Univ. of California, San Diego American Historical Association

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University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego Dept. of History
Arts and Humanities Building
9500 Gilman Dr. #0104
La Jolla, CA 92093-0104
Phone: 858.534.1996
Fax: 858.534.7283
Email: history@ucsd.edu
Website: https://history.ucsd.edu/

At the undergraduate level, we emphasize the traditional humanistic skills of critical reading, good writing, and analysis of historical texts, and allow majors to take a broad range of courses across regional and temporal boundaries. At the graduate level, our PhD students focus on one of our areas of specialization for their dissertation research, but also pick two minor fields that provide greater breadth to their training.

Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. The UCSD Department of History offers graduate work leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with concentrations in Ancient history, East Asian history, European history, History of Science, Latin American history, Middle Eastern history, and United States history. A Master of Arts degree in history is also offered, with concentrations in Chinese Studies, European history, History of Science, Judaic Studies, and United States history.

B. Special Programs. Students who wish to earn both the PhD in history from UCSD and the Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law must apply to and be independently accepted into both programs under each of the campus' standards and procedures.

C. Financial Aid. Several types of financial aid are available to graduate students: full or partial remission of fees and tuition, fellowships, research assistantships, teaching assistantships, readerships, and travel grants. Graduate students are eligible for one or a combination of the six forms of financial support.

D. Degree Requirements. A normal full-time program consists of twelve units per quarter. PhD students are expected to complete at least one of the following minimum formal courses of study prior to their qualifying examination: (1) two two-quarter research seminars, three one-quarter historiography courses in the major field, and four other courses (which may be a combination of colloquia, conjoined courses, or directed readings, but which must include one cross-field graduate colloquium like History and Theory); or (2) three two-quarter research seminars (not necessarily in the same field) three one-quarter historiography courses in the major field, and three other courses (which may be a combination of colloquia, conjoined courses, or directed readings, but which must include one cross-field graduate colloquium like History and Theory). Students are encouraged to take their first research seminar in their major field during the initial year of graduate study. A maximum of four units per quarter may be taken in teaching assistantships. During the first year of residence, each student, with the approval of a graduate adviser in the area of concentration, selects one major field of study and two minor fields. Within the major field the student should indicate a special interest from which the dissertation may develop. The first minor is ordinarily a supplementary field within the student's area of concentration, while the second minor is a complementary field outside the area of concentration.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 91
PhD applications received: 101
New PhD students: 13
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 0
% of students receiving stipends: 0

Bridges-Kronick, Amy (PHD, Chicago, 1980adj. prof.; prof., Political Science) US urban abridges@weber.ucsd.edu

Drake, Paul W. (PHD, Stanford, 1971adj. prof.; prof., Political Science) Latin America pdrake@ucsd.edu

Alvarez, Luis A. (PHD, Texas, Austin, 2001prof.) 20th-century American economic and political luisalvarez@ucsd.edu

Balberg, Mira (PHD, Stanford, 2011prof. and David Goodblatt Endowed Chair in Ancient Jewish Civilization) ancient Jewish civilization, Judaism in Roman Syria-Palestine in late antiquity mbalberg@ucsd.edu

Bermudez, Rosie (PHD, California, Santa Barbara, 2019asst. prof.) 20th-century Chicana and Latina, women of color feminisms, 20th-century social movements, race and ethnicity, grassroots activism, Los Angeles, women, oral r3bermudez@ucsd.edu

Biess, Frank P. (PHD, Brown, 2000prof.) Germany, modern Europe fbiess@ucsd.edu

Cowan, Benjamin Arthur (PHD, UCLA, 2010prof.) right-wing radicalism/morality/sexuality, 20th-century imperialism, Cold War Brazil bacowan@ucsd.edu

Daly, Heather Ponchetti (PHD, UCLA, 2013asst. prof.) 20th-century Native America hmdaly@ucsd.edu

De, Aniket (PHD, Harvard, 2024asst. prof.) modern South Asia and Indian Ocean ande@ucsd.edu

Demetriou, Denise (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2005prof. and Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Endowed Chair) archaic and classical Greece dedemetriou@ucsd.edu

Devereux, Andrew (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2011assoc. prof.) medieval and early modern Mediterranean adevereux@ucsd.edu

