History Faculty
History Faculty
M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University (2006)
History of the Roman Republic and Empire; History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Urban History in Ancient and Medieval Europe; Roman Social History; Historiography and Archaeology of Decline and Fall of Empires
Intersections of rhetorical representation and historical reality in Late Antiquity (4th-6th centuries); study of the end of the Roman Empire; cultural transformation from the Roman to the Carolingian empire; political and economic structures of the ancient world; Roman urban history and archaeology; institutional histories of the ancient and medieval military and bureaucracy; history of ancient education and the transmission of classicism; literary studies of historiography, ethnography and epistolography.
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Britain, 1500-1945; France, 1700-1945; Visual Culture; Women, Gender, and Sex Roles; Medicine and Science
My book, Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Britons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) will be released in paperback July 2008. The book has won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best First Book Prize for 2005; Phi Alpha Theta's Best First Book Prize for 2005; the Western Association of Women Historians Best Book of the Year for 2005; it was also been shortlisted by the Royal Historical Society for the Whitfield Prize in British History. For a detailed review: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=149081197579919,I am currently working on a book-length project entitled "The Pursuit of Happiness: Female Independence in the Age of American Revolution."
PhD (History) The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2010); BA, The University of Colorado, Boulder (2002)
Colonial and Early American History; History of Slavery; Atlantic World History; History of Racial Ideology; History of the Family; Caribbean History; Native American History
Slavery in the Colonial Americas; Free People of Color in the Atlantic World; Intersections Between Ideas of Race and Family in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Slavery and Aging in North America and the Caribbean
B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Modern Korean History, 1875-Present; Colonialism and Korea: Power, Culture and Modernity; Japan in the World: Modern Japanese History; Japanese Empire; Civilizations of East Asia to 1800; Utopianism and Political Imagination in East Asia; Nature, Environment and the Human Imagination in Asia
Modern Korean and East Asian intellectual and social history; environmental history; relationship between economic structures and cultural and religious structures; questions and issues on modernity and globalization
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1983); A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University (1990)
German History, Art and politics, European social history, especially the history of the European aristocracy, The Holocaust
National Socialism, Art looting, European aristocracy, The Holocaust
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Modern America; Great Depression and World War II; women and politics; gender and society; reform movements; families; schooling
Modern United States; social science; ethnicity and race; immigration; education; cultural exchange; America in the world
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Nineteenth-Century United States History, American West, environment, race, ethnicity, and immigration
Social and political movements in California and the American West, with an emphasis on the intersection between race and environment; Gilded Age and Progressive Era political economy and culture
B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Chinese history, East Asian history, law and governance, comparative history, historiography
History of Ming China (1368-1644), bureaucracy, communication, archives, organizational theory
Visiting Faculty
B.A., San Francisco State University (History, 2009); M.A., Tufts University (History, 2012); M.A. and Ph.D., University of California-Irvine (History, 2018)
Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., History, San Francisco State University
B.A., Music, University of California, Davis
19th-20th Century Middle East and North Africa
Empire and Colonialism
Global History
Race and Ethnicity
Music and Musicology
Empire, colonialism, and decolonization; histories of gender, labour and performance; working-class histories; politics and aesthetics.
Modern South Asia; philology; religious and linguistic nationalism; critical theory from the Global South
Emeritus Faculty
