History Faculty
Shane Bjornlie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 2009; University of Texas at Austin, Masters of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies, 1999
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, 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, 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, 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, Ph.D.
Assistant 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, Ph.D.
John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow and Director of Mgrublian Center for Human Rights
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 L. Park, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Co-Principal Investigator EnviroLab Asia
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, 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
Sarah Sarzynski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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, Ph.D.
Kingsley Croul Associate Professor of History, George R. Roberts Fellow, and Chair of the Department
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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chelsea Zi Wang,
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., 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
Glen Cooper, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A., Columbia University, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Teaching: History of Science in Islam,Byzantium and Islam: A Tale of Two Cities, Clash and Co-existence,The Qur'an in History,Middle East History
Research: History of Medicine, Astronomy, and Astrology in the Classical, Byzantine, Islamic, and Latin European civilizations,Christian and Islamic intellectual exchanges and military conflicts,Ninth Century Abbasid Intellectual History,Ancient Medical Theories and the Political Body in the Middle Ages
Glen.Cooper@cmc.edu
(909) 607-7040
Ian Hopper, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Teaching: Modern British history, imperialism, warfare, urban history
Research: Victorian military values and militarism, 19th & 20th Century British culture, cultural impact of the Great War
Ian.Hopper@cmc.edu
(909) 607-1568
Victoria Lobis, Ph.D
Visiting Professor
Teaching:
Research:
VLobis@cmc.edu
(909) 607-0490
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 L. Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaching:
Research:
arthur.rosenbaum@cmc.edu
(909) 607-7985