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Doctoral Dissertations

Pan, Y., 2018. Preference Modeling in Data-Driven Product Design: Application in Visual Aesthetics . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Burnap, A., 2016. Crowdsourcing for Engineering Design: Objective Evaluations and Subjective Preferences . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Bayrak, A. E., 2015. Topology Considerations in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrain Architecture Design . Ph.D. Dissertation, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

McGowan, A.-M. R., 2014. Interdisciplinary Interactions During R&D and Early Design of Large Engineered Systems . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan.

Lee, K. J., 2014. Optimal System Design with Geometric Considerations . Ph.D. Dissertation, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Kang, N., 2014. Multidomain Demand Modeling in Design for Market Systems . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Montazeri, S., 2013. Design for Behavior Change: The Role of Product Visual Aesthetics in Promoting Sustainable Behavior . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Whitefoot, J. W., 2012. Optimal co-design of microgrids and electric vehicles: synergies, simplifications and the effects of uncertainty . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Whitefoot, K. S., 2011. Quantifying the Impact of Environmental Policy on Engineering Design Decision . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Ren, Y., 2011. Design Preference Elicitation, Identification and Estimation . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Hoffenson, S., 2011. Safety Considerations in Optimal Automotive Vehicle Design . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Alexander, M. J., 2011. Managment of Functional Data Variables in Decomposition-based Design Optimization . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Reid, T. N., 2010. Quantifying Perception-Based Attirbutes in Design: A Case Study on the Perceived Environmental Friendliness of Vehicle Silhouettes . Ph.D. Dissertation, Design Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Peters, D. L., 2010. Coupling and Controllability in Optimal Design and Control . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Frischknecht, B. D., 2009. Market Systems Modeling for Public versus Private Tradeoff Analysis in Optimal Vehicle Design . Ph.D. Dissertation, Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Malikopoulos, A., 2008. Real-Time, Self-Learning Identification and Stochastic Optimal Control of Advanced Powertrain Systems (D. N. Assanis co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

MacDonald, E. F., 2008. The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Kelly, J. C., 2008. Interactive Genetic Algorithms for Shape Preference Assessment in Engineering Design . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Han, J. W., 2008. Sequential Linear Programming Coordination Strategy for Deterministic and Probabilistic Analytical Target Cascading . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Allison, J. T., 2008. Optimal Partitioning and Coordination Decisions in Decomposition-based Design Optimization . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Li, Z., 2006. Optimal Design of Multistation Assembly System (M. Kokkolaras co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Chan, K.-Y., 2006. Monotonicity, Activity and Sequential Linearizations in Probabilistic Design Optimization . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Alyaqout, S., 2006. A Multi-System Optimization Approach to Coupling in Robust Design and Control (Ulsoy, A. Galip co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Michalek, J., 2005. Preference Coordination in Engineering Design Decision-Making . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Primikiri, E., 2004. Thermal Building Performance Optimization Using Spacial Achetypes (J. Turner co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Parkinson, M., 2004. Balance Maintenance in Normal Seated Reach (D. Chaffin co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Park, H.-J., 2004. A Quantification of Proportionality Aesthetics in Morphological Design (A. Economou co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Georgiopoulos, P., 2003. Enterprise-wide Product Design: Linking Optimal Design Decisions to the Theory of the Firm . Eng. D. Dissertation, Program in Manufacturing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Fathy, H. K., 2003. Combined Plant and Control Optimization: Theory, Strategies and Applications (A.G. Ulsoy co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Choudhary, R., 2003. A Hierarchical Optimization Framework for Simulation-Based Architectural Design (A. Malkawi co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Sasena, M. J., 2002. Flexibility and Efficiency Enhancements for Constrained Global Design Optimization with Kriging Approximations (P. Goovaerts co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Fellini, R. A., 2002. A Model-Based Methodology for Product Family Design . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Li, Z., 2001. Design Optimization Techniques for Printed Antennas and Periodic Structures (J. Volakis co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Kim, H.-M., 2001. Target Cascading in Optimal System Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Delagrammatikas, G., 2001. A Design Optimization Methodology for Advanced and Hybrid, Diesel-Based, Automotive Powertrains (D. Assanis co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Reyer, J., 2000. Combined Embodiment Design and Control Optimization: Effects of Cross-Disciplinary Coupling. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Nishiwaki, S., 1998. Optimum Structural Topology Design Considering Flexibility (N. Kikuchi co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Nelson III, S., 1997. Optimal Design of Hierarchical Systems using Sequential Decomposition Programming. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Krishnamachari, R., 1996. A Decomposition Synthesis Methodology for Optimal Systems Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Johanson, R. P., 1996. Topology Optimization of Multicomponent Structural Systems (N. Kikuchi co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Jiang, T., 1996. Topology Optimization of Structural Systems Using Convex Approximation Methods. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Athan, T. W., 1994. A Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Multicriteria Optimization. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Wagner, T. C., 1993. A General Decomposition Methodology for Optimal System Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Pomrehn, L., 1993. A Recursive Opportunistic Optimization Tool for Discrete Optimal Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Snavely, G., 1992. An Abstraction-Based Methodology for Mechanical Configuration Design . Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Chirehdast, M., 1992. An Integrated Optimization Environment for Structural Configuration Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Lo, R., 1991. Deterministic Global Design Optimization for Nonconvex Generalized Polynomial Problems. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Kim, D.-S., 1990. Cones on Bezier Curves and Surfaces (T.C. Woo co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Rao, J. J. R., 1989. Higher Level Modeling Formulations in Optimal Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Loh, H.-T., 1989. A Sequential Linearization Approach for Mixed -Discrete Nonlinear Design Optimization. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Jakiela, M. J., 1988. Intelligent Suggestive Computer Aided Design Systems. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Desai, R., 1988. Automatic Robot Programming for Accommodating Design Changes (R.A.Volz co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Li, H.-L., 1985. Design Optimization Strategies with Global and Local Knowledge. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Azarm, S., 1984. Local Monotonicity in Optimal Design. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Diaz, A. R., 1982. Optimization of Finite Element Grids Using Interpolation Error (J. E. Taylor co-chair). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Master's Theses

