OAH Distinguished Lecturers
Below is a comprehensive list of OAH Distinguished Lecturers. An asterisk (*) denotes that the speaker joined the program in 2010–2011.
A
- Catherine Allgor, University of California, Riverside
- Patrick Allitt, Emory University
- Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland, College Park
- Fred Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Virginia DeJohn Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Richard Aquila, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
- David Armitage, Harvard University
- Eric Arnesen, The George Washington University
- Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles and Autry National Center
- Gabriela F. Arredondo, University of California, Santa Cruz *
- Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
- Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond
B
- Robert Bain, University of Michigan
- Elliott Barkan, California State University, San Bernardino, Emeritus
- Mia Bay, Rutgers University
- Gail Bederman, University of Notre Dame
- Thomas Bender, New York University
- Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University
- Stephen Berry, University of Georgia
- Marjorie Wall Bingham, Hamline University, Emerita and St. Louis Park High School, Retired *
- Allida M. Black, The George Washington University
- Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University
- William A. Blair, Penn State University
- Regina Lee Blaszczyk, independent historian
- David W. Blight, Yale University
- Stuart M. Blumin, Cornell University, Emeritus
- John E. Bodnar, Indiana University
- Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis
- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Terry Bouton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- J.D. Bowers, Northern Illinois University *
- Anne M. Boylan, University of Delaware *
- Kevin Boyle, The Ohio State University
- John H. Bracey, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Barry Bradford, Adlai E. Stevenson High School
- Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago *
- Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School
- Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
- James F. Brooks, School of American Research
- Leslie Brown, Williams College
- Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina
- W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Charles F. Bryan Jr., Virginia Historical Society, Emeritus
- Paul M. Buhle, Brown University, Emeritus
- Lonnie G. Bunch III, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Jennifer Burns, University of Virginia *
- Edwin G. Burrows, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Orville Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University
- Jon Butler, Yale University
- Victoria E. Bynum, Texas State University - San Marcos, Emerita *
C
- Lendol Calder, Augustana College
- Albert Camarillo, Stanford University
- Ballard Campbell, Northeastern University
- Peter S. Carmichael, West Virginia University
- Clayborne Carson, Stanford University and Morehouse College
- Richard Carwardine, Corpus Christi College and Oxford University
- Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno
- Andrew Cayton, Miami University
- Miroslava Chávez-García, University of California, Davis *
- Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *
- Bruce Chadwick, New Jersey City University
- William H. Chafe, Duke University
- Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University *
- Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
- Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University
- Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Charles L. Cohen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara *
- Annie Gilbert Coleman, University of Notre Dame
- Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University
- Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
- Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College *
- Saul Cornell, Fordham University
- Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
- Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University
- Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University
- Margaret Creighton, Bates College *
- Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College
D
- Kathleen Dalton, Phillips Academy Andover
- Pete Daniel, independent historian
- Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati, Emeritus
- Adrienne D. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
- Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan
- Sarah Deutsch, Duke University
- William Deverell, University of Southern California
- Bruce Dierenfield, Canisius College
- Hasia Diner, New York University
- John Dittmer, DePauw University
- Gregory Evans Dowd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor *
- Thomas Dublin, Binghamton University, State University of New York
- Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California
- Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
- Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *
E
- Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas
- Michael H. Ebner, Lake Forest College, Emeritus
- R. David Edmunds, University of Texas at Dallas
- Laura F. Edwards, Duke University
- Ted Engelmann, independent historian
- David C. Engerman, Brandeis University *
- Stephen D. Engle, Florida Atlantic University
- Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University
- Todd Estes, Oakland University
- C. Wyatt Evans, Drew University
F
- Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine
- Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley
- James J. Farrell, St. Olaf College
- Daniel Feller, University of Tennessee *
- Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University, Emeritus
- John Ferling, University of West Georgia, Emeritus
- Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
- Deborah Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ellen Fitzpatrick, University of New Hampshire
- Donald L. Fixico, Arizona State University
- Michael W. Flamm, Ohio Wesleyan University
- Neil Foley, University of Texas at Austin
- Lacy K. Ford, University of South Carolina *
- Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
- Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University
- François Furstenberg, University of Montreal *
G
- Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia
- Alison Games, Georgetown University
- Matt Garcia, Brown University
- Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University
- Edith B. Gelles, Stanford University
- Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University
