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  • Martin Adamian

    Field of Study: Middle East

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    Email    martin.c.adamian@gmail.com
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  • K Herman Adney

    Kaleb Herman Adney is a PhD candidate whose dissertation research revolves around the political economy of late Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace and the tobacco industry in particular.

    Field of Study: Middle East

    Advisor(s): James Gelvin, Sarah Stein, Sebouh Aslanian, Christine Philliou, Kent Schull

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    kalebherman@g.ucla.edu
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  • Alice Kiwako Ashiwa

    Alice Kiwako Ashiwa is a Ph.D.

    Field of Study: Japan

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    Email    aliceashiwa@gmail.com
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  • Natalie Bernstien

    Natalie is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on modern Jewish history. Natalie is primarily interested in the culture, politics, and languages of North African Jewish communities. 

    Field of Study: Jewish

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    Email    nbernstien@g.ucla.edu
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  • Emily Bolender

    My research looks to understand cultural and legal approaches to violence and feud in the Medieval Mediterranean. I graduated with a BA in History with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from University of San Diego in 2018.

    Field of Study: Medieval

    Advisor(s): Jessica Goldberg

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    emilybolender@g.ucla.edu
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  • Tania Bride

    Field of Study: Latin America

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  • Michael Buse

    Michael Buse is a PhD student at UCLA researching U.S. empire, cultural history, and settler colonialism in California. He is also interested in Russian colonialism and anticolonial movements around the Pacific. 

    Field of Study: United States

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    Email    busem@g.ucla.edu
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  • Katherine Capuder

    Field of Study: Japan

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  • Jennifer Carcamo

    I am currently a PhD candidate with a focus on modern Central American history.

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Robin Derby, Fernando Perez-Montesinos, & Katherine Marino

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    jennifer.carcamo@ucla.edu
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  • Michael Castellano

    Field of Study: Ancient

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    Email    moc3114@ucla.edu
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  • Jeanette Charles

    Jeanette's research focuses on histories of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her dissertation centers the historical intersections between Black radicalism, political economy, and popular religions

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Robin Derby

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    Email    jeanettecharles@g.ucla.edu
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  • Sunny Chen

    Field of Study: Europe

    Advisor(s): Caroline Ford

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    Email    sunnychen@ucla.edu
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  • Zheng Chen

    Chen Zheng (陳政).

    Field of Study: China

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    Email    zchen0505@g.ucla.edu
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  • Peter Chesney

    Field of Study: United States

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    Email    mrpchesney@gmail.com
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  • Aadarsh Chunkath

    I am a historian of South Asia and my research interests broadly encompass the modern period particularly the late colonial state and society, and the anticolonial movement.

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

    Advisor(s): Professor Vinay Lal

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    Email    aadarshchunkath@g.ucla.edu
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  • Deniz Citak

    Deniz Citak is a first year PhD student focusing on the late Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran. His other research interests include the politics, diplomacy, and culture of modern Turkey, Iran, the Levant, and the Gulf.

    Field of Study: Middle East

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    Email    dcitak@ucla.edu
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  • Beatriz Cruz-Lopez

    Field of Study: Latin America

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    Email    beatrizcruzl@ucla.edu
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  • Max Daniel

    Max Modiano Daniel is a doctoral candidate in the History department at UCLA.

    Field of Study: Jewish

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    maxedaniel@gmail.com
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  • Michael Dean

    My research centers around the labor history of California's prison system.  From prison guards to convict labor to free workers, my work focuses on the various ways in which people's working lives shaped and were shaped by the trajector

    Field of Study: United States

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    Email    mikefzdean@ucla.edu
    Office   Bunche Hall 2155
  • Thalia Ertman

    My research is focused on American feminist activism from a transnational perspective in the 1960s and 1970s.

