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.
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.
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.
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.
Early American Republic, Political Economy, Numismatic and Monetary History, Political and Cultural History.
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.
Twentieth-Century US History, Public History, African-American History
Dissertation
Capital Investments: Engineering American Cold War Culture
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.
African American History, 19th-Century US History, Memory and Oral History, Public History
Faculty Advisor:
Daniel Kerr
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.
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.
Modern European History; Russian History (19th-20th centuries); Theory of Grand Strategy.
Advisor:
Eric Lohr
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).
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
