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Ph.D. Secondary Teaching Field

Each Ph.D. student also prepares a second teaching field different from the primary area of reseach interest and can choose from among Borderlands and Transnationalism, East Asian, European, Critical Race and Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality, Latin American, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Science, Technology and Environment, U.S., and World History.

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Borderlands and Transnational

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

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 China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlprovost@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

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

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Director, Acting Director of the Center for Jewish Studies: 2022-2023
- 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

Aims McGuinness

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@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 E. 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

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Associate 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
Read more ...

Critical Race and Indigeneity

Muriam Haleh 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

Nathaniel Deutsch

Title
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies (on leave 2022-2023)
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
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; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Director, Acting Director of the Center for Jewish Studies: 2022-2023
- 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

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

Amy 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
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@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 E. 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 Porter

Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- 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 S. Yang

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Associate 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
Read more ...

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
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlprovost@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 China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies

Europe

Benjamin Breen

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

Title
- Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Director, Acting Director of the Center for Jewish Studies: 2022-2023
- 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 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

Gender and Sexuality

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

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

Marc 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

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Associate 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
Read more ...

Latin America

Benjamin Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
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
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
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@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
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Muriam Haleh 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 Cruz 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
Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of colonial botany

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Director, Acting Director of the Center for Jewish Studies: 2022-2023
- 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 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.

Science, Technology, and Environment

Benjamin Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
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
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 Cruz 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
Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of colonial botany

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies

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

Amy 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
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@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 E. 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 Porter

Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- 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 S. Yang

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Associate 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
Read more ...

World History

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

Benjamin Breen

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

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 China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlprovost@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Director, Acting Director of the Center for Jewish Studies: 2022-2023
- 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

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies

Marc 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

Aims McGuinness

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@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 E. 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 Porter

Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- 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