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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.

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Americas and Africa

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Associate 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

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

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

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

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.

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor

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

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

Marilyn J Westerkamp

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

Alice Yang

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor of History
- 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
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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

Asia and the Pacific

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

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

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Professor
- History Department Undergraduate Program Director
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

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

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor

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.

Europe and the Mediterranean World

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 ...

Muriam H Davis

Title
- Associate Professor
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

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

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

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

Charles Webster Hedrick

Title
- Professor Emeritus
Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Democracy, Classical Studies, Classics, History

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...