Placement History
The list below includes all graduate students who have received their Ph.D. in the department since 2018. Positions are designated as tenure-track (TT), tenured (T), or fixed-term (FT). If our graduates have accepted employment outside academia, this is noted where information is available.
2023-2024
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel Castañeda | "It was about Self-Determination:" Student Power and the Chicano/a Student Movement | Alvarez/Gutierrez | Postdoc, DePaul University | Postdoc, DePaul University |
| Matthew Crum | Unbecoming Romans | Watts | Lecturer in Humanities, UC San Diego | Lecturer in Humanities, UC San Diego |
| Kristian Fabian | Global Conquistadors: A Social History of the Early Spanish Empire, 1480-1521 | Murillo | Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach | Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach |
| Semih Gokatalay | The Political Economy of Chambers of Commerce and Trade Fairs in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Interwar Middle East (1882-1939) | Kayali/Provence | ||
| Jaeyoung Ha | Frontier Above the Clouds: A Trans-Pacific History of Mountain Engineering in South Korea | Henry | Postdoc, Tsinghua University | Postdoc, Tsinghua University |
| Youngoh Jung | A Different Diaspora: Insurgent Histories and Alternative Worldmaking in the Korean American Diaspora. | Man | Postdoc, University of Hawai'i | Asst. Professor, University of Hawai'i |
| Kevin Westerfeld | All Together Now: The Successes and Failures of Community Building in Xenophon's Anabasis | Demetriou | ||
| Zeead Yaghi | Planning National Disunity: Modernization and Development in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970 | Kayali/Provence | Lecturer, American University of Beirut | Lecturer, American University of Beirut |
2022-2023
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amie Campos | Territorial Conflicts, Bureaucracy, and State Formation in Chile’s Southern Frontera 1866-1912 | Van Young/Vitz | ||
| Maria Carreras | A Local Affair: Barcelona’s Municipal Schools and Recreational Activities in Late Francoist Spain, 1950-1975 | Radcliff | ||
| Thomas Arthur Kwok Wah Chan | From Users to Criminals: Creating, Pathologizing, and Killing 'Drug Criminals’ in Twentieth-Century China | Gerth/Pickowicz | Asst. Professor, Indiana University (FT) | |
| Christopher Costello | A Vast Consolidation: Everyday Agents of Empire, the United States Navy, and the Processes of Pacific Expansion, 1784-1861 | Hanna | Asst. Professor & Associate Chair, United States Naval Academy | Assoc. Professor, Naval War College (TT) |
| Kevan Q. Malone | Borderline Unsustainable: San Diego, Tijuana, and the Politics of Urban Planning at the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, 1920s-1970s | Kwak | Post-doc, Humanities Center, Texas Tech University (FT) | Fellow, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University |
| Patrícia Martins Marcos | Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800) | Gere | Post-doc, UCLA (FT) | |
| Alexis Nicole Meza | Solidarity, Memory, and Radical Imaginaries in the Salvadoran Diaspora | Alvarez | Post-doc, NYU (FT) | Asst. Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (TT) |
| Johanna Peterson | "A Measure of All Nations": Girls' Schools and Constructions of Citizenship in French Mandate Lebanon, 1919-1951 | Kayali/Provence | Associate Director of the Making of the Making of the Modern World program at UCSD | |
| Ivana Polic | The (Re)Making of Young Patriots: Children and Nation-Building in Wartime Croatia and the Republic of Serb Krajina (1990-1995). | Patterson | ||
| Carrie Streeter | Wings to Their Heels: Self-Expression and Health and the Rise of the New Woman | Plant | ||
| Chuchu Wang | Revolution on a Budget: Politics, Finance, Urban-rural Divide, Gender and Personal Experiences of Local Level Education in Socialist China, 1949-79 | Gerth/Pickowicz | ||
| Mirna Wasef | Educate a Girl, Educate a Nation: American Missionaries, the State, and Competing Notions of Idealized Womanhood in the Race to Govern Girls’ Education in Egypt, 1920s-1940s | Kayali/Provence | ||
| Lauren Elizabeth Wood | From the Devil We Came: Reimagining Female Agency with the Monstrous Mélusine | Caciola |
2021-2022
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha de Vera | A Freedom No Greater Than Bondage: Black Refugees and Unfree Labor at the Dawn of Mass Incarceration during the Civil War and Reconstruction | Widener/Plant | Post-doc, Penn State (FT) |
