UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT of HISTORY SUMMER 2019 NEWSLETTER

A MESSAGE FROM THE + Where in the world are DEPARTMENT CHAIR History graduate students?

1 CONTENTS 04 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR DEPARTMENT NEWS 06 3229 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2550 IS THE GREAT ANNUAL GATHERING AT 08 UCBHSSP SUMMER PROJECT THE 101 CIRCUS WHICH HISTORY MAJORS HAVE THE Phone: (510) 642-1971 OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR ORIGINAL THESIS RESEARCH. COVERING A BROAD SPECTRUM 10 GRADUATE RESEARCH Fax: (510) 643-5323 OF GEOGRAPHIC AND CHRONOLOGICAL FIELDS, STUDENTS MAKE 10-MINUTE FREE-FORM PRE- Email: [email protected] Web: history.berkeley.edu SENTATIONS ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH AND WRITING PROCESSES, SURPRISING DISCOVERIES, 12 UNDERGRAD RESEARCH AND ALL THE UPS AND DOWNS OF DOING THE WORK OF A HISTORIAN. RECENT ALUMNI BOOKS 16 FOLLOW BERKELEY HISTORY: Facebook & Instagram @BerkeleyHistory 18 ALUMNI NOTES Twitter @UCBHistory 20 PRIZES & HONORS Campus images courtesy of UC Berkeley Public Affairs © 2018

2 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 3 places and problems. Kaitlin Forgash, for example, is Through our signature senior thesis requirement, the Cal affiliating with the Historiographical Institute of Tokyo History Department supported research opportunities University to research “Kamakura Supplementary Laws: for many undergraduate students as well. Donor funds Crime and the State in Medieval Japan.” Sara Friedman is this year paid for research trips to remote archives in spending next year at the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin Spain, Jordan, Poland and Barbados as well as to a wide FROM researching sexuality and film during the first years of range of domestic collections. Research subjects studied the Weimar Republic. For a study of Western democracy by our undergraduates include the Great Arab Revolt of promotion in the former Eastern Bloc after the collapse 1916-18, American missionary activity in China in the of communism, Lee Hekking is visiting collections held latter half of the 19th century, the Women’s Section of the at the Open Society Archives in Hungary and the Karta the Spanish Fascist Party (Falange) and the history of the Foundation Center in Poland. And Peter Michelli is joining Fairchild Semiconductor Plant on the Navajo Reservation the dipartimento di studi umanistici at the University of of New Mexico. As in past years, students presented brief Bari to study church-state relations under Angevin rule synopses on their senior theses at the lively and well-at- CHAIR in thirteenth-century Southern Italy. tended departmental event known as the 101 Circus. The History Department follows the careers of our Ph.D. We could not be prouder of Cal History students as we students after graduation and we take special interest in recall and celebrate their remarkable accomplishments their publication records. As itemized in the pages that this past year! s opposed to our Winter Newsletter which fore- the collective record of this year’s Ph.D. cohort. Nine follow, a sense of the success that our graduates achieve grounds faculty news, our Summer Newsletter recent graduates have scored coveted posts on the ten- in the publishing world may be gleaned from the number features the activities and achievements of our ure-track including jobs at Barnard College, Cambridge and diversity of books published between January 2017 A and October 2019. — Peter B. Zinoman, Department Chair students. This colorful snapshot of undergraduate and University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Florida graduate student life in the Cal History department pro- International University, McGill University, New York Uni- vides a refreshing corrective to tired portrayals of Amer- versity, University of Colorado at Boulder and University ican university students that have come to predominate of Minnesota. Another seven of our Ph.Ds secured highly in media and popular culture. In contrast to sensational competitive post-doctoral fellowships from elite schools tales of admissions fraud and culture war recycled end- such as USC, Brown, Yale, Harvard, Stanford and the lessly by cable news, the Summer Newsletter presents University of Michigan. These awards, some of them for a vivid picture of a community of smart and successful multi-year positions, will allow our recent graduates to young scholars deeply engaged in studying both the arc revise their dissertations for publication and develop and the craft of history. For members of the faculty and their teaching portfolios. Reflecting the value of the staff who work every day with these wonderful students, history degree outside the traditional halls of academia, this impressive account of their pursuits and accomplish- a handful of our graduate students are pursuing work as ments comes as no surprise. high-school teachers, policy analysts and content de- This year, our department awarded B.A.s in History to signers. almost 150 undergraduate majors and 16 graduate stu- The Ph.D. program currently contains roughly one hun- dents earned Ph.D. degrees. We are especially proud of dred and twenty students, some engaged in course work, the diversity exhibited by this group. Exit surveys taken some carrying out field research and some writing up prior to Commencement disclose that one quarter of their dissertations. Students applying for funding to do our undergraduates are the first person in their family to archival research won awards this past year from the have attended college and one third transferred to Cal Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the Social from community colleges. The surveys also reveal that Science Research Council, the American Institute of In- our students speak over twenty-five native languages at dian Studies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Insti- home, a reflection of the cultural and ethnic diversity tute of International Studies, the Mabelle McCleod Lewis that fuels the enduring dynamism of both the university Foundation, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation and and the state. the Freie Universität Berlin. Given the notoriously grim condition of the academic With these awards, our students are carrying out pri- job-market in History, we are modestly encouraged by mary historical research on a huge variety of periods, Student faculty dinner 2019

