Reed College
Reed College

History Department

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
Email

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 Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Email | 503-517-4789 | Performing Arts Building 137

Medieval and Renaissance Europe, history of science and medicine.

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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On leave Spring 2023

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–.

Liz Matsushita

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Email | 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

Associate Professor of History and Humanities
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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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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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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–.

Brian Tyrrell

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies
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U.S. environmental and social history, history of animals.

BA 2007 University of Notre Dame.
MA 2010 Rutgers University.
PhD 2019 University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reed College 2019–20, 2022–.

Xue Zhang

Assistant Professor of History
Email | 503-517-4759 | Eliot Hall 423

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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B.A. 1977, University of Colorado, Boulder.
M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 1990–2022.

Formosa: 19th Century Images website

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.

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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B.A. 1963, Brooklyn College.
A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1977 Harvard University.
Reed College 1986–2015.

Faculty Alumnus/Alumna

Edward B. Segel

Professor of History and Humanities, Emeritus

A.B. 1960, Harvard College.
M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1969, University of California, Berkeley.
Reed College 1973–2011.

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Staff

Lydia Sheehey

Faculty Administrative Coordinator
Email | 503-777-7771