Steering Committee
Greg O’Malley is Director of the CWH and a Professor of History. His research interests include the early modern Atlantic world, slavery, the slave trade, and the American Revolution. He is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 and serves on the steering committee of Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. He is currently writing a new book, The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era, which is a life history of a man, born enslaved in colonial Virginia, whose attempts to escape bondage resulted in wide-ranging travels and eventual emancipation during the Revolutionary War.
Ben Breen is an Associate Professor of History. His research interests include early modern Europe, the history of science and technology, the global drug trade, and world history. He is the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. He is also starting research for a second book that will explore the misidentification of unfamiliar technologies as magic over the past three centuries.
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of History. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Philippines, comparative Spanish and U.S. colonialisms, weaving and textile technologies, agricultural history, farmworker migration, botanical nomenclature and illustrations, and scientific labor. She is developing a book manuscript, Sovereign Vernaculars in the Philippines at the Dawn of New Imperial Botany, that centers the role of locally held botanical knowledge in the history of colonial botany and the science’s internationalist acceleration.
Marc Matera is a Professor of History. His research interests include Modern Britain and the British Empire; Black European Studies; the Black Atlantic; women’s and gender history; and the history of sexuality. He is the author of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century and co-author of The Global 1930s.
Affiliated Faculty
Edmund Burke, Professor Emeritus of History
Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Alma Heckman, Associate Professor of History
Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History
Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature
J. Cameron Monroe, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Juned Shaikh, Assistant Professor of History
Edward (Noel) Smyth, Lecturer, Writing Program
Megan Thomas, Associate Professor of Politics
Lynn Westerkamp, Professor of History