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

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 2023
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) Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:30 pm
I. Bolaños, Ph.D.
Email: Isacar.Bolanos@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-111
Assistant Professor   Monday/Wednesday 1:00-2:00
Tuesday  4:00-6:00
D. Bolelli
Email: bodhi1974@yahoo.com
Office: FO3-306
Lecturer United States, Ancient Rome, Native American History, History of World Religions Monday 12:00-2:00 online
P. Cleary, Ph.D.
Email: Patricia.Cleary@csulb.edu
Office: FO2 – 212 
Professor   Monday/Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Wednesday 5:00-6:00
K. Curtis, Ph.D.
Email: Kenneth.Curtis@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-110
Professor Africa, Comparative World  
J. Dabel, Ph.D.
Email: Jane.Dabel@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-202 
Professor    Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-12noon

K. Flach, Ph.D.
Email: Kate.Flach@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-105A

Assistant Professor Modern U.S. History (media, race, gender, social movements, education) Monday 5:00- 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday 1:00-2:00
A. Fogleman
Email: Andrew.Fogleman@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-109 
Full-time Lecturer Medieval Europe (Medicine, Religious Visionaries, Universities) HIST 351: Tuesday/Thursday 10:30 -10:45 am
C/LA 390: Tuesday/Thursday 10:45-11:00 am
HIST 333: Tuesday/Thursday 3:15-3:45 pm
HIST 302: Tuesday: 6:00-6:30 pm
G. Hamilton
Email: Gail.Hamilton@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-117  
Full-time Lecturer History education (historical literacy, historical thinking skills) Monday 3:00-4:00 pm 
Tuesday 2:30-3:30 pm  
Wednesday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 
Thursday 1:30-3:30 pm
A. Igmen, Ph.D.
Email: ali.igmen@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-116
Phone: (562) 985-8765
Professor UG Advisor Director, Oral History Program Central Asia, Russia, Middle East, World (theater, cultural) Monday 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday 9:30-10:30 a.m., 1:30-3:30 p.m.
A. Jenks, Ph.D.
Email: andrew.jenks@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-207 
Professor Modern Europe, Russia (politics, technology, environment) Monday/Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Monday 2:00-3:00 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 Tuesday/Thursday 8:30 – 9:30
M. Kelleher, Ph.D.
Email: m.kelleher@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-120  
Professor Medieval Europe (women & gender, medieval Spain, law and legal culture, Mediterranean encounters) Tuesday/Thursday: 12:30-1:30 Tuesday 4:30-6:00
M. Kuo, Ph.D.
Email: margaret.kuo@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-205 
Professor Asia (modern China) Monday/Wednesday 10:00-11:30am
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 Monday/Wednesday 2:00-4:00
Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:00
J. Lawler
Email: Jeffrey.Lawler@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-218 
Full-time Lecturer United States: The American West, Culture of games and computing technology Tuesday/Thursday 10:00-11:00 a.m.,  2:00-3:30 p.m.
G. Li, Ph.D.
Email: GT.Li@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-206  
Professor Asia (Late Imperial China, family & gender, migration & social mobility) Tuesday/Thursday 11am-12pm
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) Monday/Wednesday 1:00-3:00 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
Wednesdays 5:00-6:00 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) Tuesday 3:00-5:00
Thursday 9:00-10:00
U. Piña, Ph.D.
Email:  Ulices.Pina@csulb.edu
Office:  FO2-112
Phone: (562) 985-4426
Assistant Professor Modern Latin America, Mexico Monday/Wednesday 9:30-10:30
Wednesday 12:45-1:45
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) None Fall 2023, Spring 2024
N. Quam-Wickham, Ph.D.
Email: Nancy.Quam-Wickham@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-208  
Professor United States (Western) Monday 3:00-4:00;  5:00-6:00 in person
C. Rael, Ph.D.
Email: Carie.Rael@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-118
Assistant Professor   Monday/Wednesday 12:30-1:30pm
S. Schrank, Ph.D.
Email: Sarah.Schrank@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-204  
Professor United States (urban, public art, culture, women, California) Zoom by appointment only
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) Tuesday:  1:15PM-2:00PM
Thursday:  1:15PM-2:00PM
S. Smith
Email: sean.smith@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-212  
Full-time Lecturer  United States (19th c. American West, social & cultural) Monday/Wednesday 1:00-4:00 pm Tuesday 2:00-4:30 pm
M. Takeuchi, Ph.D.
Email: Michiko.Takeuchi@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-114  
 Professor Japan (U.S.-Japan relations, women, sexuality) Tuesday/Thursday 8:00-9:00 and 3:40-4:20pm (by Zoom).
H. Wilford, Ph.D.
Email: hugh.wilford@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-216  
Professor United States (20th c., intellectual & diplomatic) Tuesday/Thursday 1:45-2:15, 6:15-6:45

