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Faisal Abualhassan
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century Imperialism; Imperial subjects in transnational exchanges; France, the French Empire and the Arab world; Afro-Arab worlds; Comparative historical-sociological methods
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard
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Shai Alleson-Gerberg
Research Interests: Sabbateanism and anti-Sabbatean polemics, Jewish-Christian relations and Jewish anti-Christian polemics, Religious syncretism, Interactions between Kabbalah, Halacha, philosophy and science in the Baroque era and the Enlightenment
Main Adviser: Professor Maciejko
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Yuri Amano
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century British North America; Early American Republic, History of Medicine and the Body
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg
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David Attali
Research Interests: Modern France, France's Third Republic, Sociology of Nationalism, Far Right Politics, and European Intellectual History
Main Adviser: Professor Moss, Professor Shepard
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Samuel Backer
Research Interests: Culture and Class in the American Gilded Age, Histories of Capitalism, Atlantic History, Popular Music, Digital History
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin, Professor Furstenberg
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Achinoam Bentov
Research Interests: East-Central Europe, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Mass Violence, Diplomatic History, Frontiers and Borderlands
Main Adviser: Professor Maciejko
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Emma Bilski
Research Interests: Spirituality and empire in the early modern Atlantic world, Indigenous peoples' history, pre-Seminole Florida, Baltimore as Native space, public history, missionary colonialism, and maritime history
Main Adviser: Professor E. Rowe, Professor Johnson
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Laurence Bond
Research Interests: Late-medieval England, religion, lay piety, popular devotion, vernacular theology, history of education, social history, cultural history, intellectual history
Main Adviser: Professor Lester
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Lee Borocz-Johnson
Research Interests: History of Political Thought; Intellectual History; Historiography; Textual Criticism; Early Modern Britain; Colonial America; Atlantic History; History of the Common Law; The English Romantics; History of Constitutional Thought; Ecclesiastical Constitutionalism; Receptions of Platonist and Idealist Philosophy; History of Education; Legacies of the English Civil War in the Eighteenth Century
Main Adviser: Professor Marshall
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Jacob Bruggeman
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century U.S. history; history of ideas; social histories of capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; political economy; print media and identity; economic and cultural geography; American regionalism; midwestern history economic, cultural, and literary history
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin, Professor Furstenberg
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Jilene Chua
Research Interests: 20th-century U.S. history; modern empires; gender and sexuality; Philippine studies; cultural histories of the body
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard, Professor Jones
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Nathan Daniels
Research Interests: Medieval France, Urban Space, Social Relations, Cultural Production, Digital History
Thesis Title: "Crafting Society: Guild Life and Urban Organization in Paris, 1292-1350"
Main Adviser: Professor Spiegel
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Constance de Font-Reaulx
Research Interests: Early Modern France; Environmental history; Cultural and Social Theory; History of consumption; Old Regime political economy, and state formation.
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Sean Delehanty
Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. History, History of Capitalism, History of International Development
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin
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Nir Eydan
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Cultural History, History of Medicine, Popular Culture
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Lauren Feldman
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century United States history; history of marriage and family; histories of gender, sexuality, and race; history of intimacy and intimate relationships
Main Adviser: Professor Jones, Professor Walters
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Joao Gabriel
Research Interests: Prison, Capitalism, Privatization process, France, 19th and 20th century French colonialism, Caribbean and France's overseas territories, Guadaloupe
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard
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Meredith Gaffield
Research Interests: Early Modern France; The French Atlantic; Eighteenth-century French Caribbean; Revolutionary Atlantic; migration and mobility; race and citizenship
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass, Professor Morgan
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Francis Galasi
Research Interests: Early Modern Spain, Spanish Philippines, Catholicism
Main Adviser: Professor E. Rowe, Professor Spiegel
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Guillermo Garcia Montufar
Research Interests: Early colonial Latin America; The appearances, formation, and nuances of Spanish-American creole-patriotism in the 16th and 17th centuries
Main Adviser: Professor Kagan
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Kendra Grissom
Research Interests: 20th century African American history, social history, labor history, and radicalism
Main Adviser: Professor Jackson
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Kalina Hadzhikova
Research Interests: Medieval history, medieval historiography, crusades, history of mental illness, cultural history, intellectual history
Main Adviser: Professor Spiegel
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Chloe Hawkey
Research Interests: 20th century US intellectual history, American literature, and history of the wilderness
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin, Professor Furstenberg
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Dominique Hazzard
Research Interests: 20th-century U.S. history; race and real estate; history of capitalism; environmental history; African American families and migration; food history
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly, Professor Jackson
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Xiaoqian Ji
Research Interests: Early Modern China
Main Adviser: Professor Meyer-Fong, Professor W. Rowe
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Scott Kasten
Research Interests: History of capitalism and sports (specifically baseball). I am interested in the intersections between baseball and audiences, branding, and the continual corporatization of Major League Baseball
Main Adviser: Professor Walters
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Thomas Keegan
Research Interests: West Africa in the broader world, print cultures and literacy, scientific and medical discourses, masculinity and gender more broadly, race, nationalism and Pan-Africanism
Main Adviser: Professor Thornberry
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Magdalene Klassen