Asst. Professor, UC Irvine (FT) |
| Josef Djordjevski | A Seaside for the Future: Yugoslav Socialism, Tourism, Environmental Protection, and the Eastern Adriatic Coastline, 1945-2000s | Patterson | ||
| Taylor Gray | The Making of Visual Arts Policy and Artistic Advocacy in Late Francoist Spain | Radcliff | Lecturer/Instructor MMW, UC San Diego | Performance & Policy Evaluator CA State Auditor (FT) |
| Francisco Laguna-Alvarez | The Ecclesiastical Court of San José de Toluca, 1675-1800 | Hunefeldt | ||
| Graeme Mack | Seaborne Sovereignties: Pacific Trade and the Evolution of American Commercial Maritime Imperialism, 1787-1848 | Hanna/Klein | Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Richmond | Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Richmond |
| Russell Peck | Power Grabs: Hydroelectricity, Regional Hydropolitics, and the Transformation of Los Angeles, 1890-1925 | Hendrickson | ||
| Jorge Ramirez-Lopez | Indigenous Worldmaking in a World of Crisis: Race and the Making of the Migrant Circuit from Southern Mexico to the US/Mexican Pacific Coast, 1968-1994 | Alvarez/Molina | Post-doc, Dartmouth (FT) | Post-doc, Dartmouth (FT) |
| Reuben Silverman | Becoming Little Americans? Economic Integration and Social Polarization in Cold War Turkey, 1950-1960 | Kayali/Provence | ||
| Aytek Soner Alpan | Trajectories of Displacement: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the 1923 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange | Gallant | Post-doc, Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University | Post-doc, Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University |
| Paul Tchir | A Forgotten Legacy – The Transformative Impact of Modern Sport in Egypt, 1882-1956 | Kayali/Provence |
2020-2021
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevan Aguilar | Revolutionary Encounters: Mexican Communities and Spanish Exiles, 1906-1959 | VanYoung/Vitz | Post-doc, University of Maryland (FT) 2021-2022 | Asst. Professor, UC Irvine (TT) 2022-present |
| Jillian Bolin | Second Sight in Early Modern Scotland | Caciola/Strasser | ||
| Inga Diederich | Blood of the Nation: Medical Eugenics, Bio-Nationalism and Identity Formation in Cold War South Korea | Henry | Asst. Professor, Colby College (TT) | Asst. Professor, Colby College (TT) |
| Kalliopi Kefalas | "Setting the Wolf to Protect the Sheep"? The Criminal Justice System in Late Ottoman Crete (1878-1913) | Gallant | ||
| Michael Kenny | The Eternal Kingdom: Catholic Conservatism, Croat Nationalism, and the Habsburg State Mission, 1867-1918 | Patterson | Post-doc, Arizona State University (FT) | Post-doc, Arizona State University (FT) |
| Chirstos Theofilogiannakos | The Perennial Periphery: Insularity, Identity, and Politics in the Ionian Islands during the Long Nineteenth Century | Gallant | ||
| Matthew Wills | Mediating the Message: Book Culture and Propaganda in Mao's China, 1974-1977 | Gerth/Pickowicz |
2019-2020
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Braden | Serve the People: Bovine Experiences in China's Civil War and Revolution, 1935-1961 | Gerth/Pickowicz | Post-doc, Harvard University (FT) | Post-doc, University of Michigan (FT) |
| Troy Kokinis | Haga Circular: Latin Americanist Anarchism, Dissident Labor, and the Uruguayan New Left, 1956-1976 | Monteon/Van Young | ||
| Sky Michael Johnston | Weathering Early Modern Germany: Vernacular Meteorology, Pastoral Theology, and Communal Life in the Long Sixteenth Century | Strasser/Westman | Post Doc, University of Tübingen in Germany (FT) | Asst. Professor, Trinity Christian College (TT) |
| Yupeng Jiao | Martial Arts, Apocalypse, Counterrevolutionaries: Huidaomen and Rural Governance in Modern China, 1919-1961 | Gerth/Pickowicz | Post Doc, Stanford University (FT) | Asst. Clinical Professor, University of Maryland, College Park (FT) |
| P. Mark McNaughton | Atascadero, Dachau for Queers: Examining the Transformation of the Gay Rights Movement from Accomodationism to Militancy 1954-1973 | Plant | ||
| Joel Palhegyi | Tito Under Glass: Museum and Myth in the Making of Croat Yugoslavism | Patterson | Lecturer, San Diego State University (FT) | Lecturer, San Diego State University (FT) |
2018-2019
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnathan Abreu | Frontiers Beyond Abolition: Fugitive Slave Communities and Resistance in Maranhão and Pará, Brazil, 1860-1950 | Hunefeldt | ||
