Yang Zheng

“Gender and Transnational Education: Chinese Women Students in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century”

Advisor: Peter Zarrow

Marc Reyes

“In the Circle of Great Powers: India and the Postcolonial Atomic State, 1947-1974”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

Yusuf Mansoor

Title:

Advisor: Nancy Shoemaker

Position:

Katharine Beene

“Women’s Acquisition and Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Ireland, 1600-1750”

Advisor: Brendan Kane

David Evans

“Hunger for Rights: Establishing the Human Right to Food, 1930-1988”

Advisor: Bradley Simpson

Kristen Vitale Engel

“Henrician Spectacle: Courtly Festivity as Performative Politics in Early Tudor England, 1485-1533”

Advisor: Brendan Kane 

Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Fitchburg State University

Abdullah Alhatem

“The Domestic Slave Trade and the “Christian Master” in New England”

Advisor: Christopher Clark

Kathryn Angelica

“An Uneasy Alliance: Cooperation and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Black and White Women’s Activism”

Advisor: Manisha Sinha

Position: Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University Fort Wayne

Alex Beckstrand

“Wilsonian Control: American Civil-Military Relations and Command Relationships, 1913-1921”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola 

Position: Lecturer, Central Connecticut State University

Cláudio Luís Quaresma Daflon

“Peripheral Vision: The New Conurbano Universities and the Struggles for a More Popular and Democratic Higher Education System in Argentina, 1980s-2010s”

Advisor: Mark Healey

Philip A. Goduti, Jr.

“The Durability of a Kennedy”: How Emotional Communities Contributed to John F. Kennedy’s Core Beliefs, 1930-1963”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola 

Position: Teacher, Somers High School & Part-Time Faculty, Quinnipiac University

Frances Martin

“From the Ambassadors of Little Saigon: The Nation-Making and Grassroots Diplomacy of Vietnamese Refugees in the United States, 1975-1997”

Advisor: Bradley Simpson 

Position: Archivist at New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

Gabrielle Westcott

“Struggling for the Soul and Mind of a President: How Emotions and Personality Shaped Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam Policy in 1968”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Co-Director Historical Equity Action Lens, Jack Faucett Associates

Britney Murphy

“Outsiders Within: Volunteers in Service to America and the Boundaries of Citizenship, 1962-1971”

Advisor: Peter Baldwin

Position:  Assistant Professor in History and African American Studies, University of Alabama Birmingham

Shaine Scarminach

“Lost at Sea: US Foreign Policy and the Law of the Sea Convention, 1967-1982”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University

Shihan Zheng

“The Opium Discourse in China, 1830-1910”

Advisor: Peter Zarrow 

Position: Lecturer, Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzen

Luisa Arietta

“Struggles for Appearance: Afro-descendants and the Visual Technologies of Citizenship in Colombia, 1880-1910”

Advisor: Mark Healey

Position: Assistant Professor, Spelman College

Nicole Breault

“The Night Watch of Boston: Law and Governance in Eighteenth-Century British America”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas El Paso

Megan Dawson

“Ukraine Undaunted: Negotiating Nuclear Disarmament, Postcolonial Identity, and Geopolitical Reordering in the Post-Soviet Era, 1991-1994”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola 

Position: Russia Strategy Analyst with the Office of Naval Intelligence

Erik Freeman

“The Mormon International: Communitarian Socialist Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1890”

Advisor: Christopher Clark

Position: Assistant Professor of History at Idaho State University, Pocatello

Brittney Yancy

“Free Our Sisters: Women’s Radicalism, Black Power, and the City”

Advisor:  Jeffrey Ogbar

Position: Assistant Professor, Illinois College

Katelyn Aguilar

“In the Eyes of the Hurricanes: Miami Football, Race, and American Conservatism”

Advisor: Micki McElya

Position: Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College

Kevin Finefrock

“The Long Emancipation: Navigating Slavery’s End in Connecticut, 1780-1830”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Associate Director of Employer Engagement and Operations, Connecticut College

Lauren Stauffer

“Beyond the North Atlantic: How NATO Developed an ‘Out-of-Area’ Perspective, 1979-1991″

Advisor: Frank Costigliola 

Position: Analyst, United States Government

Jessica Strom

“Financing Revolution: Adriano Lemmi and the Struggle for Italian Unification“

Advisor: John A. Davis

Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Honors College, Northern Arizona University

Nathan Braccio

“Parallel Landscapes: Algonquian and English Spatial Understandings of New England, 1500-1700”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Assistant Professor, Clark University

Danielle Dumaine

“Selling Herself: Diane di Prima, Desire, and Commodity in the Postwar United States”

Advisor: Micki McElya

Position: Lecturer, University of North Texas

Hilary Bogert-Winkler

“Prayerful protest and Clandestine Conformity: Alternative Liturgies and the Book of Common Prayer in Interregnum England”

