Department Chair

Luis Alvarez

Department Chair /Professor

Director of Chicano/a and Latino/a Arts & Humanities

Field of Study: United States/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 850

Email: l2alvarez@ucsd.edu

Faculty

Mira Balberg

Professor

David Goodblatt Endowed Chair in Ancient Jewish Civilization.

Field of Study: Ancient Mediterranean

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: mbalberg@ucsd.edu
Rosie Bermudez

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: r3bermudez@ucsd.edu
Frank Biess

Professor

Rita L. Atkinson Endowed Chair in German Studies.

Field of Study: Europe/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: fbiess@ucsd.edu
Ben Cowan

Professor

Field of Study: Latin America/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: bacowan@ucsd.edu
Heather Daly

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: hmdaly@ucsd.edu
Aniket De

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: South Asia

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 843

Email: ande@ucsd.edu
Denise Demetriou

Professor

Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Endowed Chair in Ancient Greek History

Field of Study: Ancient Mediterranean

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: dedemetriou@ucsd.edu
Andrew Devereux

Associate Professor

Field of Study: Europe/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: adevereux@ucsd.edu
Claire Edington

Associate Professor

Field of Study: Europe/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: cedington@ucsd.edu
Thomas W. Gallant

Distinguished Professor

Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History

Field of Study: Ancient Mediterranean/Europe/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: tgallant@ucsd.edu
Cathy Gere

Professor

Field of Study: History of Science/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: cgere@ucsd.edu
Karl Gerth

Professor

Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Endowed Chair

Field of Study: East Asia/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 936

Email: kgerth@ucsd.edu
Tal Golan

Associate Professor

Field of Study: History of Science

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: tgolan@ucsd.edu
Jessica Graham

Associate Professor

Field of Study:Latin America/Global/Transnational/United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: jlgraham@ucsd.edu
Bright Gyamfi

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: Africa

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 845

Email: bgyamfi@ucsd.edu
Mark G. Hanna

Associate Professor

Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher

Field of Study: United States/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: m1hanna@ucsd.edu
Mark Hendrickson

Associate Professor

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: ghendrickson@ucsd.edu
Todd Henry

Associate Professor

Field of Study: East Asia/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: tahenry@ucsd.edu
Deborah Hertz

Professor

Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies

Field of Study: Europe

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: dhertz@ucsd.edu
Sara Kozameh

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: Latin America

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 832

Email: sjkozameh@ucsd.edu
Nancy Kwak

Associate Professor

Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher

Field of Study: United States/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 829

Email: nhkwak@ucsd.edu
Julia Lewandoski

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: jlewandowski@ucsd.edu
Weijing Lu

Professor

Field of Study: East Asia

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 935

Email: w1lu@ucsd.edu
Simeon Man

Associate Professor

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: siman@ucsd.edu
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda

Associate Professor

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: vmartinezmatsuda@ucsd.edu
Wendy Matsumura

Associate Professor

Field of Study: East Asia

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: wmatsumura@ucsd.edu
Dana Velasco Murillo

Associate Professor

Field of Study: Latin America

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: dvmurillo@ucsd.edu
Micah Muscolino

Professor

Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History

Field of Study: East Asia

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 837

Email: mmuscolino@ucsd.edu
Patrick Hyder Patterson

Professor

Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher

Field of Study: Europe/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: patrickpatterson@ucsd.edu
Nydia Pineda de Ávila

Assistant Professor

Field of Study: History of Science

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: npinedadeavila@ucsd.edu
Rebecca Jo Plant

Professor

Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher

Field of Study: United States

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 833

Email: rplant@ucsd.edu
Jeremy Prestholdt

Professor

Field of Study: Africa/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: jprestholdt@ucsd.edu
Michael Provence

Professor

Field of Study: Middle East

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 937

Email: mprovence@ucsd.edu
Pamela Radcliff

Professor

Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher

Field of Study: Europe

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: pradcliff@ucsd.edu
Sarah Schneewind

