Univ. of California, Berkeley American Historical Association

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University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley Dept. of History
3229 Dwinelle Hall
MC#2550
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Phone: 510.642.1971
Email: history@berkeley.edu
Website: https://history.berkeley.edu/

The Department of History is one of the largest and most distinguished units in UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Science. The Department's faculty ranges across virtually all of the major geographical and chronological fields recognized by the discipline.

Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. The Berkeley history graduate program represents a rich spectrum of research interests, collaborations, and approaches spanning the fields of: Africa, North America Since 1607, Ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantine, Early Modern Europe, East Asia-China, East Asia-Japan, Jewish, Late Modern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Medieval, Middle East, Science, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Global. The depth and breadth of our program and the strengths of our faculty members, students, and other professionals provide an especially stimulating and congenial setting for graduate training.

B. Special Programs. Comprising the Department are over 45 full-time faculty members, a number of distinguished emeritus faculty and visiting professors, 188 graduate students, and 10 support staff. The Department is the center of a history community at Berkeley that includes faculty, professionals, and student colleagues from other departments, the Area Studies Centers, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the campus archives, informal study groups, and other resources. Berkeley's library system at www.lib.berkeley.edu contains one of the best research collections in the country. The system consists of Doe Library, Moffitt Library, the Gardner Stacks (underground), the Bancroft Library (which houses rare books and western Americana), and 20 subject specialty libraries.

C. Financial Aid. The department provides six years of fellowship funding to all entering students for the first six years of their program. Funding covers fees and non-resident tuition (as applicable), and a combination of department financial support and employment to help defray the cost of living. Students are typically awarded support in the form of teaching assistantships and readerships for three of the six years and stipend for three of the years. Students must be in good standing to continue to receive the funding. After the sixth year, students can apply for additional employment and for competitive dissertation write-up grants. U.S. citizens and permanent residents who anticipate receiving funding are asked to file the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) www.fafsa.ed.gov. Need-based financial aid dispensed by the Office of Financial Aid is available mainly in the form of graduate student loans and also requires the student to file a FAFSA.

D. Degree Requirements. Please see history.berkeley.edu/graduate/program-guide for complete details; coursework minimum of 34 credits; third-semester exam and review; Languages (one to four depending on field); doctoral qualifying exam; doctoral dissertation.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 108
PhD applications received: 312
New PhD students: 19
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 100
% of students receiving stipends: 100

Asad, Ahmed Q. (PHD, Princeton, 2007prof. of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Magistretti Dist. Prof.; Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures) Arabo-Islamic philosophy and theology, logic and epistemology, classical Arabic poetry and poetics, Hadith studies, Tafsir, Graeco-Arabic asad.ahmed@berkeley.edu

Choy, Catherine Ceniza (PHD, UCLA, 1998prof.; Ethnic Studies) Asian American and Asian diaspora studies, comparative ethnic studies, adoption, Asian American, gender, migration, nursing, Philippine and Filipino American studies ceniza@berkeley.edu

Claudio, Lisandro (PHD, Melbourne, 2011assoc. prof.; South & Southeast Asian Studies) Philippines intellectual and cultural lclaudio@berkeley.edu

Conis, Elena (PHD, California, San Francisco, 2011prof.; acting dean, School of Journalism) medicine, public health, environment econis@berkeley.edu

Faruqui, Munis D. (PHD, Duke, 2002assoc. prof.; South & Southeast Asian Studies) Muslim experience in South Asia, Mughal period faruqui@berkeley.edu

Gottreich, Emily R. (PHD, Harvard, 1999assoc. prof.; vice chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies) Middle Eastern studies emilyrg@berkeley.edu

Jagmohan, Desmond (PHD, Cornell, 2015asst. prof.; Political Science) American and African American political thought, politics of oppressed jagmohan@berkeley.edu

MacRae, Duncan (PHD, Harvard, 2013assoc. prof.; Ancient Greek & Roman Studies) late Republic to late antiquity Rome, religion and cultural life in empire duncanmacrae@berkeley.edu

Montejano, David (PHD, Yale, 1982prof.; Graduate School) comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, social change, race and ethnic relations, community studies davidmon@berkeley.edu

Pirillo, Diego (PHD, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2005prof.; Italian) mobility/displacement/colonialism, early modern Italian intellectual and cultural, Europe and Atlantic world dpirillo@berkeley.edu

