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)

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
 * 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

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)

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 in 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
 * Karen Armstrong (born 1944) – religious
 * Linda Colley (born 1949) – 18th century
 * Susan Doran – Elizabethan
 * Antonia Fraser (born 1932) – 17th century
 * Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)

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

History of the Indian Subcontinent

 * Ayesha Jalal (born 1956)
 * Romila Thapar (born 1931)
 * Barbara Metcalf (born 1941)
 * Tanika Sarkar
 * Barbara Ramusack (born 1937)

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

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

 * 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

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