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Agocs, Andreas
Advisor:William Hagen
Field:Europe
Topic:Modern Europe

Anderson, Chad
Advisor:Alan Taylor
Field:United States
Early America

Arnfeld, Rebecca
Field:United States

Averbeck, Robin
Advisor:Alan Taylor
Field:United States
Early America

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Banks, Keith
Advisor:Sally McKee
Field:Medieval-Early Modern Europe
Topic:Medieval Italy and the Ottoman Empire
Awards:
Roland Marchand Research Grant, UC Davis 2005
Roland Marchand Research Grant, UC Davis 2006
Roland Marchand Research Grant, UC Davis 2007

Conference Paper
"A Florentine Hand in the East: The Guanti Family and the Mercantile Policies of Florence in the Ottoman Empire" presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May, 2007


Barbezat, Michael
Advisor:Joan Cadden
Field:Medieval Europe
Topic:The Religious and Intellectual History of the Latin West, 12th and 13th centuries
Interests: Visionary Tales; Interaction between humanity, the Other World, and otherworldly creatures; Magic.
Awards: CARA Ph.D. Latin study scholarship, Summer, 2007.
The Reed-Smith Foreign Fund, Summer, 2006.
The Reed-Smith Foreign Fund, Summer, 2005.
Conference Papers: “‘With His Own Bodily Eyes’: The Other World, Materiality, Doubt and Proof in the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii” presented at the California Medieval History Seminar at the Huntington Library, San Marino, May 12, 2007.
“Monastic Discipline, Homoeroticism and the Cultivation of the Self in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries” presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May, 2006.

Basile, Marie
Advisor:Alan Taylor
Field:United States
Topic:18th Century Interdenominational Philadelphia

Benes, Jakub
Field:Europe

Benson, Padraic
Advisor:Louis Warren
Field:United States

Brueck, Greg
Advisor:Louis Warren
Field:United States
Topic:Labor and the environment in the American West

Bryden, Eric
Advisor:William Hagen
Field:Modern Europe
Topic:"In Search of Founding Fathers: Republican Historical Narratives in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933."
My project explores how supporters of the Weimar Republic utilized images and narratives of the German past in attempting to argue for the historical legitimacy of Germany's first liberal democratic political order. It is an examination of the various elements contained with these Geschichtsbilder and also seeks to analyze differing republican responses to the monarchical legacy that had undergirded the Hohenzollern Old Regime.
Papers
"Legitimizing Weimar: Republican Political Culture, 1918-1933." University of California Workshop - New Research and Writing in Modern German History. February 27-29, 2004. Sponsored by Institute for European Studies.
"'Erziehung zum Staat': Promoting Civility in Weimar Germany." Second Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. Loyola University Chicago. April 29, 2006.
"The Republican Citizen in Weimar Germany." New York State Association of European Historians' Annual Meeting. Hartwick University - Oneonta, New York. September 15-16, 2006.

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Carpenter, Nate
Advisor:Benjamin Lawrance
Field:Africa

Castro, Cristian
Advisor:Charles Walker
Field:Latin America
Topic:Brazilian cultural history

Chaney, Rachel
Advisor:Alan Taylor
Field:United States

Chester, Robert
Advisor:Louis Warren
Field:United States
Topic:"The River Told Me": An Environmental History of the Comstock Lode."
Interests
Environmental, Native American, and US West
My study examines the many and far-reaching environmental impacts of the Comstock Lode(the largest silver strike in US history) from its beginning in 1859 and the changes it set in motion that transformed an entire region (Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake, the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, and the Carson and Truckee Rivers. From mining to logging, fishing, Indian removal, farming, dam construction, and mercury contamination, the industrial legacies of the Comstock present Gilded Age economic policies and their consequences in sharp relief. The hard-rock deep-shaft mining that occurred on the Comstock, the capital needed to fund such an enterprise, and the devastation of forests and streams that accompanied this spectacular event foreshadowed the economic development and ecological transformation of other mining regions throughout the American West for the remainder of the nineteenth century. In addition, the dispossession and marginalization of native groups such as the Paiute and Washoe vividly demonstrates, as did the California Gold Rush, the relationship between mining booms, deteriorating relations between natives and newcomers, and, ultimately, the violence encouraged by western expansion and exacerbated by capitalist greed.

