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University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles Meyer and Renee Luskin Dept. of History
6265 Bunche Hall
Box 951473
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Phone: 310.825.4601
Fax: 310.206.9630
Website: https://history.ucla.edu/

The goal of the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin History Department is to provide cross-temporal and cross-cultural perspectives and to bring historical knowledge, depth, and context to our students and to the broader public with whom we constantly interact. That mission informs our scholarship and our teaching and it calls us to engage with our students beyond the classroom and with the public beyond the university.

Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. The UCLA Department of History is a community of scholars who seek to understand the past and strive to introduce students to the process of historical thinking. It is one of the most highly acclaimed History departments in the nation, with a faculty internationally renowned as teachers and scholars. It is one of the largest History departments in the United States, with 64 faculty members, nearly 800 undergraduate majors and almost 200 full time graduate students. With course offerings and graduate training that cover much of the globe, from the ancient world to the present, the department offers the foundation of a broad-based education for an informed citizenry.

B. Special Programs. UCLA has many prestigious centers and institutes for research.

C. Financial Aid. The Department offers fellowships to incoming students. Fellowship packages normally grant five years of funding (a combination of fellowships and teaching assistantships). To maintain their support packages from year to year, students must show satisfactory progress in the graduate program.

We highly recommend that all applicants apply for other forms of financial assistance.

In addition to these departmental awards, we strongly encourage students to apply for external awards such as Fulbright, Ford, etc. More information on external fellowships can be found on the Graduate Division website at grad.ucla.edu/funding.

Student loan information can be obtained from the UCLA Financial Aid Office at www.fao.ucla.edu/.

D. Degree Requirements. The department requires a minimum of nine upper division and graduate courses in history, at least six of which must be graduate courses to earn the Masters available on the Doctoral track. The six graduate courses must include at least one continuing two- or three-quarter research seminar which must include the preparation of a substantial research paper.

The written qualifying examination must be passed before the oral qualifying examination can be taken. Students must begin the written qualifying examinations no later than the end of the ninth quarter of graduate study. To be eligible to sit for their qualifying examinations, student must have completed all their coursework and language requirements.

All students must write a dissertation prospectus (for credit under History 596 or 597) which is expected to contain (1) a full statement of the dissertation topic; (2) a historiographical discussion of the literature bearing on the topic; (3) a statement of the methodology to be employed; and (4) a survey of the sources sufficient to demonstrate the viability of the topic. The prospectus must be submitted in writing to the dissertation adviser for approval prior to the oral part of the qualifying examinations. After approval, a copy of the prospectus is given to each member of the examining committee. The Oral Examination is primarily conducted as a discussion of the student's dissertation prospectus with all four members of the doctoral committee present.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2025-2026:
PhD students currently enrolled: 87
PhD applications received: 210
New PhD students: 13
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 0
% of students receiving stipends: 0

Alexander, Amir (PHD, Stanford, 1996adj. assoc. prof.) science, mathematics and cultural context amiralex@ucla.edu

Corey, Mary F. (PHD, UCLA, 1996sr. continuing lect.) US mcorey@ucla.edu

Langdon, John S. (PHD, UCLA, 1978continuing lect.) late antiquity, Byzantium jlangdon@ucla.edu

Paul, Tawny (PHD, Edinburgh, 2011adj. assoc. prof. and dir., Public History) Europe/US tpaul@history.ucla.edu

Cole, Eddie R. (PHD, Indiana, prof.; Education) race and social movements on college campuses ercole@ucla.edu

Apter, Andrew (PHD, Yale, 1987prof.) West Africa, African diaspora, anthropology aapter@history.ucla.edu

Aslanian, Sebouh David (PHD, Columbia, 2007prof. and Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History) Armenian diaspora saslanian@history.ucla.edu

Avila, Eric R. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1997prof.) post-WWII US urban eavila@ucla.edu

de Chadarevian, Soraya (PHD, Konstanz, 1988Dist. Research Prof.) science chadarevian@history.ucla.edu

Derby, Robin Lauren (PHD, Chicago, 1998prof. and Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair in Latin American Studies) Latin American studies derby@history.ucla.edu

Ford, Caroline C. (PHD, Chicago, 1987prof.) modern France, Europe cford@history.ucla.edu

Gelvin, James L. (PHD, Harvard, 1992prof.) modern Near East gelvin@history.ucla.edu

Ghervas, Stella (PHD, Geneva, 2002prof. and Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History) modern European intellectual and international, peace and peace-making, Russian intellectual and maritime ghervas@history.ucla.edu

Goldberg, Jessica L. (PHD, Columbia, 2005assoc. prof.) medieval goldberg@history.ucla.edu

Goldman, Andrea S. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2005assoc. prof.) modern China goldman@history.ucla.edu

