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
- 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
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
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
Minghui Hu
- Title
- Professor
Europe
Benjamin Breen
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
- Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...
Muriam Haleh 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
Alma Rachel 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
Marc 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
Latin America
Benjamin Breen
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
- Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...
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
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
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Muriam Haleh 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
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences
Alma Rachel 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
Juned 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.
South Asia
Juned 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.
Southeast Asia
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences
United States
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
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 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.
Gregory E. 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 Porter
- Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Alice S. Yang
- Title
- Chair, History Department
- Associate 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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