People
- Recent Graduate
- Feminist Studies
Berg recently defended her dissertation, Porn Work: Adult Film at the Point of Production, to obtain her PhD in Feminist Studies.
- Graduate Student
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
- Graduate
- US History
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.
- Recent Graduate
- Department of History
Smemo's dissertation examines how interracial working-class mobilization shaped the rise (and fall) of the liberal wing of the Republican Party.
- Recent Graduate
- Department of History
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.
- Graduate Student
- Department of History
Stephens is completing a dissertation on the reception in the United States of “dependency theory” in the 1960s and 1970s.
John Baranski (U.S. History, Public Policy, Ph.D. 2004) taught the Center's first set of labor studies courses and coordinated the establishment of the minor in Labor Studies. He taught History and Gender and Women’s Studies courses at Fort Lewis College, a four year public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado, but now teaches History at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. In 2019, his book Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco was published. He remains active in the labor movement.
Jill Jensen (U.S. History, Ph.D. 2011) is Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Labor Rights in a Global Economy Project in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Penn State.
John Munro (U.S. History, Ph.D. 2010) has accepted a position at St. Francis Xaiver University in Halifax, NS after spending 2010-2011 as a Fellow of the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University.
Ellie Shermer (U.S. History, Ph.D. 2009) has accepted a tenure-track position at Loyola University Chicago, after spending an academic year as Mellon Research Fellow at Cambridge University in the UK. She has co-edited a volume with Nelson Lichtenstein titled, "The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), her forthcoming book, "Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics" will be released on University of Pennsylvania Press.
Leandra R. Zarnow (U.S. History, Ph.D. 2010) is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. Her research focuses foremost on United States women's and gender history, political and legal development, and the post-World War II period. She is currently completing, Bella Abzug and the Unmaking of the American Left, to be published by Harvard University Press.