Graduate Student Directory

Graduate Students

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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

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

Timothy Brown

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

Claudio Daflon, graduate student

Claudio Daflon

Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces

Daniela Domínguez Tavares

Daniela Domínguez Tavares

Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin American History, diplomatic history, oil and development, cold war, environment, politics of oil, nationalism.

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Robert Dubovy

Grace Easterly, graduate student

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

David Evans

Research Interests: United States Foreign Relations – Cold War and Twentieth Century; Human Rights and the right to adequate food; International Development

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Caitlin Gogulski

Lincoln Hirn, graduate student

Lincoln Hirn

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

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Skyler Hodell

Constance Holden, graduate student

Constance Holden

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

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Mamiri Imai

Anna Kittredge, graduate student

Anna Kittredge

Research Interests: Cold War history, Russian-American relations, Soviet history

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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

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Mauricio Lepe-Zepeda

Zhengyuan Ling, graduate student, History Department

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

Yusuf Mansoor

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

Katrina Martinez, graduate student, History Department

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

Santiago Mayochi

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

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Avery McGraw

Research Interests: Modern Europe, Italy, Gender Studies

Marc Reyes, graduate student

Marc Reyes

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

Graduate Student Nadia Scott

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

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

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

Evan Wade

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

Nicole Weatherwax, graduate student

Nicole Weatherwax

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

Yang Zheng, graduate student

Yang Zheng

Research Interests: Modern China, Women and Gender, Chinese Transnational History

MA Students

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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

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Caitlin Gogulski

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Skyler Hodell

Anna Kittredge, graduate student

Anna Kittredge

Research Interests: Cold War history, Russian-American relations, Soviet history

an image of Wood Hall, home of the history department at Uconn

Mauricio Lepe-Zepeda

PhD Students

Katharine Beene, graduate student

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

Timothy Brown

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

Claudio Daflon, graduate student

Claudio Daflon

Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces

Daniela Domínguez Tavares

Daniela Domínguez Tavares

Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin American History, diplomatic history, oil and development, cold war, environment, politics of oil, nationalism.

an image of Wood Hall, home of the history department at Uconn

Robert Dubovy

Grace Easterly, graduate student

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

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

Lincoln Hirn

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

Constance Holden, graduate student

Constance Holden

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

an image of Wood Hall, home of the history department at Uconn

Mamiri Imai

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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

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

Yusuf Mansoor

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

Katrina Martinez, graduate student, History Department

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

Santiago Mayochi

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

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Avery McGraw

Research Interests: Modern Europe, Italy, Gender Studies

Marc Reyes, graduate student

Marc Reyes

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

Graduate Student Nadia Scott

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

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

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

Evan Wade

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

Nicole Weatherwax, graduate student

Nicole Weatherwax

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

Yang Zheng, graduate student

Yang Zheng

Research Interests: Modern China, Women and Gender, Chinese Transnational History