Kaleb Herman Adney is a PhD candidate whose dissertation research revolves around the political economy of late Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace and the tobacco industry in particular.

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): James Gelvin, Sarah Stein, Sebouh Aslanian, Christine Philliou, Kent Schull

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Field of Study: Europe

Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: Latin America

Chen Zheng (陳政).

Field of Study: China

Field of Study: Latin America

My research centers around the labor history of California's prison system.  From prison guards to convict labor to free workers, my work focuses on the various ways in which people's working lives shaped and were shaped by the trajector

Field of Study: United States

My research is focused on American feminist activism from a transnational perspective in the 1960s and 1970s.

Field of Study: United States

My research explores the relationships between gender, property, and women's position in the family in late Ottoman Beirut.

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): Professor James Gelvin

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Current/Former HGSA Member

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

My research looks into the institutional, military, and fiscal structures of imperial China from the Song to the Ming period, focusing particularly on how the Mongols impacted the state's employment and retention of personnel.

Field of Study: China

Field of Study: Africa

Philip Hoffman is a second-year PhD student, researching the framing of land reform in modern Syria.

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): James Gelvin

Current/Former HGSA Member

My research interests include histories of modern Egypt, Pan-Africanism, Afro-Arab anticolonial solidarities, and Third World internationalism. 

Field of Study: Middle East

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

Field of Study: United States

Rachel is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on Latin American and Jewish history. Her current research focuses on crypto-Jewish memory practices in New Mexico and Mexico from the late 15th century to the 20th century.

Field of Study: Jewish, Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: China

Janice Levi is a PhD candidate in the UCLA History Department. Her dissertation focuses on migration histories and Jewish populations in West Africa.  

Field of Study: Africa

Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon, Andrew Apter, Sarah A. Stein, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aomar Boum

Advanced to Candidacy

Field of Study: Europe

Field of Study: Latin America

Current/Former HGSA Member

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

I study the intellectual history of early modern Europe and the wider history of European political thought.

Field of Study: Europe

Advisor(s): Peter Stacey (chair), Andrea Moudarres, Anthony Pagden, Stefania Tutino 

Advanced to Candidacy

Field of Study: Latin America

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

My work examines historical intersections between caste exclusion, colonialism, and cultural affinities towards landscapes.

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

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Marina is a second year PhD student in the history department. Her research interest lies in 18th and 19th century sartorial and material culture.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Dr. Katherine Marino

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

Lisl Schoepflin is a PhD candidate in the UCLA History Department, previously receiving her M.A. at UCLA and B.A. at University of Pennsylvania.

Field of Study: Latin America

Advisor(s): Kevin Terraciano (chair), Stella Nair, Efrain Kristal, Juan Ossio, Teo Ruiz

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Chase's research interests center thematically on histories of cultural encounters, race and identity, religious conversion, and knowledge production, and geographically on the early modern Iberian empires in maritime Southeast Asia.

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Advisor(s): Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam

David B. Spielman is an Africanist and Ethiopian historian with a broader interest in the Horn of Africa.

Field of Study: Africa

Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon (Chair);William Worger;Allen Roberts;Habtamu Tegegne.

Advanced to Candidacy

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

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Current/Former HGSA Member

Field of Study: Africa

Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon 

William Wood's research interests are in legal history, particularly California history and the jurisprudence around Native title in California.  He is an Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. 

Field of Study: United States

Masayoshi Yamada is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UCLA, specializing in the cultural history of the United States.   

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Robin D.G. Kelley (Committee Chair)Eric AvilaShana L. RedmondGeorge Lipsitz

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