Ren, Y., 2009. An Interactive Modeling Environment for Automotive Exterior Design . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Sarin, H., 2008. Error Assessment of Response Time Histories (EARTH): A Metric to Validate Simulation Models . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Alexander, M. J., 2008. Analytical Target Cascading Optimization of an Electric Vehicle Powertrain System . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Frischknecht, B., 2006. Representations and Methods for Enabling Design Variety . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Han, J., 2005. Optimal design of hybrid and non-hybrid fuel cell vehicles . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Rask, E., 2004. Estimating and Using the Attainable Set of Attribute Values for Discrete Choice Consumer Preference Modeling. M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Allison, J., 2004. Complex System Optimization: A Review of Analytical Target Cascading, Collaborative Optimization, and Other Formulations . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Sherefkin, L., 2003. Analytical Craftsmanship: Evaluation and analysis of consumer Perceptions . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Li, Z., 2003. The Effects of Manufacturing Process on Powertrain Design Decisions . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Hossoy, I., 2003. Modeling of Craftsmanship Perceptions in Vehicle Interior Design Using Tools from Engineering and Psychology . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Cooper, A., 2003. An Enterprise Decision Model for Optimal Vehicle Design and Technology Valuation . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Whitehead, J. W., 2001. Design and Performance of Derivative-Free Optimization Algorithms Used with Hybrid Electric Vehicle Simulations . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Michalek, J., 2001. Interactive Layout Design Optimization . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Sasena, M., 1998. Optimization of Computer Simulations via Smoothing Splines and Kriging Metamodels. M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Nwosu, N., 1998. Object-Oriented Optimization Using Convex Approximations. M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Fellini, R. A., 1998. Derivative-Free and Global Search Optimization Algorithms in an Object-Oriented Design Framework . M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Scheffer, C., 1997. A Software Framework for Optimal Systems Design. M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Marsan, A., 1994. Construction of a Surface Model From 3D Homogenization Output (D. Dutta co-chair). M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Johanson, R. P., 1989. A Knowledge-Based Convex Approximation Algorithm. M.S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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On April 28, 2023, U-M History PhD graduates from this year and last were convened with their family, friends, and advisors to commemorate a momentous occasion: the completion of their doctorate degrees. It was wonderful to be able to once again celebrate the accomplishments of our newest PhDs in person! Left to right: ToniAnn Trevino, Daniela Sheinin, Meg Showalter, Essie Ladkau, Taylor Sims, Hayley Bowman, Emily Lamond, Tara Weinberg, and Amit Sadan.

Andy Aguilera , PhD in History Advisor: Anthony Mora Dissertation: In the Shadow of Mexico: Constructing Ethnic Politics in Mexican Southern California, 1848-1940 Upper School History Teacher, Lakeside School, Seattle, WA

Roxana Aras, PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Paul Johnson Dissertation: Orthodoxy as Way of Living: Religion, Sect, and Crisis in Lebanon

Grace Argo , PhD in History and Women's and Gender Studies Advisors: Mary Kelley and LaKisha Dissertation: Incest and the American Family Assistant Director, Community-Engaged Research, Brown University

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2023 graduates.

Haley E. Bowen , PhD in History Advisors: Dena Goodman and Helmut Puff Dissertation: Breaching the Cloister: Laywomen, Convents, and the State in the Early Modern French Empire Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University

Salem Elzway , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Arms of the State: A History of the INdustrial Robot in Postwar America Postdoctoral Fellowship, History, University of Southern California

Essie Ladkau , PhD in History Advisor: Hitomi Tonomura Dissertation: Life, Death, and the Construction of Space on the Kamo River Collections Assistant, Besser Museum for the Northeast Michigan

Emily Lamond , PhD in Ancient History Advisor: Celia Schultz Dissertation: Disability and the Ancient Roman Familia Assistant Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History, McMaster University

Lamin Manneh , PhD in History Advisor: Derek Peterson Dissertation: Island Citizens: Environment, Infrastructure, and Belonging in Colonial Gambia, 1816-1865

Alexander McConnell , PhD in History Advisor: Ronald G. Suny Dissertation: A Humanism of Hatred, a Humanism of the Heart: Political Language, Public Morality, and Socialist Personhood in the Soviet Union Postdoctoral Fellowship, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

Nicole Navarro , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: The Forgotten Latino Community: Racial Formation and the Struggle for Political Representation in Washington, D.C., 1970-1993 2023 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship, Research Associate at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Emma Nolan-Thomas , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Webb Keane Dissertation: Practicing the Prophet's Medicine: Health, Illness, and Islamic Therapeutics in Indonesia

Hannah Roussel , PhD in History Advisor: Rafe Neis Dissertation: Mad Rabbis: The Intersection of Bodyminds with Personal, Communal, and Non-Human Relationships in the Babylonian Talmud Faith Inclusion and Belonging Fellow in RespectAbility's National Leadership Program

Amit Sadan , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: Masters of the Garden: An Environmental History of Nation-Building in Pahlavi Iran Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of New Mexico

Omri Senderowicz , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Stuart Kirsch Dissertation: From Society to Community: Privatizing the Israeli Kibbutz (1975-2020) Visiting Assistant Professor and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, University of Kansas

Eshe Sherley , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Countryman and LaKisha Simmons Dissertation: Care in Crisis: Black Women and the Politics of Labor in Atlanta, 1968-1982 Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia

Meg Showalter , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: "Teach Your Children Well:" Imagining Interracial Harmony in a Post-Civil Rights Act United States, 1964-1978 Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University

Taylor Sims , PhD in History Advisor: Katherine French Dissertation: Everyday Women and the English Reformation: Gender and Religion in the Diocese of Salisbury, 1450-1600 Hub Coach, LSA Opportunity Hub, University of Michigan

