SFSU History Faculty

Spring 2012 Faculty Contact Information

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	Arturo Arrieta, lecturer at SFSU since 2005 Office: SCI 224 Office hours: M 10 - 11, W - F 12-1, and by appointment Phone: (415) 338-1119 e-mail: aarrieta@sfsu.edu	World History US History

	Maziar Behrooz, Associate Professor At SFSU since 1995 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 Office: SCI 223 Office hours: MW 11:15 - 12:00 Phone: (415) 338-1776 e-mail: mroozbeh@sfsu.edu Web: bss.sfsu.edu/behrooz	*Advisor, Middle East Middle East Modern Period Iran-Iraq Social History Intellectual History

	Deborah Brown, Lecturer Office: HSS 378 Office hours: MW 11:30 to 12:30 Phone: (415) 405-2609 e-mail: dbrown@sfsu.edu


	Chris Chekuri, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2004 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison Office: SCI 222 Office hours: T 3 - 4 Phone: (415) 338-7541 e-mail: cchekuri@sfsu.edu	*Advisor South Asia

	Robert W. Cherny, Professor of History At SFSU since 1971 Ph.D., Columbia University Office: SCI 223 Office hours: W 3:30 - 5 Phone: (415) 338-7542 e-mail: cherny@sfsu.edu Web: bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/	*Advisor U.S., especially 1865-1941 Politics Labor The West, especially California

	Carlo Corea, Lecturer At SFSU since 2003 Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 2001 Office SCI 223 Phone: (415) 338-1604 Office hours : T 12:30 - 1:30 e-mail: cjcoreaus@yahoo.com	History of Sexuality History of Childhood American Social and Cultural Histor

	Sarah Curtis, Professor At SFSU since 2003 Ph.D., Indiana University Office: SCI 267 Office hours: M 2:30 - 4; W 10:30 - 12 Phone: (415) 338-2250 e-mail: scurtis@sfsu.edu web: bss.sfsu.edu/scurtis	Advisor Graduate Coordinator *Director: European Studies Minor Nineteenth-Century Europe European Women France Social History Cultural and Intellectual History

	Anthony D'Agostino, Professor At SFSU since 1969 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1971 Office: SCI 267A Office hours: Phone: (415) 338-7535 e-mail: dagostin@sfsu.edu Web:	*Advisor Soviet Union Modern Russsia European International/Intellectual

	Evdoxios Doxiadis, Lecturer Office: SCI 225 Office hours: MW 9:10 - 10:25 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: evdoxios.doxiadis@gmail.com	World History (Greece)

	Philip Dreyfus, Associate Professor At SFSU since 1984 Ph.D., City University of New York, 1993 Office: SCI 222 Office hours: TTh 11 - 12 Phone: (415) 338-1625 e-mail: pdreyfus@sfsu.edu web: bss.sfsu.edu/dreyfus	*Advisor Western U.S. California and Environmental History Labor

	Jessica Elkind, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2008 Ph.D., UCLA, 2005 Office: SCI 272 Office hours: T 2-4 TH 11-12 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: jelkind@sfsu.edu Web	Advisor *Graduate Coordinator American Foreign Relations Southeast Asia

	George Germany, Lecturer At SFSU since 1975 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1972. Office: SCI 265 Office hours: MWF 2 - 3 Phone: (415) 338-1135 e-mail:	U.S. History

	Trevor Getz, Professor At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., University of London, 2000 Office: SCI 220, Office hours: TH 12-1and by appointment Phone: (415) 338-7561 e-mail: tgetz@sfsu.edu Web	*Advisor Africa

	Richard Hoffman, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1972 Office: SCI 227 Office hours: contact by e-mail Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: rhoffman@sfsu.edu	Ancient Greek History Ancient Roman History Ancient Egypt Mediteranean Cultural History

	Pi-ching Hsu, Professor At SFSU since 1994 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994 Office: SCI 265A Office hours: T 2 - 3TH 2-4 Phone: (415) 338-7536 e-mail: pchsu@sfsu.edu bss.sfsu.edu/pacificasianstudies/	Advisor Director, Pacific Asian Studies Minor China Taiwan

	Lauren Jarvis, Lecturer Office: SCI 225 Office hours: T 11:00-12:15; Th 2 - 3:30 Phone: (415) 338- 1604 e-mail: lauren.jarvis@gmail.com	Modern Africa

	Sherry Katz, Lecturer At SFSU since 1997 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991 Office: SCI 265 Office hours: TTH 12:30-1:30 Phone: (415) 338-1135 e-mail: sjkatz@sfsu.edu Web	U.S. 20th Century Gender California History of Childhood

	Dan Kearns, Lecturer Office SCI 224 Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:00 & By Appointment Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail dkearns72@yahoo.com	U.S. History

	Sherry Keith, Associate Professor of Social Science At SFSU since 1989 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974 (Social Science Subject Matter Competence Advisor) Office: SCI 227 Office hours: T 1-2; W 4-6; Th 3:30 - 430 Phone: (415) 338-1669 e-mail: skeith@sfsu.edu	*Advisor, Social Science Subject Matter Competence

	Frank Kidner. Ph.D., Princeton University, 1970 French Revolution, Early Church History Appointed 1968. Emeritus since 2006 Lecturer, spring 2012 Office: SCI 265 Office Hours: T 12:30 - 1:30 Phone: (415) 338-1135 e-mail: fkidner@sfsu.edu	Ancient History - Early Church

	Steve Leikin, Lecturer At SFSU since 1998 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1992 Office: SCI 221 Office hours: M 10:10 - 12:55 Phone: (415) 405-0350 e-mail: sleikin@sfsu.edu	U.S. Social Political Labor

