Recent Graduates
2010-2011 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles
Ahn, Byungil (China) “Midwifery Reform, Modernization and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China" Chair: Prof. P. Huang
Chavez, Miguel M. (United States) "Las Custro Esquinas: The Chicana Chicano Movement in West Side of Los Angeles, 1963-1979" Chair: Prof. Gomez-Quinones
Garcia, Leon (Latin America) " The Return of Martin Ocelotl: A Nahua Eschatological Discourse in Early Colonial Mexico" Chair: Prof. Terraciano
Yoon, David S (Europe) "The Restored Jewish State and the Revived Roman Empire: The Transmutation of John Nelson Darby's Dipensationalism into Modern Christian Zionism" Chairs: Profs. McClendon and Reill
2009-2010 PhD Awardees & Dissertation TitlesAkavia, Naamah (Science) “Subjectivity in Motion: Movement Between Psyche and Soma in the Work of Hermann Rorschach” Chair: Prof. N. Wise
Carter, Tracey Lynn (Africa) “The Historical Role of Griots in Gambian Politics” Chairs: Profs. E. Alpers & A. Apter
Conedera, Sam Zeno (Medieval) “Ecclesiastical Chivalry: The Military-Religious Life in Leon-Castile, 1150-1330” Chair: Prof. T. Ruiz
Cowan, Benjamin (Latin America) “The Secret History of Subversion: Sex, Modernity, and the Brazilian National Security State” Chair: Prof. R. Derby
Davis, Ann Marie Lynn (Japan) “'The Prostitute' in Modern Japan (1850-1912)” Chair: Prof. S. Traweek
Eason, David Anthony (Japan) “The Culture of Disputes in Early Modern Japan, 1550-1700” Chair: Prof. H. Ooms
Friedman, Toba Malka (Europe) “'At the Block All Hero He Appear'd:' Noble Execution and Redemption in Tudor England” Chair: Prof. M. McClendon
Gonzalez, Joan Gabriela (Europe) “Opera as Propaganda: The Trajan-Napoleon Parallel in Le Triomphe de Trajan” Chairs: Profs. S. McClary & K. Norberg
Guillory, Sean Christopher (Europe) “We Shall Refashion Life on Earth! The Political Culture of the Young Communist League,1918-1928” Chair: Prof. J.A. Getty
Mokhberi, Susan Marie (Europe) “France and Persia in the Age of Absolutism” Chair: Prof. K. Norberg
Nichols-Geerdes, Sasha (United States) “Ancient Systems of Trade: Organizing Commerce in the Colonial North” Chair: Prof. N. Lamoreaux
Palinic, Bo Kristin (Europe) “Otto Preminger's Laura, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Angel Face: An Obsession with Freudian Psychology” Chairs: Profs. P. Baldwin & A. Field
Perez, Erika (United States) "Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality and Marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885." Chair: Prof. S. Aron
Prasad, Ritika (South Asia) “Tracking Modernity: The Experience of Railways in Colonial India, 1853-1947” Chair: Prof. V. Lal
Rodriguez, Victor Jose (United States) “The Practical Man: John Dewey, The Idea of America, and the Making of the Modern Mexican, 1898-1934” Chairs: Profs. R. Derby & J. Wang
Schoolman, Edward McCormick (Ancient) “Civic Transformation of the Mediterranean City: Ravenna and Antioch, 300-800 CE” Chair: Prof. C. Rapp
Sharma, Patrick Allan (United States) “The Road to Structural Adjustment: Changing Norms of Development at Robert McNamara's World Bank, 1968-1981” Chair: Prof. E. Dubois
Silverman, Aaron (United States) “A Dark Spectre: The Haitian Revolution and American Politics” Chair: Prof. B. Stevenson
Takeuchi, Michiko (Japan) “Pan-Pan Girls and GIs: The Japan-U.S. Military Prostitution System in Occupied Japan (1945-1952)” Chair: Prof. S. Traweek
Tortorici, Zeb Joseph (Latin America) “Contra Natura: Sin, Crime and Unnatural Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800” Chair: Prof. K. Terraciano
