History Department 2020 Accomplishments

Department: History

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• Undergraduate Scholarship in History - Olivia Kathleen Ramirez
• School of Humanities Undergraduate Award in History - Vincent Francis Teneriello
• McCulloch Memorial Funds - Juliana Vargas Leal
• McCulloch Memorial Funds - Jack Jensen

• Kazuya Hirokawa
• Delia Cruz Kelly
• Andy Annette Ketsiri
• Joseph LeFave
• Salaar Maghazeh
• Inbar Michael
• Karla Milicich
• David Palacios
• K Persinger
• Jack Pettus
• Olivia Ramirez
• Raymond Rosales
• Vincent Teneriello
• Manveet Thind

• Sergio Figueroa
• Thoren Jorgensen
• Callan Garber
• Graduate Students

• Jessica Christian, Return to the Mission: Gendered Bonds, Women, and Colonization in San Diego, 1769-1930
• Rachael De La Cruz, Surveillance, Settlements, and Sanctuary: A Comparative and Relational History of Refugee Policies in Central America, 1979-1992
•     Rachael has accepted a tenure-track job as an Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American History at Montana State University, Billings.
• Stefanie Lira, Mercurial Masculinities: Indigenous and Chinese Laborers in the Early Colonial Philippines
• Marketus Presswood, Black and Yellow in Red: The African Diaspora and Chinese Political and Cultural Solidarities, 1920-1968

• Yanlin Lu, The Three-In-One Mode Derailed: Multiparty Interaction Guangdong’s Deworm Campaign
• Danathan Nguyen, Reports, Recollection, and Refugees: The Early Vietnamese American Experience through Periodicals and Oral Histories
• Wyatt Wiggins, ’To This, I am Inviting You:’ Community Building in the Letters of Catherine of Siena, 1378-1390

• Christopher Chacon
• Noah Dolim
• Javiera Letelier
• Stephanie Narrow
• Brian Spivey
• Taoyu Yang
• Makanani Sala
• Ayuko Takeda

• Dickson D. Bruce Graduate Research Award: Noah Dolim
• Charles & Ann Quilter Graduate Students Award in History: Eyal Amer, Clay Ammentorp, Monish Borah, Christopher Chacon, Clare Gordon, Olivia Humphrey, Rong Kong, Javiera Letelier, Stephanie Narrow, Pratichi Priyambada, Makanani Sala, Brian Spivey, Yuxiu Wu, Taoyu Yang, Juan Rubio
• Department of History grants: Arnold Alahverdian, Ayal Amer, Monish Borah, Christopher Chacon, Katherine Cosby, Kyle David, Spencer Gomez, Clare Gordon-Bettencourt, Rong Kong, Javiera Letelier, Haleigh Marcello, Stephanie Narrow, Pratichi Priyambada, Juan Rubio, Makanani Sala, Brian Spivey, Yuxiu Wu, Taoyu Yang
• Department of History Summer Grant: Arnold Alahverdian, Clay Ammentorp, Monish Borah, Christopher Chacon, Rong Kong, Javiera Letelier, Juan Rubio, Yuxiu Wu

• Arnold Alahverdian: Selected for the CA Community College Internship Program, Awarded the Movahedi Family Fellowship for the Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture, Awarded the Armenian Studies Prize in Honor of Sylvia Tertzakian
• Chris Chacon: 2020-2021 California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program
• Kat Cosby: Awarded an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-2021
• Rachael De La Cruz: Article “Ciudad Romero: The Salvadoran Refugee Family and Panamanian Statecraft under the Torrijos Regime” published in the Journal of Caribbean History in Dec. 2019.
• Bedros Torosian: Awarded the Naneh Graduate Research Fellowship
• Olivia Humphrey: Awarded a UCI Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
• Rong Kong: Doctoral Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
• Yi Ci Lo: Doctoral Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
• Haleigh Marcello: Had two encyclopedia entries published in the Online Biographical Dictionary of Militant Women Suffragists, 1913-1920 (here and here).
• Stephanie Narrow: Visiting Fellow at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library
• Pratichi Priyambada: Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for her paper “Nautch Girls,” “Slaves,” and “Prostitutes”: Dancers in colonial Bombay Presidency
• Juan Rubio: Ridge to Reef Fellowship

• Holly Guise: Accepted Assistant Professor position at University of New Mexico (beginning Fall 2020)
• John Marquez: Accepted Assistant Professor position at Colorado College (beginning Fall 2020) & awarded a 2020-2022 OI-NEH Postdoctoral fellowship​

• Alex Borucki, editor (with David Eltis and David Wheat): From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas (Featuring an essay by Rachel O’Toole)
• Ian Coller: Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics and the French Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020)
• Sarah Farmer: Rural Inventions: The French Countryside after 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• David Fedman: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington, 2020)
• Winston James: Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early-Twentieth Century America (second edition, London & New York: Verso, 2020)
• Matthias Lehmann, editor (with Jessica Marglin): Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2020)
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020)
• Jon Wiener (Emeriti) & Mike Davis (former Professor): Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties (Verso, 2020)

• Sharon Block: McNeil Center Sabbatical fellowship, NEH Fellowship (Library Company of Philadelphia), Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
• Alex Borucki: ACLS Digital Extension Grant (Fall 2020)
• Sarah Farmer: Borchard Foundation (Fall 2019)
• David Fedman: ACLS (Fall 2019)
• Chelsea Schields: German Historical Institute (Fall 2019)
• Emily Baum: Fulbright US Scholar Program (award postponed due to the pandemic)
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2020 (award postponed due to the pandemic)

• Emily Baum: Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year (DTEI Celebration of Teaching)
• Houri Berberian: Awarded outstanding book prize from the Society for Armenian Studies for Roving Revolutionaries
• Alex Borucki: Co-led project adding 11,400 intra-American journeys to Slave Voyages database
• David Fedman: 2019 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize from the Society for the History of Technology
• Adria Imada: Awarded funding for the research project, “Surviving Pandemics:  Past and Present” through the OIE initiative “’Are we in this together?’ Advancing Equity in the Age of COVID-19”
• Mark Levine: Illuminations grant to organize visitations and performances by Iranian musicians
• Jessica Millward: Received Three-Year UC-HBCU Pathways Grant
• Laura Mitchell: As a Provost Faculty Fellow, Laura provided invaluable assistance to faculty transitioning to remote teaching.
• Patricia Seed: Faculty Innovation Fellow (UCI Beall Applied Innovation)