Research Articles

December 2025

• • Andrea S. Goldman has co-edited (with Jing Shen) a special issue of CHINOPERL: The Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature on the theme, “Soundscapes of Twentieth-Century China” (December 2025). In addition to Goldman’s Introduction, the issue features essays by our current graduate students, Yu Shi and Zheng Chen, and by former UCLA undergraduate History major Yingchuan Yang (B.A. 2016; Ph.D. Columbia, 2024).

November 2025

• • Carla Pestana published an article titled “Salem’s Absent Witches” in the November 2025 issue of Common Place: the Journal of Early American Life.
  • Tawny Paul published an article titled “Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c. 1700-1760” in Past and Present (November 2025).

October 2025

• • Sanjay Subrahmanyam co-authored an article on early modern diplomacy in Cambodia titled “Un rapprochement delicat” in Peninsule, No. 90, 2025.

July 2025

• • Miloš Jovanović published an open-access article titled “Imperial Nostalgia in the Era of Postsocialist Urban Change” in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (July 18, 2025).

June 2025

• • Katherine M. Marino published an article titled “East-South Feminism in the Long Global Sixties: Felicia Santizo and the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Panama” in The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal 18, no. 1 (June 25, 2025): 1-23 in a special issue on “Socialist Women in the East-South Interaction of the Global Sixties.”
  • Nile Green edited a History Lab titled “Big Asia: Rethinking a Region” in the American Historical Review (Volume 130, Issue 2, June 2025). An associated interview can be heard on the AHR podcast.

April 2025

• • Sebouh Aslanian and Sanjay Subrahmanyam published an article titled “Uneasy Partnership: A Note on Armenian-Danish Commercial Collaboration in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700” in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (April 7, 2025).

March 2025

• • Caroline Ford published an article titled “The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light” in Environment and History (March 26, 2025).

February 2025

• • Sanjay Subrahmanyam published and article titled “Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery” in History Today (Volume 75, Issue 2, February 2025).

January 2025

• • Carla Pestana published an article titled “Gary B. Nash” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Vol. 165, Issue 1, March 2024, pp. 61–76).

December 2024

• • Carla Pestana published an article titled “The Origins of Witchcraft Crisis 50 Years Later” in the American Historical Review (Vol. 129, Issue 4) by Oxford Academic.

November 2024

• • Ned Alpers published “Agency and Acquired Plant Knowledge among Enslaved Laborers: The Acclimatization of Vanilla and Cloves in the Indian Ocean World” in the journal Monsoon (Volume 2, Issue 2) by Duke University Press.
  • Ned Alpers published, “A Skeptical Approach to Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism,” in the volume De Madagascar aux modes de l’océan Indien: Anthropologies et histoires/From Madagascar to the Worlds of the Indian Ocean: Anthropologies and Histories, published by Hémisphères Éditions in 2024. It appears on pages 61–71.

August 2024

• • Sarah Stein published “Swimming through History” in the Jewish Review of Books (Summer 2024).
  • Katherine Marino published “Rosa Rayside and Domestic Workers in the Fight against War and Fascism” in the Pacific Historical Review 93, no. 3 (Summer 2024): 332-360.

June 2024

• • Benjamin Madley published “‘Aloha with Tears’: Native Hawaiians in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860,” in The Journal of American History 111:1 (June 2024), 39-70.
  • Debora Silverman published “Empire as Architecture: Monumental Cities the Congo Built in Belgium” on the digital platform e-flux Architecture.

February 2024

• • Minayo Nasiali published “A Working Alias:  African Seafarers and Fungible Identities across European Empires in the Twentieth Century” in the current issue of The International Journal of Maritime History.

January 2024