Turkyilmaz, Zeynep (Near East) “Anxieties of Conversion: Missionaries, State and Heterodox Communities in the Late Ottoman Empire” Chair: Prof. J. Gelvin
Villella, Peter Buckingham (Latin America) “The True Heirs to Anahuac: Native Nobles, Creole Patriots and the 'Natural Lords' of Colonial Mexico” Chair: Prof. K. Terraciano
2008-2009 PhD Awardees & Dissertation TitlesBETTS, Mellissa (AF) “Namibia’s No Man’s Land: Race, Space and Identity in the History of Windhoek Coloureds Under South African Rule, 1915-1990) Chair: Prof. Edward A. Alpers
BISWAS, Paromita (US) “Colonial Displacements: Nationalist Longing and Identity Among Early Indian Intellectuals in the United States” Chair: Prof. Michael Salmon
CHASIN, Stephanie (EUJ) “Citizens of Empire: Jews in the Service of the British Empire, 1906-1940” Chair: Prof. David Myers
CONTRERAS, Carlos (LA) “Bankruptcy to NAFTA: Mexico’s Foreign Policy Opens to the World, 1982-1994” Chair: Prof. James Wilkie
DABARS, William (EU) “Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity: Rhetoric and Context in the American Research University" Chair: Prof. David Sabean
EASTERLY, Michael (US) “Your Job is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885-1920” Chair: Prof. Naomi Lamoreaux
HOLLIS, Corey. (EU) “The Social Navigations of Sir Robert Dudley 1574-1649” Chair: Prof. Muriel McClendon
JOY, Natalie (US) “Hydra’s Head: Fighting Slavery and Indian Removal in Antebellum American” Chair: Prof. Ellen DuBois
LEWIS, Mark (EU) “International Legal Movements Against War Crimes, Terrorism, and Genocide, 1919-1948” Chair: Prof. Ivan Berend
LI, Fangchun (CH) “Class, Power and the Contradictions of Chinese Revolutionary Modernity: Interpreting Land Reform in Northern China 1946-48” Co-Chairs: Prof. Phillip Huang and Prof. Kathryn Bernhardt
MAESTREJUAN, Andrea (EU) “Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology During the Kaiserreich 1877-1914” Chair: Prof. David Sabean
MURILLO, Dana Velasco (LA) “Urban Indians in a Silver City, Zacatecas, Mexico 1546-1806” Chair: Prof. Kevin Terraciano
POLANICHKA, Dana (ME) “Precious Stones, Living Temples: Sacred Space in Carolingian Churches, 751-833 C.E.” Chair: Prof. Patrick Geary
RICHARDSON, K.C. (REL) “Early Christian Care for the Poor: An Alternative Subsistence Strategy Under Roman Imperial Rule”, Co-Chairs: Prof. Ron Mellor and Dr. Scott Bartchy
SCHREIER, Jesse (US) “Different Shades of Freedom: Indians, African Americans, and Race in the Choctaw Nation, 1800-1907” Chair: Prof. Stephen Aron
STANSBURY, Jeffrey (US) “Organized Workers and the Making of Los Angeles, 1890-1915). Chair: Prof. Janice Reiff
STEIN, Joshua (US) “The Right to Violence: Assault Prosecution in New York, 1760-1840” Chair: Prof. Ruth Bloch
WARD, Walter (AN) “From Provincia Arabia to Palaestina Tertia: The Impact of Geography, Economy, and Religion on the Sedentary and Nomadic Communities in the Later Roman Province of the Third Palestine” Co-Chairs: Prof. Ron Mellor and Prof. Claudia Rapp
WELDEMICHAEL, Awet (AF/SEA) “The Eritrean and East Timorese Liberation Movements. Toward a Comparative Study of Movements: Toward a Comparative Study of the Grand Strategies” Co-Chairs: Prof. Geoffrey Robinson and Prof. Edward A. Alpers
WILLIAMS, Jakobi (US) “Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago: A Case Study of Fred Hampton, the Illinois Black Panther Party and the Origin of the Rainbow Coalition” Chair: Prof. Brenda Stevenson
2007-2008 PhD Awardees & Dissertation TitlesBARNETT, TERESA (US) “The Nineteenth-Century Relic: A Prehistory of the Historical Artifact” Chair: Prof. Joan Waugh
