We are scholars and teachers with a passion for understanding the past in all its dimensions. Our distinguished and innovative faculty conducts research on the history of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, colonial North America and the United States, and the world as a whole.
Our Research Interests
Our faculty conduct interdisciplinary research across a broad range of fields and interests. Explore our areas of interest to find a faculty expert or advisor.
Knowledge of history is critical to the world outside the university, and our faculty frequently share their expertise in media interviews as well as serving on historical commissions, curating museum exhibits, and co-authoring legal briefs.
HISTORY - Lauren Goss, BA ’11 (history), is the University of Oregon's new sports archivist. Funded largely by a gift from an anonymous family foundation with deep Oregon roots and a love for UO Libraries, Goss’s position is the only one on the West Coast and one of only a dozen in the US dedicated to preserving collegiate sports history.
HISTORY - With a focus on pre-1848 northern Mexican borderlands, Naomi Sussman, who has just finished postdoc research at University of California, Los Angeles, brings an expertise in Indigenous histories of California the US Southwest, and northern Mexico.
HISTORY - The stories of more than 140 Mexican and Mexican American workers who lived and worked not far from the University of Oregon campus went untold for nearly a century until students in a CAS history class discovered them, countering the white settler-dominant history books of the area. Led by Julie Weise, a history associate professor who focuses on the history of migrations in the Americas, students researched and wrote these local histories as part of a course series called Hidden Histories, which aims to tell the stories of underrepresented communities in Lane County.
