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Faculty(for list of faculty according to field, go here)
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Elinor Accampo
Professor of History
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.
Email:
accampo@college.usc.edu
Office: SOS 153 Phone: (213)740-1657
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Lois Banner
Professor of History and Gender Studies
Research Specialities: Professor of History: Women, gender, cultural history, nineteenth and twentieth century United States; masculinity studies, feminist studies, sexuality and queer studies.
Email:
lbanner@usc.edu
Office: SOS 272 Phone: (213)740-1610
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Marjorie Becker
Associate Professor of History
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.
Email:
mbecker@usc.edu
Office: SOS 269 Phone: (213)740-1674
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Judith Bennett
Professor of History
Email:
judithb@usc.edu
Office: SOS 174 Phone: (213)821-2544
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Lisa Bitel
Professor of History and Gender Studies
Research Specialities: Medieval European history, history of Christianity, women's and gender history, Ireland, Celtic literatures and cultures, art and archaeology of medieval Europe
Email:
bitel@usc.edu
Office: SOS 282 Phone: (213)821-2150
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Daniela Bleichmar
Assistant Professor of Art History and History
Research Specialities: Early Modern Visual and Material Culture, Early Modern Science, History of Collecting and Display, Spanish Empire/Colonial Latin American Art
Email:
bleichma@usc.edu
Office: VKC 351 Phone: (213)821-6364
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William Deverell
Professor of History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1989) Professor of History: History of California, Los Angeles, the American West
Email:
deverell@email.usc.edu
Office: SOS 274 Phone: (213)740-1676
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Philip Ethington
Professor of History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989) Professor of History and Political Science: Urban, political, social and cultural history of the US since 1850; Global history of cities
Email:
philipje@usc.edu
Office: SOS 268 Phone: (213)740-1669
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Richard Fox
Professor of History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975) Professor of History: 19th century US history with special attention to cultural and intellectual developments.
Email:
rfox@usc.edu
Office: SOS 283 Phone: (213)821-0991
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Jason Glenn
Associate Professor of History
Email:
jkglenn@usc.edu
Office: SOS 163 Phone: (213)740-1664
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Joshua Goldstein
Associate Professor of History
Research Specialities: Modern and Contemporary Chinese History; Urban and Environmental Studies; Drama and Performance Studies.
Email:
jlgoldst@usc.edu
Office: SOS 260 Phone: (213)821-2603
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Wolf Gruner
Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History
Email:
gruner@usc.edu
Office: SOS 262 Phone: (213)740-1668
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Sarah Gualtieri
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Specialities: Arab Americans, Middle Eastern Diasporas, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, Modern Middle Eastern History, Islamic History
Email:
gualtier@usc.edu
Office: SOS 165 Phone: (213)740-5374
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Karen Halttunen
Professor of History
Research Specialities: 19th Century Cultural and Intellectual History of the US, Early American History.
Email:
halttune@email.usc.edu
Office: SOS 164 Phone: (213)740-1682
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Deborah Harkness
Professor of History
Research Specialities: History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Technology, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Britain, the Renaissance, Women's History, Tudor England
Email:
deharkne@email.usc.edu
Office: SOS 161 Phone: (213)821-2604
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Cynthia Herrup
Professor of History and Law
Email:
herrup@usc.edu
Office: SOS 281 Phone: (213)821-2191
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Kyung Moon Hwang
Associate Professor of History
Research Specialities: Modern transformation of Korea.
Email:
khwang@usc.edu
Office: SOS 279 Phone: (213)740-1672
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Robin D. G. Kelley
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987) Professor of History and ASE: African diaspora, urban studies, working class radicalism, social movements, and cultural history with an emphasis on music.
Email:
rdkelley@usc.edu
Office: SOS 277 Phone: (213)740-1679
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Lon Kurashige
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994) Associate Professor of History and ASE: Asian-American history; Japanese American; ethnic identity politics.
Email:
kurashig@usc.edu
Office: SOS 264 Phone: (213)740-1666
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Paul Lerner
Associate Professor of History
Email:
plerner@usc.edu
Office: SOS 276 Phone: (213)740-1653
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Philippa Levine
Professor of History
Email:
philippa@usc.edu
Office: SOS 280 Phone: (213)740-1670
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Peter Mancall
Professor of History and Anthropology
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., History, Harvard University 1986) Professor of History and Anthropology and Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute: Early America, the Early Modern Atlantic world, and Early Native American Indian History
Email:
mancall@usc.edu
Office: SOS 284 Phone: (213)821-2151
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Maria-Elena Martinez
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
Email:
martinem@college.usc.edu
Office: SOS 267 Phone: (213)740-1675
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Joan Piggott
Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History and Professor of History
Research Specialities: premodern historical studies: Japan and East Asia
Email:
joanrp@usc.edu
Office: SOS 168 Phone: (213)821-5872
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Azade-Ayse Rorlich
Associate Professor of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research Specialities: Russia/USSR/Eurasia : modernity studies, identity, gender,
visual culture.
