List of women historians by area of study

Latin America

History of Latin America

See also

• 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

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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