Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Michael P. Breen
Professor of History and Humanities
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Old Regime France; early modern European legal, social, and cultural history; Renaissance Italy.
B.A. 1989, University of Chicago.
A.M. 1990, Ph.D. 2000, Brown University.
Reed College, 2000–.
Hist 352 Renaissance and Civil War in the French World (1494-1610) (fall '09) website
Hist 353 The French Revolution (fall '10) website
Hist 357 France and the French Colonial World (spring '06) website
Jacqueline Dirks
Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of History and Humanities
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American social and cultural history, U.S. women’s history.
B.A. 1982, Reed College.
M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1996, Yale University.
Reed College 1991–.
David T. Garrett
(Chair)
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities
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Latin America and early modern Spain.
B.A. 1988, Yale College.
M.A. 1991, Harvard University.
M.Phil. 1993, Ph.D. 2002, Columbia University.
Reed College 1998–.
Joshua Howe
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
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Environmental history, history of science, twentieth-century United States.
B.A. 2002, Middlebury College.
M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2010, Stanford University.
Reed College 2012–.
Benjamin Lazier
Professor of History and Humanities
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Modern Europe, intellectual history.
B.A. 1993, University of Virginia.
M.A. 1998, C.Phil. 1999, Ph.D. 2002, University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 2005–.
Chenxi Luo
Visiting Associate Professor of History and Humanities
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| Eliot Hall 423
Early modern China, slavery and law, gender and sexuality, migration and diaspora.
B.A. 2013 Renmin University of China.
M.A. 2016 Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Ph.D. 2024 Washington University in St. Louis
Reed College 2024-.
Liz Matsushita
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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| 503-517-7319
| Vollum 304
African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian history and humanities.
BA 2007 University of California, Davis.
MA 2011 San Francisco State University.
PhD 2021 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Reed College 2022–.
Mary Ashburn Miller
Professor of History and Humanities
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On sabbatical 2024-25.
Revolutionary-era France and Europe; modern European cultural and intellectual history.
B.A. 2001, University of Virginia.
M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2008, Johns Hopkins University.
Reed College 2008–.
Margot Minardi
Professor of History and Humanities
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On sabbatical 2024-25.
Colonial and revolutionary America, nineteenth-century United States.
A.B. 2000, Harvard College.
A.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2007, Harvard University.
Reed College 2007–.
Radhika Natarajan
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
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On leave fall 2024.
Modern imperial Britain.
B.A. 2002, Yale College.
M.A. 2009, Ph.D. 2013, University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 2014–.
Padraig Riley
Visiting Associate Professor of History and Humanities
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Nineteenth-century United States, slavery, political history.
B.A. 1999, M.A. 2001, Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 2016–.
Xue Zhang
Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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| 503-517-4759
| Eliot Hall 423
On sabbatical and leave 2024-25.
Modern and early modern China, nineteenth century Qing Empire, Chinese frontiers.
BA 2010, MA 2012 Wuhan University.
MA 2016, PhD 2020 Princeton University.
Reed College 2022–.
Emeritus/Emerita Faculty
Douglas L. Fix
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Asian Studies and Humanities
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Modern China and Japan.
B.A. 1977, University of Colorado, Boulder.
M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 1990–2022.
Christine L. Mueller
Professor of History and Humanities, Emerita
B.A. 1967, Carleton College.
Ph.D. 1980, University of Virginia.
Reed College 1973–2004.
David Harris Sacks
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
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Early modern Britain and Europe; Atlantic world.
B.A. 1963, Brooklyn College.
A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1977 Harvard University.
Reed College 1986–2015.
Faculty Alumnus/Alumna
Raymond F. Kierstead
Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
B.A. 1956, Bowdoin College.
M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1964, Northwestern University.
Reed College 1978–2000.
Edward B. Segel
Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, diplomatic history, war and society, the Cold War.
A.B. 1960, Harvard College.
M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1969, University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 1973–2011.
Staff
Lydia Sheehey
Faculty Administrative Coordinator
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| 503-777-7771