Faculty
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Elinor Accampo, Professor of History Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley Research Specialities: Nineteenth and twentieth century French social and cultural history, history of the working class, history of the family, women, gender and feminism; biography; cultural history of disease. Office: SOS153 Phone: (213)740-1657 Email: accampo@college.usc.edu |
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Lois Banner, Professor of History and Gender Studies Ph.D. , Columbia University Research Specialities: Professor of History: Women, gender, cultural history, nineteenth and twentieth century United States; masculinity studies, feminist studies, sexuality and queer studies. Office: SOS272 Phone: (213)740-1610 Email: lbanner@usc.edu |
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Marjorie Becker, Associate Professor of History Ph.D. , Yale University Research Specialities: Mexican revolution and counter-revolution, race in the Americas, gender, time including "ghost time," Frida Kahlo, Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, innovative historical writing, magical realism, the politicization of Mexican dance, the dances of Mexican politics, the multi-faceted worlds of Mexico's Tarascan indigenous population, the gendered, revolutionary worlds of the poetry of Octavio Paz, the histories of Macon Georgia Jews. Office: SOS269 Phone: (213)740-1674 Email: mbecker@usc.edu |
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Judith Bennett, John R. Hubbard Chair in British History and Professor of History Ph.D. Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Office: SOS174 Phone: (213)821-2544 Email: judithb@usc.edu |
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Lisa Bitel, Professor of History and Religion Ph.D. History, Harvard University Research Specialities: Medieval European history, history of Christianity, religious studies, women's and gender history, Irish history, Celtic literatures and cultures, art and archaeology of medieval Europe, visual and material culture of pre-modern Europe Office: SOS282 Phone: (213)821-2150 Email: bitel@usc.edu |
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Daniela Bleichmar, Associate Professor of Art History and History Ph.D. History, Princeton University Research Specialities: Early Modern Europe, especially visual and material culture, global exchanges, science, and print; Spanish Empire/Colonial Latin America; History of Collecting and Display Office: VKC351 Phone: (213)821-6384 Email: bleichma@usc.edu |
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William Deverell, Professor of History Ph.D. History, Princeton University Office: SOS274 Phone: (213)740-1676 Email: deverell@usc.edu |
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Philip Ethington, Professor of History Ph.D. , Stanford University Research Specialities: Urban, political, social and cultural history; Global history of cities, digital humanities, visual culture, intellectual history, theory of history. Office: SOS268 Phone: (213)740-1669 Email: philipje@usc.edu |
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Richard Fox, Professor of History Ph.D. History, Stanford University Office: SOS283 Phone: (213)821-0991 Email: rfox@usc.edu |
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| Jason Glenn, Associate Professor of History Ph.D. Medieval History, University of California, Berkeley Office: SOS163 Phone: (213)740-1664 Email: jkglenn@usc.edu |
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G. Clinton Godart, Assistant Professor of History, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures Ph.D. History, University of Chicago Research Specialities: Modern Japanese History, Intellectual History of Japan, History of Science, Buddhism in Modern Japan Office: SOS153 Phone: (213)740-1657 Email: godart@usc.edu |
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| Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Ph.D. Modern Chinese History, University of California, San Diego Research Specialities: Modern and Contemporary Chinese History; Urban and Environmental Studies; Drama and Performance Studies. Office: SOS260 Phone: (213)821-2603 Email: jlgoldst@usc.edu |
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Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History Ph.D. History, Technical University Berlin Research Specialities: The History of the Holocaust and Genocides, comparative history of mass violence and its resistance, racial and state discrimination against indigenous populations, especially in Latin America Office: SOS262 Phone: (213)740-1668 Email: gruner@usc.edu |
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Sarah Gualtieri, Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity Ph.D. Middle East History, University of Chicago Research Specialities: Arab American Studies, Diasporas, Race and Ethnicity, Revolution and Occupation. Office: SOS165 Phone: (213)740-5374 Email: gualtier@college.usc.edu |
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| Karen Halttunen, Professor of History Ph.D. , Yale University Research Specialities: 19th Century Cultural and Intellectual History of the US, Early American History. Office: SOS164 Phone: (213)740-1682 Email: halttune@usc.edu |
