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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 ecological globalization. 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.