Nicole Vaughan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History whose research explores the role of sensory experience in the production of space. Some of her recent work examines Hong Kong’s soundscape and the social, cultural, and political dimensions of noise control.

Nicole’s dissertation project is a comparative urban history of Hong Kong and San Francisco in the nineteenth century, which traces how ideas about race, gender, and class were produced in local spaces, represented in print culture, and reified as these texts circulated and passed into new contexts.