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David Brundage

David Brundage

Professor Emeritus , Research Professor of History

History Department

Areas of expertise: Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History


Biography, Education and Training

B.A. Reed College M.A. University of Warwick Ph.D. UCLA


Areas of expertise: American Music, American Studies, Baroque Studies, Experimental Music, Multiculturalism, Music, Musicology, US History, California History, Western Art Music


Biography, Education and Training

B.A. with great distinction (music): Stanford University, 1969 M.M. (music history): Hartt College of Music, 1971 Ph.D. (musicology): Stanford University, 1978

Dana Frank

Dana Frank

Research Professor and Professor Emerita

History Department

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Dana Frank

Research Professor and Professor of History Emerita

dlfrank@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Labor and Social Movements, Social Justice, US History


Biography, Education and Training

M.A., Ph.D. Yale University B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz

Susan Gillman

Susan Gillman

Distinguished Professor

Literature Department

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Susan Gillman


Areas of expertise: Literature, African American / Black Studies, American Studies, Race, US History, Slavery, Ocean Studies, Language and Linguistics, Popular Culture, Atlantic World


Biography, Education and Training

I am a scholar of race and slavery in the United States, the Americas, and beyond. From my usual base in the nineteenth century, I approach the study of national literatures and cultures from a “worlded” perspective developed by the cluster in World Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSC. My first book – focusing on Mark Twain’s lifelong interest in identity and imposture - explores his engagement with the changing systems of racial classification in the late nineteenth-... more »


Areas of expertise: Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2003 B.A., Boston University, 1999

Gabriela F Arredondo

Gabriela F Arredondo

Associate Professor of LALS, Ex Oficio, Chair, LALS, Chair, Merrill Faculty Fellows

Latin American & Latino Studies, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Merrill College

Areas of expertise: Latin American and Latino Studies, Latino/a Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, US History, Archives, Archival Practices, Mexico, Border Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Associate Professor LALS; former Chair, LALS Department (2016-2021);Chair, Merrill College Faculty Fellows; UCSC EVC Research Fellow 2018-19; former director Chicano Latino Research Center; author Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-1939 (2008); co-editor Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (2003). PhD (History), The University of Chicago; CIC Fellow: University of Michigan; MA (History) SFSU; BA (History) Reed College.


Areas of expertise: United States Politics and Government, Politics, Electoral Politics, US History


Biography, Education and Training

    Melanie Jean Springer received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2006. She began her academic career in the Political Science department at Washington University in Saint Louis. In the Fall of 2013, she joined the Politics faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She specializes in American Politics. Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics and policym... more »

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