Dee E. Andrews (1987), Professor and Department Chair
B.A., Bennington College, M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
dee.andrews@csueastbay.edu

Professor Andrews specializes in the history of early America and the new republic and has recently developed a course on cultural relations in pre-1850 North America. Prof. Andrews has been recipient of NEH and Mellon research grants and a Faculty Fellowship with the Pew Program in Religion and American History as well as CSUEB grants. Recent work includes The Methodists and Revolutionary America, published by Princeton University Press in 2000 and awarded the 2001 Hans Rosenhaupt Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She has recently published several review essays, including "Piety and Politics in the New Republic" in the William and Mary Quarterly and "Imagining Emancipation: Recent Writings on American Antislavery" in the Massachusetts Historical Review. Her research plans include studies of religion and the American Revolution and antislavery in the new republic. Her favorite class? HIST 3010: "Benjamin Franklin and His World."

Bridget Ford (2006), Assistant Professor
B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
bridget.ford@csueastbay.edu

Inspired by her mother, a historian who also earned her Ph.D. from UC Davis, and her father, a devoted reader of history, Professor Ford pursued a career that would allow her to study the past. Her research brings the insights of cultural history to the study of the Civil War era in the United States. Her book, American Crossings: Forging Union in a Civil War Borderland, is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. In 2002-03, she received a Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship for research at the American Antiquarian Society in Massachusetts. Her scholarship has also been supported by the Center for Religion and American Life at Yale University, the Huntington Library in San Marino, the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, and the American Historical Association. Under the auspices of a Teaching American History grant, Dr. Ford has directed a program for professional development of K-12 History/ Social Science teachers. At CSU East Bay, she teaches courses on the early republic and Civil War among other subjects in 19th-century American history. 

Vahid Fozdar (2005), Assistant Professor
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
vahid.fozdar@csueastbay.edu

Professor Fozdar is an historian of modern South Asia and colonialism. He completed his doctoral work on the role of Freemasons in the British Empire in India and in the Indian nationalist movement. Professor Fozdar’s article, "Imperial Brothers, Imperial Partners: Indian Freemasons, Race, Kinship, and Networking in the British Empire and Beyond," will be published as a chapter in the anthology, Decentering Empire:  Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World, set to appear in 2006. Professor Fozdar's other areas of scholarly interest include the history of the Islamic world, world history, and comparative religions. He is currently teaching the department’s courses on Modern Colonialism and The Twentieth Century and is preparing to introduce two brand new sequences in the history of South Asia and the history of the Middle East.

Richard A. Garcia (1990), Professor
B.A. and M.A., University of Texas, M.A. and Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
richard.garcia@csueastbay.edu

Professor Garcia joined the History Department after teaching in Cal State East Bay's Department of Ethnic Studies. Prof. Garcia is an American intellectual and cultural historian with a teaching and publishing emphasis on Mexican American History and Mexican American/Latino Cultural Studies. His other areas of interest are Ethnic History, Southwest and California History, History and Theory, Biography, and American Cultural Studies. Prof. Garcia is author of numerous books and articles, including The Chicanos in America, 1540-1974 (1977), Political Ideology: A Comparative Study of Three Chicano Groups (1977), Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class: San Antonio, 1929-1941 (1991), the award-winning Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit (1995), and Notable Latino Americans (1997) which won a CHOICE outstanding book award for 1997. He is also the co-editor of Race and Ethnicity (2001). He recently co-authored Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican Americans in Search of Justice and Power. The  Struggle  for Citizenship Rights in San Jose, California (Altamira Press, 2007) and published "Religion as Language, Church as Culture: Changing Chicano Historiography" in Reviews in American History 34, no. 4 (Dec 2006).

Nicole Howard (2003), Assistant Professor
B.A. and M.A., California State University, Chico, Ph.D., Indiana University
nicole.howard@csueastbay.edu

Professor Howard specializes in the history of early modern science and medicine, and the history of the book. Her work on the publication practices Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens earned her a prize for new scholars from the Bibliographical Society of America, and the related article on Huygens' astronomical publications appeared in the Society's journal in December 2004. Her book, entitled The Book: The Life Story of a Technology, was published in September 2005 by Greenwood Press and she is currently working on an article related to early modern scientific editors. Prof. Howard teaches classes on the history of science and on Renaissance and early modern Europe. She has also introduced a fresh version of a long-offered class at Cal State East Bay: Frankenstein, along with a new course on the history of curiosity.