Green, Nile (PHD, London, 2002prof. and Ibn Khaldun Chair in World History) South Asia, Islamic studies green@history.ucla.edu

Higbie, Frank Tobias (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000prof.) US, working-class and immigrant intellectuals higbie@history.ucla.edu

Hirano, Katsuya (PHD, Chicago, 2004prof.) modern Japan hirano@history.ucla.edu

Jovanovic, Milos (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2016asst. prof.) eastern Europe, Balkans, Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire, Near East, urban, visual methods jovanovic@history.ucla.edu

Kelley, Robin D. G. (PHD, UCLA, 1987prof. and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History) 20th-century America, African American activists and artists rdkelley@history.ucla.edu

Kim, Kevin Y. (PHD, Stanford, 2012asst. prof.) US and world, Korea and Northeast Asia kykim@history.ucla.edu

Koh, Choon Hwee (PHD, Yale, 2020asst. prof.) Ottoman chkoh@history.ucla.edu

Kreiner, Jamie (PHD, Princeton, 2011prof. and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History) early Middle Ages, mechanics of culture jkreiner@history.ucla.edu

Lal, Vinay (PHD, Chicago, 1992prof.) South Asia, Indian social/political/cultural/literary vlal@history.ucla.edu

Lydon, Ghislaine E. (PHD, Michigan State, 2000prof.) 19th- and 20th-century western Africa lydon@history.ucla.edu

Lytle Hernández, Kelly (PHD, UCLA, 2002prof. and Thomas E. Lifka Chair in History) 20th-century US borderlands hernandez@history.ucla.edu

Madley, Benjamin (PHD, Yale, 2009assoc. prof.) American Indian madley@history.ucla.edu

Marino, Katherine Marie (PHD, Stanford, 2013assoc. prof.) women, gender and sexuality, Latin America and US kmarino@history.ucla.edu

Marotti, William (PHD, Chicago, 2001prof.) Japan, modern marotti@history.ucla.edu

Matsumoto, Valerie J. (PHD, Stanford, 1985prof. and Aratani Chair, Japanese American Incarceration, Redress and Community) Japanese American, 20th-century US, women matsumot@history.ucla.edu

McBride, Jared (PHD, UCLA, 2014asst. prof.) 20th-century Russia/Ukraine/eastern Europe mcbridejg@ucla.edu

McClendon, Muriel C. (PHD, Stanford, 1990assoc. prof. and vice chair, grad. affairs) Britain 1485-present mcclendo@history.ucla.edu

Myers, David N. (PHD, Columbia, 1991Dist. Prof. and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History) modern Jewish intellectual and cultural myers@history.ucla.edu

Nasiali, Minayo Anne (PHD, Michigan, 2010assoc. prof.) modern France, Empire, welfare state mnasiali@history.ucla.edu

O'Brien, Elizabeth (PHD, Texas, Austin, 2019assoc. prof.) science and medicine, Latin America, women/gender/sexuality eobrien@history.ucla.edu

Penny, H. Glenn (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999prof. and Henry J. Bruman Chair of German History) Germany gpenny@history.ucla.edu

Pérez Montesinos, Fernando (PHD, Georgetown, 2015assoc. prof.) modern Mexico, modern Latin American indigenous people, Latin American social and environmental fperez@history.ucla.edu

Pestana, Carla G. (PHD, UCLA, 1987Dist. Prof. and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World) colonial America, British Atlantic world, Caribbean cgpestana@history.ucla.edu

Phillips, David D. (PHD, Michigan, 2000prof.) ancient Greece phillips@history.ucla.edu

Stacey, Peter (PHD, Cambridge, 2000assoc. prof. and Peter Reill Chair in European History 1450 to Modern) early modern Europe, Italian Renaissance pstacey@history.ucla.edu

Stein, Sarah A. (PHD, Stanford, 1999Dist. Prof. and Viterbi Family Endowed Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies) modern Jewish sstein@history.ucla.edu

Stevenson, Brenda E. (PHD, Yale, 1991Dist. Prof. and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History) US, African American, US South stevenso@history.ucla.edu

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (PHD, Delhi, 1987Dist. Prof. and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences) South Asia, India subrahma@history.ucla.edu

Summerhill, William , III (PHD, Stanford, 1995prof.) Brazil, economic wrs@history.ucla.edu

Tejada, Vivien (PHD, Duke, 2024asst. prof.) 19th-century US, Civil War era, Native American and African American vtejada@history.ucla.edu

Terraciano, Kevin (PHD, UCLA, 1994prof. and Robert N. Burr Endowed History Dept. Chair) colonial Latin America terra@history.ucla.edu

