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K Herman Adney
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
Advanced to Candidacy
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Emily Bolender
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
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Pranav Gulukota
I am a PhD student interested in the social, political, and intellectual history of twentieth century South India, with particular interest in anticolonial movements, the Telangana Rebellion, and the Dravidian movement.
Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia
Advisor(s): Vinay Lal
Current/Former HGSA Member
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Yiming Ha
My project explores the introduction of a new method of military mobilization to China by the Mongol-Yuan, its subsequent adoption by the succeeding Ming dynasty, and the long-term consequences of this adoption.
Field of Study: China
Advisor(s): Chair: Richard von GlahnCommittee members: R. Bin Wong, Sixiang Wang, David M. Robinson
Advanced to Candidacy
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Richard Ibarra
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
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Rebeca Martinez
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
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Joshua McGuffie
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. My research focuses on intersections between biology, medicine, race, and the environment during the US atomic project.
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
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Patrick Morgan
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
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Daniel Ohanian
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
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Bernard James Remollino
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
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Lisl Schoepflin
Lisl Schoepflin is a PhD candidate in the UCLA History Department. Her scholarly interests focus on indigenous and colonial ethnohistory and social memory practices in the Andes, with an emphasis on Inca and Spanish colonial oral a
Field of Study: Latin America
Advisor(s): Kevin Terraciano (chair), Stella Nair, Efrain Kristal, Juan Ossio, Teo Ruiz
Advanced to Candidacy
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Chase Caldwell Smith
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
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Madina Thiam
I completed my PhD in May 2022, with a dissertation entitled "Seeking Freedom in the Sahel: Frontiers of Liberation and Geographies of Belonging in an Atlantic-Saharan Crossroads."
Field of Study: Africa
Advisor(s): Ghislaine Lydon (Chair); Robin D.G. Kelley; Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré; Minayo Nasiali; Andrew Apter
Advanced to Candidacy
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Rebecca Waxman
Rebecca Waxman is a PhD Candidate specializing in the history of gender and sexuality in modern India. Her dissertation examines discourses of sexualized violence in late colonial and postcolonial India.
Field of Study: South and Southeast Asia
Advisor(s): Vinay Lal; Katherine Marino; Robin Derby; Sherene Razack
Advanced to Candidacy
Current/Former HGSA Member
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