History
2012-13 General Catalog
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://history.ucsc.edu/
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 ethnicitymodern Honduras; U.S. history in transnational perspective
Lisbeth Haas
U.S.-Mexico borderlands and border studies, Chicano and Native American history; visual culture in the colonial Americas; California; 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; the Atlantic World; early modern cultural and religious history; U.S. religious history; gender studies; history of the body
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, Emeritus
Pedro G. Castillo, Emeritus
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
Jennifer Derr
Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history; Egypt; agricultural and environmental history; Ottoman history; spatial politics; African history; Islamic history
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 O’Malley
Colonial British America and the Caribbean; the Atlantic World; slavery and the slave trade; race, ethnicity, and identity; revolutionary America; colonization and intercultural contact
Marc Matera
Britain and the British Empire; Modern Europe; world history; Atlantic World; western Africa; African diaspora studies; colonialism; race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Maya Peterson
Russian and Soviet history; environmental history; comparative empire; colonialism; global exchanges of scientific knowledge and expertise; technology transfer; historical geography, spatial history, mapping
Lecturer
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 political, social, and economic history; broadcasting and telecommunications
Jennifer K. Lynn
Later Roman Republic and Principate; Homeric epic; Hellenistic and Augustan poetry;
Bruce Thompson
European intellectual and cultural history, Jewish intellectual and cultural history, French history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage and intelligence, urban history, and environmental history
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Professor
Bettina Aptheker (Feminist Studies)
Feminist oral history and memoir; feminist pedagogy; African-American feminist 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)
Mediterranean studies; medieval francophone and Mediterranean literature; literature, translation, and empire; postcolonial and globalization theory; Marco Polo; 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
