Coles is completing a dissertation examining the economic, cultural, and labor history of silk production in Mormon communities from the 1860s to the 1910s, contextualized by national and international silk industries during this period.

Andrew Elrod is a fourth year PhD student who is interested in the history of American corporatism.

Fedorova's research focuses on the circulation of agricultural ideas between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly how American agricultural expertise impacted the Soviet agricultural reconstruction in the 1920s and how this experience, in turn, affected American agricultural policies during the New Deal.

In 2018 Fedorova was the recipient of the Darcy Ruth Ritzau Graduate Student Award and a Fellow of the UCSB History Associates. 

Federova's selected publications include:

2018 – “The American Tractor Unit and Agricultural Reconstruction in Soviet Russia, 1922- 1923,” in Anthony J. Heywood, Julia Lajus, and Scott W. Palmer, eds., Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922 (under review)

2017 – Review: William Winders, Grains (2016) in Food, Culture & Society 20, no. 3 (2017): 555-556.

2017 – “The 1917 Revolution and American Food Aid to Europe, 1917-1920,” CLIO-2017, Published Conference Materials, April 2017

Halvorsen is completing a dissertation on the logistics industry in Southern California titled, "Moving Goods, Moving America: Technology, Public Policy, and the Struggle Over North America's Largest Port-Logistics Nexus." 

Kassners work examines U.S. Progressive Era social movements through queer theory, examinin interactions between grassroots movements, the state, and public policy.

In 2018 Kassner was the recipient of the Patricia Cohen Endowed Graduate Fellowship, and the Michael Bransfield Prize of the UCSB History Associates.

Henry Maar received his PhD in History from UCSB in 2015 studying under Nelson Lichtenstein and Salim Yaqub. In 2016, he was the Agnese N. Haury fellow at the Center for the Study of the Cold War and the United States at NYU. He has been an instructor at several universities, including UCSB, CSU-Northridge, and Shanghai Jiao Tang University. His first book, Freeze! The Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War, is forthcoming through Cornell University Press.

Paulson is completing a dissertation on the connections between environment and economics that originated on the American frontier.

Rathe's research examines food assistance policies as a lens to understand the changes in public and private provision during the 1970s and 1980s. 

In 2016, Sonti completed a dissertation on the politics of inflation in the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s.

He can be reached at sonti7@gmail.com.

Walker is completing a dissertation on the historical origins of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.