Bakhle, Janaki (PHD, Columbia, 2002prof.) South Asian intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India jbakhle@berkeley.edu

Barshay, Andrew E. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1986prof. and Dr. C. F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair in East Asian Studies; East Asian Studies) East Asia, modern Japan abars@berkeley.edu

Brown, Dmitri J. (PHD, California, Davis, 2022asst. prof.) North America and Native American, 20th-century US, American Southwest, nuclear, Indigenous methodologies, Pueblo studies, ethnobotany, madness dmjbrown@berkeley.edu

Carson, Cathryn L. (PHD, Harvard, 1995prof. and chair) 20th-century science, conceptual/cultural/social/political relations between science and philosophy and scientists and philosophers, science in Germany and US, nuclear clcarson@berkeley.edu

Connelly, John (PHD, Harvard, 1994Sidney Hellman Ehrman Prof. in European History) late modern Europe, modern east and central European political and social, comparative education, nationalism and racism, Catholicism jfconnel@berkeley.edu

Dandelet, Thomas (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1995prof.) early modern Europe, Spanish Empire, Italy, Mediterranean tdandelet@berkeley.edu

DeLay, Brian (PHD, Harvard, 2004Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States) US and world, American West, US-Mexico borderlands, Native American, international arms trade delay@berkeley.edu

Eder, Sandra (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2011assoc. prof.; dir., Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society) North American science, gender and sexuality, human medicine and science s.eder@berkeley.edu

Efron, John (PHD, Columbia, 1991Koret Prof. of Jewish History) Jewish and late modern Europe, modern Jewish, German Jewry cultural and social efron@berkeley.edu

Elm, Susanna K. (DPHIL, St Hilda's Coll., Oxford, 1987Sidney H. Ehrman Chair and Dist. Prof. of European History) later Roman Empire political/economic/religious/cultural, East and West, Augustine of Hippo and slavery, theology of economics, late Roman Antioch elm@berkeley.edu

Engman, Puck (PHD, Freiburg, 2020asst. prof.) East Asian socialism, social revolution, law and state, historical justice, political communication, bureaucratic process puck.engman@berkeley.edu

Frede, Victoria (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2002assoc. prof.) late 18th- and 19th-century imperial Russia, Russian intellectual, comparisons between Russia/Germany/France/Britain, friendship, Russian religious thought, emotions vfrede@berkeley.edu

Hall, Bruce S. (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005assoc. prof.) Muslim intellectual history in West and North Africa, slavery, West and North African social and economic, race, Mali, Songhay bruce.hall@berkeley.edu

Henkin, David (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1995Margaret Byrne Prof.) America since 1607, 19th-century urban and cultural marhevka@berkeley.edu

Herman, Rebecca (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2014assoc. prof.) Latin America and Caribbean, modern Latin America, US in world, environmental, international and global rebeccaherman@berkeley.edu

Hesse, Carla A. (PHD, Princeton, 1986Peder Sather Prof. of History) early modern Europe, 16th- to 20th-century France, European intellectual chesse@berkeley.edu

Hirota, Hidetaka (PHD, Boston Coll., 2012assoc. prof.) North American immigration, 19th-century US, social and legal, labor, Asian American, US and world, transnational, Atlantic and Pacific world, global migration hhirota@berkeley.edu

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig (PHD, Bielefeld, 1999prof.) late modern Europe and Germany, human rights and internationalism, global urban, conceptual, critical theory slhoffmann@berkeley.edu

Jackson, Trevor (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2017assoc. prof.) early modern European economic trevor.jackson@berkeley.edu

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. (PHD, Rutgers, 2012assoc. prof. and Chancellor's Prof. of History 2024-27) African American, slavery and Atlantic slave trade, slavery and law, women, women and early American law sejr@berkeley.edu

Kaicker, Abhishek (PHD, Columbia, 2014assoc. prof.) early modern and modern South Asia, Mughal Empire politics and culture, 20th-century world kaicker@berkeley.edu

Kanogo, Tabitha (PHD, Nairobi, 1981prof.) Kenyan social/cultural/women/colonial, childhood and youth kanogo@berkeley.edu

