Current History Graduate Students

Research Interests: Feminist and Marxist political economy, science and technology studies, trans and queer ecologies, food studies.

Advisor: Dr. Kelsey Lewis (Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Department)

Research Interests: 20^th century American history; race, gender and sexuality.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: Colonial America and The Early Republic

Advisor: Dr. Erik Seeman

Research Interests:  Environmental History, Indigenous History and Early America

Advisor: Dr. Erik Seeman

Research Interests: History of medicine, history of maternal and infant health and history of maternal trauma.

Advisor: Dr. Ndubueze Mbah

Research Interests: Eugenics, Empire, Ireland, Medicine and Gender

Advisor: Dr. Patrick McDevitt

Research Interests: Academia in the Modern Day, The Digitization of Historical Documents and Historical Preservation

Advisor: Dr. Hal Langfur

Research Interests: Disability History, Disability and Intersectionality, Disability Advocacy, Marginalized Communities and Disability

Advisor: Dr. Mike Rembis

Research Interests: The phenomenon of racial fluidity in 18^th century colonial Mexico through the analysis of casta paintings.

Advisor: Dr. Hal Langfur

Research Interests: History of Brazil, Indigenous History of the Americas, Food & Drink History, Gender, Ethnohistory and Ethnoarchaeology, Social & Cultural History and The History of Death

Advisor: Dr. Hal Langfur

Research Interests: History of religion and communal studies

Advisor: Dr. Erik Seeman

Research Interests: Early American Religious History, Preachers and Missionaries of Color

Advisor: Dr. Erik Seeman

Research Interests: U.S. and the World, Gender, Human Rights and The Southern Cone

Advisor: Dr. Gene Zubovich

Research Interests: American history, disability history, and transnational history of China and US.

Advisor: Dr. Mike Rembis

Research Interests: Disability history and the history medicine, the history of epilepsy and institutionalization in the US and Western Europe; the intersection of disability, gender, and sexuality in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Advisor: Dr. Mike Rembis

Research Interests: Queer studies within Medieval Europe, post-World War Europe, with a focus on areas in the Balkans such as Yugoslavia.

Advisor: Dr. Kathrine Zubovich

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: Trauma and healing, music and medicine, slavery, sensory history, microhistory and African history.

Advisor: Dr. Ndubueze Mbah

Research Interests: The American Civil War, World War II, the US foster care and adoption system.

Advisor: Dr. Victoria Wolcott

Research Interests: East Asian history

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: 19^th Century American History, Indigenous history, history of the Lost Cause and historical memory.

Advisor: Dr. Carole Emberton

Research Interests: French and Transatlantic Empires; race and African Diaspora Studies; gender, visual, material and print culture and socio-political movements. 

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: History of medicine, women’s history, maternal health, African diaspora, intersectionality and decolonization in Africa.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: 20^th Century US History; Alcohol, drugs, and addiction treatment and research

Advisor: Dr. David Herzberg

Research Interests: The rise of fascism in America

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: The Atlantic World, U.S. History, Colonial America, Exchange and Commodity and Early Modern Europe

Advisor: Dr. Erik Seeman

Research Interests: The colonization of Latin America, particularly in Brazil.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: Post-War German cinema, the Americanization/transnational cultural exchange between the US and Germany, especially through film adaptations; the reconstruction and reformation of national identity, and East-West German competition over projecting anti-imperialism.

Advisor: Dr. Andreas Daum

Research Interests: Asian History and Latin American History

Advisor: Dr. Yan Liu

Research Interests: United States Cold War, specifically the way advertisements and movies shaped America and their ideals.

Advisor: Dr. Cari Casteel

Research Interests: African History, Social History of Medicine and Child and Maternal Health History

Advisor: Dr. Mike Rembis

Research Interests: Micro-histories, the Napoleonic Wars, and the American Civil War.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell

Research Interests: Medicine and Disabilities in Early Modern France and Atlantic Colonies

Advisor: Dr. Mike Rembis

Research Interests: Modern Chinese history, disability and Deafness, digital and computational humanities.

Advisor: Dr. Kristin Stapleton

Research Interests: Early Modern European History, Native American History and Modern U.S. History

Advisor: Dr. David Herzberg

Research Interests: 20^th century US history, intellectual history of US conservatism in the 20^th century to the present; social history of right-wing backlash movements during US Reconstruction to the present day; the religious right in the US.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell