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–.
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
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 sabbatical 2025-26.
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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On sabbatical 2025-26.
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
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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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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
(Chair)
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–.
Sarah Sears
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies
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Environmental history, transnational history, U.S. - Mexico border region.
BA 2018 Davidson College.
M.A. 2022 UC Berkeley
Ph.D. 2025 UC Berkeley
Reed College 2025-.
Xue Zhang
Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
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| 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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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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