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Africa
Hanretta, Sean Associate Professor of African History Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., University of Wisconsin; B.A., The Colorado College West Africa, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Religions
Roberts, Richard Professor of History Ph.D., University of Toronto; M.A., Simon Fraser University; B.A., University of Wisconsin West Africa

Ancient
Morris, Ian Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Professor of history, and Fellow of the Stanford Archaeology Center Ph.D., Cambridge University; B.A., Cambridge University Greek History, Archaeology
Saller, Richard Professor of Classics and of History Ph.D., University of Cambridge, B.A., Greek and History, University of Illinois
Scheidel, Walter Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History; Chair, Department of Classics Habilitation (Ancient History), University of Graz (1998); PhD (Ancient History), University of Vienna (1993); MPhil (Ancient History), University of Vienna (1989)

Britain
Como, David Associate Professor of Early Modern British History Ph.D. Princeton 1999 Puritanism, Politics, English Revolution
Satia, Priya Associate Professor of Modern British History MA/Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2004; M.Sc. LSE; BA/BS Stanford
Stansky, Peter Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus Ph.D. Harvard University; B.A. King's College, Cambridge; B.A., Yale College 19th & 20th century

Early Modern Europe
Baker, Keith M. J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Early Modern European History. Jean-Paul Gimon Director, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies B.A., M.A., Peterhouse, Cambridge; Ph.D., University of London France
Findlen, Paula Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History; Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; B.A., Wellesley College Italy and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800; Social and Cultural History; Scientific Revolution
Herzog, Tamar Professor of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese History Ph.D., Histoire et civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Lougee Chappell, Carolyn Professor of Early Modern European History; Frances and Charles Field Professor in History and Martin Family; University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Ph.D., University of Michigan; A.B., Smith College France
Riskin, Jessica Associate Professor, History of Science Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley 1995; B.A. - Harvard University 1988 History of science, Enlightenment intellectual and cultural history, Old Regime and Revolutionary France
Schiebinger, Londa The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project Ph.D. Harvard University Atlantic World, Gender in Science, Colonial Science, Race, Eighteenth-Century European Science
Stokes, Laura Assistant Professor of History PhD, University of Virginia; MA, University of Virginia; BA. Reed College.

East Asia
Lewis, Mark E. Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture B.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago Warring States, Early Imperial, and Medieval History
Moon, Yumi Assistant Professor of History Ph.D., History and East Asian Language, Harvard University; M.A. and B.A. Seoul National University
Mullaney, Thomas S. Associate Professor of History Ph.D., Columbia University, Department of History, 2006; M.A., Columbia University, Department of History, 2004; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center, 2000; B.A., Johns Hopkins University, East Asian Studies/ International Studies, 1999
Sommer, Matthew Associate Professor of Chinese History Ph.D., UCLA, 1994; M.A., University of Washington, 1987; B.A., Swarthmore College, 1983 Late imperial China: gender and sexuality, law and society
Uchida, Jun Assistant Professor of History Ph.D., Harvard University; M.A., UC Berkeley; B.A., Cornell University.
Wigen, Kären Professor; Chair, Department of History PhD, University of California at Berkeley (Geography), 1990; MA, UC-Berkeley, 1985; BA, University of Michigan (Japanese Lit.), 1980 Historical geography; regionalism; maps

Eastern Europe Russia and Eurasia
Holloway, David Raymond A. Spruance Professor in International History; Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studie BA, University of Cambridge; MA, University of Cambridge; PhD, University of Cambridge Russia and the Soviet Union; nuclear weapons and international relations; science and technology in the Soviet Union
Jolluck, Katherine Senior Lecturer Ph.D. & M. A. Stanford University; B.A. Harvard University
Kollmann, Nancy William H. Bonsall Professor of History M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974, 1980; B.A., Middlebury College, 1972 Early Modern Russia: political culture, gender in politics, practice of the law
Naimark, Norman Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies Ph.D., Stanford University; M.A., Stanford University; A.B., Stanford University Modern Eastern Europe
Weiner, Amir Associate Professor of Soviet History Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., Columbia University; B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zipperstein, Steven Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History B.A., Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles Modern Europe, Russia

Jewish
Mancall, Mark Professor of Modern World History, Emeritus B.A., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard University. Modern
Rodrigue, Aron Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture; Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1985; A.M., History, Harvard University, 1979; B.A., History, University of Manchester, England, 1978 (First Class Honours) Ottoman, Modern France
Zipperstein, Steven Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History B.A., Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles Modern Europe, Russia

