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Advisor: Matthew Vitz
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Advisor: Nancy Kwak, Daniel Widener
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Advisor: Edward Watts
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BA History, Willamette University, 2024Research Interests: Modern Germany: Migration and the EconomyCurrently, I have two main interests in modern Germany. The first are questions on the integration (particularly economic) of German expellees after WWII and migrants from outside countries. The second are questions on the economy. My undergraduate thesis on the political influence of large firms and cartels in Germany from 1880-1945 is one example of my fascination with German economic history, especially its transnational entanglements.Advisor: Frank Biess -
Advisors: Luis Alvarez and Jessica Graham
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MA (Hons) History and Politics, University of Dundee - 2019
MPhil in World History, University of Cambridge – 2020Research Themes: Latin America, Mexico, Housing, Urbanism, Neoliberalism, Coffee and Commodities, Global History, Social History, Oral History, Economic History.
Tentative Dissertation Title: A Decent Home: Social Housing in Mexico during The Neoliberal Transition, 1972-1992
In my doctoral research, I investigate the history of social housing in Mexico between 1972- 1992. I approach the role and motivations of state intervention in the housing market in response to demographic and urban growth in the late twentieth century. Architects and urban planners were important actors in the production of social housing space and urban development in Mexico that I analyze to appreciate the influence of modernist architectural discourse and values on these architects and their projects in Mexico. The peak production of social housing in Mexico coincided with economic crisis and the neoliberal transition. I consider how urban development and social housing were impacted by these political economic circumstances during the 1980s. Moreover, understanding the lived experience of social housing is an important element of my research. I conduct oral history with residents of social housing to consider why they took up social housing, how they built community, how they adapted to the challenges of working-class neighborhoods, and what aspirations and desires motivated them.
Additionally, I work on the history of specialty café culture in Latin American cities between 1998-2020. This project traces the rise of the specialty café industry in coffee-producing countries to understand how it emerged, who were the main entrepreneurs in the industry and why did these people opt for a specialty coffee business project. I have conducted oral history research for this project in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Advisor: Matthew Vitz
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B.A. in History, National Taiwan University, 2019
M.A. in History, National Taiwan University, 2022
I am interested in global history, focusing on feminist thoughts and movements from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. My research revolves around how patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, and modernization shaped global exchanges and social movements, particularly concerning interconnections between East Asian and Western feminist thoughts and activism. I combine women's and gender history with global and transnational approaches to explore how feminist ideas and practices circulated and reinvented across diverse boundaries. -
Advisors: Karl Gerth and Micah Muscolino
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Advisor: Thomas Gallant
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Advisors: Hasan Kayali and Michael Provence
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Advisors: Karl Gerth & Micah Muscolino
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Advisor: Claire Edington
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M.A., New School for Social Research; B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Ian Dubrowsky is a Ph.D. candidate in History at UC San Diego. His research examines labor and industrial governance in modern China, with a focus on how institutions and communities responded to industrial incidents and their aftermaths. His work contributes to labor history, industrial heritage, and memory studies.
Advisor: Karl Gerth
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Advisor: Pamela Radcliff
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B.A. in English and History, Spring Hill College
I’m studying Latin American history, concentrating primarily on Chile during the 1960s and 1970s. My main thematic interests are liberation theology and popular education initiatives, and how they shape democratic social projects during pivotal and often violent-political transitions. I plan on focusing my research on the link between Catholic social justice teaching, literacy campaigns, and the leftist politics in Chile leading up to the coup and dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Advisor: Ben Cowan
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Advisor: Luis Alvarez and Rosie Bermudez
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B.S. in Political Science, Florida State University
M.A. in History, San Diego State UniversityI am interested in political activism and social justice in the 20th-century United States, particularly LGBTQ+ activism and issues of gender in Southern California.
Advisor: Rebecca Plant
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Advisors: Hasan Kayali and Michael Provence
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B.A. in History, Renmin University of China, 2018M.A. in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2019
I am a doctoral student in history and science studies. I am broadly interested in the history of rural life in modern China, especially rural everyday life, and the history of knowledge production and transmission. My major research project focuses on the history of farming technology in the PRC period. My work involves grassroots technological inventions and the interaction among technology, economic knowledge, and politics. Along with that, I am also working on a project on generational hierarchy and legal knowledge-making under Republican Legal Reform.
