World War II Scholars
 David Biale, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History
UC Davis
530-752-1640
dbiale@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Biale is available for programming within the Bay Area. He teaches history of the Holocaust and surveys of Jewish history and his areas of interest include Jewish intellectual and cultural history and the history of religion. His most recent book is Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians (University of Calfornia Press, 2007).
Christopher Endy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
California State University, Los Angeles
323-343-6431
cendy@calstatela.edu
Dr. Endy specializes in U.S. International Relations and regularly teaches about World War II's domestic and international dimensions. He is the author of Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France (The University of North Carolina Press 2004).
Ilene Feinman, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Humanities and Communication
California State University, Monterey Bay
831-582-4147
Ilene_Feinman@csumb.edu
Dr. Feinman's current research centers around the convergence of peace activism and spiritual practices, with ongoing research on women in the military. She teaches politics and feminist studies. She wrote about the historic and contemporary struggles for equal citizenship for men of color and all women through soldiering in her book, Citizenship Rites: Feminist Soldiers and Feminist Antimilitarists (NYU Press, 2000). Her most recent publication is a chapter on women soldiers and Abu Ghraib in One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers (Seal Press 2007). She is available for programming in the Monterey Bay area.
Susan Green, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chicano Studies and History, and American Studies Coordinator
Cal State Chico
530-898-6404
SGreen@csuchico.edu
Dr. Green is working on a book and her current research focuses upon the Chicano/a movement for legal equality and social justice in the U.S.
Benjamin N. Lawrance, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
U.C. Davis
530-752-8207
bnl@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Lawrance is available to discuss the effects of WWII on Africa, on which he is an expert. His areas of research also include Human Rights, AIDS, and Law. His newest book, Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960, will be published by the University of Rochester Press in October.
Benjamin Marschke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Humboldt State University
707- 826-3170
marschke@humboldt.edu
Dr. Marschke's areas of interest include early modern Germany and Prussia, and the intersections of politics, religion and culture. His book is Absolutely Pietist: Patronage, Factionalism, and State-Building in the Early Eighteenth Century Prussian Army Chaplaincy (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005). He writes and translates fluently in German and and has taught numerous courses touching on WWII, including "The Holocaust" and "The Era of World War II." Dr. Marschke is available for programming in Humboldt County.
Kathy Olmsted, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History
UC Davis
570-752-2118
ksolmsted@ucdavis.edu
Professor Olmsted's research interests include 20th century U.S. cultural and political history, and she teaches courses that include America in Prosperity, Depression, 1914-1945 and Politics and Paranoia. Her most recent book is Red Spy Queen: a Biography of Elizabeth Bentley (North Carolina University Press 2002). She is available to lead discussions on race and gender on the homefront in the Sacramento/Yolo area.
Erika Quinn, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of History
California State University, Sacramento
erika@historything.com
Dr. Quinn's recent research centers around the effect of the two World
Wars on the conception of death in Western culture and on social
practices of mourning and the commemoration of death. She teaches a
variety of topics, including European Historiography, and modern
Western and world civilization.
Eric Rauchway, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History
UC Davis
530-752-6380
earauchway@ucdavis.edu
Professor Rauchway writes about US history between the Civil War and World War II. His most recent book, Blessed Among Nations (Farrar, Straus, And Giroux 2006), examines the impact of globalization on American political development, and his forthcoming book, The Great Depression and the New Deal will be published by Oxford University Press as part of the Very Short Introductions series.
Brian Rutishauser, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of History/Political Science Associate Professor of History
Fresno City College
559-442-4600 x8359
brian.rutishauser@fresnocitycollege.edu
WWII has been an area of interest and research throughout Professor Rutishauser's career. Dr. Rutishauser teaches Western Civilization survey courses, History of Ancient Greece, History of Ancient Rome and the History of Islam.
Richard B. Speed, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of History
California State University at East Bay
510-885-3207
richard.speed@csueastbay.edu
Dr. Speed specializes in recent U.S. and diplomatic history and has taught on foreign relations and modern war. He is online book review editor for the History News Network and author of Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, 1914-1919 (Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1990).
Jennifer Terry, M.A.
Lecturer, Department of History
California State University, Sacramento
916-416-0511
jterry@csus.edu
Professor Terry teaches U.S. history, women in U.S. History, and popular culture. Her current research focuses on American civilian prisoners-of-war held in the Philippines during World War II. Recent articles include "Striving for Normalcy: Considering the Children," in the EX-POW Bulletin (July 2007) and "Captive Innocence: Refocusing the Study of Wartime Internment on the Children," in the Society for the History of Children and Youth Newsletter (Winter 2007). She is currently working on an article examining women's maternity experience while interned.
Mark Wild, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
California State University Los Angeles
(email only, please): mwild@calstatela.edu
Dr. Wild is available to discuss homefront issues, especially in the context of LA/California. He also teaches modern U.S. history, urban history, and specializes in the history of California/Los Angeles. He is the author of Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles (University of California Press 2004).
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