Graduate Students

  • ACKER, LAUREN BETH - acker@ucla.edu (C.Phil U.S. History, 2009, M.A. U.S. History, UCLA, 2008, B.A. History, Cornell University, 2006) Subfield: US Field, Nineteenth Century - My dissertation will focus on the political culture of Savannah, Georgia, from 1885 to 1910. Political battles over segregation were a defining aspect of Savannah’s transformation into a modern city of the New South and marked a contentious renegotiation of political and racial dynamics that would endure in the city for decades.
  • ALVAREZ, MILO M. - alvarezm@ucla.edu (UCLA, C. Phil., U.S. History (2008) UC Riverside, M.A., U.S. History (2002) UCLA, B.A., Major: History, Minor: Chicana/o Studies (2000) ) Subfield: Chicana/o History-Chicano Movement Era - Dissertation: "On the Shoulders of Generations: The Brown Berets of Aztlan in the Long Civil Rights Era" is the first national history of the Brown Beret Movement and is the first study to analyze the Chicano Movement in a national context that engages the notion of a "Long Civil Rights Movement" (LCRM) construct and its direct links to the activism of the 1960s and 70s. Thus, my work intends to conceptualize the LCRM in a way that is relevant to the Mexican American experience and intends to shed light on how we may rethink the Chicano Movement specifically as a national phenomenon and its reshaping of our understandings of Civil Rights in the United States.
  • AMERIAN, STEPHANIE - samerian@ucla.edu (C.Phil. History (U.S.), 2008 M.A. History (U.S.), UCLA, 2007 B.A. History, UC-Berkeley, 2004) Subfield: Consumerism, Gender history, Fashion history, Women in business - Tentative Dissertation Title: "Fifth Avenue's First Lady": Dorothy Shaver and the Business of American Style, 1893-1959 Dorothy Shaver was a pioneering female executive who was the president of Lord & Taylor department store in New York from 1945 to 1959.
  • APTER, NORMAN D. - napter@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese History. M.A. in East Asian Studies, University of Virginia, 1999. B.A. in History, The College of William and Mary, 1995.) Subfield: Late Imperial and Modern China, Modern Japan, Modern Russia - Research interests include state-society relations, history of social relief, history of children and childhood, and urban development in modern China. Dissertation topic: "The Historical Evolution of Child Welfare in Contemporary China." Investigating the practices and conceptual underpinnings of the project to nurture, educate, train and discipline dependent children (abandoned infants, orphans, child refugees, street urchins) in China from the early 20th century to the present.
  • BALL, MOLLY CATHERINE - mollyball@ucla.edu (C.Phil, October 2008; M.A. Latin American History, UCLA, June 2008; B.A. Spanish and History, Clemson University, May 2005) Subfield: Latin America since 1759; Latin American, 1492-1830; economic history - My dissertation uses a set of wage and wage-related data to examine the nature of inequality and industrialization in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, during the Old Republic. Early twentieth century immigration, the international labor market and identifying wage determinants are also key features of my research.
  • BARDEEN, REGAN BUCK - rbuckbardeen@ucla.edu (C.Phil. (2009) and M.A. (2008) in African History, UCLA; B.A. (2003) in History and Women's Studies, University of Kansas) Subfield: Africa; colonial West Africa; Nigerian print culture - The history of the book in twentieth-century Yorubaland, Nigeria, and the role of writers, printers and readers in the formation of new Yoruba political and religious identities.
  • BARNHART, MEGAN KATHLEEN - mbarnhar@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate in American History, UCLA. BA in History, Bryn Mawr College, 1999.) Subfield: Twentieth century U.S. political history; history of science - Dissertation: “Scientists’ Political Activism and the American Public during the Cold War Era, 1945-1975.” Examining the grassroots political activism of scientists involved in groups devoted to promoting nuclear arms control. Considering how scientists attempted to educate, inform, and mobilize the general public, and the public's response to scientific activism.
  • BATES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE - jrhtp@ucla.edu (B.A. in History, UCLA 1996; Masters in History, UCLA 1999.) Subfield: U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction - 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.
  • BENANAV, AARON - abenanav@ucla.edu (BA in History, University of Chicago, 2001) Modern European and American economic history, focusing on the decline of manufacturing and the rise of service-work in the post-war period; also European intellectual history and critical theory: Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis.
