Field of Study: Japan

Field of Study: Europe

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

Scottie's dissertation, "Being and Becoming a Midwife in Eighteenth-century France: Geographies of Pedagogical Practices and Objects," focuses on midwifery training in late eighteenth century France.

Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

Advisor(s): Mary Terrall

Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: United States

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 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

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

Erdem Ilter specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic history. 

Field of Study: Middle East

Field of Study: Jewish

Lindsay researches the history of Jewish masculinity among Jewish writers, journalists, and critics in the mid-nineteenth-century Austria.

Field of Study: Jewish

Advanced to Candidacy

Field of Study: China

Janice Levi's project primarily centers on the oral narrative of the House of Israel (Ghana) and how their faith identity is constructed through knowledge of oral histories, performative/ritual memory, and encounters with normative

Field of Study: Africa

Advisor(s): Dr. Ghislaine Lydon

Field of Study: Europe

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Eric Avila, Committee ChairRobin KelleyRobert FinkCharles Hughes (Rhodes College)

Preston McBride (Comanche (unenrolled)/Italian/Irish) is a 7th year Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA History Department. His dissertation focuses on American Indian Boarding Schools.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Benjamin Madley

Advanced to Candidacy

Current/Former HGSA Member

I study the history of science with a focus on atomic history. A native Angelino, I'm thrilled to study at UCLA. In 2015, I graudated from Oregon State University with an MA in the history of science.

Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

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

Field of Study: United States

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Craig Yirush

Daniel Ohanian is a PhD candidate 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 

Kevin writes about the history of industrial pollution and environmental activism in 1970s Japan.

Field of Study: Japan

Field of Study: Latin America

Rachel Smith is a PhD candidate in the History Department at UCLA, where she studies modern Jewish history. Her dissertation explores the history of Jewish ethnography in the Ottoman world. 

Field of Study: Jewish

Advanced to Candidacy

Current/Former HGSA Member

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. My dissertation is a study on freedom and mobility in the region in 19th and 20th centuries.

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

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Field of Study: Middle East

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

Advanced to Candidacy