Zamira Abman
Associate Professor; Comparative International Studies Program Director 
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: SH 222B
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: State feminism in Soviet Central Asia, Eurasia, the Soviet Union, Russia

Pierre Asselin
Professor; Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations; Director, Center for War and Society
Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa
Office: AL 568 
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Vietnam War, American foreign relations, Cold War international history, Southeast Asia

Edward Beasley
Professor Emeritus - FERP (teaching Spring only, through 2027)
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 572
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Victorian England, Imperialism, Racism

Pablo Ben
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: AL 523
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: 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]

Expertise: American nationalism and state development; the Constitution; Demography; the Census.

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]

Expertise: 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; Fred J. Hansen Peace Chair
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: AL 529
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: U.S. social movements, oral history, digital humanities, public history

Paula De Vos
Professor 
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 534
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Colonial Latin America, Mexico

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: AL 532
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: East Asian History, Modern China and Japan

Annika Frieberg
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Office: AL 576 
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: 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]

Expertise: 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]

Expertise: 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]

Expertise: Colonial and Revolutionary America; Childhood; Gender

Tom Passananti
Associate Professor Emeritus - FERP (teaching Spring only, 2026-2030)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: AL 573
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Mexican history, Modern East Asian/ International History, U.S. History

Walter D. Penrose, Jr.
Professor; Graduate Adviser
Ph.D., City University of New York
Office: AL 565
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: 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]

Expertise: 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]

Expertise: American West, California, 20th-century US History, Science-Fiction Television

Arthur Schott Lopes
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: AL 561
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Military politics in Brazil; Brazilian borderlands; Brazil, Latin America, the Western Hemisphere

Andrew Wiese
Professor Emeritus - FERP (teaching Fall only, through 2029)
Ph.D., Columbia University
Office: AL 531 
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: 20th century US, Urban, Political and Environmental

Chiou-Ling Yeh
Professor Emerita - FERP (teaching Spring only, 2027-2031)
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: AL 517
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: American History, Race and Ethnicity

Ryan Acton
Director of the Social Science Program
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 530
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Intellectual history; capitalism; and the modern United States

Grace Cheng
Director, Center for Human Rights
Ph.D., University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Office: NH 129
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: TBA

Nathan Ellstrand
DPAA Research Partner Fellow
Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
Office: AL 513
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Political and religious history between the U.S. and Latin America

George Gastil
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: AL 519
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Twentieth-century and recent California politics; local and regional government; Issues in history/social studies education

Giora Goodman
Visiting Professor Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII); Chair of multidisciplinary Studies at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee
Office: AL 567
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: TBA

Susanne Hillman
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 553
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Modern German-Jewish history, the Holocaust, comparative genocide, refugees

Schorsch Kaffenberger
M.A., San Diego State University
Office: AL 559
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: TBA

Heidi Keller-Lapp
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 574
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Early Modern France; French colonialism; gender and religion

Geoff Nathan
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Late Roman and early Byzantine social and cultural history

Lindsay A.H. Parker
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: AL 584
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: The consequences of the French Revolution on women and the family

Kevin Sheehan
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: TBA

Mary Stout
M.A., San Diego State University
Office: AL 580
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: U.S. History with an emphasis on Feminism and Social Justice.  Comics and Popular Culture side quest

John V. Tarpley
Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Cartography in Late Imperial Russia; Comics and history

Paul Tchir
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 555
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Sport and Popular Culture in Egypt and the broader Middle East

Shahla Young
Ph.D., School or Oriental & African Studies, (SOAS), University of London
Office: AL 569
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: Girls’ education in late colonial Bengal (1873-1947), British colonial administrative policies, gender dynamics, and institutional history

Karl Zingheim
M.A., Norwich University
Office: AL 569
Email: [email protected]

Expertise: 19th and 20th century conflicts and naval affairs

Fiona Liddell
Administrative Support Coordinator II
Office: AL 588A
Phone: (619) 594-7119
Email: [email protected]

Monica Cortez
Administrative Support Assistant II
Graduate Program Coordinator
Office: AL 588C
Phone: (619) 594-4218
Email: [email protected]

Briana Lee
Undergraduate Advisor
Email: [email protected]
See the Advising Assistance page for more information.

Sheamus O'Brien
Student Assistant
Main Office: AL 588
Email: [email protected]