Research

Faculty Professional Interests

David Henry Anthony III, Associate Professor

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

Noriko Aso, Assistant Professor

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

Dilip K. Basu, Associate Professor

Modern South Asia, modern China, world history: colonial and post-colonial, film and visual culture

Jonathan F. Beecher, Professor

French history, European intellectual history, Russian intellectual history, utopian socialism

Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., Emeritus

Edmund Burke III, Professor

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

Pedro G. Castillo, Associate Professor

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

Brian A. Catlos, Associate Professor

Medieval Iberia and and Europe and the Christian and Muslim Mediterranean and Middle East; ethnicity, minorities, social, and economic history; world history

Alan S. Christy, Associate Professor

Early modern and modern Japan; history of social sciences, colonialism, nationalism

Mark Cioc, Professor

German history, modern European history, environmental history

Jamie L. Bronstein, Visiting Associate Professor

British history, 1800-present; 19th century American history, labor history, popular political and social movements

Maria Elena Diaz, Associate Professor

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

Dana Frank, Professor

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

Lisbeth Haas, Associate Professor

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

Charles W. Hedrick Jr., Professor

Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, historiography, political theory

Gail B. Hershatter, Professor

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

Minghui Hu, Assistant Professor

Late Imperial China (1600-1900), early modern sciences in China, China in the early modern world, cities in late Imperial China

Peter Kenez, Professor

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

Noel Q. King, Emeritus

Matthew Lasar, Lecturer

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

Bruce Levine, Emeritus

Richard Mather, Emeritus

Gary Miles, Emeritus

Matthew O'Hara, Assistant Professor

Modern Latin America and Mexico; late colonial Latin America; religion, spirituality and ritual; urban history; race, ethnicity, and identity; political culture

Cynthia Polecritti, Associate Professor

Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Italy; urban and cultural history; ritual and popular devotion

Buchanan Sharp, Professor

English history

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, Lecturer

Medieval and early modern Iberia, Euopreand the Mediterranean; women's history, queenship, politics, religion, society and culture

David G. Sweet, Emeritus

Bruce Thompson, Lecturer

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

Mark Traugott, Professor

Social and economic history, 19th-century France, French revolutions, European working class, historical methods, worker's autobiographies

Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Professor

British colonial and revolutionary America, early modern cultural and religious history, U.S. religious history, women's history, gender

Alice Yang Murray, Associate Professor

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