Tutino, Stefania (PHD, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2003prof.; vice chair, Academic Personnel; and UCLA Coll. of Letters and Science Endowed Term Chair in Early Modern European History, Arts, and Culture) Europe, religion tutino@history.ucla.edu

Wint, Hollian (PHD, NYU, 2016asst. prof.) Africa, South Asia wint@history.ucla.edu

Yirush, Craig Bryan (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2004assoc. prof.) colonial America yirush@history.ucla.edu

Zhang, Meng (PHD, UCLA, 2017asst. prof.) early modern and modern China, economic and environmental, global capitalism, political economy, trade and diaspora, material culture, digital humanities mzhang@history.ucla.edu

Bell, Stephen (PHD, Toronto, 1991prof.; Geography) sbell@geog.ucla.edu

Braslow, Joel (PHD, UCLA, 1994MD, Loma Linda, 1984prof.-in-residence; Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science) medicine jbraslow@ucla.edu

Brown, Scot D. (PHD, Cornell, 1999assoc. prof.; African American Studies) African American studies sbrown@history.ucla.edu

Finch, Aisha K. (PHD, NYU, 2007assoc. prof.; Gender, African American Studies) US, gender, African American akfinch@ucla.edu

Hudson, Peter James (PHD, NYU, 2007assoc. prof.; African American Studies) African American pjhudson@ucla.edu

Pagden, Anthony (DPHIL, Oxford, 1980prof.; Political Science) Europe pagden@ucla.edu

Traweek, Sharon (PHD, California, Santa Cruz, 1982assoc. prof.; Center for Women’s Studies) modern physics, anthropology of science traweek@history.ucla.edu

Yoo, David K. (PHD, Yale, 1994prof.; vice provost) US, Asian American Studies dkyoo@ucla.edu

Liu Zeleny, Chien-Ling (PHD, UCLA, 2016continuing lect.) medicine, China chienlingliu@ucla.edu

Momdjian, Mary Mazloumian (PHD, UCLA, 2017continuing lect.) Middle East mmomdjia@g.ucla.edu

Alpers, Edward A. (PHD, London, 1966prof. emeritus) eastern Africa, African diaspora, Indian Ocean alpers@history.ucla.edu

Anderson, Perry (BA, Oxford, 1959prof. emeritus) modern Europe, Marxism fanderso@ucla.edu

Aron, Stephen (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1990prof. emeritus) colonial America, early Republic, American West saron@history.ucla.edu

Baldwin, Peter M. (PHD, Harvard, 1986Dist. Research Prof. emeritus) modern Europe pbaldwin@history.ucla.edu

Bartchy, S. Scott (PHD, Harvard, 1971prof. emeritus) religious, early Christian, New Testament bartchy@history.ucla.edu

Berend, Ivan (PHD, Budapest, 1958prof. emeritus) modern European economic iberend@history.ucla.edu

Bernhardt, Kathryn (PHD, Stanford, 1984prof. emeritus) late imperial and modern China, women’s studies bernhard@history.ucla.edu

Bloch, Ruth (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1980prof. emeritus) US, early American intellectual, religious bloch@history.ucla.edu

Brenner, Robert P. (PHD, Princeton, 1970prof. emeritus) England, early modern European social and economic, social theory brenner@history.ucla.edu

Buccellati, Giorgio (PHD, Chicago, 1965prof. emeritus) ancient Near East buccella@ucla.edu

Dallek, Robert (PHD, Columbia, 1964prof. emeritus) US rdallek@ucla.edu

DuBois, Ellen Carol (PHD, Northwestern, 1978prof. emeritus) US women edubois@ucla.edu

Duncan, John (PHD, Washington, 1988prof. emeritus; East Asian Languages and Cultures) Korea duncan@humnet.ucla.edu

Elman, Benjamin A. (PHD, Pennsylvania, 1980prof. emeritus) Chinese intellectual elman@history.ucla.edu

Frank, Robert G., Jr. (PHD, Harvard, 1971prof. emeritus) biological sciences, medicine rfrankj@ucla.edu

Frank, Stephen (PHD, Brown, 1987prof. emeritus) Russia, European social, peasant studies frank@history.ucla.edu

Friedlander, Saul (PHD, Geneva, Switzerland, 1963prof. emeritus) modern Germany, Nazi Germany, modern Jewish friedlan@history.ucla.edu

Geary, Patrick J. (PHD, Yale, 1974prof. emeritus) early medieval France, social and cultural geary@ucla.edu

Ginzburg, Carlo (OPHD, Pisa, Italy, 1961prof. emeritus) Italian Renaissance, early modern Europe ginzburg@history.ucla.edu

Hill, Robert A. (MS, West Indies, 1976prof. emeritus) 20th-century African American rhill@history.ucla.edu

Hines, Thomas S., Jr. (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 1971prof. emeritus) US urban architectural and cultural hines@history.ucla.edu

