Current History Graduate Students

Garrett Ahlers, MA
Social history of religious and ecclesial communities in the Middle Ages with a focus on the religious experiences of the laity, and their role in the Church; religious congregations and communities; and rural environments.

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

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.

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.

Felipe Donestevez, MA
Cold-War U.S foreign policy in Latin America

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

Brandon Genaro, MA
American Civil War; military history; Puerto Rican history; archival research; historical memory and identity; religion in American history; early American history.

Cade Guidette, MA
18th and 19th century American politics, society, and expansionism.

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

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

Sydne Johnson, Ph.D.
Social and cultural interactions, especially in family settings, during the High Middle Ages; Women and gender; France and the eastern Mediterranean; the Crusading period.

Adrian Kochanowicz, MA
World War II, with a focus on the human experience of Poles, the development of technology and methods of killing, the implementation of policies and bureaucracies in mass violence and crimes against humanity, and the mechanism of enforcement.

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

Zachary Levey, MA
Medieval European religious history, with particular interests in lived and experiential religion, mysticism, heresy and orthodoxy, and the relationship between religious belief and secular authority.

Molly McCabe, Ph.D
Modern Irish history, with a focus on Northern Ireland; British Empire, women's history, colonialism and imperialism, political violence and revolution.

Roger McCormack, Ph.D
Revolutionary America and Early United States Republic. Jacksonian America and Civil War era United States. Political and intellectual history.

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

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

Addie Price, Ph.D
Women’s and environmental history, feminist movements, and histories of outdoor recreation.

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.

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.

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.

Grace Turza, MA
History of medicine and science; the role of gender in medieval medicine, focusing on women as both patients and practitioners in maternal-fetal medicine; Western Europe and the Italian Peninsula; late Middle Ages.