Edington, Claire (PHD, Columbia, 2013assoc. prof.) medicine and public health cedington@ucsd.edu

Gerth, Karl (PHD, Harvard, 2000prof. and Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair) contemporary implications of Chinese consumerism kgerth@ucsd.edu

Golan, Tal (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1997assoc. prof.) modern science, relations between science/technology/law tgolan@ucsd.edu

Graham, Jessica L. (PHD, Chicago, 2010assoc. prof.) African American, transnational orientation of US history jlgraham@ucsd.edu

Hanna, Mark G. (PHD, Harvard, 2006assoc. prof.) early America and Atlantic world m1hanna@ucsd.edu

Hendrickson, Mark G. (PHD, California, Santa Barbara, 2004assoc. prof. and chair) US labor, capitalism ghendrickson@ucsd.edu

Henry, Todd A. (PHD, UCLA, 2006assoc. prof.) modern Korea, Korea 1910-45 tahenry@ucsd.edu

Hertz, Deborah (PHD, Minnesota, 1979prof. and Herman Wouk Prof.) modern Jewish, European women, modern Germany dhertz@ucsd.edu

Katz, Mariana (PHD, Columbia, 2025asst. prof.) modern Latin America, 19th-century Paraguay and Río de la Plata region marianakatz@ucsd.edu

Kozameh, Sara Julia (PHD, NYU, 2020asst. prof.) Cuban Revolution, agrarian studies sjkozameh@ucsd.edu

Kwak, Nancy H. (PHD, Columbia, 2006assoc. prof.) cities, urban planning, housing policy nhkwak@ucsd.edu

Lewandoski, Julia (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2019asst. prof.) early Native America jlewandoski@ucsd.edu

Lu, Weijing (PHD, California, Davis, 2001prof.) Chinese women and gender, late imperial social w1lu@ucsd.edu

Man, Simeon (PHD, Yale, 2012assoc. prof.) Asian American, transnational US, politics of race and empire siman@ucsd.edu

Martínez-Matsuda, Verónica (PHD, Texas, Austin, 2009assoc. prof. and vice chair, undergrad. studies) modern US social and cultural, labor and working class, Great Depression and New Deal, War on Poverty, immigration/migration, Latinx, US-Mexico borderlands, comparative race and ethnic studies vmartinez@ucsd.edu

Matsumura, Wendy Y. (PHD, NYU, 2007prof.) modern Japan, Japanese empire wmatsumura@ucsd.edu

Murillo, Dana Velasco (PHD, UCLA, 2009assoc. prof.) intersections of colonialism with gender and ethnicity, identity formation in early Latin America dvmurillo@ucsd.edu

Muscolino, Micah S. (PHD, Harvard, 2006prof.; Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair; and dir., grad. studies) modern Chinese environmental mmuscolino@ucsd.edu

Patterson, Patrick Hyder (PHD, Michigan, 2001prof.) 19th- and 20th-century eastern Europe and Balkans, cultural and political, nationalism and ethnicity patrickpatterson@ucsd.edu

Pineda de Avila, Nydia (PHD, Queen Mary, London, 2018asst. prof.) early modern science npinedadeavila@ucsd.edu

Plant, Rebecca Jo (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2001prof.) 20th-century US, women and gender, popular culture and psychological professions rplant@ucsd.edu

Prestholdt, Jeremy G. (PHD, Northwestern, 2003prof.) Africa, East African economic, international trade and indigenous cultures jprestholdt@ucsd.edu

Provence, Michael (PHD, Chicago, 2001prof.) modern Middle East, colonial and postcolonial Arab world mprovence@ucsd.edu

Radcliff, Pamela B. (PHD, Columbia, 1990prof.) 19th- and 20th-century Spanish politics/culture/labor reform, post-1800 France and Italy pradcliff@ucsd.edu

Shafir, Nir (PHD, UCLA, 2016assoc. prof.) late medieval and early modern Middle East, intellectual and cultural, intersections of knowledge production nshafir@ucsd.edu

Strasser, Ulrike (PHD, Minnesota, 1997prof. and vice chair) early modern central Europe, early modern religion and politics, gender and sexuality ustrasser@ucsd.edu

