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History Department
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 777-7771
Fax: (503) 777-7776.

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Michael Breen [website]

Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Early modern France; Renaissance Italy; political, cultural, and legal history.
B.A. 1989 University of Chicago. A.M. 1990 Ph.D. 2000 Brown University. Reed College 2000-.
On sabbatical and leave 2007-08.

Hist 353 The French Revolution (spring 07) website
Hist 357 France and the French Colonial World (spring 06) website

Jacqueline Dirks

Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of History and Humanities
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-.

Ralph Drayton

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Medieval and Renaissance Europe, history of science and medicine.
B.A. 1987 Reed College. M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 2001 University 0f Wisconsin, Madison. Reed College 2002-04, 2006-.

Douglas L. Fix

Professor of History and Humanities
Modern China and Japan.
B.A. 1977 University of Colorado/Boulder. M.A., 1983 Ph.D. 1993, University of California/Berkeley. Reed College 1990-.

Formosa: 19th Century Images website

David Garrett

Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Latin America and early modern Spain.
B.A. 1988 Yale University. M.A. 1991 Harvard University. M.Phil. 1993, Ph.D. 2002 Columbia University. Reed College 1998–.

Brian Kassof

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Modern Russia and Europe, cultural and media history.
B.A. 1990 Wesleyan University. M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 2000 University of California at Berkeley. Reed College 2006–.

Benjamin Lazier [website]

Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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-.
On leave 2007-08.

Margot Minardi

Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Colonial and revolutionary America, nineteenth-century United States.
A.B. 2000 Harvard College. A.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2007 Harvard University. Reed College 2007-.

Joel Revill

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Modern European intellectual and cultural history, modern France.
B.A. 1997 Reed College. M.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2006 Duke University. Reed College 2007-.

David Sacks

Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities
Early modern Britain and Europe; Atlantic world
B.A. 1963 Brooklyn College. A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1977 Harvard University. Reed College 1986-

Edward B. Segel [website]

Professor of History and Humanities
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-.

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Lois Hobbs
Faculty Secretary
(503) 777-7771
Fax: (503) 777-7776
E-mail: Lois.Hobbs@reed.edu

Departmental Officers for 2007-2008:
Chair: David Sacks
Home Page Officer: Edward Segel