People – Current Faculty

The best way to contact instructors is via email.  Voice messages are not recommended.

If you are a registered student, please refer to your course syllabi which should contain faculty office hours and contact information.  If you are not a student, please email for an appointment. 

Additional hours are available by appointment.  Please email the faculty directly to schedule an appointment. 

Full-Time Faculty – Fall 2024 – Fall hours are being updated, if no hours listed please see course syllabi

Name Title Instructor Interests Office Hours
E. Berquist Soule, Ph.D
Email: Emily.Berquist@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-211 
Professor Colonial Latin America and the Spanish Empire; Slavery and the Slave Trade; Atlantic History; Imperial Governance; Indigenous Peoples; The History of Religion

None Fall 2024, Spring 2025

D. Binkiewicz, Ph.D.
Email: Donna.Binkiewicz@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-107   
Full-time lecturer United States (recent, labor, immigration, & culture) Mondays and Wednesdays 11-11:30 am and 2-3 pm
J. Blutinger, Ph.D.
Email: Jeffrey.Blutinger@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-210
Phone: (562) 985-2196
Professor Chair, Jewish Studies Program Modern Europe, World, Jewish Studies (modern Jewish history, Holocaust, memory, historiography) Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 pm
I. Bolaños, Ph.D.
Email: Isacar.Bolanos@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-111
Assistant Professor  

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30-10:30, 2:00-3:00; Tuesdays 5:00-6:00

D. Bolelli
Email: bodhi1974@yahoo.com
Office: FO3-306
Lecturer United States, Ancient Rome, Native American History, History of World Religions Mondays noon to 3:00
P. Cleary, Ph.D.
Email: Patricia.Cleary@csulb.edu
Office: FO2 – 212 
Professor  

Mondays and Wednesdays 11 a.m.-12 pm; Wednesdays 5-6 pm

K. Curtis, Ph.D.
Email: Kenneth.Curtis@csulb.edu
Office: None
Professor Africa, Comparative World Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30-1:30pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:00-9:00am on Zoom
J. Dabel, Ph.D.
Email: Jane.Dabel@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-202 
Professor    Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-11am; 1230-130pm
K. Flach, Ph.D.
Email: Kate.Flach@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-105A
Assistant Professor Modern U.S. History (media, race, gender, social movements, education) Mondays 4:00-5:00; Tuesdays 1:00-2:00
A. Fogleman
Email: Andrew.Fogleman@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-109 
Full-time Lecturer Medieval Europe (Medicine, Religious Visionaries, Universities)
Tuesday / Thursday
Advising: 8 am-9am; 5 pm-6 pm
Hist 301: 9:15-9:30 am
Hist 316: 6-6:15 pm
Hist 351: 1:45-2 pm
Hist 319: 4:45-5 pm 
G. Hamilton
Email: Gail.Hamilton@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-117  
Full-time Lecturer History education (historical literacy, historical thinking skills)

Mondays: 2:30-4:30 in person; Thursdays 1:30-3:30 pm Zoom

A. Igmen, Ph.D.
Email: ali.igmen@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-116
Phone: (562) 985-8765
Professor Director of Research in the Humanities, Oral History Program Central Asia, Russia, Middle East, World (theater, cultural) Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30-10:30 am;  Mondays 5:00-6:00 pm.
A. Jenks, Ph.D.
Email: andrew.jenks@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-207 
Professor Modern Europe, Russia (politics, technology, environment) Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-4:00 pm.
R.S. Judge, Ph.D.
Email: Rajbir.Judge@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-113
Assistant Professor South Asia; Theory; Global Intellectual History; Colonialism and Empire None Fall 2024, Spring 2025
M. Kuo, Ph.D.
Email: margaret.kuo@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-205 
Professor Asia (modern China)

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:00-11:00am; Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 pm

M. Larsen, Ph.D
Email: mik.larsen@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-108 
Full-time Lecturer Ancient Rome: social and cultural history, social mobility, rhetoric, religion Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-4:00; Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-5:30
J. Lawler
Email: Jeffrey.Lawler@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-218 
Full-time Lecturer United States: The American West, Culture of games and computing technology

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00- 12:30; Thursdays 3:30-5:30 p.m.

G. Li, Ph.D.
Email: GT.Li@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-206  
Professor Asia (Late Imperial China, family & gender, migration & social mobility) None F24, S25
E. Luhr, Ph.D.
Email: Eileen.Luhr@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-122  
Professor Advisor, Social Science Credential Program United States (modern/contemporary U.S., politics, religion, cultural) Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-5:00 pm.
B. Mizelle, Ph.D.
Email: Brett.Mizelle@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-226   
Professor
Director, American Studies
United States, American studies (cultural, Early Republic and Antebellum, human-animal relationships, nature/culture) Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 pm
C. Murdock, Ph.D.
Email: C.Murdock@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-203  
Professor
Graduate Advisor
Modern Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Germany (borderlands, social, cultural, transnational)

