Subfield: Near East

Subfield: Late Roman and Early Medieval Iberia, archaeology, Colonial Latin America

Dissertation: What They Fight For -- The Men and Women of Reenactment. An examination of the modern phenomenon of reenacting, and what it can tell us about the memory of the Civil War and the place of history in modern America.

Subfield: U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

Scottie's specialty is the history of midwifery, obstetrics, and gynecology from 1500-1800 in France and England. Other interests include the history of medicine more generally and history of the body. Her dissertation focuses on midwifery training in late eighteenth century France and the texts, objects, and images used.

Subfield: History of Science and Medicine

Sovereignty, War, and Natural Resource: Northeast China’s Economic Development (1901-1931) My dissertation project aims at offering a comparative analysis of the emergences, practices and values of state rationality in terms of the capacity to exert control over timber resources in Northeast China between the Japanese and Chinese forestry regime-making in the early 20th century, focusing on the state planning, the government-firm relation, Korean migration, and the forest species hierarchy change in Fengtian and Jilin provinces during 1901-1937. The interplay between Japanese merchants, Chinese huozhan leaders, and Korean migration showed the multi-layered sovereignty conceptions. The involvement of the Mitsui timber firms changed the hierarchy of the forest species and contributed to the efficiency growth in the 1930s that the PRC government inherited.

Subfield: Modern Chinese History; Environmental History, Economic History, Social History of Forests, History of Manchuria, History of Japanese Imperialism

I am broadly interested in the economic and social history of the late medieval Mediterranean (c. 1000-1450), with an emphasis on medieval Catalonia, and on medieval urbanization, trade, townspeople and artisans. I also have a particular interest in the definition and interconnection of medieval regions, and on the imposition of political boundaries in the creation and redefinition of territory.

Subfield: Medieval European History

Currently I am interested in how the mechanisms of the Israeli state prior to 1967 contributed to the incorporation of the Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel into the Israeli body politic. Methodologically, I have a bias towards extensive archival research of the Israeli civic and military bureaucracy which contain many small instances where the system was challenged by individual people and unforeseen circumstances. These vignettes reveal the daily struggles the Palestinian-Arab citizens faced but also shed light on the inner logic of Zionism. Analytically, my research utilizes a particular reading of the theoretical literature of settler colonial studies which takes note of the historical tendency of settler colonial societies to enact inclusive political frameworks with remnants of the indigenous population.

Subfield: Colonialism; Settler-Colonialism; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

My dissertation is entitled, "Little Island into Mighty Base: Indigeneity, Race, and U.S. Empire in Guam, 1941-1962," which examines the U.S. military expansion of Guam through indigenous land stewardship and civilian military labor. This process of militarization resulted in various interracial encounters among Chamorros, Filipinos, and white Americans that were peaceful, violent, and in some instances deadly. Thus, my study underscores the connections between empire, indigeneity, and diaspora in a highly contested racialized island. This project relies on a transnational approach that includes archival sources from California, Guam, Maryland, the Philippines, and Washington D.C. These records are combined with oral history interviews that I conducted on Guam with activists, educators, professors, farmers, landowners, former civilian military laborers, and former politicians."

Subfield: 20th Century United States History; Pacific Islander History; Asian American History; Native American History; Empire; Immigration; Indigeneity; Labor; Race/Ethnicity; Oral History; U.S. and the World.

Subfield: Science

Subfield: Atlantic World, Atlantic World Religion, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonial Empires

Chinese opera, actors and entertainers, migration, native-place networks

Subfield: Late Imperial China

My dissertation seeks to uncover the meaning of interracial worship at the Azusa Street Revival and its subsequent fading from Pentecostal practice by the second decade of the twentieth century. Charting the migrations of the revival's participants, from the Midwest and South to Los Angeles beginning in the 1880s, I argue that an understanding of the racial landscapes of Los Angeles, as well as currents of religious thought from earlier revival moments in American history, will aid our understanding of Pentecostalism?s nascent growth in Southern California. The imagined meanings of religion and race worked in tandem to not just foster the development of early Pentecostalism, but also cut short its socially transgressive practices.

Subfield: American West, African American History, History of Religion

Subfield: Ming, Qing China; Vietnam

Subfield: Japan

Subfield: 20th Century U.S.; Southern California; History of Education

Janice Levi's project primarily centers on the oral narrative of the House of Israel (Ghana) and how their faith identity is constructed through knowledge of oral histories, performative/ritual memory, and encounters with normative Judaism. Her project seeks to historicize the oral narrative through archival record, practical memory, and via sites of memory (archaeological and abstract). Additionally, she is interested in how ideological trends concerning Hebraic heritage (may have) influenced the narrative of this community.

Subfield: African History | Research Interests: African History, Jewish History, Memory Studies, Identity Studies, Race Politics, and Material Culture

Subfield: European Medicine in China, History of Medicine

“Southern California Chivalry: The Convergence of Southerners and Californios in the Far Southwest, 1846-1866.” Ph.D. diss., 2015.

Subfield: US, World, History Education

Subfield: 20th Century United States, Race and Popular Music, Political History

2014 Resident Scholar, Autry National Center Institute for the Study of the American West, Undisciplined Research Project

Subfield: 18th-20th Century U.S. & American Indian History

Subfield: 20th Century US, California, Western US, Urban, Planning, Cultural, Oral History, Public History

Juan Pablo is a PhD candidate in U.S. History specializing in Chicana and Chicano History and currently is a managing editor for Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal. Juan Pablo is also an interviewer for the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research, conducting oral histories on the High Potential Program at UCLA between 1968-1971.

Subfield: Twentieth-Century United States; Chicana/o History

Subfield: Middle East and South Asia

His research interests include the first socialist African revolution, the coherency of Kwame Nkrumah’s political and economic ideas, and Ghana’s economic and state-building methods in relation to the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy. While his work is primarily Ghana-centric, it explores how the intellectual processes and formulations in the United States, Britain, Caribbean, Soviet Union, and other African nations shaped and intersected in Ghana.

Subfield: Intellectual African History, Nkrumahism, CPP, Ghanaian State, State Capitalism, Modernization, Labor, Soviet Union, Intellectual Networks, South Africa

Science museums, history of anthropology, German history of science in the Kaiserreich, visual culture of science and scientific publications.

Subfield: History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Subfield: United States

Property Ownership, Race, Political Subjectivity, Militarization and Historicity in nineteenth-century Haiti and the Caribbean

Subfield: Latin American and Caribbean History, Afro-Atlantic History, Environment and History

In my research I consider the impact of silver mining in colonial Guanajuato on the indigenous cummunities that provided the labor force for the mines. In particular, I consider the participation of workers from Purépecha communities in Michoacan.

Subfield: Latin American History; Ethnohistory; Colonial Mexican History; Michoacán and Guanajuato

Subfield: African

Subfield: Africa; Diaspora; Islam; Intellectual History

My doctoral research considers the place of the Roman Republic and its imperialism in the formation of Italian humanist thinking about empire from c. 1350 to c. 1550, culminating in a systematic reconstruction of Machiavelli's theory of republican empire in his Discourses on Livy.

Subfield: Late Medieval and Early Modern European Intellectual History

Subfield: United States