Graduate Students

Current Graduate Students

  • History Graduate Students

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    Seriyye Akan - Middle East and Ottoman; Science, Technology, and Medicine; Women, Gender, and Sexuality 

    • Akan's Working Dissertation Title: Ottoman Contribution to the Globalization of Biological Evolution Theory, 1860-1920

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    Ahmet Kaan Akyuz - Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey; United States; Diplomatic and Cultural History

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    Jobial Alex - Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies, South Asia

    • Alex's Working Dissertation Title: Taming the ‘Waters’ and Harnessing Fish: An Environmental History of Fisheries in South India

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    Ryan Alves

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    Aiduosi Amantai - East Asia; Russian and Soviet History; Environmental History 

    • Amantai's Working Dissertation Title: Beyond Imperial Narratives: Trade and Travel in the Turkic Chinese-Russian Borderland from the 1750s to the 1900s

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    Turan Bayram - Europe, Social History

    Alexander Bernier 

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    Zachary Bowen - United States; Political Culture; Cold War Studies

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    Henry Bremer 

    Rebecca Burrows - Science, Technology, and Medicine; Modern Europe; Violence

    Thomas Cipro - Europe; Modern British History; Imperial History

    Nathan Ciulla - Global; Imperialism and Colonialism; Economic History

    Victor Cruz - Latin America; Global History; Immigration; Race  

    Guanran Cui - East Asia; Environmental History 

    Numan Deniz - Middle East and Ottoman; Urban History

    Michaela Fortunato - United States; Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Keziah Franks

    Alyssa Frysinger - United States; Early US; Revolution

    Ezra Garow - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality  

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    Soumyadeep Guha - Global; Environmental; Military History

    Olivia Harkin 

    Caroline Harvey - Science, Technology, and Medicine; British Political Economy; Literature and science 

    • Harvey's Working Dissertation Title: As if the danger were real and frequent’ Premature Interment and Negotiating Burial Reform in Great Britain, 1800-1848

    Akshita Hazarika - South Asia; Modern India; Birtish Empire; Environmental History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

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    Yining Hu - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Race

    Youngin Jang - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Global

    Lucas Kaczynski - United States; Modern US

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    David Kaminsky - Modern Europe; Russian and Soviet History; Middle East and Ottoman 

    • Kaminsky's Working Dissertation Title: Stateless State Builders: Russian Refugees in Interwar Yugoslavia

    Seán Thomas Kane - Early Modern Europe; Imperialism and Colonialism; Environmental History 

    • Kane's Working Dissertation Title: Trees, Sloths, and Birds: Brazil in Sixteenth Century Natural History

    Sahika Karatepe - Middle East and Ottoman; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Science, Technology, and Medicine 

    • Karatepe's Working Dissertation Title: The Making of a Gendered Working Class in the late Ottoman Empire

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    Benjamin Kellman - United States; Jewish History; Race and Ethnicity 

    • Kellman's Working Dissertation Title: Close But No Cigar: The Lesson of Binghamton's Jewish History

    Man Joong Kim - Global; Urban History; South Asia 

    • Kim's Working Dissertation Title: Transnational History of Urban Planning and Architecture during the Cold War Era

    Yong-Hyeon Kim - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Urban History 

    • Kim's Working Dissertation Title: Boys Will Be New Boys: Masculinity in the Boys' Club Activities of the Eastern Urban Settlement House, 1900-30

    Young Kim

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    Musa Kocoglu - Middle East and Ottoman; Global History; Social and Economic History; Environmental History

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    Hafsa Kopuz 

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    Danielle LaRose - Ancient/Roman History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity

    James Lavelle - Early Modern Europe; Latin America; Race and Ethnicity 

    • Lavelle's Working Dissertation Title: Making Republicans: The French Directory’s Politics of Culture

    Leonard Lederman - United States; Jewish History

    Francisca Leiva - Latin America; Race and Ethnicity; United States 

    Chunhua Li - East Asia; Imperialism and Colonialism; Science, Technology, and Medicine 

    • Li's Working Dissertation Title: Rediscovering Gong An Bu: A Changing Chinese Community in Late Dutch Colonial East Indies, from the 1850s to 1942

    Yue Liang - East Asia; Environmental History; Science, Technology, and Medicine 

    • Liang's Working Dissertation Title: When Disaster Strikes: the 1954 Yangzi River Flood, Disaster Politics, and Environmental Management

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    Shanshan Liu - East Asia; Modern Chinese History; Economic History

    Zhixin Luo - East Asia; Imperialism and Colonialism; Urban History

    Adah Mallery - Modern Europe; Science, Technology, and Medicine; Epidemics and Disease

    Liam Malloy

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    Killian Mann - United States; Pop History; Politics; Culture in 20th Century U.S.