4 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 5 Department Highlights Faculty Student Dinner 2019

Faculty awards Staff Awards This year, three History Department faculty members received prestigious awards from UC Berkeley to honor their outstanding teaching and mentorship to students of the campus community.

2019 Distinguished Teaching Award: Ethan Shagan Ethan Shagan was selected to receive the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley's most prestigious honor for teaching. The award, Staff Achievement Award: bestowed by the Academic Senate’s Committee Todd Kuebler on Teaching, recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them Graduate Student Affairs Officer Todd thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has Kuebler won an Achievement Award a lifelong impact. for his exceptional performance, above and beyond what is considered Graduate Student Mentoring Award: normal performance expectations. Caitlin Rosenthal Sarah Stoller Assistant Professor Caitlin Rosenthal was Of Kuebler, History Department Director of Administration selected as this year’s recipient of the Carol D. Marianne Bartholomew-Couts writes: Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Early Career Faculty. Caitlin's nomina- It is clear that Todd cares deeply for tion rose from a pool of numerous nominees for the students and the department. this campus-wide award that recognizes faculty Each step he takes is aligned with for outstanding mentorship of graduate students creating a sense of community, at UC Berkeley. focusing on wellness, and communicating clearly and with Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of transparency. GSIs: Sarah Gold McBride Dr. Sarah Gold McBride (BA '09, MA '12, PhD '17), Congratulations Todd! visiting lecturer in the Department of History, was selected as a recipient of the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs). The award recognizes faculty who have provided GSIs outstanding mentor- ship in teaching at Berkeley and in preparing for teaching in future careers. Faculty receive this award based on nominations from their GSIs and letters of support from departmental chairs.

6 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 7 UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project, Summer 2019 by Rachel B. Reinhard

racial terror, setting the stage for our discussion on the Port Chicago explosion. In previous years, Professor Cathryn Carson has spoken to participants about the University’s atomic history. This grant-funded program has created the opportunity to share the Department’s—and the university’s— resources with K-12 teachers from as far away as Florida and as near as Oakland. They leave with an enhanced understanding of the history of the homefront (especially Bay Area) during World War II and a re-orientation of traditional narratives. One teacher, reflected, “An AMAZING week. We did so much, saw so much, and learned so much. I came away with a newfound understanding and appreciation of what the American Homefront was like, and particularly the role of the Bay Area.” Another teacher wrote, “You can tell [the co-directors] are vested in providing teachers a thorough and well rounded program that enables us to return to the classroom with new historical information to share with our students.” UCBHSSP, an office of four staff members located in the Department of History, provides professional learning to teachers in the summer and throughout the year. The awarding of this NEH grant on three occasions has allowed it to better share department resources and expertise with teachers beyond the Bay Area.

he UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project, in the transformation of local cities, the consequences of collaboration with Professor Mark Brilliant, hosted two Japanese-American incarceration and mass migration of black Tgroups of 35 teachers from across the country for a southerners to wartime industry, and the conceptualization of week of study in June and July. "Movement, Mobilization, the atomic bomb in Berkeley offices and laboratories. and Militarization: The California Bay Area and the World War They visited heavily memorialized locations, volunteer-driven II Home Front" was funded through the NEH Landmarks pro- labors of love, and sites without any formal landmarking—such gram. UCBHSSP’s director Rachel B. Reinhard, a 2005 gradu- as the location of a significant work stoppage by ate of the department’s doctoral program, and Brilliant have African-American sailors who had just witnessed the explosion co-directed the institute on two previous occasions—in 2014 and subsequent death of 200 colleagues. and 2016. This year History PhD student Grace Goudiss as- sisted them. This work is made possible because of UCBHSSP’s partner- The program utilized Bay Area landmarks to study the histo- ships with local organizations, like the Fred T. Korematsu In- ry of the home front, as well as to engage in critical inquiry stitute; the staff of the National Park Service; and department around monuments, memorials, and landmarks. Teachers faculty. This year, in addition to two talks from Brilliant, Pro- explored the geographical landscape via the Marin Headlands, fessor Stephanie Jones-Rogers spoke on the long history of

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RESEARCH SARA FRIEDMAN’S dissertation focuses on SHOUFU YIN will study the 1919, the first year of the Weimar Chinese imperial bureaucracy during the Republic. Using the Aufklärungsfilme transformative centuries of 1250 to 1650 (sex education films), she explores a CE. In the Fall, Shoufu will conduct research moment where a course was set but no at the Ricci Institute in San Francisco and the direction taken, where “the future” meant Harvard-Yenching Library, in Boston, among nothing and anything. Sara’s work will others, with plans to travel to East Asia in take place primarily in Wilhelmine Spring 2020. and Berlin, Germany, working with Anja Laukötter of the JOSEPH LEDFORD plans to visit a Max-Planck-Institut. number of national archives including the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, TX, the National Archives in Washington D.C., where he will be in resi- DANIEL FRIEDMAN’S research will LEE HEKKING’S dence, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential focus on 1) Qin and Han legal statutes, dissertation investigates the Library in Simi Valley, CA. commentaries, edicts, and related expansion of Western democracy writings; and 2) repositories of promotion activities in the former contemporary Chinese judicial opinions. Eastern Bloc after the collapse of communism. Lee will begin research in Washington DC, at institutions such as the National Endowment for Democracy, then he'll travel to the Hoover Archives at Stanford. His final research will NICOLE VIGLINI’S project be conducted in Budapest and is provisionally titled “Flora, Poland. Fauna, and the Economic Networks of Enslaved and Free Women in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana and KAITLIN FORGASH Mississippi.” She plans to travel to the will be conducting research for National Sporting Library and Museum in her dissertation project entitled “The Middleburg, VA, Duke University, UNC kamakura supplementary laws: crime and Chapel Hill, and, finally, the bulk of her the state in medieval Japan.” She will be research will be done at archives PETER MICHELLI’S project a visiting foreign researcher at the histo- in the Gulf South. seeks to reassess the critical riographical institute at the University political transition to Angevin rule of Tokyo from September of 2019 in thirteenth-century Southern Italy by through July of 2020. Our graduate students will focusing on the experience of bishops and their local communities in Apulia. He be traveling far and wide this will be based in Bari, Apulia and affiliated with the dipartimento di studi umanis- tici (humanities) at the coming year as part of their dissertation University of Bari. CHRISTIN ZURBACH will travel to Thessaloniki, research. Some will work in a single city Greece, where she will research the history of medical establish- while others will criss-cross the globe. ments during the Ottoman Empire. She’ll be affiliated with Dr. Dimitris Here are some spots on the map where Stamatopoulos at the University of Macedonia. She will then travel to you might be able to find them in an Turkey, where she will be affiliated with Edhem Eldem at Boğaziçi archive or library (if you’re very quiet University. and approach slowly).

