Department of History

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The Department of History is located in Olin-Sang American Civilization Center second floor. Get directions to our offices and the Brandeis campus.

Department of History
Brandeis University
Mailstop 036
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453

Phone: 781-736-3025

Lauren Jordahl

Sr. Academic Administrator, Graduate Guidance

781-736-2644 ljordahl@brandeis.edu Pearlman 108

Melissa McKenna

Academic Administrator

melissamckenna@brandeis.edu Brown 3rd Floor #318

For more administration staff contact information, please visit the Division of Social Sciences page.

Michael Willrich

Leff Families Professor of History

Chair

781-736-2292 willrich@brandeis.edu Golding Judaica Center, 115

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Th, 1-3 PM

Expertise: United States social, legal and political history

David Katz

Undergraduate Advising Head and Professor of History

Director, History of Ideas Program

781-736-2799 davidkatz@brandeis.edu Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 108

Office Hours: Spring 2025: M, W by email appointment

Expertise: History of ideas in the long early modern period (1500-1900), early modern English history, early modern European religious history

Amy Singer

Director of Graduate Studies

781-736-2281 amysinger@brandeis.edu Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 217