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Research Interests: Academia in the modern day, the digitization of historical documents and historical preservation.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: History of religion and religious interactions, Mediterranean civilizations, Early Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell 

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 U.S.

Advisor: Dr. Mike Rembis

Research Interests: Disability history and the history medicine, the history of epilepsy and institutionalization in the U.S. 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

Research Interests: The history of psychology, institutionalization and psychiatric medicine.

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 U.S. 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. Ogechukwu Williams

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

Advisor: Dr. David Herzberg

Research Interests: The rise of fascism in America

Advisor: Dr. Carole Emberton

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 U.S. 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: Disability history, Early Transatlantic Religion with a special emphasis on Protestant Christianity, the history of emotions and 19th century U.S.

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 the 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 U.S. conservatism in the 20^th century to the present; social history of right-wing backlash movements during U.S. Reconstruction to the present day; the religious right in the US.

Advisor: Dr. Robin Mitchell