Dissertations in Progress

Hangzhou, China. Photo Contributed by Yajun Mo

Dissertator: Allio, Andrew
Advisor: Porter, Eric
Dissertation title:“Now Boarding, Platform Two: BART and the Development of the Modern San Francisco Bay Area”

Dissertator: Bergamini, Clara
Advisor: Christy, Alan
Dissertation title:"Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster” 

Dissertator: Butingan, Leonard
Advisor: Matera, Marc
Dissertation title:"Black Anti-Racist Activism and the 'Afterlife of Empire' in Britain 1976-2000"

Dissertator: Chan, Man Ning
Advisor: Hu, Minghui
Dissertation title:"Music, Tradition, and Power: A History of Qin-zither in Early Modern China"

Dissertator: Crowder, Troy
Advisor: Cioc, Mark
Dissertation title: "Creeping Blight: A History of Tropical Agriculture and Pandemic Disease, 1850-2000"

Dissertator: Cruz, Carlos
Advisor: Delgado, Grace
Dissertation title:"Magonismo in Continuum: A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón's 'Indigenous Proletariat in Mexico and the American Southwest."

Dissertator: Duncan, David
Advisor: Porter, Eric
Dissertation title: "Voices in the Tule: An Oral History of Community Activism and Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area"

Dissertator: Huse, Amanda
Advisor: Jones, Catherine
Dissertation title:
“She was Afraid I Would Tell It’: Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Postwar, Postemancipation Georgia”

Dissertator: McClellan-Ufugusuku, Alexyss
Advisor: Christy, Alan
Dissertation title: “The United Nations Trusteeship that Never Was.”

Dissertator: Milton, Piper
Advisors: O'Hara, Matt and Breen, Ben
Dissertation title:"Divine Weather: Climate and Evangelization in Colonial Sonora, 1680-1794"

Dissertator: Richardson, Drew
Advisor: Christy, Alan
Dissertation title: "Mediating Monsters: Placing Yokai in Modern Japan, a Media History"

Dissertator: Sanceri, Jeffrey
Advisor: Haas, M. Lisbeth
Dissertation title: "Negotiating Dominance: Juvenile Delinquency and Masculinity in Progressive Era Los Angeles, 1891-1914"

Dissertator: Simon-Reynolds, Meleia
Advisor: Yang, Alice
Dissertation title:"Transpacific Images: Photographs of Filipinx Communities in Hawai‘i and California"

Dissertator: Tan, Joshua
Advisor: Chan, Shelly
Dissertation title: "Migrants and Missionaries: Christianity and Culture in Cold War China" 

Dissertator: Ulbrich, Linda
Advisor: Matera, Marc
Dissertation title:"Yesterday was a difficult day to be Sister: An Emotional History of First World War Nursing"

Dissertator: Wang, Christina
Advisor: Aso, Noriko
Dissertation title:"Beyond the Glass Case: Japanese Museums and Decolonial Memory-Making" 

Dissertator: Young, Wyatt
Advisor: Lonetree, Amy
Dissertation title: "The Diaspora of Filipino Collections: National Museums, Marcos and Fairs"

Dissertator: Zhao, Audrey
Advisors: Westerkamp, Marilyn and Christy, Alan 
Dissertation title:"The Global Journey of Ginseng: A Comprehensive Study of its Impact on Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange"