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History

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
Humanities and Social Sciences 4036
Telephone: (805) 893-2992

Website: www.history.ucsb.edu

Department Chair:  Stephan Miescher


 
Faculty
Elena Aronova, PhD, UC San Diego, Associate Professor (History of Environmental and Evolutionary science; Historiography; Big Data Collection)
Anthony Barbieri, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (ancient China, Chinese archaeology, and epigraphy)
Randy Bergstrom, PhD, Columbia University, Associate Professor (American social policy; public history)
Hilary Bernstein, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (early modern Europe -- Renaissance Europe; early modern France; political, cultural, urban history)
Daina Berry, Professor
Debra Blumenthal, PhD, University of Toronto, Associate Professor (medieval Europe, medieval and early modern Spanish history, cross-cultural relations in the Medieval Mediterranean, the history of medicine and comparative slavery)
Brad Bouley, PhD, Stanford, Associate Professor (Early Modern Europe, Italian History, History of Religion, Science, and Medicine)
Sarah Case, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (US Women, US South, Public History)
Veronica Castillo-Munoz, PhD, UC Irvine, Associate Professor (the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands, Comparative Immigration, Mexican History, Gender and Chicana/o History)
Utathya Chattopadhyaya, PhD, University of Illinois, Assistant Professor (Modern South Asia, British Empire, Indian Ocean World, Global History, Commodities and Agrarian History)
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (Chicana/o and Latina/o history, race and juvenile justice, Latina/o youth in global perspective, gender and migration, Spanish Borderlands)
Mhoze Chikowero, PhD, Dalhousie University, Associate Professor (African social, cultural and economic history; popular culture and politics in Africa; electrification and energy in Africa; African labor history, HIV/AIDS in Africa)
Juan Cobo Betancourt, PhD, Cambridge University, Assistant Professor (Colonial Latin America, race, religion, law and digital history)
Manuel Covo, PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Associate Professor (Eighteenth-Century France and French Empire, Atlantic World, Caribbean, Early America, Revolutions)
Beth Digeser, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (late Roman Empire and late antiquity)
Adrienne Edgar, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (history of modern Russia and Central Asia; ethnicity and nationality in the Soviet Union; gender and intermarriage in Soviet Central Asia)
Amanda Joyce Hall, Assistant Professor
Lisa Jacobson, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Associate Professor (20th-century US; consumer culture and capitalism; food and alcohol; gender and family history)
Carol Lansing, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (society, politics, and religion in late medieval Italy)
John Lee, PhD, Cornell University, Professor (ancient Greece and West Asia, Achaemenid Persia, history of warfare, Greek archaeology and epigraphy)
John Majewski, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (19th-century US history; political economy of the slavery and the US Civil War)
Harold Marcuse, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (20th-century Germany; public history, reception history)
Patrick McCray, PhD, University of Arizona, Professor (history of science and technology; Cold War)
Kate McDonald, PhD, UC San Diego, Associate Professor (modern Japan, cultural history of mobility, history of technology)
Cecilia Mendez Gastelumendi, PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Professor (Andean history with emphasis in Peru; modern Latin America)
Stephan Miescher, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor (19th- and 20th-century social history of West Africa; Ghana, colonialism, gender, masculinities; history of development and modernity/modernization; history of sexualities; oral history)
Katie Moore, PhD, Boston University, Assistant Professor (Early America, Atlantic World, History of Capitalism, History of Money)
Taylor Moore, Assistant Professor
Alice O'Connor, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Professor (US History, History of Public Policy, Urban History)
Giuliana Perrone, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (Nineteenth Century U.S. History, Slavery, Law, Civil War and Reconstruction)
Erika Rappaport, PhD, Rutgers University, Professor (Modern British and Imperial history; Gender history; Commodities and Consumer Culture in World History)
Luke Roberts, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (Japan - 1550 to 1880)
Adam Sabra, PhD, Princeton, Professor (medieval and early modern Egypt)
Sherene Seikaly, PhD, New York University, Associate Professor (capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East)
Paul Spickard, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (history; race; ethnicity; immigration; Asian American; African American; interracial marriage; multiracial; identity; global)
David Stein, Assistant Professor
Butch Ware, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor (African History, History of Islam, Race, Slavery and the African Atlantic and Diasporic Worlds)
Salim Yaqub, PhD, Yale University, Professor (US foreign relations)
Xiaowei Zheng, PhD, UC San Diego, Associate Professor (political and social history of China, political culture of China) Joint Appointment: EALCS
Ya Zuo, PhD, Princeton University, Associate Professor (middle and late imperial China, cultural and intellectual history, history of science)

 
Emeriti Faculty
James Brooks, PhD, UC Davis Joint Appointment: ANTH
Wilson Brownlee Jr, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Sarah Cline, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Patricia Cohen, PhD, UC Berkeley
Douglas Daniels, PhD, UC Berkeley Joint Appointment: BLKST
Jane Dehart, PhD, Duke University
Harold Drake, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Sharon Farmer, PhD, Harvard University
Abraham Friesen, PhD, Stanford University
Frank Frost, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Mary Furner, PhD, Northwestern University
Nancy Gallagher, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Jonathan Glickstein, PhD, Yale University
Mary Hancock, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Joint Appointment: ANTH
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, PhD, University of Washington
R Humphreys, PhD, University of Michigan
Laura Kalman, PhD, Yale University
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, PhD, New York University
Nelson Lichtenstein, PhD, UC Berkeley
Albert Lindemann, PhD, Harvard University
J McGee, PhD, Yale University
Richard Oglesby, PhD, Northwestern University
Michael Osborne, PhD, University of Wisconsin Joint Appointment: ENVST
Ann Plane, PhD, Brandeis University
Carroll Pursell, PhD, UC Berkeley
David Rock, PhD, Cambridge University
Paul Sonnino, PhD, UC Los Angeles
John Talbott, PhD, Stanford University
Zaragosa Vargas, PhD, University of Michigan

 
Affiliated Faculty
Janet Afary, PhD (Religious Studies)
Peter Alagona, PhD (Environmental Studies)
Gerardo Aldana, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Ralph Armbruster, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Joseph Blankholm, PhD (Religious Studies)
Peter Bloom, PhD (Film and Media Studies)
Eileen Boris, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Rudy Busto, PhD (Religious Studies)
William Elison (Religious Studies)
Brice Erickson, PhD (Classics)
Claudio Fogu, PhD (French and Italian)
Sabine Fruhstuck, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)
Cynthia Kaplan, PhD (Political Science)
Rose Maclean, PhD (Classics)
Anshu Malhotra, PhD (Global Studies)
Christopher McAuley, PhD (Black Studies)
Mireille Miller-Young, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Robert Morstein-Marx, PhD (Classics)
Claudia Moser, PhD (History of Art and Architecture)
Leila Rupp, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Stuart Smith, PhD (Anthropology)
Christine Thomas, PhD (Religious Studies)
Volker M Welter, PhD (History of Art and Architecture)
Xiaojian Zhao, PhD (Asian American Studies)