2011-12 General Catalog

201 Humanities
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Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Jonathan F. Beecher, Emeritus

Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., Emeritus

David Brundage
American immigration history, with particular focus on the Irish in America and on transnational immigrant politics; U.S. labor and social history; modern Irish history

Edmund Burke III, Emeritus

Mark Cioc
German history, modern European history, environmental history

Nathaniel Deutsch
Hebrew Bible; rabbinic literature; Jewish mysticism; Hasidism; Eastern European Jewish life; ethnography

Dana Frank
Late 19th- and 20th-century U.S. social history; women's, labor, and working-class history; race and ethnicity; modern Honduras; U.S. history in transnational perspective

Lisbeth Haas
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Chicano and Native American history; visual culture; the U.S. West, California, and the colonial Americas; historical memory, theory, and historical methodology

Charles W. Hedrick Jr.
Greek and Roman history

Gail B. Hershatter
Modern Chinese social and cultural history; labor history; gender history; history of sexuality; feminist theory; history, memory, and nostalgia

Emily Honig
Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in modern Chinese history; comparative labor history; Chicana history, nationalism, and sexuality in the Third World; oral history

Peter Kenez, Emeritus

Bruce Levine, Emeritus

Richard Mather, Emeritus

Gary B. Miles, Emeritus

Buchanan Sharp, Emeritus

David G. Sweet, Emeritus

Mark Traugott
Social and economic history, 19th-century France, French revolutions, European working class, historical methods, workers' autobiographies

Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Colonial and revolutionary America; early modern cultural and religious history; U.S. religious history; gender studies

Associate Professor

David Henry Anthony III
African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African languages; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history

Noriko Aso
Japanese social and cultural history, women's history, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, Korean history

Dilip K. Basu
Modern South Asia, modern China, world history: colonial and post-colonial studies; film and visual culture

Pedro G. Castillo
Chicano/a history and culture; American social and urban history; race, class, and gender in California history, immigration history

Brian A. Catlos
Pre-modern Mediterranean; medieval Iberia and Europe and the Islamic world; Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, ethnicity, minorities, social, and economic history; world history

Alan S. Christy
Early modern and modern Japan; history of social sciences, colonialism, nationalism

Maria Elena Diaz
Atlantic world, Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba; social and cultural, global and local histories; colonialism, slavery and freedom, race/ethnicity, gender and class; legal, political, popular, and religious culture

Matthew D. O'Hara
Colonial and modern Latin America; Mexico; religion; race, ethnicity, and identity; political culture; history of time

Cynthia Polecritti
Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Italy, Mediterranean urban and cultural history, ritual and popular devotion

Alice Yang
Historical memory, Asian American history, gender history, race and ethnicity, 20th-century U.S., oral history

Assistant Professor

Minghui Hu
Early Modern China (1600-1900)

Catherine A. Jones
U.S. civil war and Reconstruction; slavery and emancipation; the American South; history of children; history of education; women and gender

Gregory OMalley
Colonial British America and the Caribbean; the Atlantic World; slavery and the slave trade; race, ethnicity, and identity; revolutionary America; colonization and intercultural contact

Gildas Hamel
History of Israel; Hebrew and Greek bible; Hellenistic and Roman Palestine, and Christianity; social history of the ancient world; history of technology; classical languages; Celtic cultures

Matthew Lasar
U.S. and international telecommunications; political, social, and economic history

Jennifer K. Lynn
Later Roman Republic and Principate; Homeric epic; Hellenistic and Augustan poetry

Professor

Bettina Aptheker (Feminist Studies)
Women's history, feminist oral history and memoir; feminist pedagogy; African-American women's history; queer studies; feminist Jewish studies; feminist critical race studies

Christopher Connery (Literature)
World literature and cultural studies, globalism and geographical thought, the 1960s, Marxism, pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies, cultural revolution

John Dizikes, Emeritus (American Studies)

Barbara L. Epstein (History of Consciousness)
Social movements and theories of social movements, 20th-century U.S. politics and culture, Marxism and related theories of social change

Sharon Kinoshita (Literature)
Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature, Mediterranean studies, globalism, postcolonial theory, world literature and cultural studies

Paul M. Lubeck (Sociology)
Political sociology; political economy of development, globalization, labor and work; logics of methodology; religion and social movements; Islamic society and identities; information and networks

Daniel Selden (Literature)
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory

Associate Professor

Gabriela Arredondo (Latin American and Latino Studies)
U.S. social and cultural history; Chicana/o history; critical race and ethnicity theories; im/migration history; Latina/os in the U.S.; Chicana feminisms; "borderlands" studies, modern Mexico history

Revised: 8/13/12