Dr. Bonnie Effros appointed head of the Department of History

Appointment Date

Dr. Bonnie Effros has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of History. Dr. Effros will begin a five-year term on January 1, 2022.

Dr. Effros is currently a Professor of European History and the Chaddock Chair of Economic and Social History in the Department of History at the University of Liverpool. Her most recent monograph, Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa (2018), won the 2019 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society.

Please visit the Department of History website to read the full announcement.


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