Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Michael P. Breen
Professor of History and Humanities
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Old Regime France; early modern European legal, social, and cultural history; Renaissance Italy.
B.A. 1989, University of Chicago.
A.M. 1990, Ph.D. 2000, Brown University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, 2000–.
Jacqueline Dirks
Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of History and Humanities
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On sabbatical 2026–27.
American social and cultural history, U.S. women’s history.
B.A. 1982, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ.
M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1996, Yale University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1991–.
Joshua Howe
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
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On leave 2026-27.
Environmental history, history of science, twentieth-century United States.
B.A. 2002, Middlebury College.
M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2010, Stanford University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2012–.
Benjamin Lazier
Professor of History and Humanities
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Modern Europe, intellectual history.
B.A. 1993, University of Virginia.
M.A. 1998, C.Phil. 1999, Ph.D. 2002, University of California, Berkeley.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2005–.
Liz Matsushita
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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Modern Middle East and North Africa
BA 2007 University of California, Davis.
MA 2011 San Francisco State University.
PhD 2021 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2022–.
Mary Ashburn Miller
Professor of History and Humanities
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Revolutionary-era France and Europe; modern European cultural and intellectual history.
B.A. 2001, University of Virginia.
M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2008, Johns Hopkins University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2008–.
Margot Minardi
Professor of History and Humanities
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Colonial and revolutionary America, nineteenth-century United States.
A.B. 2000, Harvard College.
A.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2007, Harvard University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2007–.
Radhika Natarajan
(Chair)
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
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Modern imperial Britain.
B.A. 2002, Yale College.
M.A. 2009, Ph.D. 2013, University of California, Berkeley.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2014–.
Sarah Sears
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies
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Environmental history, transnational history, U.S. - Mexico border region.
BA 2018 Davidson College.
M.A. 2022 UC Berkeley
Ph.D. 2025 UC Berkeley
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2025-.
Xue Zhang
Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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Modern and early modern China, nineteenth century Qing Empire, Chinese frontiers.
BA 2010, MA 2012 Wuhan University.
MA 2016, PhD 2020 Princeton University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 2022–.
Staff
Lydia Sheehey
Faculty Administrative Coordinator
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Emeritus/Emerita Faculty
Douglas L. Fix
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Asian Studies and Humanities
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Modern China and Japan.
B.A. 1977, University of Colorado, Boulder.
M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1990–2022.
David T. Garrett
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities
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Latin America and early modern Spain.
B.A. 1988, Yale College.
M.A. 1991, Harvard University.
M.Phil. 1993, Ph.D. 2002, Columbia University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1998–.
Christine L. Mueller
Professor of History and Humanities, Emerita
B.A. 1967, Carleton College.
Ph.D. 1980, University of Virginia.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1973–2004.
Faculty Alumnus/Alumna
Raymond F. Kierstead
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
B.A. 1956, Bowdoin College.
M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1964, Northwestern University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1978–2000.
David Harris Sacks
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
Early modern Britain and Europe; Atlantic world.
B.A. 1963, Brooklyn College.
A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1977 Harvard University.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1986–2015.
Edward B. Segel
Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, diplomatic history, war and society, the Cold War.
A.B. 1960, Harvard College.
M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1969, University of California, Berkeley.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ 1973–2011.