BARNHART, Megan (US) “To Secure the Benefits of Science to the General Welfare: Scientists' Political Activism and the American Public during the Cold War, 1945-1960” Chair: Prof. Jessica Wang
BARZILAI-LUMBROSO, Ruth (NE)"Turkish Men, Ottoman Women: Popular Turkish Historians and the Writing of Ottoman Women's History" Co-Chairs: Prof. Nikki Keddie and Prof. Gabriel Piterberg
BROWNE, Errol Tsekani (US) “Anna Julia Cooper and Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition: Race, Gender and Intellectual Tradition: Nation in the Making of a Modern Race Woman, 1892-1925” Chair: Prof. Brenda Stevenson
CASTEEL, Eric (SC) “Entrepot and Backwater: A Cultural History of the Transfer of Medical Knowledge from Leiden to Edinburgh, 1692-1738” Chair: Margaret Jacob
CHOI, SUNG (EU)“From Colonial Citizen to Postcolonial Repatriate: Decolonization and the Integration of the French from Algeria, 1962 to the Present" Chair: Prof. Perry Anderson
CINI, Carol Frances (US) “Making Women’s Rights Matter: Diverse Activists, California’s Commission on the Status of Woman, and the Legislative and Social Impact of a Movement, 1962-1976” Chair: Prof. Ellen DuBois
COOPER OWENS, Deirdre (US) “’Courageous Negro Servitors’ and Laboring Irish Bodies: An Examination of Antebellum-Era Modern American Gynecology” Chair: Prof. Brenda Stevenson
DEES, Robert (EU) “Economics and Politics of Peasant Production in South Germany, 1350-1650” Chair: Prof. David Sabean
DEMARE, Brian James (CH) “Turning Bodies and Turning Minds: Land Reform and Chinese Political Culture, 1946-1952” Chair: Prof. Philip Huang
DIXON, John (US) “Cadwallader Colden and the Rise of Public Dissension: Politics, Science, and Print in Pre-Revolutionary New York” Chair: Prof. Ruth Bloch
EISSENSTAT, Howard (NE) “The Limits of Imagination: Debating the Nation and Constructing the State in Early Turkish Nationalism” Chair: Prof. James Gelvin
EL-SHAMMAA, Magdy Mounir (NE) “Shadows of Contemporary Lives: Modernity, Culture, and National Identity in Egyptian Filmmaking” Chair: Prof. James Gelvin
GIBBS, Jenna Marie (EU) “Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Rights, and Revolution in Transatlantic Theatricality (1760-1830)” Chair: Professor Margaret Jacob
GINOZA, Naomi (JA) “Dissonance to Affinity: An Ideological Analysis of Japanese Cinema in the 1930s” Prof. Fred Notehelfer
HAWKINS, Michael Gary (US) “Co-Producing the Postcolonial: U.S.-Philippine Cinematic Relations, 1946-1986” Chair: Prof. Michael Salman
HUI, Alexandra (SC) “Hearing Sound as Music: Psychophysical Studies of Sound Sensation and the Music Culture of German, 1860-1910” Chair: Prof. Norton Wise
LEE, Anthony (AF) "The Establishment of the Baha'i Faith ion West Africa: The First Decade, 1952-1962" Chair: Prof. Edward A. Alpers
LE NORMAND, Brigitte (EU) “Raising the Phoenix: the Wax and Waning of Modernist Urban Planning in Belgrade, 1945-1972” Chair: Prof. Ivan Berend
LIVIE, Kyle (US) “Wide Open Spaces: Rural Communities and the Making of Metropolitan California, 1870-1940” Chair: Prof. Jan Reiff
LUDDINGTON, Peter (US) “Why the Good War Was Good: Franklin Roosevelt’s New World Order” Chair: Prof. Richard Weiss
MAYNARD, Kelly (EU) "The Enemy Within: Hearing Wagner in Early Third Republican France" Chair: Professor Debora Silverman
MUSIL, Emily (AF) "La Marianne Noire: How Gender and Race in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World Reshaped the Debate about Human Rights" Chairs: Prof. Edward A. Alpers and Prof. Ghislaine Lydon
PADDISON, Joshua Allen (US) “American Heathens: Religion, Race and Reconstruction in California” Chair: Prof. Stephen Aron
PADWA, Howard (EU) “Narcotics vs. the Nation: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Use in Britain and France, 1821-1931” Chair: Prof. Peter Baldwin
