Natalie is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on modern Jewish history. Natalie is primarily interested in the culture, politics, and languages of North African Jewish communities. 

Field of Study: Jewish

Field of Study: Latin America

Field of Study: Japan

Jeanette's research focuses on histories of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her dissertation centers the historical intersections between Black radicalism, political economy, and popular religions

Field of Study: Latin America

Advisor(s): Robin Derby

Field of Study: Europe

Advisor(s): Caroline Ford

I am a historian of South Asia and my research interests broadly encompass the modern period particularly the late colonial state and society, and the anticolonial movement.

Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia

Advisor(s): Professor Vinay Lal

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 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

Jacob is a historian of science and medicine, and the United States.

Field of Study: Science, Medicine, and Technology

Advisor(s): Theodore Porter, Soraya de Chadarevian, Michael Meranze, Amir Alexander and Mary Terrall

Advanced to Candidacy

Current/Former HGSA Member

Thabisile Griffin is a PhD Candidate in History at UCLA, where she specializes in the 18th century Atlantic world.

Advisor(s): Robin D.G Kelley, Carla Pestana, Aisha Finch, Robin Derby

Advanced to Candidacy

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: China

Lily Hindy is a PhD student in history at UCLA whose research focuses on issues of national identity in the modern Middle East, specifically looking at the relationship between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish population of Ira

Field of Study: Middle East

Advisor(s): James Gelvin

Field of Study: Japan

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), the extension of communal memory across time and space, and the social and cultural underpinnings of integration and naturalization.

Field of Study: Medieval

Advisor(s): Teofilo Ruiz, Rowan Dorin (History, Stanford), Stefania Tutino, Jessica Goldberg, Meredith Cohen (Art History), Celine Dauverd (History, Univeristy of Colorado-Boulder)

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

Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate researching the intertwined histories of urban development, U.S. empire, and social movements in California.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Robin D.G. Kelley (Chair), Peter James Hudson, Toby Higbie, Ananya Roy

Advanced to Candidacy

Elizabeth's research centers on the analysis of everyday life practices and the material realities that sustained marginalized communities throughout the broader Atlantic Caribbean during the early modern period.

Field of Study: Latin America

Advisor(s): Robin Derby, Carla Pestana

Field of Study: Japan

Advisor(s): William Marotti

Field of Study: Europe

Rebeca Martínez is a PhD Candidate specializing in the history of women in colonial Mexico. Her dissertation examines the relationship between women and bigamy from the 16th to the 18th century.

Field of Study: Latin America

Advisor(s): Kevin Terraciano, Teofilo Ruíz, Katherine Marino, Fernando Perez-Montesinos 

Advanced to Candidacy

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: Europe

My research looks at the intersectionality of race, gender, and mental illness in the late nineteenth-century U.S. More specifically, I am interested in the history of psychiatry and asylums.

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Dr. Brenda Stevenson 

Current/Former HGSA Member

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

Field of Study: Japan

Advisor(s): Katsuya Hirano

Field of Study: United States

Advisor(s): Dr. Michael Meranze

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) Stefania Tutino James GelvinTijana Krstić Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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

My research is focused on the history of sea merchants in East Asia from the ninth to thirteenth centuries.

Field of Study: China

Yu's research centers on the social and cultural history of late imperial and modern China, with a particular focus on folk performance, urban society, global cultural industry, and gender studies.

Field of Study: China

Advisor(s): Andrea S. Goldman

Rachel Smith is a PhD candidate whose dissertation explores the history and politics of Jewish ethnography in the Ottoman world.

Field of Study: Jewish

Advisor(s): Sarah Abrevaya Stein, David Myers, Aomar Boum, James Gelvin

Advanced to Candidacy

Current/Former HGSA Member

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

Field of Study: Japan

Advanced to Candidacy

Current/Former HGSA Member

I study chiefly European intellectual history in those centuries we have learned to call "early modern" (ca. 1300-1800) with a cardinal emphasis on the history of political thought.

Field of Study: Europe

At the intersection of environmental history, economic history, and the social history of technology, my research examines the everyday interactions of village women and men with water- and landscapes through hydraulic institutions, know

Field of Study: China

Advanced to Candidacy

Avery Weinman focuses on modern Jewish history, the history of the modern Middle East, Israel-Palestine, and radicalism.

Field of Study: Jewish

Advisor(s): David Myers, Sarah Abrevaya Stein

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

Advanced to Candidacy