    Field of Study: United States

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    Email    thaliaertman@g.ucla.edu
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  • Benji Fleischacker

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    Email    bfleisch@ucla.edu
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  • Desmond Fonseca

    My research interests include Pan-Africanism, black Marxisms, and anti-colonialism with an emphasis on the decolonization of Lusophone Africa in the 1970s, into the neocolonial and neoliberal turn of the 1980s.

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    Email    dfonseca@g.ucla.edu
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  • Madonna Aoun Ghazal

    My research explores the relationships between gender, property, and women's position in the family in late Ottoman Beirut.

    Field of Study: Middle East

    Advisor(s): Professor James Gelvin

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    madona_aoun@hotmail.com
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  • Amy Gordanier

    Field of Study: China

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    Email    agordanier@ucla.edu
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  • Jacob Green

    Jacob is a historian of science and medicine, and the United States.

    Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

    Advisor(s): Theodore Porter, Soraya de Chadarevian, Michael Meranze, Amir Alexander and Mary Terrall

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    jacobogreen@gmail.com
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  • Carson Greene

    Carson is a History PhD student at UCLA, where he studies the Roman empire in Late Antiquity.

    Field of Study: Ancient

    Advisor(s): Greg Woolf

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    Email    carsongreene17@ucla.edu
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  • Sara-Marie Greenman-Spear

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    Email    sgreenmanspear@utexas.edu
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  • Thabisile Griffin

    Thabisile Griffin is a PhD Candidate in History at UCLA, where she specializes in the 18th century Atlantic world.

    Advisor(s): Robin D.G Kelley, Carla Pestana, Aisha Finch, Robin Derby

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    thabisilegriffin@gmail.com
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  • Pranav Gulukota

    I am a PhD student interested in the social, political, and intellectual history of twentieth century South India, with particular interest in anticolonial movements, the Telangana Rebellion, and the Dravidian movement.

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

    Advisor(s): Vinay Lal

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    pranavgulukota6@g.ucla.edu
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  • Yiming Ha

    My research looks into the institutional, military, and fiscal structures of imperial China from the Song to the Ming period, focusing particularly on how the Mongols impacted the state's employment and retention of personnel.

    Field of Study: China

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    Email    ymingha@ucla.edu
    Office   2169 Bunche Hall
  • Safa Hamzeh

    Field of Study: Middle East

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    safahamzeh@ucla.edu
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  • Xiaowen Hao

    Field of Study: China

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    Email    haoxiaowen@g.ucla.edu
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  • Genene Hayle

    Field of Study: Africa

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  • Vivian V. Hernandez

    Vivian is a History PhD student at UCLA, where she studies modern Latin American women's and gender history.

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Dr. Katherine Marino and Dr. Fernando Pérez-Montesinos

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    vvhernandez@ucla.edu
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  • Lily Hindy

    Lily Hindy is a PhD student in history at UCLA whose research focuses on issues of national identity in the modern Middle East, specifically looking at the relationship between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish population of Ira

    Field of Study: Middle East

    Advisor(s): James Gelvin

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    Email    hindy@g.ucla.edu
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  • Philip Hoffman

    Philip Hoffman is a fourth-year PhD student, researching the framing of land reform in twentieth-century Syria.

    Field of Study: Middle East

    Advisor(s): James Gelvin

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    phoffman1@g.ucla.edu
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  • Qianqing Huang

    Field of Study: Japan

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    Email    hqqrory@gmail.com
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  • Madeline Hudalla

    Madeline Hudalla is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she studies modern Middle Eastern and Jewish history.  She focuses on Mizrahi, Iraqi, and Iranian history. 

    Field of Study: Jewish, Field of Study: Middle East

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    Email    mhudalla@ucla.edu
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  • Sara Hussein

    My research interests include histories of modern Egypt, Pan-Africanism, Afro-Arab anticolonial solidarities, and Third World internationalism. 

    Field of Study: Middle East

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    Email    shussein@g.ucla.edu
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  • Robert Iafolla

    I study political ideologies and political cultures of the later Middle Ages, focusing on the kingdom of Castile.

