History Department Faculty & Staff
Diego Armus
Professor
History
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Interests: Latin America, urban, diseases, migrations, social and cultural history
![Diego Armus](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_photos/armus_diego_110.jpg?itok=8dWkNDBq)
Farid Azfar
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
History
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Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality
![](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/fazfar1/1b7677c7-c6f8-414b-a6a7-b7c66001aa26.jpg?itok=382pcHuv)
Megan Brown
Associate Professor
History
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Interests: modern Europe, European integration, empire
![Professor Megan Brown](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/mbrown4/Brown_profile_photoTHUMB.jpg?itok=K38PsLVk)
Timothy Burke
Professor
Department Chair, History (co-chair)
History
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Links
- Profile
- Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
- Aydelotte Foundation
Interests: Africa, cultural studies
![Professor Timothy J. Burke](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/tburke1/burkeself1.jpg?itok=nZCo4ZAN)
BuYun Chen
Associate Professor
History
Asian Studies
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Interests: China, East Asia, women, science and technology
![Professor BuYun Chen](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/bchen5/Chen_BuYun_Thumb_2019.jpg?itok=sXmoGfGo)
Bruce Dorsey
Professor
Department Chair, History (co-chair)
History
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Interests: Early America, 19th Century, U.S., gender, social and cultural history
![](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/bdorsey1/AuthorPhoto2_BDorsey.jpg?itok=CkkpO7JC)
Ahmad Shokr
Associate Professor
History
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Interests: modern Middle East, Egypt, capitalism, empire and decolonization, nationalism, social movements, environmental history
![Professor Shokr.](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/ashokr1/shokr%202.jpg?itok=ZDjWzsEY)
![Professor Vivian Truong](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/vtruong1/Truong_PROFILE.jpg?itok=3A2xUr96)
Bob Weinberg
Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations
Director, Honors Program
History
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Interests: Russia, modern Europe, modern Jewish
![Professor Bob Weinberg among the Redwoods](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/rweinbe1/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-25%20at%202.11.31%20PM.png?itok=TATZ3WwU)
Stephen Bensch
Professor Emeritus
Emeritus History
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Interests: medieval Europe, Near East
![Professor Emeritus Stephen Bensch](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/sbensch1/130905_bensch_aTHUMB.jpg?itok=58wMJrxU)
Bob DuPlessis
Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History and International Relation
Emeritus History
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Interests: Cultural, economic, and social histories of Europe and the Atlantic world, 15th-18th centuries
![Professor Emeritus Bob DuPlessis](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/rduples1/DuPlessisTHUMB.jpg?itok=uFZskCKD)
Lillian M. Li
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Professor Emerita
Emeritus History
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Interests: China, Japan
![Lillian Li](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_photos/li_lillian_110.jpg?itok=RseqKUjo)
Marjorie Murphy
The James Hormel Chair Emerita of Social Justice
Emeritus History
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Interests: American labor, social, women
![Professor Marjorie Murphy](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/mmurphy1/190504_murphy_07THUMB.jpg?itok=NGPMzdeT)
Allison Dorsey
Professor Emerita
Emeritus History
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Interests: African American, African American women, U.S., South, food