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California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, Dominguez Hills Dept. of History
1000 E. Victoria St.
LCH A342
Carson, CA 90747
Phone: 310.243.3328
Email: ltalamante@csudh.edu
Email: rrubio14@csudh.edu
Website: https://www.csudh.edu/history/


The CSUDH History Department offers an undergraduate major and minor in history. It provides history subject matter content for teachers in Liberal Studies and a subject matter preparation program for aspiring secondary school social science teachers, completion of which satisfies the California Teacher Credentialing Commission's subject matter competency requirement. It also provides a solid foundation for students interested in graduate and/or professional training.


Chair: Laura Talamante
Degrees Offered: BA
Academic Year System: SEM
Areas of Specialization: California, Native American and environmental, colonial to present US, Latin America and Mexico, Europe/Russian Empire/Soviet Union, Africa, East Asia
Undergraduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $6418
   Out-of-state: $15346

Enrollment 2024-25:
Undergraduate Majors: 172
Students in Program: 0
New Graduate Students: 0
Full-time Graduate Students: 0
Part-time Graduate Students: 0
Degrees in History: 0 AA 27 BA 0 BS 0 MA 0 MS 0 PhD
Students in Undergrad. Courses: 4004
Students in Undergrad. Intro Courses: 2680
% of Online-Only Courses: 0
Undergraduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://www.csudh.edu/future-students/
   Financial Aid: https://www.csudh.edu/financial-aid/

Areas of Specialization: California, Native American and environmental, colonial to present US, Latin America and Mexico, Europe/Russian Empire/Soviet Union, Africa, East Asia

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Doctoral Program Information

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Directory of History Dissertations

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


Fawver, Kate M. (PHD, California, Riverside, 2002; ; prof.) early America, US social and economic, demographic and family; kfawver@csudh.edu
Jeffers, Joshua J. (PHD, Purdue, 2014; ; assoc. prof.) Native American, borderlands, environmental, intellectual, colonial studies; jojeffers@csudh.edu
Johnson, Andrea S. (PHD, Missouri, Columbia, 2006; ; assoc. prof.) ; anjohnson@csudh.edu
Monty, Christopher Sullivan (PHD, UCLA, 2004; ; prof.) Soviet Union, modern Europe, history and theory; cmonty@csudh.edu
Murillo, Bianca (PHD, California, Santa Barbara, 2009; ; prof.) modern Africa, African social and economic, colonialism; biancaannamurillo@gmail.com
Shannon, Kerry Seiji (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2019; ; asst. prof.) modern Korea, modern Japan. public health, colonialism in Asia; kshannon@csudh.edu
Talamante, Laura R. E. (PHD, UCLA, 2003; ; prof. and chair) French Revolution and early modern Europe, women, 18th-century novel and women’s writing; ltalamante@csudh.edu
Alvarez, Thomas A. (PHD, Michigan, 2007; ; lect.) Gilded Age and Progressive Era, African American, US labor and class; talvarez@csudh.edu
Archibald, Ryan (PHD, Washington, 2019; ; lect.) US race/nation/empire, 20th-century US social and cultural, comparative colonialism; rarchibald@csudh.edu
Block, Michael D. (PHD, Southern California, 2011; ; lect.) California; mblock@csudh.edu
Desrochers, Michael (PHD, UCLA, 1978; ; instr.) world; mdesrochers@csudh.edu
Harvell, Elle Evelyn (PHD, UCLA, 2019; ; lect.) US, Civil War, women; eharvell@csudh.edu
Kovalesky, Brian Robert (PHD, UCLA, 2017; ; lect.) US, education, postwar Los Angeles; bkovalesky@csudh.edu
O'Mara, William Edward, IV (PHD, California, Irvine, 2017; ; lect.) Middle East, European intellectual, evolution and sexuality; womaraiv@csudh.edu
Resnick, Kirsten (MA, California, Santa Barbara, 1994; ; lect.) American survey, history teaching, women; kresnick@csudh.edu
Yoon, Sun-Hee (PHD, Washington, 2009; ; lect.) early modern East Asia; syoon@csudh.edu
Cortes, Enrique (PHD, Southern California, 1974; ; prof. emeritus) ;
Garber, Marilyn (PHD, UCLA, 1967; ; prof. emeritus) US legal;
Grenier, Judson (PHD, UCLA, 1965; ; prof. emeritus) California, 19th-century US, education; jgrenier@csudh.edu
Hata, Donald Teruo, Jr. (PHD, Southern California, 1970; ; prof. emeritus) Japanese Americans, history teaching; dhata@csudh.edu
Hollander, Nancy Caro (PHD, UCLA, 1974; ; prof. emeritus) Latin America, women, film as history;
Holter, Howard R. (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 1967; ; prof. emeritus) modern Europe, world; hholter@csudh.edu
Jeffers, James S. (PHD, California, Irvine, 1988; ; prof. emeritus) early Christianity, Roman Empire, Western religions; jjeffers@csudh.edu
Loeb, Lynne (PHD, Southern California, 1997; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) 19th- and 20th-century US, social, gender; lloeb@csudh.edu
MacPhee, Donald A. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1959; ; prof. emeritus) ;
Stricker, Frank (PHD, Princeton, 1974; ; prof. emeritus) ; fstricker@csudh.edu
Udeze, Clement Okafor (MA, Minnesota, 1967; ; asst. prof. emeritus) ; cudeze@csudh.edu
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