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Deborah Harkness, Professor of History Ph.D. , University of California, Davis Research Specialities: History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Technology, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Britain, the Renaissance, Women's History, Tudor England Office: SOS161 Phone: (213)821-2604 Email: deharkne@usc.edu |
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Cynthia Herrup, John R. Hubbard Chair in British History and Professor of History and Law Ph.D. History, Northwestern University Office: SOS281 Phone: (213)821-2191 Email: herrup@usc.edu |
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Kyung Moon Hwang, Associate Professor of History Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Research Specialities: Modern transformation of Korea. Office: SOS279 Phone: (213)740-1672 Email: khwang@usc.edu |
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Lon Kurashige, Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity Ph.D. American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Research Specialities: (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994) Associate Professor of History and ASE: Asian-American history; Japanese American; ethnic identity politics. Office: SOS264 Phone: (213)740-1666 Email: kurashig@usc.edu |
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Paul Lerner, Associate Professor of History Ph.D. History, Columbia University Office: SOS276 Phone: (213)740-1653 Email: plerner@usc.edu |
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Peter Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology Ph.D. History, Harvard University Research Specialities: Peter C. Mancall is a historian of early North America, the early modern Atlantic World, and Native American history. He has written five books, edited nine others, and has written for American Heritage and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as historical journals, and his work has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Office: SOS284 Phone: (213)821-2151 Email: mancall@usc.edu |
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Maria-Elena Martinez, Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity Ph.D. Latin American History, University of Chicago Office: SOS270 Phone: (213)740-1675 Email: martinem@dornsife.usc.edu |
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Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of History Ph.D. , Columbia University Office: SOS167 Phone: (213)740-1670 Email: perlrose@usc.edu |
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Joan Piggott, Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Ph.D. History, Stanford University Research Specialities: premodern historical studies: Japan and East Asia; monarchy, family history, and church-state relations Office: SOS168 Phone: (213)821-5872 Email: joanrp@usc.edu |
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| Azade-Ayse Rorlich, Professor of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures Ph.D. History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Research Specialities: Russia/USSR/Eurasia : modernity studies, identity, gender, visual culture. Office: SOS258 Phone: (213)740-1665 Email: arorlich@usc.edu |
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Steve Ross, Professor of History Ph.D. History, Princeton University Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980) Professor of History: US social, labor, popular culture, film history, politics. Office: SOS172 Phone: (213)740-1681 Email: sjross@usc.edu |
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| Ramzi Rouighi, Associate Professor of History Ph.D. History, Columbia University Office: SOS256 Phone: (213)821-3126 Email: rouighi@usc.edu |
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George Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History Ph.D. History, Stanford University Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989) Professor of ASE and History: Chicano/a immigration, American West. Office: ADM304 Phone: (213)740-2531 Email: georges@usc.edu |
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Vanessa Schwartz, Professor of History Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley Research Specialities: Modern Visual Culture, especially film; photojournalism; Modern Europe, France; Urban History, Paris, Aviation, Jets, Airports. Office: SOS170 Phone: (213)740-8494 Email: vschwart@usc.edu |
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Brett Sheehan, Associate Professor of History Ph.D. Modern Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley Research Specialities: Modern China, economy and society, money and banking, business Office: SOS173 Phone: (213)821-3128 Email: bsheehan@usc.edu |
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Jacob Soll, Professor of History and Accounting Ph.D. , Magdalene College, Cambridge University Office: SOS153 Phone: (213)740-1657 Email: soll@usc.edu |
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Kevin Starr, University Professor and Professor of History, and Policy, Planning, and Development Ph.D. English and American Literature, Harvard University Office: SOS175 Phone: (213)821-2595 Email: kstarr@usc.edu |
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Diana Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law, and Gender Studies Research Specialities: 19th Century North America; law; race; gender; sexuality Office: SOS277 Phone: (213)740-9325 Email: diana.williams@usc.edu |
