Faculty

Regular Faculty

Marla Stone, Chair

Professor, History
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
A specialist in the history of fascism, dictatorship and genocide in Europe, Marla Stone's work emphasizes the relationship among culture, politics,…
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Alexander F. Day

Professor, History & Asian Studies
B.A. Colby College; M.A., Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Alexander Day studies the intellectual, social, and cultural history of peasants, food, and agrarian change in China. He teaches Chinese, East Asian,…
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Sharla Fett

Robert Glass Cleland Professor in American History
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Rutgers University
Sharla Fett teaches courses on early U.S. and African American history, including the Atlantic World, Slavery and the Antebellum South, U.S. Women’s…
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Margaret Gaida

Assistant Professor, History
B.A. Duke University; M.A. University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D. University of Oklahoma
Margaret Gaida is a historian of science whose research explores cross-cultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean, with a…
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Michael Gasper

Associate Professor, History
B.A., Temple University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Michael Gasper teaches courses on the History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, the History of the Ottoman Empire and the History of Islam…
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Jane Hong

Professor, History
B.A. Yale University; A.M., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Jane Hong is a historian of U.S. immigration, race, religion, and engagement with the world, with a focus on Asia after World War II.
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Lisa Sousa

Norman Bridge Professor, History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Sousa specializes in the histories of colonial Latin America, indigenous peoples and languages of Mexico, and women, gender and sexuality.
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Jonathan Veitch

Professor of History
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Jonathan Veitch was the 15th president of Occidental College from 2009-2020. During that time he made major investments in the College's buildings and…
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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Andrew C. Isenberg

Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor, U.S. History/The Americas
B.A. Saint Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. Northwestern University
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Bing Xia

Visiting Instructor, History
B.A. Southwest University; M.A. Renmin University of China; M.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bing Xia is a historian of modern China whose research focuses on political and social history, the history of science and knowledge, labor, and…
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Affiliated Faculty

Erica Ball

The Anita Johnson Wand Professorship in Women’s Studies
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Erica L. Ball is a historian who specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century African American history.
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Xiao-huang Yin

Professor, American Studies
B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Xiao-huang Yin specializes in Asian American studies, U.S.-Asia relations, and modern China.
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Emeriti/ae Faculty

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Alexandra Puerto
Professor of History and Latinx and Latin American Studies, Emerita
History

Contact History

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history@oxy.edu