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NameEmailPhoneOfficeField
Anooshahr, Ali|aanooshahr@ucdavis.edu530-752-07762216 SSH
Interests: Comparative Islamic Empires, Arabic/Persian/Turkic historiography, politics and masculinities
 
Biale, David|dbiale@ucdavis.edu530-752-16403238 SSHModern Europe
Interests: Jewish intellectual and cultural history; European intellectual history; history of religion
 
Borgen, Robert|rborgen@ucdavis.edu530-752-4127302 SproulJapan
Interests: Early Japanese history, literature, and religion, particularly history and literature of the Heian period (794-1185); Early Sino-Japanese cultural relations; Japanese literature in Chinese (kanbun); Tenjin worship
 
Bossler, Beverly|bjbossler@ucdavis.edu530-752-36543229 SSHChina
Interests: China in the High Imperial period (Tang-Song-Yuan, 618-1368), especially social, intellectual and gender history in this period; history of women and family in China
 
Brantley, Cynthia|clbrantley@ucdavis.edu530-752-15453202 SSHAfrica
Interests: Africa: Colonialism, gender, social and economic interaction, nutrition
 
Cadden, Joan|jcadden@ucdavis.edu530-752-22243237 SSHMedieval Europe
Interests: Medieval Europe, early science and medicine, women and science, sexuality
 
Davis, Diana|geovet@ucdavis.edu530-752-07762216 SSH
Interests: Environmental history, veterinary history, colonialism, political economy, Middle East and North Africa, pastoral societies and arid lands.

Current Research: My new book project, "Imperialism and Environmental History in the Middle East" (Cambridge University Press) analyzes the complex relationships between imperialism and environmental narratives in the Arab Middle East from Egypt to Syria.

 
Dickinson, Edward|erdickinson@ucdavis.edu530-754-83733224 SSHModern Europe
Interests: Modern European cultural history; social policy; civil society and the state; history of gender and sexuality; imperialism; aesthetics and politics; recreation.
 
El Shakry, Omnia|oselshakry@ucdavis.edu530-752-99803211 SSHNear East and South Asia
Interests: History of the Modern Middle East (especially Egypt), History of Colonialism, Modern European Intellectual History
 
Hagen, William|wwhagen@ucdavis.edu530-752-01014204 SSHModern Europe
Interests: in time/place terms: Modern and Early Modern Germany and Eastern Europe; also Comparative World History; in thematic and methodological terms: social history and popular culture at the level of everyday life and micro-history; nationalism and populism
 
Harris, A. Katie|akharris@ucdavis.edu530-754-91703233 SSHEarly Modern Europe
Interests: Spain and Portugal, Mexico and Central America, early modern Europe; cult of saints; sacred archaeology; hagiography; collectors and collecting
 
Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen|eoconnor@ucdavis.edu530-752-38653204 SSHUnited States
Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history, American women’s history, social, business and economic history
 
Holloway, Thomas|thholloway@ucdavis.edu530-752-30484209 SSHLatin America
Interests: Social history of modern Latin America, with a special focus on Brazil. Currently researching the case of an Afro-Brazilian newspaper editor notoriously murdered in Rio de Janeiro in 1883, whose memory was then virtually eliminated from the historical record.
 
Kelman, Ari|akelman@ucdavis.edu530-752-16343201 SSHUnited States
Interests: Historical Memory; The Built Environment; US Environmental History; Landscape Theory and History; The Civil War and Reconstruction; Native American Studies
 
Kim, Kyu Hyun|kyukim@ucdavis.edu530-752-79184213 SSHJapan
Interests: Early Modern and Modern Japanese history; colonial modernity in East Asia. Modern Korean history, Japanese popular culture, Japanese and Korean cinema
 
Kudlick, Catherine|cjkudlick@ucdavis.edu530-752-16354203 SSHModern Europe
Interests: French social and cultural history; disability history; gender and sexuality; history of medicine and public health
 
Landau, Norma|nblandau@ucdavis.edu530-752-07474210 SSHEarly Modern Europe
Interests: English history; legal history; local government; social history: 15th to 19th centuries
 
Langland, Victoria|vlangland@ucdavis.edu530-752-16323221 SSHLatin America
Interests: Latin American social, cultural, political and gender history; history of Brazil; history and memory; transnational American history
 
Lawrance, Benjamin|bnl@ucdavis.edu530-752-82074208 SSHAfrica
Interests: Colonialism, Pan-Africanism, Law, West Africa, Borderlands, Human Rights, Child Labor.
 
Mann, Susan|slmann@ucdavis.edu530-752-85764207 SSHChina
Interests: Late imperial China (Ming and Qing dynasties); history of the family and gender relations in East Asia; women in Chinese history; social, cultural economic history of the Qing period.
 
Margadant, Ted|twmargadant@ucdavis.edu530-752-30494206 SSHModern Europe
Interests: Modern French history, social history, comparative revolutions, history of legal institutions and criminal law.
 
Materson, Lisa|lgmaterson@ucdavis.edu530-752-99913223 SSHUnited States
Interests: American women's history, African American history, late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political history of the U.S.
 
McKee, Sally|sjmckee@ucdavis.edu530-752-16433206 SSHModern Europe
Interests: Mediterranean slavery and ethnicity; material culture; 19th-century Americans in France.
 
