Current Graduate Students
|
STUDENT |
FIELD OF STUDY |
RESEARCH INTERESTS |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Abnet | U.S. History | |
| Hallimeda Allinson | U.S. History | |
| Alexandra Anderson | U.S. History | |
| Michael Anklin | Modern European History | Advisor: Spang |
| Ayesha Athar | Jewish History | |
| Charles Aull | Ancient History | Advisor: Watts Research Interests: Roman History, Late Antiquity, Latin Literature, Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Culture under Roman rule, Social and Intellectual History, the Classical Tradition. |
| Richard Barrett | Ancient History | |
| Jacob Baska | U.S. History | Advisor: Dierks |
| Daniel Beben | Middle Eastern History | |
| Shannon Bennett | U.S. History | |
| Ariela Berstein | Medieval History | |
| Miles Blizard | Medieval History | Advisor: Shopkow Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, Medieval Perceptions of Roman and Early Christian History, Western Europe in Late Antiquity, French Vernacular Chronicles, French Bishops in the 13th and 14th centuries, Medieval Cities (Rome, Paris, London), Medieval Latin |
| Jennifer Boles | Latin American History | Dissertation: "8 Millimeters Versus 8 Million": Superochero Cinema in Mexico City after 1968 Advisor: Guardino Research Interests: Latin America, Mexico, Film Studies, Third Cinema, Visual Culture, Oral History and Memory, Urban Studies, Social Movements |
| Brandon Bowen | Asian History | |
| Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis | U.S. History | |
| Siobhan Carter-David | African Diaspora History | Dissertation: Jump Clean: Sartorial Splendor in the Post-Civil Rights African American Worldview Advisor: Clegg Research Interests: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and the Politics of Presentation; Urban Life |
| Sandrine Catris | Asian History | |
| Jennifer Cavalli | Early Modern European History | |
| Dan Clasby | Modern European History | Dissertation: The Local Politics of Italianità: Veneto Political Culture and Jewish Identity in Liberal and Fascist Italy, 1870-1938 Advisor: Ipsen & Roseman Research Interests: Modern European history; modern Italian history; Jewish Studies; nationalism and identity; Jewish integration and segregation in modern Europe; Italian Fascism; postwar memory and Jewish identity; cultural history as methodology; scholarship of teaching and learning. |
| Dan Combs | U.S. History | |
| Erin Corber | Modern European History | Advisor: Roseman Research Interests: Cultural history of the First World War, Modern France, Jews in France and North Africa, Jews in Modern Europe, history of Montréal. |
| Kalani Craig | Medieval History | Advisor: Deliyannis Research Interests: Carolingian Europe, episcopal power and authority, impact of religion on politics and social memory, world history before 1500. |
| Brian Cwiek | Asian History | |
| David Diaz Arias | Latin American History | Dissertation: Social Crisis and Struggling Memories: Popular Mobilization, Collective Violence, and the Memories of the Costa Rican Civil War of 1948 Advisor: Gould |
| Aimee Dobbs | Russian History | |
| Erika Dowell | U.S. History | Advisor: Dierks |
| Donna Drucker | U.S. History | Advisor: Allen |
| Karen Dunak | U.S. History | Advisor: McGerr |
| Susan Eckelmann | U.S. History | Advisor: McGerr Research Interests: Modern U.S. History, Social Movements, African Diaspora, Childhood and Family History, Race Theory |
| Christopher Eichstedt | Latin American History | Advisor: Gould Research Interests: Central America, Revolution and Counterrevolution, the Cold War, U.S.-Latin America Relations |
| Justin Ellison | U.S. History | |
| Brendan Fay | Modern European History | Advisor: Roseman Research Interests: Modern Germany, Weimar culture, music and national identity, nationalism, witchcraft |
| Tanisha C. Ford | U.S. History | Dissertation: "The Natural Soul:" Black Women Activist-Entertainers and the Aesthetic Politics of Soul Culture, 1954-1980 Advisor: Clegg Research Interests: history of 20th century U.S. and African diasporic popular cultures, politics of celebrity and entertainment, modern social movements |
| Carmen Garcia-Prieto | Latin American History | |
| Nancy Germano | U.S. History | Advisor: Bodnar Research Interests: Environmental History / Urban History / Public History; flood events and community relationships with rivers and streams |
| Brendan Gillis | British History | Advisor: Wahrman |
