Graduate Students
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
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
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
Caitlin Gogulski
Research Interests: Classical Greece; feminization of magic in antiquity; occultism and spiritualism; disenchantment; interplay of magic, religion, and science; gender and sexuality
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
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
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
Caitlin Gogulski
Research Interests: Classical Greece; feminization of magic in antiquity; occultism and spiritualism; disenchantment; interplay of magic, religion, and science; gender and sexuality
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
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
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
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