History Department

Acting Department Chair

Ph.D., University of Southern California
Office: KH C4076A
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2046

Specialization: Modern European History

Francisco Balderrama
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: KH C3059
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2987

Specialization: American West; Mexicans in US; colonial and national Latin America

Stanley Burstein
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: KH B4024
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2032

Specialization: Ancient world, particularly Hellenistic Period Greek cities and Greek relations

Choi Chatterjee
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: KH B4022
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2023

Specialization: Russian history; modern Europe

Christopher Endy
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Office: KH C4076A
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2046

Specialization: U.S. International Relations

Afshin Matin-Asgari

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Office: KH A4026
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2025

Specialization: Religious studies, Middle East

Enrique Ochoa
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: KH C4034
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2045

Specialization: Latin America; Mexico

Birte Pfleger

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Office: KH C4033
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2044

Specialization: American Colonial & Early Republic History

Sara Pugach

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Office KH4028

Phone/Voicemail: (323) 343-2027

Specialization: Modern sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, modern Germany

Eric Schantz

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: KH A4034
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2045

Specialization: Colonial Mexico

Rennie B. Schoepflin

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Office: KH C4065
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2020

Specialization: American Science, Medicine & Religion

Carole Srole
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: KH A4028
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2027

Specialization: US social history; women's history; labor history

Lillian Taiz
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Office: KH C4033
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2044

Specialization: US social and cultural history

Angela Vergara

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Office: KH A4025

Phone/Voice Mail (323) 343-2223

Specialization: Latin American History; Colonial Latin America,

Modern Latin America, and US Labor and Urban History

Scott Wells

Ph.D., New York University

Office: KH A4026
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2025

Specialization: Medieval History

H Mark Wild (Social Science & Single Subject Credential Adviser)

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Office: KH B4025
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2223

Specialization: Modern U.S., Urban History

Ping Yao
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office: KH B4022
Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2023

Specialization: China; women's history

Lamont Yeakey
Ph.D., Columbia University
Office: KH A4027
Telephone: (323) 343-2026

Specialization: US 19th and 20th century, particularly intellectual, economic, and political movements; civil rights; Black studies