History

Faculty & Staff

Michael P. Breen

Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Website
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
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-.
On sabbatical fall 2012.

Simon Finger

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Colonial and early republic U.S., history of medicine, maritime history.
B.A. 2000, M.A. 2000 Brandeis University. M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2008 Princeton University. Reed College 2011-.

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 T. Garrett

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–.

Joshua Howe

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Environmental history, history of science, twentieth-century United States.
BA 2002 Middlebury College. MA 2005, PhD 2010 Stanford University. Reed College 2012–.

Raymond F. Kierstead

Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
BA 1956 Bowdoin College. MA 1959, PhD 1964 Northwestern University. Reed College 1978–2000.

Benjamin Lazier

Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Website
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-

Mary Ashburn Miller

Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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–.
On sabbatical and leave 2012-13.

Margot Minardi

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

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
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 spring 2013.

Edward B. Segel

Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus
Website
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-.

Max Whyte

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Modern European intellectual history and political thought, theories of fascism, modern German history, nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy.
B.A. 2001 University College London. M.Phil. 2003, Ph.D. 2008 University of Cambridge. Reed College 2012–.

Lois Hobbs

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