Congratulations to three doctoral students from the History Department who received their degrees in the course of the 2020-’21 academic year. Julia López Fuentes completed her degree in the summer of 2020. López Funtes’s dissertation, “Thinking Europe, Thinking Democracy: The Struggle for European Democracy in Spain, 1949-1986,” was overseen by S C Dobbs Emeritus Professor Walter Adamson and Associate Professor Astrid M. Eckert. Rebekah A. Ramsay also finished in the summer of 2020. Overseen by Associate Professor Matthew Payne, Ramsay’s dissertation was titled “Kindling the Hearths of Culture: Kazakh Citizenship and Cultural Revolution on the Soviet Frontier, 1917-1937.” Cheng-Heng Lu completed in the fall of 2020 under the advisement of Professor Tonio Andrade. His dissertation was titled “The Art of Being an Imperial Broker: The Qing Conquest of Taiwan and Maritime Society (1624-1788).”