Email:
arorlich@usc.edu
Office: SOS 258 Phone: (213)740-1665
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Steve Ross
Professor of History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980) Professor of History: US social, labor, popular culture, film history, politics.
Email:
sjross@usc.edu
Office: SOS 254 Phone: (213)821-1062
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Ramzi Rouighi
Assistant Professor of History
Email:
rouighi@email.usc.edu
Office: SOS 256 Phone: (213)821-3126
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George Sanchez
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989) Professor of ASE and History: Chicano/a immigration, American West.
Email:
georges@usc.edu
Office: SOS 256 Phone: (213)740-1663
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Vanessa Schwartz
Professor of History
Research Specialities: Modern Visual Culture, especially film; Modern Europe, France; Urban History, Paris, Aviation, Jets, Airports.
Email:
vschwart@usc.edu
Office: SOS 170 Phone: (213)740-8494
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Terry Seip
Associate Professor of History
Email:
tseip@usc.edu
Office: SOS 255 Phone: (213)740-1656
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Carole Shammas
John R. Hubbard Chair in History and Professor of History
Email:
shammas@usc.edu
Office: SOS 265 Phone: (213)740-1671
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Brett Sheehan
Associate Professor of History
Research Specialities: Modern China, economy and society, money and banking, business
Email:
bsheehan@usc.edu
Office: SOS 173 Phone: (213)821-3128
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Kevin Starr
University Professor and Professor of History
Email:
kstarr@usc.edu
Office: SOS 175 Phone: (213)821-2595
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Diana Williams
Assistant Professor of History and Law
Email:
diana.williams@usc.edu
Office: SOS 277 Phone: (213)740-9325
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Affiliated Faculty from Other Departments and Programs
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Bettine Birge
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History
Research Specialities: premodern Chinese history, gender, law, ethnicity, Inner Asia
Email:
birge@usc.edu
Office: THH 356R
Phone: (213)740-6660
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Daniela Bleichmar
Assistant Professor of Art History and History
Research Specialities: Early Modern Visual and Material Culture, Early Modern Science, History of Collecting and Display, Spanish Empire/Colonial Latin American Art
Email:
bleichma@usc.edu
Office: VKC 351
Phone: (213)821-6364
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Mary Dudziak
Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law and History and Professor of Political Science
Research Specialities: (J.D., Yale University, 1984; Ph.D., Yale University, 1992) Professor of Law and History: The impact of foreign affairs on US civil rights policy during the Cold War; Civil Rights history; social change.
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Alice Echols
Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies and History
Research Specialities: Social and Cultural Histories of Sexuality and Gender; Popular Music (particularly rock, R&B and disco); U.S. History, 1945-89; History and Theories of Feminism; Cultural Studies
Email:
echols@usc.edu
Office: THH 404F
Phone: (213)821-1163
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Howard Gillman
Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, History and Law
Research Specialities: American Constitutional Development, Judicial Politics, Legal Theory
Email:
dean@college.usc.edu
Office: ADM 302
Phone: (213)740-2531
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Mark Kann
USC Associates Chair in Social Science and Professor of Political Science and History
Research Specialities: American Political Thought, History of Political Theory, Gender Studies
Email:
mkann@usc.edu
Office: VKC 327
Phone: (213)740-5702
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Robin D. G. Kelley
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987) Professor of History and ASE: African diaspora, urban studies, working class radicalism, social movements, and cultural history with an emphasis on music.
Email:
rdkelley@usc.edu
Office: SOS 277
Phone: (213)740-1679
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Carolyn Malone
Professor of Art History and History
Research Specialities: Medieval Art and Archaeology
Email:
cmalone@usc.edu
Office: VKC 351
Phone: (213)740-7353
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John Pollini
Professor of Art History and History
Research Specialities: Classical Art and Archaeology
(Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology)
Email:
pollini@usc.edu
Office: VKC 351
Phone: (213)740-4554
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George Sanchez
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989) Professor of ASE and History: Chicano/a immigration, American West.
Email:
georges@usc.edu
Office: SOS 256
Phone: (213)740-1663
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David Sloane
Professor of Urban Planning and Development and History
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.
Email:
dsloane@usc.edu
Office: RGL 313
Phone: (213)740-5768
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Walter Williams
Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and History
Research Specialities: (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974) American Indian ethnohistory; American Civil War-Reconstruction; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender history; history of Indonesia and Thailand.
Email:
walterlw@usc.edu
Office: STO 116
Phone: (213)740-1911
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Adjunct, Lecturer and Visiting Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
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