List of women historians by area of study

This is a list of women historians categorized by their area of study.

• 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

• 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)

• Charlotte Gray (born 1948) – popular histories
• Agnes Laut (1871 – 1936)

See also List of Canadian historians.

• Aviva Chomsky (born 1957)
• Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009)

• 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

See also Category:Historians of Latin America

• Aviva Chomsky (born 1957)
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
• Jane Gilmer Landers (born 1947)

• Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (born 1957)

• María Rostworowski (1915–2016)

• 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

• Sophie de Schaepdrijver (born 1961) – World War I

• 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^[1] and King George I of Great Britain^[2]
• 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

• Antoinette Burton (born 1961)

• Nada Klaić (1920–1988)
• Mirjana Gross (1922–2012)

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Mary Bonaventure Browne (after 1610–after 1670), Poor Clare and historian
• Ann Buckley
• Kathleen Hughes (1926–1977)

• Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
• Effie Pedaliu – Italian war crimes
• Lucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily

• Rebecca Haynes

• Henrica van Erp (1480–1548) – monastery life

• Irina Livezeanu (born 1952)

• 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

• Rosalind Mitchison (1919–2002)
• Jenny Wormald (1942–2015)

• 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

• Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
• Marta Verginella (born 1960) – history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)

• Ida Altman (born 1950) – Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
• Julia Pavón (born 1968) – medieval history of Navarra

• Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden^[1] and King George I of Great Britain^[2]

• 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)

• Caroline Finkel
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history

• Lola Dodkhudoeva (born 1951), Tajikistani historian specialising in medieval Central Asian affairs
• Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Uzbek specialist on Pre-Islamic Central Asia

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

• Gail Lee Bernstein (born 1939)
• Carol Gluck (born 1941)
• Susan Hanley (born 1939)
• Joyce Lebra (1925-2021)
• Amy Stanley (born 1978)

• Ann Paludan (1928–2014) – ancient China

• Elizabeth Sinn Yuk Yee (born 1961)

• Jocelyne Dakhlia (born 1959) – political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb

• Marguerite Dupire (1920–2015), French scholar of Serer religion and history

• Riitta Nikula (born 1944) – generalist historian of Finnish architecture

• 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

• Barbara Thiering (1930–2015) – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

• Leah Boustan
• Claudia Goldin (born 1946)
• Susan Howson (born 1945)
• Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950)

• Penelope Wilson

• Nancy C. Unger – American women in the environmental movement

• Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950)

• 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

• Marjatta Hietala (born 1943) – urban history, history of innovations
• Aira Kemiläinen (1919–2006) – European history of ideas

• Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations

• Orit Halpern (born 1972) - Historian of technology, cyberneticist
• Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) – science and gender, biology

• Beth Bailey

• Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)

• Ulane Bonnel (1918–2006)

• Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968)
• Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern, British social history

• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) - Charlotte Brontë
• Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden^[1] and King George I of Great Britain^[2]
• Susan Quinn (born 1940) - Marie Curie