Tara Weinberg , PhD in History Advisor: Derek Peterson Dissertation: "Property of the People: Black Land Buyers'' Imaginings of Property Ownership, 1900-1994 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Western Cape

Shai Zamir , PhD in History Advisors: Helmut Puff and Ryan Szpiech Dissertation: Friendship and Alternative Kinship in the Early Modern Iberian World Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University

2022 Graduates

Hayley R. Bowman , PhD in History Advisors: Kenneth Mills Dissertation: Ineffable Knowing: Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda in the Early Modern Spanish World Assistant Professor of History, Fairmont State University

John Richard Finkelberg , PhD in History Advisors: Dena Goodman and Joshua Cole Dissertation: Becoming a Man in the Age of Fashion: Gender and Menswear in Nineteenth-Century France, 1830-1870. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington State University

Emmamarie Haasl , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock and Theresa Tinkle Dissertation: The London Bridge House, C.1209-1554: A Case of Civic Growth and Religious Transition in Late Medieval London.

Fusheng Luo , PhD in History Advisor: Par Cassel Dissertation: Land, Law, and Economic Development in Semi-Colonial Guangzhou and Shanghai, 1824-1937. Instructor of Asian History (permanent) at Phillips Exeter Academy

Jeremy Johnson , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Ronald G. Suny Dissertation: Literacy Unveiled: Citizenship, Nationality, Gender and the Campaigns to Eradicate Illiteracy in the Soviet South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) 1922-1936 Data Scientist, Glean

Ian Mladjov , PhD in History Advisors: John V. Fine and Paolo Squatriti Dissertation: Concepts of Emperorship from the Ancient Near East to Medieval Bulgaria Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Pamona College

Aidyn Osgood , PhD in History and Women's and Gender Studies Advisor: Helmut Puff Dissertation: Armies in the Sexual Imaginary of France and the Holy Roman Empire, 1500-1650 Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Pamona College

David Patterson , PhD in History Advisor: Paolo Squatriti Dissertation: Concepts of Emperorship from the Ancient Near East to Medieval Bulgaria Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton's Davis Center for Historical Studies

Daniela Sheinin , PhD in History Advisors: James Cook and Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Staging Neighborhood: Making Queens in the Construction of New York''s Last Great Park Executive Director, Urban History Association

ToniAnn Trevino , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter and Anthony Mora Dissertation: Mexican Americans and The War on Narcotics: Racialized Policing Practices and Community Responses in the Postwar Texas Borderlands Assistant Professor, History, Texas Lutheran University

Dalen Wakely-Smith , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisors: Alaina Lemon Dissertation: They Came Like Gypsies in the NIght: Immigration Regimes, Race, and Romani Representations in New York City 1890-1960 Assistant Professor, History, Washington Univeristy in St. Louis

Charnan Williams , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Countryman and George Sanchez Dissertation: The History of Slavery and Race in California from the Gold Rush to the United States Civil War, 1848-1865. Postdoctoral Fellowship in US Labor History from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Department of Labor Relations, Law & History

2021 Graduates

Farida Begum , PhD in History Advisors: Mrinalini Sinha and Farina Mir Dissertation: Ties that Bind: Women's Friendships in Bengal, 1920-1965.

Zehra Hashmi , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisors: Matthew Hull (Anthropology), Will Glover (History) Dissertation: Identifying Kin: Biometric Belonging and Databased Governance in Colonial South Asia to Postcolonial Pakistan.

Katie LaPlant , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Women's Crime and Social Capital in Eighteenth Century London.

Xiaoyue Li , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: Taming the Iron Horse: Austerity, Subversion and Revolution in Colonial Egyptian Railways, 1876-1924. Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Colby College

Antonio Ramirez , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter and Anthony Mora Dissertation: Chicagolandia: Race and Labor in Latinx Suburbia. Associate Professor of History at Elgin Community College in Illinois

Matthew Villeneuve , PhD in History Advisors: Gregory Dowd and Philip Deloria Dissertation: Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and the Problem of the Frontier for Democracy in Indigenous Education, 1884-1959.

Kathryn Wataha , PhD in History Advisors: Joel Howell (History), Tyler Whitney (German) Dissertation: The Inaudible Sounds of Science: Animals and Media from the Galton Whistle to Bat Echolocation

2020 Graduates

Maximillian Alvarez , PhD in Comparative Literature and History Advisor: Garreth Williams Dissertation: The Place Between: The New York Independent Colored Movement and the Democratic Party, 1881-1905

Jamie Anderson , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Paul Johnson Dissertation: In the Family of Saints: Gender and Race in the Making of Afro-Brazilian Heritage

Molly Brookfield , PhD in History and Women's Studies Advisors: Jay Cook, Lakisha Simmons Dissertation: Watching the Girls Go By: Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980

Cristian Capotescu , PhD in History Advisors: Brian Porter-Szucs, Pamela Ballinger Dissertation: Giving in the Time of Socialism: Economic Life, Humanitarianism, and Mobility in the Global Postwar

Lorena Chambers , PhD in History Advisors: Earl Lewis, George Sanchez Dissertation: From Statecraft to Stagecraft: The Politics of Peddling Mexicanidad in U.S. Entertainment, 1886-1906

Vincent Chan , PhD in History Advisor: Hitomi Tonomura Dissertation: Running the Domain: Truth, Rumours, and the Decision-Making of the Shimazu Warrior Family in 16th Century Japan

Jan Dewitt , PhD in Greek and Roman History Advisor: David Potter Dissertation: Money, Games, and Power: Rome's Lower Magistrates and the Development of a City

Stephanie Fajardo , PhD in History Advisor: Deirdre de la Cruz Dissertation: Illicit Intimacies: Gender, US Empire, and Nationalist Politics in the Postwar Philippines

