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Graduate Student Directory

Linda Ulbrich
  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
    • Teaching Fellow
    • Writing Center Tutor
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Email
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Mail Stop History Department

Research Interests

  • Modern British History
  • History of the First World War
  • Gender History
  • History of the Emotions
  • History of Nursing

Biography, Education and Training

Degrees:

  • B.A., History Magna Cum Laude, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2018
  • M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020
  • P.h.D., History, University of California, Santa Cruz, in progress (advanced to candidacy September 2021)

 

Professional Development:

  • Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2021 to Spring 2021
  • Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) Course Design and Delivery Certificate Program, Spring 2023 to Summer 2023

Honors, Awards and Grants

Grants:

  • Regents' Fellowship, Fall 2018
  • Grad Humanities Fellowship, Spring 2019
  • Irvine Memorial Fellowship, Spring 2019
  • History Department Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2020
  • Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2021 to Spring 2021
  • The Humanities Institute (THI) Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2021
  • History Department Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2021
  • CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2021-Fall 2021
  • History Department Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Summer 2022
  • The Humanities Institute (THI) Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2023
  • History Department Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Summer 2023
  • Coordinating Council for Women Historians (CCWH) Berkshire Conference Graduate Student Award, 2023

Selected Presentations

Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) Annual Meeting, Spring 2023

  • Presented excerpt from dissertation chapter titled "'My poor little boy, Kerr': Nursing Long-Term Patients at the Front" on panel titled "Disease and Authority"

UCSC Division of Graduate Studies' Graduate Research Symposium, Spring 2022

  • Awarded "Best of the Humanities Division" for presentation on Master's essay research titled, "'Indeed, it isn't fighting': Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse"

American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Winter 2021

  • Poster presentation on Master's essay

North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Fall 2020

  • Presented Master's essay research as part of a panel titled, "Technology and Discontent in the British World"

Teaching Interests

Interested Topics:

  • Modern European History
  • Modern British History
  • First World War
  • Gender History
  • History of the Emotions
  • Nursing History

 

Teaching experience:

  • Merrill 1: Reading Ourselves, Reading the World
  • HIS 139J: Britain Made Digital: A History of the Nation and Its Empire
  • History Graduate Proseminar: Teaching Pedagogy

 

TA experience:

  • Modern European History, 1500-1815
  • The Holocaust
  • Modern European History, 1815- Present
  • Pyramids and Papyrus: The History of Ancient Egypt
  • Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present
  • Medical and Scientific Terminology
  • Modern Britain and the British Empire
  • The First World War
  • The World Since 1500
  • Historical Skills and Methods