Miller, Susan|sgmiller@ucdavis.edu530-752-07762216 SSH
Interests:
 
Olmsted, Kathy|ksolmsted@ucdavis.edu530-752-21183207 SSHUnited States
Interests: 20th century U.S. cultural and political history
 
Oropeza, Lorena|lboropeza@ucdavis.edu530-754-82413227 SSHUnited States
Interests: Chicano/a History; History of American Foreign Relations
 
Price, Don C.|dcprice@ucdavis.edu530-752-04394211 SSHChina
Interests: Modern Chinese history, Chinese intellectual history
 
Rauchway, Eric|earauchway@ucdavis.edu530-752-63805203 SSHUnited States
Interests: US political, cultural, and intellectual history
I am currently working on a book titled "The Gift Outright: The West, the South, and America, 1867-1937." At 1865, Americans seeking to realize their ambition of a continental nation had to win the West and to reconstruct the South. The U.S. Congress sketched a plan for each region, channeling resources to the development of these sections. Within two decades of their implementation, both plans failed on their merits, and backfired politically too. Through the New Deal, these failures, and both parties' scramble to establish dominance in the newly incorporated sections, shaped the nation.
 
Resendez, Andres|aresendez@ucdavis.edu530-752-07783209 SSHLatin America
Interests: Mexican history, national and ethnic identities, borderlands, DNA and indigenous peoples, exploration and conquest.
 
Saler, Michael|mtsaler@ucdavis.edu530-752-16373203 SSHModern Europe
Interests: Modern European intellectual and cultural history, modern British History
 
Sen, Sudipta|ssen@ucdavis.edu530-752-30473228 SSHIndia
Interests: Late Medieval and Modern India, British Empire
 
Smolenski, John|jsmolenski@ucdavis.edu530-754-82423231 SSHUnited States
Interests: Colonial British North America, cultural history, American religious history, history and anthropology
 
Spyridakis, Stylianos|svspyridakis@ucdavis.edu530-752-21044205 SSHAncient Europe
Interests: The Ancient World, Crete and the Aegean from Minoan times to the Present
 
Stolzenberg, Daniel|dstolz@ucdavis.edu530-752-22323235 SSHEarly Modern Europe
Interests: Early modern Europe, especially the seventeenth century; history of science; intellectual and cultural history; history of the book; Italy, especially Rome.
 
Stuart, Kathy|kestuart@ucdavis.edu530-752-36563226 SSHEarly Modern Europe
Interests: Deviance, marginality and crime in Early Modern Germany; social and cultural history of Early Modern Germany; gender history; urban history
 
Taylor, Alan|astaylor@ucdavis.edu530-752-40933208 SSHUnited States
Interests: Early American history (colonial revolutionary and early republic); history of the American West; History of Canada (pre-Confederation)
 
Tezcan, Baki|btezcan@ucdavis.edu530-752-99813222 SSHNear East and South Asia
Interests: Mainly pre-modern Middle Eastern history, focusing on such topics as Ottoman political history in the 16th-18th centuries; pre-modern ethnic and racial identities in the Islamic world; Ottoman perceptions of others; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; fiscal and monetary history; Islamic law, and the intellectual tradition of Islam.
 
Tsu, Cecilia|cmtsu@ucdavis.edu530-754-48365205 SSHUnited States
Interests: Asian American history, race and ethnicity, immigration, California and the American West, gender, agricultural and rural history
 
Walker, Charles|cfwalker@ucdavis.edu530-752-30465213 SSHLatin America
Interests: Latin American social, cultural, and intellectual history; Peru and the Andes; the history of catastrophes and natural disasters (earthquakes); the Tupac Amaru Rebellion; Truth Commissions.

I teach a UCD Summer Sessions International course in Cusco, Peru on Andean history. It is open to all university students (Davis, others UCs, and elsewhere). I will offer it again in 2009.

I have several projects underway. Based on research in Seville and Madrid in 2007, I am writing a narrative history of the Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Other projects:

*With Carlos Aguirre and Willie Hiatt, finishing (finally) the translation of Alberto Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca for Cambridge University Press.
*With Ken Verosub (Geology, UCD) a study of the 1600 Huaynaputina volcano that, we believe, affected the global climate.

 
Walker, Clarence|cewalker@ucdavis.edu530-752-07793236 SSHUnited States
Interests: Black American history: 1450-Present; 19th Century social and political history of the United States.
 
Warren, Louis|lswarren@ucdavis.edu530-752-16333205 SSHUnited States
Interests: American West, environmental, Native American, California
 


Emeriti (Back to Top)
NameEmail
Bauer, Arnoldajbauer@ucdavis.edu
Bowsky, Williamwmbowsky@ucdavis.edu
Brody, Davidbrodyiir@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Calhoun, Danielnone
Crummey, Robertrocrummey@ucdavis.edu
Fleischer, Manfredmpfleischer@ucdavis.edu
Jacobson, Davidnone
Metcalf, Barbarametcalf@umich.edu
Poppino, Rollienone
Rosen, Ruthrerosen@ucdavis.edu
Rothstein, Mortmfrothstein@ucdavis.edu
Schwab, Richardnone
Smith, F. Wilsonnone
Willis, F. Roymrfrw@aol.com


Lecturers (Back to Top)
NameEmailOffice
Marie Basile mebasile@ucdavis.edu
5208 SSH
John Farrell jfarrell@csufresno.edu
3223 SSH
Chazz Hammond chhammond@ucdavis.edu
3223 SSH
Louis Segal louis_segal@hotmail.com
4209 SSH
Magid Shihade mshihade@ucdavis.edu
3211 SSH
Rosamaria Tanghetti r.tanghetti@gmail.com
3206 SSH

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