Assistant Professor of History
Modern U.S., Gender, Media, Religion, Sexuality, Digital History
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Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Associate Professor of History
Middle Eastern History
Degrees: B.A. University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. Georgetown University; Ph.D. University of Oxford
Selected Research: Iraq's Armed Forces: An Analytical History (Routledge, 2008); With Alexander Gray, Peace and Conflict: Europe and Beyond (University of Deusto Press, 2006); "Sadrabilia: The Visual Narrative of Muqtada Al-Sadr's Islamist Politics and Insurgency in Iraq", in Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Modern Muslim Contexts (Indiana Univ. Press, forthcoming).
Fernando Amador II
Assistant Professor of History
Modern Latin America, Environmental, Cultural, Migration, and Digital History.
Degrees: PhD, Stony Brook University
Selected Research: 鈥淢exican Food History in the Big Apple: Snapshot from the Field on The Mexican Restaurants of New York City StoryMap,鈥 Chiric煤 Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts & Cultures (co-author, forthcoming) 鈥,鈥 IEHS Online, Not From Here (June 10, 2024). 鈥.鈥 Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2023), no. 3. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. 鈥溾 AHA鈥檚 Perspectives Daily, (Summer 2022).
Courses Offered: Modern US, Culture & Identity in Latin America
Darel Engen
Associate Professor of History
Ancient World, Ancient Greece and Rome, Film, Social and Economic
Degrees: B.A. UCLA; M.A. UCLA; Ph.D. UCLA
Selected Research: Honor and Profit: Athenian Trade Policy and the Economy and Society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E. (U of Michigan, forthcoming); "Ancient Greenbacks: Athenians Owls, the Law of Nikophon, and the Greek Economy" Historia 54, (2005) 4: 359-381; "Trade, Traders, and the Economy of Athens in the Fourth Century B.C.E." in Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class, and Political Economy (Black Rose, 2001).
Suzanna Krivulskaya
Degrees: B.A. LCC International University; M.A. Yale Divinity School; Ph.D. University of Notre Dame
Selected Publications: 鈥淨ueer Rumors: Protestant Ministers, Unnatural Deeds, and Church Censure in the Twentieth-Century United States,鈥 Religion and American Culture (2021); "The Itinerant Passions of Protestant Pastors: Ministerial Elopement Scandals in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Press," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2020); "Networks of Piety and Slavery among Late Eighteenth-Century Rural Maryland Catholics," Current Research in Digital History (2019); "Paths of Duty: Religion, Marriage, and the Press in a Transatlantic Scandal, 1835-1858," Journal of American Studies (2019).
Graduate Courses Offered: HIST 502: History and Applied Media Technology; HIST 512: History Teaching Practicum
Alan Malfavon
Assistant Professor of History
Afro-Mexican, Greater Caribbean, Atlantic World, Veracruz, Mexican and African Diaspora
Histories
Degrees: B.A CSU Northridge; M.A & Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Research: My first book Men of the Leeward Port: Veracruz鈥檚 Afro-Descendants in the Making of Mexico, under contract with the University of Alabama Press, focuses on the understudied
Afro-Mexican population of Veracruz and its hinterland of Sotavento (Leeward) and
uses it to reframe the historical and historiographical transition between the colonial
and national period. It argues how Afro-Mexicans facilitated, complicated, and participated
in multiple socio-political processes that reshaped Veracruz and its borderlands.
My research resituates Mexico鈥檚 socio-political, cultural, and economic networks with
the Atlantic World and the Greater Caribbean, and it dissects and problematizes those
networks by centering the Black and Afro-Mexican experience. My research interrogates
and subverts archival silences that have erased Black and Afro-Mexican agency from
narratives of Mexican identity and nation-state formation, seeking to diversify these
narratives by foregrounding the voices, perspectives, and actions of Afro-descendants.
Articles Malfavon, Alan. 鈥淟oyalty, Subjecthood, and Violence: Veracruz鈥檚 Afro-Descendants in the Early Mexican War of Independence, 1812鈥1813.鈥 The Latin Americanist 67, no. 4 (2023): 357鈥98.
Chapters in Edited Volumes 鈥淧ower and Belonging: The Rise, Fall, and Erasure of Jos茅 Antonio Mart铆nez in Veracruz鈥檚 Early War for Independence.鈥 Forthcoming in 2025 in Coming into View: Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Courses Offered: Mexico Past and Present & History 1500-1877
Kimber Quinney
Assistant Professor of History
U.S. foreign relations; U.S.-Italian relations; Italian fascism; ideology and foreign
policy; immigration and foreign policy
Degrees: B.A. History Lewis and Clark College; M.A. International Relations School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins; M.A. and Ph.D. History UC Santa Barbara
Selected Research: 鈥淭eaching the History of the Cold War through the Lens of Immigration鈥 The History Teacher Vol. 51, No. 4 (August 2018): 661-696; 鈥溾橳hank God He鈥檚 on Our Side鈥: A Roundtable
in Celebration of the Scholarship of David F. Schmitz鈥 (forthcoming, Pacific Historical Review, November 2019); Co-editor and contributor, Understanding and Teaching Recent American History from Reagan to Trump (forthcoming, The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History,
University of Wisconsin Press)
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Professor of History
Haiti/France, Colonialism, Film and Historical Video Games, Atlantic World, Jewish,
Gender
Degrees: B.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.A. Stanford; Ph.D. Stanford
Selected Research: (University Press of Mississippi, 2021); (University of California Press, 2005); (Routledge, 2012); "The Specter of Saint-Domingue: American and French Reactions to the Haitian Revolution," in The World of the Haitian Revolution, (Indiana, 2009); "Atlantic Revolutions," in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter Stearns (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Citlali Sosa-Riddell
Assistant Professor of History
19th century Southwest borderlands
Degrees:Ph.D. UCLA
Selected Research: Her research bridges the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Latinx studies, Latin American independence history, and intellectual history to examine the indigenous and mixed-race populations and their engagement with national rights.She received her Ph.D. in History at UCLA in 2020. Her book project explores how Mexican Californios made claims for their rights to American citizenship and equality based on Latin American notions of race, citizenship, and the struggles for nationhood. She also writes about Latino food cultures in the 20th century and enjoys engaging with her students about the history of indigenous and Latino foods. She also hosts a podcast, The Discursive Power of Rock en Espa帽ol and the Desire for Democracy and it is available on Spotify
Antonio M. Zald铆var
Associate Professor and Department chair
Medieval Europe
Degrees: B.A. Florida State University; M.A. Western Michigan University; Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles
Selected Publications: Iberia, the Mediterranean, & the World in the Medieval & Early Modern Periods. Edited by Thomas W. Barton, Marie A. Kelleher, and Antonio M. Zald铆var. Special Issue of the journal Pedralbes, vol. 40 (2020), 47-208; 鈥淟a lengua como instrumento de diplomacia en la correspondencia entre las canciller铆as reales de Arag贸n y Mallorca, 1341-1349.鈥 In Diplomacia y desarrollo del Estado en la Corona de Arag贸n (Siglos XIV-XVI). Ed. by Concepci贸n Villanueva Morte. Gij贸n: Ediciones Trea, 2020, 345-58; 鈥淛ames I and the Rise of Codeswitching Diplomacy in Thirteenth-Century Catalonia." Viator 47:3 (2016), 189-208; 鈥淧atricians鈥 Embrace of the Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona,鈥 Medieval Encounters 18 (2012), 174-206.
Graduate Courses Offered: HIST 512: Teaching History: Theory and Practice; HIST 699c: Independent Study