Advisor: Brendan Kane

Position: Assistant Professor of Liturgy, School of Theology, University of the South

Orlando Deavila Pertuz

“The Battle for Paradise: Tourism, Development, Race, and Popular Politics in Cartagena (Colombia), 1942-1988”

Advisor: Mark Healey

Position: Professor, International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena (Colombia)

Casey Green

“‘Never Likely to be his Own Man Again:’ Impairment and Disability in New England, 1690-1820″

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Associate Lecturer of History, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts

Matt Guariglia

“The American Problem: Race, Empire, and Policing in New York City”

Advisor: Micki McElya

Position: Policy Analyst, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Visiting Scholar, UC Hastings School of Law (San Francisco)

Edward Guimont

“From King Solomon to Ian Smith: Rhodesian Alternate Histories of Zimbabwe”

Advisor: Brendan Kane

Position: Professor of Global History, Bristol Community College

Adam Hill

“The Virtues of Dead Kings: Egyptology and Empire in Twentieth-Century Britain”

Advisor: Brendan Kane

Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Greenville University

Olga Koulisis

“Prophets of Global Order: How the Morgan Bankers Sold “Cooperation” in an Age of Democratic Conflict, 1890-1924”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola 

Position: Assistant Professor of History, Murray State University

Aimee Loiselle

“Creating Norma Rae: The Erasure of Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists in a Neoliberal Icon” (2020 OAH Lerner-Scott Prize)

Advisor: Micki McElya

Position: Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University

Amy L. Sopcak-Joseph

“Fashioning American Women: Godey’s Lady’s Book, Female Consumers, and Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Associate Professor, Wilkes University

Jeff Egan

“Watershed Decisions: The Environmental History of the Quabbin Reservoir, 1870-1945”

Advisor: Robert A. Gross

Position: Analyst & Category Buyer, Sanofi Genzyme

Michael Limberg

“Abundant Life: US Aid and Development in the Near East, 1919-39”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Teacher, North Carolina School of Science and Math

Mary-Margaret Mahoney

“Books as Medicine: A History of the Use of Reading to Treat the Self and Its Diseases in the Anglophone World, 1800-1940”

Advisor: Christopher Clark

Position: Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Trinity College (CT)

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

“Our Turn to Speak: The Creation of Puerto Rican Workers’ Intellectual Communities, 1897-1940”

Advisor: Blanca Silvestrini

Position: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teresa Vergara

“The Copacabana Indigenous Elite: Formation, Identity and Negotiations, Lima, 1590 – 1767”

Advisor: Karen Spalding

Position: Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Jessica Linker

“The Fruits of their Labor: Women’s Scientific Practice in Early America”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University

Catherine Page

“The Human Touch in Banking: Women Bank Officers in the United States, 1870-1930”

Advisor: Christopher Clark

Position: Lecturer, University of New Haven

Allison Horrocks

“Good Will Ambassador with a Cookbook: Flemmie Kittrell and the International Politics of Home Economics”

Advisor: Micki McElya

Position: Historian, National Park Service

Anthony Antonucci

“Americans and the Mezzogiorno: United States Relations with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from Thomas Jefferson to Herman Melville, 1783-1861”

Advisor: Robert Gross

Position: Lecturer, Citrus College

Linda Meditz

“God’s Captive: Piety and Ministry in the Diary and Life of Stephen Williams”

Advisor: Christopher Clark

Erin Bartram

“Jane Minot Sedgwick II and the World of American Catholic Converts, 1820-1890”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Position: School Programs Coordinator, Mark Twain House

Eric Sacco

“”Le Babylon de la Mediterranee”: Nice and Its Casinos, 1815 – 1939”

Advisor: Sylvia Schafer

Position: Teacher, Cheshire Academy

Eric J. Fauss

“The Wild Lands of Gotham: City and Nature in Jamaica Bay, New York, 1880-1994”

Advisor: Peter Baldwin

Position: Assistant Professor, Amarillo College

Lauren E. Madak

“Arms and Letters: Martial Imagery and Rhetoric of English and Spanish Women’s Writings, 1540-1615”

Advisor: Kenneth Gowans

Position: Assistant Professor, Florida Southwestern State College

Thomas D. Westerman

“Rough and Ready Relief: American Identity, Humanitarian Experience, and the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1917”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Teacher, Porter-Gaud School

Omar H. Dphrepaulezz

“’The Right Sort of White Men’: General Leonard Wood and the U. S. Army in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1906”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Assistant Professor, SUNY Oneonta

Daniel A. Simmons

“Must Be the Season of the Witch: The Repression and Harassment of Rock and Folk Music during the Long Sixties”

Advisor: Jeffrey Ogbar

Alea R. Henle

“Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies in the Early United States”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Position: Associate Librarian, Head of Access & Borrow, Miami University (Ohio)

