| Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chair |
| Accetola, Anna | Ancient | Tracing Trade: Economies, Institutions, and Diaspora in the Hellenistic Mediterranean | David Phillips and Dave Potter |
| Ball, Roi | Europe | Constructing the Imperial Frontier: Colonization, Migration, and the Built Environment in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1886-1914 | David Sabean |
| Centanino, Araceli | United States | Chain Link and Concrete: Discipline, Surveillance, and Policing in Los Angeles Schools, 1945-1985 | Kelly Lytle Hernandez |
| Chesney, Peter | United States | Drive Time: A Sensory History of Car Cultures from 1945 to 1990 in Los Angeles | Eric Avila |
| Dymond, Jeffrey | Europe | The Formation of the State in Italian Humanist Political Thought, c.1250-c.1550 | Peter Stacey |
| Iafolla, Robert J. | Medieval | Conceptions of Power in Late Medieval Castile: From Possession to Exercise | Teo Ruiz |
| Kanalu Ramamurthy, Naveen | South and Southeast Asia | Mirrors and Masks of Sovereignty: Imperial Governance in the Mughal World of Legal Normativism, c. 1650s–1720s | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
| Lee, Sunkyu | China | The Cartographic Construction of Borders in Ming China, 1368- 1644 | Richard Von Glahn |
| Tieleman, Matthijs | United States | A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World | Margaret Jacob and Carla Pestana |
| Vestal Jr, Marques Augusta | United States | Property Conflict in the Promised Land: A History of Black Home Struggles in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 | Eric Avila |
| Withers, Amber | Africa | Persistence of the Spirit: Kongo and Conjure in the Antebellum South Carolina Lowcountry, 1700-1830 | William Worger and Brenda Stevenson |
2020-2021 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles