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Emily Bolender
My research looks to understand cultural and legal approaches to violence and feud in the Medieval Mediterranean. I graduated with a BA in History with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from University of San Diego in 2018.
Field of Study: Medieval
Advisor(s): Jessica Goldberg
Current/Former HGSA Member
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Jeffrey Dymond
I am an intellectual historian specializing in Renaissance and early-modern European political thought. My present research concerns the period's theories of group cohesion and group personality, both legal and moral. I am especially i
Field of Study: Europe
Advisor(s): Peter Stacey (chair), Stefania Tutino, Andrea Moudarres, Craig Yirush
Advanced to Candidacy
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Jacob Green
Jacob's dissertation investigates the history of psychological research into the nature of mind-altering drugs such as nitrous oxide, caffeine and cannabis between 1870 and 1933, with a focus on the United States.
Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology
Advisor(s): Theodore Porter, Soraya de Chadarevian, Michael Meranze and Amir Alexander
Advanced to Candidacy
Current/Former HGSA Member
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Richard Ibarra
Richard Ibarra is interested in the construction of community (particularly in urban contexts) and the social and cultural underpinnings of integration and naturalization.
Field of Study: Medieval
Advisor(s): Teofilo Ruiz, Stefania Tutino, Jessica Goldberg, Meredith Cohen (Art History), Rowan Dorin (History, Stanford)
Advanced to Candidacy
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Joshua McGuffie
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. My research focuses on the doctors and biologists who first studied the biological effects of radiation from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology
Advisor(s): Soraya de Chadarevian, Stephen Aron, Ted Porter, Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Advanced to Candidacy
Current/Former HGSA Member
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Patrick Morgan
I study the legal history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth century and its connections to the Mediterranean world.
Field of Study: Medieval
Advisor(s): Jessica Goldberg (Chair), Teo Ruiz, Sharon Gerstel (Art History), Luke Yarbrough (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Alexander Roberts (Classics, USC)
Advanced to Candidacy
Current/Former HGSA Member
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Javier Muñoz
Javier is a PhD Candidate studying twentieth-century United States history. He focuses on social movements, race-making, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, migration, and the African Diaspora.
Field of Study: United States
Advisor(s): Robin D. G. Kelley (Chair), Gaye Theresa Johnson, Peter James Hudson, Minayo Nasiali
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Daniel Ohanian
Daniel Ohanian is a PhD candidate specializing in early modern and modern Ottoman-Armenian history.
Dissertation title: "Church of Armenia, Church of Rome: Faith, Print, and Power in Ottoman-Armenian History, 1688–1717"
Field of Study: Middle East
Advisor(s): Sebouh Aslanian (chair) James Gelvin Stefania Tutino Tijana Krstić
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Bernard James Remollino
Bernard is a PhD Candidate in the United States field researching the history of Filipino popular culture, labor, and migration in California during the twentieth century.
Field of Study: United States
Advisor(s): Eric Avila (Co-chair, UCLA Dept. of History, UCLA Dept. of Chicana & Chicano Studies), Toby Higbie (Co-chair, UCLA Dept. of History, UCLA Labor & Workplace Studies), Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (UCLA Dept. of Asian American Studies), George Lipsitz (UCSB Dept. of Black Studies)
Advanced to Candidacy
Current/Former HGSA Member
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Madina Thiam
I work on Mali and the Sahel, with broad interests in African migrations and the connected social and intellectual histories of Islam across the Atlantic and Saharan worlds.
Field of Study: Africa
Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon (Chair); Robin D.G. Kelley; Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré; Minayo Nasiali; Andrew Apter
Advanced to Candidacy
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