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Faculty
Dr. Keene will be on research leave from January- December 2009.
Dr. Bay will be on research leave 2008-2009 academic year.  Marilyn J. Harran is the Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Director of the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University. She holds faculty appointments as professor in the departments of History and Religious Studies. Dr. Harran was a contributing writer and consultant on The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures and served on the advisory board for the Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. In addition, she has authored and edited three books in the areas of religious studies and history; has contributed articles to The Encyclopedia of Religion and The Encyclopedia of the Reformation, and articles and reviews to such publications as Critical Review of Books in Religion; Shofar, and The Catholic Historical Review. Dr. Harran received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University and a B.A. from Scripps College. She studied for three years at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Prior to joining the Chapman University faculty in 1985, Dr. Harran taught at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Dr. Harran has been honored by The “1939” Club with their first “Teacher of the Holocaust” award. She has received the “Woman of Excellence” award from Learning for Life; the “Leader of Distinction” award from the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County and Long Beach, and has been recognized for her contributions by the Orange County Human Relations Council. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the International Research & Exchanges Board. Dr. Harran has been an Associate at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. In 1997 and 2001, Chapman University students chose Dr. Harran as Outstanding Faculty Member.
Upon discharge from the service Dr. Cumiford completed his master's at Cal State and was admitted to the Ph.D. program in Latin American History At Texas Tech University, where he also was employed as a teaching assistant. His dissertation research was conducted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and focused on nineteenth-century Brazilian-United States relations. Prof. Cumiford's fields of study were Latin America, European History, American Diplomatic History, and U.S. Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History, with a minor in Political Science. Since graduating with his doctorate, Dr. Cumiford, aside from teaching, has worked in a variety of history-related professions, including historical site field investigation, editorial assignments, writing, the preparation of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, and museum curatorship. In the 1980s Prof. Cumiford was a curator in American History at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. His teaching assignments have included professorships at Western Texas College, Cal State Fullerton, and now Chapman University. Dr. Cumiford's courses at Chapman include Freshman Foundations, Western Civilization, the Ancient World, Mexican History, Modern Latin America, the History of Spain and Portugal, Colonial Latin America, Technology and Progress in Western Societies, History and Film, and Latin American History through Film. Prof. Cumiford teaches a summer course in Europe, "The Roman Imperium," and is an advisor for the Center for Global Education. He serves on the Liberal Studies Faculty Advisory Committee and the Chapman University Alumni Board. Dr. Cumiford enjoys movies, traveling, bike riding, hiking, and tennis, and has a daughter, Simone attending University of California Santa Cruz. E-mail: cumiford@chapman.edu
Dr. Vieira-Martinez conducts her research using remarkable variety of languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Kimbundu, Kikongo, Umbundu, Yaka, Holo, German, Latin, Italian and English. Her research has been presented at the 2002 "Kiswahili Language, Literature and Modern Thought" conference, University Nairobi, at the "African Urban Spaces, History and Culture" conference, University of Texas, Austina, and at the annual African Studies Association conferences in 2002 and 2004. She is a contributing author to the Encylcopedia of Latin American History and Culture and is currently working on a publication illustrating the use of Bantu vocabulary to reconstruct histories of gendered leadership in Central Africa. Her research in Chicano and African Histories continues to explore the unique features of social history in multilingual communities. At Chapman University, Dr. Vieira-Martinez teaches Modern and Anciant African History, Chicano History, Central African History, and Freshman Foundations. She is also developing a series of courses on topics in African History including the study of Leadership, Slavery, and Language and Space in the past.
After graduating from high school in 1944, Miller enlisted in the Coast Guard to avoid being drafted for overseas service during World War II. The war ended and Miller was able to attend college on the G.I. Bill. He received his English major and History minor in 1949 from North Texas State Teaching College and immediately began pursuing a graduate degree in History. Miller originally intended to go into the ministry; however his need for money led him along another path: teaching. Through out Jim’s many years of teaching, he has demonstrated a love of teaching that also reflected his passion for history. Jim Miller joined Chapman in 1956, as an associate professor of English only two years after the college had been established. When he arrived, the school had 250 students. His Chapman experience began before campus buildings had names, when people identified them by the different colored stripes near the roofs. He has had 13 different offices and taught classes in seven departments: cultural anthropology, speech, English, history, political science, religion and education. The honorable George L. Argyros, best describes Prof. Miller as a favorite Chapman teacher. “He represents the best of the teaching profession. He’s a great professor and a first-class human being. He’s always positive and has a great sense of humor. “ Adjunct Faculty
Mike Fraga, who was born in El Paso, Texas attended both Stanford University and UCLA, and is now completing his doctoral dissertation on O'odham land and water rights along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Latin America. Mike has taught at numerous institutions ranging from private schools such as Valley Torah-Yeshiva, and Illinois math and Science Academy to liberal arts collegeslike Oberlin to Universities such as Loyola Marymount and Northern Illinois University. Mike's areas of specialty in history are: Native Amerian, Chicano, The West, boarderlands and Latin America. "I use the constructivist approach when teaching, challenging students to interpret the past by using multicultural and gender-balanced lenses." Mike is also a southern drum (Oklahoma) singer and respects the ways of his ancestors in the Native American Church. He feels that he is a bridge between two movements for change: Chicano and Native.