    Field of Study: Medieval

    Advisor(s): Teofilo Ruiz, John Dagenais, Jessica Goldberg, Peter Stacey, Kevin Terraciano

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    rji1991@ucla.edu
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  • Richard Ibarra

    Richard Ibarra is interested in the construction of community (particularly in urban contexts), the extension of communal memory across time and space, and the social and cultural underpinnings of integration and naturalization.

    Field of Study: Medieval

    Advisor(s): Teofilo Ruiz, Rowan Dorin (History, Stanford), Stefania Tutino, Jessica Goldberg, Meredith Cohen (Art History), Celine Dauverd (History, Univeristy of Colorado-Boulder)

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    richardibarraucla@gmail.com
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  • Erdem Ilter

    Erdem Ilter specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic history. 

    Field of Study: Middle East

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    Email    erdemilter@g.ucla.edu
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  • Marissa Jenrich

    Field of Study: United States

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    Email    majenrich@gmail.com
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  • Sarah Johnson

    Field of Study: Jewish

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    srjohnson@ucla.edu
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  • Rachel Kaufman

    Rachel is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on Latin American and Jewish history. Her current research focuses on crypto-Jewish memory practices in New Mexico and Mexico from the late 15th century to the 20th century.

    Field of Study: Jewish, Field of Study: Latin America

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    Email    rachelkaufman@g.ucla.edu
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  • Ju-Hyun Kim

    Ju-Hyun Kim is a Ph.D. student in History at UCLA. Her research focuses on the post-1945 transborder movements and feelings of belonging. 

    Field of Study: Japan

    Advisor(s): Katsuya Hirano

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    Email    juhyunkim@ucla.edu
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  • Andrew Klein

    Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate researching the intertwined histories of urban development, U.S. empire, and social movements in California.

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Robin D.G. Kelley (Chair), Peter James Hudson, Toby Higbie, Ananya Roy

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    ancklein@ucla.edu
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  • Dana Kopel

    Dana Kopel is a PhD student in History at UCLA. Her research focuses on US labor and working-class organizing in the twentieth century.

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Robin D. G. Kelley

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    Email    dkopel@ucla.edu
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  • Vipin Krishna

    - South Asian Vernacular Historiography. 

    - Histories of colonial philology. 

    - Histories of ethnicitiy. 

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

    Advisor(s): Dr. Vinay Lal

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    Email    vipin@g.ucla.edu
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  • Elizabeth Landers

    Elizabeth's research centers on the analysis of everyday life practices and the material realities that sustained marginalized communities throughout the broader Atlantic Caribbean during the early modern period.

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Robin Derby, Carla Pestana

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    Email    eml@ucla.edu
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  • Brianna Lavelle

    Field of Study: Jewish

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    Email    briannalavelle@ucla.edu
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  • Sunkyu Lee

    I am a historian of early modern East Asia and interested in the intersections among war, trade and cartography.

    Field of Study: China

    Advisor(s): Richard von Glahn

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    sunkyulee22@gmail.com
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  • John Leisure

    Field of Study: Japan

    Advisor(s): William Marotti

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    Email    leisure@ucla.edu
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  • Janice R. Levi

    Janice Levi is a PhD candidate in the UCLA History Department. Her dissertation focuses on migration histories and Jewish populations in West Africa.  

    Field of Study: Africa

    Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon, Andrew Apter, Sarah A. Stein, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aomar Boum

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    jrlevi@ucla.edu
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  • Graham Lloyd

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    Email    glloyd9714@gmail.com
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  • Amed Galo Lopez

    Galo focuses on prisons and inmate experiences in twentieth century Kenya, with case studies in Latin America, the United States, and other countries in Africa.

