swap_horiz Juan Cole Alternatives

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Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is an American historian whose research concerns Russia, the Soviet Union, authoritarianism, and geopolit...

American Contemporary Biography Soviet

9.1 Excellent

2

Christopher Browning

Christopher Browning is an American historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Pol...

American Contemporary Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

3

James Scott

James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist whose work examined states, peasants, resistance,...

American Contemporary Resistance Southeast Asian

8.9 Great

4

Marshall Hodgson

Marshall G. S. Hodgson was an American historian of Islam and world history at the University of Chicago. His three-volu...

American 20TH Century Islamic World History

8.9 Great

5

William Cronon

William Cronon is an American environmental historian whose work connects ecological change with economic development, l...

Nature American Contemporary Environmental

8.9 Great

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Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is an American historian of early American and Atlantic history who has written about colonization, slavery,...

American Contemporary Colonial Borderlands

8.9 Great

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John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on the Cold War, international relations, and strat...

Cold War American Contemporary Strategic

8.8 Great

8

Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and legal scholar whose work examines Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and the He...

American Contemporary Jefferson Biography

8.8 Great

9

Caroline Walker Bynum

Caroline Walker Bynum is an American historian of medieval Christianity whose work examines religious practice, bodily s...

American Contemporary Medieval Religious

8.7 Great

10

David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is an American historian known for studying how migration, culture, institutions, and political id...

American Contemporary Cultural Colonial

8.7 Great

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author whose work focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States civ...

Narrative American Contemporary Biography

8.7 Great

12

Donald Worster

Donald Worster is an American environmental historian whose scholarship examines water, agriculture, ecology, and the hi...

Water American Contemporary Environmental

8.6 Great

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is an American historian whose work examines social history, gender, and everyday life in early A...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

8.6 Great

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Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is an American historian whose research addresses African American history, labor, radical politics,...

African American American Contemporary Radical

8.6 Great

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Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk is a Western Shoshone historian and professor at Yale University whose research concerns Indigenous people...

American Contemporary Indigenous Native American

8.6 Great

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Nikki Keddie

Nikki Keddie was an American historian associated with the University of California, Los Angeles, whose research centere...

American 20TH Century Iranian Middle Eastern

8.4 Great

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Fred Donner

Fred M. Donner is an American historian of early Islam and professor at the University of Chicago. His research addresse...

American Contemporary Islamic Conquest

8.4 Great

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Chase Robinson

Chase F. Robinson is an American historian of the premodern Middle East whose research centers on early Islam, Islamic h...

American Contemporary Early Medieval Historiography

8.3 Great

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Judith Tucker

Judith Tucker is an American historian whose research examines gender, law, family, and social history in the Middle Eas...

American Contemporary Ottoman Middle Eastern

8.2 Great

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Ross Dunn

Ross E. Dunn is an American historian known for his work in world history education and the history of the medieval Isla...

American Contemporary Islamic World History

8.0 Great