History Faculty and Staff
The combined expertise of our faculty encompasses a diversity of fields including:
- Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, Native Americans, and the cultural history of the United States;
- the Ancient Mediterranean and medieval Europe;
- modern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia;
- environmental, public, and comparative world history.
Faculty A-G







George Armantrout, Assistant Professor
(503) 725-4955; d1ga@pdx.edu
the Ancient World, esp. Greece; Greek art history; Roman art history
Katy Barber, Professor
(503) 725-3979; barberk@pdx.edu
U.S. West and Pacific Northwest; Native American history; public history
Richard Beyler, Professor
(503) 725-3996; r.beyler@pdx.edu
history of science; modern European intellectual and cultural history; German history
Joseph Bohling, Associate Professor
(503) 725-8988; jbohling@pdx.edu
modern France and Europe; international political economy
David Peterson Del Mar, Professor
(503) 725-8543; delmard@pdx.edu
history of the American family, environmental history, Pacific Northwest history;
American perceptions of Africa
Tim Garrison, Professor
(503) 725-3978; garrisont@pdx.edu
American legal history; Native American history
Jim Grehan, Professor
(503) 725-3994; grehanjp@pdx.edu
Ottoman history; social and cultural history of the early modern and modern Middle East
Faculty H-N







David Horowitz, Professor
(503) 725-3993; horowid@pdx.edu
U.S. cultural and political history, esp. 20th century and populist expression
Chia Yin Hsu, Associate Professor
(503) 725-9064; hsuc@pdx.edu
Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union; empire and colonialism in comparative European-Asian context
Jennifer Kerns, Assistant Professor
(503) 725-3006; jkk@pdx.edu
history of the United States; history of American family;
history of women and gender in the United States
Rodney Koeneke, Assistant Professor
(503) 725-4086; rodneyk@pdx.edu
history of England, British Empire; world history
Thomas Luckett, Associate Professor
Phi Alpha Theta Advisor, and History Honors Option Coordinator
(503) 725-3982; luckettt@pdx.edu
early modern France; European business history
Catherine McNeur, Associate Professor
(503) 725-2957; cmcneur@pdx.edu
environmental history; urban history; public history
Faculty O-Z









John Ott, Professor and Department Chair
(503) 725-3013; ott@pdx.edu
medieval continental Europe, esp. France
Guillermo (Memo) Pastrano, Adjunct Professor
pastrano@pdx.edu
Chicano studies, US West, borderlands, working-class and labor history
Marc Rodriguez, Professor and Editor, Pacific Historical Review
(503) 725-9212; msr4@pdx.edu
Chicanx/Latinx history, social movement history, migration history, legal history
Ken Ruoff, Professor and Director, Center for Japanese Studies
(503) 725-3991; ruoffk@pdx.edu
modern East Asia, esp. Japan
Patricia Schechter, Professor
(503) 725-3007; schechterp@pdx.edu
women's history, public history, transnational history
Friedrich Schuler, Professor
(503) 725-3988; schulerf@pdx.edu
modern Latin America, esp. Mexico;
European relations with Latin America
Jennifer Selwyn, Adjunct Associate Professor
(503) 725-3197; selwyn@pdx.edu
early modern and late Medieval Europe; Renaissance and Reformation
women and gender in European history; cross-cultural encounters in pre-modern world
Jennifer Tappan, Associate Professor
(503) 725-9061; jtappan@pdx.edu
Africa, esp. east Africa;
history of colonial/tropical medicine
Brian Turner, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
(503) 725-3992; brian.turner@pdx.edu
Ancient Mediterranean world, esp. Roman history;
military history; mapping and world view
History Department Staff
Jeff Brown
Office Coordinator
brownjt@pdx.edu
503-725-3977
Andrea Janda
Office Coordinator
ajanda@pdx.edu
503-725-3976
History Department Affiliated Faculty
Evguenia Davidova
Professor, International and Global Studies
evguenia@pdx.edu
Natan Meir
Lorry I. Lokey Professor in Judaic Studies
meir@pdx.edu
Shawn Smallman
Professor, International and Global Studies
drss@pdx.edu
Nina Spiegel
Rabbi Joshua Stampfer Associate Professor of Israel Studies, Judaic Studies
nspiegel@pdx.edu
Loren Spielman
Associate Professor, Judaic Studies
spielman@pdx.edu
William (Harry) York
Senior Instructor, University Honors
why@pdx.edu
History Department Faculty Emeriti
Victoria Belco
Associate Professor Emerita of History
Elliot Benowitz
Associate Professor Emeritus of History
Karen Carr
Associate Professor Emerita of History
Victor Dahl
Professor Emeritus of History
David Johnson
Professor Emeritus of History
Susan Karant-Nunn
Professor Emerita of History
William Lang
Professor Emeritus
Charles LeGuin
Professor Emeritus of History
Caroline Litzenberger
Associate Professor Emerita of History
Thomas Morris
Professor Emeritus of History
Frederick Nunn
Professor Emeritus of History and International Studies
Michael Reardon
Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities
Linda Walton
Professor Emerita of History
Charles White
Professor Emeritus of History