Current History Graduate Students

Daphna Bendull, M.A.
Memory projects, 12th century, material culture, Germany

Benjamin Bertrand, Ph.D.
Aristocratic and monastic cultures in twelfth-century England, with a particular focus on the career of bishop Henry of Blois

Lisa Betty, Ph.D.
Modern history focusing on the themes of Labor, Migration, and Diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa

Willa Blevins, Ph.D.
Economic and environmental history, specializing in the ecosystems and economies of the early American republic, specifically: agrarian communities’ systems of economic control and monetary innovation

Maria Carriere, Ph.D.
Women, gender, and politics in France and the eastern Mediterranean in the thirteenth century, with a focus on independent crusaders and their material culture

Stephen Cerulli, Ph.D.
Italian diaspora especially in North America, historic and international Italian identities, transatlantic fascism and anti-fascism, and anarchist and socialist thought and movements within the Italian diaspora

Owen Clow, Ph.D.
Environmental and cultural history of the 20th Century United States. Environmentalism, region and regionalism, photography and visual culture, the 1990s and post-Cold War US history, digital history & humanities

Patrick C. DeBrosse, Ph.D.
Medieval political culture; the Angevin Empire; the crusading movement; Latin historiography; troubadour lyrics

Alexander DaCruz, Ph.D
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman chronicle writing, ecclesiastical historical writing, hagiography, and Greek and Latin patristics

Kyra Dezjot, Ph.D.
Research interests: American Jewish Communities post WWII, including antisemitism, ethnic relationships and tensions, and lingering Nazi influence post war

Frances Eshleman, Ph.D.
Late medieval canon law and its social application, penance and punishment, sexuality

Douglass Hamilton, Ph.D.
Medieval religious and political culture, Old French literature, the crusading period

William Hogue, Ph.D.
US Diplomatic History, US Foreign Relations in Latin America, Religion and American Foreign Relations

Emily Horihan, Ph.D.
U.S. Urban History, Urban Planning, New York City history, Staten Island

Matthieu Langlois, Ph.D.
Antisemitism, Catholic-Jewish Relations, Catholic Worker Movement, Intellectual History, Japanese-American History

Alexia Lodes, MA
United States eighteenth and nineteenth century consumerism and advertising/object history

Richard Marquette, Ph.D.
20th century American History, 18th century Puritans in America, Jonathan Edwards and His Missionary Work

Matt Mulhern, Ph.D.
Global Cold War, Diplomatic History, Foreign Relations

Fiona O'Brien, Ph.D
Early modern English and French reproductive health history, pregnancy and childbirth, ritual and healthcare

Catherine O'Brien, Ph.D.
The German Protestant Reformation, religious pamphleteering, Reformation women and girls' education, popular piety

Christie Olek, Ph.D.
Social history of medicine, the healer-patient relationship, the intersection of medicine and law, medieval hospitals, women and gender

Emeka Onyeagwa, MA
The interactions and encounters between late medieval and early modern European societies—such as the English, Portuguese, and others—and West African societies from the late 15th century to the modern era brought significant, mutual changes to both sides

Nicholas Pisano, Ph.D.
Medieval maritime history, military history, Mediterranean World, Crusades, piracy, cartography, navigation.

Amanda Racine, Ph.D.
Medieval Europe, Crusades, Latin East, Law & Society, Service Culture

Curtis Rager, Ph.D.
Questions of judgement and justice, with a focus on the role of abbots in judicial assemblies in central medieval France

Stephanie Robinson-Ramirez, Ph.D.
Historical and contemporary intersections of racial capitalism, gender, and systemic oppression. Drawing on feminist theory, economic history, and cultural studies, I examine how representation, citizenship, and collective memory shape survival and resistance in capitalist societies

Michael Sanders, Ph.D.
The interactions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the late Middle Ages, particularly on the Iberian peninsula.

Meagan Schulman, Ph.D.
17th century Atlantic History; Piracy and Diplomacy, England, Spain, the Netherlands

Kaitlin Shine, Ph.D.
Late nineteenth and twentieth century western Europe and the United States; The First World War; Nationalism; Print Media; Disability Studies; Memory Studies; Imperialism; Wartime Trauma; and Post-War Political and Social Transitions

William Tanner Smoot, Ph.D.
Early and High Medieval England, Monasticism, Religious History and Culture, Historical Memory

Ryan Sullivan, Ph.D.
U.S. Urban History, Urban Planning, Social and Cultural, New York City history, Queens

James Spencer Tompkins, Ph.D.
History of Capitalism and Diplomacy across the United States and Latin American during the 20th century