ORTEGA, Jose Guadalupe (LA) “The Cuban Sugar Complex in the Age of Revolution, 1789, 1844” Co-Chairs: Prof. James Lockhart and Prof. Kevin Terraciano
RAY, Michael S. (LA) “The Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations: A New Methodology for Evaluating Measurements of Social and Economic Change in Latin American and Other World Regions” Chair: Prof. James Wilkie
ROCKWELL, Nicholas Ryan (AN) “The Boeotian Army: The Convergence of Warfare, Politics, Society, and Culture in the Classical Age of Greece” Chair: Prof. David Phillips
RYAN, Dan (EU) “The Tsar's Faith: Conversion, Commitment, and Contestation in Livland Province, 1845-1870” Chair: Stephen Frank
RYAN, Joseph (LA) “"Credit Where Credit is Due: Lending and Borrowing in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1900" Chair: Prof. William Summerhill
SCHULL, Kent (NE) “Penal Institutions, Nation-state Construction, and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908-1919” Chair: Prof. James L. Gelvin
2006-2007 PhD Awardees & Dissertation TitlesBRIMMER, Brandi (US) “All Her Rights and Privileges: African American Civil War Widows and the Politics of Widows' Pensions”, Chairs – Prof. Naomi Lamoreaux and Prof. Laura Edwards (Duke)
DAUVERD, Celine (EU) “Symbiotic Mediterranean Empire: The Genoese Trade Diaspora in Spanish Naples, 1460-1640”, Chair – Prof. Geoffrey Symcox
FIRPO, Christina (SEA) “’The Durability of the Empire:’ Race, Empire and ‘Abandoned’ Children in Colonial Vietnam 1870-1956,” Chair - Geoffrey Robinson and Thu Huong Nguyen-Vo
EYAL, Hillel (LA) “Colonizing the Colonizer: Spanish Immigrants and Creoles in Late Colonial Mexico City”, Chair – Prof. José Moya
FAGAN, Patricia (ME) - "Pope Adrian IV, the Clear-Eyed Chief Executive, and His Papacy (1154-1159)", Chair – Prof. Teo Ruiz
GALINDO, Alfonso J. (LA) "Why is Mexico Unstable? Corporativism and Rent-Seeking since 1929", Chair - Prof. James Wilkie
GERARDO, Mehera (US) “Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in WWII Los Angeles”, Chair – Prof. Ellen DuBois
HENRY, Todd (JA) - "Keijo: Japanese and Korean Constructions of Colonial Seoul and the History of its Lived Spaces, 1910-37", Chair – Prof. Miriam Silverberg
HOPPER, Matthew (AF) “The African Presence in Arabia: Slavery, the World Economy, and the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia, 1840-1940”, Chair – Prof. Edward A. Alpers
HSU, Danny (CH) “Impeachments and Administrative Litigation in Qing and Republican Law”, Chairs – Prof. Kathryn Bernhardt, Prof. Philip Huang
KAFKA, Linus (US) “Cosmopolitan Connections: Henry Adams, His Circle, and the Global Gilded Age”, Chair – Prof. Thomas Hines
KENT, Max (EU) “The British Enlightenment and the Sprit of the Industrial Revolution: The Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce: 1754-1815”, Chair – Prof. Ivan Berend
LOPEZ-DENIS, Adrian (LA) “Disease and Society in Colonial Cuba, 1790-1840”, Chair- Prof. José Moya
MARTOS, Sofia (LA) “The Balancing Act: Ethnicity, Commerce, and Politics Among Syrian and Lebanese Immigrants in Argentina, 1890-1955”, Chair – Prof. Jose Moya
PANGBURN, Kris (EU) “Personal Immortalities: German Perspectives on Life after Death, 1770-1820”, Chair - Prof. Peter Reill
POBLETE-CROSS, JoAnna (US) “Intra-Colonial Lives: Puerto Rican and Filipino sugar plantation labor recruits to Hawai’i, 1900 to 1940”, Chair – Prof. Henry Yu
RICE, Melinda (EU) “A Fool and His Money: Culture and Financial Choice during the John Law Affair of 1720”, Chair – Prof. Kate Norberg
