History Faculty

The History Department is composed of faculty whose appointments are directly in the department with the exception of one university appointment. Janet Brodie, Lori Anne Ferrell, Joshua Goode, and Robert Dawidoff hold faculty appointments in the History Department. Linda Perkins holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies and History.

Core Faculty

Janet Farrell Brodie, Chair
Ph.D. :: University of Chicago
Professor of History

Janet Brodie

Janet Farrell Brodie specializes in cold war U.S. history, U.S. nuclear history, 19th and 20th-century social and cultural history, and gender history. Her publications include Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press) and High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (University of California Press), co-edited with Marc Redfield. Her current project explores radiation research in the early Cold War and civilian researchers’ acculturation to atomic energy secrecy. She oversees the Archival Studies program in the History department and the Oral History program. She stepped down last year as executive director of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
History Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
143 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.621.8880
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: janet.brodie@cgu.edu

Robert Dawidoff
Ph.D. :: Cornell University
Professor of History

Robert Dawidoff

Professor Dawidoff specializes in American intellectual and cultural history, movie history and gay and lesbian history.  His publications include The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James and Santayana; Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America; and his most recent book Making History Matter a collection of his essays.  He is currently completing The Bargain: An American History of the Gay Male Closet.
History Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
143 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.607.3332
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: robert.dawidoff@cgu.edu

Lori Anne Ferrell
Ph.D. :: Yale University
Professor of English and History

Professor Lori Anne Ferrell (Ph.D., Yale University) holds a joint appointment in Early Modern History and Literature in the School of Arts and Humanities. Her research concentrates on the effect religious and political change had on early modern texts--theological, literary, theatrical, and practical--in the turbulent century before the outbreak of civil war in Britain. Ferrell has co-directed three NEH Summer Institutes for College and University Faculty and has been a seminar director for the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. She currently chairs the international advisory board for the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, a collaborative enterprise of the Universities of Wales.

At CGU Ferrell advises the concentration in Early Modern Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities. She encourages transdisciplinary enrollment in her courses: The Shakespeare Seminar, classes on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, early modern theatre, and the English Bible (English Department); Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Tudor-Stuart British history, Post-reformation England, and Colonial America (History Department). In 2008 she was accepted as a student in the Intensive Acting Seminar offered by Los Angeles’s repertory Shakespeare company, Theatricum Botanicum, and she has introduced aspects of that training, which she continues, into her courses on early modern English theater.

Ferrell is the author of Government by Polemic (Stanford UP) and co-editor of The English Sermon Revised (Manchester UP) and Religion and Society in Early Modern England (Routledge). She was the guest curator for a 2004 Huntington Library exhibit entitled The Bible and the People, was featured in a 2007 PBS documentary on the same subject, and recently published a book, also titled The Bible and the People, for Yale University Press (2008). She is currently editing a volume of The Complete Sermons of John Donne for Oxford University Press, as well as completing commissioned essays on postmodern theatrical revisions of King Lear, trends in early modern Catholic historiography, and graphic design in Renaissance “how-to” books. Professor Ferrell has received grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Whiting Foundation, the British Academy, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Newberry Library. In Spring 2010 she will be a residential fellow of All Souls College Oxford.

History Department/English Department 
School of Arts and Humanities 
Claremont Graduate University 
143 East Tenth Street Claremont, CA 91711 
Tel.: 909.607.2652 
Fax: 909.607.1221 
Email: lori.ferrell@cgu.edu

Joshua Goode
Ph.D:: University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and History

Joshua Goode holds a joint appointment in the Departments of History and Cultural Studies at CGU.  He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe.  His research interests include the political, social and cultural impact of science in 19th and 20th century Europe, European fascism, racial thought, and criminology.  He is the author of Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 (LSU Press, 2009).  He is also the author of several articles and has recently contributed a chapter on contemporary Spain to the volume, Race, Crime and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives (Palgrave, 2010).  His current research focuses on the role that national history and memory play in shaping contemporary European debates about immigration, citizenship, and culture.  One particular aspect of this work considers the role that the Holocaust and Spain’s wartime alliances have played in shaping current Spanish attitudes toward ethnic and national identity.  Goode has taught courses on comparative history, European racial thought, fascism, genocide, museums and commemoration, the Spanish Civil War, and history and memory in modern Europe.