Hunter Harris , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: When Trust Fails: Merchants, Law, and the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Doreen Kembabazi , PhD in History Advisor: Derek Peterson Dissertation: The State of Morality: Sexual, Reproductive and Sartorial Politics in Idi Amin's Uganda

Alyssa Penick , PhD in History Advisor: Susan Juster Dissertation: Established by Law: Parishes, Power, and Property in the Chesapeake, 1720-1820 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia

Emily Price , PhD in History Advisor: Katherine French Dissertation: "Famous With Her Footsteps": Place, Proof, and the Holy House in England, Italy, and Scotland, 1450-1650

Nana Quarshie , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Derek Peterson, Nguyen Vinh-Kim Dissertation: Bounding 'Alien Lunatics' in Modern Ghana

Amanda Reid , PhD in History Advisor: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof Dissertation: To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Post-Independence Jamaica

Amanda Respess , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Kathryn Babayan Dissertation: The Abode of Water: Shipwreck Evidence and the Maritime Circulation of Medicine between Iran and China in the 9th-14th Centuries

Charley Sullivan , PhD in History Advisor: Nancy Florida Dissertation: Years of Dressing Dangerously: Modern Women, National Identity and Moral Crisis in Sukarno's Indonesia, 1945-1966

Daniel Willford , PhD in History Advisors: Joshua Cole, Gabrielle Hecht Dissertation: Concrete Futures: Technologies of Urban Crisis in Colonial and Post-colonial Morocco

Parrish Wright , PhD in Greek and Roman History Advisor: David Potter Dissertation: Competing Narratives of Identity in Central and Southern Italy, 750 BCE – 300 BCE

2019 Graduates

Steven Arionus , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Amid the Shadows of Progress: Race and the Struggle for Metropolitan Democracy in Twentieth Century San Antonio

Paula Curtis , PhD in History Advisor: Hitomi Tonomura Dissertation: Inauthentic Truths: Forgery, Authority, and Economy in Medieval Japan Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

Kevin Donovan , PhD in Anthropolgy and History Advisors: Jatin Dua, Gabrielle Hecht Dissertation: Sovereign Scales: Frontiers of Value in East Africa Lecturer, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh

Walker Elliott , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter, Phil Deloria Dissertation: The Colorblind Turn in Indian Country: Lumbee Indians, Civil Rights, and Tribal State Formation

Melissa Johnson , PhD in History Advisor: Susan Juster Dissertation: The Talk of the Town: Women, Gossip, and Watchfulness in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Assistant Professor, Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington

Allison Kemmerle , PhD in Ancient History Advisor:  Dissertation: Performance of Identity in Classical Athens

Anna MacCourt , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Carla Sinopoli Dissertation: Lord of the Universe Among Equals: The Challenges of Kingship in Early Historic/Early Medieval Gujarat

Hiroaki Matsusaka , PhD in History Advisors: Leslie Pincus, Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: Border Crossings: Anti-Imperialism and Race-Making in Transpacific Movements, 1910-1951 Tenured Lecturer, Global Studies, Osaka University of Economics

Cyrus O'Brien , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Redeeming Imprisonment: Religion and the Development of Mass Incarceration in Florida Postdoctoral Fellow, Danforth Center for Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis

Alessio Ponzio , PhD in History and Women's Studies Advisors: Dario Gaggio, Scott Spector Dissertation: Scandalous Practices: Homosexuality, Male Prostitution, and Sexual Citizenship in Post-Fascist Italy Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Bruno Renero-Hannan , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisors: Ruth Behar, Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: In the Wake of Insurgency: Testimony and the Politics of Memory and Silence in Oaxaca

John SF Smith , PhD in History Advisor: Victor Lieberman Dissertation: State, Community, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Thailand, 1351-1767

Kate Waggoner-Karchner , PhD in History Advisor: Hussein Fancy Dissertation: Islam and the Church: The Roles of a Medieval Religious Polemic in Early Modern Europe

Kathleen Wroblewski , PhD in History Advisor: Brian Porter-Szucs Dissertation: Migration to the Self: Education, Political Economy, and Religious Authority in Polish Communities, 1880-1929 Assistant Undergraduate Director and Lecturer, History, University of Michigan

2018 Graduates

Jacqueline Antonovich , PhD in History Advisors: Alexandra Minna Stern, Regina Morantz-Sanchez Dissertation: Western Cures: Women Physicians, the Politics of Health, and the Geography of Medicine in the American West, 1870-1930 Assistant Professor of History, Muhlenberg College

Noah Blan , PhD in History Advisor: Paolo Squatriti Dissertation: "To See the Lion Dominating All Creatures and Beasts": Sovereignty and the Environment in Charlemagne's Empire Assistant Professor, Lake Forest University

Pedro Cantisano , PhD in History Advisors: Sueann Caulfield, Rebecca Scott Dissertation: Rio de Janeiro on Trial: Law and Urban Reform in Modern Brazil

Brady G'Sell , PhD in Anthropology and History Advisor:  Adam Ashforth Dissertation: Making Motherhood Work: Women’s Child Support Claims, Race, and the Remaking of Citizenship in South Africa, 1958-2015 Assistant Professor, Departments of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, University of Iowa

Adam Fulton Johnson , PhD in History Advisors: Howard Brick, John Carson Dissertation: Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and the Politics of Documentation in Southwesternist Anthropology, 1880-1930 

Jaymin Kim , PhD in History Advisor: Par Cassel Dissertation: Asymmetry and Elastic Sovereignty in the Qing Tributary World: Criminals and Refugees in Three Borderlands, 1630s-1840s T.T. and W.F. Chao Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University

Benedito Machava , PhD in History Advisors: Derek Peterson, M. Anne Pitcher  Dissertation: The Morality of Revolution: Urban Cleanup Campaigns, Reeducation Camps, and Citizenship in Socialist Mozambique (1974-1988)  Lecturer in the Council of Humanities and HistoryLink-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows2018-2021 Cohort, Princeton University

