Dr. Ulrike Strasser

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Biography

Ulrike Strasser is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. She has previously held appointments at the University of California at Irvine and served as a Clark Professor at UCLA. Strasser is the author of the award-winning monograph 'State Virginity: Gender, Politics, Religion Catholic State' published by the University of Michigan Press, and her recent work, 'Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits Pacific Journeys', was released in 2020 by Amsterdam University Press. She co-edited several interdisciplinary works, including 'Gender, Kinship Power: Comparative Interdisciplinary History' and 'Cultures Communication, Theologies Media'. Currently, she is finalizing a co-authored monograph, 'Unexpected Proximities: Enlightenment, Jesuits, Indigenous Worlds', with Dr. Renate Dürr of Universität Tübingen, under contract with Oxford University Press. Strasser's scholarly contributions have earned her various awards and fellowships, including from Harvard Divinity School and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She actively participates in campus and scholarly service, being a term member of the cross-disciplinary Committee Experts for the German government’s Excellence Strategy.

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Professor

— Present

University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, California

Professor in the Department of History.

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose (max 2 pages)
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).