| Patrick Gilner | Modern European History | Advisor: Roseman Research Interests: Modern Germany, Fascist Italy, Central Europe, National Socialism, Fascism, Violence, Paramilitary Culture, Military and Civilian Interaction 1914-1945, Cultural and Social History of Weimar and the Third Reich |
| Erin Gorman | Medieval History | Advisor: Shopkow Research Interests: I am enrolled in graduate programs in both History and Library Science (MA/MLS) with the hope of becoming a subject librarian. I am most interested in Medieval social and cultural history. |
| Natalie Gwishiri | African History | |
| Jennifer Hart | African History | Dissertation: "Moving the Nation: Citizen, State, and Urban Transportation in Postcolonial Ghana" Advisor: Hanson Research Interests: I am interested in late-colonial and postcolonial urban history in anglophone Africa. In particular, I am interested in African experiences of life in the city and the ways in which Africans interacted with the state during and after the transition to independence. I also have interests in the history of Christianity, the role of Christianity in the economic life of Africans, and market women. |
| Taylor Haydu | Eastern European History | Advisor: Veidlinger Research Interests: East European, Holocaust, Jewish, Nationalism/Right wing movements, communism |
| Mario Heinze | Modern European History | |
| Ramajana Hidic-Demirovic | Eastern European History | |
| Nicholas Hunot | Medieval History | Advisor: Deliyannis Research Interests: I study the periods between 19 BC and 700 AD. I examine the socio-economic and political impact Christianity had on late antique/early medieval society in southwest Europe, especially in Iberia and southern Gaul. I am also interested in the rural populations of Imperial Spain, their relationship with Roman authority and their socio-economic community. My research has brought me to the study of architecture and physical space and how these elements work within social constructs. |
| Fan Xin Hy | Asian History | Advisor: Muelhaun |
| Angela Kilsdonk | Russian History | Advisor: Veidlinger |
| Alex Kirven | Russian History | Advisor: Eklof Research Interests: Russian Peasantry, Russian Populism and Radicalism, Russia in the 19th/early 20th centuries, the Russian Revolution |
| Andrew Koke | British History | |
| Grace Kong | U.S. History | Advisor: Stowe |
| Stephanie Koscak | British History | Advisor: Wahrman Research Interests: Cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain - masculinity, consumer culture, political identity, and (of all things) dog breeding. |
| Elizabeth Lambert | Modern European History | Advisor: Roseman |
| John Lary | Modern European History | Dissertation: Communitarian Belgium: From the Flemish Movement to Muslim Immigration, 1954-1991 Advisor: Ipsen Research Interests: Modern European History, immigration, nationalism, terrorism, History of the Middle East. Minor: African history. |
| Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz | U.S. History | Advisor: Gamber |
| Arthur Ling | Asian History | |
| Kyle Liston | Modern European History | Dissertation: Colonialism Asunder: Being, Belonging and Hybridity in the Italo-Tunisian Communities of Tunis, 1881-1956 Advisor: Ipsen |
| Richard Lockton | British History | |
| Clovis Long | Eastern European History | |
| Bryan Manewal | Latin American History | |
| Elisabeth Marsh | U.S. History | Advisor: Bodnar |
| Crystal Matjasic | Early Modern European History | Advisor: Schneider |
| Don Maxwell | U.S. History | Advisor: Clegg |
| Devi Mays | Jewish History | |
| Dunstan McNutt | U.S. History | |
| Marlene Medrano | Latin American History | Advisor: Guardino |
| Jolanta Mickute | Jewish History | |
| Lauren Miller | British History | Advisor: Wahrman Research Interests: 18th-century Britain and Spain in the Atlantic World; empire, identity. Outside minor in Religious Studies. |
| Andrei Miroiu | Eastern European History | Advisor: Bucur Research Interests: European History, Economic History, Strategic Studies |
| Christopher Molnar | Modern European History | |
| Colleen Moore | Russian History | Dissertation: For the Motherland? Peasant Participation in Russia's Great War, 1914-1917 Advisor: Eklof Research Interests: late imperial Russia, peasants, social history, class, the Great War, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Europe, and the Soviet Union under Stalin |
| Leone Musgrave | Russian History | Advisor: Ransel |
| José Najar | Latin American History | |
