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Emily Berquist Soule, Ph.D., is the Interim Director of the Faculty Center at CSU Long Beach, and Professor of History. She teaches and researches the history of colonial Latin America and the Spanish Atlantic world, with specializations in slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Spanish imperial governance; and the history of the Catholic Church. Her first book, The Bishop's Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014. Her research has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, The Americas, and in various edited volumes. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Huntington Library (among others). Her second book manuscript, a 500-year history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic world, is under advance contract with Yale University Press. She serves her disciplinary community as Area Editor of the history and cultural studies journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, published in London by Taylor & Francis.

Dr. Berquist Soule has been a member of CSULB's faculty since her appointment as Assistant Professor in 2007. She has served her colleagues across the university; through co-founding Parents and Caregivers United to advocate for the wellbeing of parenting and caregiving faculty during pandemic closures, and the COVID Equity in Faculty Evaluations Task Force, established to promote equitable practices in faculty evaluations in order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on faculty career trajectories. In 2022-2023, she co-led a team that drafted equitable and inclusive policies for the College of Liberal Arts retention, tenure and promotion process. She was the co-recipient of the 2021 CSULB President's Commission on the Status of Women Award. In 2022, she received the Woman of Distinction in Education Award from the 34th Senate District of California. She brings to the Faculty Center her core values of centering the tenure and evaluation process in faculty well-being; promoting transparent and equitable policies for all faculty; and fostering collaborative relationships across our campus community.