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Department Chair
David Wrobel

American Indian History
William J. Bauer

Asian History
Sue Fawn Chung

European History
Andrew Bell
Gregory Brown
Colin Loader
Michelle Tusan
Janet Ward
Paul Werth
Elspeth Whitney

Latin American History
Tom Wright

Near Eastern & Islamic History
John Curry

U.S. History
Jay Coughtry
Kevin Dawson
Joseph A. (Andy) Fry
Marcia Gallo
Joanne Goodwin
Greg Hise
David Holland
Eugene Moehring
Elizabeth W. Nelson
Todd Robinson
David Tanenhaus

U.S. West History
Raquel Casas
Andrew Kirk
David Wrobel

 

Gregory Brown, Ph.D.
Maria Raquel Casas, Ph.D.

Office: Wright Hall, B 309
Phone: (702) 895 -1544
Email: maria.casas@unlv.edu

Website: Maria Raquel Casas, Ph.D.

  • Chicana/o History
  • Spanish Borderlands History
  • Western Women's History
  • Nineteenth-Century California History
  • American West History

Maria Raquel Casas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A graduate of Yale University she has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a visiting professor. She is the author of Married to a Daughter of the Land: Interethnic Marriages in California, 1820-1880 (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Press, 2007). She is also the author of an article in Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community (Oxford Press, 2005) and various entries in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (Indiana University Press, 2006).