Part-Time Faculty

Name Title Instructor Interests Office Hours
G. Beirich, Ph.D.
Email: Gregory.Beirich@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-118
Lecturer Medieval Europe (intellectual & religious, monasticism & heresy) Monday/Wednesday 9:30-11:00
M. Berkley
Email: Matt.Berkley@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-107
Lecturer  Architectural History, California History, History of the American West, and United States History Tuesday/Thursday 7:00-7:45 AM
D. Binkiewicz, Ph.D.
Email: Donna.Binkiewicz@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-107   
Lecturer United States (recent, labor, immigration, & culture) Tuesday/Thursday 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Monday/Wednesday 2:00-3:00 p.m
N. Cates
Email: Neal.Cates@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-211
Lecturer History education in secondary schools, World History, Globalizing US History  Thursday 7:55-9:00 pm
M. Chow
Email: Melanie.Chow@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-2005
Lecturer   Tuesday/Thursday 11:00am-12:15pm
Thursday5:15-6:15pm 

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

Lecturer   Wednesday 5:00-6:00 Zoom only
J. Haltom
Email: Julie.Haltom@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-107
Lecturer   Tuesday 12:30-1:30 Zoom
Tuesday 4:00-5:30 (in-person)
H. Hernandez
Email: Holly.Hernandez@csulb.edu
Office: none
Lecturer   Wednesday 11:30 -12:30 pm,  3:00-4:00 pm (Zoom)
L.L. Hodges
Email:  Lilylucas.Hodges@csulb.edu
Office:  FO2-109
Lecturer   Wednesday 1:00-3:00 pm
B. Huntsinger
Email: Ben.Huntsinger@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-117 
 Lecturer History Education, Development of reading and writing literacy, Civic Education Tuesday 2:30-3:15 pm Zoom  (please schedule in advance) Wednesday Before class
G. Joachim 
Email: Gunner.Joachim@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-111
Lecturer   Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:30 am, 3:00- 5:00 pm
R. Lopez
Email: Robert.Lopez@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-218
Lecturer   Monday/Wednesday 9:30-10:45am; 12:30-1:45pm; 3:30-4:00pm
K. Matheson
Email: Kaden.Matheson@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-204

Lecturer

  173 Monday 2:00-3:00 pm
131 Wednesday 2:00-3:0 pm
C. McCombs 
Email: C.McCombs@csulb.edu
Office:  FO2-218
Lecturer   Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm
R. Morris
Email: Racheli.Morris@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-210   
 Lecturer Hebrew Monday/Wednesday 10:00-11:00am (by appointment only). 
B. O’Neil
Email: Brian.Oneil@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-216
Lecturer United States (foreign relations, U.S.-Latin America, WWII, Cold War & Vietnam, immigration, CA history) Monday/Wednnesday 11:00-12:00
R. Schraff
Email: rob.schraff@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-108   
Lecturer   Tuesday 3:15-5:00
Thursday 12:00-2:00
A. Striegl
Email: Anton.Striegl@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-122   
 Lecturer   Tuesday 2:30-3:15 pm Zoom  (please schedule in advance) Wednesday Before class
D. Vasquez
Email: Danah.Vasquez@csulb.edu
Office:  FO2-214
Lecturer   Monday/Wednesday 12:30-1:30pm;  3:30-4:30pm
A. Wemmer
Email: Adam.Wemmer@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-117   
 Lecturer History Education, Development of reading and writing literacy, Civic Education  
E. Wilkinson
Email:  Ted.Wilkinson@csulb.edu
Office:  FO2-214
Lecturer   Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:00; 5:00- 6:00pm