O’Connell Initiative Research Grant Awardees
O’Connell Initiative Current Awardees
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 (PhD candidate, History Department)
Garret J. McDonald (PhD candidate, History Department)
Amanda M. Racine (PhD 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 (PhD 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 (PhD candidate, History Department)
"Early Consumers and Capitalists: Yeomen in Late Medieval England"
Amanda M. Racine (PhD candidate, History Department)
"The Institution of Slavery in the Latin East"