Guide to Fields of Study & Major Professors
The following information is designed to help applicants complete the Preferred Fields of Study Form, which must be submitted with the application materials. Please use the form to advise the Graduate Studies Committee as to your preference(s) regarding primary fields, secondary fields, and major professors.
United States
Robert Bauman: 20th century, U.S., ethnic
Peter Boag: U.S. West, gender and sexuality, and environmental
Richard Hume: Jefferson–Jackson, civil war and reconstruction
Noriko Kawamura: U.S. foreign relations
Robert McCoy: 20th century U.S.
Laurie Mercier: 20th century, U.S. women, ethnic, labor, west
Jacqueline Peterson: Native American
Jeffrey C. Sanders: environmental, Pacific Northwest, and U.S. West
Orlan Svingen: Native American
Matthew A. Sutton: 20th century U.S., cultural, and religion
Jennifer Thigpen:19th century U.S., Women and Gender, Colonialism, and the West
Public
Robert Bauman: Public policy, historic preservation
Robert McCoy: Historic preservation
Laurie Mercier: Oral history
Jacqueline Peterson: Ethnic, exhibitions
Orlan Svingen: Contract history, cultural resource management
Early Europe: Ancient to 1450
Jerry Gough: Early Britain
Richard Williams: Ancient Greece and Rome
Early Modern Europe: 1450 to 1815
Sue Peabody: Early modern France, social and cultural, European colonialism
Jesse Spohnholz: Renaissance and Reformation, European social, culture, and religion
Modern Europe: 1815 to Present
Brigit Farley: Modern/Soviet Russia, eastern Europe
Steven Kale: Modern France, historiography
Heather Streets: Modern Britain, military, imperialism
Raymond Sun: Modern Germany, military, genocide, religion, historiography
Latin America
Currently vacant.
World
Candice Goucher: Africa and Caribbean studies
Richard Hume: U.S. ethnic diversity
Laurie Mercier: U.S. immigration
Sue Peabody: Colonialism, age of exploration, trans-Atlantic slavery
David Pietz: Modern China
Heather Streets: World historiography, imperialism, gender
Joel Tishken: Africa, world, world religions,Islamic world, Caribbean/African diaspora
Xiuyu Wang: World historiography
Atlantic
Candice Goucher: Africa and Caribbean studies
Sue Peabody: Colonialism, age of exploration, trans-Atlantic slavery
Middle Eastern and Islamic
(currently unavailable as a primary field)
Joel Tishken: Africa, world, world religions,Islamic world, Caribbean/African diaspora
Marina Tolmacheva (on leave)
Modern East Asia
Noriko Kawamura: Modern Japan
David Pietz: Modern China
Xiuyu Wang: Modern Chinese, ethnicity, religion, and nationalism
Women's and Gender History
Peter Boag: U.S. West
Steven Kale: Modern France
Noriko Kawamura: East Asia
Laurie Mercier: 20th century U.S., American west
Sue Peabody: Early modern Europe
Heather Streets: Modern Britain, masculinity
Jennifer Thigpen: 19th century U.S., Women and Gender, Colonialism, and the West
Marina Tolmacheva: Middle East (on leave)
Environmental History
Environmental History
Peter Boag: Pacific NW, U.S. West, environment and gender
David Pietz: Modern China
Jeffrey C. Sanders: environmental, Pacific Northwest, and U.S. West
Heather Streets: Modern Europe, historical geography
Marina Tolmacheva: Middle East (on leave)