Faculty & Staff

Our international faculty have trained at first-rate academic institutions in both the US and abroad. Many have won awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Association. They sit on the boards of professional associations and historical journals and write award-winning books.

Professors
Lecturers
Emeritus
Staff

Please contact the department at (619) 594-5262 for current hours.

Professors

Abalahin, Andrew J.

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (2003), Cornell University

Office: AL 515

Phone: 594-6999

E-mail: abalahin@mail.sdsu.edu

Southeast Asia (Indonesia and Philippines), Colonialism and Nationalism, Social History,

History of Sexuality, Religion in Society

Biography | Vita

Baron, Lawrence
Professor, Ph.D. (1974), University of Wisconsin, Madison
Office: AL 569
Phone: 594-5338
E-mail: lbaron@mail.sdsu.edu
Modern European, Jewish, Modern Germany
Biography | Vita

Beasley, Edward
Professor, B.A. (1985), M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1993), University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 572
Phone: 594-8461 (e-mail preferred)
E-mail: Edward.Beasley@sdsu.edu
Victorian England, Imperialism, Racism
Biography | Website

Ben, Pablo
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (2009), University of Chicago
Office: AL 584
Phone: 594-3761 (e-mail preferred)
E-mail: pben@mail.sdsu.edu
Modern Latin America, Southern Cone, Argentina, Gender and Sexuality, Social History
Biography

Blum, Edward J.
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (2003), University of Kentucky
Office: AL 525
Phone: 594-8462
Email: eblum@mail.sdsu.edu
19th Century United States; Race; Religion
Biography | Vita

Campbell, Sandra
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (2003), University of California, Los Angeles
Office: AL 574
Phone: 594-2812
E-mail: sandscamp@gmail.com
Middle East and Islamic World, Historiography of Early Islam
Biography

Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth

Professor, Ph.D. (1988), Stanford University
Office: AL 568
Phone: 594-0148
E-mail: ehoffman@mail.sdsu.edu
Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations
U.S. and Latin America
Biography

Colston, Stephen
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (1973), UCLA
Office: AL 528
Phone: 594-4716
E-mail: colston@mail.sdsu.edu
Public History, U.S. Southwest, Mesoamerica.

Biography

De Vos, Paula
Associate Professor, M.A. (1995), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Berkeley
Office: AL 534
Phone: 594-4893
E-mail: pdevos@mail.sdsu.edu
Colonial Latin America (Mexico)
Biography | Vita

Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn
Associate Professor, M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2002), Indiana University
Office: AL 538
Phone: 594-6985
E-mail: edgerton@mail.sdsu.edu
East Asian History (Modern China and Japan)
Biography | Vita

Elkind, Sarah S.
Associate Professor, M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994), University of Michigan
Office: AL 532
Phone: 594-0930
E-mail: selkind@mail.sdsu.edu
Environmental, Urban and Political History of the United States
Biography | Website

Ferraro, Joanne
Professor, M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1983), University of California, Los Angeles
Office: AL 588D
Phone: 594-6702
E-mail: ferraro@mail.sdsu.edu
Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
Biography | Website | Vita

Kornfeld, Eve
Professor, M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard University
Office: AL 571
Phone: 594-6595
E-mail: kornfeld@mail.sdsu.edu
Colonial and Revolutionary America; Childhood; Gender
Biography

Kuefler, Mathew
Professor, M.A. History (1987), University of Alberta, M.A. Medieval Studies (1991), Yale University, Ph.D. (1995), Yale University
Office: AL 530
Phone: 594-0707
E-mail: mkuefler@mail.sdsu.edu
Medieval History, History of Sexuality
Biography | Website

Passananti, Tom
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (2001), University of Chicago
Office: AL 573
Phone: 594-2919
E-mail: tpassana@mail.sdsu.edu
Mexican history, Modern East Asian/ International History, U.S. History
Biography

Penrose, Walter
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (2006), City University of New York