Latin America
Frank, Zephyr Associate Professor of Latin American History Ph.D Illinois 1999; M.A. UCLA 1993 Family, Social Structure, Wealthholding, Slavery
Haber, Stephen A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles; B.A., George Washington University Comparative Economic
Herzog, Tamar Professor of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese History Ph.D., Histoire et civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Minian, Ana Raquel Assistant Professor of History and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Ph.D., Yale University, with distinction; M.A. Yale University; B.A., University of Chicago, with honors
Wolfe, Mikael Assistant Professor of Latin American and Environmental History Ph.D. The University of Chicago; M.A., International History, The University of Chicago; B.A., Columbia University Modern Mexican, Latin American, environmental and comparative histories

Middle East
Beinin, Joel Donald J. McLachan Professor in History Ph.D. University of Michigan (History);A.M.L.S. University of Michigan (Library Science); A.M. Harvard University (Middle East Studies); A.B. Princeton University (Near Eastern Studies) magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Crews, Robert Associate Professor, Russian Empire, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Islam; Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Columbia University; B. A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rodrigue, Aron Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture; Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1985; A.M., History, Harvard University, 1979; B.A., History, University of Manchester, England, 1978 (First Class Honours) Ottoman, Modern France
Yaycioğlu, Ali Assistant Professor of Middle East History B.S., Middle East Technical University, Ankara; M.A., Bilkent University, Ankara; Ph.D. Harvard University. The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire

Modern Europe
Daughton, James P. Associate Professor of Modern European History; Co-Director, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Postdoctoral Program Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil., Cambridge University; B.A., Amherst College France; European Imperialism and Colonialism
Robinson, Paul Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968; B.A., Yale University, 1962 Intellectual
Rodrigue, Aron Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture; Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1985; A.M., History, Harvard University, 1979; B.A., History, University of Manchester, England, 1978 (First Class Honours) Ottoman, Modern France
Sheehan, James Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; A.B., Stanford University Germany
Sheffer, Edith Assistant Professor of Modern European History Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., Harvard University, summa cum laude. Germany

Science
Bernstein, Barton Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., Queens College
Findlen, Paula Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History; Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; B.A., Wellesley College Italy and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800; Social and Cultural History; Scientific Revolution
Proctor, Robert N. Professor of History of Science Ph.D. Harvard University 1984, History of Science; M.S. Harvard University 1977, History of Science; B.S. Indiana University (Bloomington) 1976, Biology
Riskin, Jessica Associate Professor, History of Science Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley 1995; B.A. - Harvard University 1988 History of science, Enlightenment intellectual and cultural history, Old Regime and Revolutionary France
Schiebinger, Londa The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project Ph.D. Harvard University Atlantic World, Gender in Science, Colonial Science, Race, Eighteenth-Century European Science

South Asia
Kumar, Aishwary Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History and Modern Intellectual History PhD, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2007; MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2002; BA, University of Delhi, 2000
Lewis, Martin Senior Lecturer in International History Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Transnational International and Global History
, Advisors in Transnational, International, and Global History can be found among any of the full-time faculty members in the department. Prospective PhD applicants are encouraged to contact faculty in appropriate fields

United States
Bernstein, Barton Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., Queens College
Burns, Jennifer Assistant Professor A.B. Harvard University, 1998; M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 2001; Ph.D. University of California, Berkley, 2005 20th Century U.S., political, cultural, intellectual
Camarillo, Albert Professor of American History; Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor; Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Diversity in charge of the Faculty Development Initiative of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles; BA, University of California at Los Angeles Mexican American, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Urban
Campbell, James T. Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History B.A., Yale University; M.A. Stanford University; Ph.D Stanford University
Carson, Clayborne Professor of American History and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute Ph.D., M.A., B.A., University of California at Los Angeles Modern African-American history
Chang, Gordon Professor of American History; Director, Center for East Asian Studies Ph.D., Stanford University; B.A., Princeton University Asian-American, Foreign Relations, Race and Ethnicity
Freedman, Estelle Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History Ph.D., Columbia University 1976; M.A., Columbia 1972; B.A., Barnard College 1969 Women, sexuality, feminism
Hobbs, Allyson Assistant Professor of American History Ph.D., University of Chicago, with distinction; B.A., Harvard University, magna cum laude 19th and early 20th century African American social and cultural history
Kennedy, David M. Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus. Ph.D., Yale University, 1968, American Studies; M.A., Yale University, 1964, American Studies; B.A., Stanford University, 1963, History Great Depression,New Deal, WWII, Immigration
Rakove, Jack William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies; Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) of Law Ph.D., Harvard University 1975; A.B., Haverford College 1968 American Revolution
White, Richard Margaret Byrne Professor of American History B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington.
Winterer, Caroline Professor of History and (by courtesy) of Classics Ph.D., University of Michigan, History A.M., University of Michigan, History B.A., cum laude, Pomona College, History American intellectual and cultural history, pre-1900