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Francisco Céntola

Francisco Céntola joined the PhD program in 2020. His dissertation examines the long-distance circulation of natural resources in California from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on Latin American, U.S., Pacific, and global history, this project explores how the movement of bulk commodities across oceans and continents shaped the emergence of a new type of resource-catchment area—the global hinterland. Francisco is also working on another project that studies the relationship between agricultural commodity flows and the spread of Yersinia pestis during the third plague pandemic.