Huang, Philip C. (PHD, Washington, 1966prof. emeritus) modern and contemporary China huang@history.ucla.edu

Hunt, Lynn A. (PHD, Stanford, 1973prof. emeritus) early modern Europe, France, late modern Europe since 1789 lhunt@history.ucla.edu

Jacob, Margaret C. (PHD, Cornell, 1968prof. emeritus) early modern Europe, history and sociology of science mjacob@history.ucla.edu

Jacoby, Russell (PHD, Rochester, 1974prof. emeritus) 20th-century European and American intellectual, education rjacoby@history.ucla.edu

Jacoby, Sanford (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1981prof. emeritus) 20th-century US business, economic and labor sanford.jacoby@anderson.ucla.edu

Keddie, Nikki R. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1955prof. emeritus) Near East, social, political keddie@history.ucla.edu

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1979prof. emeritus) US economic and business

Loewenberg, Peter J. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1966prof. emeritus) modern Germany and Austria, European cultural and intellectual, psychohistory peterl@ucla.edu

Marsot, Afaf (DPHIL, Oxford, 1963prof. emeritus) modern Near East amarsot@ucla.edu

Martines, Lauro R. (PHD, Harvard, 1960prof. emeritus) Italian Renaissance martines@history.ucla.edu

Mellor, Ronald J. (PHD, Princeton, 1967prof. emeritus) ancient, Hellenistic Greece, Rome mellor@history.ucla.edu

Meranze, Michael (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1987prof. emeritus) US, US intellectual and legal, early America meranze@history.ucla.edu

Morony, Michael G. (PHD, UCLA, 1972prof. emeritus) Near East morony@history.ucla.edu

Moya, Jose C. (PHD, Rutgers, 1988prof. emeritus) 19th-century Latin America moya@history.ucla.edu

Norberg, Kathryn (PHD, Yale, 1978prof. emeritus) European women, early modern France knorberg@ucla.edu

Notehelfer, Fred G. (PHD, Princeton, 1968prof. emeritus) Japan, modern social and intellectual, borrowed ideas and institutions in traditional societies notehelf@history.ucla.edu

O'Brien, Patricia (PHD, Columbia, 1973prof. emeritus) modern France, Europe pobrien@college.ucla.edu

Porter, Theodore M. (PHD, Princeton, 1981prof. emeritus) science, statistics tporter@history.ucla.edu

Robinson, Geoffrey B. (PHD, Cornell, 1992prof. emeritus) Southeast Asia, Balinese and Indonesian political, human rights in Southeast Asia robinson@history.ucla.edu

Ruiz, Teofilo F. (PHD, Princeton, 1974prof. emeritus) medieval, Spain tfruiz@history.ucla.edu

Sabean, David Warren (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 1969prof. emeritus) European social and cultural, 16th and 19th centuries dsabean@history.ucla.edu

Salman, Michael A. (PHD, Stanford, 1993assoc. prof. emeritus) US, comparative slavery and emancipation, Philippines salman@history.ucla.edu

Silverman, Debora Leah (PHD, Princeton, 1983prof. emeritus) 19th-century Europe, cultural and intellectual, France silverma@history.ucla.edu

Symcox, Geoffrey W. (PHD, UCLA, 1967prof. emeritus) modern Europe, France and Italy 1500-1800, early modern European war and society symcox@history.ucla.edu

Urdank, Albion Mier (PHD, Columbia, 1983assoc. prof. emeritus) 18th- to 20th-century British economic and social aurdank@history.ucla.edu

von Glahn, Richard (PHD, Yale, 1983prof. emeritus) China vonglahn@history.ucla.edu

Waugh, Joan (PHD, UCLA, 1993prof. emeritus) US social, Civil War, philanthropy jwaugh@history.ucla.edu

Waugh, Scott L. (PHD, London, 1975prof. emeritus) medieval England scottw@college.ucla.edu

Weiss, Richard (PHD, Columbia, 1966prof. emeritus) 20th-century US social and intellectual, Great Depression rweiss@history.ucla.edu

Wilkie, James W. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1966prof. emeritus) Latin America, 20th-century quantitative and oral, Mexico/Bolivia/Costa Rica/Venezuela wilkie@ucla.edu

Wise, M. Norton (PHD, Princeton , 1977PHD, Washington State, 1967prof. emeritus) science, physics, culture nortonw@history.ucla.edu

Wong, R. Bin (PHD, Harvard, 1984prof. emeritus) modern China, world wong@history.ucla.edu

Worger, William H. (PHD, Yale, 1982prof. emeritus) African social and economic, southern Africa, comparative worger@history.ucla.edu

Yeager, Mary A. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1973prof. emeritus) US economic yeager@ucla.edu

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