  • BENTON, BRADLEY - bbenton@ucla.edu (C.Phil. (2007) in History, UCLA; M.A. (2005) in Latin American Studies, Tulane University; B.A. (2003) in Spanish/Political Science, Furman University) Subfield: Colonial Latin America, Central Mexican Ethnohistory - Local politics in sixteenth-century Tetzcoco, New Spain. Negotiation of power between indigenous leaders and Spaniards. Factionalism among the Tetzcoca indigenous nobility. M.A. thesis: "Early Tetzcoco: Local Governance and the Waning Influence of the Second City of the Aztec Empire."
  • BROWN, DEBORAH ANNA - brownd@ucla.edu (C.Phil., April 2008; M.A., Brown University, May 2003; B.A. in History and African/African-American Studies with Honors in Jewish Studies, Stanford University, June 1999.) Subfield: Modern Europe, Germany, Jewish History, History of Science, History of Statistics, Nationalism, Legal Codes and the Construction of Bureaucracy.
  • CAMPRUBI, LINO - linocamprubi@ucla.edu (2008, Advanced to Candidacy (PhD candidate in History), University of California, Los Angeles. 2008, M. A. History, University of California, Los Angeles. 2006, M. A. History and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Sevilla. 2004, B. A. Philosophy, Universidad de Sevilla. ) Subfield: History of Science - Tentative dissertation title: "Engineering a Dictatorship: How Science, Technology and the State transformed the Spanish Landscape in the early years of Franco’s rule (1939-1959)." Hopefully, this will be a revision of early Francoist Spain from the point of view of the history of science and technology. It includes economic and enviromental history. I am also very interested in the relations between history and philosophy, not least philosophy of science.
  • CARTER, TRACEY LYNN - tracey_carter@post.harvard.edu (CPhil, History (Africa), UCLA, 2005; MA, History (Africa), UCLA, 2004; BA, African American Studies, Harvard, 1995.) Subfield: West Africa, African diaspora, oral tradition - History of griots and their role in the Mande world; Influence of griots on Gambian political history
  • CASTEEL, ERIC G. - ecasteel@ucla.edu (Ph.D., European History (2007); M.A., Theology, Concordia University (1998)) Subfield: History of Science & Religion - Dissertation: “Entrepôt and Backwater: A Cultural History of the Transfer of Medical Knowledge from Leiden to Edinburgh, 1690-1740.” The dissertation examines student culture at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leiden, particularly in relation to the transfer of knowledge from Leiden to the nascent medical Faculty at the University of Edinburgh. Chair: Margaret C. Jacob
  • CHANG, WINIFRED - winifredchang@ucla.edu (UCLA, C.Phil (2008). UCLA, M.A in Chinese History, 2008. Pomona College, B.A. in History and Philosophy (2004). ) Subfield: Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, modern Chinese history, modern Japanese history, Chinese literature
  • CHAVEZ, MIGUEL MARCELLO - mmarcellochavez@ucla.edu (History PhD Candidate, UC Los Angeles, 2010. History BA, UC Berkeley, 2002.) Subfield: 19th and 20th Century US/North Mexican History, the American West and Frontier/Borderlands, 20th and 21st Century Social Movements, Cultural Studies, Post/Colonialism, Chicana Chicano Studies, and Oral History. - “Las Cuatro Esquinas: The Chicana Chicano Movement in the West Side of Los Angeles, 1964-1978” is the first study to examine the development of the movement in four (cuatro) historical Mexican communities in West Los Angeles. The main title of the dissertation is the political slogan that activists used to politicize and unite Mexican communities from Santa Monica, Venice, West Los Sotel, and Culver City. Between the late 1960s and early 1970s, activists from las cuatro esquinas began to use a regional identity to identify a common history. By the mid 1970s, they developed a consciousness that allowed them to identify a common struggle. The significance of these “commonalities” led activists to bring together a population that historically rivaled each other through youth gangs, regional high schools, politics, ideas on race, gender, and class. Presently, West Siders continue to refer to the West Side as las cuatro esquinas and, unfortunately, there remains fragmentation among the barrios. The task of the dissertation is two-fold: it documents a history of Mexican communities and political activities that are not included in the major studies on the movement, and it seeks to bring critical attention to forms of solidarity and unity among las cuatro esquinas. This study combines oral interviews with an array of primary and secondary sources to provide a historical account of events, leadership, organizations, ideas, and people who struggled for political rights in the West Side.
  • CROSBY, DANIEL ERIC - dcrosby@ucla.edu (CPhil, History of Science, UCLA, 2005. MA, History of Science, UCLA, 2003. BA, History, Indiana University, 2001. BS, Mathematics, Purdue University, 1999.) Subfield: History of Science; mathematics and computing; philosophy - Dissertation topic: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and the Mind-Machine Problem, 1950-2000
  • DALY, HEATHER PONCHETTI - hdaly@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate-American History (C.Phil.2007); M.A. in History, UCLA (2006) B.A. in History, U.C. Irvine/Minor, Native American Studies (2004)) Subfield: Native American History; History of the American West; California Indian History - Research: Political resistance to Indian Reorganization Act and the 1953 Termination Act by Southern California Mission Indians.
  • DAUVERD, CELINE - cdauverd@ucla.edu (B.A. Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) 1994; M.A. University of Hawai'i (2000); C. Phil UCLA (2003); PhD UCLA (2007) Subfield: Early Modern European History - Spanish Italy (1450-1650), Trade diaspora, Mediterranean empires, Renaissance Europe, World History.
  • DE LEE, BENJAMIN D. - bendelee@ucla.edu (C. Phil., History, University of California, Los Angeles (2008); M.A., History, UCLA, (2007); Master of Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (2005); M. Div., Saint Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary (2004); B.A., Greek and Latin, Hampden-Sydney College (1998)Phi Beta Kappa. ) Subfield: Rise of Islam, Byzantine Art, Early Christianity, and Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium - M.Th. Thesis: "Asceticism and Sanctity: A Comparative Study of Hagiographical Methodology and Metaphor in Athanasius’s Life of Antony and Theodoret’s Life of Symeon the Stylite." Dissertation: "Niketas Byzantios and the Problem of Islam"
  • DEGUZMAN, JEAN-PAUL R. - paujeanl (at) gmail (dot) com (MA Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles BA Asian American Studies & History Minor, Cal. State Univ., Northridge) Subfield: 20th century US; Asian American Studies; immigration; suburbanization; Los Angeles - My dissertation focuses on, like totally, the San Fernando Valley, but not in any conventional sense. I am captivated by the relationships between marketing and migration, ethnic and community politics and sub/urban and industrial development in the 20th century multiethnic communities of the Valley and how these narratives contribute to, or disrupt, our concepts of urban and suburban. I also maintain political and academic interests in the contemporary LA labor movement and immigrant rights.
  • DESOUZA, WENDY N. - joshowendy@hotmail.com (Ph.D. Candidate, Modern Middle East, UCLA; M.A., History, UCLA; M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; B.A., Political Science, UC Berkeley) Subfield: Modern Iranian Intellectual History, Gender, Colonialism - My research investigates the intersection of gender, spirituality, and European colonialism in the emergence of modern Iranian nationalism. Specifically, I analyze the progression and interaction of these tensions in the voluminous compositions of Iranian philologists living in Europe in the early twentieth century.
  • DOWL, AIMEE - aimeedowl at ucla dot edu (B.A., History (Chinese), Reed College; MLA, Washington University in St. Louis; UCLA History of Science) Early modern Europe and Latin America; late modern Latin America; Atlantic world, history of science, technology, and medicine; gender and feminism; Spanish, Italian, Chinese,
  • DYKSTRA, MAURA DOMINIQUE - maurad@ucla.edu Late Imperial (Ming and Qing, 14th- to 20th-century) social organization. Research topics include secret society organizational structure and economic strategy; community dispute resolution and commercial activity among Chinese in Batavia in the 18th century; and guild restructuring in Suzhou after the Taiping Rebellion, from 1850 - 1900.
  • FAVELO, DOUGLAS VINCENT - dfavelo@ucla.edu (M.A. History, UCLA; M.A. History, CSU Fresno, 2000; B.A. History, CSU Fresno, 1997; ) Subfield: Oscan inscriptional evidence; Egyptian desert monasticism - Dissertation research: Greek and Roman Perceptions on the Lucanians of Southern Italy; M.A. Thesis: The Organization and Historiographical Principles of Marcus Porcius Cato's Origines
  • FLORES, ALFRED PEREDO - apflores@ucla.edu (M.A. History, UC Riverside 2006/ B.A. History, Minor Political Science, UC Riverside 2004/ A.A. Liberal Arts, College of the Desert 2001) Subfield: 20th Century U.S. History; Pacific Islands history; U.S. Empire; Immigration; Technologies of War; Comparative Empire; Indigeneity, and Labor. - My research examines twentieth century U.S. empire in the Pacific Islands with specific interest in Guam.
