List of women historians by area of study

This is a list of women historians categorized by their area of study.

Ancient history

Leonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman Palestine Mary Beard (born 1955) Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany - 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) — Archaeologist, Historian, Ancient Anatolian Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube Barbara Levick (born 1931) – Roman emperors Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – specializing in classical Greek and Achaemenid history Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history Lily Ross Taylor (1886–1969) – Roman history

Medieval history

Elisabeth van Houts (born 1952) – medieval European history Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (born 1940) – specialist in the position of women during the Middle Ages Mayke de Jong (born 1950) – political and religious history of the early Middle Ages Eileen Power (1889–1940) – Middle Ages Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500 Catrien Santing (born 1958) – cultural history and medical history in the late-medieval and early-modern Low Countries Päivi Setälä (1943–2014) – women's history Retha Warnicke (born 1939)

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

Charlotte Gray (born 1948) – popular histories Agnes Laut (1871 – 1936)

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009)

History of the United States Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American History Alexis Coe (born 1988) – Presidential history Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery, women's history Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) – U.S. presidents, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Pauline Maier (1938–2013) – late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution Irma Tam Soong (1912–2001) – history of Chinese immigration in Hawaii Betty Wood (1945–2021) – early American history

Latin America

History of Latin America See also :Category:Historians of Latin America

Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) Ann Farnsworth-Alvear Jane Gilmer Landers (born 1947)

Brazil

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (born 1957)

Peru

María Rostworowski (1915–2016)

Europe

History of Europe

Patricia Clavin (born 1964) – international relations and transnational relations Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in media Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries Elisabeth van Houts (born 1952) – medieval European history Aira Kemiläinen (1919–2006) – European history of ideas Laura Kolbe (born 1957) Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold War Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Belgium

Sophie de Schaepdrijver (born 1961) – World War I

History of England and Britain

Leonie Archer (born 1955) – British Antoinette Burton (born 1961) – British Empire Karen Armstrong (born 1944) – religious Linda Colley (born 1949) – 18th century Susan Doran – Elizabethan Jennifer Kewley Draskau (died 2024) – Manx history, Tudor history Antonia Fraser (born 1932) – 17th century Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern Mary Dormer Harris (1867–1936) – medievalist, local history of Coventry Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain Lotte Hellinga (born 1932) – book historian, expert in early printing, expert in the work of the fifteenth-century printer William Caxton. Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019) – social and cultural history of the Victorian period Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978) – 16th century Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – British G. M. Young (1882–1959) – Victorian England

History of the British Empire

Antoinette Burton (born 1961)

History of Croatia

Nada Klaić (1920–1988) Mirjana Gross (1922–2012)

History of Finland

Marjatta Hietala (born 1943) – urban history, history of innovations Riitta Nikula (born 1944) – generalist historian of Finnish architecture Jully Ramsay (1865–1919) – first woman genealogist in Finland, pioneer of Finnish genealogy

History of France

Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928) – early modern France Gisèle Sapiro (born 1965) – 19th and 20th century French literature Alma Söderhjelm (1870–1949) – editing the correspondence of the French Queen Marie Antoinette with the Swedish nobleman von Fersen and with some French revolutionaries

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

Celia Applegate – music history and nationalism Gisela Bock (born 1942) Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia Deborah Hertz (born 1949) Claudia Koonz (born 1940) Wendy Lower (born 1965) – history of National Socialism

History of Ireland

Mary Bonaventure Browne (after 1610–after 1670) – Poor Clare and historian Ann Buckley Kathleen Hughes (1926–1977)

History of Italy

Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps Effie Pedaliu – Italian war crimes Lucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily

History of Moldova/Bessarabia

Rebecca Haynes

History of the Netherlands

Henrica van Erp (1480–1548) – monastery life

History of Romania

Irina Livezeanu (born 1952)

History of Russia

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (born 1935) – post-Soviet archives Lindsey Hughes (1949–2007) – C17th and C18th Anne Applebaum (born 1964) – Gulag history Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941) – everyday life under Stalinism

History of Scotland

Rosalind Mitchison (1919–2002) Jenny Wormald (1942–2015)

History of Slovakia

Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) – social policy of Austria-Hungary; situation of POWs and civilians in World War I; history of feminism and gender studies Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950) – food history and material culture of Central Europe

History of Slovenia

Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps Marta Verginella (born 1960) – history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)

History of Spain

Ida Altman (born 1950) – Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America Julia Pavón (born 1968) – medieval history of Navarra

History of Sweden

Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain

History of Yugoslavia

Barbara Jelavich (1923–1995) – wrote extensively on Balkan history, along with her husband Charles Jelavich Catherine Samary – author of Yugoslavia Dismembered Stephen Schwartz (born 1948)

Europe and Asia

Asia

Middle East

Caroline Finkel Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history

Central Asia

Lola Dodkhudoeva (born 1951), Tajikistani historian specialising in medieval Central Asian affairs Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Uzbek specialist on Pre-Islamic Central Asia

South Asia

History of the Indian Subcontinent

Ayesha Jalal (born 1956) Romila Thapar (born 1931) Barbara Metcalf (born 1941) Tanika Sarkar Isabel Giberne Sieveking (1857–1936) – Indian Mutiny Barbara Ramusack (born 1937)

Far East

History of Japan

Gail Lee Bernstein (born 1939) Carol Gluck (born 1941) Susan Hanley (born 1939) Joyce Lebra (1925–2021) Amy Stanley (born 1978)

History of China

Ann Paludan (1928–2014) – ancient China

History of Hong Kong

Elizabeth Sinn Yuk Yee (born 1961)

Africa

Jocelyne Dakhlia (born 1959) – political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb

History of the Serers

Marguerite Dupire (1920–2015) – French scholar of Serer religion and history

By general category

Architectural history

Riitta Nikula (born 1944) – generalist historian of Finnish architecture

Art history

Nurhan Atasoy (born 1934, Tokat, Türkiye) – Turkish and Islamic Art History Anna Kortelainen (born in 1968) Catherine Mason – British computer and digital art history Alena Potůčková (1953–2018) – Czech art history

Christianity

Barbara Thiering (1930–2015) – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Economic history

Leah Boustan Claudia Goldin (born 1946) Susan Howson (born 1945) Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950)

Egyptology

Penelope Wilson

Environmental history

Nancy C. Unger – American women in the environmental movement

Food history

Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950)

Gender history

Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998-) – Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History Johanna Naber (1859–1941) – influential women and the women's movement Marysa Navarro (born 1934) – feminism Kaari Utrio – women and children Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – gender issues

History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy

Marjatta Hietala (born 1943) – urban history, history of innovations Aira Kemiläinen (1919–2006) – European history of ideas

History of international relations

Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations

History of science and technology

Orit Halpern (born 1972) – historian of technology, cyberneticist Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) – science and gender, biology

Holocaust

Ruth Bettina Birn (born 1952) Catherine Chatterley Danuta Czech (1922–2004) Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990) Deborah Dwork Leo Eitinger (1912–1996) Barbara Engelking (born 1962) Esther Farbstein (born 1946) Susanne Heim (born 1955) Deborah Lipstadt (born 1947) Dina Porat (born 1943) Livia Rothkirchen (1922–2013) Sybille Steinbacher (born 1966) Rebecca Wittmann (born 1970) Hanna Yablonka (born 1950) Leni Yahil (1912–2007)

Military history

Beth Bailey Isabel Giberne Sieveking

Mormonism

Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)

Naval history

Ulane Bonnel (1918–2006)

Social history

Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern, British social history

Biography

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain Susan Quinn (born 1940) – Marie Curie

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