Tuesdays 4:00-5:00

Thursdays 12:00-1:30

U. Piña, Ph.D.
Email:  Ulices.Pina@csulb.edu
Office:  FO2-112
Phone: (562) 985-4426
Assistant Professor   Mondays 12:45-1:45pm
C. Ponce de Leon, Ph.D.
Email: Charles.Poncedeleon@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-214
Professor United States, American Studies (20th c. Cultural and Intellectual, Mass Media) Tuesdays 10:30-noon
N. Quam-Wickham, Ph.D.
Email: Nancy.Quam-Wickham@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-208  
Professor United States (Western) None Fall 2024
C. Rael, Ph.D.
Email: Carie.Rael@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-118
Assistant Professor  US Borderlands and Im/migration, US modern history, Latinx grassroots movements, labor, gender, and the carceral state. Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30pm -1:30pm
S. Schrank, Ph.D.
Email: Sarah.Schrank@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-204  
Professor United States (urban, public art, culture, women, California) By appointment, please email Dr. Schrank to schedule. 
D. Shafer, Ph.D.
Email: david.shafer@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-102   
Professor, Chair Dept of Hist Modern Europe (France, revolutions, cultural) Varied.  Please email for an appointment. 
D. Sheridan, Ph.D.
Email: David.Sheridan@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-118   
Full-time Lecturer Modern Europe (Britain, gender, music, culture)

Tuesdays 2:10-3:20PM; Thursdays 2:10-3:20PM

S. Smith
Email: sean.smith@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-212  
Full-time Lecturer  United States (19th c. American West, social & cultural) Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30—2:00 pm;  Tuesdays 2:00-5:00 pm
M. Takeuchi, Ph.D.
Email: Michiko.Takeuchi@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-114  
 Professor Japan (U.S.-Japan relations, women, sexuality)

Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:00-8:30am and 3:30-4:00pm by Zoom

H. Wilford, Ph.D.
Email: hugh.wilford@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-216  
Professor United States (20th c., intellectual & diplomatic) Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:45-2:15; 5:00-5:30

Part-Time Faculty – Spring 2024

Name Title Instructor Interests Office Hours
T. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Email: Tom.Alvarez@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-120

 

Lecturer

 

  Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30am-10:30am

N. Barton, Ph.D.
Email:  Nimisha.Barton@csulb.edu
Office:  

Lecturer Modern Europe None Fall 2024
G. Beirich, Ph.D.
Email: Gregory.Beirich@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-216
Lecturer Medieval Europe (intellectual & religious, monasticism & heresy)

Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:15-11:00AM

M. Berkley
Email: Matt.Berkley@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-202
Lecturer  Architectural History, California History, History of the American West, and United States History

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 AM; Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

M. Block, Ph.DEmail: Michael.Block@csulb.edu Office: FO2-109

Lecturer

 

Monday/Wednesday 3:45-4:45

R. Cameron
Email: Regan.C@csulb.edu
Office: F02-110
Lecturer  

Mondays 5:00-6:00pm Thursdays 4:00-6:00pm

N. Cates
Email: Neal.Cates@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-211
Lecturer History education in secondary schools, World History, Globalizing US History Thursdays 7:55 – 9:00 pm

James Deavenport
Email: james.deavenport@csulb.edu
Office:  None

Lecturer   Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 PM 
K. Fabian, Ph.D.
Email: Kristian.Fabian@csulb.edu
Office: None

Lecturer

 

  Wednesdays 10:45 am-11:45 am online

Hacholski, MSc Email: Michael.Hacholski@csulb.edu

Office: None

Lecturer   Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:45- 11:45am via Zoom
J. Haltom
Email: Julie.Haltom@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-120
Lecturer  

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM,  4:00 PM-4:30 PM

H. Hernandez
Email: Holly.Hernandez@csulb.edu
Office: none
Lecturer  

Mondays and Wednesday 2:15-3:15 pm online

B. Huntsinger
Email: Ben.Huntsinger@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-117 
 Lecturer History Education, Development of reading and writing literacy, Civic Education  
R. Lopez
Email: Robert.Lopez@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-218
Lecturer  
Mondays 5-6:15pm
Tuesdays 5–6:15pm
Wednesdays 5– 6:15pm
S. Lynch, Ph.D.
Email: Skye.Lynch@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-218
Lecturer  

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:15am – 10:15am, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:15am – 9:45am

K. Matheson
Email: Kaden.Matheson@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-204

Lecturer

 

Wednesdays
11am-12pm HIST 131 (01); 12-1pm HIST 173 (17); 1-2pm HIST 173 (11)

R. Morris
Email: Racheli.Morris@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-210   
 Lecturer  

HEBW 210 Monday and Wednesday at 4:00 pm (By appointment only)

Hebrew 101A Monday and Wednesday at 10:00 am (By appointment only).

B. O’Neil
Email: Brian.Oneil@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-212
Lecturer United States (foreign relations, U.S.-Latin America, WWII, Cold War & Vietnam, immigration, CA history) Mondays and Wednesdays 11am-12pm
R. Schraff
Email: rob.schraff@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-108   
Lecturer   Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-5:30 PM

R. Simpson-Menzies
Email: Rebecca.SimpsonMenzies@csulb.edu

Office: None

Lecturer   Mondays 2 PM – 3 PM via zoom
A. Striegl
Email: Anton.Striegl@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-122   
 Lecturer    
A. Wemmer
Email: Adam.Wemmer@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-117   
 Lecturer History Education, Development of reading and writing literacy, Civic Education  
R. Yeganehshakib, Ph.D.
Email: Reza. Yeganehshakib@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-110
Lecturer  

HIST 132-01: Thursday 9:30- 10:30 am

HIST 172-22: Thursday 10:30

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