Graduate Representatives

EMAIL: ebaudler [at] stanford.edu (ebaudler[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Eva Baudler is a PhD student in history focusing on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Chinese migration to Germany and its former colonies, with particular interest in the Pacific world and the West Coast of the United States. Her research explores the transnational dimensions of anti-Chinese sentiment, the microhistories of migrant laborers, and the roles sojourners played in subverting and contributing to settler colonialism. More recently, she has worked on the history of Chinese migration to Samoa between the 1870s and 1910s and the experiences of aging among Chinese immigrants to the US. 

Eva is a Graduate Student Co-Chair of the Global Studies in Migration and Diaspora Workshop. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a K-12 teacher and a dementia caregiver.

EMAIL: jshuston [at] stanford.edu (jshuston[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Jackson Huston is a PhD student in History, with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies from the University of California Davis. His research focuses on politics in the 20th century American South, particularly Black, women, and immigrant political activity. His honours thesis at UC Davis uncovered individual Black voters in Jim Crow Louisiana and examined the integration of Southern women into the body politic. 

Jackson's work on racial discrimination in California housing law and urban planning has been published in CalMatters. He has presented his research at conferences at the University of California Davis and California State University East Bay.

EMAIL: gsmith22 [at] stanford.edu (gsmith22[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Gillian Smith is a PhD student in the field of British history. She is broadly focused on the intersection of systems of gender and crime during the early modern period, with enthusiasm for microhistory and the study of everyday individuals. Her most recent research examined women charged with petty treason, a form of homicide in which the accused was charged with killing a social superior, and was awarded the Mary Ritter Beard Award. 

Gillian holds a B.A. in History from UCLA, where she enjoyed the opportunity to delve into English archival records to conduct case studies of rural eighteenth-century female murderers as a Keck Fellow. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at Stanford, she also worked on projects relating to modern Jewish history, most notably studying the Mechelen transit camp as a Alan D. Leve Center Undergraduate Fellow. The culmination of her work as a researcher and editor was the posthumous publication of Israel Cappell’s memoir With Many Miracles: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival in Belgium (2024).

EMAIL: jterrasi [at] stanford.edu (jterrasi[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

James Terrasi is a PhD student studying the social and economic history of the late medieval Mediterranean. He is also interested in digital humanities, and he is the former team lead of the Oxford Outremer Map digital project.

Before coming to Stanford, he earned an M.A. In Medieval Studies at Fordham University and a B.A. In Medieval Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.