# 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 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
* 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
* Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues
* Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – British
* G. M. Young (1882-1959) - Victorian England
* Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978) - 16th century

#### 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)

### 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