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.
- Title
- Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Affiliations Music Department, Research Center for the Americas
- Phone
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 235
- Office Hours Winter 2020: Tuesdays, 3-5pm
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
- Courses HIS 120: W.E.B. Du Bois; HIS 122A: Jazz and United States Cultural History; HIS 122B: Jazz and United States Cultural History; HIS 190C: 9/11 in Historical Perspective; HISC 216: Critical Race/Ethnic Studies; HISC: 246: Black Radicalism; HIS 204C: Colonialism, Nationalism And Race Research Seminar
Research Interests
Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies; black radicalism; urban studies.
Biography, Education and Training
B.A. History, UC Berkeley
M.A. American Studies, University of Michigan
Ph.D. American Studies, University of Michigan
Selected Publications
Recent Publications:
- "Jazz," in Edwards, Ferguson, and Ogbar, Keywords for African American Studies (New York: NYU Press, 2018)
- "In Various Constructs: Remembering Cecil Taylor," Viewpoint Magazine, 26 July 2018
- “Improvisation and Global Sites of Difference,” special double issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études Critiques en Improvisation 11:2 (2016) – guest co-editor and co-author of introduction
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