2020-2021 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles


Name Field Dissertation Title Chair/Co-Chair
Accetola, Anna Ancient Tracing Trade: Economies, Institutions, and Diaspora in the Hellenistic Mediterranean David Phillips and Dave Potter
Ball, Roi Europe Constructing the Imperial Frontier: Colonization, Migration, and the Built Environment in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1886-1914 David Sabean
Centanino, Araceli United States Chain Link and Concrete: Discipline, Surveillance, and Policing in Los Angeles Schools, 1945-1985 Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Dymond, Jeffrey Europe The Formation of the State in Italian Humanist Political Thought, c.1250-c.1550 Peter Stacey
Kanalu Ramamurthy, Naveen South and Southeast Asia Mirrors and Masks of Sovereignty: Imperial Governance in the Mughal World of Legal Normativism, c. 1650s–1720s Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Tieleman, Matthijs United States A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Margaret Jacob and Carla Pestana
Vestal Jr, Marques Augusta United States Property Conflict in the Promised Land: A History of Black Home Struggles in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 Eric Avila
Withers, Amber Africa Persistence of the Spirit: Kongo and Conjure in the Antebellum South Carolina Lowcountry, 1700-1830 William Worger and Brenda Stevenson