Alumni

IHGG emerges from the World Cultures Graduate Group, which admitted students between 2005 and 2014. This list includes graduates of both programs.

M.A. Alumni

• Lucia Vazquez (2009), Martin-Rodriguez; Thesis: Chicas' Lit: Today's Young Adult Latina Literature

• Salvador Contreras Cornejo (2009), DeLugan; Thesis: Adventure capitalists in "Maya Town": ethnographic insights on transnational social networks and migration from the de-territorialized state of Yucatan to San Francisco, California

• Letha Goger (2009), Mostern; Thesis:

• Justine Issavi (2011), Forte; Thesis:

• Llonel Onsurez (2011), Forte; Thesis: The history and use of aerial and space-based remote sensing and ground based terrestrial laser scanning in archaeology

• Roselia Ekhause (2012), Ricci; Thesis: Literatura Marroquí Escrita en Catalán y Castellano

• Carl Ponzio (2013), Martin-Rodriguez; Thesis: Reading (for) Magical Gaps: The Novice Reader's Aesthetic Response to Magical Realism

• Alma Renteria (2013), Martin-Rodriguez

• Christine Grimaldi Clarkson (2014), Hull; Thesis: Rock Art, Ritual, and the Cosmos: A Landscape Investigation of CA-MRP-402

• Erin Ray (2017)

• Nicholas Bourgeois (2017)

• Anna Gurevitz (2017)

• Auguste Kouadio (2017)

• Rocco Bowman (2017)

• Shadab Tabatabaeian (2018) 

• Violet Barton (2018) 

• Sage Love (2018)

• Daniel Rios (2018)

• Bianca Negrete Coba (2019)

• Jasmine Armstrong (2019)

• Cristina Gomez (2019)

• Garima Panwar (2019)

• Sven Sulzmann (2019)

• Adam Fleenor (2019)

• Scott Nicolay (2019)

• Neama Alamri (2019)

• Jennifer Zamora (2019)

• Kuan-ying Kuo (2019)

• Marilee Shaw (2019)

• Jamin Shih (2019)

• Brian Glubok (2020)

• Lorraine Ramos (2020)

• Manuel Duenas-Garcia (2020)

• Anais Guillem (2020)

• Ahmed Correa Alvarez (2020)

• Mirko De Tomassi (2021)

• Angelica Garcia (2021)

• Andrew Sanchez Garcia (2021)

• Cristyna Galarza (2021)

• David Snyder (2021)

• Jamie Moore (2022)

• Shiloh Soto (2022)

• Iván González-Soto (2022)

• Tabesh Zaidi (2022)

• Ekta Kandhway (2022)

Ph.D. Alumni

• Trevor Albertson (2009), Herken; Dissertation: The Face of War: Curtis LeMay and America in the Cold War, 1945-1957

• Richard Ravalli (2009), Herken; Dissertation: Soft gold and the Pacific frontier: geopolitics and environment in the sea otter trade

• Raymond Winter (2010), Goggans; Dissertation: The California Dream: a dangerous social and environmental myth protested by John Muir and John Steinbeck

• Maria Teresa Rinaldi (2013), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: Soles de oriente en Latinoamérica: Producción cultural Nikkei en Brasil y Argentina

• Bradford Johnston (2013), Malloy; Ronald Reagan's Race to Space: American Atomic Diplomacy and SDI in the Age of Reykjavik

• Carlos Bazua Morales (2013), Rebhun; Dissertation: Extending the Roads for Survival: An Ethnography of the Ongoing Maya Diaspora

• Marco Valesi (2014), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: Clean Wall, Voiceless People: Exploring Socio-Identitarian Processes through Street-Urban Art as Literature

• Fabrizio Galeazzi (2014), Aldenderfer; Dissertation: Redefining Digital Archaeology: New Methodologies for 3D Documentation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage

• Beth Hernandez-Jason (2014), Martin-Rodriguez; Dissertation: The Act of Reading John Rechy: Transnational Intertexts and Readers

• Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco (2014), Aldenderfer and Hull; Dissertation: Talking About Things: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Heritage and Material Culture Studies in Archaeology

• Alicia Ramos Jordan (2014), Martin-Rodriguez; Dissertation: Conspiradoras in the Contact Zone: Escritoras chicanas y su obra en español hacia una literatura menor

• Gayle Yamada (2015), G. Camfield; Dissertation: Rising Power? Latinos in California

• Micahel Eissinger (2017)

• Marieka Arksey (2017)

• Trevor Jackson (2018)

• Patrick Wilkinson (2019)

• Dorie Perez (2019)

• Michael Barba (2019)

• Kim McMillon (2019)

• Neama Alamri (2020)

• Jamin Shih (2020)

• Rhea Riegel (2020)

• Amrit Deol (2021)

• Adam Fleenor (2021)

• Hannah Maulden (2022)

• Kuan-ying Kuo (2022)

• Rocco Bowman (2022)

• Manuel Duenas-Garcia (2022)

• Ahmed Correa Alvarez (2022)

• Violet Barton (2023), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: Nican Nawa-Pipil: Poetic Embodiments of Te Miki Tay Tupal

• Danielle Bermudez (2023), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: Remembering Ethnocide: Social Imaginaries of State Violence

• Mabel Bowser (2023), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: (Re)construcción identitaria y descolonizadora: Producción Cultural Indígena en Colombia desde mediados del S. XX

• Alyson Caine (2023), Torres; Dissertation: Living at the Intersections at Lisht

• Ahmed Correa Alvarez (2023), DeLugan; Dissertation: Cuba and the Intimacy of Border: Toward an Archipelagic Imagination

• Christopher Caskey (2023), Rouff; Dissertation: Building the Wilderness: Power, Water and Recreation in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains

• Hugo A Lopez-Chavolla (2024), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: Migrant Feelings: The Affective Roots of Arab Latin American Identities and Cultural Production

• Angelica Garcia (2023), Rouff; Dissertation: Steel, Brick, and Black Gold: A History of Colorado’s Built Environment, 1880-1920

• Laura Gomez (2023), Sifuentez; Dissertation: “American Homes for American Families: Race and the Family in California’s Labor Camps

• Ekta Kandhway (2023), Lopez-Calvo; Dissertation: Decolonial and Ecocritical Crossroads in Contemporary Andean Narratives

• Gina Palefsy (2023) Torres; Dissertation: Embodied Boundaries: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Foodways and Community Organization in Metal Age Central Thailand

• Ivan Gonzalez Soto (2024), Sifuentez; Dissertation:

• Graham Goodwin (2024), Moyes; Dissertation:

• Shiloh Green Soto (2024), David Rouff; Dissertation: Livingston Centennial: A Guide to the History of Livingston, CA 1922-2022

• Amanda Caterina Leong (2024), Quinn; Dissertation:

• Jamie Moore (2024), Zanzucchi; Dissertation: Visionary Daughters of Academia: The Care/Work of Black and Black Biracial Women Faculty in California Community Colleges

• Scott Nicolay (2024), Moyes; Dissertation: ENTANGLED WITH THE RAIN SPIRITS: INTENSIFICATION OF RITUAL COVE USE IN THE MIMBRES REGION AS AN INDEX OF SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATIONS DURING THE LATE PIT STRUCTURE AND MIMBRES CLASSIC PHASES

• Lorraine Ramos (2024), Magaña; Dissertation: Heritage Language Speakers’ Conceptual Metaphor Use Through Genres in Spanish and English

• Andrew A. Sanchez-Garcia (2024), Rouff; Dissertation: The Good, the Bad, & The Fortified: How the Complex Relationship between Military Bases and Mexican Americans Shaped the Southwest, 1942-1975

• Joshua Semerjian (2024), DeLugan; Dissertation: Activating Aspirational Awakening: A Youth Media Way to Right Thinking

• Tabesh Zaidi (2024), Malloy; Dissertation: Nuclear Waste: Policies, Risks, and Economic Benefits on the State of Idaho

Updated 9-8-2024