Linda L. Ivey (2006), Assistant Professor
B.A., Trinity College (CT), Ph.D., Georgetown University
linda.ivey@csueastbay.edu

Professor Ivey completed her doctoral work on the ecological and social consequences of capitalist agriculture on the Central Coast of California. She is currently working on a book that explores the links among the changing environment, immigration, and class conflict in that region in the early 20th century.  Her article "Ethnicity in the Land: Lost Stories in California Agriculture" is forthcoming in Agricultural History. Professor Ivey's other areas of interest include 20th-century U.S. history with an emphasis on race and class, the history social movements, environmental justice studies, and the use of technology and digital media in the classroom. She teaches courses in the history of California and the West, specializing in environmental, immigration, and ethnic history.

Sophia Lee (1992), Associate Professor
B.A., Harvard University, M.A. Yale University, Ph.D., University of Michigan
sophia.lee@csueastbay.edu

Professor Lee was born in Taiwan and came to the United States at the age of twelve. She teaches upper-division and graduate courses on China and Japan, including an offering on modern East Asia through film. Prof. Lee's research interests are Republican China (1911-1949) and modern Sino-Japanese relations. She has had many research stints in Japan, China, and Taiwan, and has published several articles examining the cultural dimension of Sino-Japanese relations in the 20th century. Combining a sabbatical leave and a seventeen-month grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she spent two years (1998-2000) in Beijing and Tokyo conducting additional archival research for her study of Beijing under the Japanese occupation during World War II, the subject of a book manuscript tentatively entitled "Social and Cultural Transformation of Wartime Beijing, 1937-1945."  Prof. Lee's research plans include an examination of modern medicine in three cities in Hebei province (north China).

Robert A. Phelps (1998), Associate Professor
B.A., San Diego State University, M.A. and Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
robert.phelps@csueastbay.edu

Another graduate of the California State University, Professor Phelps teaches courses in the History of California, the American West, and the Progressive Era. His overview of the development of California's urban system in the Gold Rush appeared in Richard Orsi and Kevin Starr's Rooted in Barbarous Soil: California During the Gold Rush (2000) and his study of Henry Huntington’s factory town of Dolgeville won the Doyce B. Nunis Award for the best article on the history of Southern California by a younger scholar, also in 2000. Prof. Phelps recently served as a content specialist with the Oakland Museum’s on-line photographic exhibit “Picture This” and has completed a photographic history of the town of Hayward, forthcoming with Arcadia Press. He is also working with the Hayward Area Historical Society on outreach to K-12 teachers. His current research includes a history of the Rancho San Pedro in Los Angeles County and the development of military tactics in Mexican California. An avid fencer, Prof. Phelps has spent the last three summers teaching foil fencing to underprivileged children as a volunteer for the National Youth Sports Program.

Henry F. Reichman (1989), Professor 
A.B., Columbia University, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
henry.reichman@csueastbay.edu

Professor Reichman specializes in the history of Russia/USSR and European history since 1789. An avid baseball fan, he also teaches a course in the history of baseball. Prof. Reichman has a distinguished record in university governance, including as Chair of the Academic Senate and Statewide Academic Senator. He received the CSUEB Outstanding Professor Award in 1999 and is currently listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Prof. Reichman is the author of numerous articles and conference presentations. His book, Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905, was published in 1987 by University of California Press. He is Associate Editor of the American Library Association's Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom and author of Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools, the 3rd edition of which was published in 2001.

Khal Schneider (2006), Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Minnesota, M.A. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
khal.schneider@csueastbay.edu

Professor Schneider grew up in Davis, California and has resided in the East Bay for eight years. His research area is American Indian History, specifically California Indians. Drawn from intensive research in county land records and the records of the Office of Indian Affairs, his dissertation, “Citizen Lives: California Indian Country, 1855-1940,” reveals the ways in which Indian communities leveraged a local legal system that protected private property in order to preserve tribal land. Professor Schneider has won several graduate instructor awards and has lectured at area colleges on California Indian history. At East Bay he teaches history of California and the American West and other offerings in late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. history.