Vitz, Matthew (PHD, NYU, 2010assoc. prof.) modern Mexico mvitz@ucsd.edu

Watts, Edward Jay (PHD, Yale, 2002prof. and Alkiviadis Vassiladis Endowed Chair) early Byzantine Empire intellectual and religious ewatts@ucsd.edu

Widener, Daniel (PHD, NYU, 2003prof.) African American, California, expressive culture/race/ethnicity and political radicalism dwidener@ucsd.edu

Caciola, Nancy A. (PHD, Michigan, 1994prof. emeritus) medieval Europe, European women, Christianity ncaciola@ucsd.edu

Cahill, Suzanne E. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1982adj. prof. emeritus) medieval China, Tao, Taoists saints, research on women in medieval China

Chodorow, Stanley (PHD, Cornell, 1968prof. emeritus) medieval, legal and constitutional, political theory schodorow@ucsd.edu

Edelman, Robert (PHD, Columbia, 1973prof. emeritus) Russia, neo-Marxist thought, European agricultural redelman@ucsd.edu

Esherick, Joseph W. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1971prof. emeritus) modern China jesherick@ucsd.edu

Fujitani, Takashi (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1986prof. emeritus) modern Japan, modern and contemporary Japanese cultural, military culture tfujitani@ucsd.edu

Gallant, Thomas W (PHD, Cambridge, 1982prof. emeritus) modern Greek rural society and culture, banditry/piracy/violence, masculinity and gender tgallant@ucsd.edu

Gere, Catherina (PHD, Cambridge, 2002prof. emeritus) biological science and medicine cgere@ucsd.edu

Gutierrez, David G. (PHD, Stanford, 1988prof. emeritus) Chicano, American Southwest, comparative immigration dggutierrez@ucsd.edu

Hu, Ping C. (prof./lect. WSOE emeritus)

Hughes, Judith M. (PHD, Harvard, 1970prof. emeritus) modern European diplomatic and political, Britain, psychoanalysis jhughes@ucsd.edu

Hunefeldt, Christine (PHD, Bonn, 1982prof. emeritus) Latin America and Andes, life of women, indigenous populations and slaves chunefeldt@ucsd.edu

Kayali, Hasan (PHD, Harvard, 1988prof. emeritus) modern Middle East and Islamic studies, late Ottoman Empire politics and ideology hkayali@ucsd.edu

Klein, Rachel N. (PHD, Yale, 1979prof. emeritus) early national and 19th-century US cultural rklein@ucsd.edu

Luft, David S. (PHD, Harvard, 1973prof. emeritus) modern Germany and Austria, modern European intellectual history@ucsd.edu

Metzger, Thomas A. (PHD, Harvard, 1967prof. emeritus) premodern Chinese institutional and intellectual history@ucsd.edu

Monteón, Michael P. (PHD, Harvard, 1974prof. emeritus) Latin American political economic, Chile mmonteon@ucsd.edu

Parrish, Michael E. (PHD, Yale, 1968dist. prof. emeritus) US legal and constitutional, post-Progressive era American political reform trends mparrish@ucsd.edu

Pickowicz, Paul G. (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 1973dist. prof. emeritus) 20th-century China, Chinese rural studies, Chinese cinema and society bikewei@ucsd.edu

Propp, William H. C. (PHD, Harvard, 1985prof. emeritus) ancient Near East civilizations and languages, biblical and Judaic studies wpropp@ucsd.edu

Reynolds, Edward (PHD, London, 1972prof. emeritus) Africa, West African economic, missionary ereynolds@ucsd.edu

Rudwick, Martin J. S. (PHD, Cambridge, 1958prof. emeritus) earth and life sciences mjsr100@cam.ac.uk

Schneewind, Sarah (PHD, Columbia, 1999prof. emerita) premodern China, late imperial sschneewind@ucsd.edu

Truant, Cynthia M. (PHD, Chicago, 1978prof. emeritus) European and French labor, European women and gender studies, French social and cultural 1650-1850 ctruant@ucsd.edu

Westman, Robert S. (PHD, Michigan, 1971prof. emeritus) early modern science cultural, Copernican question and occult philosophies of nature rwestman@ucsd.edu

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