Marga Andersen, ABD

Fields:

Britain, Modern European and Public History, History.

Dissertation:

Like Lions After Slumber: Challenges to Britishness by Jewish and Irish Immigrants in Late-Victorian London. 

Faculty Advisors

Laura Beers, Andrew Demshuk, Lisa Leff

Email Address:

ma3204a@american.edu

Laura Auketayeva Gibson

Fields:

Holocaust Studies, Modern Jewish History, Soviet History, European History.

Advisors:

Lisa Leff and Michael Brenner

Education:

BA '15 History/International Relations, Boston University;

MA '17 History, SUNY.

Research Interests:

The Holocaust, the Soviet Union, Jewish youth, Refugee Studies, Women's and Gender History.

Email:

la7457a@american.edu

Michael T. Barry, Jr. 

Fields:

Modern American, African American, Modern Middle East, Digital and Oral History

Faculty Advisor:

Ibram X. Kendi

Education

BA in History and Africana Studies, College of the Holy Cross, 2014; MA in American and Middle Eastern History, Providence College, 2016.

Research Interests

Islam in American, History of Racism and Islamophobia, African American and Muslim American Intellectual History, Civil Rights and Social Justice, Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple of America, Popular Culture and Film, Veterans' Affairs.

Email

mb6368a@american.edu

Paul Behringer

Fields

Diplomatic History, Russia, Japan

Dissertation

The US and Japanese Interventions in the Russian Far East

Faculty Advisors

Max Paul Friedman, Eric Lohr, Justin Jacobs

Education

BA in history and East Asian studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA in international relations, University of Chicago.

Research Interests

Connecting US Diplomatic history to the history of Russia and Japan, particularly in Northeast Asia, through transnational, borderlands, imperial, and international relations theory approaches.

Email

pb1169a@student.american.edu

Donelle Boose

Faculty Advisor:

Theresa Runstedtler

Faculty Committee:

Theresa Runstedtler, Mary Ellen-Curtin and Daniel Kerr

Dissertation Title:

Black Power and the Organizing Tradition: Working Women of Washington, DC, 1965-1990.

Fields:

U.S. History, African American History, Public History

Email Address:

db7136a@student.american.edu

Rebecca Brenner

Fields:

Early U.S., Recent U.S., Public History

Faculty Advisor:

Gautham Rao

Education:

BA History and Philosophy double major, Mount Holyoke College;

MA Public History concentration, American University

Research Interests:

 Early U.S. political and intellectual history

Email:

rb5078a@student.american.edu

Andrew Chatfield

Fields:

US Diplomatic History

Faculty Advisors:

Max Friedman, Peter Kuznick and Aparna Vaidik

Education:

BA, University of Colorado; MA, Boston University

Research Interests:

War of 1898/Spanish-American War, Progressivism, WWI, Wilsonianism, Anticolonialism, Anti-Imperialism, WWII.
Dissertation Title:
American Support for India's Self-Determination from 1915-1920: Progressives, Radicals and Anti-Imperialists. 

Email Address:

ac5668a@student.american.edu

Jayne Cosson

Field:

European, Ottoman, World History

Dissertation:

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Origins of Think Tank Influence in US Foreign Policy

Faculty Advisor:

Eric Lohr

Education:

BA international studies, Ohio State University. MEd secondary social studies, Georgia State University. MA history, American University. ABD history, American University.

Research Interests:

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, US foreign policy, the international peace movement 1890-1920, World War I, the League of Nations.

Email:

jc2013a@student.american.edu

Lauren Duval

Fields: 

Early American History, Atlantic World, Public History

Dissertation:

Landscapes of Allegiance: Space, Gender, and Military Occupation in the American Revolution

Faculty Advisors

Kate Haulman

Education:

BA history '09, Colby College

Research Interests:

Women’s and Gender History, Colonial and Revolutionary America, Atlantic World.

Email: 

lduval@american.edu

Ryan Englekirk

Fields:

Sports History, Baseball History, Oral History, Public History, US History

Dissertation:

The Dark Knights: The Major League Baseball Umpire-- Guardians and Protectors of Traditional American Values

Dissertation Committee:

Peter Kuznick (advisor), Eric Lohr, Daniel Kerr

Education:

BA '09, American University; MA '12, American University

Email:

ryan.englekirk@gmail.com

Jonah Estess

Fields:

Early American Republic, Political Economy, Numismatic and Monetary History, Political and Cultural History.

Dissertation:

The People's Money: The American Revolution, Currency, and the Making of Political Economic Culture in American Life, 1775-1896.

Faculty Advisor:

Gautham Rao.

Education:

BA in History, CUNY Brooklyn College (2017)

Research interests:

I am interested in both popular and authoritative understandings of public debt, nation building, banking, and federal monetary policy during the early American republic. I am also interested in historical memory of the American Revolution during the Antebellum and Civil War periods, particularly as it relates to currency, coinage, federal, state, local, and private monetary policy, and petitioning and grassroots democracy.  

