Graduate Students
![a picture of John Albert](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/05/Albert-John-image-400x400-1.jpg)
Jack Albert
Research Interests: 20th c. U.S. empire and global hegemony, U.S. and the Arab world, Palestine, Zionism, political economy of U.S. foreign policy, history of international relations, Arab American political activity
![Katharine Beene, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Beene-Katharine-400-x-400.jpg)
Katharine Beene
Research Interests: Early modern Ireland and England; Gender studies; The acquisition and transmission of knowledge; Identity development; Early modern British colonization, Social and cultural history, History of science
![Timothy Brown, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Tim-Brown-400-x-400.jpg)
Timothy Brown
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History
![Claudio Daflon, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Daflon-Claudio-image-v1-400-x-400.jpg)
Claudio Daflon
Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces
![Daniela Domínguez Tavares](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/431477194_1534292237148174_830589033215896472_Daniela-Itzel-Doming-profile-pic-1024x1024.jpg)
Daniela Domínguez Tavares
Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin American History, diplomatic history, oil and development, cold war, environment, politics of oil, nationalism.
![Nolan Durfee, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Nolan-Durfee-400-x-400.jpg)
Nolan Durfee
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Extremism and Propaganda
![Grace Easterly, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Easterly-Grace-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Grace Easterly
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, International Political Economy, Foreign Relations History, Critical Geopolitics, Maritime Logistics, Indian Ocean, Security and Militarism
![David Evans, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Evans-David-image-v2-400-x-400-UPDATE.jpg)
David Evans
Research Interests: United States Foreign Relations – Cold War and Twentieth Century; Human Rights and the right to adequate food; International Development
![Lincoln Hirn, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Hirn-Lincoln-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Lincoln Hirn
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century America, Antebellum Enslavement, The Civil War and Abolition, Anti-Slavery Print Culture, Reconstruction
![Constance Holden, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Holden-Constance-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Constance Holden
Research Interests: race and racial formations, visual culture, gender, modern Latin America and the African Diaspora
![a picture of Alex Kueny](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/03/IMG-9690_Alex-Kueny-1024x1024.jpg)
Alex Kueny
Research Interests: 19th century United States, slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, history of capitalism, Anglo-American political history, English Civil War and Glorious Revolution, historical sociology, political economy
![Zhengyuan Ling, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Ling-Zhengyuan-image-2022-updated-400-x-400.jpg)
Zhengyuan Ling
Research Interests: Cultural history of capitalism in East Asia, intellectual and socio-political history of early modern China (late Qing & the Republic), Confucianism in the 20th century, history of technology (communication & transportation)
![Yusuf Mansoor, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Mansoor-Yusuf-image-400-x-400-.jpg)
Yusuf Mansoor
Research Interests: Early America; Native American and Indigenous Studies; the Atlantic World
![Katrina Martinez, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Katrina-Martinez-400-x-400.jpg)
Katrina Martinez
Research Interests: US Empire, Caribbean Studies, Pacific Studies, Indigenous Studies, Archipelagic Thinking and Waterways, Historical Construction of Natural Disaster, Tourism, Militarism, and Environmentalism
![Santiago Mayochi](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/02/Mayochi-Santiago-Image-400x400-1.jpg)
Santiago Mayochi
Research Interests: Foreign U.S. relations, late nineteenth century, and early twentieth century
![Marc Reyes, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Reyes-Marc-image2-v1-400-x-400.jpg)
Marc Reyes
Research Interests: foreign relations history, economic and political development, South Asian studies, and histories of science and technology
![Graduate Student Nadia Scott](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/08/Nadia-Scott-2024-400x400-1.jpg)
Nadia Scott
Research Interests: Visual and Material Culture, Cultural Nationalism and Citizenship, Race and Racial Formations, Museums and Public History, Independence Movements and Revolutions, Education and Strategic Curriculum Development.
