Regular Faculty
Alexander F. Day
Professor, History & Asian Studies
B.A. Colby College; M.A., Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Alexander Day studies the intellectual, social, and cultural history of peasants, food, and agrarian change in China. He teaches Chinese, East Asian, and world history. Read his Â鶹ÊÓƵ Story profile.
Sharla Fett
Robert Glass Cleland Professor in American History
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Rutgers University
Sharla Fett teaches courses on early U.S. and African American history, including the Atlantic World, Slavery and the Antebellum South, U.S. Women’s History, and Collective Memory and Slavery’s Legacies. Read her Â鶹ÊÓƵ Story profile.
Jane Hong
Associate Professor, History
B.A. Yale University; A.M., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Jane Hong is a historian of U.S. immigration and engagement with the world, with a focus on Asia after World War II.Â
Lisa Sousa
Norman Bridge Professor, History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Sousa specializes in the histories of colonial Latin America, indigenous peoples and languages of Mexico, and women, gender and sexuality.
Marla Stone
Professor, History
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
A specialist in questions of dictatorship and genocide in the modern era, Marla Stone's work emphasizes the relationship among culture, politics, and the state in the 20th century.
Jonathan Veitch
Professor of History
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Prior to Occidental, he taught for four years in the English department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, then joined The New School in New York City. As an associate professor of literature…
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Damon Akins
Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor (2024-2025), History
B.A. Oklahoma City University; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. University of Oklahoma
Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Huntington Library co-founded the Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in United States History. The Billington Visiting Professorship has brought some of the country's leading historians to Occidental.
Christine Grant
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
B.A., University of Bradford; M.A., West Virginia University; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Affiliated Faculty
Erica Ball
Professor of Black Studies
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Erica L. Ball is a historian who specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century African American history.
Xiao-huang Yin
Professor, American Studies
B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Xiao-huang Yin specializes in Asian American studies, U.S.-Asia relations, and modern China.
Emeriti/ae Faculty
Professor, History; Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women's Studies, Emerita (1981-2023)
History
Nina Gelbart was Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women's Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emeritus (1966-1998)
History
National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, History, Emeritus (1971-2010)
History
Chan has published extensively on the socioeconomic history of modern China in various academic presses and journals.
Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emerita (1991-2014)
History
Dumenil's emphasis is cultural, political and social history of 20th century America.Â
Professor of History, Emerita (1973-2024)
History
Cultural historian Maryanne Horowitz teaches courses on Rise, Fall and Rebirth: Europe since the Enlightenment; Humanities from the Renaissance to the Present; Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to 1700; Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence, and Renaissance to Revolution! She welcomes...