Simpson is a political historian whose work examines challenges to American geopolitical dominance from foreign entities, as well a threats posed terrorist organizations.

Simpson studies American political and military history as well as the American presidency, specializing in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Jonsson centers his research on the intersections of culture, politics, ritual, and history.

Fixico (Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek and Seminole) is a policy historian and ethnohistorian. His work focuses on American Indians, oral history and the U.S. West.

Barnes teaches courses on African, European and World history with a focus on the history of Christianity.

El Hamel's research focuses mainly on issues of power/class, slavery, race/ethnicity, gender and social justice.

At the center of Gullett's research is a deep interest in how women construct and reconstruct identities.

Tirosh-Samuelson writes on Jewish intellectual history with a focus on philosophy and mysticism in premodern Judaism, feminism and Jewish philosophy, religion and ecology, and religion, science, and technology.

With roots in American and Chinese cultures, Hoyt Tillman explores the divergence and commonalities within and between cultures. As a historian and sinologist, he focuses on how ways of thinking have changed over time.

Warnicke has published numerous books and articles on Tudor women, especially queenship, including both monarchs' consorts and hereditary queens regnant.