Email:

je4529a@student.american.edu

Ruth Gabor

Field:

Russia, Modern Europe

Faculty Advisor: 

Eric Lohr

Education:

BA international relations and Russian '13, Bucknell University

Research Interests:

Late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, cultural diplomacy, fashion history

Email:

rg2829a@student.american.edu

Laura Gibson, ABD

Fields:

U.S. History, Media Studies, Digital History.

Dissertation:

"It's Love That Counts"; the History of Non-Nuclear Families in American Domestic Sitcoms.

Faculty Advisor:

Peter Kuznick

Dissertation Committee:

Mary Ellen Curtin, Theresa Runstedtler, Jeffrey Middents.

Education:

BA, American University, MA New York University.

Jordan Grant, ABD

Fields:

Nineteenth-Century US History, Public History, Digital History

Dissertation:

Forthcoming

Faculty Advisors:

Peter Kuznick and Kathleen Franz

Education:

BA '09, St. Mary's College of Maryland; MA '11, American University

Email Address:

jg7138a@student.american.edu

Curtis Harris, ABD

Fields:

U.S. History, Public History, Sports History.

Dissertation Title:

Hardwood Revolution: The NBA's Growth & Player Revolt, 1950-1976.

Faculty Advisor:

Eric Lohr

Education:

BA in International Studies, AU (2009); MA in Public History, AU (2014)

Research Interests:

Sports, Labor, Race, Civil Rights, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Email:

ch2775a@american.edu

Ivan Grek, ABD

Fields:

Russian History, the Cold War.

Dissertation:

Illiberal Civil Society in Russia, 1992-2000.

Faculty Advisor:

Eric Lohr

Dissertation Committee:

Eric Lohr, Anton Fedyashin, Keith Darden (AU SIS)

Research Interests:

Cold War History, modern Russian History.

Email:

ig0028a@student.american.edu

Julie Hawks

Fields:

Twentieth-Century US History, Public History, African-American History

Dissertation

Mobilizing America: Traveling Publicity Campaigns and America's Social Imaginaries.

Faculty Advisors:

Malgorzata J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, Kate Haulman, Katerina Vester, Max Paul Friedman

Education:

BS Mathematics, Eastern Connecticut State University; MS Library Science, Simmons College; MA Religious Studies and MA History (Public History), University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Research Interests:

Politics of memory and identity, public commemoration, material culture, racism, gender studies.

Email Address:

juliehawks@gmail.com

Mary "Allison" Jobe

Field:

US History since Reconstruction

Faculty Advisor:

Peter Kuznick

Education:

MA history '12, American University, BA history '09, Appalachian State University

Dissertation:

"We Remember Him for His Character": The Life of James W. Ford and the Communist Party USA.

Email:

mj5318a@student.american.edu

Anna F. Kaplan

Fields:

African American History, 19th-Century US History, Memory and Oral History, Public History

Dissertation: 

Left by the Wayside: Memories and Postmemories of the Integration of the University of Mississippi.

Faculty Advisors:

Daniel Kerr, Theresa Runstedtler, Mary Ellen Curtin, William R. Ferris (UNC)

Education:

BA anthropology '07, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA anthropology '09, Columbia University; MA, oral history '10, Columbia University

Research Interests:

I am interested in the idea of post-memory and how one generation passes its memories to the next, looking specifically at how that transfer changes the history being told. My focus is on the retelling of personally traumatic or deeply unsettling experiences in the South during the Civil Rights Era and how those individuals deal with that past in their present lives.

Email:

ak9747a@student.american.edu

Amy Langford

Field:

Modern US History, Early American History, Public History

Faculty Advisors:

Peter J. Kuznik, Kate Haulman, Gautham Rao

Education:

BA history '09, University of the Pacific

Research Interests:

19th- and 20th-century Gender and Sexuality, American borders and nation-building, Borderlands, (Im)migration, Citizenship, Marriage, and Polygamy.

Email:

al7735a@student.american.edu

Jacob R. Levin

Fields:

20th Century US, Race, Jewish History, Public History

Faculty Advisor:

Peter Kuznick

Education:

BA education/history '06, University of Maryland, College Park; MA historical studies '11, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Research Interests:

Baltimore, MD history; Black-Jewish relations; Civil Rights Movement; History of the Left

Contact:

jl2461a@student.american.edu

Jeffrey Levin

Fields:

Modern Middle East, British Empire

Faculty Advisors:

Michael Brenner and Max Friedman

Education:

BA English, University of Florida; MSc, international history, London School of Economics

Research Interests:

The economic history of Palestine and modern Israel.

Email Address:

jl5117a@student.american.edu

John Little, ABD

Fields:

Disability History, Russian History, Modern European History, International Relations

Dissertation:

Disability in the Early Soviet Union

Faculty Advisor:

Eric Lohr

Education:

BA international studies and political science '99, University of Richmond; MA international relations '01, University of East Anglia

Research Interests:

My dissertation focuses on the concept of disability in the early Soviet Union. I examine the evolution of the structures associated with disability and the disabled population's acceptance or resistance to Soviet programs. More broadly, I study cultural and social issues, including disability, gender, race, and class. I continue to have a deep interest in diplomatic history, from 18th- and 19th-century Ottoman-Russian relations to the space race.