Office: AL 565

Phone: 594-1102

Email: wpenrose@mail.sdsu.edu

Ancient Greek and Hellenistic History, History of Gender and Sexuality
Biography

Pollard, Elizabeth
Associate Professor, M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2001), University of Pennsylvania
Office: AL 527
Phone: 594-6992
E-mail: epollard@mail.sdsu.edu
Ancient History (Greece and Rome), Greco-Roman Religion, Women in Antiquity
Biography | Vita

Putman, John
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (2000), University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 557
Phone: 594-4888
E-mail: putman@mail.sdsu.edu
American West, California, 20th-century US History
Biography | Website

Wiese, Andrew
Professor, Ph.D. (1993), Columbia University
Office: AL 531
Phone: 594-3358
E-mail: awiese@mail.sdsu.edu
20th-century us, Urban, Social, and African American
Biography

Yeh, Chiou-Ling
Associate Professor, M.A. (1993), Michigan State University, and Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Irvine
Office: AL 517
Phone: 594-6994
E-mail: cyeh@mail.sdsu.edu
American History (Race and Ethnicity)
Biography

Lecturers

Crawford, Kathleen
Lecturer, M.A. (1987), University of San Diego
Office: AL 523
Phone: 594-7000
E-mail: Kcrawford4@cox.net
U.S., Latin America, California

Di Bella, Edward
Office: AL 540
Phone: 644-7454 x3717
E-mail: edi_bella@hotmail.com

Guthrie, Wayne
Lecturer, Ph.D. (1983), University of California at San Diego
Office: AL 553
Phone: 594-8458
Modern Germany, Britain, 19th –century Europe

Hay, Jeff
Lecturer, M.A. (1991), Ph.D. (1994), University of California, San Diego
Office: AL 513
Phone: 619/594-8946
E-mail: jhay@mail.sdsu.edu
Modern Europe, World History
Biography

Kenway, Christopher
Lecturer, Ph.D. (1996), University of California at Los Angeles
Office: AL 576
Phone: 594-0761
E-mail: cdkenway@hotmail.com
Modern European and the Holocaust

Mahdavi, Farid
Lecturer, M.A (1983), M.A.(1985) and Ph.D. (2000), University of Wisconsin, Madison
Office: AL 559
Phone: 594-8459
E-mail: Mahdavi@mail.sdsu.edu
Middle Eastern and Islamic History and World History
Biography

McKanna, Bud
Lecturer, Ph.D. (1993), University of Nebraska
Office: AL 511
Phone: 594-5944
E-mail: cmckanna@mail.sdsu.edu
Legal, Native America, the American West
Biography | Website

Nobiletti, Frank
Lecturer, PhD candidate, University of California at San Diego
Office: AL 555
Phone: 594-2266
E-mail: fnobilet@mail.sdsu.edu
History of Sexuality in the United States
Biography

Roy, Carolyn Sexton
Lecturer, B.A. (1979) and M.A. (1981) SDSU; C.Phil. (1985) UCLA
Office: AL 561
Phone: 594-8095
E-mail: royc@mail.sdsu.edu
Colonial Latin America, Comparative Americas, U.S.
Biography

Ysursa, John
Lecturer, PhD (1996) University of California at Riverside
Office: AL 519
Phone: 594-8466
E-mail: ysursa@rohan.sdsu.edu
American, European and Religious History
Biography | Website

Emeritus

Christian, David
Emeritus Professor, B.A. and D.Phil. (1968, 1974) Oxford, M.A. (1970), University of W. Ontario
Office: AL 567
Phone: 594-2821
email: dgchrist@mail.sdsu.edu
World History, Russian History, World Environmental History
Biography | Vita

Dunn, Ross

Emeritus Professor, Ph.D. (1969), University of Wisconsin, Madison

Office: AL 586

Phone: 594-8466

E-mail: dunn@mail.sdsu.edu

Africa, North Africa, Islamic

Biography

Hoidal, Oddvar

Emeritus Professor, Ph.D. (1970), Southern California

Office: AL 529

Phone: 594-8457

Email: hoidal@mail.sdsu.edu