| SUMMER NEWSLETTER 10 11 "This project has changed the way I think about research. I never thought I would be able to conduct my own research or be able to dig so undergraduate deep into something that meant ———————— RESEARCH GRANTS so much to me." Donor funds supported 11 research grants to history majors during the 2018– — Lindsey Williams 2019 academic year. Students utilized these grants to conduct research across the country (and the world, in some cases) or to access archival materials in Mathew Madain preparation for writing their capstone theses. The following are brief excerpts Amman, Jordan from the students' research reflections. —————————————————— "Through the generous assistance Kevin Lee Madison Burson provided through this grant, I was able Madrid, Spain Adah Forer to travel to Jordan to investigate the —————————————————— —————————————————— experiences of civilian communities "Upon completion of my research trip, "I spent my grant funds to cover the during World War I (1914-1918) and I have accumulated dozens of docu- expenses to conduct research for my the Great Arab Revolt (1916-1918). I ments spanning three institutions: The thesis in Madrid, Spain at the Biblioteca am immensely grateful to the History Burke Union Theological Seminary Nacional de España. I am studying the Department and its generous donors Library at Columbia University, Yale Women’s Section of the Spanish Fascist for funding this truly transformative Divinity School Library at New Haven Party (Falange), focusing on the orga- summer of research. This experience and the Presbyterian Historical Soci- nization's female leaders, asking the is truly the springboard that will launch ety in historic downtown Philadelphia. question of how these women justified me into further studies on the security These documents include those writ- their role in the public sphere. While of religious minorities during wartime." ten by the missionaries Hunter Corbett, researching in the archive, I felt that I Calvin Wilson Mateer and John Nevius was able to truly experience the work Bryce Lennan all important to establishing American of a historian or PhD student. I left with University of Michigan’s Bentley education and schooling, and introduc- a stronger passion for the practice of Historical Library ing American culture and spiritual beliefs studying history, a newfound confi- —————————————————— to Shandong, China since the latter half dence in my abilities, and excited to "My research experience, facilitated of the 19th century. Through my trip, I continue to learn." through the History Department am helping to bring exposure to these Research Grant, was highly rewarding three individuals who have a pivotal to my development as a historian. With role in bridging the contact between access to department funds, I was able China and the United States, an ongo- to investigate the John Tanton Papers ing legacy that UC Berkeley is continu- at the University of Michigan’s Bentley ing to provide in an academic setting. " Historical Library. Overall, accessing the Keir Oxford Pope Tanton Papers helped make solid the claims at the heart of my thesis."