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    Emily Meisenzahl 

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    Drew Metcalf 

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    Jessica Minieri  - Medieval Europe; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity

    • Minieri's Working Dissertation Title: Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Imprisonment, Abduction, and the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon, 1300-1458

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    Arielle Moreau - Europe; Modern Germany; Cultural History; Violence

    John Murad - United States; Mid 20th Century; Mass Atrocity/Genocide; Armenian Massacre

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    Shayna Murphy - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Race; Political History; Cultural History

    Connor Naylor 

    Jack O'Reilly 

    Amanda Ortiz Molina - Latin America; Economic History; United States 

    • Ortiz Molina's Working Dissertation Title: Credit in New Granada 1720-1810: Financing and Weaving Visions of Progress and Colonial Rule

    Zeynep Otluoglu Dursun - Comparative Empires; Nationalism; Women, Gender, and Sexuality 

    • Dursun's Working Dissertation Title: Turkic Muslim Emigres: Soviet Nation Making in pan-Eurasian Context

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    James Podgorski - East Asia; Environmental History; Science, Technology, and Medicine 

    • Podgorski's Working Dissertation Title: Geopolitics and the Environment: South Korea and the United States During the Cold War

    Geoffrey Ramirez - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity

    Juanita Rodriguez - Latin America; Imperialism and Colonialism; Race and Ethnicity 

    • Rodriguez's Working Dissertation Title: Visual Narratives of the Agrarian Reform in Colombia, 1960-70

    Kalman Rotstein - Europe; Science, Technology & Medicine

    Timur Saitov - Middle East and Ottoman; Russian and Soviet History; Human Rights & International Law 

    • Saitov's Working Dissertation Title: Russian Exiles in post-WWI Istanbul: Modern Refugees and the Transition from Ottoman Imperial to Turkish Republican Rule

    Robert Schmidt  - United States; Environmental History; Race and Ethnicity

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    Wolfgang Schwalenberg - Modern Chinese and European History, History of Objects, History of Science

    • Schwalenberg's Working Dissertation Title: Contested Objects: German Archaeology in China and Its Afterlife, 1902-1928

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    Timi Sgouros - Medieval Europe; Early Modern Europe; Women, Gender, and Sexuality 

    • Sgouros's Working Dissertation Title: Mobile Nuns: The Transgressing of Cloister Walls in the Middle Ages

    Iana Shchetinskaia - United States; Russia

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    Ka Shing So - East Asia

    • So's Working Dissertation Title:  Shadow Economy: Smuggling, the Gold Trade, and the Everyday Life in Cold War Hong Kong

    Kadir Sarp Sök - Middle East and Ottoman; Race and Ethnicity; Violence 

    • Sok's Working Dissertation Title: The Role of the Red Crescent in the Resettlement of Forced Immigrants (1911-1923)

    Marco Ali Spadaccini - Early Modern Europe; Middle East and Ottoman; Economic History 

    • Spadaccini's Working Dissertation Title: Faith in the Infidel: Muslim merchants in 16th c. Papal Ancona

    Fiona Stockdale

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    Stefan Stojadinovic - Middle East and Ottoman; Early Modern Balkans; Environmental History

    Renée Szematowicz  - United States; Colonialism

    Shalima Talinbayi

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    Furkan TaÅŸpınar - Social and Economic History; Early Modern Ottoman and European History; Environmental History 

    Jason Tercha - United States; Early Modern Europe; Environmental History 

    • Tercha's Working Dissertation Title: Networking American Landscapes: Railroads and their Social Effects on Antebellum Virginian Landscapes and Communities

    Juliana Thompson - United States; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Medieval Medicine

    Yunus Emre Tortamis - Middle East and Ottoman; Science, Technology, and Medicine; Environmental History

    John Trinidad - Africa and African American History; Political Islam; Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention 

    • Trinidad's Working Dissertation Title: Foreign Missionaries and the Local Church in Ivory Coast

    Mary Tuttle - Russia & Eastern Europe; Migration & Diaspora; Digital Humanities

    Deniz Ali Uyan - Middle East and Ottoman; capitalism; international historical sociology; socio-economic history, frontier societies, political and social movements

    Ting Cheung Wong - East Asia; Environmental History; Violence

    Chuning Xie - East Asia; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Urban History 

    • Xie's Working Dissertation Title: Two wives vying for one husband: marriage and family in Resistance War and Civil War

    Yaoyuan Yang 

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