Department of History

Alison Games is the Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History and the Director of Graduate Studies. She teaches courses on a variety of topics related to early America, the Atlantic world, and European expansion and global interaction. Undergraduate courses include the Atlantic World, Witches and Witchcraft, Colonial America, American Utopias, Slaves and Captives, and the Age of the American Revolution. Her graduate courses include the core colloquium for first-year students, Global Encounters, and readings classes in early American and Atlantic history.