| Ben Nelson | U.S. History | Research Interests: Race/Urban/Public History in the United States; Rare Books and Manuscripts, preservation, web development and digitization, government information |
| Elizabeth Nelson | Modern European History | Dissertation: "Fleeting-Improvised-Men": Personal Demons, Paranoia, and Psychiatry at the Turn of the 20th Century; Huysmans / Strindberg / Schreber Advisor: Spang Research Interests: History of psychiatry and psychology, esp. with regard to paranoia and schizophrenia / Literature, esp. modernism, spiritual autobiography / Subjective aspects of religion, mysticism, occultism/ Masculinity and fin-de-siecle culture |
| Daniela Nimmich | World History | Advisor: O'Bryan |
| Adam Olsen | Ancient History | |
| Katie Ottaway | Asian History | Advisor: Struve |
| Betsy Pease | U.S. History | |
| Mark Plozay | British History | |
| Frederick Pratt | African History | |
| Geoff Ralston | Modern European History | Advisor: Spang |
| Liz Randall | U.S. History | Advisor: Wendy Gamber Research Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century US History: trends of inequality and social movements specifically pertaining to gender and race. |
| Ruth Reichard | U.S. History | |
| Scott Reynolds | Early Modern European History | Advisor: Schneider |
| Heather Roberts | Ancient History | Advisor: Robinson Research Interests: Archaic and Classical Greek history, Greek democracy and tyranny, ostracism and the politics of exile, late Republican/early Imperial Rome, Greek and Roman historiography, the classical tradition |
| Tola Rodrick | Ancient History | Advisor: Watts Research Interests: Late Ancient Religious and Philosophical Traditions, Coptic Language and Literature, Egyptian Monasticism |
| John Roe | British History | |
| Sarah Rowley | U.S. History | Research Interests: Late 19th and 20th century history of race and gender in the U.S., first wave feminism, the race uplift movement |
| Tara Saunders | U.S. History | Advisor: Gamber Research Interests: Social and cultural American history (late 19th/early 20th c.); gender history. |
| Jim Seaver | U.S. History | Dissertation: Sticky-Fingered GIs: Material Culture, Power, and Moral Ambiguity during World War II Advisor: Bodnar Research Interests: Major: Mid-20th-century U.S. history, esp. World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Inside Minor: Modern Europe, esp. 20th-century Germany. Outside Minor: Folklore, esp. material culture and museum studies. |
| Cesar Seveso | Latin American History | |
| Amy Simon | Modern European History | Advisor: Roseman |
| Sarah Anne Smith | Medieval History | Dissertation: The Eleventh Part of the Sciences: Natural Magic at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century. Advisor: Deliyannis Research Interests: Medieval natural philosophy, science and technology, folklore, occult protosciences (alchemy, astrology, magic, etc.). |
| Jennifer Sovde | Modern European History | Dissertation: Child Performers in the French Third Republic: A Social and Cultural History Advisor: Spang Research Interests: 19th & 20th century French social & cultural history, History of Children & Childhood, History of the Family |
| Ben Stellwagen | Russian History | Advisor: Veidlinger Research Interests: Ethno-religious history; German-Lutheran identity in the early Soviet Union; German diaspora communities; the Holocaust in German-occupied Soviet territories; interwar migration; the impact of Communist social manipulation on the self (observed through diaries and memoirs) |
| Joseph Stubenrauch | British History | |
| Carl Suddler | African Diaspora History | Advisor: Khalil Muhammad |
| Maksymilian Szostalo | Medieval History | |
| M. Benjamin Thorne | Eastern European History | |
| Alex Tipei | Eastern European History | Advisor: Bucur and Spang Research Interests: Intellectual, political, and cultural exchange between France, Romania, Poland, and Greece. |
| Anjali Vithayathil | Russian History | Research Interests: Russian and Soviet Empire in Central Asia and the Caucasus; Frontiers and borders between Russia and Persia/Iran; Irredentism; Railroads |
| Heather Vrana | Latin American History | |
| Jon Warner | Latin American History | Advisor: Gould |
| Mary Werden | Eastern European History | Advisor: Kenney/Bucur Research Interests: 20th Century Eastern Europe |
| Jeremy Young | U.S. History | Advisor: McGerr Research Interests: Charismatic leadership and charismatic movements during the U.S. Progressive Era |
| Fabio Zoia | African History |
