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)
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