Nancy M. Thompson (1999), Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator
B.A. and M.A., CSU Fresno, Ph.D., Stanford University
nancy.thompson@csueastbay.edu

Professor Thompson’s main research interest is in early medieval religion, with emphasis on the sermons of Anglo-Saxon England. Her recent article, "The Carolingian De festivitatibus and the Blickling Book,” is due out in December in Aaron Kleist, ed., Precedence, Practice and Appropriation: The Old English Homily (Brepols). She has also published “Hit Segđ on Halgum Bocum: The Logic of Composite Old English Homilies," in the Philological Quarterly, as well as the article “Anglo-Saxon Orthodoxy” in the collection of essays, Old English Literature in Its Manuscript Context. She has been the recipient of an NEH Fellowship at Cambridge University, participates regularly in Medieval history conferences, and is currently working on a book on popular religion in the early Middle Ages. Prof. Thompson teaches the first two parts of the World Civilizations survey and courses in Medieval Europe, Ancient History, and Historiography. Her 3010 seminar focuses on Europe in the Plague Years. Her greatest claim to fame is her ability to read half a dozen languages, several of them dead. She also serves as liaison to the History Students’ Association and editor of the Hayward History Newsletter.

Jessica Weiss (1999), Associate Professor and Social Science Single Subject Preparation Advisor
B.A., M.A., and PhD., University of California, Berkeley
jessica.weiss@csueastbay.edu

A product of a peripatetic childhood in New York, Michigan, Illinois, New York, and California and the daughter of teachers, Professor Weiss teaches courses in the history of women in America, the history of the American family, and Cold War America. She has authored a number of articles and many conference presentations, the former including "A Drop-In Catering Job: Middle Class Women and Fatherhood, 1950-1980" in the Journal of Family History. Her book, To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2000 and received the 2001 Sierra Prize for best book from the Western Association of Women Historians. Her current projects include a study of Oakland women and public life in the 1950s and 1960s. Over the last several years, Prof. Weiss has served as faculty liaison for the new Student Center for Academic Achievement and has kept several hundred future History/ Social Science teachers up to speed on California's ever changing curriculum standards.

EMERITUS TEACHING FACULTY

Gerald S. Henig (1970), Professor
B.A., Brooklyn College, M.A., University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., City University of New York
gerald.henig@csueastbay.edu

Professor Henig specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. A recipient of CSU EAst Bay's Outstanding Professor Award in 1983 and a recurrent recipient of the Pi Kappa Delta Award for Best Lecturer, Prof. Henig has served on almost every university, college, and department committee over the past thirty years. Prof. Henig is currently working on an article-length study of Abraham Lincoln's use of medical metaphors in explaining political issues. The author of a dozen articles, Prof. Henig's books include Henry Winter Davis (1973) and To Dwell Together in Freedom: The Jews in America (1987). His latest work, Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict, was published in 2001. Prof. Henig is the author and narrator of the video-taped series, "Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction," produced by Cal State East Bay's cable television station.

STAFF

Department Staff aim to support students in their educational goals. Students should feel free to consult with the staff regarding general information relating to faculty office hours, course registration, procedures for graduation, and the American Institutions requirement.

Wanda Washington (1998)
Administrative Support Coordinator
510-885-3207
wanda.washington@csueastbay.edu

ANNUAL LECTURERS

Roger Baldwin
B.A., University of Texas, Austin; M.A., University of California, Berkeley

Roger Baldwin specializes in modern U.S. history. His research interests are in science and religion in 1920s. He has extensive teaching experience in a wide variety of fields in American history, including seminars at the University of California, Berkeley. At Cal State East Bay he has taught the U.S. history survey and recent U.S. history.

Jeffrey M. Burns
B.A., University of California, Riverside; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Dr. Burns teaches courses in California and U.S. History and is currently archivist of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He has published widely in local, immigration, and religious history and received one of the Catholic Press Association's annual journalism awards. His most recent publication is Journey of Hope, 1945-2000: A History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (2000).

Richard B. Speed
B.A., University of California, Riveside; M.A., CSU Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Speed specializes in recent U.S. and diplomatic history. At Cal State East Bay he has taught courses in foreign relations and modern war as well as lower and upper division surveys in U.S. History. His book, Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, 1914-1919 (1990), has become a standard text at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Terry Wilson
B.A., Phillips University; M.A., University of Oklahoma; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University

Dr. Wilson is formerly chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary teaching and research interests focus on issues of race and ethnicity in the American experience. He has received a number of distinguished research grants as well as the Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley in 1988. His numerous books and articles include The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil (1985) and Teaching American Indian History (1993). He teaches courses in History and in Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay.