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, 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

Professor Brodie specializes in social and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth century United States. She also teaches women's history, cold war U.S. history, gender history, and U.S. Environmental history. Professor Brodie's publications include Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America and edited with Marc Redfield (CGU English), High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Her current research project, Cultures of Secrecy in Cold War Los Angeles explores popular reactions to nuclear weapons and the institutionalization of national security culture in the 1940s and 1950s.
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

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 and teaching interests concentrate on the effect of religious and political change on early modern texts--theological, literary, theatrical, and practical--in the turbulent century before the outbreak of civil wars in Britain . She 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 encourages transdisciplinary enrollment in her courses, which include The Shakespeare Seminar as well as classes on Sidney , Spenser, Donne, early modern theatre, and the post-reformation Bible and its influence on literature (English Department); Renaissance and Reformation Europe, the politics of Calvinism, Tudor-Stuart British history, Post-reformation England, and transatlantic Puritanism (History Department).   

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,  Washington , D.C.   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 is currently completing a book with the same title for Yale University Press (forthcoming 2008).  She has recently been commissioned to edit 

a volume of The Complete Sermons of John Donne for Oxford University Press.  Professor Ferrell has been awarded research grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Whiting Foundation, the British Academy , the Huntington Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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

Robert Dawidoff

Professor Dawidoff specializes in American intellectual and cultural 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.
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

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 Americans 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 on the History of Black Women's Higher Education, 1850-1963 and an edited volume on 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 has an essay on the “History of Black Women Graduate Education” in Linda Tillman, editor, Handbook of African American Education (Sage, March 2008).  She also co-edited a Special Issue of  Women’s Studies on Women and Technology (vol. 37, 2008) and an edited volume on 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 has an essay on the “History of Black Women Graduate Education” in Linda Tillman, editor, Handbook of African American Education (Sage, March 2008).  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)
  • Julia Liss
    Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley
    (Scripps 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)