2026-2027 Student Fellows

Jacob Huynh

Program: History, 1st-year graduate student
Career Goal: History professor

As a first​-year graduate student​, I am interested in the intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries in Western Europe and the United States. As an ARCH fellow, I am interested in studying Spanish influence on the American Revolution. In particular, I am focused on the Kumeyaay Revolt at ​Mission de ​Alcalá in 1775 and its local impact.

 

Kelly Sorber

Program: History, 2nd-year graduate student
Career Goal: Archival or museum work

In my graduate studies, I have focused on American Women and Work during the Long Nineteenth Century. Through the ARCH fellowship, I can highlight the important influence women had during the American Revolutionary War through my topic of Virtue; I will provide historical insight into the concept of Republican Motherhood and its role in building early America.

 

Isabella Torcat

Program: 3rd-year undergraduate, History major, Political Science minor 
Career Goal: To one day make it to law school and become a corporate lawyer

In the ARCH program, I look forward to studying justice systems during the American Revolution and the Civil War era. Specifically, I want to analyze court cases and hearings on social justice issues. I am also interested in examining case studies and firsthand accounts from figures in these eras. My goal is to analyze the impact of cases and stories I find and how they shaped the political climate around them.

 

Mia Tumbaga

Program: History, graduate student 
Career Goal: History professor or museum curator

I am a History Master's student currently working on my thesis on the Great Depression in California. In the ARCH program, I plan to expand on the culture surrounding the Great Depression with a particular interest in how language and allusions to the American Civil War became contemporarily popular.