Ph.D. Recipients

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Ph.D.’s Awarded 2008-2009

CHAN, Shelly (B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "The Overseas Chinese (Huaqiao) Project: Nation, Culture, and Race in Modern China, 1890-1966"

Ph.D.’s Awarded 2007-2008

MCDONALD, Kevin (B.A., University of Richmond; M.A., Rutgers University) "Pirates, Merchants, Settlers and Slaves: Making an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1640-1730"

RAMNATH, Maia (B.F.A., Butler University; M.A., New York University; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) " 'The Haj to Utopia': Anti-Systemic Ideologies in the South Asian Diaspora, 1905-1930"

SUN, Xiaoping (B.A., Qiqihar Teachers College; M.A., Liaoning University; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "New Life: State Mobilization and Women's Place in Nationalist China, 1934-1949"

ZAPPIA, Natale (B.S., Cornell University; M.A., Claremont Graduate University; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "The Interior World: Trading and Raiding in Native California, 1700-1863

Ph.D.’s Awarded 2006-2007

DAY, Alexander: "Return of the Peasant: The Politics of Rural Social Justice in Contemporary China"

LOWGREN, Andrea: "Street Reputations: Mapping Racialized Sexuality in San Francisco, 1930s-60s"

Ph.D.’s Awarded 2005-2006

CHIN, Angela: "Bound to Emancipate: Management of Lower-Class Women in 1920s and 1930s Urban South China"

ESBENSHADE, Richard: "The Populist-Urbanist Debate in Hungary and the Divided Construction of Hungarian National Identity, 1929-44"

HAUGH, Alexandra: "Indigenous Political Culture and Eurasian Empire: Russia in Siberia in the 17th Century"

KANG, Wenqing: "Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-50"

MATSUBARA, Hiroyuki: "Unsettled Controversies: The Anti-Prostitution Movement and the Transformation of American Political Culture, 1910-19"

Ph.D.’s Awarded 2004-2005

KALLIOMAKI, Aki (B.A.U., University of Helsinki; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) “’The Most God-provoking Democrats on This Side of Hell’—The United Irishmen in the United States”

KLEIN, Stephanie (B.A., California State University, Hayward; M.A., California State University, Hayward; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) “Indian Women and Catholic Mission in Mexico and Canada 1500-1700”

PAPANDREU, Dimitri (B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) “Peasant Culture and Modernization in Twentieth Century Umbria”

SIMONTON, Kathleen (B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) “Downhome From Ulster: Ulster Irish in Megantic County Quebec, 1814-1850”

Ph.D.s Awarded 2003-2004

HALL, Rebecca (B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; J.D., University of California, Berkeley) “"Not Killing Me Softly: African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender"”

ROBINSON, Emily (B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz)“"Immigrant Covenanters: Religious and Political Identity, From Scotland to America"”

Ph.D.s Awarded 2002-2003

CHEIKHETOV, Serguey (B.A.U., Novosibirsk University; M.A.U., Central European University; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "Private Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union: 1920s-1980s"

PURSLEY, Sasha (B.A., University of Texas, Austin; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "The Motherland Calls: The 46th Taman Guards Women's Aviation Unit in the Great Patriotic War"

RYAN, Michele (B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "In My Hand For Lending: Quaker Women's Meetings in London, 1654-1699"

Ph.D.s Awarded 2001-2002

WAYNE, Tiffany (B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A. University of California, Santa Cruz) "Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in 19th-Century America"

WILSON, Joel (B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz)
"’'Free Huey': The Black Panther Party, the Peace and Freedom Party, and the Politics of Race in 1968"

YARYAN, William (B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "Saving the Redwoods: The Ideology and Political Economy of Nature Preservation"

Ph.D.s Awarded 2000-2001

MAGHRAOUI, Driss (B.A., Rider College; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz) "Moroccan Colonial Troops: History, Memory and the Culture of French Colonialism"

Ph.D.s Awarded 1999-2000

BROWN, Shannon A. (BA, Cal Poly State; MA, University of California, Santa Cruz) “"Annihilating Time and Space: The Electrification of the U.S. Army, 1875-1920"”

LANGERBEIN, Helmut (B.A.; University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, CSU Northridge) “"Profiles of Mass Murder: the Einsatzgruppen Officers"

VANN, Michael G. (B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; MA, University of California, Santa Cruz) “"White City on the Red River: Race, Power, and Culture in French Colonial Hanoi, 1872-1954"

WHALEN, Philip E. (B.A., University of Massachusetts; MA, University of California, Santa Cruz) “"The Life and Works of Gaston Roupnel"