    Field of Study: Africa

    Advisor(s): Robin Kelley, Ghilaine Lydon, and Andrew Apter

    Contact Information

    Email    galolopez123@ucla.edu
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  • Fredrick Walter Lorenz

    Field of Study: Africa, Field of Study: Middle East

    Advisor(s): James Gelvin (Chair), Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Aomar Boum, Miloš Jovanović, Isa Blumi (Stockholm University)

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    florenz@g.ucla.edu
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  • Marcellin Ma

    Field of Study: Europe

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  • Amanda Marie Martinez

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Eric Avila (Chair), Robin Kelley, Robert Fink, Charles Hughes (Rhodes College)

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    Email    amamartinez@ucla.edu
    Office   amandamariemartinez.com
  • Rebeca Martinez

    Rebeca Martínez is a PhD Candidate specializing in the history of women in colonial Mexico. Her dissertation examines the relationship between women and bigamy from the 16th to the 18th century.

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Kevin Terraciano, Teofilo Ruíz, Katherine Marino, Fernando Perez-Montesinos 

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu
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  • Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez

    My research interests include Pan-Africanism, political economy, extractive industries, anti-colonialism, and nation building in West Africa.

    Field of Study: Africa

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    Email    chriscmartinez@g.ucla.edu
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  • Michael R. Matthews

    Mike Matthews graduated from Augustana College in 2013 with a BA in Honors History & Classics; a year later he graduated from the University of Chicago with a MA in Humanities.

    Field of Study: Ancient

    Advisor(s): Dr. David Phillips (History, UCLA)

    Contact Information

    Email    mmatth62@g.ucla.edu
    Office   Bunche Hall
  • Joshua McGuffie

    I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. My research focuses on intersections between biology, medicine, race, and the environment during the US atomic project.

    Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

    Advisor(s): Soraya de Chadarevian, Stephen Aron, Ted Porter, Elizabeth DeLoughrey

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

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    Email    jmcguffi@ucla.edu
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  • Ethan Mefford

    Field of Study: Europe

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    Email    ethanmefford@gmail.com
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  • Sean Messarra

    I study the intellectual history of early modern Europe and the wider history of European political thought.

    Field of Study: Europe

    Advisor(s): Peter Stacey (chair), Andrea Moudarres, Anthony Pagden, Stefania Tutino 

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    smessarra@ucla.edu
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  • Rebekka Michaelsen

    My research looks at the intersectionality of race, gender, and mental illness in the late nineteenth-century U.S. More specifically, I am interested in the history of psychiatry and asylums.

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Dr. Brenda Stevenson 

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    rmichaelsen@g.ucla.edu
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  • Liam Moore

    Liam is a PhD student in History at UCLA. His research interests include the history of urban mobility, everyday life, and access to urban space in 19th-20th century France.

    Field of Study: Europe

    Advisor(s): Caroline Ford

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    Email    liammoore28@g.ucla.edu
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  • Juan Pablo Morales Garza

    Field of Study: Latin America

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    Email    juanpablomg7@gmail.com
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  • Patrick Morgan

    I study the legal history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth century and its connections to the Mediterranean world.

    Field of Study: Medieval

    Advisor(s): Jessica Goldberg (Chair), Teo Ruiz, Sharon Gerstel (Art History), Luke Yarbrough (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Alexander Roberts (Classics, USC)

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    patmorgan@g.ucla.edu
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  • Javier Muñoz

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  • Chul Namgung

    Field of Study: Japan

    Advisor(s): Katsuya Hirano

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    Email    chul0376@ucla.edu
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  • Nivedita Nath

    My work examines historical intersections between caste exclusion, colonialism, and cultural affinities towards landscapes.

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    niveditanath@g.ucla.edu
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  • Christopher Null

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Dr. Michael Meranze

    Contact Information

    Email    crnull@g.ucla.edu
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  • Marina Nye

    My research explores reuse and repurposing of sartorial culture in the 18th-century British Atlantic.

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Dr. Katherine Marino

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    marinanye@gmail.com
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  • Daniel Ohanian

    Daniel Ohanian is a PhD candidate specializing in early modern and modern Ottoman-Armenian history.

