Graduate Students
Valentina Bonansea
Research Interests: Global history of the late 20th century; Middle Eastern studies; Iranian modern history
Timothy Brown
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History
Javier Castillo
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century U.S. Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Local History of Puerto Ricans in Hartford CT; Springfield MA; and Holyoke MA.
Max DeLoach
Research Interests: The Classical and Late Antique World, Byzantine diplomacy in 5th and 6th centuries, ethnography, and “Barbarians”
Daniela Domínguez Tavares
Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin American History, diplomatic history, oil and development, cold war, environment, politics of oil, nationalism.
Grace Easterly
Research Interests: US and the World, US Empire, International Political Economy, Foreign Relations History, Critical Geopolitics, Maritime Logistics, Indian Ocean, Security and Militarism
Jacob Finegan
Research Interests: politics of national memory, ways in which physical sites (battlefields, cemeteries, parks, and statues) function as contested spaces of heritage and identity
Lincoln Hirn
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century America, Antebellum Enslavement, The Civil War and Abolition, Anti-Slavery Print Culture, Reconstruction
Skyler Hodell
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century trans-Atlantic cultural exchange, continental European philosophy post-Hegel
Constance Holden
Research Interests: race and racial formations, visual culture, gender, modern Latin America and the African Diaspora
Mamiri Imai
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Black Abolitionist Feminists, Transnational History, Counter-Mapping, Gender and Queer History.
Alex Kueny
Research Interests: 19th century United States, slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, history of capitalism, Anglo-American political history, English Civil War and Glorious Revolution, historical sociology, political economy
Mauricio Lepe-Zepeda
Research Interests: Cultural history of Inter-war Europe, Fascism, Radical right-wing politics, Propaganda and ideology
Brigitte Lewis
Research Interests: The African Diaspora, Slavery and Abolition, Race and Indigeneity in New England, Early America, the long 18th century, Racial Capitalism
Daniela Lilly Rodiles
Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century U.S. History; Women’s History; Gendered Mobility; Legal Containment of Movement; Cultural Memory; American Material & Visual Cultural History; Historical Narrative Construction & Archetypal Representation; Social Regulation & Deviance; Countercultural Movements & Subcultural Identities; Gender & Sexuality.
Zhengyuan Ling
Research Interests: Cultural history of capitalism in East Asia, intellectual and socio-political history of early modern China (late Qing & the Republic), Confucianism in the 20th century, history of technology (communication & transportation)
Yusuf Mansoor
Research Interests: Early America; Native American and Indigenous Studies; the Atlantic World
Katrina Martinez
Research Interests: US Empire, Caribbean Studies, Pacific Studies, Indigenous Studies, Archipelagic Thinking and Waterways, Historical Construction of Natural Disaster, Tourism, Militarism, and Environmentalism
Santiago Mayochi
Research Interests: Foreign U.S. relations, late nineteenth century, and early twentieth century
Veronica Primm
Research Interests: 19th-century U.S., slavery and the antebellum South, history of medicine and gynecology, reproductive justice, capitalism
Nadia Scott
Research Interests: Visual and Material Culture, Cultural Nationalism and Citizenship, Race and Racial Formations, Museums and Public History, Independence Movements and Revolutions, Education and Strategic Curriculum Development.
Anne Van De Minne-Faber
Research Interests: Medieval Europe- Early modern Low Countries Decades bridging the15th and 16th centuries
Catalina Vásquez-Marchant
Research Interests: Environmental and Urban History of Latin America; Natural Disasters and the Role of the State; Social and Historical Construction of Natural Disasters
Evan Wade
Research Interests: 20th Century United States History with a focus on the African American experience
Nicole Weatherwax
Research Interests: History of race in sports; critical analysis of anti-black imagery and racist narratives