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The School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS) is composed of historians and sociologists.

Despite their wide array of interests in their respective disciplines, the HTS faculty has particular strengths in several areas: science, technology, and medicine; gender, race, ethnicity, and class; nation, empire, and comparative political traditions; comparative global cultures in the modern era; and comparative urban societies.

Faculty Research Areas

Science, Technology, and Medicine: Wenda Bauchspies (science, technology, culture); John Krige (science, technology); Kristie Macrakis (science, technology); Gregory Nobles (environment); Willie Pearson, Jr. (science, technology); Jenny Leigh Smith (science, technology, environment); John Lawrence Tone (medicine); Steven Usselman (industry, technology)

Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Eleanor Alexander (African American); Wenda Bauchspies (West Africa, gender, race); Ronald Bayor (ethnicity, race relations, immigration); Laura Bier (gender); Amy D'Unger (gender, reproduction, incarceration, welfare); Douglas Flamming (African American); Lawrence Foster (gender, family, sexuality); Carla Gerona (borderlands); Willie Pearson, Jr. (race); Bill Winders (inequality)

Comparative Urban Societies: Ronald Bayor (U.S. urban, race relations); Douglas Flamming (U.S. urban); Hanchao Lu (urban, material culture); Willie Pearson, Jr. (U.S. urban)

Comparative Global Cultures in the Modern Era: Wenda Bauchspies (West Africa); Laura Bier (Middle East); Hanchao Lu (China, Japan); Kristie Macrakis (Germany); Jonathan Schneer (Europe, Britain); Jenny Leigh Smith (Russia); John Lawrence Tone (Europe, Spain, Cuba)

Nation, Empire, and Comparative Political Traditions: Laura Bier (postcolonial nationalisms); Lawrence Foster (British colonization, comparative revolutions); Carla Gerona (early America, Atlantic World, borderlands); John Krige (U.S.- European relations); Hanchao Lu (Chinese nationalism, revolution, cross-straits relations); Gregory Nobles (early America, American Revolution); Jonathan Schneer (labor politics); John Lawrence Tone (French Revolution, empires and insurgencies); Steven Usselman (American political economy); Bill Winders (social movements, politics, elections)