture Wars: Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Modern U.S., 1880-1941," and a seminar called "American Society and Culture, 1940-1960: The Culture of Politics, and the Politics of Culture." He...