ROLSTON, Arthur (US) “Constituting Capitalism: Constitutional Revision in Kentucky and Ohio from the Jacksonian Age to the Progressive Era”, Chairs – Prof. Naomi Lamoreaux and Prof. Stephen Aron
STERNFELD, Joshua (EU) “Jazz Echoes: The Cultural and Sociopolitical Reception of Jazz in Weimar and Nazi Berlin, 1925-1945”, Chair – Prof. Debora Silverman
SUH, So Young (SC) “Korean Medicine between the Local and the Universal: 1600-1945”, Chairs – Prof. Norton Wise and Prof. Charlotte Furth (USC)
TODOROV, Boris (ME) “The Bulgarians between the Two Romes: The Discourse of Power in Medieval Bulgaria”, Chair – Prof. Patrick Geary
UHLMANN, Jennifer (US) “The Communist Civil Rights Movement: Legal Activism in the United States, 1919-1946”, Chair – Prof. Ellen DuBois
VIEIRA-MARTINEZ, Carolyn (AF) “Building Kimbundu: Historical Language Communities Reconsidered in Central Africa, c.1500-1750”, Co-Chairs: Prof. Edward A. Alpers and Prof. Christopher Ehret
2005-2006 PhD Awardees & Dissertation TitlesAlagona, Peter (Science) Endangered Species, Politics and the History of Conservation Biology; Chair: Jessica Wang
Anooshahr, Ali (NE) The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam; Chair: Michael Morony
Benitez, Juan (United States) A Social History of the Mexico-United States Border: How Tourism, Demographic Shifts and Economic Integration Shaped the Image and Identity of Tijuana Baja, California, Since World War II; Co-Chairs: Jose Moya & James Wilkie
Bond, Robert (NE) Office of the Ottoman Court Historian of Vak’aniivij, 1714-1922: An Institutional and Prosoprographic Study; Chair: Stanford Shaw
Bottoms, Donald (United States) An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in Post-Gold Rush California; Chair: Stephen Aron
Breiteneicher, Jessica (US), The First Casualties: American Nation-Building in South Vietnam, 1955-1965; Co-chairs: Jessica Wang & Geoffrey Robinson
Britton, Glenn (US) “Improving” the Middle Landscape: Conservation and Social Change in Rural Southern Michigan, 1890-1940; Chair: Stephen Aron
Campbell, Marne (United States) Race and Revival: A Social History of African-American Migration to Los Angeles, 1870-1920; Chair: Brenda Stevenson
Chappell, L. Stephen (Ancient) Romanization in Dacia; Chair: Ronald Mellor
Elkind, Jessica (US) The First Casualties: American Nation-Building in South Vietnam, 1955-1965; Co-Chairs: Jessica Wang & Geoffrey Robinson
Emon, Anver (NE) The Natural Law Tradition in Islam; Chair: Robert I. Burns
Garcia, David G.(US), The Evolution of a Critical Race Theater: Culture Clash and Chicana/o Performance Art 1965-2004, Chair: Juan Gomez-Quinones
Gifford, Laura (United States) The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism; Chair: Jessica Wang
Graham, Wade (United States) Braided Waters: Environment, Economy and Community in Molokai, Hawaii; Chair: Steve Aron
Kim, Susan Chongmi (United States) The Life of John Rogers: Sectarian Leadership in New London, 1674-1721; Chair: Joyce Appleby
Lambert, Kevin (SC) Mind Over Matter: Language, Mathematics, and Electromagnetism in Nineteenth Century Britain; Chair: Norton Wise
Lebovic, Nitzan (EU) The Politicalization of ‘Lebensphilosophie’ From Ludwig Klages to National Socialism, 1870-1933; Co-Chairs: Saul Friedlander & David Myers
McDonough, Scott (NE) Power by Negotiation: Institutional Reform in the Fifth Century Sasanian Empire; Co-Chairs: Claudia Rapp & Michael Morony
Mcvety, Amanda (United States) U.S. Development Policy and the Point Four Program; Chair: Jessica Wang
Memarzadeh, Maher (Latin America) Medical Practitioners in Early Colonial Mexico; Co-Chairs: Kevin Terraciano & Michael Morony
Mineo, Claudia (EU) Power, Law and Memory: The Struggle Over Municipal Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Castile; Chair: Teo Ruiz
