Graduate Student Directory

Graduate Students

Katherine Angelica, graduate student

Kathryn Angelica

Research Interests: 19th century United States, women’s activism & resistance movements, African American history, Civil War, women’s gender & sexuality studies 

Alex Beckstrand, graduate student

Alex Beckstrand

Research Interests: Civil-Military Relations; Grand Strategy; Wilson Era Military and Diplomatic History; Twentieth Century American Foreign Policy; World War I; World War II; National Security Issues; US-Middle East History

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 Dominguez-Tavares, graduate student, History Department

Daniela Domínguez Tavares

Research Interests: The global south, cold war, Latin American diplomatic relations and development, with an emphasis on Mexico

Nolan Durfee, graduate student, History Department

Nolan Durfee

Research Interests: Modern Germany, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Extremism and Propaganda

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

Ben Gerber, graduate student

Benjamin Gerber

Research Interests: Renaissance and Reformation in Western Europe, French Wars of Religion, Politics in Late Sixteenth Century France

Philip Goduti, graduate student

Philip Goduti, Jr.

Research Interests: 20th Century American Foreign Policy (Post WWII), Civil Rights, Emotions history

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

Anna Kittredge, graduate student

Anna Kittredge

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

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

Frances Martin, graduate student

Frances Martin

Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. Foreign relations, U.S.-Vietnamese relations after 1975, nationalism, refugees, and human rights

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

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

Gabrielle Westcott, graduate student, History Department

Gabrielle Westcott

Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S. & the World, Emotions History, Gender, Cultural History, History of the Body, Empire

Yang Zheng, graduate student

Yang Zheng

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

MA Students

Nolan Durfee, graduate student, History Department

Nolan Durfee

Research Interests: Modern Germany, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Extremism and Propaganda

Ben Gerber, graduate student

Benjamin Gerber

Research Interests: Renaissance and Reformation in Western Europe, French Wars of Religion, Politics in Late Sixteenth Century France

Anna Kittredge, graduate student

Anna Kittredge

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

PhD Students

Katherine Angelica, graduate student

Kathryn Angelica

Research Interests: 19th century United States, women’s activism & resistance movements, African American history, Civil War, women’s gender & sexuality studies 

Alex Beckstrand, graduate student

Alex Beckstrand

Research Interests: Civil-Military Relations; Grand Strategy; Wilson Era Military and Diplomatic History; Twentieth Century American Foreign Policy; World War I; World War II; National Security Issues; US-Middle East History

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 Dominguez-Tavares, graduate student, History Department

Daniela Domínguez Tavares

Research Interests: The global south, cold war, Latin American diplomatic relations and development, with an emphasis on Mexico

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

Philip Goduti, graduate student

Philip Goduti, Jr.

Research Interests: 20th Century American Foreign Policy (Post WWII), Civil Rights, Emotions history

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

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

Frances Martin, graduate student

Frances Martin

Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. Foreign relations, U.S.-Vietnamese relations after 1975, nationalism, refugees, and human rights

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

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

Gabrielle Westcott, graduate student, History Department

Gabrielle Westcott

Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S. & the World, Emotions History, Gender, Cultural History, History of the Body, Empire

Yang Zheng, graduate student

Yang Zheng

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