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Areas of expertise: Latino/a Studies, American Studies, Print Media, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Studies, California History


Biography, Education and Training

My broad zone of interest is the Americas, both before and after the fateful Indigenous-European contact of 1492. I study how written language conveys and confers power in the world. Sometimes that power shows up within a frame that people call “literature” (its definition is shifty); sometimes it is expressed as a recorded utterance; sometimes it sits quietly within a seemingly mundane note or glyph. The material forms by which writing is organized and distributed into things—... more »

Bruce A Thompson

Bruce A Thompson

Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator, Continuing Lecturer

History Department, Literature Department

Areas of expertise: California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Stanford University


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

Julie H Guthman

Julie H Guthman

Professor, Principle Investigator, UC Agri-food Technology Research (AFTeR) Project

Community Studies Program, Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies


Biography, Education and Training

B.A. History, UC Berkeley M.A. American Studies, University of Michigan Ph.D. American Studies, University of Michigan


Areas of expertise: Indigenous Peoples, Border Studies, Colonialism, Chicana/o Studies, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies


Biography, Education and Training

1986 Ph.D. in History, University of California, Irvine 1982-83 École Normal Superior, rue d’Ulm, and École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France 1975 B.A. in History, University of California, San Diego

Alice Yang

Alice Yang

Chair, History Department, Professor of History, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories

History Department, Stevenson College, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Areas of expertise: History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Movements, Oral History


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., M.A.T. Brown University M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University

Tsim D Schneider

Tsim D Schneider

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Anthropology Department

Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archaeology, Colonialism, California History, Indigenous Peoples, Material Science


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley M.A. - University of Texas at Austin B.A. - University of Texas at Austin  Tsim Schneider (he/him) is a citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and archaeologist. Dr. Schneider studies the interactions between Indigenous peoples and colonial institutions, primarily in California. He is the author of The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California (Univer... more »


Areas of expertise: Activism, Environmental Justice, Science and Technology, American Studies, Sustainability, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley B.A., Politics with Honors, Oberlin College

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