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