- Lori D. Ginzberg, Penn State University *
- Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University *
- Richard Godbeer, University of Miami
- Kenneth W. Goings, The Ohio State University
- David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Eric L. Goldstein, Emory University
- Edward E. Gordon, independent historian
- Lesley J. Gordon, University of Akron
- Linda Gordon, New York University
- Elliott J. Gorn, Brown University
- Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College *
- James Green, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Michael S. Green, College of Southern Nevada *
- James N. Gregory, University of Washington
- Ariela J. Gross, University of Southern California *
- Kali Nicole Gross, Drexel University
- Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut
- Ramón Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
H
- Lisbeth Haas, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
- Jacquelyn D. Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- William M. Hammond, U.S. Army Center of Military History
- Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
- Claudrena N. Harold, University of Virginia *
- Leslie Harris, Emory University
- Susan M. Hartmann, The Ohio State University
- Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
- Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah
- Joan Hoff, Montana State University, Bozeman
- Ronald Hoffman, College of William and Mary and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Margaret A. Hogan, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Michael F. Holt, University of Virginia
- Woody Holton, University of Richmond
- Michael K. Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma *
- James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College
- Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles, Emeritus and Oxford University, Emeritus
- Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Heather Huyck, College of William and Mary
I
- John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia *
- Andrew C. Isenberg, Temple University *
J
- Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
- Caroline E. Janney, Purdue University
- Robert F. Jefferson Jr., University of Alabama at Birmingham
- John W. Jeffries, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Michael P. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University *
- Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin
- Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor *
- Peniel E. Joseph, Tufts University
K
- Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University
- Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
- Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Steven M. Karr, Autry National Center, The Southwest Museum of the American Indian
- Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
- Harvey J. Kaye, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
- Mary Kelley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- David Kennedy, Stanford University
- William Howland Kenney, Kent State University
- Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa
- Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
- Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University
- Alexander Keyssar, Harvard University
- Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
- Wilma King, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Michael J. Klarman, Harvard University
- Rachel Klein, University of California, San Diego
- Matthew Klingle, Bowdoin College
- Richard H. Kohn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware
- Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Robert Korstad, Duke University
- J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology
- Alan M. Kraut, American University
- Jon Kukla, independent historian
- Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University
- Peter J. Kuznick, American University
L
- Glenn W. LaFantasie, Western Kentucky University *
- Ann J. Lane, University of Virginia
- Steven F. Lawson, Rutgers University, Emeritus *
- Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia
- Stuart Leibiger, La Salle University
- Elizabeth D. Leonard, Colby College
- Jill Lepore, Harvard University
- Bruce Levine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *
- Earl Lewis, Emory University
- Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara *
- Allan J. Lichtman, American University
- Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado Boulder
- Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
- James W. Loewen, University of Vermont, Emeritus
- Trish Loughran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *
M
- Nancy MacLean, Duke University *
- James H. Madison, Indiana University
- Chandra Manning, Georgetown University
- Maeva Marcus, New-York Historical Society and George Washington University
- James Marten, Marquette University
- Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley
- Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota *
- Edith P. Mayo, National Museum of American History
- Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
- Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney
- Michael McGerr, Indiana University
- Lisa McGirr, Harvard University
- Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University
- Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University *
- Sally G. McMillen, Davidson College
- Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma *
- Edna Greene Medford, Howard University *
- Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky
- Martin V. Melosi, University of Houston
- Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
- Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Marla R. Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Patrick B. Miller, Northeastern Illinois University
- Clyde A. Milner II, Arkansas State University
- Nancy Raquel Mirabal, San Francisco State University
- Jeffrey Mirel, University of Michigan
- Michele Mitchell, New York University *
- Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College *
- Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego *
- Douglas Monroy, Colorado College
- Maria E. Montoya, New York University
- Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan
- Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University
- Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
- Kevin Mumford, University of Iowa
- Alice Yang Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz
N
- Mark E. Neely Jr., Penn State University *
- Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William and Mary
- Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology *
- Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University
- Kim E. Nielsen, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Gregory H. Nobles, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University
- Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota
- Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
O
- Carol A. O'Connor, Arkansas State University
- Susan O'Donovan, University of Memphis
- James Oakes, Graduate Center, City University of New York *
- Barbara B. Oberg, Princeton University
- Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University
- Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia
- Jason M. Opal, McGill University *
- David M. Oshinsky, University of Texas at Austin and New York University
- Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
P
- T. Michael Parrish, Baylor University
- James T. Patterson, Brown University, Emeritus
- Gunther Peck, Duke University
- William Pencak, Penn State University
- Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University
- Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Elisabeth I. Perry, Saint Louis University, Emerita
- Lewis Perry, Saint Louis University, Emeritus
- Christopher W. Phillips, University of Cincinnati
- Kimberley L. Phillips, College of William and Mary
- G. Kurt Piehler, University of Tennessee
- Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
- Dwight T. Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University
- Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
- Robert A. Pratt, University of Georgia
- Clement Alexander Price, Rutgers University
R
- Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College *
- Jack Rakove, Stanford University
- Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis *
- Carol Reardon, Penn State University
- Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
- Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College
- Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst *
- Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania
- Randy W. Roberts, Purdue University
- Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University
- Clara E. Rodriguez, Fordham University
- David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Paul C. Rosier, Villanova University
- Adam Rothman, Georgetown University *
- Joshua Rothman, University of Alabama
- Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University
- E. Anthony Rotundo, Phillips Academy Andover
- Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
- Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Edmund Russell, University of Virginia
- Robert W. Rydell, Montana State University
S
- Neal Salisbury, Smith College, Emeritus
- Nick Salvatore, Cornell University
- George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California
- Todd L. Savitt, East Carolina University
- Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico
- Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
- Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University
- Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina, Emerita
- Robert D. Schulzinger, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Donald Schwartz, California State University, Long Beach, Emeritus
- Thomas Alan Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
- Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro *
- Anne Firor Scott, Duke University, Emerita
- Jon Sensbach, University of Florida
- Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
- Rebecca Sharpless, Texas Christian University
- Stephanie J. Shaw, The Ohio State University
- Aaron Sheehan-Dean, University of North Florida
- Martin J. Sherwin, George Mason University
- Nina Silber, Boston University *
- Bryant Simon, Temple University
- Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University *
- Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Suzanne M. Sinke, Florida State University
- Sheila Skemp, University of Mississippi *
- Merritt Roe Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ryan K. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Paul R. Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Marjorie J. Spruill, University of South Carolina
- Christine Stansell, University of Chicago
- Judith Stein, City College of New York and Graduate Center, City University of New York *
- Brenda E. Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
- James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College
- Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas at Austin
- Cynthia Stout, independent historian
- Linda L. Sturtz, Beloit College
- Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
- Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
- Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- John Wood Sweet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *
T
- David Thelen, Indiana University
- Athan Theoharis, Marquette University, Emeritus
- William G. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Barbara L. Tischler, Horace Mann School
- Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
U
- Reed Ueda, Tufts University *
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
V
- Lara Vapnek, St. John's University
- Elizabeth R. Varon, Temple University
- Penny M. Von Eschen, University of Michigan
- Michael Vorenberg, Brown University *
W
- Mike Wallace, Gotham Center for New York City History and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
- Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Brian Ward, University of Manchester
- Susan Ware, independent historian
- Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Barbara Y. Welke, University of Minnesota
- Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania
- Elliott West, University of Arkansas
- Jeannie Whayne, University of Arkansas
- Shane White, University of Sydney
- LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri-Columbia *
- Frank J. Williams, Supreme Court of Rhode Island
- Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University
- Michael Willrich, Brandeis University
- Francille Rusan Wilson, University of Southern California
- Sam Wineburg, Stanford University
- Kenneth J. Winkle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Allan M. Winkler, Miami University
- Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University
- Nan E. Woodruff, Penn State University
- David M. Wrobel, University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University
Z
- Jamil S. Zainaldin, Georgia Humanities Council
- Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University
- Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University