Advisors: Karl Gerth and Micah Muscolino
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Advisor: Frank Biess
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Advisor: Deborah Hertz
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Advisor: Rebecca Plant
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Advisors: Jeremy Prestholdt and Claire Edington
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I completed a Master's thesis examining a diverse group of Germans who championed the political and cultural preservation of the Armenian nation during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic. My research focused on the 1921 criminal trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, who assassinated Talaat Pasha, the principal architect of the Armenian Genocide, on a Berlin street corner. I analyzed a range of German pro-Armenian journals, official and personal correspondence, and press coverage from 1918 to 1923. These pro-Armenian advocates framed their efforts within the broader contexts of humanitarian concern, debates over German and Ottoman war guilt, international peace negotiations, Great Power economic ambitions in the Near East, and shifting religious and political ideologies. Their views evolved not only in response to the unfolding Tehlirian trial but also in relation to significant political developments in Germany, Turkey, and Armenia. My thesis explores how the trial served as a catalyst in shaping German pro-Armenian reactions to the Armenian Genocide and explains why the movement faded away after 1923.In other research, I am investigating the environmental and scientific aspects of beer production in nineteenth century Germany.Advisor: Frank Biess
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Advisor: Pamela Radcliff
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Advisor: Micah Muscolino
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Jiayi Li received her M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in modern Chinese history. Her research focuses on the impact of transnational technology and knowledge flows on agrarian societies in China's border regions during the Republican and PRC periods.
Advisor: Micah Muscolino
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Advisor: Simeon Man
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EducationM.A. - Business and Professional Communications, Bellevue University - 2023B.A. - Psychology, Brandman University - 2020B.A. - History & European Studies, UC Irvine - 2012Research ThemesModern Germany, Gender & Sexuality, Counter Cultures, Social History, Art and Cultural History, Psychology-informed Historical Studies, Intersectional Global HistoryAdvisor: Frank Biess
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Advisor: Matthew Vitz
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B.A. in Sociology, University of California, Santa BarbaraM.A. in Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State UniversityC. Phil in History, University of California, San DiegoJose's work focuses on multiracial/multiethnic solidarity. For his dissertation, "Shared Imaginations: Black and Brown Solidarity in Los Angeles, 1965-1994," he writes about the way black and brown working-class communities came together to organize in the neighborhood, school sites, and workplace of post-Fordism Los Angeles. Jose is also involved in a seed project that experimentally maps spaces of abolition and abolitionists' struggles, check out the work he is doing with his colleague, https://mappingabolition.com Research and Teaching Interests:Twentieth century U.S. history and social movements, black and brown relationships, comparative/relational race and ethnicity, Chicanx History, ethnic studies, Critical Human Geography, space and place, California History, Los Angeles History, Oral History, Global History, and history from below.Advisors: Luis Alvarez and Danny Widener
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Advisors: Karl Gerth and Micah Muscolino
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Advisor: Benjamin Cowan
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Advisor: Jessica Graham
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Advisor: Mark Hendrickson
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Advisor: Mark Hanna
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Advisor: Hasan Kayali and Michael Provence
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B.A. in History, California State University, San Marcos, 2015
M.A. in History, California State University, San Marcos, 2018I am interested in United States history with a subfield of African American history and global history.
Advisor: Danny Widener
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M.A. in American Studies, ELTE University, Budapest
M.A. in Comparative History, Central European University, Budapest
PhD in History, Science Studies. In progress, UC San DiegoI am interested in the interconnections of the social and natural sciences in the 20C. Atomic age, Cold War science and society, institutions, universities, refugee scientists as well as issues of technical experts acting as public intellectuals. I also retain an interest in the historiography of science and religion, broadly construed.
Advisor: Cathy Gere
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B.A. in History, University of California, Irvine, 2015
M.A. in History, California State University, Northridge, 2018My research revolves around the early modern European period, with a specific focus on the Spanish empire during the 15th and 16th centuries. I am interested in the construction of an early modern Spanish identity during this period, whether this identity is self-imposed or is being perpetuated onto themselves by their enemies. So far, my projects have attempted to highlight how the territorial enemies of the Spanish continuously used different mediums to express their interpretation of a Spanish identity while subsequently being in constant interaction with the Spanish’s interpretation of their own identity.
Advisor: Andrew Devereux
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Advisor: Andrew Devereux
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BA in History, UC Davis, 2024
I am interested in Latin America in the 19th century and Environmental History. For my honors thesis, I studied the intellectual history of the French intervention in Mexico and the Mexican Second Empire (1861-1867). Specifically, I investigated the exaggerated and frequently repeated myth that Mexico possessed endless agricultural "fertility” yet had been “abandoned” by the Mexican people. I argued that this fertility trope factored greatly both as a French justification for invading Mexico, and as an excuse for many Mexican political and intellectual elites to collaborate with the French occupying force and Mexican Second Empire.
