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-D

Katy Barber, Professor and Department Chair

(503) 725-3979 | barberk@pdx.edu

U.S. West and Pacific Northwest; Native American history; public history

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Bright Alozie, Assistant Professor

(503) 725-2258 | balozie@pdx.edu

Social and Political History [Africa and the Black World]; Women, Gender and Sexuality; [Colonial] Petitions;
oral and digital history; Protests and Resistance; War and Memory; Afrocentrism and Afrofuturism

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Richard Beyler, Professor

(503) 725-3996 | r.beyler@pdx.edu

history of science; modern European intellectual and cultural history; German history

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Joseph Bohling, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator

(503) 725-8988 | jbohling@pdx.edu

modern France and Europe; international political economy

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Evguenia Davidova, Professor
(503) 725-8992 | evguenia@pdx.edu
Southeastern Europe/Ottoman Balkans (19th - 20th Century): Trade; Travel;
Nationalism; History of Medicine; Gender and Public Health

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Faculty G-M

Catherine McNeur photo by Andrea Lonas Photography

Jim Grehan, CLAS Professor of Turkish Studies

(503) 725-3994 | grehanjp@pdx.edu

Early modern and modern Middle East; social and cultural history; Ottoman Empire; world history

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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

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Rodney Koeneke, Teaching Associate Professor

(503) 725-4086 | rodneyk@pdx.edu

history of England, British Empire; world history

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Thomas Luckett, Professor
Phi Alpha Theta Advisor, and History Honors Option Coordinator

(503) 725-3982 | luckettt@pdx.edu

early modern France; European business history

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Catherine McNeur, Professor

(503) 725-2957 | cmcneur@pdx.edu

environmental history; urban history; public history

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Faculty O-R

John Ott, Professor

(503) 725-3013 | ott@pdx.edu

medieval continental Europe, esp. France

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Guillermo (Memo) Pastrano, Adjunct Professor
pastrano@pdx.edu
Chicano studies, Mexican American history, US West, 19th and 20th century labor history,
business and economic history, migrant labor history

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Marc Rodriguez, Professor and Editor, Pacific Historical Review

(503) 725-9212 | msr4@pdx.edu

Chicanx/Latinx history, social movement history, migration history, legal history

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Ken Ruoff, Portland Professor and Director, Center for Japanese Studies

(503) 725-3991 | ruoffk@pdx.edu

modern East Asia, esp. Japan

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Faculty S-Z

Patricia Schechter, Professor and Editor, Women and Social Movements in the United States Since 1600

(503) 725-3007 | schechterp@pdx.edu

women's history, public history, transnational history

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Friedrich Schuler, Emeritus Professor

(503) 725-3988 | schulerf@pdx.edu

modern Latin America, esp. Mexico;
European relations with Latin America

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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

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Jennifer Tappan, Associate Professor

(503) 725-9061 | jtappan@pdx.edu

Africa, esp. east Africa;
history of colonial/tropical medicine

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Brian Turner, Associate Professor

(503) 725-3992 | brian.turner@pdx.edu

Ancient Mediterranean world, esp. Roman history;
military history; mapping and world view

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