CMMU Faculty

David T Brundage
  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
    • Research Professor of History
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Affiliations Oakes College, Community Studies Program, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Merrill College, Center for Labor and Community
  • Phone
    831-459-4645 (office)
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Stevenson College Academic Building, 222
  • Office Hours Spring 2023: Wednesdays, 3-5pm and by appointment
  • Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
  • Courses HIS 80X: The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Change and American Society, HIS 100: Historical Skills and Methods, HIS 123: Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History, HIS 166: Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict, HIS 190Z: The Long Civil Rights Movement, HIS 201: Directed Research Colloquium, HIS 210B: Readings in U.S. History, HIS 215C: Topics in American History: U.S. Immigration and Ethnic History

Research Interests

U.S. immigration and working-class history, with a particular focus on the Irish experience in America; ethnicity and race in U.S. history, including the history of movements for racial justice; transnational history of diasporic radicalisms; Irish history and politics.

Biography, Education and Training

B.A. Reed College
M.A. University of Warwick
Ph.D. UCLA

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2016
  • President, Southwest Labor Studies Association, 2008-2012 
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2009
  • UCSC Social Sciences "Golden Apple" Outstanding Teaching Award, 1997
  • Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 1994

Selected Publications