History Department faculty research interests vary. Their research is highly valued as demonstrated through their book and article publications with internationally recognized publishers and journals.
Modified from history.calpoly.edu
Submissions from 2005
President Ho Speaks to the Children: Thieu Sinh Magazine and the New Child in 1945 Revolutionary Vietnam, Christina Elizabeth Firpo
Submissions from 2004
Ideas on the March, George Cotkin
The Democratization of Cultural Criticism, George Cotkin
Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris
Taiwan's History: An Introduction, Andrew D. Morris
Submissions from 2003
Review of Japan, Korea, and the 2002 World Cup by John Horne, Andrew D. Morris
Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism, John N. Oriji
Submissions from 2002
Coining an Electronic Dialect? Erasing Regional Differences in Vietnam In Internet Chat-Rooms, Christina Elizabeth Firpo
"I Believe You Can Fly": Basketball Culture in Postsocialist China, Andrew Morris
'All China Has Muscles Now, And We Know How To Use Them': Nationalist and Communist Sporting Cultures During Wartime, 1937-45, Andrew D. Morris
Prodigies and Portents: Providentialism in the Eighteenth- Century Chesapeake, Kathleen S. Murphy
Submissions from 2000
Native Songs and Dances: Southeast Asia in a Greater Chinese Sporting Community, 1920-48, Andrew D. Morris
To Make the Four Hundred Million Move: The Late Qing Dynasty Origins of Modern Chinese Sport and Physical Culture, Andrew D. Morris
Judge, Jury, Magistrate and Soldier: Rethinking Law and Authority in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Kathleen S. Murphy
Submissions from 1999
French Existentialism and American Popular Culture, 1945–1948, George Cotkin
No Exit?: Review of Daniel Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity and Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool, George Cotkin
“I Can Compete!” China in the Olympic Games, 1932 and 1936, Andrew D. Morris
Submissions from 1998
Cultivating the National Body: A History of Physical Culture in Republican China, Andrew D. Morris
Submissions from 1997
The Tragic Predicament: Post-War American Intellectuals, Acceptance, and Mass Culture, George Cotkin
Mastery Without Enmity: Athletics, Modernity and the Nation in Early Republican China, Andrew D. Morris
Submissions from 1996
"Hyping the Text": Hypertext, Postmodernism, and the Historian, George Cotkin
Respectful Appropriation, George Cotkin
Submissions from 1995
Ralph Ellison, Existentialism and the Blues, George Cotkin
"Fight for Fertilizer!" Excrement, Public Health, and Mobilization in New China, Andrew D. Morris
Submissions from 1994
Middle-Ground Pragmatists: The Popularization of Philosophy in American Culture, George Cotkin