The California History journal published Dr. Diana Ahmad’s paper, titled “The South Seas from the Deck of a Steamship: Travelers’ Observations of Their Journeys to the Islands of the Pacific, 1880s-1910s,” in the journal’s Fall 2021 issue.
Ahmad is a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history and political science. She joined S&T’s faculty in 2000. She specializes in the history of the American West, environmental history and history of the American Pacific.
Ahmad earned a Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Missouri-Columbia after spending nearly nine years teaching for the University of Maryland’s Asian Division in Japan, Korea, Guam and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.