Past Fellows
The Applied History Fellows are a diverse group of PhD students and early career academics from around the globe, united by a shared commitment to using the tools of applied history to address contemporary challenges. Under the guidance of Professor Patty Limerick, the Fellows work to bring hindsight into foresight, applying historical perspectives and methods to inform present-day decision-making and future planning. Through collaborative research and innovative scholarship, they demonstrate the power of history as a practical resource for understanding and shaping the world.
2023-2024 Skills Repurposing Fellows
2023 Summer Workshop Fellows
2022-2023 Dissertation Assistance Fellows
White supremacist organizations in Southern California
For the Good of Mankind: Bikini as a site of US Empire
Environmental ethics of Nevada - Sagebrush Rebellion 1980-2000
San Antonio River Valley: Cattle changed the ecology of the land, waterways, flora + fauna
Waterborne colonialism on the Pacific Northwest
Affordable housing LA City Oil Field
2021-2022 Dissertation Assistance Fellows
University of Washington
Puʻuhonua o Kakaʻako: Refuge and Abundance in Native Hawaiian Communities, 1860s-1920s
Princeton University
Your Architecture is on My Land: The Making and Remaking of Native American Spaces, 1969 - Present
University of California, Davis
Mormons, Pacific Islanders, and the Boundaries of Belonging in the Age of Empire
University of California, Davis
Disability activism in the late twentieth century United States
Texas A&M University
B’nai Borderlands: The Development Jewish Communities Along the U.S.- Mexico Border in the Twentieth Century
University of California, Merced
Water is King: Here is its Kingdom: Racialized Labor, Technological Development, and Natural Resource Extraction in California’s Imperial Valley
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
The Heart of the Nation”: The Roles of Female Leadership in Mandan and Hidatsa Survivance
Stanford University
The Fruits of Their Labor: Religion, Race, and Resistance in California’s Central Valley, 1870-1960
University of California, San Diego
Transborder diplomacy in city planning and governance in the San Diego-Tijuana binational urban area
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Slavery and the Old Spanish Trail
Brown University
Reclamation: Race, Labor, and the Power of Place
University of California, Davis
A World of Wounds: Veterans and Nature from the Civil War to the War on Terror
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Economies of Scale
