The Graduate Program


Annual Newsletter

August 2022

We welcome our incoming Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2022!

 

African History

Lorna Kimaiyo (B.Ed., Kenyatta University; MA, Kenyatta University) 

Alex Ugwuja (BA, Nnamdi Azikiwe University) 

 

Atlantic World History

Batel Levy (BA, Tel Aviv University; MA, Tel Aviv University) 

 

Jewish History

 Nesya Nelkin (BA, Brown University) 

 

Latin American History

Jake Barrett (BA, University of California – Davis)

Ana Laura Zuñiga Loreto (BS, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; MA, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas)

 

Medieval European History 

Heidi Hansen (BA, John Hopkins University; MA, University of Toronto)

 

Modern European History

Kate Reeve (BA, University of Toronto; BA McGill University) 

 

South Asia History

Junaid ur Rehman (BA, Christ University; MA, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi) 

 

United States History

Dylan Burgoon (BA, University of California Berkeley) 

Aaron Freedman (BA, Swarthmore College) 

Autumn Galindo (BA, Connecticut College) 

Veronica Hylton (BA, Columbia University; MA, University of Chicago)

Juliana Maximiano Torres Carneiro (AA, Santa Monica College; BA, University of California Berkley) 

Vayne Ong (BA, Princeton University) 

Taylor Reynolds (BA, Washington University in St. Louis; MA, Yale University Divinity School) 

 

 

Ph.D.s Conferred in 2021-2022

 

Bar Sadeh, Roy.  Recasting Minority: Islamic Modernists between South Asia, the Middle East, and the World, 1856-1947.
Sponsor: Marwa Elshakry & Anupama Rao 

Glassermen, Aaron.  Hui Nation: Islam and Muslim Politics in Modern China. 
Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin 

Halevy, Dotan. Stripped: Ruination, Liminality, and the Making of the Gaza Strip.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi 

Heinford, Kellen. Slavery is slavery: Early American mythmaking and the invention of the free state.
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry 

Katz, Paul.  Information in Counterrevolution: State Torture and the Armed Left in Southern South America in the 1970s.
Sponsor: Pablo Piccato 

Kuersteiner, Sarina. Minds and Margins: Notarial Culture in Bologna (ca. 1250-ca. 1350).
Sponsor: Adam Kosto & Neslihan Şenocak 

Marris, Caroline. The 'Silver Sea' and the Nation-State: The Multifaceted Geopolitics of the Early Modern English Channel.
Sponsor: Christopher Brown

Matthews, Adam. Law, Liturgy, and Sacred Space in Medieval Catalonia and Southern France, 800-1100.
Sponsor: Adam Kosto

McElroy, Micah.  The Disruption of Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2010.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar 

Meberg, Justine. The Logic of Protection: US Army Culture and Enemy Women in the Second Seminole War and the War with Mexico, 1835-1848.
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry  

Menashe, Tamar. The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495-1690.
Sponsor: Elisheva Carlebach & Adam Kosto

Mukherjee, Sayantani. Geography Triumphant: Maps, Cartographic Truths, and Imperial Frontier-making in Tibet in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Sponsor: Manan Ahmed 

Padilla-Rodriguez, Ivón. Undocumented youth: The labor, education, and rights of migrant Latinx children in Twentieth-century America.
Sponsor: Mae Ngai 

Peseran, Natasha. The Iraq-Mediterranean Pipelines and Power in the Middle East, 1925-1973.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi 

Schwartz, Joshua.  The Life of Pictures: Charles Dana Gibson, John Sloan, and the Making of Modern Americans 1883-1925.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar 

Slezkine, Peter. The Discovery of the Free World: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Sponsor:  Anders Stephanson 

Swett, Brooks. Law, Power, and the Anglo-American Relationship during Reconstruction of the United States, 1863-1878.
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry  

 

Congratulations to all those who successfully defended their dissertations in 2020-2021!