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Jennifer D. Keene is a professor of history and chair of the History Department. She received her Ph.D. in History from Carnegie-Mellon University and is a specialist in American military experience during World War I. She received the Wang-Franklin Professorship for 2007-9, the highest faculty award given by Chapman University. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War, Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001), The United States and the First World War (2000), and World War I ( 2006). She is currently working on a book detailing the African American experience during the First World War and an American History textbook Visions of America (forthcoming from Longman, fall 2008). Dr. Keene served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005) which won the Society of Military History's prize for best military history reference book. She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship, a Graves Award, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Australia and France, an Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, and a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Award. Dr. Keene's articles have appeared in the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Annales de Démographie Historique, Peace & Change, Intelligence and National Security, and Military Psychology. She has published essays in several edited anthologies, including Warfare and Belligerence: New Perspectives on the First World War, National Stereotypes in Perspective: Frenchmen in America: Americans in France, and Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War. In addition, Dr. Keene has served as an on-camera expert for several film documentaries including "The March of the Bonus Army, that aired on PBS nationwide on Memorial Day 2006 and has appeared on the Chicago Public Radio Program, Odyssey. She also works closely with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute offering Teaching American History workshops for secondary school teachers throughout the country. Prior to joining the faculty of Chapman University in 2004, Dr. Keene taught at the University of Redlands. 
Alexander Bay is an assistant professor of history. Growing up on a farm in rural Oregon, Alex Bay was headed for a career as a wildlife biologist until a fateful encounter with Asian culture (Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon) changed his life, creating an obsession with East Asian martial arts and a lifelong fascination with East Asia. After attending Lewis and Clark College, he lived in Japan for three years, teaching English in Hachinohe and studying Japanese at the International Christian University. He then entered the University of Oregon's Asian Studies master's program, using his MA degree as a springboard into the Ph.D. in history program at Stanford. there, under guidance of the legendary Jeffrey Mass, Alex began course work in pre-1600 Japanese history and, later, the history of science, technology and medicine, writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the modernization of medicine in 19th and 20th century Japan through the lens of beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency). Alex presented a paper at the May 2001 Columbia University symposium on animals in Japanes history entitled "The Swift Horses of Nukanobu: Bridging the Frontiers of Medieval Japan," which was published at the University of Michigan Press in JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life (2005). He has also contributed to medical biography encyclopedias and has published several short articles in the Journal of the Japan Society of Medical History. Alex is currently working on a book project entitled The Politics of Disease: Beriberi, Barley, and Medicine in Modern Japan. 
Robert Slayton graduated with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and specializes in twentieth century U.S. history, ranging from social, to political, to military. His books include Back of the Yards and New Homeless and Old, as well as the major biography of 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith, Empire Statesman. He has also written Arms of Destruction and is completing a biography of William Tunner, the general who commanded the Berlin Airlift. His courses include the second half of the U.S. Survey and the Senior Seminar, African-American History, Everyday Life in America, period courses on 1920-1945 (Conflict and Change in America) and 1945-1960 (America After the War) as well as World War II .
William L. Cumiford, Associate Professor of History at Chapman University, was born in Oklahoma in 1942 and grew up in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, California. After attending high school at Narbonne High in Harbor City, California, Dr. Cumiford graduated in Social Sciences from Los Angeles Harbor College and took his bachelor's degree in History at Chapman College in Orange, CA. in 1963. Following preliminary study on the master's degree in History at Cal State Fullerton, Prof. Cumiford sailed on the Semester-at-Sea Program (then called the Seven Seas Program) as a teaching assistant in 1965 and in 1966 was drafted into the U.S. Army, later serving as a medic in Pirmasens, Germany.
Carolyn Vieira-Martinez is an assistant professor of History. Dr. Vieira-Martinez joined the History Department in 2005 as a specialist in Central African History and African Languages. Her dissertation entitled "Building Kumbundu," combined historical linguistics methodology with GIS technology to study the social history of central Angola and the construction of community through language. Dr. Vieira-Martinez has received several prestigious awards to support her research, including the Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship from UCLA, as well as grants from the Fullbright Scholarship Board, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the national archives of Portugal, and the National African Languages Resource Center. 
Lee Estes, Associate Professor of History who specializes in British History. Dr. Estes received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and joined the faculty of Chapman University in 1985. He is founding member of Chapman University's London Summer Program that offers a range of courses that bring students to one of the most exciting cities in the world, including Dr. Estes's course in Historical London. Dr. Estes regularly teaches courses in British History and Film, Modern British History, Western Civilization, the Middle Ages, Modern Europe, and Western Intellectual Thought. In the spring, 2005, Dr. Estes provided the mentorship that enabled two history majors to present the findings of their senior seminar papers at a professional historical conference.
Jim Miller, Professor Emeritus of History, English and Comparative Literature, 1956-2004, joined Chapman University almost half a century ago, but even since his retirement, he has remained an active part of the Chapman family. 
Brenda Farrington, has taught history since 1991. She is the author/editor of eight books, including The Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (2003). Presently, she is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press for Women Who Kill Men: The Feminine on Trial. In addition she is the author of a book chapter on California banking law in Law in the Western United States (2000) and numberous encyclopedia entries and book reviews. Professor Farrington teaches Introduction to American History, U.S. Women's History, California History, and World History.
Tom Reins, is a lecturer in history who specializes in East Asian civlizations and whose research focuses on modern China, drug trade in Asia, and the Vietnam War. Professor Reins received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School, has resided in or traveled to Asia frequently since the early 1960's, first as a member of the Air Force, then as a graduate student, and finally as a resarcher and lecturer. More recently he has (along with Professor Cumiford) led a Chapman Chinese Civilzation class to China in 2002; gave lectures at Shanghai's East China Normal University in 2004; and did research while living in Longquan village in Henan province in 2005. Professor Reins has taught at California State University, Fullerton since 1972 and has offered classes at the University of California Riverside; California State University Los Angeles, and Fullerton College. He also taught at Chapman University briefly during the mid-1970's, and since returning to Chapman in the early 1990's has been teaching Chinese Civilization, the Vietnam War, Modern World Civilizations, and Western Civilization.