| Patrick Adamiak | To the Edge of the Desert: Caucasian Refugees, Civilization, and Settlement on the Ottoman Frontier, 1866-1918 | Kayali/Provence | Lecturer, CUS San Marcos (FT) | |
| Juan Carmona Zabala | State Expansion and Economic Integration: A Transnational History of Oriental Tobacco in Greece and Germany (1880-1941) | Gallant | Post-Doc, Vienna University of Economics and Business (FT) | Post-Doc, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FT) |
| Theodora Dryer | Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Computing in an Age of Anxiety | Gere | Post-Doc, AI Now Institute at New York University (FT) | Post-Doc, AI Now Institute at New York University (FT) |
| Suzanne Dunai | Food Politics in Postwar Spain: Everyday Life during the Early Franco Dictatorship, 1939-1952 | Radcliff | ||
| Nancy Egan | Infrastructure, State Formation, and Social Change in Bolivia at the Start of the Twentieth Century | Monteon | ||
| Kathryn Flach | Tell It Like It Is: Television and Social Change, 1960-1980. | Plant | Lecturer, CSU Long Beach (FT) | |
| David Idol | Betting on the Farm: Rural Economic and Environmental History of Greece, 1860–1900. | Gallant | Instructional & Tech Designer, Atrium Health | |
| Young Hyun Kim | Popular Politics of Social Emancipation in Bolivia from the 1930s to the Present: Indigeneity, Revolution and the State. | Hunefeldt | ||
| Jorge Leal | Aquí y Allá: ¡Yo Voy a Existir! Young Latina/o Ingenuity, Sounds, and Solidarity in Late Twentieth-Century Los Ángeles, 1980-1997 | Alvarez/Gutiérrez | Post-Doc, University of Southern California (FT) | Asst. Professor, UC Riverside (TT) |
| Manuel Morales Fontanilla | Impossible Roads: Cycling Landscapes and Cultural Representation in Colombia, 1930-1958 | Hunefeldt/Edelman | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana, Lafayette (FT) | Assistant Professor, Penn State Abington (TT) |
| Kelly Silva | To Serve and To Heal: Native Peoples, Government Physicians, and the Rise of a Federal Indian Healthcare System, 1832-1883 | Klein | Instructor, Muir College Writing Program, UC San Diego (FT) | |
| Cameo West | Antebellum Inc., Hollywood, and the Construction of Southern Identity, 1920-1940. | Widener/Klein | Post-Doc, Engaged Teaching Hub, UC San Diego (FT) | Asst. Dean for Institutional Diversity, Reed College |
| Geoffrey West | Tallgrass Empire: Aspirational Citizenship, Martial Service, and the Creation of Subjects in the Northern Great Plains, 1876-1898 | Plant | Lecturer, San Diego State University (FT) |
2017-2018
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Brivio | Plague Spreaders: Political Conspirators and Agents of the Devil. A Study of Popular Belief in 17th-Century Milan | Strasser/Caciola | Assistant Professor (TT), Erskine College | |
| James |
Streams of Memory: Cultural Selection, Monumentalism, and the Collapse of History in the (re) fashioning of Amazonia | Hunefeldt | ||
| Stephanie Fairchild | Urban Farm Workers: A History of the Justice for Janitors Campaign as an Adaptive Response to Neoliberal Restructuring and Union Decline | Gutierrez | ||
| Edward "Ted" Falk | Arabs into Frenchmen: Education and Identity in Ottoman Syria | Kayali/Provence | ||
| David Henderson | El Mar de Extremadura: Irrigation, Colonization, and Francoism in Southwestern Spain, 1898-1978 | Radcliff | ||
| David Livingstone | The Bundesgrenzschutz: Re-civilizing Security in Postwar West Germany, 1950-1977 | Biess | Chief of Police, Simi Valley, CA | Chief of Police, Simi Valley, CA |
| Alina Mendez | Cheap for Whom? Migration, Farm Labor, and Social Reproduction in the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Borderlands, 1942-1969 | Molina/Gutierrez | Assistant Professor (TT), University of Washington | |
| Lance Mylonakis | Transnational Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1821-1897 | Gallant | ||
| Mychal Odom | From Southern California to Southern Africa: Translocal Black Internationalism in Los Angeles and San Diego from Civil Rights to Antiapartheid, 1960 to 1994 | Alvarez/Widener | ||
| Amy O'Keefe | God of Our Fathers in A Mother's Realm: Christianizing the Home and Indigenizing Protestantism in China, 1907- 1938 | Pickowicz/Esherick | Assistant Professor (TT), Meredith College | Assistant Professor (TT), Meredith College |
| Audrey Price | Pure and Applied: Christopher Clavius's Approach to Mathematics Pedagogy | Westman | ||
