Current PhD Students by Field
Ancient • EAST ASIA • Europe (Medieval, Early Modern, Modern) • Latin America • United States
Ancient
Bryan Brinkman [Email]
Research Interests: Cultural and Social History of the Roman Empire, Roman Religion, Epigraphy
Primary Advisor: John Bodel
Joseph Kurz [Email]
Research Interests: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, History of Science, Modern Japan
Primary Advisor: John Bodel
David J. Thomas [Email]
Research Interests: Greek History, Roman History, Religion and Civic Identity, Imperialism, Social History, Epigraphy
Primary Advisor: John Bodel
Amy Bliss Marshall [Email]
Research Interests: 20th Century Japan: Social and Cultural History, Gender, Media, and Rural Studies; 17th-19th Century Japan: Social and Cultural History; Late 18th-early 20th Century China: Social and Cultural History; Print media digitization: for preservation, research and pedagogical uses
Primary Advisor: Kerry Smith
Dissertation Title: Creating Mass Culture in Inter-War Japan
Sam Boss [Email]
Research Interests: Religious and Social History of France and the Mediterranean, Heresy and Inquisition, Cross-Cultural Interactions, Societal Effects of Warfare
Primary Advisor: Amy Remensnyder
Stephen Higa [Email]
Research Interests: Medieval Europe
Primary Advisor: Amy Remensnyder
Sayema Rawof [Email]
Research Interests: Religious History of Late Medieval/Early Modern Iberia, Mediterranean History, Colonial Encounters, Spanish America
Primary Advisor: Amy Remensnyder
Early Modern Europe
Zachary Dorner [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain and its Global Connections, Information Economies, Colonial/Early America, and Early Modern Science and Commerce
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Christopher Gillett [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain and Ireland, Religious HIstory, Early Modern European History, Political Crises in 17th Century Britain and Ireland
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Rachel Gostenhofer [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern History, Intellectual History, History of Science,
History of Intellectual Property
Primary Advisor: Tara Nummedal
Wanda S. Henry [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern English History, History of Science, Medieval History, Religious History
Liise Lehtsalu [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern Italy, Women and Gender, Religious Institutions, Patronage networks
Primary Advisor: Caroline Castiglione
Laura Perille [Email]
Research Interests: Social and Cultural History, specifically cross-cultural interactions, marginalization, prejudice, and protest
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Daphna Oren-Magidor [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Europe, Gender History, History of Medicine
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Dissertation Title: 'Make me a fruitful vine': dealing with infertility in early modern England
William P. Tatum III [Email]
Research Interests: The British Empire, Violence, Crime, and Social Control
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Dissertation Title: A Proper Submission: British Military Justice and Society, 1715-1784
Elizabeth Treat [Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Ottoman
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Dissertation Title: Scolding, Sex, & Spells: Moral Dilemmas in 17th-c Scottish Communities
Jennifer Wells[Email]
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain and Ireland, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Empires, International Law, Legal and Constitutional History, Diplomacy & State-Building, Political Violence
Primary Advisor: Tim Harris
Modern Europe
Christopher Barthel [Email]
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Modern France and Modern Russia
Primary Advisor: Omer Bartov
Anna M. Borejsza-Wysocka [Email]
Research Interests: Inter-ethnic Relations, Minorities and the State, Modern East Central Europe especially Poland
Primary Advisor: Omer Bartov
Jonathan Gentry [Email]
Research Interests: Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe, Intellectual and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History of Modern Music
Primary Advisor: Michael Steinberg
Sonja Glaab [Email]
Research Interests: Modern German History, Media History, Comparative History, Transnational History
Primary Advisor: Omer Bartov
Dissertation Title: Political Violence and the Press in Imperial Germany
Alexander M. Kunst [Email]
Research Interests: Social, Political and Urban History of Modern East-Central Europe, Germany and Russia
Primary Advisor: Mary Gluck
Diane Liu [Email]
Research Interests: Modern Germany and Jewish history, Nationalism, Colonialism
Primary Advisor: Omer Bartov
Daniel S. Loss [Email]
Research Interests: Modern Britain, Modern Europe, Religion, State and Society
Primary Advisor: Deborah Cohen
Dissertation title: The Afterlife of English Christianity, 1944-1994
Adam Sacks [Email]
Research Interests: European Cultural and Intellectual, Modern Jewish History, East-Central Europe
Primary Advisor: Michael Steinberg
Shih-Chieh Su [Email]
Research Interests: Modern European Intellectual-Cultural, U.S. Intellectual, Germany Since 1806
Primary Advisor: Mary Gluck
Julia Timpe
Research Interests: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Cultural History and History of Everyday Life, Ideology and Society in 20th Century Europe
Primary Advisor: Omer Bartov
Dissertation Title: Hitler’s Happy People: Politics and Practices of the Nazi Leisure Organization "Kraft durch Freude” (“Strength through Joy”) [working title]
Stephen Wicken [Email]
Research Interests: Modern France, Modern Europe, Social and Cultural History of War, Political History
Dissertation Title: 'Rejoining France: Occupation, Liberation and Identity on the French Atlantic Coast, 1944-1946.'
Primary Advisor: Omer Bartov
Latin America
Sandra K. Haley [Email]
Interests: Gender, Labor in the Informal Economy, Identity, Citizenship
Primary Advisor: James Green
Michele Mericle [Email]
Research Interests: Conversos, women, and the Inquisition in colonial Mexico
Primary Advisor: James Green
Dissertation Title: Las Casas de las Rabinas: Gender and the Portuguese Converso Home in New Spain, 1640-1649
United States
Christopher Brick [Email]
Research Interests: Modern U.S., Modern U.S.-Cultural
Primary Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle
Dissertation Title: The Common Man's Republic: The Culture and Politics of Populism in America, 1930-1955
William Brucher [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Social, Cultural, Labor, and Economic History
Primary advisor: Elliott Gorn
Dissertation Title: On the Edge of the Pacific Rim: Capitalism, Work, and Community on the Los Angeles Waterfront
Stephen Chambers [Email]
Research Interests: Early America, Early Modern Empires, Atlantic World
Primary Advisor: Seth Rockman
Stephen Downey [Email]
Research Interests: Modern U.S., Early U.S., Modern Latin America
Primary Advisor: Michael Vorenberg
Natalina Earls [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Women, U.S. Cultural, Europe Gender
Primary Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle
Dissertation Title: Creating the White Slave Narrative: Racial & Gender Rhetoric and the Reality for Women in the Early 20th Century
Nicole Eaton [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Women, U.S. Social and Cultural, Public History
Primary Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle
Sara Fingal [Email]
Research Interests: Twentieth Century U.S. Social and Cultural History, Environmental History, California, and Borderlands
Primary Advisor: Robert Self
Dissertation Title: Turning the Tide: Conflict, Leisure, and Access along California and Mexico's Coastline, 1920s-1980s
Katherine Flynn [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Social and Cultural, Modern America, Modern Latin America
Primary Advisor: Elliott Gorn
Jonathan Hagel [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Cultural-Intellectual, Modern U.S., Modern European Cultura-Intellectual
Primary Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle
Eunsun Celeste Han [Email]
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century U.S. History, African American History, Slavery, Black Freedom Struggle
Primary Advisor: Michael Vorenberg
Benjamin Holtzman [Email]
Twentieth-Century U.S., Social and Political Movements, Metropolitan History
Primary Advisor: Robert Self
Kevin Hoskins [Email]
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century America, Labor History, Modern American History, Modern Latin American/Caribbean History
Primary Advisor: Elliott Gorn
Dissertation Title: The Wages of Empire: Working-Class Americans and the Spanish-American War
Hendrik Isom [Email]
Research Interests: Early America - Religious History, Quebec, American Identity
Primary Advisor: Linford Fisher
Bryan Knapp [Email]
Research Interests:Twentieth-Century U.S./Political Cultures, Nineteenth-Century U.S., Postcolonial Africa
Primary Advisor: Robert Self
Christopher Lamberti [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Cultural History after 1877, Public History, Empires and Cultures
Primary Advisor: Elliott Gorn
Jooyoung Lee[Email]
Research Interests: American Democracy Promotion and the World, Western Modernity and the East Asian Nations, Imperialism, Colonialism and Post-colonialism, History of U.S.-Korean Relations
Primary Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa
Dissertation Title: Rethinking Democracy: "American" Ideas in the Making of Modern South Korea
Caitlin Murphy [Email]
Research Interests: U.S. Urban and Social, African-American, Modern Latin America
Primary Advisor: Robert Self
John Rosenberg [Email]
Research Interests: American Foreign Relations, U.S. West and Borderlands, Latin America
Primary Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa
Lindsay Schakenbach [Email]
Research Interests: Early America, Foreign Relations, Early Modern Empires, Capitalism
Primary Advisor: Seth Rockman
Elizabeth Searcy [Email]
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History, American Cultural History, 1775-1877
Primary Advisor: Elliott Gorn
Mary Williams [Email]
Research Interests: Early America, Colonial Latin America, American Women
Primary Advisor: Gordon Wood
Theresa Williams [Email]
Research Interests: 19th Century America, specifically cultural intersections of gender, race and class, Medical and Psychiatric History, the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Americas
Primary Advisor: Seth Rockman