Home / Faculty / Faculty by Major Concentration

Faculty by Undergraduate Concentration

All history majors select a geographic region of concentration as their primary area of study: Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and the Mediterranean World. Majors are encouraged to get to know the faculty in their region of concentration as early as possible.

History majors are also encouraged to carve out their own unique thematic research pathway — religion, social movements, science and environment, and gender, to name a few — and to get to know the history faculty who specialize in those research areas.

***Click on a faculty member's name to view their detailed profile information.***

Kiva Silver
  • Title
    • Senior Continuing Lecturer
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Stevenson College
    • History Department
    • Writing Program
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Stevenson College Academic Building, 209
  • Office Hours Office Hours for Spring '24: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:00-1:15pm
  • Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Nationalism, European Studies, History, Writing
  • Courses HIS 105: Nations & Nationalism (Spring, 2023); HIS 196K: Topics in European Intellectual History; HIS 70A: Modern European History, 1500-1815 (Fall, 2022); HIS 178B: 19th-century European Intellectual History; HIS 170A: Old Regime France and the French Revolution (Winter, 2023); HIS 196I: French Revolution; Writing 2: The Art of Living (Spring, 2023); College 1, Stevenson (Fall, 2022); STEV 43 (College Scholars Program): Contemporary Nationalism (Winter, 2023)

Summary of Expertise

Modern European History
French History
Nation-state Development & Nationalism
Immigration & Integration in Europe
Rhetoric and Composition

Biography, Education and Training

Kiva Silver graduated with honors from UCSD in 1999 after completing a BA degree in history.  After earning his M.Phil in Economic and Social HIstory and a D.Phil in European History from Cambridge University in 2004, Kiva Silver completed a master's degree in Sociology at UCSC in 2006. He is currently a continuing lecturer in the History Department, the Writing Program, and Stevenson College at UCSC.   

Honors, Awards and Grants

Excellence in Teaching Award, Writing Program, UCSC, 2017

 

Selected Publications

  • "Building Communities: Immigration, Occupation and the Boundaries of Limousin Solidarity in Nineteenth-Century Paris," French Historical Studies, vol. 35, no. 1 (Winter, 2012): 61-92.
  • "The Peasants of Paris: Limousin Migrant Masons in the Nineteenth-Century," French History, 2014

Teaching Interests

Nations and Nationalism
Early Modern and Modern European History
French History
Rhetoric and Composition (Writing 2)