Graduate Student Profiles

racialization, modernization, twentieth-century Mexico

Latin American History

Latin America, Gender & Sexuality, Military Dictatorships in the Southern Cone, Television, History and Media, Women and Gender

South Asian History; World History; Exploring socialist ideas in relation to anti-authoritarianism, environmentalism and democratic decentralization in postcolonial India, and in a global postcolonial context.

US History, Asian American History, transnational U.S. history, Global Cold War, history of humanitarianism, history of migration and diaspora, US-China relations, critical refugee studies

Armenia’s “dark and cold years” during the energy crisis (1991-1995), as the country transitioned from over seventy years of Soviet rule.

Middle Eastern History, World History, Ancient Iran and the Premodern Persian World, Ancient Economies, Microhistories, Numismatics, Environmental and Agrarian Histories, Archaeological Landscapes, Control and Popular Resistance

East Asian History, Gender & Sexuality

My research focuses on the experiences of individuals subjected to sexual slavery during WWII under the Japanese imperial army.

East Asian history, History of science, technology, and environment
My research explores how hygiene, infrastructure, postwar developmentalism, and spatial aesthetics developed interconnectedly in the late twentieth-century East Asia. My current work focuses on the implementation of sewerage infrastructure in South Korea from the 1960s to the 2000s, examining its impacts on both built and natural environments.

My dissertation examines how ordinary women shaped the governance of Beijing through their participation and leadership in the residents’ committee (居民委员会). Foregrounding gender as the main category of analysis, the project highlights older women as key political actors and investigates how their affective, informal, and gendered approach to neighborhood work – policing, surveillance, gossip, domestic mediation, etc. – transformed the dynamics of power and authority in the intermediary space between state and society. Fieldwork for this project is supported by the Esherick-Ye Foundation, the Overseas Young Chinese Forum, and the Association for Asian Studies.

In addition to my ongoing dissertation project, I am also interested in labor, social reproduction, and state feminism. Outside of academia, I enjoy long-distance running and am a slow marathoner.

United States history, environmental history, history of oil, energy history

My research examines the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans and its synchronous development with the city’s oil industry. I analyze how the creation and expansion of the oil industry created, reproduced, and reshaped racialized and gendered norms, both socially and economically, outside of the traditional “boom town” geography.

Stephanie‘s research is focused on indigenous women’s sexuality in Colonial Mexico during the 16th-18th centuries. She is currently examining the relationship between participants of transactional sex, consent, and the Catholic Church.

Black Panther Party, Black Radicalism during c. Cold War, Guerilla Fighters c. Cold War, AK-47 History

European and World History, Empire and Colonialisms, Socialism, 20th Century Balkans, Left Intellectual Thought, Labor History

United States History, Latin America History

Latin American History, World History, Imperial Japan

20th U.S. History; Critical Theory, Race and Ethnicity

U.S. History

Latin American History

History of Latin America and the Caribbean, History of Gender and Sexualities, History of Childhood, Cold War History, Modern Chile, Modern Cuba

Early Modern Iberian Empire and Colonial Latin America, History of the Book and History of Science/Technology within the Trans-Atlantic Iberian World

US History; Global Migrations, Slavery and Diaspora; Japanese American history; impacts of mass incarceration; regional racial formation.

Latin American History

History of Colonial Latin America, Histories of Race and Gender, Colonialism, Medicalization, Space, and Seclusion

The body in early modern France, use of tattoos and other marks and modifications, and French coloniality and overseas empires.