Full-Time Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-6726
claussenm@usfca.edu

Martin Claussen

Professor, Saint Ignatius Institute, Professor, History

Martin A. Claussen received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His areas of interest include Ancient and Medieval Europe.

Tel:(415) 422-6402
felsa@usfca.edu

Anthony Fels

Associate Professor

Anthony D. Fels received his Ph.D.from Stanford University. His areas of interests include American religious history; 19th century US; racial and ethnic groups in United States; American Indian.

Tel:(415) 422-6709
clharrison2@usfca.edu

Candice Harrison

Assistant Professor

Candice Harrison, Assistant Professor, joined the department in Fall 2008 after completing her Ph.D. at Emory University. Her teaching and research interests span the fields of colonial and nineteenth century U.S. History, African-American History, and comparative race and slavery in the Atlantic World.

Tel:(415) 422-5412
hjhoag@usfca.edu

Heather Hoag

Associate Professor

Heather Hoag is an associate professor of History. She received her Ph.D. in History from Boston University in 2003 where she was involved in BU's African Studies Center. Her specialization is in the fields of African environmental history with an emphasis in river history, hydropower development, technology, and development planning. She is one of the founding editors-in-chief for the International Water History Association's journal, Water History.

Tel:(415) 422-6300
kruzeu@usfca.edu

Uldis Kruze

Associate Professor

Uldis Kruze received his Ph.D.from Indiana University. His areas of interests include Japanese and Chinese political history; U.S. diplomatic relations with East Asia.

Tel:(415) 422-6082
moreno@usfca.edu

Julio Moreno

Associate Professor

Dr. Julio Moreno is an experienced educator, presenter, and commentator. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas at the University of San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-6074
nasstromk@usfca.edu

Kathryn Nasstrom

Associate Professor, Department Chair, History

Kathryn L. Nasstrom received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her area of interest include U.S. women's history; 20th century U.S.; oral history; and civil rights movements.

Tel:(415) 422-6411
neamane@usfca.edu

Elliot Neaman

Professor

Elliot Neaman received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia, his M.A. from Freie Universitat Berlin, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include European intellectual history, especially late modern (nineteenth and twentieth centuries); German conservatism and rightwing politics; The Holocaust; European foreign policy and transatlantic relations.

Tel:(415) 422-4378
kbolds@usfca.edu

Katrina Olds

Assistant Professor, History

Katrina Olds is a specialist in early modern Spanish history. Her research interests include Counter-Reformation visions of history and hagiography, the history of the book, and religious and intellectual exchange in Spain and the Americas. 

Tel:(415) 422-6422
stanfieldm@usfca.edu

Michael Stanfield

Professor

Michael Edward Stanfield grew up in San Diego along the U.S./Mexican border, a location that left him optimistic and curious about the other side. He completed his B.A. at UC Berkeley, an M.A. at San Diego State University, and Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. History has always been his passion and Muse, Latin America and the United States the foci of most of his investigations.

Tel:(415) 422-4377
trzaman@usfca.edu

Taymiya Zaman

Assistant Professor

Taymiya received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she also taught as a Graduate Student Instructor. While at Ann Arbor, she was distinguished with a Rackham Humanities Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation, "Inscribing Empire: Family and Sovereign Authority in Mughal Memoirs, 1526-1707" as well as a Huetwell Fellowship in History. She has also received several Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships to study Persian and Urdu, and for research in Pakistan, where she grew up.