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

Advanced to Candidacy

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

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

Advanced to Candidacy

Current/Former HGSA Member

Field of Study: China

Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

I am a scholar of the global British Empire, working across the fields of Atlantic history, South Asian history, and intellectual history. My research explores the importance of knowledge production to early modern British rule.

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Field of Study: China

Dissertation tentatively entitled: "By Choice or By Circumstance: Singlewomen in Early Modern France"

Field of Study: Europe

Advisor(s): Kathryn Norberg

Philip Hoffman is a first-year PhD student in History, focusing on discourses around land reform in modern Syria.

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): James Gelvin

Current/Former HGSA Member

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

Field of Study: United States

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

Preston McBride (Comanche (unenrolled)/Italian/Irish) earned his Ph.D. in History at UCLA in 2020. He previously completed an A.B. and M.A. at Dartmouth College. His dissertation focuses on health in Native American Boarding Schools.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Benjamin Madley

Advanced to Candidacy

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

Advanced to Candidacy

Marina is a first year PhD student in the history department. Her research interest lies in US nineteenth-century women and gender history, the private life, and sartorial culture.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Dr. Katherine Marino, Brenda Stevenson

Field of Study: United States

Field of Study: Africa

Advisor(s): Dr. Andrew H. Apter Dr. Robin D.G. KelleyDr. William R. SummerhillDr. Allen F. Roberts

Field of Study: United States

Field of Study: Africa

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): Dr. Sebouh Aslanian

Field of Study: Europe, Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Dr. Carla Gardina PestanaDr. Margaret Jacob

Advanced to Candidacy

WANG Yōu (王悠) is a PhD candidate in Chinese history. Her dissertation project examines how farmers in rural Jiangnan coordinate for water control during the nineteenth century.

Field of Study: China

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

Advisor(s): Co-chairs: Theodore Porter (History) and Laure Murat (French and Francophone Studies)Committee: Soraya de Chadarevian, Lynn Hunt, Kenneth Reinhard

Advanced to Candidacy

I study the intersection of religion and empire in the early modern English Atlantic world.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Carla Pestana