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University of Southern California
University of Southern California
History

Faculty(for list of faculty according to field, go here)

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
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
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
Judith Bennett
Professor of History

Email: judithb@usc.edu
Office: SOS 174
Phone: (213)821-2544
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
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
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
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
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
Jason Glenn
Associate Professor of History

Email: jkglenn@usc.edu
Office: SOS 163
Phone: (213)740-1664
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
Wolf Gruner
Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History

Email: gruner@usc.edu
Office: SOS 262
Phone: (213)740-1668
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
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
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
Cynthia Herrup
Professor of History and Law

Email: herrup@usc.edu
Office: SOS 281
Phone: (213)821-2191
Kyung Moon Hwang
Associate Professor of History

Research Specialities: Modern transformation of Korea.
Email: khwang@usc.edu
Office: SOS 279
Phone: (213)740-1672
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
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
Paul Lerner
Associate Professor of History

Email: plerner@usc.edu
Office: SOS 276
Phone: (213)740-1653
Philippa Levine
Professor of History

Email: philippa@usc.edu
Office: SOS 280
Phone: (213)740-1670
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
Maria-Elena Martinez
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity

Email: martinem@college.usc.edu
Office: SOS 267
Phone: (213)740-1675
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
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
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
Ramzi Rouighi
Assistant Professor of History

Email: rouighi@email.usc.edu
Office: SOS 256
Phone: (213)821-3126
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
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
Terry Seip
Associate Professor of History

Email: tseip@usc.edu
Office: SOS 255
Phone: (213)740-1656
Carole Shammas
John R. Hubbard Chair in History and Professor of History

Email: shammas@usc.edu
Office: SOS 265
Phone: (213)740-1671
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
Kevin Starr
University Professor and Professor of History

Email: kstarr@usc.edu
Office: SOS 175
Phone: (213)821-2595
Diana Williams
Assistant Professor of History and Law

Email: diana.williams@usc.edu
Office: SOS 277
Phone: (213)740-9325

Affiliated Faculty from Other Departments and Programs

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Adjunct, Lecturer and Visiting Faculty

Victoria Cain
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow & Lecturer

Email: vcain@usc.edu
Office: VKC 342
Phone: (213)740-4069
Julie Cohen
Lecturer

Email: julietco@usc.edu
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (213)740-8999
Karoline Cook
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Lecturer

Email: karolinc@usc.edu
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (213)740-8999
Janet Fireman
Adjunct Professor of History

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Sharon Gillerman
Adjunct Associate Professor in History

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Darryl Holter
Adjunct Associate Professor of History

Email: dholter@usc.edu
Volker Janssen
Huntington Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer

Email: vjanssen@usc.edu
Vera Keller
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

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Steven Koblik
Adjunct Professor

Email: koblick@email.usc.edu
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (626)405-2115
Daniel Lewis
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and History

Email: lewisdan@usc.edu
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (213)740-8999
Lindsay O'Neill
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Lecturer

Email: ljoneill@usc.edu
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (213)740-8999
Robert Ritchie
Adjunct Professor in History

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Adam Rubin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Email:
Phone: (213)740-1657
Thomas Sitton
Adjunct Professor of History

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Nobuko Toyosawa
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Email: toyosawa@usc.edu
Office: SOS 165
Phone: (213)740-5349
Samuel Yamashita
Adjunct Professor

Email:
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (213)740-8999

Emeritus Faculty

Roger Dingman
Professor Emeritus of History

Email: dingman@usc.edu
Office: SOS 260
Phone: (213)740-1667
John Hubbard
President Emeritus

Email:
Phone: (213)740-1679
Paul Knoll
Professor Emeritus of History

Email: knoll@usc.edu
Office: SOS 153
Phone: (213)740-1657
Ernest Koenker
Emeritus Professor of History

Email:
Franklin Mitchell
Emeritus Professor of History

Email: fmitchel@usc.edu
Office: SOS 172
Phone: (213)740-1681
A. Lloyd Moote
Emeritus Professor of History

Email:
D. Brendan Nagle
Emeritus Professor of History

Email: nagle@usc.edu
Office: SOS Emeriti Center
Doyce Nunis
Emeritus Professor of History

Email:
Edwin Perkins
Emeritus Professor

Email:
Phone: (213)740-1657
Charles Ritcheson
Emeritus Professor of History

Email:
Phone: (331)444-2448