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Current PhD Students by Field

AncientEAST ASIA • Europe (Medieval, Early Modern, Modern) • Latin AmericaUnited 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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EAST ASIA

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

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Medieval Europe

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

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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

 

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

 

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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

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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

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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

 

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

 

 

 

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