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Faculty and Staff

The History department consists of 16 full-time faculty, a dozen part-time faculty members, and two administrative staff members. Some of the specialties our faculty focus include medieval Europe, Early Modern European(Renaissance and Reformation), Twentieth-Century American and World War II, Atlantic history.

	Faculty Member	Field of Interest
	Michelle DenBeste Dean of the College of Social Sciences	Modern Russia; Modern Europe; Women's History
	Ethan Kytle Department Chair ekytle@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM M 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM TTH	Nineteenth-Century America; Intellectual and Cultural History; Civil War and Reconstruction; Slavery and Abolition; U.S. South; Historical Memory
	Brad Jones Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator brajones@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM M	Colonial and Revolutionary America; The Atlantic World; 18th-century British Empire; Popular Politics

	Faculty Member	Field of Interest
	Mark Arvanigian Professor marvanig@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MW 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM T	Medieval Europe; Britain to 1600
	Daniel Cady Associate Professor dcady@csufresno.edu Office Hours 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM W 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM TTH	Twentieth-Century U.S.; American Music; Oral History
	Lori Clune Professor lclune@csufresno.edu Office Hours 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM W 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM TH	Cold War America; McCarthyism; Espionage; Propaganda; Psychological Warfare; U.S. Diplomatic History; Twentieth Century; U.S. History
	John Farrell Lecturer jfarrell@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 11:00 AM - 11:45 PM MWF	Historical and Cultural Preservation; Memory Studies; 20th-Century Russia; Politics of Culture
	Jill Fields Professor jfields@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM TTH 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM T	Modern U.S.; U.S. Women's History; U.S. Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Jewish Studies
	Romeo Guzman Assistant Professor romeog@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 3:30 PM - 5 PM W	Twentieth-Century Mexico, Mexican migration; Chicanx Studies; Public History and Digital Humanities; Oral History
	Melissa Jordine Professor mjordine@csufresno.edu Office hours by appointment only	German Intervention in Northern Africa; World War II in Europe and North Africa; Modern Germany; the Holocaust
	Maria-Aparecida Lopes Professor mlopes@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MW	19th and 20th Century Latin America, Mexico, and Brazil
	Maritere Lopez Associate Professor Director, Graduate Net Initiative mariterel@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM T	Renaissance/Reformation; Early Modern Women/Gender; Friendship & Love in the Renaissance; Early Modern Manners and Conduct Manuals
	DeAnna Reese Professor of History and Africana Studies dreese@csufresno.edu Office Hours 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM TH	Twentieth-Century U.S. African American Women; Social Urban History
	Blain Roberts Professor broberts@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM TTH	Twentieth-Century U.S. Women's and Gender History; U.S. Cultural History; the American South; Memory; Historical Tourism
	Julia Shatz Assistant Professor jshatz@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM TTH	The modern Middle East; British Empire/History of colonialism; Transnational History; History of Childhood/Child Welfare; Global Humanitarianism
	William Skuban Professor weskuban@csufresno.edu Office Hours: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM W 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM TH	Latin American History; U.S. Latin American Relations; Nationalism, National Identity, and Nation-State Formation; Church-State Relations in Latin America