History Faculty and Staff

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

George Armantrout, Emeritus Assistant Professor

(503) 725-4955 | ​d1ga@pdx.edu

the Ancient World, esp. Greece; Greek art history; Roman art 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 and Graduate Coordinator

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

modern France and Europe; international political economy

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

David Peterson Del Mar, Professor

(503) 347-6196 | delmard@pdx.edu

history of the American family, environmental history, Pacific Northwest history;
American perceptions of Africa

Jim Grehan, Professor

(503) 725-3994 | grehanjp@pdx.edu 

Ottoman history; social and cultural history of the early modern and modern Middle East

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, Teaching Associate 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, Teaching Associate Professor

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

history of England, British Empire; world history

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

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

early modern France; European business history

Catherine McNeur, Professor

(503) 725-2957 | cmcneur@pdx.edu  

environmental history; urban history; public history

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

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, Emeritus 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

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

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