| Gerardo Rios | Por la Patria Chica: Indigenous Rebellion and Revolution in the Oriente Central de Mexico, Tlaxcala and Puebla, 1853-1927 | Van Young | Assistant Professor (TT), Southwestern College | Assistant Professor (TT), Southwestern College |
| Luis Sanchez-Lopez | Crafting the Mestizo: Indigeneity, Customary Law, and Statecraft in Mexico | Monteon | ||
| Robert Terrell | The People's Drink: Beer, Bavaria, and the Remaking of Germany, 1933-1987 | Biess | Assistant Professor (TT), Syracuse University | Assistant Professor (TT), Syracuse University |
| Teresa Walch | Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany |
Biess | Post-Doc Fellow (FT), Hebrew University | Assistant Professor (TT), University of North Carolina-Greensboro |
2016-2017
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Chamberlin | Honor Bound: The Military Culture of the Civil Guard and the Political Violence of the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1936 | Radcliff | Assistant Professor (FT), Bogazici University | Assistant Professor (FT), Northern Arizona University |
| Hilary Coulson | The Penitentiary at Richmond: Slavery, State Building, and Labor in the South's First State Prison | Plant | ||
| Mary Klann | Citizens with Reservations: Race, Wardship, and Native American Citizenship in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American Welfare State | Plant | ||
| William McGovern | Street Children: St. Louis and the Transformation of American Reform, 1832-1904 | Klein | ||
| Ulices Pina | Rebellious Citizens: National Reforms and the Practice of Local Governance in Jalisco, Mexico. 1914-1940 | Van Young | Assistant Professor (TT), CSU Long Beach |
2015-2016
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Bevers | To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds: The Army Medical Museum and the Development of American Medical Science, 1862-1913 | Gere | ||
| Philip Clements | Science in extremis: the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition | Gere/Golan | ||
| Laura Gutierrez | A Constant Threat: Deportation and Return Migration to Mexico, 1918-1965 | Gutierrez | ||
| Jessica Jordan | Island too Beautiful for their Names: Local Memories and Japanese Colonial Rule (1914-1944) in the Northern Mariana Islands | Tanaka/Takashi | ||
| William Skiles | Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Confessing Church on National Socialism, the Jews, and the Questions of Opposition | Biess/Hertz | Assistant Professor (TT) Regent University | Associate Professor, Regent University |
| James Stout | Breakaway Nations: the use of sport and physical culture to create a cross class Catalan identity during the Second Republic | Radcliff | Journalist (FT), covering conflict on borders/migration in the middle east | |
| Megan Strom | Transnational Youth: The Federation of Uruguayan University Students in the Early Cold War, 1941-1958 | Monteon |
2014-2015
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rodolfo Alaniz | Dredging Evolutionary Theory: the emergence of the deep sea as a transatlantic site for evolution, 1853-1876 | Gere/Golan | ||
| Andrea Davis | Santa Coloma de Gramenet: The Transformation of Leftwing Popular Politics in Spain (1968-1986) | Radcliff | Associate Prof. of History at Arkansas State University (2017-current) | |
| Cutler Edwards | Styles of Struggle: Community Organizing, Youth Culture, and Radical Politics in New York City, 1968-1981 | Alvarez/Widener | ||
| Sarah Malena | FERTILE CROSSROADS: The Growth and Influence of Interregional Exchange in the Southern Levant's Iron Age I-II Transition, Examined through Biblical, Epigraphic, and Archaeological Sources | Propp/Levy | ||
| Ryan Moran | Tabling Death: Life Insurance in Modern Japan, 1881-1945 | Tanaka/Takashi | ||
| Ryan Reft | The Metropolitan Military: Navy Families and Housing in the American Sunbelt 1941-2000 | Shah/Kwak | ||
| Anne Schenderlein | "Germany on Their Minds?" German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988 | Biess/Hertz | Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College (TT) | Managing Director, Dahlem Humanities Center at Freie Universität in Berlin |
| Elizabeth Sine | Grassroots Surrealism: The Culture of Opposition and the Crisis of Development in 1930s California | Alvarez/Widener | ||
| Maki Smith | Fighting Poverty Together: The War on Poverty and the Fault Lines of Participatory Democracy | Shah/Widener | ||
| Amy Zroka | Serving the Volksgemeinschaft: German Red Cross Nurses in the Second World War | Biess | Lecturer, Clarkson University |