Sarah Mass , PhD in History Advisor: Kali Israel Dissertation: At the Heart of the City: The Battle for British Marketplaces, c. 1925-1979 Lecturer in Discipline, History, Columbia University

Tapsi Mathur , PhD in History Advisors: Farina Mir, Mrinalini Sinha Dissertation: How Professionals Became Natives: Geography and Trans-Frontier Exploration in Colonial India Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Brittany Maugeri , PhD in History and Women's Studies Advisor: Paulina Alberto Dissertation: Children Lost, Children Found: Literature, Education, and Memory in Transitional Argentina (1982-2000)

Ashley Rockenbach , PhD in History Advisors: Derek Peterson, Pamela Ballinger Dissertation: Contingent Homes, Contingent Nation: Rwandan Settlers in Uganda, 1911-64

Andrew Rutledge , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Still No Peace Beyond the Line: Commerce and Conflict in the Anglo-Spanish Atlantic, 1710-1766 Research Associate, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Jonathan Shaw , PhD in History Advisors: Nancy Rose Hunt, Derek Peterson Dissertation: Youth and Therapeutic Insurgency in Eastern Congo: An Ethnographic History of Ruga-Ruga, Simba, and Mai-Mai Movements, 1870 - Present

Kate Silbert , PhD in History Advisor: Mary Kelley Dissertation: "Committed to Memory": Gender, Literary Engagement, and Commemorative Practice, 1780-1920 Coach, LSA Opportunity Hub, University of Michigan

Ana Maria Silva , PhD in History Advisor: Diane Owen Hughes Dissertation: Roots in Stone and Slavery: Permanence, Mobility, and Empire in Seventeenth-Century Cartagena de Indias

Joost Van Eynde , PhD in History Advisor: Susan Juster Dissertation: Bodies of the Weak: The Circulation of the Indigenous Dead in the British World, 1780-1880

Jacques Vest , PhD in History Advisors: James Cook, Howard Brick Dissertation: Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930

Andrew Walker , PhD in History Advisor: Rebecca Scott Dissertation: Strains of Unity: Emancipation, Property, and the Post-Revolutionary State in Haitian Santo Domingo, 1822-1844

Matthew Woodbury , PhD in History Advisors: Mrinalini Sinha, Kali Israel Dissertation: Humanitarian Governance in Colonial New Zealand (1833 - 1872)

2017 Graduates

Marvin Chochotte , PhD in History Advisor: Richard Turits Dissertation: The History of Peasants, Tonton Makouts, and the Rise and Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship in Haiti Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies

Scott De Orio , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights

Sherry Funches , PhD in History Advisor: Hitomi Tonomura Dissertation: Finding Sanjo Genshi: Women's Visibility in Late Medieval Japanese Aristocratic Journals Office Manager, Central Ms Health Center

Sarah Garibova , PhD in History Advisors: Ronald G. Suny and Jeffrey Veidlinger Dissertation: Memories for a Blessing: Jewish Mourning Rituals and Commemorative Practices in Postwar Belarus and Ukraine, 1944-1991

Nicole Greer Golda , PhD in History & Women’s Studies Advisors: Howard Brick and Regina Morantz-Sanchez Dissertation: To Shape the Future of the Nation: Gender and Family Order in the Age of Americanization, 1890-1952 Lecturer in History, Whittier College

Kevin Gouge , PhD in History Advisor: Hitomi Tonomura Dissertation: The Ties that Bind: Family, Inheritance, and the Environment in Medieval Japan

Joseph Ho , PhD in History Advisor: James Cook, Jr and Par Cassel Dissertation: All Things Visible and Invisible: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Christian Missions in Modern China Assistant Professor, History, Albion College      

Joshua Hubbard , PhD in History & Women’s Studies Advisors: Par Cassel and Wang Zheng Dissertation: Reproductive Subjects: The Global Politics of Health in Nationalist China Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary

Sophie B. Hunt , PhD in History Advisors: Gregory Dowd and Rebecca Scott Dissertation: Grasping the Gulf: Conquest and Indigenous Power from Florida to Yucatan in the Age of Revolutions Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M Eisenberg Institute

Yanay Israeli , PhD in History Advisors: Diane Owen Hughes and Ryan Szpiech Dissertation: Petitions, Justice, and Royal Authority in Late Medieval Castile Assistant Professor,  Romance and Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hafsa Kanjwal,  PhD in History and Women's Studies Advisors: Farina Mir and Mrinalini Sinha Dissertation: Creating Consent: Education, Developmentalism, and Cultural Reform in Naya Kashmir, 1953-1963

Nora Krinitsky , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: The Politics of Crime Control: Race, Policing, and Reform in Twentieth-Century Chicago Lecturer, Residential College; Interim Director, Prison Creative Arts Project, University of Michigan

Jeremy Ledger , PhD in History Advisor: Diane Owen Hughes Dissertation: Mapping Mediterranean Geographies: Geographic and Cartographic Encounters between the Islamic World and Europe, c. 1100-1600 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin (Madison), Institute for the Research in the Humanities

Oana Mateescu , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Matthew Hull, Web Keane, and Katherine Verdery Serial Anachronism: Re-Assembling Romanian Forest Commons

Tiggy McLaughlin , PhD in Greek and Roman History Advisor: Ray Van Dam Dissertation: Christian Pedagogy and Christian Community in the Fifth- and Sixth-Century Mediterranean Adjunct Professor of History, Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA

Shana Melnysyn , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Nancy Rose Hunt Dissertation: Vagabonds, Carriers, Spirits, and Chiefs: Conflict and Mediation in Portuguese Angola, 1880-1910

George Njung , PhD in History Advisor: Rudolph Ware Dissertation: Soldiers of their Own: Honor, Violence, Resistance and Conscription in Colonial Cameroon during the First World War Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington State University