Clune, Lori
Advisor:Kathy Olmsted
Field:United States
Topic:Cold War/McCarthyism

Collins, Michael
Field:Modern Europe

Corbally, John
Advisor:Michael Saler
Field:Britain
Topic:"Shades of Difference: Irish, Caribbean, and South Asian Immigration to the Heart of Empire, 1948-1971."
Awards and Fellowships
Reed Marchand Travel Grant for Dissertation Research. UC Davis. May 2007.
UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies pre-Dissertation Fellowship, April 2007.
Reed Marchand Travel Grant for Dissertation Research. UC Davis. June 2006.
California Pre-Doctoral Program Scholarship, July 2004.
SFSU Graduate Equity Fellowship, June 2004.
Distinguished Scholar Award, SFSU History Department, May 2003.

Conference Papers
"Ireland and the British Empire, 1870-1921," (accepted). British World Conference. Melbourne University. July 10-13, 2004.
"Rwanda and the West: Structure versus agency in the 1994 genocide." University of Washington World History Conference. October 15, 2006.
"Postwar Immigration from the Commonwealth: The Jarring Irish," (accepted). British World Conference. Bristol University. July 13, 2007.
"Postwar Immigration from the Commonwealth: Asians, Caribbeans and Irish in Britain," (accepted). Multiculturalism, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Wisconsin, October 4-5, 2007.
"Shades of Difference: Irish, Caribbean, and South Asian Immigration to the Heart of Empire, 1948-1971." UC Berkeley Mellon Conference, January 18-19, 2008.
"Postwar Immigration from the Commonwealth: The Jarring Irish." ACIS National Conference,
St. Ambrose University. The Global Irish: Conflict, Coexistence and Community. April 16–19, 2008
Davenport, Iowa


Corwin, Nicholas
Field:Modern Europe

Costanzo, Adam
Advisor:Alan Taylor
Field:United States
Topic:The social and political impact of the mass migration of tens of thousands of settlers via the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road into the backcountry of colonial Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina in the eighteenth century.

Cote, Stephen
Advisor:Charles Walker
Field:Latin America
Topic:Andean societies and social movements/Bolivia/energy resource development

Covart, Elizabeth
Advisor:Alan Taylor
Field:United States
Topic:Colonial Albany, NY

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Davis, Kimberly
Advisor:Charles Walker
Field:Latin America

Denning, Andrew
Advisor:Ted Margadant
Field:Modern Europe
Topic:Modern Europe and include cultural history, memory/identity, and imperialism

Draper, Melvyn
Field:Europe
Conference Paper:
"Ernest Loomis and Occult Force in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago" The Association for the Study of Esotericism, College of Charleston, May 29-June 1, 2008.

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Filippello, Marcus
Advisor:Benjamin Lawrance
Field:Africa
Awards: Received Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to study Yoruba at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria (Summer 2005)

Fischer, John Ryan
Advisor:Louis Warren
Field:United States
Topic:"Vaqueros and Paniolos of the Trans-Pacific West: Ecological and Cultural Exchange and Adaptation in the Introductions of Livestock to California and Hawai'i"
Interests:
US West, Environmental, Race, Imperialism
Awards:
National Science Foundation IGERT in Biological Invasions, Long-Term Fellowship 2002-2004
UC Davis Humanities Institute, President's Pre-doctoral Fellowship 2001-2005

Fountain, Steven
Advisor:Louis Warren
Field:United States
Topic:"Sky Dogs and Scorched Streams: Horses and Ethnocultural Change in the American West "
Bancroft Library Summer Study Award, 2004.
Recent Reviews Larry Cebula, _Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850_ (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003) in _Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction_, forthcoming.
Donald S. Johnson, _La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico_ (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002) in _Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction_ 28:1 (2004): 78-79.
Recent Paper Presentations
Organization of American Historians, San José, Cal., 2005.
Western History Association, Las Vegas, Nev., 2004.

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