  • FLORES-MARCIAL, XOCHITL M. - xochitlx@ucla.edu (2003 UCLA Los ngeles, CA Ph.D. Program in History Department. Latin American field, focus on Mexican Colonial Period. Interdisciplinary study in the fields of History, Art history and Linguistics. M.A. History (Latin American Field) Winter 2005. 2001 UCLA Los ngeles, CA B.A., Latin American Studies. Minor in Spanish ) Colonial Oaxaca: The Central Valley Zapotec Colonial Zapotec Document Research Group: October 1999 to present. Two hour weekly meetings with a interdisciplinary research group led by Prof. Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA) and Prof. Pamela Munro (Linguistics). Historic, morphological and syntactic analysis of 16th- 18th century documents, written in Zapotec by native Zapotec speakers. Nahuatl language study group 2003-Present. Spanish and Mexican paleography studies (15th-17th Centuries).
  • GIFFORD, LAURA J. - lgifford@ucla.edu (C.Phil., June 2004; M.A. in American history, UCLA, June 2003; B.A. in history and political science, Pacific Lutheran University, May 2000.) Dissertation: "The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Presidential Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism."
  • GOLDBERG, KEVIN DOUGLAS - kdgoldberg@ucla.edu (M.A. Georgia State University (2004) B.S. Purdue University (1998)) Subfield: Germany, Viticulture, Taste, Wine, Scandinavia - Dissertation: "German Wine and the Invention of Modern Taste, 1850-1914."
  • GUILLORY, SEAN - sguill@ucla.edu (2001-present University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Ph.D. History in progress. 1997-2001, University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA MA History 1999 1995-1997, University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA ) Subfield: Russia, youth, social history, critical theory - Dissertation Title: "We Shall Refashion Life on Earth!": the Political Culture of the Young Communist League, 1918-1928."
  • GUTFREUND, ZEVI MOSES - zevi.gutfreund@ucla.edu (AB in History, Harvard University, 2001) Subfield: United States, American West - School Desegregation in California, Liberalism in the 1960s, the American West
  • GUTIÉRREZ, VERÓNICA A. - veraicon@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate in Colonial Mexican History (C.Phil 2007); M.A., Latin American History, UCLA, 2006; M.F.A., Creative Nonfiction, Penn State, 2004; B.A., Creative Writing, Univ. of San Francisco, 2000) Subfield: Local Religion; Late Medieval/Early Modern Spain; The Tridentine Reforms; Franciscan History and Spirituality; Comparative 16th c Catholic evangelizations; indigenous histories; community histories - My dissertation, "Remapping a Sacred Mesoamerican Landscape: The Sons of Queztalcoatl, the Sons of St. Francis, and the Christianization of San Pedro Cholula, 'la ciudad sagrada,' 1529-1640," analyzes the contributions of both native Cholulteca and friars in remapping Cholula's sacred topography. I argue that the shifting landscape in Cholula is as much due to indigenous agency as to Franciscan pragmatism. Whereas the friars capitalized upon the region's pre-hispanic sacred identity to establish one of the most important Franciscan evangelization complexes in central New Spain, the local Nahuas utilized Franciscan presence in Cholula to retain their pre-hispanic spiritual and political dominance in the region.
  • HABER, MAYA - haberm@ucla.edu (2007 to present -PhD Candidate UCLA European history 2000 - 2006 - School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London; 1997 - 2000 - Modern European History, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 1994 - 1997 - History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel ) Subfield: Russia, Science, agrarian history, European cultural and Intellectual history and Critical Theory - Dissertation Title: Socialist Realist Science: Constructing Knowledge about Soviet Rural Life, 1945-1958. My project examines the interaction between social scientists and collective farmers in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1958. It investigates the knowledge produced about collective farms as a product of two distinct cultures: a scientific urban and a peasant rural culture. The project sheds light on the social sciences as a profession, their interactions, research and methodology of rural life, and the social and cultural world of Soviet collective farmers.
  • HALPERIN, LIORA R. - lhalperin (at) ucla.edu (Harvard University, A.B., 2005 UCLA, M.A., 2007) Subfield: Modern Jewish history, modern Middle Eastern history - History of language ideology and policy in pre-state Jewish Palestine.
  • HERR, JOSHUA - jherr@ucla.edu (Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL), BA, History and Philosophy, 2003; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, MA, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2007) Subfield: Ming, Qing China; Vietnam
  • HOLT, R. JOSEPH - rjholt@ucla.edu (C. Phil., UCLA, 2009; A.M., History, Stanford University, 2001; MALS (Liberal Studies), Reed College, 1996; A.B., History, University of California, Davis, 1993) Subfield: Modern and Early Modern Europe; Intellectual and Cultural; Comparative Literature - Enlightenment & Romanticism; political thought; history of philosophy; and, theories of the self. Dissertation topic: empire, global cultural contact, and conceptions of sociability in the late Enlightenment.
