O’Connell Initiative Research Grant Awardees

Faculty Research and Graduate Travel

Faculty Research Grant Awardees for 2021-2022

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"

Faculty Research Grant Awardees for 2020-2021

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 Grant Awardees for 2020-2021

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

Garret J. McDonald (Ph.D. candidate, History Department)

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

Faculty Research Grant Awardees for 2019-2020

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 Grant Awardees for 2019-2020

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"