Shane Bjornlie, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Associate Professor
B.A., University of Alabama in Huntsville; M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University
Teaching: History of the Roman Republic and Empire; History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Urban History in Ancient and Medieval Europe; Roman Social History; Historiography and Archaeology of Decline and Fall of Empires ,
Research: Intersections of rhetorical representation and historical reality in Late Antiquity (4th-6th centuries); empire theory and concepts of decline and fall; cultural continuity and discontinuity from the Roman to the Carolingian empire; politics and economics,
shane.bjornlie@claremontmckenna.edu , (909) 621-8840, Kravis Center 208

Lisa Cody, None -- read full profile

Associate Professor
lisa.cody@claremontmckenna.edu , (909) 607- , Kravis Center 206

Lisa Forman Cody, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Associate Professor
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Teaching: Britain, 1500-1945; France, 1700-1945; Visual Culture; Women, Gender, and Sex Roles; Medicine and Science , , ...
Research: I am currently working on a book-length project entitled "Divided We Stand: Divorce, Female Independence, and the British Atlantic World in the Age of American Revolution." , My book, Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Britons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) will be released in paperback July 2008. The book has won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best First Book Prize for 2005; Phi Al, ...
lisa.cody@claremontmckenna.edu , (909) 607-2830, Kravis Center 206

Heather Ferguson, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Masters of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies, 1999
Teaching: Middle East/Ottoman Empire, Islamic World, ...
Research: Structures of Power and Discourses of Authority; Intersection of Ethics and Politics; Comparative Systems of Governmentality; Archival Histories; Mediterranean Identities; Theories of Empire; Greater Syria and Lebanon under Ottoman Rule.,
hferguson@cmc.edu , (909) 607-3814, Kravis Center 203

Niklas Frykman, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Teaching: Early American history , Age of Atlantic Revolution, ...
Research: I am currently working on my first book, The Marine Republic: Maritime Radicalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1789-1802.,
nfrykman@cmc.edu , (909) 607-1568, Kravis Center 212

Lily Geismer, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Assistant Professor
lgeismer@cmc.edu , (909) 607-2933, Kravis Center 210

Gary Hamburg, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Otto M. Behr Professor of European History
A.B., Stanford University, 1972; A.M., Stanford University, 1978; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978. Study Abroad, St. Petersburg University and Moscow University.
Teaching: Modern Russian History, 1700 to Present; Russian and European Intellectual History, 1700 to Present; Islam and Islamic Political Movements,
Research: Russian Intellectual History, 1700 to 1917; Russian Politics from Peter the Great to the Present; European Intellectual History since the Enlightenment; Modern Islam,
gary.hamburg@cmc.edu , (909) 607-9679, Kravis Center 209

Nita Kumar, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Professor
B.A., University of Lucknow, India; M.A., University of Bridgeport; M.Phil., Jawaharial Nehru University, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Lecturer, University of Chicago; Mellon Fellow and Assistant Professor, Brown University; Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India; Fulbright Fellow, Yale University; Professor, Brandeis University; Reed College; University of Michigan. (On leave, second semester.)
Teaching: Modernity, urbanism, everyday life, historiography, caste, class, community, gender, women, children, education, literature and art.,
Research: Artisans, work and leisure; women & gender; methodology of History and Anthropology; activism and management; education, families, communities' the intellectual history of India; contemporary education in India.,
nita.kumar@claremontmckenna.edu , (909) 607-0490, Kravis Center 211

Charles A. Lofgren, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Professor of American History and Politics
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Teaching: American Constitutional History; Recent American Politics; Introductory U.S. History,
Research: War, Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Constitution; the Constitutional History of Race in the United States,
charles.lofgren@cmc.edu , (909) 607-2931, Kravis Center 234

Wendy Lower, Ph.D. -- read full profile

John K. Roth Professor of History
BA (1987)Hamilton College, Clinton NY PhD (1999)American University, Washington DC
Teaching: Holocaust History, Genocide Studies, Women's History, Eastern Europe-Ukraine, War Crimes Trials, Nazism and Stalinism,
wendy.lower@cmc.edu , (909) 607-4688, Kravis Center 218

Albert L. Park, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Assistant Professor
B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Teaching: Modern Korean History, 1875-Present; Colonialism and Korea: Power, Culture and Modernity; Japan in the World: Modern Japanese History; Japanese Empire; Civilizations of East Asia to 1800; Utopianism and Political Imagination in East Asia; Nature, Environm,
Research: Modern Korean and East Asian intellectual and social history; relationship between economic structures and cultural and religious structures; questions and issues on modernity and globalization,
albert.park@cmc.edu , (909) 607-3931, Kravis Center 205

Jonathan Petropoulos, Ph.D. -- read full profile

John V. Croul Professor of European History and Chair of the History Department
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1983); A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University (1990)
Teaching: German History, Art and politics, ...
Research: National Socialism, Art looting, ...
jpetropoulos@cmc.edu , (909) 607-2775, Kravis Center 207

Arthur L. Rosenbaum, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Associate Professor
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
arthur.rosenbaum@claremontmckenna.edu , (909) 607-7985, Kravis Center 213

Diana Selig, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Associate Professor
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Teaching: Modern America; Great Depression and World War II; women and politics; gender and society; reform movements; families; schooling,
Research: Modern United States; social science; ethnicity and race; immigration; education; cultural exchange; America in the world ,
diana.selig@claremontmckenna.edu , (909) 607-3396, Kravis Center 204

Tamara Venit-Shelton, Ph.D. -- read full profile

Assistant Professor
B.A. Amherst College M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University
Teaching: Nineteenth-Century United States History, American West, environment, race, ethnicity, and immigration,
Research: Social and political movements in California and the American West, with an emphasis on the intersection between race and environment; Gilded Age and Progressive Era political economy and culture,
tamara.venit-shelton@cmc.edu , (909) 607-3855, Kravis Center 218