Graduate Students
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
Grace Corkran
Research Interests: Women’s health during the early republic, early history of gynecology in America, history of prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases in America, and women’s health during the Holocaust
Claudio Daflon
Research Interests: intersection between popular culture and institutional politics in Latin American urban spaces
Daniela Domínguez Tavares
Research Interests: The global south, cold war, Latin American diplomatic relations and development, with an emphasis on Mexico
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
Rachel Hendrick
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century British North America; the history of the book; material culture of the handpress era
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
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
Marc Reyes
Research Interests: foreign relations history, economic and political development, South Asian studies, and histories of science and technology
Shaine Scarminach
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, Environment, Capitalism, Latin America
Catalina Vasquez
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
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
Shihan Zheng
Research Interests: Modern China, Global History, Chinese Intellectual History, China-U.S. Relations
MA Students
Grace Corkran
Research Interests: Women’s health during the early republic, early history of gynecology in America, history of prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases in America, and women’s health during the Holocaust
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
Rachel Hendrick
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century British North America; the history of the book; material culture of the handpress era
PhD Students
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: The global south, cold war, Latin American diplomatic relations and development, with an emphasis on Mexico
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
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
Marc Reyes
Research Interests: foreign relations history, economic and political development, South Asian studies, and histories of science and technology
Shaine Scarminach
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, Environment, Capitalism, Latin America
Catalina Vasquez
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
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
Shihan Zheng
Research Interests: Modern China, Global History, Chinese Intellectual History, China-U.S. Relations