 

Bar Sadeh, Roy. Recasting Minority: Islamic Modernists between South Asia, the Middle East, and the World, 1856-1947.
Sponsor: Marwa Elshakry & Anupama Rao

Donovan, Joshua. Imagining Antioch: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Migration in the Greek Orthodox Levant, 1860-1958.
Sponsor: Marwa Elshakry

Enríquez Flores, Fabiola. The Politics of Devotion: Militant Catholicism and the Fight for the Spanish Empire in Cuba and Puerto Rico. 
Sponsor: Caterina Pizzigoni

Glassermen, Aaron. Hui Nation: Islam and Muslim Politics in Modern China.
Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin

Halevy, Dotan. Stripped: Ruination, Liminality, and the Making of the Gaza Strip.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi

Heinford, Kellen. Slavery is slavery: Early American mythmaking and the invention of the free state.
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry

Katz, Paul. Information in Counterrevolution: State Torture and the Armed Left in Southern South America in the 1970s.
Sponsor: Pablo Piccato

Kuersteiner, Sarina. Minds and Margins: Notarial Culture in Bologna (ca. 1250-ca. 1350).
Sponsor: Adam Kosto & Neslihan Şenocak

Marris, Caroline. The ‘Silver Sea’ and the Nation-State: The Multifaceted Geopolitics of the Early Modern English Channel.
Sponsor: Christopher Brown

Matthews, Adam. Law, Liturgy, and Sacred Space in Medieval Catalonia and Southern France, 800-1100.
Sponsor: Adam Kosto

McElroy, Micah. The Disruption of Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2010.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar

Meberg, Justine. The Logic of Protection: US Army Culture and Enemy Women in the Second Seminole War and the War with Mexico, 1835-1848.
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry

Menashe, Tamar. The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495-1690.
Sponsor: Elisheva Carlebach & Adam Kosto

Mendon-Plasek, Aaron. Genealogies of Machine Learning. 
Sponsor: Matthew Jones

Mukherjee, Sayantani. Geography Triumphant: Maps, Cartographic Truths, and Imperial Frontier-making in Tibet in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Sponsor: Manan Ahmed

Padilla-Rodriguez, Ivón. Undocumented youth: The labor, education, and rights of migrant Latinx children in Twentieth-century America.
Sponsor: Mae Ngai

Peseran, Natasha. The Iraq-Mediterranean Pipelines and Power in the Middle East, 1925-1973.
Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi

Ryan, Thomas. War at the Exhibition: Militarism and Mass Culture in South Korea, 1946-1973. 
Sponsor: Lien-Hang Nguyen

Schwartz, Joshua. The Life of Pictures: Charles Dana Gibson, John Sloan, and the Making of Modern Americans 1883-1925.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar

Slezkine, Peter. The Discovery of the Free World: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Sponsor: Anders Stephanson

Swett, Brooks. Law, Power, and the Anglo-American Relationship during Reconstruction of the United States, 1863-1878.
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry

Turtur, Noelle. Making Fascist Empire Work: Italian Enterprises, Labor and Organized-Community  in Occupied Ethiopia, 1896-1943.
Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia

Woodsum, Antonina. Fiesta Immemorial: Colonial and Carceral Relations with Native Nations in Southern California.
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby 

Zhao, Wenrui. Dissecting Sight: The Eye and the Art of Medicine in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700.
Sponsor: Pamela Smith

 

Dissertation Write-up Fellowships Awarded for the 2021-22 Academic Year (Update in progress)

 

Doris G. Quinn Fellowship

Joslyn DeVinney

Rebecca Glade

Thomas Zuber

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

 

Harriet Zuckerman Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Susannah Glickman 

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Hong Deng Gao

 CES/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship

 

Lowenheim History Fellowship

 

Fellowships, Awards, Grants, & Babies (Update in progress)

 

Baby Historians

 

 

 


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