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Ph.D. Secondary Teaching Field

Each Ph.D. student also prepares a second teaching field different from the primary field and can choose from among East Asian, European, Gender and Sexuality, Latin American, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), U.S., and World History.

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East Asia

Noriko Aso

Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- 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
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Gail Hershatter

Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
Email
- gbhers@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China

Emily Honig

Title
- Professor
Email
- ehonig@ucsc.edu

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

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Benjamin Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History

Muriam Haleh Davis

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, European Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental History, Capitalism

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 Middle East Studies, Environmental Studies, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, North Africa, Science Studies, Disease and Immunity, Water

María Elena Díaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
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

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant 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
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
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

Maya K. Peterson

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mkpeters@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Environmental History, History, Water, Colonialism, European Studies, History of Science, Russia, Soviet and Post Soviet Studies, Environmental Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Russian History
European History of the 19th and 20th centuries
Environmental History
Central Asia

Gender and Sexuality

Noriko Aso

Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- 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
- Co-Faculty Lead, Mellon SSRC-DPD
- 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

María Elena Díaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
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

Gail Hershatter

Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
Email
- gbhers@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China

Emily Honig

Title
- Professor
Email
- ehonig@ucsc.edu

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
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
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

Marilyn Westerkamp

Title
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Gender Studies, US History, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Stevenson Provost
- 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

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Co-Faculty Lead, Mellon SSRC-DPD
- 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

María Elena Díaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
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

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Muriam Haleh Davis

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, European Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental History, Capitalism

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 Middle East Studies, Environmental Studies, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, North Africa, Science Studies, Disease and Immunity, Water

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant 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

United States

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

David Brundage

Title
- Academic Senate Vice Chair
- Professor
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Co-Faculty Lead, Mellon SSRC-DPD
- 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

Lisbeth Haas

Title
- Professor
Email
- lhaas@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Indigenous Peoples, Border Studies, Colonialism, Chicana/o Studies, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies
Summary of Expertise
BOOKS
Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California, 1750-1850 (UC Press, 2014.)
2011 Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar Writing on Luiseño Read more ...

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
- Associate 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

Gregory E. O′Malley

Title
- Associate 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
- 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

Marilyn Westerkamp

Title
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Gender Studies, US History, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Stevenson Provost
- 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

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Noriko Aso

Title
- History Graduate Program Director
- 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

Alan S Christy

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

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant 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

Gail Hershatter

Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
Email
- gbhers@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China

Emily Honig

Title
- Professor
Email
- ehonig@ucsc.edu

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
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
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

Gregory E. O′Malley

Title
- Associate 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

Maya K. Peterson

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mkpeters@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Environmental History, History, Water, Colonialism, European Studies, History of Science, Russia, Soviet and Post Soviet Studies, Environmental Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Russian History
European History of the 19th and 20th centuries
Environmental History
Central Asia

Eric 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