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12 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 13 Keir Oxford Pope Ulisses Vasquez Bridgetown, Barbados Latrobe, PA —————————————————— ———————————————————————————— "Thanks to the generous grant from the UC Berkeley "Meeting the closest person to Fred Rogers, Joanne Rogers Department of History, I was able to travel to Barbados and (on the 16th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers), and conduct original research at the Barbados Department of being able to look at the Fred Rogers handwritten docu- Archives, Barbados Public Library, University of the West ments, sermons, letters, and scripts was not only a true bless- Indies West India Collection and the Barbados Museum. ing to myself personally, but this research trip allowed me to Furthermore, I was able to meet and interview Barba- gather the material I needed to finish my History 101 Thesis. I dian historians who are experts in my research field." cannot thank all the donors enough for not only enriching my academic experience as I learned more about Fred Rogers and Lindsey Williams Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, but also giving me this oppor- Lindsey Williams with translator Ignacy J. —————————————————— tunity to create memories with some new neighbors in 'Lil’ ol’ Chorazewicz Bryce Lennan "The biggest take away from this project for me is that I am Latrobe', Pennsylvania." now confident in my capabilities as a historian. This project has changed the way I think about research. I never thought I Brian Tsui would be able to conduct my own research or be able to dig so National Archives in College Park, MD deep into something that meant so much to me. My research ———————————————————————————— and thesis revolved around LGBTQ activism in Poland during "Although my thesis has been submitted, I am still excited for the the 1980s. I was able to read my sources, Polish underground possibility of continuing my examination of these documents homosexual magazines, because my application for a research and this time period, and have explored other approaches to grant was accepted. When I transferred to UC Berkeley, I had analyze the documents I have collected. It was my sincere plea- never written such an in depth and lengthy paper nor had I sure to handle the wartime documents of the U.S. Department done such thorough research. It was a steep learning curve of State firsthand. Most of all, it was a privilege for me to add but I made sure to keep climbing and keep up. Now I feel that to the historiographical conversation on American perspec- I have a very solid example of the work I am capable of creat- tives of China via the perspectives of American scholars in ing. Having that tangible product at the end of the semester wartime China, which were only available for viewing at NARA. was really rewarding and so was getting requests from friends and family to read it." "In looking for different sides on the conflict, I also took out files of the British Council that covered British cultural activi- Spencer Gondorf ties in Greece during the civil war, and BBC files that discussed Shiprock, NM coverage of the war, and censorship restrictions that the Brit- ———————————————————————————— ish government had placed about this topic." "The research that I undertook in New Mexico provided me a historical understanding of an under-studied relationship Lindsey Williams between Fairchild Semiconductors and the Navajo Reserva- tion. Having the opportunity to visit the Navajo Reservation gave me the ability to act as a historian. I developed both my understanding of the history I studied and of my passion for studying history. I want to be historian; the Undergraduate Research Grant proved valuable not only for the ability to travel, but for the ability to understand what it is I want to do with my future." Mathew Madain

14 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 15 Lauren Araiza To March for Others: Simon Avenell, Transnational Nina Caputo, On the Word of a Arianne Chernock, The Right to Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast: Evdoxios Doxiadis, Living Under Evdoxios Doxiadis, State, Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Marketable Aaron Freundschuh, The Courtesan Kate Fullagar Facing Empire: The Black Freedom Struggle and the Japan in the Global Environmental Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Rule and the Rights of Women: An Environmental History of the Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis Nationalism, and the Jewish Values: Inventing the Property and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Indigenous Experiences in a United Farm Workers Movement Dynamics of Trust Queen Victoria and the Women's Bering Strait Communities of Modern Greece Market in Modern Britain Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Revolutionary Age Movement Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED BY suggested reading RECENT BERKELEY HISTORY PHDS

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16 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 17 RECENT ALUMNI JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS Alumni Notes Submit a note: history.berkeley.edu/alumni

