Department of History

The Department Office is located on the 4th Floor of the Student and Faculty Services building, Room 442

Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday

Dept Phone: (510) 885-3207

Faculty

Professors

Bridget Ford (Chair), Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Linda Ivey, Ph.D. Georgetown University

Kevin Kaatz, Ph.D. Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

Jessica Weiss, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professors

Anna Alexander, Ph.D. University of Arizona

Jason Daniels, Ph.D. University of Warwick (United Kingdom)

Vahid Fozdar, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Elizabeth McGuire, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor

Michael Schulze-Oechtering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Coordinator: Jason Daniels

Department Statement

At Cal State East Bay, you will join an active community of scholars dedicated to redefining the way history is imagined, investigated, and presented. Our History majors enjoy small classes, individualized advising, and dedicated faculty support in completing their BA and MA degrees. Your professors are published experts whose teaching and research spans centuries and continents. We offer a wide variety of community-building activities for our students both online and in person, from a student-published journal to an honors society. We also center career and graduate school preparation in our degree programs. 

The Master of Arts degree in History is a flexible advanced degree program supporting students with varied interests and academic backgrounds. Our MA degree courses introduce you to advanced skills in historical research and provide opportunities for training in teaching and public history. We deepen students’ knowledge of a wide range of subjects, through the unique expertise of our History Department faculty. If you wish to study the past in order to change our present, or just love studying the past for its own sake, we invite you to apply to our programs for either Fall or Spring semesters. 

About the Department

Use our university website link to learn more about what the History Department has to offer.

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Programs

• History, B.A.: Migration and Globalization Concentration
• History, B.A.: Social Justice and Citizenships Concentration
• History, B.A.: Sustainability and Modernization Concentration
• History-Social Science, B.A.: Teacher Preparation for Middle and High Schools Concentration

A BA/BS Degree Completion Program is for anyone who has already completed their lower-division general education breadth requirements. Only upper-division, major requirements will be taken completely online.

• History, B.A.: Migration and Globalization Concentration (Online Degree Completion)
• History, B.A.: Social Justice and Citizenships Concentration (Online Degree Completion)
• History, B.A.: Sustainability and Modernization Concentration (Online Degree Completion)
• History-Social Science, B.A.: Teacher Preparation for Middle and High Schools Concentration (Online Degree Completion)

• History Minor

• History, M.A.: Generalist Concentration
• History, M.A.: Public History Concentration
• History, M.A.: Teaching History Concentration
• History, M.A.: University Thesis Concentration

• Social Science Single Subject Matter Preparation Program

• Public History Certificate

Courses

• HIST 402 - Public History
• HIST 403 - Digital Humanities
• HIST 404 - Teaching History-Social Science

• HIST 101 - World History I
• HIST 102 - World History II
• HIST 110 - The United States to 1877
• HIST 111 - The United States Since 1877

• HIST 600 - Reading Seminar in History
• HIST 610 - Research Seminar
• HIST 630 - Graduate Historiography
• HIST 641 - Graduate Internship
• HIST 642 - Public History Practicum
• HIST 643 - Digital History Practicum
• HIST 644 - Teaching History Practicum
• HIST 651 - Graduate Portfolio
• HIST 652 - Scholarly Practicum
• HIST 690 - Independent Study
• HIST 691 - University Thesis
• HIST 692 - Comprehensive Exam Review
• HIST 697 - Issues in History
• HIST 698 - Internship
• HIST 699 - Departmental Thesis

• HIST 322 - Warfare, Genocide, Terrorism: Globalization Through Conflict Since 1914
• HIST 328 - 20th Century World
• HIST 336 - Ancient Greece
• HIST 338 - The Roman Empire
• HIST 361 - Traditional India
• HIST 362 - Modern South Asia
• HIST 363 - The Middle East and the Rise of Islamic Societies
• HIST 364 - The Modern Middle East
• HIST 370 - Filipinx Freedom Dreams: A Social Movement History of the Filipinx Diaspora
• HIST 380 - The American West
• HIST 387 - Immigration and the Contested American Identity

• HIST 321 - Communism as Civilization
• HIST 335 - Rome and Christianity
• HIST 373 - American and Haitian Revolutions: Wars of Independence, 1750-1850
• HIST 376 - Destroying Slavery in the US Civil War
• HIST 384 - Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: Arguing about Social Justice in Modern US History
• HIST 389 - Social Justice and Reform Movements in America
• HIST 393 - Revolutionary Thought in Latin America
• HIST 471 - History and Public Memory in the East Bay
• HIST 473 - Sexuality and Identity in US History
• HIST 474 - Women, Gender and Rights in US History
• HIST 479 - World War II: Global Warfront, Local Homefront
• HIST 480 - Baseball in the United States and the Caribbean
• HIST 487 - American Refugees: The History of Forced Migration and Displaced Communities in the United States
• HIST 488 - Education and American Democracy

• HIST 323 - History of Sustainability
• HIST 333 - Sustainability in the Ancient World
• HIST 334 - Ancient Egyptian Civilization
• HIST 337 - The Roman Republic
• HIST 365 - Early China
• HIST 366 - China: Ming Dynasty to Today
• HIST 367 - Japan: Origins to Tokugawa
• HIST 368 - Japan, Tokugawa to Today
• HIST 369 - The Korean Peninsula
• HIST 371 - Early America
• HIST 382 - California and the World
• HIST 388 - US and California Environmental History

• HIST 201 - Why History Matters
• HIST 301W - History Writing Workshop
• HIST 400 - Historical Interpretation
• HIST 405 - Linked Lab for Success
• HIST 409 - History Professional Portfolio
• HIST 499 - History Research Capstone

• HIST 120 - Self and Story in World History
• HIST 140 - Humanity, Science and Nature in History
• HIST 200 - Writing California Political Histories
• HIST 398 - Internship
• HIST 410 - Internship in History
• HIST 477W - History and Trends in Nursing
• HIST 490 - Independent Study
• HIST 497 - Issues in History
• HIST 498 - Internship