Nelson, William (EU) The Weapon of Time: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year I.; Chair: Lynn Hunt
Numark, Mitch (South Asia) Translating Religion in British India: Missionaries and the Politics of Religious Knowledge in Colonial Bombay and British India; Chair: Vinay Lal
Park, Peter (EU) The Exclusion of Asia from the Formation of a Modern Canon of Philosophy: Debates in German Philosophy, 1790-1830; Chair: Peter Reill
Raia, Courtenay (EU) Intersecting Science, Empire and the Super Natural in the Victorian Fin de Siecle; Chair: Theodore Porter
Strub, Whitney (United States) Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Obscenity and Pornography in the Postwar United States; Chair: Ruth Bloch
Suh, So (Science) From Tngui to Hanui: Inventing the Tradition of Korean Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea; Co-Chairs: M. Norton Wise
Theisen, Joseph (Latin America) Strategic Struggle for World Oil: Standard Oil of New Jersey and Hidden Elitelore in Mexico's Expropration; Chair: James Wilkie
Tran, Lisa (CH) Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law, 1912-1953; Co-Chairs: Philip Huang & Kathryn Bernhardt
Trenchard-Smith, Margaret (Ancient Byzantine) Categories and Modes of Unreason in Early Medieval Byzantium; Chair: Claudia Rapp
2004-2005 PhD Awardees & Dissertation TitlesGoldfarb, Elizabeth Bisbee (AN) Transformation Through Imitation: Biblical Figures as Moral Exempla in the Post-Classical World; Chair: Claudia Rapp
Graham, Stacey (ME) The Dissemination of North African Christian and Intellectual Culture in Late Antiquity; Co-Chairs Claudia Rapp & Richard Rouse
Guzman, Kristen (US) Art in the Heart of East L.A.: A History of Self Help Graphics and Art, Inc., 1972-2002; Chair: Juan Gomez-Quinones
Halloran, Fiona (US) The Power of the Pencil: Thomas Nast and American Political Art; Chair: Joan Waugh
Hu, Minghui (SC) Cosmopolitan Confucianism and the Mathematical Way, 1720-1840; Co-Chairs: Ben Elman & Theodore Porter
Jaaska, Arne (ME) Raetia and Alamania: The Mixed Cultural World of a Former Roman Province in the Early Middle Ages; Chair: Patrick Geary
Milton, Gregory (ME): Commerce, Crisis and Society in a Medieval Village: Santa Coloma de Queralt, 1294-1313; Chair: Teofilo Ruiz
Monty, Christopher (RU) Moscow is Far Away: Stalin’s Party Inspectors and the Politics of Personnel During the New Economic Policy, 1921-1928; Chair: Arch Getty
Ostergren, Gail (US) Angels and Saints: Making and Promoting Place in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1890-1932; Chair: Janice Reiff
Rosenthal, Nicholas (US) Re-Imagining “Indian Country”: American Indians and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area; Chair: Melissa Meyer
Rusk, Bruce (CH) The Rogue Classicist: Feng Fang (1493-1566) and His Forgeries; Chair: Ben Elman
Scourtis, Constantina (BYZ) Failure of Reconciliation: The Byzantine Experience at the Council of Ferrara-1438-39; Chair: Barisa Krekic
Shulman, Elena (RU) Pacifying a Marvelous Land: Gender and Settlement in the Soviet Far East, 1937-1940; Chair: Arch Getty
Vanderbilt, Gregory (US) “The Kingdom of God is Like a Mustard Seed”: Evangelizing Modernity Between the U.S. and Japan, 1905-1948; Co- Chairs: Joyce Appleby & Fred Notehelfer
Zhang, Jiayan (CH) Environmental Change, Economic Growth, and Peasant Behavior: Agrarian History of the Jiaghan Plain, 1644-1949; Co-Chairs: Philip Huang & Kathryn Bernhardt
Zwick, Tamara (EU) Correspondence Between Public and Private: German Women, Kinship and Class in 19th-Century Hamburg; Chair: David Sabean



