Faculty Directory

- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Writing Program
- Stevenson College
- History Department
- Phone 831-459-3638 (office)
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 209
- Office Hours Office Hours for Spring, 2022: Mondays, 2:30pm-3:45pm and Wednesdays, 3:45pm-5:00pm. If you would like to meet with me but cannot come during these times, please email me to schedule an appointment either in person or via Zoom.
- 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 (Fall, 2021); HIS 196K: Topics in European Intellectual History (Winter, 2022); HIS 70A: Modern European History, 1500-1815 (Winter, 2022); HIS 178B: 19th-century European Intellectual History; HIS 170A: Old Regime France and the French Revolution; HIS 196I: French Revolution; Writing 2: The Art of Living (Spring, 2022); College 1, Stevenson (Fall, 2021 and Winter 2022); STEV 43 (College Scholars Program): Contemporary Nationalism (Winter, 2022)
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)