 History Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
143 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.607.7430
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: joshua.goode@cgu.edu

Linda Perkins
Ph.D. :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Associate Professor

Professor Perkins holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies, and History. Perkins is a historian of women's and African American higher education. Her primary areas of research are on the history of African American women's higher education, the education of African Americans in elite institutions and the history of talent identification programs for African American students. She has served as Vice President of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and has also served as a member of the Executive Council of AERA. She is currently on the editorial boards of the History of Education Quarterly and the Review of African American Education Her publications include Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1837-1902 (1987) and "The African American Female Elite: The Early History of African American Women in the Seven Sister Colleges, 1880-1960" in the Harvard Educational Review (Winter 1997). Professor Perkins was on the National Planning Committee for the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Brown v. Board of Education at New York University and taught a course on Brown in Fall of 2004. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled, "History of Black Women's Higher Education, 1850-1963" for Handbook of African American Education (Sage, March 2008) edited by Linda Tillman and an edited volume, Race and Higher Education after the Brown Decision. She co-edited (with Julie Rueben) a Special Issue of the History of Education Quarterly (Fall 2007) on Democracy and Higher Education.  She also co-edited a Special Issue of  Women’s Studies on Women and Technology (vol. 37, 2008). 

Adjuncts

William D. Jones 
Ph.D. :: Claremont Graduate University
Adjunct Professor of History

Professor Jones specializes in twentieth century European social and political history. His publications include The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism.

Active Faculty

  • Hal S. Barron
    Ph.D. :: University of Pennsylvania
    (Harvey Mudd College)
    U.S. social history, immigration history
  • Lisa Cody
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Claremont McKenna College)
    European History, Women's History
  • Charles A. Lofgren
    Ph.D. :: Stanford University
    (Claremont McKenna College)
    U.S. Constitutional and modern political history
  • Richard G. Olson
    Ph.D. :: Harvard University
    (Harvey Mudd College)
    History of Science, scientific and political thought in the West, the Enlightenment
  • David Yoo
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Claremont McKenna College)

Claremont Colleges Faculty

  • Andrew Aisenberg
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Scripps College)
  • Lourdes Arguelles
    Ph.D. :: New York University
    (Claremont Graduate University, Education)
  • Scott Cormode
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Claremont School of Theology)
  • Cindy Foster
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Scripps College)
  • Rena Fraden
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Pomona College)
  • John H. Geerken
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Scripps College)
  • P. Edward Haley
    Ph.D. :: The Johns Hopkins University
    (Claremont McKenna College)
  • Carina Johnson
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Pitzer College)
  • Gary Kates
    Ph.D. :: University of Chicago
    (Pomona College)
  • Sidney J. Lemelle
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Los Angeles
    (Pomona College)
  • Stuart McConnell
    Ph.D. :: The Johns Hopkins University
    (Pitzer College)
  • Jonathan Petropoulos
    Ph.D. :: Harvard University
    (Claremont McKenna College)
  • Frances Pohl
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Los Angeles
    (Pomona College)
  • Rita Roberts
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Scripps College)
  • Harold W. Rood
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Claremont McKenna College)
  • Arthur L. Rosenbaum
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Claremont McKenna College)
  • John K. Roth
    Ph.D. :: Yale University
    (Claremont McKenna College)
  • Daniel Segal
    Ph.D. :: University of Chicago
    (Pitzer College)
  • Diana Selig
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Claremont McKenna College)
  • Victor Silverman
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Pomona College)
  • Sharon Snowiss
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Los Angeles
    (Pitzer College)
  • Miguel Tinker-Salas
    Ph.D. :: University of California, San Diego
    (Pomona College)
  • Karen Torjesen
    Ph.D. :: Claremont Graduate University
    (Claremont Graduate University)
  • Andre Wakefield
    Ph.D. :: University of Chicago
    (Pitzer College)
  • Kenneth B. Wolf
    Ph.D. :: Stanford University
    (Pomona College)
  • Samuel H. Yamashita
    Ph.D. :: University of Michigan
    (Pomona College)
 
 
 
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