History Faculty

History Faculty

Professor of History

M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University (2006)

Teaching:

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

Research:

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.

Phone: (909) 621-8840
Associate Professor of History

A.B. magna cum laude, Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Teaching:

British and European history, 1500-1945; the history of family, gender, and sexuality; history and literature; culture, arts, and politics. Jane Austen's Britain; The Age of Elizabeth and Shakespeare; London and Paris in the Nineteenth Century; Gender, Sex, and the Family in Europe, 1500-1900; Art and Politics, Advertising and Propaganda in Europe, 1500-1960; Revolutions in London and Paris, 1660-1870. 

Research:

Cultural history of Britain and Northern Europe. History of medicine, reproduction, gender, sexuality, abortion, and the human body; history of the family, the law, medicine, literary and visual representations, and social conflict.

Books in progress are: Between the Sheets: Sex and Secrets in Eighteenth-Century English Marriage and How Abortion Became an American Obsession.

"'Marriage is No Protection for Crime': Coverture, Sex, and Marital Rape in Eighteenth-Century England" appears in the October 2022 Journal of British Studies.

Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons examined the intersection of reproduction and politics and won three best book awards including the Berkshire Prize, and two scholarly articles received awards, including the North American Conference on British Studies Walter D. Love Prize.

Phone: (909) 607-2830
Associate Professor of History

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.; University of Texas at Austin, Masters of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies

Teaching:

Islamic World, Urban and Architectural History, Middle East/Ottoman Empire, Comparative Early Modern Empires, Gender, Power, and Authority

Research:

Structures of Power and Discourses of Authority; Intersection of Ethics and Politics; Comparative Systems of Governmentality; Archival Histories; Mediterranean Identities; Theories of Empire; Greater Syria and Lebanon under Ottoman Rule.

Phone: (909) 607-3814
Professor of History

Ph.D., University of Michigan; B.A., Brown University

Teaching:

United States history since 1945; politics; urban and suburban history; policy; race; capitalism; gender

Research:

Public policy and social movements; liberalism; suburban politics; Massachusetts

Phone: (909) 607-2933
Otho M. Behr Professor of the History of Ideas

A.B., Stanford University, 1972; A.M., Stanford University, 1978; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978. Study Abroad, St. Petersburg University and Moscow University.

Teaching:

Modern Russian History, 1700 to Present; Russian and European Intellectual History, 1700 to Present; Islam and Islamic Political Movements

Research:

Russian Intellectual History, 1700 to 1917; Russian Politics from Peter the Great to the Present; European Intellectual History since the Enlightenment; Modern Islam

Phone: (909) 607-9679
Associate Professor of History

PhD (History) The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2010); BA, The University of Colorado, Boulder (2002)

Teaching:

Colonial and Early American History; History of Slavery; Atlantic World History; History of Racial Ideology; History of the Family; Caribbean History; Native American History

Research:

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

Phone: 909-607-0186
John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow

B.A. (1987) Hamilton College, Clinton NY Ph.D. (1999) American University, Washington DC

Teaching:

Holocaust History, Genocide Studies, Women's History, Eastern Europe-Ukraine, War Crimes Trials, Nazism and Stalinism

Research:

Holocaust History Human Rights History Genocide Studies

Phone: (909) 607-4688
Assistant Professor of History

PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2019

BA and MA in English literature (with Film Studies and History), Jadavpur University, 2011.

Phone: 909-607-9789
Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies

B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

Teaching:

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

Research:

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

Phone: (909) 607-3931
John V. Croul Professor of European History

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1983); A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University (1990)

Teaching:

German History, Art and politics, European social history, especially the history of the European aristocracy, The Holocaust

Research:

National Socialism, Art looting, European aristocracy, The Holocaust

Phone: (909) 607-2775
Associate Professor of History
Teaching:

Latin America, Brazil, Cold War, U.S.-Latin American relations, gender and sexuality, popular culture and film studies, race and ethnicity, cultural history, the Amazon, human rights

Research:

Modern Brazilian cultural and political history, popular culture and film, the Amazon, the Cold War, social movements, memory and oral history, regionalism and regional identities in Brazil related to poverty, religion, race and gender

Phone: (909) 607-1243
Kingsley Croul Associate Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow

B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Teaching:

Modern America; Great Depression and World War II; women and politics; gender and society; reform movements; families; schooling

Research:

Modern United States; social science; ethnicity and race; gender; education; schools

Phone: (909) 607-3396
Professor of History

B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

Teaching:

Nineteenth-Century United States History, American West, environment, race, ethnicity, and immigration

Research:

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

Phone: (909) 607-3855
Assistant Professor of History

B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Teaching:

Chinese history, East Asian history, law and governance, comparative history, historiography

Research:

History of Ming China (1368-1644), bureaucracy, communication, archives, organizational theory

Phone: 909-607-7985

Visiting Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Roy P. Crocker Professor Emeritus of American History and Politics
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Teaching: American Constitutional History; Recent American Politics; Introductory U.S. History
Research: War, Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Constitution; the Constitutional History of Race in the United States
Phone: (909) 607-2931
Associate Professor
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Phone: (909) 607-7985