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Dissertations in Progress

BROOKS, CHRISTOPHER "Mutations of the French New Left: The Case of André Gorz"

CANDELA, Ana “Nations and Migrations in the Pacific: Peruvian Chinese Contributions to Nationalism and Nation-Building in China and Peru”

CHAN, Shelly “The Overseas Chinese Project: Inventing Nation, Culture, and Race in Modern China, 1900-1966”

ENGINEER, Urmi "Hurricane of the Human Frame: Yellow Fever, Race, and Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans”

FEINSTEIN-JOHNSON, Kelly “An Account of Notorious Murderers, Robbers, and Sporting Ladies: Representations of Crime and Criminality in English and Scottish Broadsides, 1660-1800”

GUZMAN, Christina Morales “Displacing Citizenship: Mexican Families and Labor in Central Coast California, 1929-1940”

ILLINGWORTH, James “The Rise and Fall of Free Labor Politics in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans”

JENKINS, Amanda “The Radical Jewish Imagination in Los Angeles: Workmen's Circle, 1908-1939”

JIN, Michael “Beyond Two Homelands: Nationalism, Loyalty, Citizenship, and Japanese Americans in the Pacific, 1930-1955”

MARTIN, Eliza “Civilizing Eden: Water, Development, and Power in San Diego, 1890-1947”

MO, Yajun, “Tourism and Travel Culture in Republican Shanghai”

MURPHY, Michael "From Limoges to Paris: The Formative Years of Michel Chevalier"

OTTERNESS, Anders “Enlightened Botany: Colonial Scientists in a Revolutionary Age, 1773-1811”

RENNER, Martin “Nutrition and Nature: The Industrial Food Supply and Its Critics, 1912-1962”

ROSENZWEIG, Laura "Hollywood's Spies: Jewish Infiltration of Pro-Nazi Groups in Los Angeles, 1933-1945"

SANCHEZ, Sabrina “Spaces of Intimacy, Spaces of Empire: Nuevomexicanos, Interracial Intimacy, and U.S. Imperialism in Territorial New Mexico, 1848-1912”

SMITH, Sara “New Directions for Labor: Rank-and-File Teachers Organizing in California”