bridge mcwaid is a sixth-year PhD candidate in the History Department at UCSB. Her dissertation, “The Sea and its Fish: A History of Palestine,” narrates a multispecies environmental history of Palestine through the fish, fisherpeople, waters, and infrastructures that made and remade its aquatic worlds across shifting regimes of power. Her work centers on the intersection between political ecology, Indigenous studies, Blue Humanities, and marine science. She holds an MA in Environmental History from the University of Chicago and a BA in Global Studies from UCSB. She is a 2026-2027 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow and 2026-2027 UC Presidential Dissertation Fellow.
TA for History 46B — History of the Modern Middle East, 1800 to the present
TA for History 74 — Poverty, Inequality, & Social Justice in Historical and Global Context
TA for History 5 — History of the Present
TA for History 17B —History of the American Peoples, 1813 to 1919
TA for History 17C —History of the American Peoples, 1920 to the Present
TA for History 8A —History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America
TA for History 4C —History of Modern Europe, 1650 to the Present