History

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Jonathan F. Beecher
French history, European intellectual history, Russian intellectual history, utopian socialism

Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., Emeritus

Edmund Burke III
Islamic history, modern Middle East and North African history, French history, European imperialism, world history

Mark Cioc
German history, modern European history, environmental history

Dana Frank
U.S. social and economic history; women, labor, and working-class history; contemporary political economy; modern Central America

Charles W. Hedrick Jr.
Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, historiography, political theory

Gail B. Hershatter
Modern Chinese social and cultural history; labor history; gender history; history of sexuality; feminist theory; history, memory, and nostalgia

Peter Kenez
Russian history, Eastern Europe, 20th-century Europe, Soviet film

Noel Q. King, Emeritus

Bruce Levine, Emeritus

Richard Mather, Emeritus

Gary B. Miles, Emeritus

Buchanan Sharp
English history

David G. Sweet, Emeritus

Mark Traugott
Social and economic history, 19th-century France, French revolutions, European working class, historical methods, workers' autobiographies

Marilyn J. Westerkamp
British America, American revolution/early national U.S., U.S. religious history, early modern cultural and religious history, women/gender

Associate Professor

David Henry Anthony III
African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African languages; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history

Dilip K. Basu
Modern South Asia, modern China, world history: colonial and post-colonial; film and visual culture

Pedro G. Castillo
Chicano/a history and culture; American social and urban history; race, class, and gender in California history, immigration history

Brian A. Catlos
Pre-modern Mediterranean; medieval Iberia and Europe and the Middle East; Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, ethnicity, minorities, social, and economic theory; world history

Alan S. Christy
Early modern and modern Japan; history of social sciences, colonialism, nationalism

Maria Elena Diaz
Colonial Caribbean and Latin America; social and cultural history; ethnohistory; slavery, race, and gender

Lisbeth Haas
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Chicano and Native American history; visual culture in the colonial Americas; the U.S. West and California; historical memory, theory, and historical methodology

Cynthia Polecritti
Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Italy, Mediterrean urban and cultural history, ritual and popular devotion

Alice Yang Murray
Historical memory, Asian American history, gender history, race and ethnicity, 20th-century U.S., oral history

Assistant Professor

Noriko Aso
Japanese social and cultural history, women's history, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, Korean history

Minghui Hu
Late Imperial China (1600–1900)

Catherine A. Jones
U.S. civil war and Reconstruction; slavery and emancipation; the American South; history of children; history of education; women and gender

Matthew D. O'Hara
Modern Latin America and Mexico; late colonial Latin America; religion, spirituality, and ritual; urban history; race, ethnicity, and identity; political culture

Assaf Yasur-Landau
Archeology of Israel, Bronze-Age Aegean, archeology of complex societies

Lecturer

Gildas Hamel
History of Judaism and Christianity; Hebrew and Greek Bible; classical languages

Matthew Lasar
U.S. and international telecommunications; political, social, and economic history

Núria Silleras-Fernández
Medieval and early modern Iberia, Europe and the Mediterranean: women's history, queenship, politics, religion, society and culture

Bruce Thompson
European intellectual and cultural history, French history, American Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage

Professor

Bettina Aptheker (Feminist Studies)
Women's history, feminist oral history and memoir; feminist pedagogy; African-American women's history; queer studies; feminist Jewish studies; feminist critical race studies

Raoul Birnbaum (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China

Christopher Connery (Literature)
World literature and cultural studies, globalism and geographical thought, the 1960s, Marxism, pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies, cultural revolution

John Dizikes, Emeritus (American Studies)

Barbara L. Epstein (History of Consciousness)
Social movements and theories of social movements, 20th-century U.S. politics and culture, Marxism and related theories of social change

John Hay (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Visual and conceptual representation in pre-modern China, especially landscape painting; Asian art history

Emily Honig (Feminist Studies)
Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in modern Chinese history; comparative labor history; Chicana history, nationalism, and sexuality in the Third World; oral history

Virginia Jansen (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture; campus planning and architecture

Sharon Kinoshita (Literature)
Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature, Mediterranean studies, globalism, postcolonial theory, world literature and cultural studies

Gary L. Lease (History of Consciousness)
Theory and origins of religion, history of religions (Hellenistic mysteries, Christian origins, 19th- and 20th-century Germany, German Judaism), religion and political orders

Paul M. Lubeck (Sociology)
Political sociology; political economy of development, globalization, labor and work; logics of methodology; religion and social movements; Islamic society and identities; information and networks

John P. Lynch (Literature), Emeritus

Judy Yung , Emerita (American Studies)

Associate Professor

David T. Brundage (Community Studies)
American working-class and immigration history, history of U.S. social movements, Irish history and politics

Bernard L. Elbaum (Economics)
Economic history

Paul Ortiz (Community Studies)
African Amúerican history, U.S. social and political history, social documentary, oral history, subaltern studies and theories of resistance, U.S. South, Latino studies, social movements, working-class history; history of farm labor, African diaspora

Daniel Selden (Literature)
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory

Assistant Professor

Gabriela Arredondo (Latin American and Latino Studies)
U.S. social and cultural history; Chicana/o history; critical race and ethnicity theories; im/migration history; Latina/os in the U.S.; Chicana feminisms; "borderlands" studies, modern Mexico history