CHRISTOPHER BONURA JAMES MORTON KERRY SHANNON NATALIE MENDOZA (MA 2011 AND PhD 2016) is an Berkeley Connect Fellow, University of Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor of US Latin-X and the project lead for California, Berkeley History Department Kong History Department the History Teaching & Learning Project (HTLP) at CU-Boul- DANIEL BOWEN JASON MORTON LYNSAY SKIBA der. Natalie is currently working on a book project, Good Global Customs Analyst, Flexport Policy Analyst, US Commission for Staff Attorney, Neighbor at Home: Mexican American Identity and Civil International Religious Freedom Centro Legal de la Raza Rights during World War II. ANGELO CAGLIOTI Assistant Professor, Barnard College RAPHAEL MURILLO JONATHAN TANG Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow, TIMOTHY SCOTT BROWN (BA 1990, MA 1995, PhD SHEER GANOR History Department Stanford University 2000) is Professor of History at Northeastern University Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota and Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at ROBERT NELSON ELIZABETH TERRY SARAH GOLD MCBRIDE Teacher, New York City public schools Assistant Professor, Florida International the University of California, Berkeley. He was a 2016-17 Ber- Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley University lin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, a 2016- American Studies Department CINDY NGUYEN 17 ACLS Fellow, and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Rachel Carson Postdoctoral Fellow, HANNAH WAITS Center in Munich, Germany. His new book project is entitled AARON HALL Brown University Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor University of Minnesota Harvard University The Greening of Cold War Germany: Environmentalism and ROBERT LEE NATALIE NOVOA Social Movements across the Wall and Beyond, 1968-1989. University Lecturer, University of Cambridge Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley ELIZABETH WENGER History Department Instructor, Friends University JULIA LEWANDOSKI JACQUI SHINE (PhD ’17) joined the board of Chicago’s Postdoctoral Fellow University of Southern JOEL PATTISON ELOISE WRIGHT Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, the Midwest’s largest California Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy in Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan LGBTQ circulating library and 100 archival collections. She Rome. wrote about gun politics and civility for the New York Times CAMILO LUND-MONTAÑO GENE ZUBOVICH last year and is currently working on a story about the gen- Berkeley Connect Fellow University of SAMUEL ROBINSON Visiting Fellow, University of Toronto California, Berkeley History Department Content Designer, Paypal der studies program at Wabash College, one of only three all-male colleges in the country. ULA MADEJ-KRUPITSKI BRANDON SCHECHTER Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor New York University McGill University KEITH KNAPP (MA 1989 AND PhD 1996) is entering his BRENDAN SHANAHAN 23rd year teaching East Asian history at The Citadel, The NATALIE MENDOZA Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University Military College of South Carolina. Together with Albert Assistant Professor University of Colorado, Dien, he has been editing the Cambridge History of China, Boulder Volume II: The Six Dynasties, 220-589. Cambridge University Press will publish the volume in 2019.

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BACHELOR OF ARTS

Sierra Abasolo Madison Ashley Burson Josh Adams Morgan Kate Byrne Angelica Aguirre Cait Cady Marshall Boaz Ahn Trenton Blaine Calder Asiel Nour Al-Aas Kathryn Carlson Christina S. Alexanian Leah Marie Chavez Chris Alviri Liam Chavez Samuel David Aptekar Ziqian Chen Joshua Fernando Aragon Emily Anne Clancy Venissa Archibeque Diana Guadalupe Correa DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Ruby Rosebud Armstrong Jeremy Michael Costello Guive Assadi Charles Culioli Jaclyne Darlene Atoigue Molly Cathleen deCastongrene Sheer Ganor Ron Mordechai Makleff Kerry Seiji Shannon Alex Scott Austin Aysia Darlene Demby Eric McCurdy Johnson Ula Madej-Krupitski Jonathan Tang Jose Andres Ayala-Artiga Justin Alexandre Des Rochers* Aaron Roy Hall Robert Gabriel Nelson Hannah Waits Anjali Banerjee Salim Dharamshi Julia Mavis Lewandoski Cindy A. Nguyen Eloise Wright Ryan Michael Barry Ceylon Dugas Camilo Eugenio Lund- Natalie Nicole Novoa Enkhsaikhan Batbayar Shannon Patrick Earl Montaño Joel Pattison Camryn Bell Zoe Edelson Kristine Noelle Berube Aaron Gene Espinoza Emma Bianco* Ryan Fernandez Dylan Bird Lauren Elizabeth Finn MASTER of ARTS Peter Birghoffer Eden E. Foley William Franklin Jonathan Anthony Fuentes Bonney Ronan Braun* William James Fuller Maria Barreiros Almeida Reis Kyle Jackson Emily Breay Lorenzo Nicholas Galdon Ramos Daniel Bowen Helen Miney James Robert Brozene Brian Gallagher Noah Bender Jordan Mursinna Biatris Ariana Bruins Alex Gomez Evan Fernández Varsha Venkatasubramanian Jonah Buchanan Spencer Craig Gondorf Adrian Burnes Cara Green * Phi Beta Kappa

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STUDENT PRIZES & HONORS

GRADUATE STUDENTS UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS BACHELOR of ARTS —————————————————————————— ——————————————————————————