    Dissertation title: "Church of Armenia, Church of Rome: Faith, Print, and Power in Ottoman-Armenian History, 1688–1717"

    Field of Study: Middle East

    Advisor(s): Sebouh Aslanian (chair) Stefania Tutino James GelvinTijana Krstić Sanjay Subrahmanyam

    Contact Information

    Email    dohanian@ucla.edu
    Office   Bunche 2165
  • Shubhanga Pandey

    Shubhanga works on modern South Asia, with interests in histories of communication, diplomatic and bureaucratic culture, manuscript traditions and textual practices in 18th- and 19th-century Nepal, the Himalaya, and the north Indian subc

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

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  • Jessica Peña

    Jessica Peña is a History PhD student at UCLA. Her research focuses on feminist activism in post-war Japan, particularly during the U.S. Occupation of Japan 1945 – 1952.

    Field of Study: Japan

    Advisor(s): William Marotti

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    jdpena89@g.ucla.edu
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  • Pin-Hua Chou

    Pin-Hua Chou is a History PhD student at UCLA. Her research focuses on decolonization of French ethnographic museums from mid-20th century to the present.

    Field of Study: Europe

    Advisor(s): Caroline Ford

    Contact Information

    Email    phchou42@ucla.edu
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  • Christian Ramirez

    Chris Ramírez is a first year PhD student specializing in the history of Indigenous Mexicans post Independence.

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Fernando Pérez Montesinos

    Contact Information

    Email    chrisramirez218@ucla.edu
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  • Bernard James Remollino

    Bernard is a PhD Candidate in the United States field researching the history of Filipino popular culture, labor, and migration in California during the twentieth century.  

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Eric Avila (Co-chair, UCLA Dept. of History, UCLA Dept. of Chicana & Chicano Studies), Toby Higbie (Co-chair, UCLA Dept. of History, UCLA Labor & Workplace Studies), Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (UCLA Dept. of Asian American Studies), George Lipsitz (UCSB Dept. of Black Studies)

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    bremollino@g.ucla.edu
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  • Arranne Rispoli

    Arranne is a first-year Ph.D. student whose research encompasses the intersection of race and religion in early America.

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Carla Pestana

    Contact Information

    Email    arrannerispoli@ucla.edu
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  • Rolando J. Rodriguez

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Contact Information

    Email    rjrodriguez@ucla.edu
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  • Gregory Sattler

    My research is focused on the history of sea merchants in East Asia from the ninth to thirteenth centuries.

    Field of Study: China

    Contact Information

    Email    gsattler@ucla.edu
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  • Lisl Schoepflin

    Lisl Schoepflin is a PhD candidate in the UCLA History Department. Her scholarly interests focus on indigenous and colonial ethnohistory and social memory practices in the Andes, with an emphasis on Inca and Spanish colonial oral a

    Field of Study: Latin America

    Advisor(s): Kevin Terraciano (chair), Stella Nair, Efrain Kristal, Juan Ossio, Teo Ruiz

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    lisls@g.ucla.edu
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  • Yu Shi (时昱)

    Yu's research centers on the social and cultural history of late imperial and modern China, with a particular focus on folk performance, urban society, global cultural industry, and gender studies.

    Field of Study: China

    Advisor(s): Andrea S. Goldman

    Contact Information

    Email    shiy@g.ucla.edu
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  • Chase Caldwell Smith

    Chase's research interests center thematically on histories of cultural encounters, race and identity, religious conversion, and knowledge production, and geographically on the early modern Iberian empires in maritime Southeast Asia.

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

    Advisor(s): Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam

    Contact Information

    Email    chasesmith@ucla.edu
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  • Rachel Smith

    Rachel Smith is a PhD candidate whose dissertation explores the history and politics of Jewish ethnography in the Ottoman world.