Email Address:

jl3245a@student.american.edu

Lindsay MacNeill

Fields: Modern

Modern Europe, Modern Germany, Central Europe

Faculty Advisor:

Richard Breitman

Education:

MA history '13, American University; BA history and Spanish '09, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests:

Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, interwar Austria, Nazi Austria, the history of policing, international police cooperation.

Email Address:

lm1164a@student.american.edu

Alon Milwicki

Fields:

Modern America, American Extremism, particularly right wing extremist groups, white supremacists, and Neo-Nazis

Faculty Advisor:

Allan Lichtman

Education:

BA history, Boston University; MA Seton Hall University

Research Interests:

Post WWII America, Extremist groups, Racism, and Hate Studies.

Email Address:

am1537a@student.american.edu

Nathan Moore

Fields:

Twentieth Century European, British History.

Dissertation:

The Great Communist Trial of 1925

Faculty Advisor:

Laura Beers

Education:

BA '13 History, George Mason University, MA '15 GMU

Research Interests:

British Communism, British-Soviet Relations, Interwar Period, Anti-Capitalism, Resistance Movements.

Faculty Advisors:

Laura Beers, Andrew Demshuk & Peter Kuznick

Email Address:

nm5090a@student.american.edu

Nguyet Nguyen, PhD

Fields:

History of US Foreign Relations; US history since 1865

Dissertation Title:

The World is on Our Side: People's Diplomacy during the Second Indochina War

Advisor:

Max Paul Friedman

Education:

BA international relations and journalism; MA communication

Research Interests:

US foreign relations, the Vietnam War in the Cold War.

Email:

nn9606a@student.american.edu

Terumi A. Rafferty-Osaki, PhD

Fields:

20th Century American History

Dissertation:

’Strictly Masculine:’ Reforming and Performing Manhood at Tule Lake, 1942-1946

Faculty Advisors:

Max Paul Friedman

Education:

BA Boston College; MA, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey 

Research Interests:

Asian-American, Diplomatic, and Sports History

Email Address:

tr7118a@american.edu

Maurizio Recordati

Fields:

Modern European History; Russian History (19th-20th centuries); Theory of Grand Strategy.

Dissertation:

Russia Turns Inward: Russian Grand Strategy in the Post-Crimean War Period(1856-1878)

Faculty Advisors:

Eric Lohr, Anton Fedyashin and Max Friedman

 

Education:

BA in History (University of Milan); MA in Russian & Eurasian Studies (European University at St. Petersburg).

Research Interests:

In addition to studying modern European and Russian history, I take a particular interest in strategic history and theory of grand strategy. In my dissertation, I explore Russia's foreign and military policies from the era of "Recueillement" to the Congress of Berlin (1856-1878) and re-read them from a grand-strategic perspective.

Short Bio: I have worked as Associate Director of the ENERPO Program (MA in Energy Politics in Eurasia, European University at St. Petersburg) since its founding in 2012. There I taught the graduate level Seminar on World Oil and Gas Affairs, founded the ENERPO Journal, ran the ENERPO Workshop Series, and organized annual conferences. In 2016, I taught a module on Russian grand strategic models in the 19th and 20th centuries as part of a graduate course on Russian Foreign Policy (IMARES program, EUSP). Prior to my academic experience, I interned and worked in the EU institutions, focusing mostly on energy international relations (Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, European Parliament, among others)

Languages: Italian and French (native speaker); English, Russian, Spanish; Latin and Ancient Greek (with dictionary). 

Email:

mr5216a@student.american.edu

Nathan Sowry

Field:

Early American History, Atlantic World, Early Modern Europe

Faculty Advisors:

Kate Haulman, Dan Kerr, Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska

Education:

BA anthropology and religious studies '01, University of Pittsburgh; MA history '11, Washington State University; MLIS archives and records administration '13, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research Interests:

Colonialism/Imperialism; Native American Studies; Acculturation, Resistance, and Identity Formation in 18th-century Great Lakes/Ohio Valley region.
Dissertation Title:

Museums, Native American Representation, and the Public: The Role of Museum Anthropology in Public History, 1873-1929

Email:

ns8804a@student.american.edu

Scott T. Vehstedt

Fields:

Modern US history, political history

Faculty Advisors:

Allan J. Lichtman, Max Paul Friedman and Peter Kuznick

Education:

MA American history, Brooklyn College; BA American history and political science, Stony Brook University

Research Interests:

American politics, religion, atheism, elections.
Dissertation Title:

"Let's Help Finland": The Politics of American Relief Aid in the Winter War, 1939-40

Email:

sv8991a@student.american.edu

Jason Weixelbaum

Field:

Business history, 19th and 20th US History, Modern Germany, Holocaust

Dissertation:

Lawyers, Spies, and Industry: The Dulles Brothers and Transnational Business in Nazi Germany

Faculty Advisors:

Peter Kuznick (chair) Allan Lichtman, Richard Breitman, Heather Elms (Kogod)

Education:

BA history, SUNY Buffalo State College; MA modern European history, Boston College

Research Interests:

Transnational corporate development, US History, War & Genocide, Nazi Germany

Email:

jason.weixelbaum@gmail.com