  • HSIA, LISA - lisa12@ucla.edu (BA history, UC Berkeley 2000 MA history, UCLA 2007) Subfield: US history; Asian American history; food history
  • IRVIN, AARON WILLIAM - penguinpower9@hotmail.com (BA, History, Western Washington University 2005; MA, Ancient History, UCLA 2007) Subfield: Late Bronze Age - Internationalism in the ancient world, Roman urban centers, the Roman Imperial cult, the ancient economy, Romanization
  • JANES, LAUREN REBECCA HINKLE - ljanes@ucla.edu (CPhil in History, UCLA 2006; MA in History, UCLA 2006; BA in History, French, and Religion, Hope College, MI 2004. ) Subfield: Modern France, Food History, Colonialism, Women's History - The Familiar and the Exotic: the promotion and consumption of colonial foods in interwar Paris.
  • KOVALESKY, BRIAN ROBERT - briankov@ucla.edu (MA, U.S. History, Cal State Northridge (2008); BA, Journalism, Cal State Northridge (2001)) Subfield: 20th Century U.S.; Southern California; History of Education
  • LEVY, DAVID ADAM - dalevy@ucla.edu (C. Phil., October 2004; MA in European History, UCLA, January 2004; BA in Intellectual History, University of Pennsylvania, June 2001) Subfield: Modern Europe, Germany, Cultural and Intellectual History, Musicology - Thesis Topic: "Scandal Concerts and the Politicization of Opera Reception in Weimar Berlin"
  • LEWIS, MARK A. - mrk@ucla.edu (C. Phil., 2006; MA in European History, UCLA, 2004; BA in Humanities, Stanford University, 1990) Subfield: Modern Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe, History of Transnational Institutions - Dissertation: "The International Judicial Movement against War Crimes, Terrorism, and Genocide, 1918-1948"
  • LITKEI, JÓZSEF - litkei@ucla.edu (C. Phil. in History, UCLA 2006; MA in Central Eastern European History, Central European University 1999; BA/MA in History, Etvs Lornd University 1997) Subfield: Modern European history, History of Central Eastern Europe, History of memory, nationalism and communism - Dissertation topic: History politics and public historical thinking in Hungary, 1945-1956
  • LIVIE, KYLE MITCHELL - klivie@ucla.edu (Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in English, University of California, Berkeley Masters of Arts in History, San Francisco State University Ph.D. in History, University of California, Los Angeles ) Subfield: Rural America, Urban/Metropolitan History, California and the American West, Cultural Geography, Community Studies, Modern American Intellectual History, Economic History, and Popular Culture - Dissertation: "Wide Open Spaces: Rural Communities and the Making of Metropolitan California, 1870-1940"
  • MARTINEZ, LOLA J - ljmartinez@ucla.edu (B.A., History, Philosophy - Mills College (2006)) Subfield: Modern Japan, Korea; history of medicine - Japanese conceptions of racial science in colonial Korea; discourse of race in Korean nationalism
  • MCBRIDE, JARED GRAHAM - mcbridejg@ucla.edu Subfield: History of the Soviet Union, Modern Eastern Europen History - Social history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front; Holocaust in West Ukraine; Issues surrounding collaboration, Soviet counter-intelligence.
  • MOKHBERI, SUSAN MARIE - (Ph.D. Candidate in European History; M.A., History, UCLA, 2006; B.A., Political Science and French with Minor in Near Eastern Studies, UCLA 2001 ) Subfield: Early Modern France
  • MOLCHADSKY, NADAV GADI - nadavm@ucla.edu (Graduate Studies in Jewish History, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (2003-2006), BA (2002) in Jewish History and Political Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel ) Subfield: Modern Jewish History, History of Jewish and Zionist Historiography
  • MOOREVILLE, ANAT - anatmooreville@gmail.com (A.B. Brown University, 2007) Subfield: Modern Middle East, Modern Jewish, Mizrahi
  • MORENO, AARON MICHAEL - aamoreno@ucla.edu (AB History, Brown University, 2003 ) Subfield: Inter- and Intra-peninsular Ethnic and Religious Interaction of Medieval Iberia - Medieval Hispano-Frankish Interaction The Mozarabic Phenomenon
  • MURILLO, DANA VELASCO - danavem@hotmail.com (2009 Ph.D., UCLA 2007 C. Phil., UCLA; 2005 M.A. History, UCLA; 2002 M.A. English Literature, CSUN; 1991 B.A. History, Loyola Marymount University ) Subfield: Latin America, Colonial Mexico, Indigenous Peoples of Mexico, Zacatecas, Silver-Mining District, Africans, Castas, Race, Class, and Gender - My dissertation, "Urban Indians in a Colonial Silver City, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1806," examines the survival of a corporate indigenous identity in a Spanish town. Using documents and original data from archives in Mexico and Spain, this work highlights the nature of cultural innovation and change in the urban indigenous population.