Katz, Ethan B. (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 2009assoc. prof.) modern Jewish, modern France and its empire, antisemitism, Islamophobia, North Africa, religion and secularism in the modern world, Jewish-Muslim relations, Jewish law, collective memory, Jews in colonial societies ebkatz@berkeley.edu

Kim, H. Yumi (PHD, Columbia, 2015assoc. prof.) Japan and Korea h.yumikim@berkeley.edu

Mackil, Emily M. (PHD, Princeton, 2003prof.; dir., Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology) ancient Greece and Rome emackil@berkeley.edu

Makdisi, Ussama (PHD, Princeton, 1997prof.) modern Middle East makdisi@berkeley.edu

Mavroudi, Maria (PHD, Harvard, 1998prof.) Byzantium and Arabs, bilinguals in Middle Ages, Byzantine and Islamic science, ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam, Byzantine intellectual, survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453 mavroudi@berkeley.edu

Mazzotti, Massimo (PHD, Edinburgh, 2000prof.) modern mathematics, quantification, standardization, algorithms, technology, mechanization, automation, industrial design, enlightenment/reaction mazzotti@berkeley.edu

McLennan, Rebecca (PHD, Columbia, 1999prof. and Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States) North America since 1607, American history in global context, law and society, crime and punishment, incarceration, capitalism, environment, global history of foodways, social theory mclennan@berkeley.edu

Miller, Maureen C. (PHD, Harvard, 1989prof.) medieval mcmiller@berkeley.edu

Noreña, Carlos F. (PHD, Pennsylvania, 2001prof.) ancient Greece and Rome norena@berkeley.edu

Pérez, Bernadette J. (PHD, Minnesota, 2017asst. prof.) US, American West, Latinx, Indigenous, relational race studies, agricultural and environmental, migration, labor, capitalism, transnational, US-Mexico borderlands, US-Latin American relations bjperez@berkeley.edu

Philliou, Christine M (PHD, Princeton, 2004prof.) Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey and Greece philliou@berkeley.edu

Ramsay, Rebekah (PHD, Emory, 2020asst. prof.) late modern Europe rebekah.ramsay@berkeley.edu

Rosenthal, Caitlin (PHD, Harvard, 2012assoc. prof.) political economy of slavery, US social and economic, capitalism crosenthal@berkeley.edu

Sargent, Daniel J. (PHD, Harvard, 2008assoc. prof.) US foreign relations, global and international daniel.sargent@berkeley.edu

Schneider, Elena Andrea (PHD, Princeton, 2011assoc. prof.) Atlantic world 1400-1888, Cuba and Caribbean, colonial Latin America eschneider@berkeley.edu

Shagan, Ethan H. (PHD, Princeton, 2000prof. and Zaffaroni Family Chair in Education) early modern Europe shagan@berkeley.edu

Sheehan, Jonathan L. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1999prof.) early modern Europe sheehan@berkeley.edu

Shutzer, Matthew (PHD, NYU, 2019asst. prof.) modern South Asia, energy, science and technology studies, development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history and historical sociology, social theory mshutzer@berkeley.edu

Stahl, Ronit Y. (PHD, Michigan, 2014asst. prof.) American social, politics, law, religion, military, medicine rystahl@berkeley.edu

Tackett, Nicolas O. (PHD, Columbia, 2006prof.) 7th- to 12th-century Chinese elite society, meritocracy/Song political culture, 10th- to 13th-century Northeast Asian interstate relations, frontiers, nationalism, death and death rituals, Tang capital cities tackett@berkeley.edu

Van Vleet, Stacey A. (PHD, Columbia, 2015asst. prof.) Tibet and Inner Asia, Sino-Tibetan relations, science/technology/medicine, religion and secularism, race and ethnicity, institutions, popular culture, manuscripts and printing, borderlands vanvleet@berkeley.edu

Yeh, Wen-hsin (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1984Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair and Dist. Prof. of History) modern China, social and cultural sha@berkeley.edu

Zeavin, Hannah (PHD, NYU, 2018assoc. prof.) science hzeavin@berkeley.edu

Zinoman, Peter B. (PHD, Cornell, 1995prof.) Southeast Asia, Vietnam pzinoman@berkeley.edu

Angelova, Diliana (PHD, Harvard, 2005assoc. prof.; Hist. of Art) early Christian and Byzantine art, art and society in late antiquity angelova@berkeley.edu

Brilliant, Mark R. (PHD, Stanford, 2002assoc. prof.; American Studies) 20th-century US political economy, civil rights, education, law, US West mbrill@berkeley.edu

Penningroth, Dylan C. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2000prof.; Law) African American, US socio-legal dcap@law.berkeley.edu

Abrams, Richard M. (PHD, Columbia, 1962prof. emeritus) North America abramsr@berkeley.edu

Adamthwaite, Anthony Paul (PHD, Leeds, UK, 1968prof. emeritus) late modern Europe adamthwa@berkeley.edu

Anderson, Margaret Lavinia (PHD, Brown, 1971prof. emerita) late modern Europe mlavinia@berkeley.edu

Astourian, Stephan H. (PHD, UCLA, 1996prof. emeritus) Armenian and Caucasian studies astour@berkeley.edu

Berry, Mary Elizabeth (PHD, Harvard, 1975Class of 1944 Prof. emerita) East Asia meberry@berkeley.edu

Cándida Smith, Richard (PHD, UCLA, 1992Professor) North America, Late Modern Europe candidas@berkeley.edu

Chowning, Margaret (PHD, Stanford, 1985prof. emerita) Latin America, Mexico, socioeconomics chowning@berkeley.edu

de Vries, Jan (PHD, Yale, 1970Ehrman Prof. emeritus) late modern Europe, economic devries@berkeley.edu

Dirks, Nicholas B. (PHD, Chicago, 1981prof. emeritus) modern South Asia ndirks@berkeley.edu

Einhorn, Robin L. (PHD, Chicago, 1988Preston Hotchkis Prof. emerita) American political, urban einhorn@berkeley.edu

Fass, Paula S. (PHD, Columbia, 1974Margaret Byrne Prof. emerita) North America psfass@berkeley.edu

Gruen, Erich S. (PHD, Harvard, 1964prof. emeritus) ancient Greece and Rome gruene@berkeley.edu

Hollinger, David A. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1970Preston Hotchkis Prof. emeritus) North America, science davidhol@berkeley.edu

Jay, Martin E. (PHD, Harvard, 1971Ehrman Prof. emeritus) late modern Europe martjay@berkeley.edu

Johnson, David G. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1970prof. emeritus) East Asia johnsond@berkeley.edu

Klein, Kerwin Lee (PHD, UCLA, 1994prof. emeritus) North America

Koziol, Geoffrey (PHD, Stanford, 1982prof. emeritus) medieval Europe gkoz@berkeley.edu

Lapidus, Ira M. (PHD, Harvard, 1964prof. emeritus) Middle East ilapidus@berkeley.edu

Laqueur, Thomas W. (PHD, Princeton, 1973Helen Fawcett Prof. emeritus) Britain since 1509, social tlaqueur@berkeley.edu

Lesch, John E. (PHD, Princeton, 1977prof. emeritus) science jlesch@berkeley.edu

Lewin, Linda (PHD, Columbia, 1975prof. emerita) Latin America and Caribbean

Martin, Waldo Emerson, Jr. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1980prof. emeritus) America since 1607, Afro-American, social and cultural wmartin@berkeley.edu

Metcalf, Thomas R. (PHD, Harvard, 1960prof. emeritus) South Asia tmetcalf@berkeley.edu

Nylan, Michael (PHD, Princeton, 1982prof. emeritus) East Asia, premodern China mnylan@berkeley.edu

Peterson, Mark Allen (PHD, Harvard, 1993prof. emeritus) early America mark-peterson@berkeley.edu

Rothblatt, Sheldon (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1965prof. emeritus) Britain sheldonrothblatt@icloud.com

Ryan, Mary P. (PHD, California, Santa Barbara, 1971prof. emeritus) North America

Sahlins, Peter (PHD, Princeton, 1986prof. emeritus) early modern France sahlins@berkeley.edu

Slezkine, Yuri (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1989Jane K. Sather Prof. emeritus) Soviet Union slezkine@berkeley.edu

Starn, Randolph R. (PHD, Harvard, 1966prof. emeritus) early modern Europe rstarn@berkeley.edu

Taylor, William B. (PHD, Michigan, 1969prof. emeritus) Latin America and Caribbean wtaylor@berkeley.edu

Vernon, James (PHD, Manchester, UK, 1991prof. emeritus) modern Britain, imperialism jvernon@berkeley.edu

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