

Mohammad Ebad Athar
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center



Dissertation Title
Contested Childhoods in Colonial Kenya: The Kikuyu Experience






Dissertation Title
Cross-Confessional Alliances in Early Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Italian Diplomacy


Dissertation Title
The Assumption of Identity: The Exclusion and Deportation of 'Gypsy' Immigrants from the US, 1891-1932


Ian Glazman-Schillinger
Ph.D. Student, History Department
Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Margaret Susan Thompson


Emily Hunter
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Margaret Susan Thompson
Areas of Expertise

Dissertation Title
“Women in the Woods: War, Gender, and Community in the Native Northeast, 1675-1763”

Yifan Jiang
Ph.D. Student, History Department
Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Areas of Expertise
Modern U.S. cultural history, modern Chinese women's history, and modern U.S. women's history





Dissertation Title
“A Cuisine Worthy of a Nation: Nationalizing and Internationalizing Beijing’s Cuisine in the Twentieth Century”
Abstract:
How did Beijing cuisine – originally several different cuisines, divided by ethnicity and class – get forged into a single entity which would come to represent the Chinese nation, and be exported abroad and revered at home? By problematizing standardized elements of the cuisine of one Chinese urban center, this research considers the ethical importance of kitchen laborers during the republican (1911-1949) and revolutionary (1949-1979) periods and the ways that modernization goals of nationalism and socialism impacted the interlocking spheres of both food production and consumption.

Fazi Karzana Shoily
Ph.D. Student, History Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Radha Kumar


Dissertation Title
A Peculiar Position in the Working Class and Society at Large”: The Socialist Party of America’s Discourse on Race and the Deracialization of the “Negro Question,” 1901-1918



Dissertation Title
The War of More: The 20th Century American Military Logistic Dilemma and the Influence of Consumer Culture