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.***

Grace Peña Delgado

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
  • Summary of Expertise

    North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

    Immigration--Mexican, Asian

    Gender and Sexuality 

    Race and Nationalism

    Chinese in Mexico

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Maria Elena Diaz

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
  • Summary of Expertise

    Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

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Catherine A Jones

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Slavery and Emancipation

    Civil War Era

    History of Children and Childhood

    American South

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Amy Joy Lonetree

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Summary of Expertise

    Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

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Aims McGuinness

  • Title
    • College Provost, Merrill College
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History
  • Summary of Expertise

    Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

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Matt O′Hara

  • Title
    • Provost, Stevenson College
    • Professor
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Gregory O′Malley

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
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Eric C Porter

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
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Marilyn J Westerkamp

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
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Alice Yang

  • Title
    • Chair and Professor, History Department
    • Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
    • Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
  • Summary of Expertise

    Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
    Read more ...

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Caitlin A Keliiaa

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Indigenous Peoples, Gender Studies, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements
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Noriko Aso

  • Title
    • East Asian Studies Program Director
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

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Shelly Chan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

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Alan S Christy

  • Title
    • Cowell Provost
    • Professor
    • History Department Undergraduate Program Director
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
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Kathleen C Gutierrez

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies, Community-based Research
  • Summary of Expertise

    Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences, agrarian migration

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Minghui Hu

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
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Juned Noor M Shaikh

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

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Benjamin P Breen

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Science Studies, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
  • Summary of Expertise

    I'm an associate professor of history at UCSC interested in the history of science, medicine, empire, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My most recent book, Tripping on Read more ...

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Muriam H Davis

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies
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Jennifer L Derr

  • Title
    • Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water
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Nathaniel P Deutsch

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
    • Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

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Alma R Heckman

  • Title
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

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Charles Webster Hedrick

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Democracy, Classical Studies, Classics, History
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Edward H Kehler

  • Title
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
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Marc Anthony Matera

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
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Kiva Silver

  • Title
    • Senior Continuing Lecturer
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Nationalism, European Studies, History, Writing
  • Summary of Expertise

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

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Elaine A Sullivan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Egyptology; Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments; Ancient World / Classics; History
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Bruce A Thompson

  • Title
    • Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
  • Summary of Expertise

    European history, Jewish history and literature.

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Anne S Kreps

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Mediterranean Studies, Religion and Secularism
  • Summary of Expertise

    Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, History of the Ancient Near East, New Religious Movements, Methods and Theories for the Study of Read more ...

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