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
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
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
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
Claudio Daflon
Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces
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
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Extremism and Propaganda
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
Research Interests: United States Foreign Relations – Cold War and Twentieth Century; Human Rights and the right to adequate food; International Development
Benjamin Gerber
Research Interests: Renaissance and Reformation in Western Europe, French Wars of Religion, Politics in Late Sixteenth Century France
Philip Goduti, Jr.
Research Interests: 20th Century American Foreign Policy (Post WWII), Civil Rights, Emotions history
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
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
Frances Martin
Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. Foreign relations, U.S.-Vietnamese relations after 1975, nationalism, refugees, and human rights
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
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 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
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
Gabrielle Westcott
Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S. & the World, Emotions History, Gender, Cultural History, History of the Body, Empire
MA Students
Nolan Durfee
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Extremism and Propaganda
Benjamin Gerber
Research Interests: Renaissance and Reformation in Western Europe, French Wars of Religion, Politics in Late Sixteenth Century France
PhD 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
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
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
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
Claudio Daflon
Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces
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
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, Jr.
Research Interests: 20th Century American Foreign Policy (Post WWII), Civil Rights, Emotions history
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
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
Frances Martin
Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. Foreign relations, U.S.-Vietnamese relations after 1975, nationalism, refugees, and human rights
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
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 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
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
Gabrielle Westcott
Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S. & the World, Emotions History, Gender, Cultural History, History of the Body, Empire