Emma Park , PhD in History Advisor: Gabrielle Hecht  Dissertation:  Infrastructural Attachments: Technologies, Mobility, and the Tensions of Home in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya Assistant Professor, The New School for Social Research New York

Angela Perez-Villa , PhD in History and Women's Studies Advisor: Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: Disorderly Love: Illicit Friendships, Violence, and Law in a Slave Society at War, Popayan, Colombia, 1809-1830 Postdoctoral Fellow, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Rollins College, Florida

Andres Pletch , PhD in History Advisor: Rebecca Scott Dissertation: Isle of Exceptions: Race, Law, and Governance in Cuba, 1825-1856

Alyssa Reiman , PhD in History Advisors: Todd M. Edelman, Dario Gaggio Dissertation: Claiming Livorno: Commercial Networks, Foreign Status, and Culture in the Italian Jewish Diaspora, 1815-1914 Graduate Coach with InGenius Prep

Tasha Rijke-Epstein , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Gabrielle Hecht and Gillian Feeley-Harnik Dissertation: Architectures of Belonging: Moral Economies of Urban Place-Making in Mahajanga, Madagascar Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University 

Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra , PhD in History and Women's Studies Advisor: Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: Insurgent Butterflies: Gender and Revolution in El Salvador, 1965-2015 Adjunct Instructor, Smith College

Amir Syed , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Rudolph Ware Dissertation: Al-ḤājjʿUmar Tāl and the Realm of the Written: Mastery, Mobility and Islamic Authority in 19th Century West Africa Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

So Jung Um , PhD in History Advisor: Leslie Pincus Japanese Colonial Policy Studies, 1909-1945: Nitobe Inazo, Yanaihara Tadao, and Tobata Seiichi

2016 Graduates

Luciana Aenasoaie , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Alaina Lemon Dissertation: Weaving and Unraveling the Factory Town: Social Alterations and European Belonging in the Aftermath of Romanian Industrial Collapse, 1950-2015 Assistant Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Michigan

Ismail Alatas , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Webb Keane Dissertation: Aligning the Sunna and the Jama'a: Religious Authority and Islamic Social Formation in Contemporary Central Java, Indonesia Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, New York University

Jonathan Brack , PhD in History Advisor: Kathryn Babayan Dissertation: Mediating Sacred Kingship: Conversion and Sovereignty in Mongol Ruled Iran Postdoctoral Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 

Michelle Cassidy , PhD in History Advisors: Michael Witgen and Gregory Dowd Dissertation: “Both the Honor and the Profit”: Anishinaabe Warriors, Soldiers, and Veterans from Pontiac’s War through the Civil War Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Miami University

Adriana Chira , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Rebecca Scott and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof Dissertation: The Uneasy Intimacies: Race, Family, and Property in Santiago de Cuba, 1803-1868 Assistant Professor, History, Emory University

Joshua Coene , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: The Contentious Prison: From Rehabilitation to Incapacitation in New South Wales and Pennsylvania, 1965-1990

Robyn d'Avignon , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Gabrielle Hecht Dissertation: Making Artisanal Miners: Nature, Knowledge, and Subterranean History in Senegal Assistant Professor, New York University

Tara Dosumu Diener , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Nancy Rose Hunt  Dissertation: A Hospital in situ: Maternity Nursing Practice in Freetown since 1892 Thinking Matters Fellow, Stanford University

Chelsea Del Rio , PhD in History Advisor: Regina Morantz-Sanchez Dissertation: That Women Could Matter: Building Lesbian Feminism in California, 1955-1982

Jonathan Farr , PhD in History Advisor: Diane Owen Hughes Dissertation: Imagined Geographies and the Production of Space in Occitania and Northern Catalunya in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Pascal Massinon , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter and James Cook, Jr Dissertation: Active Listening: The Cultural Politics of Magnetic Recording Technologies in North America, 1945-1990

Austin McCoy , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter and Anthony Chen Dissertation: No Radical Hangover: Progressive Economic Responses to Economic Crisis in the Midwest, 1967-1989 Assistant Professor, History, Auburn University

Drew Meyers , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Sun Citizens: The Culture and Politics of Retirement in Modern America

Nevila Pahumi , PhD in History Advisors: John Fine and Pamela Ballinger Dissertation: Of Women, Faith, and Nation: American Protestantism and the Kyrias School for Girls, Albania, 1891-1933 Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London, Centre for Southeast European Studies, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies

Katherine Rosenblatt , PhD in History Advisors: Deborah Dash Moore and Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Cooperative Battlegrounds: Farmers, Workers, and the Search for Economic Alternatives Postdoctoral Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

Garrett Ryan , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisor: Raymond Van Dam Dissertation: Placing Power: Greek Cities and Roman Governors in Western Asia Minor, 69-235 CE Lecturer, Department of History, University of Michigan

Marie Stango , PhD in History Advisors: Mary Kelley and Brittany Hughes Dissertation: Vine and Palm Tree: African American Families in Liberia, 1820-1860 Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Bakersfield

Jessica Stephens , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisors: David Potter and Bruce Frier Dissertation: Aristocratic Identities in the Roman Senate from the Social War to the Flavian Dynasty

Joseph Viscomi , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Dario Gaggio and Andrew Shryock Dissertation: Out of Time: History, Presence, and the Departure of the Italians of Egypt, 1933-Present Lecturer in modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London

2015 Graduates

Pouya Alimagham , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprising Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emma Amador , PhD in History Advisors: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof & Richard Turits Dissertation: Welfare is Work: Social Welfare, Migration, and Women’s Activism in Puerto Rican Communities Since 1917 2016-2018 Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University, Providence, RI Assistant Professor, Goucher College, Baltimore MD

Eugene Cassidy , PhD in History Advisor: Geoff Eley Dissertation: Germanness, Civilization, and Slavery: Southern Brazil as German Colonial Space Teacher, Miss Porter's School, Farmington CT

