PhD Student North America Research Interests My research interests include 19th century U.S. slavery, legal history of slavery, and the gendered nature of slavery. Education PhD, UC Berkely, History BA, Occidental College, Black Studies and American Studies
I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. I focus on the history of public health and medicine, particularly infectious disease and colonial epidemic and pandemic response in the 18-19th centuries. My interest in interdisciplinary work and my experiences in global public health, emergency response, and laboratory systems strengthening inform my historical questions and methods.
Research Interests Public Health Infectious Disease Colonialism Atlantic World Environmental History...
I am a PhD student working on 20th-century Central and Eastern European intellectual history. I am interested in how the historical and temporal frameworks of European politics have changed since the Second World War.
My work revolves around postwar Polish thought, communist-era discourses of nationalism, democracy, and human rights, and the mutually influential interactions between Eastern and Western European politics. I am drawn to thinkers like those in my current research project on the “Warsaw School of the History of Ideas,” who...
PhD Candidate Southeast Asia/ Vietnam in the 20th Century About me
As a part of Fulbright University Vietnam's inaugural cohort in 2018, Khánh-Minh Bùi was introduced to History as a research field and in particular the international scholarship of Vietnam's 20th-century history. During her undergraduate study, Khánh-Minh enjoyed working as a research assistant to Dr. Andrew Bellisari for his project on African soldiers in the First Indochina War and its aftermath (1946 - 1964), receiving first-hand experience of archival research in Hà Nội and later Hồ Chí Minh City...
At the time of this interview Simon Brown was in the fifth year of the program, where he continues to study early modern European history. He focuses on British history between the Reformation and Enlightenment, and his dissertation examines the history of “useful knowledge” as an aspiration and project from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century in England and its empire. He is particularly interested in the way that both Protestant theology and political economy informed how people thought about what makes knowledge useful in the period, when many began to insist that all...
Lois Rosson studies American science institutions in the 20th-century, NASA, space and popular culture, astronomical illustration, and photography. At the time of this interview, she was a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate.
Hello! Could you tell us a bit about your dissertation, and especially the part you worked on as Guggenheim Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum?
The project looks at how astronomical illustration responded to the onset of the Space Race in the United States. I argue that while these...
Adrianne Francisco received her Ph.D. in 2015 and started a career as an independent school teacher 3 days after submitting her dissertation, which looked at the relationship between American colonial education and Philippine nationalism during the years of direct U.S. rule, from 1900-1935. Currently she is a Social Studies teacher at Drew School in San Francisco. Besides teaching, she advises Drew's APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) student affinity group, mentors new faculty, and serves as an 11th-grade advisor.