  • MUSIL, EMILY KIRKLAND MCTIGHE - emusil@ucla.edu (Ph.D. in History, UCLA, 2007; M.A. in African History, UCLA, 2003; B.A. in American Studies, Race & Ethnicity, Drew University, 2000.) Subfield: Black Atlantic, Africa, Latin America, French Colonialism, Women - Archival Research/Fieldwork in: Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mauritius, Reunion, Senegal, and the United States.
  • NICHOLS-GEERDES, SASHA B - nicholss@ucla.edu (C. Phil., History, UCLA 2006; M.A. History UCLA 2006; B.A. History, University of Minnesota 2004) Subfield: Business History; Economic History; Colonial America - Organization and regulation of trade in 17th and 18th century Colonial America.
  • OLIVAS, AARON ALEJANDRO - aaolivas@gmail.com (C.Phil History, UCLA, 2009 MA History, UCLA, 2007 MA Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2004 BA History, University of San Francisco, 2003) Subfield: Early Modern Spain and the Spanish Empire (1492-1808); the War of Spanish Succession; Spanish political and cultural relations with France and Portugal; queen consorts - Tentative Dissertation Title: "Spain, France, and New Spain During the War of Spanish Succession (1700-1715): Colonial Impact on the First Global War" Research Assistant: "Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment: Islamic Art and Culture in the Spanish Imagination, 1750–1820" (Getty Research Institute, 2009) Research Assistant: "Andean and European Traces in the Construction of the Manuscripts of Fray Martin de Murúa" (Getty Research Institute, 2007) Research Assistant: "Faith and Beauty: Chinese and Filipino Art and the Aesthetics of Conversion in the California Missions" (Getty Research Institute, 2006-2007) MA Thesis: "'La esteril reina': Barbara de Braganza and the Dilemma of the Early Modern Queen Consort" (University of Chicago, 2004) Honors Thesis: “'La Parmesana': Historical Perspectives on the Life of Queen Isabella Farnese of Spain” (University of San Francisco, 2003)
  • ORTEGA, JOSE - jortega@ucla.edu (Ph.D.,History UCLA, 2007.) Subfield: Colonial Latin America, Atlanic History, Slavery in the Americas, Sugar, Industrialization, and Technology. - ANC, Havana, Cuba.
  • PEREZ, ERIKA - eperez22@ucla.edu (U.S. History, C. Phil. (June 2007); Concentration Certificate, Women's Studies, UCLA (2007); M.A. in US History / Minor Field - Gender, San Francisco State (2004) / M.A. in US History, UCLA (2006); B.A. in US History, UC Berkeley (1995)) Subfield: Gender; American West; Colonial America - Prospective Dissertation Title - "Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Sex, Marriage, and Kinship in Early Southern California, 1769-1885."
  • RAESNER, DIANA M. - draesner@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate in European History; M.A., History, UCLA, 2006; B.A., History with Minor in German, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002) Subfield: Early Modern Netherlands - Creation of information networks between VOC employees and Europe, 1670-1730.
  • REDFORD, LAURA - laura.redford@ucla.edu (MA in American Studies Columbia University 2006, BA Humanities Brigham Young University 2000.) Subfield: US History, 20th Century Urban History - I am interested in the development of cities, and more specifically the history of residential segregation, its causes and implications.
  • REILLY, BRANDON JOSEPH - breilly@ucla.edu (MA in History, 2009 [UCLA]; MA in History, 2006 [CSUF]; BA in History, minors in French + Spanish, 2004 [CSUF] ) Subfield: Southeast Asia, East Asia, Colonialism, Comparative Literature - Southeast Asia, Philippines, Folklore and Epics, Orality, Comparative Literature, Moros (Filipino Muslims), Comparative History of Empire (esp. Spanish and American)
  • REZAKHANI, KHODADAD - khodadad@ucla.edu (C. Phil (Nov. 2007), Late Antique Near East; 2002, MSc in Global History, London School of Economics ) Subfield: Near Eastern History, Global history, Late Antique history, Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Iranian Languages - Late Antique Near Eastern history, Sasanian history, economic history, agriculture and commerce, numismatics, Middle Iranian languages.