Advisor: Matthew Vitz
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B.A. in History, UC Santa Cruz, 2017
I am primarily looking to pursue a trans-pacific approach to examining American imperialism in Southeast Asia. Particularly, I am interested in the aftermath of the Second Indochina Conflict and the ensuing refugee crisis that reached its peak in the 1980s. The refugee camps that were established in locations such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Hong Kong serve as an interesting space in which individuals (camp workers and refugees alike) can articulate their perceived position in relation to the dominant American presence in the region. The liminal nature of the refugee camp also serves as an insight into space-making among refugees away from an established "homeland."
I am looking to combine a variety of materials, from traditional archival sources, to oral testimonies, to video and digital materials in my work, taking full advantage of digital humanities as a whole.
Research Interests: Trans-pacific studies, American Empire, Critical Refugee Studies, Immigration, Cold War, American militarism in the Pacific
Advisor: Simeon Man
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EducationB.A. - History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoB.A. - Philosophy of Science (History of Science area), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoResearch ThemesI am interested in studying the scientific culture in the Americas in the early modern period. My research involves studying science and technology practices from a historical and political perspective.Advisor: Nydia Pineda de Avila
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MA in Law, Constitution, and Democracy, University of Brasília (2014)MA in History, UC San Diego (2024)Research Themes: Latin America, Brazil, US-Latin America relations, Cold War, right-wing politics and culture in the Americas, neoliberalism, anti-communism, authoritarianism, capitalismDissertation Title: “A Crusade in Defense of Economic Liberalism: Right-Wing Politics and Post-Dictatorship Authoritarianism in Brazil’s Neoliberal Turn”My dissertation takes the rise of neoliberalism in Brazil as a backdrop to analyze changes in the country’s right-wing coalitions from the process of political opening of the military dictatorship in the 1970s to the pink wave government of the 2000s. I analyze the role played by think tanks, pro-business intellectuals, Christian conservatives, and families of military officers in creating networks of right-wing activism within Brazil and abroad (specially in the US and the UK). An integral part of their activities entailed varnishing militant anti-communism with neoliberalism’s techno-scientific rhetoric, seeking to legitimize it as the only reasonable solution to the political and economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s. I argue that these networks were key in fostering the political and ideological conditions to establish neoliberalism as a way of sustaining authoritarian rule and protecting markets and corporations from potential impacts caused by democratization.Advisor: Ben Cowan
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Advisor: Thomas Gallant
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M.Sc. in Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
B.A. in History, University of California, Los AngelesResearch Interests
PRC history; Cultural Revolution; educated youth (zhiqing); Chinese politics; transnational historyAdvisor: Michah Muscolino
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Advisor: Cathy Gere
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B.A. in History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 2009
M.A. in Social History, Federal University of Rio de Janiero (PPGHIS-IH-UFRJ), 2013
Ph.D. in History, University of California, San Diego, In ProgressAbner Fco Sótenos is a Ph.D. Student in Latin American History at the Department of History of University of California – San Diego.
He holds a master’s in social history from PPGHIS-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ (2013) Brazil, and a bachelor’s in history at UFRJ (2009). He was a visiting researcher at Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University (2016-2018).
Awarded Honorable Mention in the Best Master's Dissertation Award, Ana Lugão Rios do PPGHIS-UFRJ (2013).
He is co-author of the book Written History, Lived History: Social Movements, Memory, and Political Repression During the Military Dictatorship in Brazil, (Rio de Janeiro: Lamparina editora, 2019), in Portuguese.
He is working on a manuscript book entitled Down with the Dictatorship: Democratic Opposition and the Surveillance apparatus in the Baixada Fluminense During the Dictatorial Year, in Portuguese. Moreover, He is the author of many articles and book chapters and participates as a political commentator in the Brazilian and US press. He is a popular educator and political activist.
He is interested in Racial Formation in Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Human Right, Transnational Activism in the Diasporic World, Cold War in Latin America, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Studies, History of Republican Brazil; Military Dictatorship in Brazil, Changes in Political Regimes in Latin America, and grassroot movements in Brazil and the United States.
Advisors: Jessica Graham and Ben Cowan
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Advisor: Nancy Caciola
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Katherine White
B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience, University of California Berkeley, 2018
B.A. in English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Fields: history of medicine, science studies, Early Modern Spain, Colonial Latin America, history of the body, visual and material culture
Advisor: Andrew Devereux
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Advisors: Karl Gerth and Micah Muscolino
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B.A. in History and Japanese Studies, Furman University, 2019
M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University, 2021Advisor: Sarah Schneewind
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Advisors: Simeon Man and Wendy Matsumura