    Field of Study: Jewish

    Advisor(s): Sarah Abrevaya Stein, David Myers, Aomar Boum, James Gelvin

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    rachel.smith@ucla.edu
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  • Margaret Spaulding

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    Email    spauldingmeg@gmail.com
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  • David Spielman

    David B. Spielman is an Africanist and Ethiopian historian with a broader interest in the Horn of Africa.

    Field of Study: Africa

    Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon (Chair);William Worger;Allen Roberts;Habtamu Tegegne.

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Contact Information

    Email    Dawit7@ucla.edu
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  • Patrick Stein

    Patrick studies the impact of novel international trade networks on local communities in the "Eastern Sea" circuit of Fujian, Taiwan, and the Philippines between the 16th and 19th centuries.

    Field of Study: China

    Contact Information

    Email    patrick.f.stein@gmail.com
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  • Tatiana Sulovska

    Field of Study: Japan

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    sulovska at yahoo.co.uk
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  • Madina Thiam

    I completed my PhD in May 2022, with a dissertation entitled "Seeking Freedom in the Sahel: Frontiers of Liberation and Geographies of Belonging in an Atlantic-Saharan Crossroads."

    Field of Study: Africa

    Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon (Chair); Robin D.G. Kelley; Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré; Minayo Nasiali; Andrew Apter 

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    mthiam@ucla.edu
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  • Peter Thomas

    I study chiefly European intellectual history in those centuries we have learned to call "early modern" (ca. 1300-1800) with a cardinal emphasis on the history of political thought.

    Field of Study: Europe

    Contact Information

    Email    prthomas@ucla.edu
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  • Claire Votava

    Claire Votava is a Ph.D. student interested in the history of science and capitalism in the 20th century scientific world.

    Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

    Advisor(s): Soraya de Chadarevian

    Contact Information

    Email    votavac@ucla.edu
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  • You Wang

    At the intersection of environmental history, economic history, and the social history of technology, my research examines the everyday interactions of village women and men with water- and landscapes through hydraulic institutions, know

    Field of Study: China

    Advanced to Candidacy

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    Email    wangyou@ucla.edu
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  • Rebecca Waxman

    Rebecca Waxman is a PhD Candidate specializing in the history of gender and sexuality in modern India. Her dissertation examines discourses of sexualized violence in late colonial and postcolonial India. 

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

    Advisor(s): Vinay Lal; Katherine Marino; Robin Derby; Sherene Razack

    Advanced to Candidacy

    Current/Former HGSA Member

    Contact Information

    Email    rwaxman@g.ucla.edu
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  • Avery Weinman

    Avery Weinman focuses on modern Jewish history, the history of the modern Middle East, Israel-Palestine, and radicalism.

    Field of Study: Jewish

    Advisor(s): David Myers, Sarah Abrevaya Stein

    Contact Information

    Email    averyweinman@ucla.edu
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  • Cristi Whiskey

    Field of Study: Africa

    Advisor(s):  

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    Email    whiskeycristi@g.ucla.edu
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  • Chloe Wilson

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    Email    cbellwilson@g.ucla.edu
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  • Hunter Wimpey

    Field of Study: Japan

    Advisor(s): Katsuya Hirano 

    Contact Information

    Email    nhwimpey@ucla.edu
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  • William Wood

    William Wood's research interests are in legal history, particularly California history and the jurisprudence around Native title in California.  He is an Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. 

    Field of Study: United States

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  • Harrison Woods

    Field of Study: Middle East

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  • Masayoshi Yamada

    Masayoshi Yamada is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UCLA, specializing in the cultural history of the United States.   

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Robin D.G. Kelley (Committee Chair)Eric AvilaShana L. RedmondGeorge Lipsitz

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  • Sofia Yazpik

    Field of Study: Latin America

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  • Aisha Zaman

    Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

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  • Christian Zavardino

    I study the intersection of religion and empire in the early modern English Atlantic world.

    Field of Study: United States

    Advisor(s): Carla Pestana

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  • Mindi Zhang

    Field of Study: China

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