Dominic F. Debrincat

“Yankee Jurisprudence: The Court and Legal Culture of Colonial New London County, Connecticut”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Associate Professor, Missouri Western State University

Karl J. Trybus

“The Second Spanish Republic and Civil War: The View from Pope Pius XI’s Vatican”

Advisor: Gustavo Nanclares (LCL)

Position: Associate Professor, Limestone College

Michael E. Neagle

“Isle of Pines, U.S.A.: The Other Side of American Expansion in Cuba, 1898-1960”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Associate Professor, Nichols College

Patrick G. Blythe

“Visions of a Peaceful World: Locating Peace in Early-Nineteenth Century New England, 1815-1850”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Professor, Seminole State College

Sherry Zane (Isaacson)

“The Newport Sex Scandal and the Early-Twentieth-Century Origins of the U.S. National Security State”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Interim Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut

Christopher E. Curry

“Liberty Extended, Liberty Denied: The Black Loyalist Quest for Freedom in the Bahamas”

Advisor: Melina Pappademos

Position: Assistant Professor, College of the Bahamas

Jonathan Michaels

“The Liberal Dilemma: University Students Confront McCarthyism, 1947-1954”

Advisor: Robert Asher

Position: Lecturer, University of Connecticut Hartford

Paulo Contreras

“Searching for Modernization and Development: the United States and Peru, 1950-1975”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Lecturer, University of Connecticut Avery Point

Barbara J. Beeching

“Great Expectations: Family and Community in Nineteenth Century Black Hartford”

Advisor: Altina Waller

Position: Independent Scholar

Brian D. Carroll

“From Warrior to Soldier: New England Indians in the Colonial Military, 1675-1763”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Catherine L. Thompson

“”Dr. Greene is Not God!”: Patient-Physicians Relations in Early America, 1750-1850”

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Holy Cross College

Onek Adyanga

“Modes of British Imperial Control of Africa: A Case Study of Uganda, 1890-1990”

Advisor: Amii Omara-Ottunu

Position: Associate Professor, Millersville University

D. Elliotte Draegor

“Losing Ground: Land Loss Among the Mashantucket Pequot and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribes in the Nineteenth Century”

Advisor: Nancy Shoemaker

Robb K. Haberman

“Periodical Publics: Magazines and Literary Networks in Post-Revolutionary America”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Position: Associate Editor, John Jay Papers, Columbia University

Brian C. Mullgardt

“”Don’t Come to Chicago…:” The Events Surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention as Experienced by Chicago Residents”

Advisor: Peter Baldwin

Position: Associate Professor, Millikin University

Jennifer L. Heckard

“The Crossroads of Empire: The 1817 Liberation and Occupation of Amelia Island, East Florida”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Teacher, Friendship Collegiate Academy

Mehmed Ali

“To Save a City: From Urban Renewal to Historic Preservation in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1920- 1978”

Advisor: Bruce Stave

Position: Director of the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base

Michael Donoghue

“Imperial Sunset: Race, Identity, and Gender in the Panama Canal Zone, 1939—1979”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Associate Professor, Marquette University

Thomas M. Slopnick

“In the Shadow of Herbert Hoover: The Republican Party and the Politics of Defeat, 1932—1936”

Advisor: Jeffrey Ogbar

Position: Lecturer, Manchester Community College

Bradley R. Hale

“The Soul of Empire: The Society of Missionaries of Africa in Colonial Algeria, 1919—1939”

Advisor: Edmund Wherle

Position: Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University

Charles D. McGraw

“”Every Nurse is Not a Sister”: Sex, Work, and the Invention of the Spanish-American War Nurse”

Advisor: Susan Porter Benson

Position: Associate Professor, University of Tampa

Jamie H. Eves

“A Valley White with Mist: Settlers, Nature, and Culture in a North Woods River Valley, 1800—1870”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Position: Director, Windham Textile & History Museum & Lecturer, University of Connecticut

Jeffrey D. Bass

“Cold Warrior Coterie: Senate Democrats and Presidential Foreign Policy, 1953—1973”

Advisor: Frank Costigliola

Position: Professor, Quinnipiac University

Leslie A. Frank

“”I Never Really Took Much Notice”: The FHA and Suburbanization in the Providence Metropolitan Area, 1934—1955”

Advisor: Peter Baldwin & Susan Porter Benson

Position:

Michael D. Cunningham

“Seashells on the Mountains: Antonio Vallisneri, Fossils, and the Republic of Letters”

Advisor: John Davis

Position: Academic Advisor, University of Connecticut

Steven H. Park

“The Burning of HMS Gaspee and the Limits of Eighteenth-Century British Imperial Power”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Position: Director of Academic Technology, Wheaton College (IL)

Janet Rider

“A Quest for Self-Reverence: The Social and Intellectual World of Judith Sargent Murray”

Advisor: Richard Brown

Position: Professor, Johnson County Community College