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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-.

Hist 352 Renaissance and Civil War in the French World (1494-1610) (fall 09) website
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-.

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–.
On leave spring 2010.

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-.

Sean F. McEnroe

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Latin America
B.A. 1992 Vassar College. M.A.T. 1994 Lewis and Clark College. M.A. 2001 Portland State University. Ph.D. 2009 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2008–.

Mary Ashburn Miller

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe; Enlightenment and revolutionary France.
B.A. 2001 University of Virginia. M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2008 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2008–.

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-.

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-.
On leave 2009-10.

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-.

Tamara Venit-Shelton

Assistant Professor of History
United States history, American West.
B.A. 2000 Amherst College. M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2008 Stanford University. Reed College 2008–.

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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