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Francille Wilson, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History Ph.D. American History, University of Pennsylvania Research Specialities: 19th-20th Century African American history; labor; race; gender Office: KAP450C Phone: (213)740-1667 Email: frwilson@usc.edu |
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Bettine Birge, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History Ph.D. Chinese History, Columbia University Research Specialities: premodern Chinese history, gender, law, ethnicity, Inner Asia Office: THH 356R Phone: (213)740-6660 Email: birge@usc.edu |
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Leo Braudy, University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature and Professor of English and History Ph.D. , Yale University Office: THH 447 Phone: (213)740-3751 Email: braudy@usc.edu |
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Alice Echols, Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of English, Gender Studies and History Ph.D. History, University of Michigan Research Specialities: Professor Echols is a specialist in the culture and politics of the U.S. from the post-WW2 era through the 1970's. Her research interests include the popular music and social movements of the long Sixties; the transnational circulation of musical ideas and idioms; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; memory, subjectivity, and class in modern American history. Office: THH 404F Phone: (213)821-1163 Email: echols@usc.edu |
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Howard Gillman, Professor of Political Science, History and Law Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles Research Specialities: American Constitutional Development, Judicial Politics, Legal Theory Office: VKC 327 Phone: (213)740-8861 Email: gillman@dornsife.usc.edu |
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Carolyn Malone, Professor of Art History and History Ph.D. Art History, UC Berkeley Ph.D. Medieval Studies, UC Berkeley Research Specialities: Medieval Art and Archaeology Office: VKC 351 Phone: (213)740-7353 Email: cmalone@usc.edu |
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David Sloane, Professor of Urban Planning and Development and History Ph.D. , Syracuse University Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984) Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development: Urban culture in America, especially rise of the shopping mall & its influence on urban space; history of medicine, especially HIV/AIDS & hospital design; cultural attitudes toward mourning, dying & death; history of cemeteries. Office: RGL 313 Phone: (213)740-5768 Email: dsloane@usc.edu |
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Adjunct, Lecturer and Visiting Faculty | |||
| William Estrada, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History |
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| Sharon Gillerman, Adjunct Associate Professor of History Email: gillerma@usc.edu |
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| Steve Hindle, Adjunct Professor of History |
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| Robert Ritchie, Adjunct Professor of History |
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| Mark Robison, Professor of Clinical Education and Adjunct Professor of History Email: mrobison@usc.edu |
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Peter Westwick, Assistant Professor (Research) of History Ph.D. History, UC Berkeley Office: SOS 153 Phone: (213)740-1657 Email: westwick@usc.edu |
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Gordon Berger, Professor Emeritus of History Phone: (424)261-2404 |
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Roger Dingman, Professor Emeritus of History Office: SOS 260 Phone: (213)740-1667 |
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Charlotte Furth, Professor Emerita of History Office: SOS 262 Phone: (213)740-1668 |
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Paul Knoll, Professor Emeritus of History Office: SOS 153 Phone: (213)740-1657 Email: knoll@usc.edu |
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| Ernest Koenker, Emeritus Professor of History |
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| Franklin Mitchell, Emeritus Professor of History Office: SOS 172 Phone: (213)740-1681 |
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| A. Lloyd Moote, Emeritus Professor of History |
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| D. Brendan Nagle, Emeritus Professor of History Office: SOS Emeriti Center |
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| Edwin Perkins, Emeritus Professor of History Phone: (213)740-1657 |
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Terry Seip, Associate Professor Emeritus of History Office: SOS 255 Phone: (213)740-1656 Email: tseip@usc.edu |
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Carole Shammas, Professor Emerita and John R. Hubbard Chair Emerita in History Office: SOS 265 Phone: (213)740-1671 Email: shammas@usc.edu |
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| John Wills Jr, Emeritus Professor of History Office: SOS 153 Phone: (213)740-1657 |
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