Kaleb Herman Adney is a PhD student in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles where he studies modern middle eastern history.

Field of Study: Middle East

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Chris Bingley is a PhD Candidate in the UCLA History Department. His research concerns the cultural history of the Roman Empire in the 2nd through 4th centuries C.E. and issues of empire and ethnicity.

Field of Study: Ancient

Advisor(s): Dr. Ra'anan BoustanDr. David PhillipsDr. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (UCSB History)Dr. Robert Gurval (Classics)Dr. Amy Richlin (Classics)

Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: Japan

Field of Study: Latin America

Xiang Chi is a third-year Ph.D. student in China economic and environmental history.

Field of Study: China

Advisor(s): Professor R. Bin WongProfessor Richard von GlahnProfessor Katsuya HiranoProfessor Susanna Hecht

Elizabeth Comuzzi is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. She is interested in the economic and social history of the late medieval Mediterranean (c.

Field of Study: Medieval

Advisor(s): Jessica Goldberg and Teofilo Ruiz

Max Modiano Daniel is a doctoral candidate in the History department at UCLA.

Field of Study: Jewish

Advanced to Candidacy

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

Nicole Gilhuis is a PhD Candidate in the History Department. She is cross listed between African and Latin American History, studying Atlantic History.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Carla Pestana (co-chair), Robin Derby (Co-Chair), Stephen Aron, and Andrew Apter.

Advanced to Candidacy

Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

My research concerns political, cultural, and economic exchanges within the British Empire.

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Field of Study: China

Field of Study: Africa

Lily Hindy focuses on the history of the modern Middle East, with a specific interest in identity, nationalism, and ethnic and religious minorities, particularly in Iraq and Syria. She is also interested in migration and diaspora.

Field of Study: Middle East

Field of Study: Japan

Field of Study: Middle East

Field of Study: Jewish

Field of Study: United States

Field of Study: Japan

Advisor(s): William Marotti

Fredrick Walter Lorenz is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): James GelvinSarah SteinAomar BoumIsa Blumi

Field of Study: Latin America

Current/Former HGSA Member

Mike Matthews graduated from Augustana College in 2013 with a BA in Honors History & Classics; a year later he graduated from the University of Chicago with a MA in Humanities.

Field of Study: Ancient

Advisor(s): Dr. David Phillips (History, UCLA)

Field of Study: Japan

Advisor(s): William Marotti (History, UCLA) Vanessa Schwartz (History & Art History USC) Katsuya Hirano (History, UCLA) Bert Winther-Tamaki (Art History, UCI) Andrea Goldman (History, UCLA)

Field of Study: Europe

Field of Study: United States

Field of Study: Medieval

Field of Study: Japan

Field of Study: United States

Daniel Ohanian is a PhD student specializing in early modern and modern Ottoman and Armenian history. 

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): Sebouh Aslanian (chair) James Gelvin Stefania Tutino Tijana Krstić 

Field of Study: United States

Enrique Salvador Rivera is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. His research focuses on the intertwined histories of racial formation and capital accumulation in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Atlantic world.

Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: Jewish

Field of Study: Japan

Current/Former HGSA Member

I work on the social and intellectual history of Mali and the West African Sahel, with an emphasis on Islam.

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: Ancient

Marjan is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at UCLA.

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Advisor(s): Nile Green (Co-Chair)David Sabean (Co-Chair)Sanjay SubrahmanyamAnn E. Goldberg

William Wood's research interests are in legal history, particularly California history, land rights of Indigenous peoples, and the jurisprudence around Native title in California.  He is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law

Field of Study: United States

Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

Dong Yan is a doctoral candidate at Department of History, specializing in late Qing and Republican Chinese history.

Field of Study: China

Advisor(s): Prof. R. Bin Wong (History, UCLA)Prof. Richard von Glahn (History, UCLA)Prof. Katsuya Hirano (History, UCLA)Prof. Dora Costa (Economics, UCLA)