Faculty & Staff
Our international faculty have trained at first-rate academic institutions in both the U.S. and abroad. Many have won awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Association. They sit on the boards of professional associations and historical journals and write award-winning books.
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Professors
Zamira Abman - On research leave until spring 2026
Assistant Professor; Comparative International Studies Program Director
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: SH 222B
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: State feminism in Soviet Central Asia, Eurasia, the Soviet Union, Russia
Pierre Asselin
Professor; Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations
Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa
Office: AL 568
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Vietnam War, American foreign relations, Cold War international
history, Southeast Asia
Edward Beasley
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 572
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Victorian England, Imperialism, Racism
Pablo Ben
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: AL 523
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Modern Latin America, Southern Cone, Argentina, Gender and Sexuality,
Social History
Edward J. Blum
Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Office: AL 525
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Religion and race
Eric Boime
Professor, Imperial Valley Campus
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Phone: (760) 768-5535
Email: [email protected]
Abikal Borah
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Office: AL 557
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Indian Ocean World, history
of violence, history of migration, and postcolonial theory
David P. Cline
Professor; Director, Center for Public and Oral History
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: AL 529
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: U.S. social movements, oral history, digital humanities, public
history
Gregory A. Daddis
Professor; Director, Center for War and Society; USS Midway Chair in Modern U.S. Military
History
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: AL 528
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Military History, Vietnam War, Cold War era
Paula De Vos
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 534
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America, Mexico
Raechel Dumas
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Office: AL 561
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Modern Japan, popular culture, trauma narratives, gender and sexuality
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: AL 532
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: East Asian History, Modern China and Japan
Annika Frieberg
Associate Professor; Graduate Adviser
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Office: AL 576
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Central Europe, Poland, Germany, conflict resolution and post-conflict
reconstruction
Carlos R. Herrera
Professor, Imperial Valley Campus
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Office: East Faculty #134
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Colonial and Modern Latin America, the Spanish Borderlands, Latinos
in the U.S
Ranin Kazemi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: AL 515
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, environmental history,
social and economic history
Eve Kornfeld
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Office: AL 571
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Colonial and Revolutionary America; Childhood; Gender
Tom Passananti
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: AL 573
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Mexican history, Modern East Asian/ International History, U.S.
History
Walter D. Penrose, Jr.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York
Office: AL 565
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Ancient Greek and Hellenistic History, History of Gender and Sexuality
Elizabeth Pollard
Professor; Department Chair; Co-Director, SDSU Center for Comics Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office: AL 527 | Phone: (619) 594-2557
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Ancient Rome, World History, Witchcraft, Digital Pedagogies, Comics
John Putman
Professor; Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 600 | Phone: (619) 594-5431
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: American West, California, 20th-century US History, Science-Fiction Television
Andrew Wiese
Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Office: AL 531
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: 20th century US, Urban, Political and Environmental
Chiou-Ling Yeh
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: AL 517
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: American History, Race and Ethnicity
Lecturers
Ryan Acton
Director of the Social Science Program
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 569
Email: [email protected]
Nathan Ellstrand
DPAA Research Partner Fellow
Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
Office: AL 513
Email: [email protected]
John Gove
Ph.D. candidate, University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 586
Email: [email protected]
Susanne Hillman
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 553
Email: [email protected]
Schorsch Kaffenberger
M.A., San Diego State University
Office: AL 559
Email: [email protected]
Heidi Keller-Lapp
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 574
Email: [email protected]
Geoff Nathan
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]
Maia Nichols
DPAA Research Partner Fellow
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 586
Email: [email protected]
Lindsay A.H. Parker
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: AL 584
Email: [email protected]
Kevin Sheehan
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]
Mary Stout
M.A., San Diego State University
Office: AL 580
Email: [email protected]
John V. Tarpley
Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]
Paul Tchir
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 555
Email: [email protected]
William Weeks
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 586
Email: [email protected]
Shahla Young
Ph.D., School or Oriental & African Studies, (SOAS), University of London
Office: AL 569
Email: [email protected]
Karl ZingheimM.A., Norwich University
Office: AL 569
Email: [email protected]
Staff
Fiona Liddell
Administrative Support Coordinator II
Office: AL 588A
Phone: (619) 594-7119
Email: [email protected]
Olivia Perez
Administrative Support Assistant II
Office: AL 588C
Phone: (619) 594-4218
Email: [email protected]
Christina Weinert
Undergraduate Advisor
Email: [email protected]
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