The Graduate Program

Annual Newsletter

August 2024

We welcome our incoming Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2024!

African History

Lynder Ogembo (BA, Kenyatta University; MA, Kenyatta University)

Early Modern European History

Sheena Mckeever (BA, University of Toronto: MPhil, University of Cambridge)

Erin Null (BA, Mount Vernon Nazarene University: MA, University of Oxford; MA, University of Michigan Ann Arbor)

Ahmed Tabbakh (BA, Hunter College, CUNY)

International and Global History

Din Ton Nu Nguyen (BA, Harvard College)

Brandon Waldau (BA, Bucknell University: MA, New York University)

Medieval European History

Lezhou Jiang (BA, New York University Gallatin School; MA, University of Chicago)

Mary-Alice Jouve (BA, Princeton University)

Yujun (Jasmine) Zhou ( BA, Pomona College)

Modern European History

Suhail Gharaibeh (BA, New York University; MA, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts & Science; MA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Erin Hagood (BA, University of Chicago)

Yun Su (Jenna) Lee (BA, Columbia University, Columbia College; MA, University College London)

Urte Macikene (BA, University of Edinburgh; MA, Birkbeck College)

Aleksandr Orlov (BA, Saratov State University; MA, European University St. Petersburg)

United States History

Gracie Anderson (BA, Pacific Lutheran University; MA, Yale University)

Hannah Bruno (BA, McGill University; MA, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts & Science)

Grace Elicker (BA, Georgetown University)

Marc Orriols Gimenez (BA, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) & Columbia University, School of General Studies; MA, University of Cambridge)

Sophia Scanlan (BA, Northwestern University; MA, University of Pennsylvania)

Destiny Spruill (BA, Columbia University, Columbia College)

Theodore (Aubrey) Vial (BA, Brown University)

Jordan Weinstock (BA, Washington University in St. Louis; MA, New York University)

Ph.Ds.’ Conferred in 2023-2024

Atassi, Nader. The Economic Nahda: Capital, Empire, and Economic Thought in the Modern Middle East, 1860-1920.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi

Blatchford R. Barrie. America’s Acclimatization Exchange: Animal Acclimatization, Settler Colonialism, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1840-1975.
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby

Chattopadhyay, Sohini. Dead Labor: Urban Technologies of Mass Death in Colonial Bombay and Calcutta, 1880s – 1950s.
Sponsor: Anupama Rao

Coggeshall, Samuel. Revolutionary Frontiers: Making National Borders in the Russian Civil War.
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov

Cohen, Jessica. A Better Life for Us All?: Local Perspectives on the History of Family Planning in Accra, Ghana.
Sponsor: Abosede George

DeVinney, Joslyn. Mysore Science: A Connected History of Eighteenth-Century Natural Knowledge
Sponsor: Manan Ahmed

Dubler, Roslyn. Non-Discrimination: Family Care and the Welfare State in the European Community, 1957-1992
Sponsor: Susan Pedersen

Firth, Eric. Against Theory: Lucas Alamán and the Language of Political Economy in Mexico, 1790-1853
Sponsor: Pablo Piccato

Gao, Hongdeng. Health Activism and Medical Education in New York’s Chinatown.
Sponsor: Mae Ngai

Glade, Rebecca. Sudanese Political Movements and the Struggle for the State: 1964-1985.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi

Glickmann, Susannah. Histories, Tech, and a New Central Planning.
Sponsor: Matthew Jones

Goetz, Jennifer. Developing Soviet Photography: From Military Mobilization to Family Photo-Albums, 1934-1956
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov

Hawk, Emily. Movements of Black Modern Dance: Choreography, Education , and Community Engagement, 1960-1976.
Sponsor: Casey Blake

Houwink ten Cate, Lotte. Histories, Tech, and a New Central Planning.
Sponsor: Mark Mazower

Jakubczak-Gabay, Aleksandra. (Sex) Worker, Migrant, Daughter: The Jewish Economics of Sex and Mobility, 1870 – 1939.
Sponsor: Rebecca Korbin

Khalifa, Nada. After the Fact: Social Investigation and Constitutionalism in Egypt and Bilad al-Sham, 1908-1923.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi & Marwa Elshakry

Kleiser, Randal Grant. Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750-1784.
Sponsor: Christopher Brown

Lebovich, Andrew. The Search for the Straight Path: Islamic Reform and Regional Change in Algeria, Senegal, and Mali in the Twentieth Century.
Sponsor: Gregory Mann

Lerer, David. Visions of Popular Financial Internationalism in Europe and the United States During the Interwar Years.
Sponsor: Adam Tooze

Ryuk, Sohee. Unraveling the Soviet Carpet: Handicraft Carpets as Commodity, Craft, and Heritage, 1890-1982.
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov

Rosenblum, Noah. Reluctant Globalists: The Political-Economy of “Interdependence” from Nixon’s New Economic Policy to Reagan’s Hidden Industrial Policy.
Sponsor: Kim Phillips-Fein & Anders Stephanson

Xing, Chengji. PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and the Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949
Sponsor: Mae Ngai

Yan, Laura. Making a Country out of a Harbor: The Transnational Everyday life of Migrant Workers
Sponsor: Manan Ahmed

Zuber, Thomas. “We cultivate to redistribute”: Child-Rearing, Rural Development and the Politics of Redistribution in Twentieth Century Burkina Faso
Sponsor: Gregory Mann

Congratulations to all those who successfully defended their dissertations in 2023 -2024!