History Faculty

Shane Bjornlie Shane Bjornlie, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, Chair of History (2018-20) 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. sbjornlie@cmc.edu (909) 621-8840
Lisa Forman Cody Lisa Forman Cody, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Teaching: Britain, 1500-1945; France, 1700-1945; Visual Culture; Women, Gender, and Sex Roles; Medicine and Science Research: 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." lisa.cody@cmc.edu (909) 607-2830
Heather Ferguson Heather Ferguson, Ph.D. 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. hferguson@cmc.edu (909) 607-3814
Lily Geismer Lily Geismer, Ph.D. Associate 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 lgeismer@cmc.edu (909) 607-2933
Gary Hamburg Gary Hamburg, Ph.D. 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 gary.hamburg@cmc.edu (909) 607-9679
Nita Kumar Nita Kumar, Ph.D. Brown Family Professor of South Asian History B.A., University of Lucknow, India; M.A., University of Bridgeport; M.Phil., Jawaharial Nehru University, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Lecturer, University of Chicago; Mellon Fellow and Assistant Professor, Brown University; Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India; Fulbright Fellow, Yale University; Professor, Brandeis University; Reed College; University of Michigan. (On leave, second semester.) Teaching: Modernity, urbanism, everyday life, historiography, caste, class, community, gender, women, children, education, literature and art. Research: Artisans, work and leisure; women & gender; methodology of History and Anthropology; activism and management; education, families, communities' the intellectual history of India; contemporary education in India. nita.kumar@cmc.edu (909) 607-0490
Daniel Livesay Daniel Livesay, Ph.D. 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 dlivesay@cmc.edu 909-607-0186
Wendy Lower Wendy Lower, Ph.D. 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 wendy.lower@cmc.edu (909) 607-4688
Albert Park Albert L. Park, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History 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; relationship between economic structures and cultural and religious structures; questions and issues on modernity and globalization albert.park@cmc.edu (909) 607-3931
Jonathan Petropoulos Jonathan Petropoulos, Ph.D. 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 jpetropoulos@cmc.edu (909) 607-2775
Sara Sarzynski Sarah Sarzynski, Ph.D. Assistant 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 ssarzynski@cmc.edu (909) 607-1243
Diana Selig Diana Selig, Ph.D. 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; immigration; education; cultural exchange; America in the world diana.selig@cmc.edu (909) 607-3396
Tamara Venit-Shelton Tamara Venit-Shelton, Ph.D. Associate 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 tamara.venit-shelton@cmc.edu (909) 607-3855
Chelsea Zi Wang Chelsea Zi Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History BA, University of British Columbia; MA, PhD, Columbia University Teaching: Chinese history, East Asian history, law and governance, history of thought, comparative history, historiography Research: History of Ming China (1368-1644), comparative history of East Asia, bureaucracy, administrative writing, communication, information management, archives, cultural history of books cwang@cmc.edu (909) 607-7985

Visiting Faculty

Leigh Anne Lieberman Leigh Lieberman, Visiting Assistant Professor of History llieberman@cmc.edu (909) 607-1568
Victoria Lobis Victoria Lobis, Ph.D Lecturer of History VLobis@cmc.edu (909) 607-0490
James Mestaz James Mestaz, Ph.D Visiting Assistant Professor of History B.A., U.C.L.A; M.A., University of Miami; Ph.D, University of Illinois at Chicago Teaching: The Mexican Revolution, Mexican History, Environmental History, Latinx Immigration, Modern Latin America, Indigenous Populations, Mexican American History Research: Modern Mexican History, Environmental History, Ethnohistory, Indigenous People of Latin America, Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Pan Indigenous Movements, Oral Histories jmestaz@cmc.edu (909) 607-7040

Emeritus Faculty

Charles A. Lofgren, Ph.D. 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 charles.lofgren@cmc.edu (909) 607-2931
Arthur Rosenbaum Arthur L. Rosenbaum, Ph.D. Associate Professor B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University arthur.rosenbaum@cmc.edu (909) 607-7985