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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, and 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, and 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, and the History of Medicine and the Body
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg
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Ibanca Anand (she/her)
Research Interests: 20th Century US Political Economy, History of Economics, Intellectual & Conceptual History, Ideas in the Public Sphere, and the Cold War
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin
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Emmanuel Awine
Research Interests: African History, Slavery and Colonialism, Public History, African-American History, and Urban History
Main Adviser: Professor Gondola, Professor Thornberry
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Benjamin Barrett
Research Interests: Early Modern France, the French Revolution, French Empire and Colonialism, Slavery and Revolution in the French Atlantic, Social history, Political history, and Intellectual history
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Achinoam Bentov
Research Interests: Early modern Ukraine, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Seventeenth-Century Warfare, 1648-1649 Massacres, General Crisis, Mass Violence in Global History, and Steppe History
Main Adviser: Professor Maciejko
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Emma Katherine Bilski (any pronouns)
Research Interests: Spirituality and empire in the early modern Atlantic world, Indigenous peoples' history, seventeenth-century Florida, Baltimore as Native space, public history, missionary colonialism, and maritime history
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg, Professor E. Rowe
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Laurence Bond
Research Interests: Late-medieval England, heresy, religion, popular devotion, social history, cultural history, and 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, and the Legacies of the English Civil War in the Eighteenth Century
Main Adviser: Professor Marshall
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Arianna Browne
Research Interests: Slavery & Abolition, 18th and 19th Century Slavery in the United States and British West Indies, and Race and Gender
Main Adviser: Professor Johnson, Professor Turner
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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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Broderick Dunlap
Research Interests: Black Radical History and Thought, History of Capitalism, Urban History and Political Economy, and A Feminist History of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Main Adviser: Professor Makalani
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Eric Eisner
Research Interests: American Legal History, Colonial America, Early American Republic, Race, Property Law, Federal Indian Law, and Native American History
Main Adviser: Professor Pearsall
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Nir Eydan
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Cultural History, History of Medicine, and Popular Culture
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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Joao Gabriel
Research Interests: Prison, Slavery, Abolition, Guadeloupe, 19th-century French colonialism, and Capitalism
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard, Professor Turner
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Kalina Hadzhikova
Research Interests: Medieval history, medieval historiography, crusades, history of mental illness, cultural history, and intellectual history
Main Adviser: Professor Spiegel
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Chloe Hawkey
Research Interests: 20th-century U.S. cultural and intellectual history, the history of higher education, literary history and criticism, and American Studies
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin, Professor Furstenberg
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Dominique Hazzard
Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. History, Urban History, Black Geographies, African American Intellectual History, Environmental History, Food Studies
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly
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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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Kevin Kind
Research Interests: Xinjiang in the Qing Empire, Uyghur Studies, Islam in China, Turpan Studies, Security and Mobilization in the Late Qing, and Archive Studies
Main Adviser: Professor Meyer-Fong, Professor W. Rowe
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Magdalene Klassen
Research Interests: Labour, Sexuality, Migration, Morality, and Transnational Urban history
Main Adviser: Professor Hindmarch-Watson, Professor Moss
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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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Alexandra Langer
Research Interests: 18th-century British Empire, colonial America, transatlantic communication, print media, and public opposition
Main Adviser: Professor Pearsall
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Arthur Lee
Research Interests: Early Modern France, the French Revolution, cultural and social history, history of information, news and rumor, and the French Atlantic
Main Adviser: Professor Kwass
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J.J. Lopez Haddad
Research Interests: Medieval Mediterranean & Middle East, Medieval Europe, Social History, Religious Difference & Minorities, and Eastern Churches
Main Adviser: Professor el-Leithy, Professor Lester
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Blake Marlowe (she/her)
Research Interests: Genocide, race and ethnic studies, rights activism, 20th Century US history, international law, and US intervention in the twentieth century
Main Adviser: Professor Makalani
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Vincenza Mazzeo
Research Interests: African History (focus on Southern Africa in Africa and the World), Social Movement Theory, Political Histories of Health, Science, Medicine, and the Body, Transnational, African and Black Feminist Theory, Oral History, Media Studies, Racial Capitalism, and Postcolonial Studies
Main Adviser: Professor Thornberry, Professor Shepard
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Nicholas McKenna
Research Interests: the American Revolution in global history, the early modern period, Indigenous peoples' history, cultural and social history, and the French Atlantic
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg, Professor Pearsall
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Kelsey Moore
Research Interests: 20th Century African American History, Southern History, Black Religious History, African American women's history, and Black feminist geographies
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly, Professor Jones
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Jessica Newby
Research Interests: Late eighteenth and nineteenth century Caribbean and the American South, comparative slavery, enslaved women, sexuality, violence, agency and resistance in the Black Atlantic, American Reconstruction era, and Black feminist theory and methodologies
Main Adviser: Professor Jackson, Professor Johnson, Professor Turner
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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, and nationalism and nation-building
Main Adviser: Professor Furstenberg, Professor Jones
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Malaurie Pilatte
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century U.S History, African American History, African American Women’s History, Gender and Womanhood, History of Ideas, Transnational histories & mobility (focus on France and Francophone world), and African Diaspora
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly, Professor Jones
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Anna Roberts
Research Interests: 18th-century Britain, history of gender, sexuality & the family, political economy, and 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, and biography
Main Adviser: Professor Connolly
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Wesley Sampias
Research Interests: Modern Japan, Histories of Medicine and Public Health, Cultural and Social History, Animal Histories, and Colonialism
Main Adviser: Professor Kim, Professor Meyer-Fong
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Alex Sanchez
Research Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish Caribbean, healing knowledge and practices, public health, race, and Euro- and Euro-American imperialism
Main Adviser: Professor Johnson, Professor Lurtz
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Taylor Stephens
Research Interests: 20th Century United States, Intellectual History, History of Capitalism, Political and Social Theory, and the History of the Social Sciences
Main Adviser: Professor Burgin
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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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Sheridon Ward
Research Interests: Mid-late Medieval Europe, gender and sexuality, medicine and healing communities, reproductive health, midwifery, herbal traditions, education and literacy, and material culture and images
Main Adviser: Professor Fissell, Professor Lester
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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, and gender and sexuality
Main Adviser: Professor Lester
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Julia Wu
Research Interests: Comparative Empires, Colonial Institutions, Race and Ethnicity, Memory, Ritual, and Qing China
Main Adviser: Professor Meyer-Fong, Professor W. Rowe
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Alexander Young (he/him)
Research Interests: African history, French history, book history, media theory, decolonization, twentieth-century history, cultural history, intellectual history, literary history, and Jewish history
Main Adviser: Professor Shepard
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Xueqian Zhang
Research Interests: Social and economic history of late imperial China, history of knowledge, circulation of silver in the early modern world
Main Adviser: Professor Meyer-Fong
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Václav Zheng
Research Interests: Historical Theory, Early Modern East-Central Europe, Cultural and Intellectual History, Renaissance, Baroque, Utopian Studies, Historical Writing, Fashion History, and West Slavic Literature
Main Adviser: Professor Maciejko
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