Graduate Students
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Major Professor: Dr. Kurt Piehler
Research Interests: World War II, German Prisoners of War, Military Culture and Ethos
Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Doel
Research Interests: History of Environmental Science, Gender, Public History, Global History
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Upchurch
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, The Middle East, Atlantic World
Major Professor: Dr. Rafe Blaufarb
Research Interests: Bonapartist Spain, Napoleonic Imperial integration, Revolutionary Atlantic
Major Professor: Dr. Will Hanley
Research Interests: Political and Intellectual History, Identity, Nationalism and Modern State-Building,
Major Professor: Dr. Nathan Stoltzfus
Research Interests: Culture and resistance in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Poland.
Major Professor: Dr. James Palmer
Research Interests: Medieval Italy, Political Ideology, Medieval Preaching, Factionalism
Major Professor: Dr. George Williamson
Research Interests: Modern Germany and Poland, German Colonization and Germanization Efforts, Occupation & Identity Politics, Modern Silesian History
Major Professor: Dr. Maxine Jones and Dr. Paul Renfro
Research Interests: 20th Century African-American History, Military History, 20th Century US History, the Black Freedom Movement
Research Interests: Public History, Architectural History, Historic Preservation, Modern America, Gender
Major Professor: Dr. Annika Culver
Research Interests: Modern China, American missionaries in China
Research Interests: Modern German History, the Holocaust and WWII, Agrarian History, European Colonialism, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Major Professor: Dr. Maxine Jones
Research Interests: Race, teaching of history (textbooks; standardized materials), colonialism Middle East
Major Professor: Dr. Paul Renfro
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History, Southern History
Major Professor: Dr. Annika Culver
Research Interests: Political music, Encountering the Others, Jesuit missionaries in East Asia, Performing arts, Cultural history
Major Professor: Dr. Andrew Frank
Research Interests: Dean Michel is a doctoral candidate writing a dissertation entitled: “A Watery Grave in the Desert: Termination, Survivance, and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe.” He has presented papers at several conferences, including the Western History Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and American Society for Ethnohistory, and will be a Mellon Fellow at Dunbarton Oakes 2025-2026.
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Creswell
Research Interests: War and Society, Modern US, Modern Europe, Asia
Major Professor: Dr. George Williamson and Dr. Rafe Blaufarb
Research Interests: Franco-German relations during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era; cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment; development of nationalism and cosmopolitanism in modern Europe
Major Professor: Dr. Cathy McClive
Research Interests: Early Modern France, History of the Body, Crimes of Female Deviancy and Criminality
Major Professor: Dr. Will Hanley
Research Interests: Middle Eastern History (particularly the Levant), Ottoman History, cultural history, nationalism
Major Professor: Dr. Conti
Research Interests: 20th Century US African-American History
Research Interests: History of Modernity, 20th-Century U.S. Foreign Relations, Grand Strategy, the Global Cold War, Intellectual History, Capitalism, Science & Technology, Environmental History
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Upchurch
Research Interests: Early Modern British Empire, Atlantic World, Gender and Sexuality, with an emphasis on families in 18th Century Jamaica.
Research Interests: Intersectional histories of African Americans and Indigenous communities in early America; Evolution of enslavement/bondage in early America; lesser-known histories of marginalized and underrepresented people (women and children), spaces, and narratives
Major Professor: Dr. Robert Gellately
Research Interests: Policing, Gender, and the German Military
Major Professor: Dr. Cathy McClive
Research Interests: History of Medicine and Science, Intellectual History, Medieval Europe, Early Modern Europe
Major Professor: Dr. Maxine Jones and Dr. Mike Creswell
Research Interests: African American migration to the Soviet Union, Russian and Soviet history, Modern U.S. history, Race during the Cold War, Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests: Modern America, World War I, Religion, Immigration, Modernism, Postmodernism, Calvinism
Major Professor: Dr. Jennifer Koslow
Research Interests: Historic Preservation, Resiliency Initiatives for Historic Structures
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Upchurch
Research Interests: Modern Britain, British Empire, Governmentality, Land Reform in Ireland and South Africa, History of Masculinity.
Major Professor: Dr. Katherine Mooney
Research Interests: American Cultural History, Florida History
Major Professor: Dr. Nathan Stoltzfus
Research Interests: WWII and the Holocaust, War & Society, Gender & Sexuality, Public History, British History
Major Professor: Dr. Suzanne Sinke
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History, Migration under a U.S. Context, Chinese Adoption, Gender and Childhood
Major Professor: Dr. Cathy McClive
Research Interests: Southeastern Europe, Gender, Identity, Material culture, Cross-cultural exchange