Professor

Field of Study: East Asia

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building, Room 932

Email: sschneewind@ucsd.edu
Nir Shafir

Associate Profesor

Field of Study: Middle East/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: nshafir@ucsd.edu
Ulrike Strasser

Professor

Field of Study: Europe/Global/Transnational

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: ustrasser@ucsd.edu
Matthew Vitz

Associate Professor

Field of Study: Latin America

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: mvitz@ucsd.edu
Edward Watts

Professor

Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair in Byzantine Greek History

Field of Study: Africa/Ancient Mediterranean/Europe

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: ewatts@ucsd.edu
Daniel Widener

Professor

Director of the UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities

UC San Diego Academic Senate Donald Tuzin Distinguished Service Award

University of California Academic Senate Mid-Career Leadership Award

Field of Study: United States/Latin America

Office: Ridgewalk Academic Complex Arts and Humanities Building

Email: dwidener@ucsd.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Nancy Caciola

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1994
Suzanne Cahill
(Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1982; Adjunct Professor, History, UCSD) is an expert in Medieval China, the Tao, and Taoists saints. Her work also includes research on women in Medieval China.
Stanley A. Chodorow
(Ph.D. Cornell University, 1968) is a specialist in medieval history, legal and constitutional history, political theory, and the history of politics, 1050-1300.
Robert Edelman
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1973
Joseph Esherick
(Ph.D. California, Berkeley, 1971) is a specialist in modern China.
Takashi Fujitani
(Ph.D. California, Berkeley, 1986) is a specialist in modern Japan, modern and contemporary Japanese culture, and military culture.
David Gutierrez

Professor Emeritus & Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1988
Judith Hughes
(Ph.D. Harvard University, 1970) is a specialist in modern Europe, the Holocaust, and the history of psychoanalysis.
Christine Hunefeldt

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Bonn, 1982
Hasan Kayali

Professor
Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1988
Rachel Klein
Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher
Ph.D. Yale University
David S. Luft
David S. Luft
Thomas A. Metzger
(Ph.D. Harvard University, 1967) is a specialist on the institutional and intellectual history of pre-modern China.
Michael Monteón

(Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974) is a specialist on Latin America, with an emphasis on the national histories of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico, and the region's overall development.
Michael Parrish

(Ph.D. Yale University, 1968) specializes in the history of American law and American politics and culture since the Civil War.
Paul G. Pickowicz
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies & Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973
William Propp
Professor and Harriet & Louis Bookheim Chair of Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1985
Edward Reynolds
(Ph.D. University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, 1972) specializes in African history with a focus on West African economic and missionary history.
Martin J. S. Rudwick
(Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 1958) focuses on the earth and life sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries and the historical relations of scientific and religious practices.
Cynthia Truant
(Ph.D. Chicago, 1978) is a historian of European and French labor, European women and gender studies, and French social and cultural history during 1650-1850.
Robert Westman

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1971
Eric Van Young

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

(Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1978) focuses on colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American history, with an emphasis on Mexico.

In Memoriam

David Goodblatt
(Ph.D. Brown University, 1972) Distinguished Professor & Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies
Gabriel Jackson
(Ph.D. University of Toulouse, 1952) specialized in the Spanish Civil War and other aspects of modern Spain.
John Marino
(Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1977) specialized in early modern European history, Renaissance and Reformation Europe, the early modern Mediterranean world, Spanish Italy, the city and kingdom of Naples, and the Italian South.
Allan Mitchell
(Ph.D. Harvard University, 1961) specialized in Franco-German history and the European rail network in the 19th century
Alden Mosshammer
(Ph.D. Brown University, 1971) specialized in ancient Greece and Rome and early Christianity.
David R. Ringrose
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1966) specialized in early modern Europe with an emphasis on the economic history of Europe and the history of Spain.

Department Chair

Faculty

Faculty Emeriti

Stanley A. Chodorow

Takashi Fujitani

David S. Luft

Thomas A. Metzger

Michael Monteón

Edward Reynolds

Martin J. S. Rudwick

Cynthia Truant

In Memoriam

Gabriel Jackson

John Marino

Allan Mitchell

Alden Mosshammer

David R. Ringrose