The Graduate Program
Annual Newsletter
July 2026
We welcome our incoming Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2026!
Atlantic History
Sarah Deonarain (BA, Harvard College)
Early Modern European History
Dongjin Kim (BEc, Korea University; MA, Seoul National University)
East Asia History
Dai Tran (BA/BE, Fullbright University Vietnam)
IGH
Abigail Wong (LLB, National University of Singapore; BA, University of Cambridge; MA, University of Oxford)
Latin America
Alonso Perez Rangel (BA, Concordia University; MA, Concordia University)
Medieval European History
Wendy Wang (BA, University of Southern California)
Middle East History
Sundus Al-Ameen (BA, University of Michigan Ann Arbor; MA, Columbia University GSAS)
Modern Europe
Lucy Langan (BA, Colgate University)
Iain Pless (BA, University of Vermont; MA, University of Oxford)
United States History
Jonathan Balderas (BA, Yale University)
Sarah Claypoole (BA, University of Chicago; JD, Duke University)
Zachary Gomez (BA, University of California Los Angeles)
Ph.Ds.’ Conferred in 2024-2025
Almukhtar, Amnah. Nahdawi Themes in Writing from Iraq in al-Irafan, al-ilm, and al-Yaqin, 1909-1925
Sponsor: Marwa Elshakry
Blatchford R. Barrie. America’s Acclimatization Exchange: Animal Acclimatization, Settler Colonialism, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1840-1975.
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby
Cohen, Jessica. A Better Life for Us All?: Local Perspectives on the History of Family Planning in Accra, Ghana.
Sponsor: Abosede George
Colpa, Luz. Looking for Love: Marriage and ‘Out-Marriage’ between France and West Africa: 1939-1985
Sponsor: Emmanuelle Saada
Coon, Ella. Control Data: American Power and the Global Assembly Line, 1957-1996
Sponsor: Adam Tooze
Corban, Robert. Bitter Harvest: The Militarization of Agriculture in Mussolini’s Italy, 1915-1945
Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia
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
Faulkner, Amanda. ” A Place of Beginning Along the Land”: Migration and Community in the Dutch Atlantic World, 1609-1715
Sponsor: Pamela Smith
Goetz, Jennifer. Developing Soviet Photography: From Military Mobilization to Family Photo-Albums, 1934-1956
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov
Guadarrama Dominguez, Andrei Luis. Circuits of Power: Private Interests and the Politics of Development in Mexico City, 1870-1950
Sponsor: Pablo Piccato
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
Kamil, Seth. New York and Barbados 1650-1775: Colonial Interdependence and Contemporary Links
Sponsor: Christopher Brown
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
Le, Adrienne. The Untold Revolution: Buddhist Nation Building in Vietnam’s Decolonial Century
Sponsor: Lein- Hang Nguyen
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
Plowright, Isobel. The International Workingmen’s Association in the United States, 1865-1876
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry
Rivadeneira, Stephanie. The Confraternity of Our Lady of Los Remedios: Piety, Politics, and Captial in Mexico City
Sponsor: Caterina Pizzigoni
Ryuk, Sohee. Unraveling the Soviet Carpet: Handicraft Carpets as Commodity, Craft, and Heritage, 1890-1982.
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov
Shah, Rohan. Reluctant Globalists: The Political-Economy of “Interdependence” from Nixon’s New Economic Policy to Reagan’s Hidden Industrial Policy
Sponsor: Kimberly Phillips-Fein & Anders Stephanson
Solis, Gabriel. Entangled Assembly: A History of the Global Factory in Taiwan and the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1960-1993
Sponsor: Frank Guridy
Ullman, Reut. “Between Craft and Science: the Disciplining of Chymistry in Early Modern Russia (1500-1765)”
Sponsor: Pamela Smith
Villegas, Jordan. Pochitas: Mexican American Girlhood in Depression-era Texas
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby
Yan, Laura. Making a Country out of a Harbor: The Transnational Everyday life of Migrant Workers
Sponsor: Manan Ahmed
Congratulations to all those who successfully defended their dissertations in 2024-2025!
Almukhtar, Amnah. Nahdawi Themes in Writing from Iraq in al-Irafan, al-ilm, and al-Yaqin, 1909-1925
Sponsor: Marwa Elshakry
Blatchford R. Barrie. America’s Acclimatization Exchange: Animal Acclimatization, Settler Colonialism, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1840-1975.
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby
Cohen, Jessica. A Better Life for Us All?: Local Perspectives on the History of Family Planning in Accra, Ghana.
Sponsor: Abosede George
Colpa, Luz. Looking for Love: Marriage and ‘Out-Marriage’ between France and West Africa: 1939-1985
Sponsor: Emmanuelle Saada
Coon, Ella. Control Data: American Power and the Global Assembly Line, 1957-1996
Sponsor: Adam Tooze
Corban, Robert. Bitter Harvest: The Militarization of Agriculture in Mussolini’s Italy, 1915-1945
Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia
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
Faulkner, Amanda. ” A Place of Beginning Along the Land”: Migration and Community in the Dutch Atlantic World, 1609-1715
Sponsor: Pamela Smith
Goetz, Jennifer. Developing Soviet Photography: From Military Mobilization to Family Photo-Albums, 1934-1956
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov
Guadarrama Dominguez, Andrei Luis. Circuits of Power: Private Interests and the Politics of Development in Mexico City, 1870-1950
Sponsor: Pablo Piccato
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
Kamil, Seth. New York and Barbados 1650-1775: Colonial Interdependence and Contemporary Links
Sponsor: Christopher Brown
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
Le, Adrienne. The Untold Revolution: Buddhist Nation Building in Vietnam’s Decolonial Century
Sponsor: Lein- Hang Nguyen
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
Plowright, Isobel. The International Workingmen’s Association in the United States, 1865-1876
Sponsor: Stephanie McCurry
Rivadeneira, Stephanie. The Confraternity of Our Lady of Los Remedios: Piety, Politics, and Captial in Mexico City
Sponsor: Caterina Pizzigoni
Ryuk, Sohee. Unraveling the Soviet Carpet: Handicraft Carpets as Commodity, Craft, and Heritage, 1890-1982.
Sponsor: Catherine Evtuhov
Shah, Rohan. Reluctant Globalists: The Political-Economy of “Interdependence” from Nixon’s New Economic Policy to Reagan’s Hidden Industrial Policy
Sponsor: Kimberly Phillips-Fein & Anders Stephanson
Solis, Gabriel. Entangled Assembly: A History of the Global Factory in Taiwan and the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1960-1993
Sponsor: Frank Guridy
Ullman, Reut. “Between Craft and Science: the Disciplining of Chymistry in Early Modern Russia (1500-1765)”
Sponsor: Pamela Smith
Villegas, Jordan. Pochitas: Mexican American Girlhood in Depression-era Texas
Sponsor: Karl Jacoby
Yan, Laura. Making a Country out of a Harbor: The Transnational Everyday life of Migrant Workers
Sponsor: Manan Ahmed
Dissertation Write-up Fellowships Awarded for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Doris G. Quinn Fellowship
Rochelle Malcolm
Samuel Niu
Charles Steinman
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Harriet Zuckerman Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Zinaida Osipova
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
CES/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Lowenheim History Fellowship
Fellowships, Awards, Grants, & Babies (Update in progress)
Baby Historians