Ricardo Fagoaga Hernández was awarded a 2007 UC MEXUS dissertation research grant for his project, "'En medio de una y otra América': Regions, markets and indigenous economic participation in Guatemala and Chiapas, 1750-1850."  Ricardo has also been awarded a Bancroft Library Summer Fellowship to do research in the Bancroft's collections at UC Berkeley.

Dahpon Ho was awarded Fulbright IIE fellowship funding for dissertation research in China in 2007-08. Dahpon’s dissertation is entitled "The Empire's Scorched Shores:  From Coastal Evacuation to Maritime Reconstruction in  Seventeenth-Century China."

Miriam Gross was recently awarded 3 fellowships, including the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Fulbright IIE Fellowship, and the UC Pacific Rim Dissertation Fellowship. Miriam’s thesis is entitled "Chasing Snails: Scientific Consolidation in China's Anti-Schistosomiasis Campaigns."

Susanne Hillman was awarded a 2007-08-research fellowship from the UCSD Center for the Humanities.

Ellen Huang was awarded Fulbright IIE fellowship funding for dissertation research in China.  Ellen’s dissertation is entitled "China's China: Jingdezhen Porcelain and the Production of Culture in the Nineteenth Century."

Christian Gonzales was awarded a 2007-08 research fellowship from the UCSD Center for the Humanities.

Justin Jacobs has been awarded a multi-year Jacob Javits Fellowship.  His first-year research project is titled "Confronting Indiana Jones: The Chinese Conquest of Sir Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1900-1944." He has also had an article accepted and forthcoming later this year in the Journal of Asian Studies, the premier journal in the Asian field, entitled "How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong's Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe."

Ben Jordan has accepted a Visiting Instructor position at Kenyon College in Ohio for the 2007-08 academic year and plans to defend his dissertation in fall 2007.

Miguel La Serna was awarded a UCSD Presidents Dissertation Year Diversity Fellowship as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ford Foundation.  Miguel’s dissertation title is "The Corner of the Living: Local Power Relations and Indigenous Perceptions in Ayacucho, Peru, 1940-1985." 

Lorena Marquez was awarded a research fellowship from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

Minakshi Menon has been named a recipient of the Frieda Daum Urey Endowed Fellowship.

Stephanie Moore was awarded a research fellowship from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

Jeremy Murray has been awarded a University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Fellowship to do dissertation research in China in 2007-08.  Jeremy's dissertation topic is "Hainan's Culture of Resistance in Twentieth-Century China." 

Nick Saenz will serve as the 2007-08 Graduate Student Association Vice-President/Academic.

Matt Shindell was awarded a Friends of the International Center Scholarship for 2007-08.

George Solt was awarded a 2007-08 Transborder Interventions, Transcontinental Archives Fellowship from the UCSD Center for the Humanities.

Barbara Zepeda Cortés was awarded a 2007 UC MEXUS dissertation research grant for her project, "Empire, reform and corruption: José de Galvez and political culture in Bourbon, Mexico, 1759-1787."

Ryan Zroka was awarded a pre-dissertation grant from the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley.  Ryan will be researching in Germany this summer and explore archival sources for his dissertation topic on the German defeat in 1918.