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Ph.D. Primary Teaching Field

In consultation with their faculty advisors, students will designate a primary field for teaching, defined in terms of geography and period, by the end of their first year in the program. Please see below a current but not exhaustive list of these specializations.

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East Asia

Noriko Aso

Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
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

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Professor
- History Department Undergraduate Program Director
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlpr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
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

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu

Europe

Benjamin P Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
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
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
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
Email
- jderr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
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

Marc Anthony Matera

Title
- Professor
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
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

Latin America

Benjamin P Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
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 ...

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
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

Aims McGuinness

Title
- College Provost, Merrill College
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
- aimsmcg@ucsc.edu
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
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Muriam H Davis

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
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
Email
- jderr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water

Kathleen C Gutierrez

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- kgutie20@ucsc.edu
- gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
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

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
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

Juned Noor M Shaikh

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- jmshaikh@ucsc.edu
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.

South Asia

Juned Noor M Shaikh

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- jmshaikh@ucsc.edu
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.

Southeast Asia

Kathleen C Gutierrez

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- kgutie20@ucsc.edu
- gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
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

United States

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
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

Catherine A Jones

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- catjones@ucsc.edu
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

Caitlin A Keliiaa

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- ckeliiaa@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Indigenous Peoples, Gender Studies, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements

Amy Joy Lonetree

Title
- Professor
Email
- lonetree@ucsc.edu
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
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
- aimsmcg@ucsc.edu
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.

Gregory O′Malley

Title
- Professor
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
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
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Alice Yang

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
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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