Current Graduate Students

Carlos Aleman is a fifth year graduate student whose dissertation project will focus on Nicaraguan migration to the U.S. from the Sandinista Revolution to contemporary times. He intends to provide a transnational analysis on the experience of Nicaraguan immigration, examining issues of labor, race, and gender as well as how U.S. and Nicaraguan policy has affected the lives of Nicaraguan immigrants. He received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in History and Latin-American/Latino Studies in 2002.

Jennifer Eaglin. Jennifer is currently completing course work and is planning a dissertation on the environmental, social, and political history of the Brazilian ethanol industry.

Lindsey Gish is a third year graduate student in the History Department. She plans to become an Atlantic historian by studying the voluntary and forced migration of people across/within the Atlantic Ocean in the 18th and 19th century. Her primary area of focus is the Caribbean, specifically Haiti, before and during the Revolution era. Her most recent research looks at the formation of identity and citizenship among free colored people in the Colony of Saint-Domingue and Louisiana before and during the Haitian Revolution.

Alberto Nickerson is a fourth-year graduate student whose research in 19th Century Nicaragua explores how popular classes understood and the liberal reforms of José Santos Zelaya. Specifically, he explores how and why popular classes accepted, rejected, or modified various liberal policies.

Sonia Robles is a third year graduate student whose dissertation will focus on urbanization and the role of women and Protestantism in a Mexico City neighborhood from the end of the Porfiriato through the Mexican Revolution and into the 1950s. Her dissertation will speak to broader debates on urbanization, women and Protestantism.

Andrea Vicente is currently in her second year as a doctoral student in the Latin American History program. Her dissertation research will focus on female culture and women's "presence" in urban Mexico. Currently she is working on a article manuscript tentatively entitled, "Women of the City: Widowhood in 19th Century Guadalajara, Mexico."