Each student will have a primary advisor who specializes in the student's research area. Below are faculty and their areas of specialty.
Professor Day: Chinese and Modern East Asian History
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Social, cultural, and intellectual history of East Asia
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The Chinese revolution
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Late imperial Chinese history
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History of gender in China
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Colonialism, Thirdworldism, and post-colonialism
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East Asian protest movements
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The rural-urban divide in East Asia
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History of anarchist and communist movements
Professor Fett: Early North American/U.S. History/Atlantic World
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Slavery and abolition, U.S. South
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African American history through 19th c.
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Black Atlantic; transatlantic slave trade; Atlantic World (with emphasis on North America and British Caribbean)
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Health and healing, U.S. race, gender, and medicine
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Antebellum U.S. reform and radicalism; religious and social movements
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Nineteenth century print culture
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Women’s history, colonial through 19th c.
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Civil War & Reconstruction
Professor Gasper: Modern Middle Eastern History
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History of the Middle East and North Africa
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History of Muslim societies and communities
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Ottoman history
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Islamic histories
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Histories of the left in Muslim societies and communities
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State and nation building in the Middle East and North Africa
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The Cold War
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U.S. involvement in the Middle East and North Africa
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Colonialism and post-colonialism
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Nationalisms and Islamist ideology
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Islamic modernism
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Anti-colonial movements
Professor Gelbart: Early Modern European History
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France and early modern Europe
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European women’s history
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History of science
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History of medicine, panics and plagues
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History as depicted in film
Professor Hong: Modern U.S. History
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U.S. immigration
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Global America, U.S. in the world
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U.S.-Asia relations
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Race relations
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Civil rights movements
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Asian American history
Professor Horowitz: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern European History, as well as Modern and 21st Century History
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Controvertial monuments and difficult art objects (includes Hecuba Sculpture at USC)
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Re-assessing European global encounters
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Feminism & human rights
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History of ideas & images
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History of museums and collecting
Professor Puerto: Modern Latin America and Its Diaspora
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Cold War Mexico and Latin America
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Indigeneity, science, and medicine
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Eugenics in the Americas
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Immigrant, refugee, and migrant health
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Political ecologies of Mesoamerica
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Latinx environmentalisms
Professor Sousa: Colonial and Modern Latin America
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Colonial Latin America
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Indigenous peoples in colonial and modern Mexico and the Andes
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Latin American women’s history
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African and Indian slavery in colonial Latin America
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History of race in Latin America
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Religion in Mexico (indigenous spirituality, Catholicism, Virgen of Guadalupe)
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Conquest of Mexico
Professor Stone: Modern Europe (on leave 2022-2023)
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Modern European history from the French Revolution to the present
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Issues related to war, fascism, Nazism, and genocide
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European cultural, intellectual, and social history
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European revolutions and social movements
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Italian history
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History of film and the arts
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The history of European social and political movements of both the left and the right