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Ravi Rajan

Professor

srrajan@ucsc.edu

8314594158


Areas of expertise: Environmental Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Environmental History, World History, South Asian Studies, History of Science, Ethics


Biography, Education and Training

Ravi Rajan is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has served since his appointment in 1997.   He has also served as Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and Visiting Professor at TERI University. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Delhi, and his doctorate at the Univ... more »


Areas of expertise: Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2003 B.A., Boston University, 1999

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Professor Emeritus, Research Professor of History, Founding Director, Center for World History

History Department

Areas of expertise: World History


Biography, Education and Training

Edmund Burke, III is Research Professor of modern Middle Eastern and World history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs the Center for World History. Burke is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Middle East and North African history, orientalism, environmental history and world history. He is the author of Prelude To Protectorate in Morocco, 1860-1912: Patterns of Pre-Colonial Protest and Resistance (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1976), Arabic t... more »


Areas of expertise: India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle M.A., University of Chicago  B.A, University of Pune


Areas of expertise: Science Studies, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, May 2015.

Shelly Chan

Shelly Chan

Associate Professor

History Department

Areas of expertise: China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I am a historian of transnational and modern China. My interests lie in the intersection of diasporas, nations, empires, regions, and genders.  I am a proud alumna of the UCSC History graduate program, having received a Ph.D. here in 2009. Before my return, I taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madsion from 2011 to 2020 and at the University of Victoria from 2009 to 2011. I was the PI of the Transnational China research hub seeded by the UCSC Office of Research in 2022-23.   My curren... more »

Matthew Lasar

Matthew Lasar

Retired Lecturer on Teaching Recall

History Department

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Matthew Lasar

Lecturer

mlasar@ucsc.edu

831-459-5593


Areas of expertise: History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D, Claremont Graduate School

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