  • SCHWINN, PAUL ANTHONY - pschwinn@ucla.edu (BA History- Wisconsin 04, MA Education- Johns Hopkins 06, MA History- UCLA 08) Subfield: United States, The American West, Men and Masculinity - Research- The intersection of Masculinity and the imagined West in American culture from the Civil War to the Progressive Era
  • SETIYAWAN, DAHLIA GRATIA - dsetiyawan@ucla.edu (B.A., History, University of Pennsylvania, 2000; M.S.Ed., Intercultural Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2005; M.A., History, UCLA, 2008) Subfield: Modern Indonesia, Asian American History, Migration Studies - Master's Thesis: "Unity in Diversity: Identity Development and Community-Building among Indonesian Immigrants in Philadelphia"
  • SHAH, SAMEER JAY - samjshah@ucla.edu (B.A.: MIT 2003 in Mathematics and STS [Science, Technology, and Society] M.A.: UCLA 2005 in History) Subfield: 20th century American history; American science; Modern science
  • SHARMA, PATRICK - psharma at ucla.edu (B.A., History, UC Berkeley, 2000-2003 M.A., History, UCLA, 2004-2006) Subfield: U.S. - My research and teaching interests include the history of American foreign relations, twentieth century international history, and U.S. political, economic, and social history in its global context. I am currently completing a dissertation on Robert McNamara's presidency of the World Bank.
  • SIERRA SILVA, PABLO MIGUEL - sierrapm@ucla.edu (M.A. 2008, UCLA - Latin American History; B.A. 2006, University of Pennsylvania - Latin American Studies, World History.) Subfield: Colonial Mexico, African Presence in Mexico and Latin America, Marriage Patterns in Colonial Urban Centers - 16th and 17th century focus on urban centers in Central Mexico, primarily Puebla de los Angeles and Mexico City. Intermarriage between African slaves and Indigenous workers in labor-intensive textile mills, "obrajes."
  • SILVERMAN, AARON J. - ajsilver@ucla.edu Subfield: (BA UC Davis, 2004; MA 2006, C. Phil 2007) Atlantic slavery, comparative abolition, Social and Political History of post-revolutionary and 19th Century United States. Dissertation Topic: A Dark Spectre, The Haitian Revolution and American Politics. -
  • SPIKES, COURTNEY - cspikes@ucla.edu PhD Candidate. Dissertion (in progress): Shipwrecks, Murderers and Piqueurs: State Authority and Political Culture during the French Restoration (1815-1830). Chair: Lynn Hunt.
  • STERNFELD, JOSHUA - joshuas@ucla.edu (BA in History with specialty in European Cultural Studies, Princeton University, 2001 Masters in Modern European History, UCLA, 2004) Subfield: 20th Century US History, Jazz music - Thesis topic: Political and Social Developments associated with jazz and dance music in Berlin, Germany, 1927-1955
  • STEVENS, JEFFREY ALLEN - jf.stevens@ucla.edu (M.A., Ancient History, University of Oregon 2007; B.A., History, University of Oregon, 2005; B.A., Economics and Government, Claremont McKenna College, 1993 ) Subfield: Roman History, Greek History, Classical Archaeology, Late Antiquity - Roman Historiography, Role of the Gladiator in Roman Society, Public Representations of Imperial Power
  • TORTORICI, ZEB - zebbie@gmail.com Subfield: Colonial Latin America, History of Sexuality, Queer Studies - "Contra Natura: Sin, Sexuality, and the Unnatural in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800" Histories of Suicide in Colonial Latin America Human-Animal Studies, Animals in Latin America History of Pornography, Queer Studies
  • VARTAVARIAN, MESROB GEORGE - messyrob@yahoo.com (C. Phil. UCLA 2008; M.A. UCLA 2007; B.A. UCLA 2005 ) Subfield: Soviet history, 20th Centruy Europe, the Second World War, Communist governments, politics of the Soviet bloc - Soviet Administration during the Second World War behind the lines and on newly liberated territory. Also interested in, the Cold War, Modern Britain, the welfare state, late medieval England, Britain under the Tudors and Stuarts, transition from feudalism to capitalism, Absolutism, 19th centruy France, European economic regimes, decolonization of the British and French Empires, European high politics and patron-client networks in Russia, Eastern Europe and Britain
  • VILLELLA, PETER B - villella@ucla.edu (Ph.D. in History (Latin America), UCLA, August 2009 M.A. in History (Latin America), UCLA, Spring 2005 B.A. in History and Spanish, University of Virginia, Summer 2001) Subfield: Creolism and indigenism in colonial Mexico; legal rhetoric and political strategies among indigenous elites in Spanish America; Classical Nahuatl - "The True Heirs to Anahuac: Native Nobles, Creole Patriots, and the 'Natural Lords' of Colonial Mexico" My dissertation traces the genealogy of certain themes of early Mexican patriotism -- such as a romantic vision of preconquest Mesoamerica -- to the legal and political rhetoric of some members of the displaced indigenous hereditary nobility, who often sought to re-establish their authority via the imperial justice system.