Christopher Estrada , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Sueann Caulfield & Stuart Kirsch Dissertation: Caboclos of Nazareth: Improvisation and Renovation in Maracatu de Baque Solto of PernambucoVisiting Research Associate, King's College London

Rebecca Grapevine , PhD in History Advisors: Barbara Metcalf & Thomas Trautmann Dissertation: Family Matters: Citizenship and Marriage in India, 1939-72 Visiting Lecturer, Antioch College in Bihar

Paul Hebert , PhD in History Advisor: Kevin Gaines Dissertation: A Microcosm of the General Struggle: Black Thought and Activism in Montreal, 1960-1969

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto , PhD in History Advisor: Susan Juster Dissertation: The Imperial Zions: Mormons, Polygamy, and the Politics of Domesticity in the Nineteenth Century Assistant Professor, Montana State University

Elizabeth Kamali , JD and PhD in History Advisor: Thomas Green Dissertation: A Felonious State of Mind:  Mens Rea  in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England Assistant Professor, Harvard University School of Law

Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein , PhD in History Advisor: Brian Porter-Szucs Dissertation: Peasant Heroes and symbolic Ennoblement: The Limits of the Modern Historical Imagination in Poland, 1840-1914 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Emily Merchant , PhD in History Advisor: John Carson Dissertation: Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century 2016-17 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth University 2017 Assistant Professor, University of Californa-Davis

Bertrand Metton , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Ronald Suny Dissertation: From the Popular Front to the Eastern Front: Youth Movements, Travel, and Fascism in France (1930-1945) Lecturer, City University of New York-Queens

Joshua Mound , PhD in Sociology & History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter & Anthony Chen Dissertation: Inflated Hopes, Taxing Times: Fiscal Crisis, the Pocketbook Squeeze, and the Roots of the Tax Revolt 2016-17 Postdoc, Smith Institute for Political Economy, Miami University of Ohio

Davide Orsini , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Gabrielle Hecht & Stuart Kirsch Dissertation: Life in the Nuclear Archipelago: Cold War Technopolitics and US Nuclear Submarines in Italy Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University

Holly Rapp , PhD in History Advisors: James Cook & Howard Brick Dissertation: The Material and the Real: American Conceptions of Materialism in the Nineteenth Century

Anthony Ross , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter & Howard Brick Dissertation: The Ownership Society: Mortgage Securitization and the Metropolitan Landscape Since the 1960s Research Associate, University of Michigan

Ali Sipahi , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Andrew Shryock Dissertation: At Arm’s Length: Historical Ethnography of Proximity in Harput

Edgar Taylor , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Derek Peterson and Nancy Rose Hunt Dissertation: Asians and Africans in Ugandan Urban Life, 1959-1972 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa 

Christopher Tounsel , PhD in History Advisor: Derek Peterson Dissertation: 'God will Crown Us': The Construction of Religious Nationalism in Southern Sudan, 1898-2011 Assistant Professor, Penn State University

Andrea Wright , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Matthew Hull & Farina Mir Dissertation: Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in the Arabian Sea   **Winner of the 2015 AGAPS Dissertation Award from the Association of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Assistant Professor, William and Mary College

2014 Graduates

Richard Antaramian , PhD in History Advisors: Juan Cole & Gerard Libaridian Dissertation: In Subversive Service of the Sublime State: Armenians and Ottoman State Power, 1844-1896 Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

A. Sheree Brown , PhD in History Advisor: Katherine French Dissertation: ‘That peace shall always dwell among them and true love be upheld’: Charity, the Seven Works of Mercy, and Lay Fellowship in Late Medieval and Early Reformation England

Andrew Cavin , PhD in History Advisor: Scott Spector Dissertation: Encountering Others, Imagining Modernity: Primitivism in German Ethnology, Art, and Theory Postdoc, Rutgers University

Crystal Chung , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Kali Israel Dissertation: Across the Colonial Divide: Friendship in the British Empire, 1875-1940

William Claytor IV , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisor: Ian Moyer Dissertation: Mechanics of Empire: the Karanis Register and the Writing Offices of Roman Egypt Postdoc, University of Basel

Krista Goff , PhD in History Advisors: Douglas Northrop & Ronald Suny Dissertation: What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Miami

Aston Gonzalez , PhD in History Advisor: Martha Jones Dissertation: Visualizing Equality: African American Abolitionist Champions of Race, Rights, and Visual Culture, 1830-1880 Assistant Professor, History, Salisbury University, MD

Benjamin Graham , PhD in History Advisor: Paolo Squatriti Dissertation: Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE Assistant Professor, University of Memphis

Michael Leese , PhD in History Advisors: Bruce Frier & Sara Forsdyke Dissertation: Economic Decision Making and Money-Making Strategies in Ancient Greece Postdoc, Classics, Italian Studies & Humanities, University of New Hampshire

Jack Merchant , PhD in History Advisors: Rudolf Mrazek & Victor Lieberman Dissertation: The New Road: A History of Vietnamese Society and French Colonialism in the Early 20th Century Founder, Teacher, Curriculum Developer for Think Academic Services in Seattle

Rebecca Mitchell , PhD in History Advisor: James Cook Dissertation: Opera in a New Age: Mass Media, the "Popular," and Opera,1900-1960

Anshuman Pandey , PhD in History Advisor: Thomas Trautman Dissertation: Recasting the Brahmin in Medieval Mithila Postdoc, Linguistics, University of California-Berkeley

Eric Schewe , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: State of Siege: The Development of the Security State in Egypt During the Second World War

Ronit Stahl , PhD in History Advisor: Deborah Dash Moore Dissertation: God, War, and Politics: The American Military Chaplaincy and the Making of a Multi-Religious Nation Postdoc, Washington University

Morgan Veraluz , PhD in History Advisor: Philip Deloria Dissertation: Deserts of Plenty, Rivers of Want: Apaches and the Inversion of the Colonial Encounter in the Chihuahuan Borderlands, 1581-1788 Lecturer, Tennessee State University

