Torres, Juliana

Field: United States; Advisor: Guridy; Year 2022

Juliana Torres is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, where she studies 20th century United States history. Specifically, Juliana is interested in the social history of ideas and the history of the social sciences. Her dissertation, tentatively titled "Making Contact: Labor, the Social Sciences, and the Contest Against Racism, 1910-1964," is a labor and intellectual history of "contact theory," the belief that increased contact between people of different ethnicities tends to combat racism and promote social democracy.

Juliana has an A.A. degree in History and Anthropology from Santa Monica College (2020) and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley (2022), where she researched the socialist magazine Messenger and its use of the rising status of science to develop and communicate anti-racist ideas.

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