FRIENDS OF CAL HISTORY DISSERTATION PRIZE CHARLENE CONRAD LIEBAU LIBRARY PRIZE for the most outstanding dissertation in 2018 for Undergraduate Research Zachary Charles Handler* Parsa Moein Erin R. Harvey Mackenzie Lawrence Monroe Julia Shatz Emma Bianco and Harriet Steele Fatima Hasanain Susan Kathryn Moore Theron Herd Erfan Moradi GRADUATE SEMINAR PAPER PRIZE MATILDA MORRISON MILLER AWARD Joseph Valentine Hernandez Carlos Eduardo Morales for outstanding scholarship in a graduate course for achievement in the history of the Western United States Daniel Mason Hoover Mark Anthony Moreno Christene Stratman Erfan Moradi Seamus Andrew Howard David Thaddeus Mori Alexey Isayev Christopher Munoz GEORGE GUTTRIDGE PRIZE FRIENDS OF CAL HISTORY THESIS PRIZE Dylan Lance Jarman Akul Nagendra for outstanding work in British or American colonial history & DEPARTMENT CITATION Shira Klasky-Gamer Navid Nakhaee for the best-written undergraduate thesis Christopher Lawson Samson Knight Breana Quan-Chi Nguyen Emily Breay Hyelynn Koo Hien D. Nguyen DAVID A. HOLLINGER PRIZE Ho Yee Lam Sevana Tiana Nourian for graduate student achievement in intellectual history HIGHEST HONORS * Marcella LaRosa Emily Breay Katelyn Elise Larson Shoufu Yin Charles Culioli Charlotte Laurence* Harriet Steele Kevin S. Lee LEO LOWENTHAL MEMORIAL PRIZE Sabrina Anne Waller Bryce Lennan for outstanding work in the history of culture and politics Nicholas Paul LeSage Nicole Viglini Meishan Liang HIGH HONORS * Richard Lim* FRED J. MARTIN AWARD Samuel David Aptekar Ardin Lo for outstanding work in American political history Anjali Banerjee Marcus Samuel Loiseau Emma Bianco Julia Lewandoski Nik Lucaj* Jonah Buchanan Oliver Ma Madison Ashley Burson OUTSTANDING GRADUATE Claire Machado Cait Cady STUDENT INSTRUCTORS Stanley Andrew Maciejczyk III Charlotte Laurence Maria Barreiros Almeida Reis Mathew Madain* Erfan Moradi Xavier Buck Amanda Maiken David Thaddeus Mori Nicholas Constantino Isabella Mariano Keir John Oxford Pope Ari Edmundson Francisco J. Martinez Lucas Pogue Christopher Lawson Marissa Jalene Mattos Vilma Marjorie Ronzon Concepcion Christene Stratman Shaina Meier Gongyu Zhang Eva Vaillancourt Amy Mendelsohn Andrew Sun Yang Hakob Mesropian * Phi Beta Kappa * proposed list 22 | SUMMER NEWSLETTER 23 SUPPORT THE FUTURE of BERKELEY HISTORY

Donors play a critical role in sustaining and enhancing the teaching and research mission of Berkeley History. The Department uses Friends of Cal History funds to support the following items:

• Travel grants for undergraduates conducting Most importantly, Friends of Cal History funds may research for their senior thesis projects support students in any field of study, so the De- • Summer grants for graduate student research partment can direct funding where it is most needed. travel or language study This unrestricted funding enhances our multi-year financial package for students, allowing the Depart- • Conference grants for graduate students who ment to maintain a level of quality that has long are presenting papers or interviewing for jobs been a hallmark of a Berkeley degree. • Annual prizes for the best dissertation and un- dergraduate thesis To support the Department of History, please • Equipment for the graduate computer lab donate online at give.berkeley.edu or mail checks (payable to UC Berkeley Foundation) to the address • Work-study positions for instructional support listed on the inside cover of this newsletter. Thank • A graduate facilities coordinator position you for your continued support!

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