History
History Faculty
The History Department consists of full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and an administrative
staff. Our dynamic community of scholars engages in a wide range of research pursuits
that currently stretches from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. They
utilize distinct thematic orientations and theoretical approaches to explore geographic
regions that include Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and the United
States.
History Faculty
The History Department consists of full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and an administrative staff. Our dynamic community of scholars engages in a wide range of research pursuits that currently stretches from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. They utilize distinct thematic orientations and theoretical approaches to explore geographic regions that include Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and the United States.
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Faculty Member |
Field of Interest |
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Blain Roberts, PhD Professor and Department Chair
Office: SS101 Fall 2025 Office Hours: T 1:00 - 2:00p (Zoom) |
Twentieth-Century U.S. Women's and Gender History; U.S. Cultural History; American South; Memory; Historical Tourism |
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Department Administrator
Office: SS101 Fall 2025 Office Hours: MTWTh 7:30-11:30am |
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Lori Clune, PhD Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Office: SS128 Fall 2025 Office Hours: T 10:00a - 12:00p, 1:00 - 3:00p
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Global Cold War; U.S. Diplomatic History; Propaganda; Espionage; Video Game History |
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Traci Arbios Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours: M 12:00 - 1:00p |
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Mark Arvanigian, PhD Professor
Office: SS121
Fall 2025 Office Hours: TTh 11:00a - 12:00p, 1:00 - 2:00p |
Medieval Europe; Britain to 1600 |
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Lecturer
Office: NG141E Fall 2025 Office Hours: MW 12:30 - 1:30p |
Early Modern Europe; Cultural History; U.S. History; Religion; Medieval Art History |
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Stephen Bohigian, PhD Lecturer
Office: NG141F Fall 2025 Office Hours: MW 10:00 - 10:50a |
Policing and Crime; Mass Incarceration; Urban History; Race and Ethnicity |
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Daniel Cady, PhD Associate Professor
Office: SS116 Fall 2025 Office Hours: MWF 10:00 - 11:00a, 2:00 - 3:00p |
Twentieth-Century U.S.; American Music; Oral History |
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Allen Carden, PhD Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours: by appointment |
Colonial America; Colonial Latin America; American Revolution; American Slavery; Licoln; American Civil War; American Presidency |
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Lecturer
Office: NG 141F Fall 2025 Office Hours: MW 2:00 - 3:00p |
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John Farrell, PhD Lecturer
Office: NG 141A Fall 2025 Office Hours: MWF 11:00a - 12:30p |
Modern Europe/Russia; Social Memory; Historical Preservation; Racial/Social Equality; Human Rights |
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Jill Fields, PhD Professor
Office: SS123 Fall 2025 Office Hours: MW 1:00 - 1:45p, 5:15 - 6:00p |
Modern U.S.; U.S. Women's History; U.S. Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Jewish Studies |
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Matthew Ford, PhD Lecturer
Office: IT 262 Fall 2025 Office Hours: TTh 3:15 - 4:15p |
Modern Latin America |
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Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours:
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U.S. History Civil Rights History; African-American History; Social Revolutions and the History of Marginalized Communities |
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Brian Griffith, PhD Assistant Professor Not currently accepting graduate students. Office: SS118 Fall 2025 Office Hours: MW 9:00 - 9:50a |
Political / Cultural History of Italian Fascism; Food and Beverage History; History of (Trans)nationalism; Digital and Public History |
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Brad Jones, PhD Professor
Office: SS124 Fall 2025 Office Hours: M 2:00 - 3:00p |
Colonial and Revolutionary America; The Atlantic World; 18th-century British Empire; Popular Politics |
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Danny Kim, PhD Assistant Professor
Office: SS119 Fall 2025 Office Hours: M 4:00 - 6:00p* *Except when faculty senate meets
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Colonial Korean Feminism; Japanese Imperialism; Environmental History; Socialism in East Asia; Literature |
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Robert Kutz Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours: M 11:00a - 12:00p |
Modern U.S. History; U.S. Cultural History; History of Video Games; American Empire |
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Ethan Kytle, PhD Professor
Office: SS127 Fall 2025 Office Hours: TTh 1:45 - 2:45p |
Nineteenth-Century America; Intellectual and Cultural History; Civil War and Reconstruction; Slavery and Abolition; U.S. South; Historical Memory; Civil Rights Movement |
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Professor
Office: SS216 Fall 2025 Office Hours: MW 12:00 - 2:00p |
19th and 20th Century Latin America, Mexico, and Brazil |
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Maritere Lopez, PhD Professor and Chair, University Graduate Committee
Office: SS120 Fall 2025 Office Hours: T 5:00 - 5:50p |
Renaissance/Reformation; Early Modern Women/Gender; Friendship & Love in the Renaissance; Early Modern Manners and Conduct Manuals |
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Lecturer Lauramercer@mail.fresnostate.edu
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours: MWF 3:00 - 3:50p |
US History, African American History, Women's History, History of Black Power |
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Joseph Orbock Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours: W 3:00 - 3:50p |
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DeAnna Reese, PhD Professor
Office: SS125 Fall 2025 Office Hours: TTh 12:00 - 1:30p |
Twentieth-Century U.S. African American Women; Social Urban History |
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Alicia Rivera, PhD Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall 2025 Office Hours:
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Elvia Rodriguez, PhD Lecturer
Office: NG 141E Fall 2025 Office Hours: by appointment |
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Julia Shatz, PhD Associate Professor
Office: SS126 Fall 2025 Office Hours: On sabbatical Fall 2025 |
The Modern Middle East; British Empire/History of colonialism; Transnational History; History of Childhood/Child Welfare; Global Humanitarianism |
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William Skuban, PhD Professor
Office: SS117 Fall 2025 Office Hours: TTh 12:30 - 1:30p |
Latin American History; U.S. Latin American Relations; Nationalism, National Identity, and Nation-State Formation; Church-State Relations in Latin America |
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Sean Slusser Lecturer
Office: SS129 Fall2025 Office Hours: T 1:00 - 2:00pm (Zoom) |
Faculty Emeritus
Malik Simba 2020
Malik Simba, PhD
University of Minnesota
Area of Expertise:
Constitutional History, African-American History, History in Film. Professor's Web Page