Inaugurated in 1962, the Claremont Graduate University Oral History Program has amassed an impressive collection of interviews with persons whose life experiences merited preservation and special projects, such as China Missionaries Oral History Project, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. It is a premier resource for research into the history of The Claremont Colleges and California state government and politics.
Matthew Bowman
Associate Professor of Religion and History
Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies
Research Interests
Mormonism, new religious movements, evangelicalism, religion and American politics
David Cressy
Research Professor of History
Research Interests
Early modern European history; Power, culture, and the state; Race, ethnicity, and nation
Joshua Goode
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and History
Chair, Cultural Studies (Fall 2022)
Research Interests
Modern Spain, 19th- and 20th-century Europe, Genocide and racial thought, Museums and commemoration, Memory
Romeo Guzmán
Assistant Professor of History
Research Interests
Citizenship, Migration, Sport, Public history, Digital humanities
Gideon Manning
Research Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies
Research Interests
History of philosophy, medicine, and science; European intellectual, social and cultural history; Early Modern reception studies
JoAnna Poblete
Professor of History
John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Chair, History Department
Research Interests
Colonialism and empire, unincorporated territories, migration and labor, comparative ethnic studies, Asian-American and Pacific Islander studies, 20th-century United States, indigenous issues, environmental history, oral history, U.S. expansionism
Shane Bjornlie
Claremont McKenna College
Research Interests
Late Antique history, Roman history
Myriam Chancy
Scripps College
Research Interests
African diaspora with specialization in its literature
Alfred Flores
Harvey Mudd College
Research Interests
U.S. empire in Oceania with an emphasis on diaspora, labor, indigeneity, militarization, oral history and settler colonialism in Guåhan
Lily Geismer
Claremont McKenna College
Research Interests
20th century liberalism in the United States, Fair housing, Liberal religion and politics
George Gorse
Pomona College
Research Interests
Italian Renaissance art and architecture, Italian Baroque art and architecture, Medieval art history, History of cities, palaces, villas, and gardens, History of Genoa
Vivien Hamilton
Harvey Mudd College
Research Interests
Medical technologies, including x-rays, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Daniel Livesay
Claremont McKenna College
Research Interests
Early American and Atlantic history; Race, family, and slavery in North America and the Caribbean
Charles Lofgren
Claremont McKenna College
Research Interests
American Constitutionalism, American founding, Constitutional law, Military history, War and foreign relations
Char Miller
Pomona College
Research Interests
U.S. environmental policy, U.S. public-lands management, Western water politics, Immigration and border security, Urban politics and development, U.S. intellectual and cultural history
Harmony O’Rourke
Pitzer College
Research Interests
Cultural and social history of early modern and modern Africa, Global diasporas, Gender and sexuality, West Africa, Slavery, Colonialism, Oral history
Albert Park
Claremont McKenna College
Research Interests
Design & architecture, East Asian history & political economy, Korean history, Modern Japanese history
Ralph Rossum
Claremont McKenna College
Research Interests
American Constitutionalism, American Founding, Constitutional Law, Crime and Criminal Justice, Indian Gaming Issues, Redistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights
Victor Silverman
Pomona College
Research Interests
U.S. History, Alcohol and Drug Studies, History of Sexual/Gender Minorities, The Cold War, Labor Unions, International Labor Movements, U.S. and Britain, San Francisco Bay Area History, California History, Sustainable Development Policy