Graduate Students

Valentina Bonansea
Research Interests: Global history of the late 20th century; Middle Eastern studies; Iranian modern history

Timothy Brown
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History

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
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, International Political Economy, Foreign Relations History, Critical Geopolitics, Maritime Logistics, Indian Ocean, Security and Militarism

Jacob Finegan
Research Interests: politics of national memory, ways in which physical sites (battlefields, cemeteries, parks, and statues) function as contested spaces of heritage and identity

Lincoln Hirn
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century America, Antebellum Enslavement, The Civil War and Abolition, Anti-Slavery Print Culture, Reconstruction

Skyler Hodell
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century trans-Atlantic cultural exchange, continental European philosophy post-Hegel

Constance Holden
Research Interests: race and racial formations, visual culture, gender, modern Latin America and the African Diaspora

Mamiri Imai
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Black Abolitionist Feminists, Transnational History, Counter-Mapping, Gender and Queer History.

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

Mauricio Lepe-Zepeda
Research Interests: Cultural history of Inter-war Europe, Fascism, Radical right-wing politics, Propaganda and ideology

Brigitte Lewis
Research Interests: The African Diaspora, Slavery and Abolition, Race and Indigeneity in New England, Early America, the long 18th century, Racial Capitalism

Daniela Lilly Rodiles
Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century U.S. History; Women’s History; Gendered Mobility; Legal Containment of Movement; Cultural Memory; American Material & Visual Cultural History; Historical Narrative Construction & Archetypal Representation; Social Regulation & Deviance; Countercultural Movements & Subcultural Identities; Gender & Sexuality.

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
Research Interests: Early America; Native American and Indigenous Studies; the Atlantic World

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
Research Interests: Foreign U.S. relations, late nineteenth century, and early twentieth century

Marc Reyes
Research Interests: foreign relations history, economic and political development, South Asian studies, and histories of science and technology

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 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

Evan Wade
Research Interests: 20th Century United States History with a focus on the African American experience

Nicole Weatherwax
Research Interests: History of race in sports; critical analysis of anti-black imagery and racist narratives
MA Students

Valentina Bonansea
Research Interests: Global history of the late 20th century; Middle Eastern studies; Iranian modern history

Jacob Finegan
Research Interests: politics of national memory, ways in which physical sites (battlefields, cemeteries, parks, and statues) function as contested spaces of heritage and identity

Skyler Hodell
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century trans-Atlantic cultural exchange, continental European philosophy post-Hegel

Mauricio Lepe-Zepeda
Research Interests: Cultural history of Inter-war Europe, Fascism, Radical right-wing politics, Propaganda and ideology
PhD Students

Timothy Brown
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History

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
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, International Political Economy, Foreign Relations History, Critical Geopolitics, Maritime Logistics, Indian Ocean, Security and Militarism

Lincoln Hirn
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century America, Antebellum Enslavement, The Civil War and Abolition, Anti-Slavery Print Culture, Reconstruction

Constance Holden
Research Interests: race and racial formations, visual culture, gender, modern Latin America and the African Diaspora

Mamiri Imai
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Black Abolitionist Feminists, Transnational History, Counter-Mapping, Gender and Queer History.

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

Brigitte Lewis
Research Interests: The African Diaspora, Slavery and Abolition, Race and Indigeneity in New England, Early America, the long 18th century, Racial Capitalism

Daniela Lilly Rodiles
Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century U.S. History; Women’s History; Gendered Mobility; Legal Containment of Movement; Cultural Memory; American Material & Visual Cultural History; Historical Narrative Construction & Archetypal Representation; Social Regulation & Deviance; Countercultural Movements & Subcultural Identities; Gender & Sexuality.

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
Research Interests: Early America; Native American and Indigenous Studies; the Atlantic World

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
Research Interests: Foreign U.S. relations, late nineteenth century, and early twentieth century

Marc Reyes
Research Interests: foreign relations history, economic and political development, South Asian studies, and histories of science and technology

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 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

Evan Wade
Research Interests: 20th Century United States History with a focus on the African American experience

Nicole Weatherwax
Research Interests: History of race in sports; critical analysis of anti-black imagery and racist narratives