	Laura Lisy-Wagner, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2006 Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005 Office: SCI 265A Office hours: M 11 - 1; W 1 - 2 Phone: (415)338-1243 e-mail: lalisy@sfsu.edu Web: http://bss.sfsu.edu/lwagner/	*Advisor Early Modern Europe Central and Eastern Europe Reformation Gender and Sexuality

	Kyle Livie, Lecturer Office: SCI 265 Office hours: M 7 - 8 p.m.; W 8 - 9 p.m. Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: klivie@sfsu.edu Web:	U.S. History

	Barbara Loomis, Professor At SFSU since 1989 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988 Office: SCI 276 Office hours: M, T: 10-12 & 1 - 4; Th 10 - 1 F: occasionally Phone: (415) 338-7537 e-mail: barbaral@sfsu.edu	Department Chair *Advisor U.S. History 19th Century Women Religion


	Dawn Mabalon, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2004 Ph.D., Stanford, 2003 Office: SCI 267B Office hours: MW 1 - 2 Phone: (415) 338-7540 e-mail: dmabalon@sfsu.edu Web www.sfsu.edu/~dmabalon/	*Advisor US 20th Century Race and Ethnicity Women Immigration Asian Americans Filipina/o Americans Philippines

	Dan McGarry, Lecturer Ph.D., Stanford, 2008 Office: SCI 267B Office hours: Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: mcgarry@sfsu.edu	U.S. 20th century Political San Francisco Homelessness

	Alexandra Michaelides, Lecturer Office: SCI 222 Office hours: M 1:50 - 2:50 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: amichael@sfsu.edu	U.S. History

	Abdiel Oñate, Professor At SFSU since 1988 Ph.D., El Colegio de Mexico Office: SCI 220 Office hours: TTH 10-11and by appointment Phone: (415) 338-6177 e-mail: onate@sfsu.edu Web www.sfsu.edu/~onate/	Advisor Director, Latin American Studies Minor Advisor, Social Science Subject Matter Competence Latin America Mexico

	Molly Oshatz, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2010 Office: SCI 224 Office hours: on leave spring 2012 Phone: (415) 338-6184 e-mail: moshatz@sfsu.edu web:	*Advisor Intellectual History

	Isabelle Pafford, Lecturer Office: SCI 227 Office hours: MWF 10:00-11:00 Phone: (415)-338-2697 e-mail: iapafford@gmail.com	Ancient History

	Julyana G. Peard, Professor At SFSU since 1991 Ph.D., Columbia University, 1990 Office: SCI 272 Office hours: W 2 - 4 Phone:(415) 338-1280 e-mail: jpeard@sfsu.edu Web	*Advisor Latin America Brazil Argentina

	Charles Postel, Associate Professor at SFSU since 2009 Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 2002 office: SCI 224 Office hours: on leave spring 2012, contact by e-mail Phone: 338-1119 e-mail: Postel@sfsu.edu	*Advisor US History Politics Reform movements Populism Gilded Age & Progressive Era

	Jarbel Rodriguez, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2001 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2001 Office: SCI 267A Office hours: M 12:30 - 2; W 3:30 - 5 Phone:(415) 338-1560 e-mail: jarbel@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/jrodriguez/	*Advisor Medieval Renaissance

	Mark Sigmon, Lecturer At SFSU since 1995 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995 Office: SCI 221 Office hours: MWF 11-12 & M 3 - 4 Phone: (415) 338-7563 e-mail: msigmon@sfsu.edu	American West Borderlands Native American History

	Tina Stevens, Lecturer at SFSU since 1999 Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1997 Office: SCI 227 Office hours: W 11 - 12 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: mstevens@sfsu.edu Web	Rise of Bioethics and Biotechnology Recent U.S.

	Anthony Swanson, Lecturer Office: SCI 225 Office hours: F 4 - 5 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail :swansona@sfsu.edu	U.S. History

	Christopher Waldrep, Professor Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in History At SFSU since 2000 Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1990 Office: SCI 225 Office hours: on leave spring 2012 Phone: (415) 338-2982 e-mail: cwaldrep@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/waldrep	*Advisor U.S. Constitutional and Legal History Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in History

	Megan Williams, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2006 Ph.D, Princeton, 2002 Office: SCI 267B Office hours: on leave Spring 2012, contact by e-mail Phone: (415)338-1317 e-mail: mhw@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/mwilliams	*Advisor Late Roman Empire History of Christianity Intellectual history

	Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., Harvard Office: SCI 267 Office hours: T 2-3:15; TH 11-12:15 or by appointment Phone: (415) 338-7544 e-mail: shepwolf@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/shepwolf	*Advisor American Revolution Emancipation Slavery Political Ideology Free Blacks
Office Staff
	Deborah Kearns Academic Office Coordinator M.A., Humanities, San Francisco State University, 2002 Office: SCI 275 Office hours: M-TH 9-12, 1:15-4:30; not in the office on Fridays and by Appointment Phone: (415) 338-1803 e-mail: dkearns@sfsu.edu	Class Scheduling Budget Payroll

	Smithy Blackwell Administrative Assistant B.S. Troy University Office: SCI 276 Office hours: M-F 9-12, 1:15-4:30 Phone: (415) 338-6463 e-mail: history@sfsu.edu	Front Office Manager Web Design

	Sheri Kennedy Office Assistant San Francisco State University Office: SCI 276 Office hours: M - Th 2 - 4:30 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: history@sfsu.edu	Front Office Reception


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