Research Interests: 19th and early-20th century Britain and British empire, Jewish migration, sex work, agriculture, transnational history
Main Adviser: Professor Hindmarch-Watson, Professor Moss
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Alexey Krichtal
Research Interests: Atlantic History, Colonial and Early Republic United States, British Empire, Slavery and Slave Trade
Main Adviser: Professor Morgan
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Zvi Kunshtat
Research Interests: Early modern history, Habsburg Empire; Counter-Reformation; the Lands of the Bohemian Crown; History of ideas, knowledge, and scholarship; Education and social mobility; Jewish studies; Rabbinic culture, Jewish philosophy, law, and Kabbalah
Main Adviser: Professor Maciejko
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Brooke Lansing
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century America; Histories of Medicine and the Body; Gender and Sexuality; Reproduction; Beauty and Entertainment Cultures
Main Adviser: Professor Walters, Professor Fissell
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Arthur Lee
Research Interests: Early Modern France; the French Revolution; cultural and social history; history of information; news and rumor; the French Atlantic
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Jonathan Megerian
Research Interests: Late Medieval and Renaissance social history; history of science and medicine; theory and historiography
Main Adviser: Professor Spiegel, Professor Marshall
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Ryan Mewett
Research Interests: 18th century Britain and the British Atlantic; early American republic; naval and maritime history; early capitalism, finance, and political economy
Main Adviser: Professor Marshall, Professor Morgan
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Kelsey Moore
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century African American History, African American women's history, Black feminist geographies, African American Literature
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly, Professor Jackson
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Thera Naiman
Research Interests: Modern France, Cultural History, History of Science, Animal Studies, Environmental History, and Gender and Sexuality
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard
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Timothy O’Brien
Research Interests: Early modern religious and cultural history, especially in the Iberian world; history of Christian spirituality and mysticism
Main Adviser: Professor E. Rowe
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Asmin Omerovic
Research Interests: Medieval Islam, medieval historiography, medieval and early modern Mediterranean economic history
Main Adviser: Professor Spiegel
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Elena Palazzolo
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Atlantic world, the United States in the Atlantic World, the French Atlantic, food and culinary history, race and racism, transnational migration, slavery and diaspora, Creolization, immigration and the law, citizenship and assimilation, gender and sexuality, family narratives/microhistory, nationalism and nation-building
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg, Professor Jones
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Malaurie Pilatte
Research Interests: African American History; 19th and 20th century U.S History; African American Women’s History; Gender and Sexualities; History of Ideas; Transnational histories & mobility (focus on France and Francophone world); African Diaspora
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly, Professor Jones
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Alexander Profaci
Research Interests: High Medieval European cultural history; medieval France, England and Spain; historical writing and historiography; the medieval nobility; literary and critical theory; medieval literature
Main Adviser: Professor Spiegel
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Oriol Regue Sendros
Research Interests: Spain and its Empire, 18th and 19th centuries, Modern Empires in Global Perspective, the Caribbean, Liberalism, Slavery, Race, Religion and Citizenship
Main Adviser: Professor Paquette
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Anna Roberts
Research Interests: 18th-century Britain; history of gender, sexuality & the family; political economy; state lotteries
Main Adviser: Professor Fissell, Professor Marshall
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Elliot Root
Research Interests: The cultural history of racism, capitalism, and power in late 19th and early 20th century American cities; sensory history; biography
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly
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Tarquin Schwartz
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century South Africa; Gender and Sexuality; History of Race; Urban History; British Empire
Main Adviser: Professor Larson, Professor Thornberry
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Gregory Smaldone
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Finance and the French Revolution, History of credit markets, Economic History of Early Modern Europe
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Taylor Stephens
Research Interests: 20th Century United States, Intellectual History, History of Capitalism, Political and Social Theory, History of the Social Sciences
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin
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Christina Thomas
Research Interests: US Slavery, African American History, African American Family History, Biography
Main Adviser: Professor Jackson, Professor Johnson
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Tara Tran
Research Interests: Hospitality; Human Rights, Humanitarianism & Development; Women, Gender & Sexuality; Race; Empire & Colonialism
Thesis Title: "Hospitality Engendered: Women's Bodies, Empire, and Humanitarianism in Colonial Cambodia"
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard
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Alan van den Arend
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Classical Reception, Neo-Latin, Social Theory, and "Stupidity"
Main Adviser: Professor Celenza, Professor Marshall
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Joseph Wallace
Research Interests: American Legal History, The Early American Republic, Atlantic History, Early Modern France, and the History of Capitalism
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg
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Rachel Waxman
Research Interests: Early modern France, consumer culture and fashion, cross-cultural encounters, globalization, the French Revolution
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Pelia Werth
Research Interests: Mid-late medieval Europe; women's experiences of religion; religious and semi-religious communities; pilgrimage and virtual pilgrimage; religious drama; interfaith relations; Jewish life in medieval England; vernacular literature; gender and sexuality
Main Adviser: Professor Lester
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Alexander Young
Research Interests: 20th-century France and North Africa; social and political movements during and after decolonization; intellectual history; history of books, printing, publishing, and censorship
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard
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Václav Zheng
Research Interests: Historical Theory; Philosophy of Historiography; Cultural History; Anthropological History; Microhistory; History of Mentalities; Historical Experience; East Central Europe; Czech, Polish and Slovak Literature and Culture; Early Modern Poland
Main Adviser: Professor Maciejko