![Catalina Vasquez, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2023/06/Vasquez-Marchant-Catalina-400x400-image.jpg)
Catalina Vásquez-Marchant
Research Interests: Environmental and Urban History of Latin America; Natural Disasters and the Role of the State; Social and Historical Construction of Natural Disasters
![Kristen Vitale, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Vitale-Kristen-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Kristen Vitale Engel
Research Interests: court culture, performative politics and gender in early Henrician/Tudor England; European cultural exchange; periodization; late medieval and early modern concepts of courtly propriety and decorum
![Evan Wade, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Wade-Evan-image-400-x-400-.png)
Evan Wade
Research Interests: 20th Century United States History with a focus on the African American experience
![Nicole Weatherwax, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Weatherwax-Nicole-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Nicole Weatherwax
Research Interests: History of race in sports; critical analysis of anti-black imagery and racist narratives
MA Students
![a picture of John Albert](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/05/Albert-John-image-400x400-1.jpg)
Jack Albert
Research Interests: 20th c. U.S. empire and global hegemony, U.S. and the Arab world, Palestine, Zionism, political economy of U.S. foreign policy, history of international relations, Arab American political activity
![Nolan Durfee, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Nolan-Durfee-400-x-400.jpg)
Nolan Durfee
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Extremism and Propaganda
PhD Students
![Katharine Beene, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Beene-Katharine-400-x-400.jpg)
Katharine Beene
Research Interests: Early modern Ireland and England; Gender studies; The acquisition and transmission of knowledge; Identity development; Early modern British colonization, Social and cultural history, History of science
![Timothy Brown, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Tim-Brown-400-x-400.jpg)
Timothy Brown
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History
![Claudio Daflon, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Daflon-Claudio-image-v1-400-x-400.jpg)
Claudio Daflon
Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces
![Daniela Domínguez Tavares](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/431477194_1534292237148174_830589033215896472_Daniela-Itzel-Doming-profile-pic-1024x1024.jpg)
Daniela Domínguez Tavares
Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin American History, diplomatic history, oil and development, cold war, environment, politics of oil, nationalism.
![Grace Easterly, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Easterly-Grace-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Grace Easterly
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, International Political Economy, Foreign Relations History, Critical Geopolitics, Maritime Logistics, Indian Ocean, Security and Militarism
![David Evans, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Evans-David-image-v2-400-x-400-UPDATE.jpg)
David Evans
Research Interests: United States Foreign Relations – Cold War and Twentieth Century; Human Rights and the right to adequate food; International Development
![Lincoln Hirn, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Hirn-Lincoln-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Lincoln Hirn
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century America, Antebellum Enslavement, The Civil War and Abolition, Anti-Slavery Print Culture, Reconstruction
![Constance Holden, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Holden-Constance-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Constance Holden
Research Interests: race and racial formations, visual culture, gender, modern Latin America and the African Diaspora
![a picture of Alex Kueny](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/03/IMG-9690_Alex-Kueny-1024x1024.jpg)
Alex Kueny
Research Interests: 19th century United States, slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, history of capitalism, Anglo-American political history, English Civil War and Glorious Revolution, historical sociology, political economy
![Zhengyuan Ling, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Ling-Zhengyuan-image-2022-updated-400-x-400.jpg)
Zhengyuan Ling
Research Interests: Cultural history of capitalism in East Asia, intellectual and socio-political history of early modern China (late Qing & the Republic), Confucianism in the 20th century, history of technology (communication & transportation)
![Yusuf Mansoor, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Mansoor-Yusuf-image-400-x-400-.jpg)
Yusuf Mansoor
Research Interests: Early America; Native American and Indigenous Studies; the Atlantic World
![Katrina Martinez, graduate student, History Department](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/08/Katrina-Martinez-400-x-400.jpg)
Katrina Martinez
Research Interests: US Empire, Caribbean Studies, Pacific Studies, Indigenous Studies, Archipelagic Thinking and Waterways, Historical Construction of Natural Disaster, Tourism, Militarism, and Environmentalism
![Santiago Mayochi](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/02/Mayochi-Santiago-Image-400x400-1.jpg)
Santiago Mayochi
Research Interests: Foreign U.S. relations, late nineteenth century, and early twentieth century
![Marc Reyes, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Reyes-Marc-image2-v1-400-x-400.jpg)
Marc Reyes
Research Interests: foreign relations history, economic and political development, South Asian studies, and histories of science and technology
![Graduate Student Nadia Scott](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2024/08/Nadia-Scott-2024-400x400-1.jpg)
Nadia Scott
Research Interests: Visual and Material Culture, Cultural Nationalism and Citizenship, Race and Racial Formations, Museums and Public History, Independence Movements and Revolutions, Education and Strategic Curriculum Development.
![Catalina Vasquez, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2023/06/Vasquez-Marchant-Catalina-400x400-image.jpg)
Catalina Vásquez-Marchant
Research Interests: Environmental and Urban History of Latin America; Natural Disasters and the Role of the State; Social and Historical Construction of Natural Disasters
![Kristen Vitale, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Vitale-Kristen-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Kristen Vitale Engel
Research Interests: court culture, performative politics and gender in early Henrician/Tudor England; European cultural exchange; periodization; late medieval and early modern concepts of courtly propriety and decorum
![Evan Wade, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Wade-Evan-image-400-x-400-.png)
Evan Wade
Research Interests: 20th Century United States History with a focus on the African American experience
![Nicole Weatherwax, graduate student](https://history.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2022/07/Weatherwax-Nicole-image-400-x-400.jpg)
Nicole Weatherwax
Research Interests: History of race in sports; critical analysis of anti-black imagery and racist narratives