O’Connell Initiative Research Grant Awardees

Faculty Research Grant 

Christopher Maginn (Professor, History Department) “The Tudors and the Conquest of Ireland”

Grace Shen (Associate Professor, History Department)

Graduate Travel Grant

Willa Blevins (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department)

Owen Clow (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department)

Faculty Research Grants

Mattie Armstrong-Price (Assistant Professor, History Department) “Travelling Up the Line: Counterpowers and the Making of Railway Management in Britain and Colonial India, (1843 – 1914)”

Elizabeth Comuzzi (Assistant Professor, History Department) “The Rise and Fall of Puigcerdà: states, institutions and economic development in medieval Catalonia, 1177 - 1360”

Asif Siddiqi (Professor, History Department) “Departure Gates: Postcolonial Histories of Space on Earth”

Kirsten Swinth (Professor, History Department) “Inventing the Working Family: The Birth and Triumph of a New American Ideal, 1970-2020”

Graduate Travel Grants

Garret McDonald (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “The Delusion of Reform: Soviet Law, Forensic Psychiatry, and the Fate of Dissent after Stalin”

James Spencer Tompkins (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “History of US Foreign Relations and Latin American History”

Faculty Research Grants

Dr. David Hamlin (Professor, History Department)
"Future Gains; Imagining the post-war international economy in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, 1916–1918"

Dr. Stephanie M. Huezo (Assistant Professor, History Department)
"Local Popular Powers and the Creation of a New Society in El Salvador (1981–1986)"

Dr. Yuko Miki (Associate Professor, History Department)
"Emancipation's Shadow: Stories of Illegal Slavery"

Dr. S. Elizabeth Penry (Associate Professor, History Department)
"The Renaissance in Diaspora: Jesuit Education and Indigenous Modernities"

Graduate Travel Grants

Lisa Betty (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “Black Migrations: The Bronx-Guantánamo Context”

William Hogue (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department)

James Tompkins (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “Arthur D. Little: A Core Sample for Post-Fordism” 

Faculty Research Grants

Scott Bruce (Professor, History Department) “The Lost Patriarchs: A Survey of the
Greek Fathers in the Medieval Latin Tradition”

Graduate Travel Grants

Tobias Hrynick (Ph.D. candidate, History Department) “The Reception of the Medieval
Customs of Romney Marsh in Early Modern England”

Jordyn May (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “ ‘Came into Our Citizenship Sanely and Quietly’:  Reexamining the Woman Suffrage Movement through the Interrelationships Between East and West"

Rachel Podd (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “The Economics of the Medical Marketplace in Medieval England”

Michael Sander (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) 

Glauco Schettini (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) “The Catholic Church and the Condemnation of Slavery, 1800-1839”

Nicole Siegel (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department) 

Faculty Research Grants

Dr. Thierry Rigogne (Associate Professor, History Department)
"The French Café and the City, 1660-1800" 

Dr. Kirsten Swinth (Professor, History Department)
"The Rise of the Working Family: Working Mothers and U.S Culture in Postindustrial America"

Dr. Rosemary Wakeman (Professor, History Department)
"Global Crossroads: London, Bombay, Shanghai" 

Graduate Travel Grants

Nicholas DeAntonis (Ph.D. candidate, History Department)

Garret J. McDonald (Ph.D. candidate, History Department) “The Delusion of Reform: Forensic Psychiatry, Soviet Law, and the Confinement of the Politically Insane”

Amanda M. Racine (Ph.D. candidate, History Department)

Faculty Research Grants

Dr. Claire Gherini (Assistant Professor, History Department )
"Tropical Clinics: Slavery, Warfare, and the Emergence of Disease in the Laboring Caribbean, 1756-1815"

Dr. Samantha Iyer (Assistant Professor, History Department)
"The Agrarian Superpower: The Politics of Food in India, Egypt, and the U.S., 1870s-1970s"

Graduate Travel Grants

Giulia Crisanti (Ph.D. candidate, History Department)
"Europeans Are Lovin' It? Coca-Cola, McDonald's and the Challenges to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1943-2015"

Louisa Forughi (Ph.D. candidate, History Department)
"Early Consumers and Capitalists: Yeomen in Late Medieval England"

Amanda M. Racine (Ph.D. candidate, History Department)
"The Institution of Slavery in the Latin East"

Faculty Research Grants 

Christopher R. W. Dietrich (Associate Professor, History Department)
“American Nationalism and Foreign Oil in the Cold War Era”

Yuko Miki (Associate Professor, History Department)
“Emancipation’s Shadow: Illegal Slavery in the Brazilian Atlantic”

Graduate Travel Grants

Nicholas DeAntonis (PhD candidate, History Department)
“John F. Kennedy & Saudi Arabia: How the Civil Rights Movement Helped Abolish Slavery in Saudi Arabia”

Stephen Leccesse (PhD candidate, History Department)
“Emerging from the Sub-Cellar: John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil and the Rise of Corporate Public Relations in Progressive America, 1902-1908”

Faculty Research Grants

Dave Hamlin (Professor, History Department)
“Economic Warfare and International Order”

Samantha Iyer (Assistant Professor, History Department)
“The Poverty of Plenty: Politics of Good in India, Egypt, and the U.S., 1870s-1970s”

Rosemary Wakeman (Professor, History Department)
“Global Crossroads: London, Bombay, Shanghai"

Graduate Travel Grants

Nicholas DeAntonis (PhD candidate, History Department)
“Courting the ‘Slave King’: Eisenhower Doctrine, Slavery in Saudi Arabia, and Civil Rights Activism”