  • VIVANCO, PABLO HENRI - pablovivanco2002@yahoo.com (C. Phil, UCLA 2005; M.A. (2000) in German and Jewish Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg) Subfield: Jewish Religion, society and culture in 18th and 19th century Germany, History of Jewish Historiography, History of the Third Reich, Austrian politics and culture - Dissertation (work-titel): Jewish liberalism and its critics in early 20th century Vienna (a study in the political cultures of the middle classes in Vienna and the response of the literary avant-Garde)
  • WARD, WALTER DAVID - wdward@ucla.edu (Advanced to Candidacy - Ancient History (UCLA 2005) MA - Ancient History (UCLA 2004) MA - History (NCSU 2002) BA - Chemistry, BS - History (NCSU 1999)) Subfield: History of the Roman Empire, Archaeology of the Roman Near East, History of Late Antiquity, Classical Greek History - Tentative Dissertation Title: From Provincia Arabia to Palaestina Tertia: Religious, Social, and Economic Developments in the Later Roman Province of Third Palestine Other Research Interests: Red Sea Trade, Economy of the Roman Empire, Ancient Resistance Movements and Resistance Literature, Roman Imperial Ideologies, Roman Frontiers, Rome's Eastern Provinces, Transformation of the Classical Mind in Late Antiquity, Christian Pilgrimage and Holy Sites
  • WATERS, LESLIE MARIE - lesliewaters@gmail.com (BA, University of San Francisco 2003) Subfield: Modern Central and Eastern European History
  • WEISE, CONSTANZE - coweise@gmail.com (C. Phil (UCLA 2007): African History M.A. African History, Ancient History, Anthropology, 1998: University of Bayreuth (Germany) ) Subfield: West Africa, Precolonial and Colonial Africa, Pre-Modern Near East, World History/ Black Atlantic - Pre-19th century West Africa, Nigeria; Nupe-Yoruba relationship; Oral Tradition, Oral History, Memory, Rituals, Historical Linguistics Fieldwork: March 2000-October 2000 in Nigeria among the Nupe, Yoruba and Hausa
  • WILLIAMS, JAKOBI - jrocg@ucla.edu (Ph.D. U.S. History (2008) M.A. Afro-American Studies from UCLA with a specialization in US History & Slave Revolts (2002). B.A. History from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a Minor in Black American Studies (2000). ) Subfield: US History/ African American Studies/Black Power/Civil Rights Movement/ Black Panther Party - Fred Hampton and the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Black Politics--Chicago. Racial Coalition Politics (Rainbow Coalition) Black Power Movement. Civil Rights Movement. 20c US History.
  • WILSON, KAREN - kswilson@ucla.edu (C. Phil., US History, UCLA (2006); M.A., History, UCLA (2005); M.A., Judaic Studies, Hebrew Union College (2003)) Subfield: History of the American West; Jewish History - Social and economic relations in the urbanizing West; Immigrants and social capital; Jews and the making of Los Angeles.
  • YUAN, BRIGHT - byuan at ucla dot edu (A.B. in History and English, 2005, Dartmouth College; M.A. in History, 2008, UCLA) Subfield: Asian American history
  • ZALDIVAR, ANTONIO M. - (M.A. Medieval History, Western Michigan University, 2005; B.A. History and Political Science, Florida State University, 2002) Subfield: Late-Medieval Spain - I am primarily interested in the late-medieval Crown of Aragon. My Dissertation (tentatively titled "Language Use in Late-Medieval Arago-Catalonia") traces the social, political, and cultural implications of vernacular writing in Arago-Catalonia between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. My minor fields include: early medieval history; medieval Castilian and Catalan literature; and colonial Latin American history.
  • ZARO, AMY - azaro@ucla.edu (M.A., History, UCLA (2006) J.D., UCLA (2002) B.A., History, Boston College (1998) ) Subfield: Modern Germany, European legal history - The reconstruction of the postwar German legal system in the American zone of occupation

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