The Graduate Program


Annual Newsletter

December 2023 

We welcome our incoming Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2023!

 

African History

Mylkah Djacko (BA, University of Albany) 

Hugo Logez (BA, Universite de Lille; MA, Universite Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL); MA, Universite Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne) 

 

Atlantic World History

Sohum Pal (BA, Yale University; MA, Yale University) 

Hazel Richards (BA, Williams College) 

 

Atlantic World History

Xavier Puente (BA, Columbia University Columbia College; MA, Yale University Divinity School) 

Stephanie Reitzig (BA, University of Chicago) 

 

International and Global History

Lelia Roche (BA, Institut d”Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po); MA,Institut d”Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po))

Ziqian Zheng (BA, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)

 

Latin American History

Thomas Maggiola (BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of California San Diego)

 

Middle East History 

Minsoo Jeon (BA, Yonsei University; MA, University of Washington; MA, Central European University)

 

Modern European History

Elijah-Matteo Ferrante (BA, University of Oxford; MA, University of Oxford) 

Aisha Garaeva (BA, Istanbul University; MA, Ibn Haldun University; MA, University of Pennsylvania) 

Dimitrios Mitsopoulos (BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; MA, Freie Universitaet Berlin) 

Audrey Siraud (BA, Universite Paris IV – Sorbonne; MA, Universite Paris IV – Sorbonne) 

 

United States History

Richard Monastra (BA, The Ohio State University; MA, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey University Camden) 

 

 

Ph.D.s Conferred in 2022-2023

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

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

Bautista Gonnzalez, Manuel. King Cotton's Silver and Gold Chains. The New Orleans Specie Market under International Bimetallism, 1839-1861. 
Sponsor: David Weiman 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hamdani, Yoav. Vouching for Slavery: Enslaved Servitude in the U.S. Army, 1797 - 1861. 
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby 

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

Joseph, Matthew. Syncopating Segregation: Musical Cross-Pollination in Post- World War II New York City. 
Sponsor: Casey Blake 
Katz, Paul.  Information in Counterrevolution: State Torture and the Armed Left in Southern South America in the 1970s.
Sponsor: Pablo Piccato 

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 

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

Rosenblum, Noah. Presidential Administration: An Intellectual and Legal History, 1888-1938.
Sponsor: Samuel Moyn 

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

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. 
Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia

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

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 

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

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 2022-2023!

 

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

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

Bautista Gonnzalez, Manuel. King Cotton’s Silver and Gold Chains. The New Orleans Specie Market under International Bimetallism, 1839-1861.
Sponsor: David Weiman

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

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

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

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

Fofana, Idriss. America’s Acclimatization Exchange: Animal Acclimatization, Settler Colonialism, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1840-1975. 
Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin  

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

Hamdani, Yoav. Vouching for Slavery: Enslaved Servitude in the U.S. Army, 1797 – 1861.

Sponsor: Karl Jacoby

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

Joseph, Matthew. Syncopating Segregation: Musical Cross-Pollination in Post- World War II New York City.
Sponsor: Casey Blake

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

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

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

Rosenblum, Noah. Presidential Administration: An Intellectual and Legal History, 1888-1938.
Sponsor: Samuel Moyn

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

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.
Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia

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

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 

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

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

 

 

Dissertation Write-up Fellowships Awarded for the 2023-2024 Academic Year 

 

Doris G. Quinn Fellowship

Isobel Plowright

Lynton Lees

Stephanie Rivadeneira

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

 

Harriet Zuckerman Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Reut Ullman

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

 CES/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship

 

Lowenheim History Fellowship

 

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

 

Baby Historians

 

 

 


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