Dissertations in Progress

The following students have advanced to candidacy, having fulfilled all requirements except the dissertation.

Kamil Ahsan

“What is a Reef? Ontology and Ecology Beyond the Great Barrier Reef”

Thomas Anderson

“Poisons and the Environment in the French Empire, 1740-1830”

Breeanna Elliott

“A Spirited Pharmacopeia: Mobile Malagasy Spirits and Medical Knowledge Production in the Western Indian Ocean”

Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan

“Order Out of Waste: Entropy, Complexity, and Decay at the End of Modernism”

Sydney Green

“Care and Safety: Shifting models of care for and by survivors of domestic violence in the United States, 1979-1994”

Jed Gross

“Operations of Law: Regulating the Medical Use of Human Tissue and Organs in Twentieth Century America”

Nivetha Karthikeyan

“The Body in (Chronic) Pain: A Crip of Color Analysis of South Asian Im/migrant Women’s Pain”

Lauren Killingsworth

“Nature’s Experiments on Man: Geography, Disease, and the Search for Difference in the Making of Environmental Health”

Rodion Kosovsky

“Unsafe Homes: A History of Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S. from 1930-1990”

Anthony Liddie

“Mass Life Mass Production: Industrial Fermentation in a Decolonizing World”

Kenya Loudd

“A School and Not an Asylum” Recovering and Re-Imagining Histories of Segregated Schools for the Deaf and Blind in the South

Oliver Lucier

“Classifying Climate, Ordering Society, 1850-2020”

Dalena Ngo

“Bad Faith: Catholicism, Conditions of Crisis, and the Politics of Care at the University of California”

Nora O’Neill

“Programming the Patient: The Standardization of the Clinician-Patient Relationship in Medical and Nursing Education, 1950-1990”

Charlotte Rich

“Irish Migration, Reproductive Health, and Institutions, 1845-1890”

Madeleine Sheahan

“The Nature of Preservation: Recipes for Life and Death in the Seventeenth-Century Household”

Wonik Son

“Blue Forests, Green Oceans: Color, Texture, and the Politics of Land Reclamation in South Korea, 1945-2025”

Madeleine Ware

“Clinch and Release: Defining Healthy Womanhood through Pelvic Floor ‘Fitness’, 1880-1950s”