Graduate Students
Valentina Bonansea
Research Interests: Global history of the late 20th century; Middle Eastern studies; Iranian modern history
Fall 2026: Tuesdays 10:30pm-12:30pm
Timothy Brown
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History
Fall 2026: By appointment
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.
Fall 2026: by appointment
Max DeLoach
Research Interests: The Classical and Late Antique World, Byzantine diplomacy in 5th and 6th centuries, ethnography, and “Barbarians”
Fall 2026: By appointment
Daniela Domínguez Tavares
Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin American History, diplomatic history, oil and development, cold war, environment, politics of oil, nationalism.
Fall 2026: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm and Thursdays: 11:00am-12:00pm
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
Fall 2026: Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:00am – 11:00am or by appointment
Lincoln Hirn
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century America, Antebellum Enslavement, The Civil War and Abolition, Anti-Slavery Print Culture, Reconstruction
Fall 2026: Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:30pm-3:00pm, or by appointment
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
Fall 2026: Tuesdays 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mauricio Lepe-Zepeda
Research Interests: Cultural history of Inter-war Europe, Fascism, Radical right-wing politics, Propaganda and ideology
Fall 2026: Wednesdays from 11:00am-1:00pm
Brigitte Lewis
Research Interests: The African Diaspora, Slavery and Abolition, Race and Indigeneity in New England, Early America, the long 18th century, Racial Capitalism
Fall 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-10:30 AM
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.
Fall 2026: Tuesdays 1:00pm-3:00pm and by appointment
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
Fall 2026: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30pm-2:00pm
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
Fall 2026: Thursdays 10:30am-12:00pm
Avery McGraw
Research Interests: Modern Europe, Italy, Gender Studies
Fall 2026: Thursdays 1:00pm-3:00pm
Veronica Primm
Research Interests: 19th-century U.S., slavery and the antebellum South, history of medicine and gynecology, reproductive justice, capitalism
Fall 2026: By appointment
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
Fall 2026: By appointment
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
Online: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
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