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University of California, Santa Barbara

History Anthropology Social Science Cultural History American Studies Cultural Studies Sociology Cultural Anthropology Ethnic and Multicultural Studies Religious Studies

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Paul Spickard is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also holds affiliate appointments in Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, East Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, with fields in the United States, China, Japan, and cultural anthropology, an M.A. in U.S. History from Berkeley in 1976, and an A.B. with honors in History from Harvard University in 1973. Spickard joined UCSB as Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies in 1997, became Professor of History in 1999, and has taught at fifteen universities in the United States and abroad, including Harvard, Berkeley, Nankai University in China, the University of Hawai‘i, Oregon State University, the University of Münster in Germany, and International Christian University in Japan.