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Current PhD Students by Field

Ancient • Europe (Medieval, Early Modern, Modern) • Latin America • MIDDLE EAST • SOUTH ASIA • 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

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Medieval Europe

Amiri Ayanna [Email]

Research Interests: Religious History of the High and Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Europe, Legacies of Antiquity and Early Christianity in Medieval and Early Modern Spirituality, German Vernacular Religious and Secular Writing

Primary Advisor: Amy Remensnyder

 

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

 

Sayema Rawof [Email]

Research Interests: Religious History of Late Medieval/Early Modern Iberia, Mediterranean History, Colonial Encounters, Spanish America

Primary Advisor: Amy Remensnyder

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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

 

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

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Modern Europe

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

 

Amy Kerner [Email]

Research Interests: Modern European cultural and intellectual, Cultural politics of Language in the German-speaking lands and Latin America, Linguistic Anthropology

Primary Advisor: Michael Steinberg

 

Alexander M. Kunst [Email]

Research Interests: Social, Political and Urban History of Modern East-Central Europe, Germany and Russia

Primary Advisor: Mary Gluck

 

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

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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

 

Andre Pagliarini [Email]

Research Interests: Modern Latin America, Twentieth-Century Brazil, Radical Politics, Southern Cone Dictatorships, Cold War

Primary Advisor: James Green

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MIDDLE EaST

Zoe Griffith [Email]

Interests: Social, Economic, and Urban History of Ottoman Egypt, Political Economy of Mediterranean Trade, Imperial Governance, Global History of Early Modernity

Primary Advisor: Beshara Doumani

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SOUTH ASIA

Abhilash Medhi [Email]

Interests: Modern South Asia, Afghanistan, Borderlands, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Citizenship

Primary Advisor: Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

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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

 

Stephen Chambers [Email]

Research Interests: Early America, Early Modern Empires, Atlantic World

Primary Advisor: Seth Rockman

 

Anne Gray Fischer [Email]

Research Interests: Twentieth-Century U.S., Social and Political Movements, Gender and Sexuality

Primary Advisor: Robert Self

 

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

 

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

 

Rachel Knecht [Email]

Research Interests: Early U.S. History, History of Capitalism, History of Math

Primary Advisor: Seth Rockman

 

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

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