Christine Walker , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: To Be My Own Mistress: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and the Creation of Britain’s American Empire, 1660 - 1760 Assistant Professor, History, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX

Rebecca Wall , PhD in History Advisors: Joshua Cole & Todd Endelman Dissertation: The Jews of the Desert: Colonialism, Zionism, and the Jews of the Algerian M'zab, 1882-1962 Program Officer, Office of International Relations, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Cookie Woolner , PhD in History Advisors: James Cook Jr. & Regina Morantz-Sanchez "The Famous Lady Lovers:" African American Women and Same-Sex Desire from Reconstruction to World War I Postdoc, African American Studies, Case Western Reserve University

2013 Graduates

Daniel Birchok , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Webb Keane Dissertation: Sojourning on Mecca’s Porch: Place, Temporality and Islamic Practice in an Indonesian Province Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint

Paul Brykczynski , PhD in History Advisor: Brian Porter-Szucs Dissertation: Political Murder and the Victory of Ethnic Nationalism in Interwar Poland

Maria Paz Esguerra , PhD in History Advisor: Scott Kurashige Dissertation: Interracial Romances of American Empire: Migration, Marriage, and Law in early twentieth century California Postdoc, University of Illinois

Kara French , PhD in History Advisor: Mary Kelley Dissertation: The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1860 Assistant Professor, History, Salisbury College, MD

Sarah Hamilton , PhD in History Advisors: Dario Gaggio & Douglas Northrop Dissertation: Lake Effects: Transnational History and the Making of a Valencian Landscape Assistant Professor, Auburn University

Federico Helfgott , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Stuart Kirsch & Bruce Mannheim Dissertation: Transformations in Labor, Land and Community: Mining and Society in Pasco, Peru, 20th Century to the Present Lecturer, Nat'l University of San Marcos and Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Peru

Erik Huneke , PhD in History Advisors: Kathleen Canning & Geoff Eley Dissertation: Morality, Law, and the Socialist Sexual Self in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1972 Postdoc, St. Joseph University

Kevin Jones , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: The Poetics of Revolution: Cultures, Practices, and Politics of Anti-Colonialism in Iraq, 1932 - 1960 Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Elspeth Martini , PhD in History Advisor: Greg Dowd Dissertation: The Tides of Morality: Anglo-American Colonial Authority and Indigenous Removal, 1820-1848 Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh

Purvi Mehta , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Farina Mir Dissertation: Recasting Caste: Histories of Dalit Transnationalism and the Interationalization of Caste Discrimination Assistant Professor, Colorado College

Pedro Monaville , PhD in History Advisor: Nancy Rose Hunt Dissertation: Decolonizing the University: Postal Politics, The Student Movement, and Global 1968 in the Congo Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College

Edgardo Perez-Morales , PhD in History Advisors: Rebecca Scott & Richard Turits Dissertation: Itineraries of Freedom Revolutionary Travels and Slave Emancipation in Colombia and the Greater Caribbean, 1789-1830 Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Elizabeth Platte , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisor: Ray Van Dam Dissertation: Monks and Matrons: The Economy of Charity in the Late Antique Mediterranean Mellon Teaching Fellow, Kalamazoo College

Esteban Rozo Pabon , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Stuart Kirsch Dissertation: Remaking Indigeneity: Conversion and Colonization in Northwest Amazonia Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia

Grace Sanders Johnson , PhD in History & Women's Studie Advisor: Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: La Voix des Femmes: Haitian Women’s Rights, National Politics and Black Activism in Port-au-Prince and Montreal, 1934-1986 Postdoc, Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Herbert Sosa , PhD in History Advisor: Terrence McDonald Dissertation: Fragmented Diversity: School Desegregation, Student Activism, and Busing in Los Angeles, 1963-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton

Ian Stewart , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Kelly Askew & Paul C. Johnson Dissertation: The Tenacity of Bondage: An Anthropological History of Slavery and Unfree Labor in Sierra Leone Postdoc & Teaching Fellow, University of British Columbia

2012 Graduates

Claudia Arno , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisors: David Potter & Nicola Terrenato Dissertation: How Romans Became “Roman”: Creating Identity in an Expanding World Student, University of Michigan Law School

Wojciech Beltkiewicz , PhD in History Advisor: Valerie Kivelson Dissertation: As it was in the Beginning: Representations of Historical Continuity in the Defense of Ruthenian Greek-Rite Catholicism, 1539-1772 Academic Advisor, Indiana University

Ross Bowling , PhD in History Advisor: Scott Spector Dissertation: Mediating Expertise: Sensational Reportage in Weimar Berlin Presidential Management Fellow, Dept Health and Human Services, Washington D.C.

Aaron Cavin , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: The Borders of Citizenship: Latinos, Asian Americans, and Metropolitan Politics in Silicon Valley Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University of Ohio

Alexander Conison , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisor: Bruce Frier Dissertation: The Organization of Rome's Wine Trade Asst Brand Mgr, Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits, NY

Isabelle deRezende , PhD in History Advisor: Nancy Rose Hunt Dissertation: Visuality and Colonialism in the Congo: From the “Arab War” to Patrice Lumumba, 1880s to 1961 Postdoc, University of Western Cape, Capetown, South Africa

Laura Ferguson , PhD in History Advisors: Mary Kelley & Jay Cook Dissertation: Gateway City: The Makings and Meanings of San Francisco's "Golden Gate," 1846-1906 Visiting Assistant Professor, Whitman College

Jennifer Finn , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisors: David Potter & Margaret Root Dissertation: Alexander the Great: Forming Political Identity in a Multicultural Empire Doctoral Fellow in Assyriology, Munchner Zentrum fur Antike Welten, Ludwig-Maximilians University

Kenneth Garner , PhD in History Advisor: Joshua Cole Dissertation: Seeing is Knowing: The Education Cinema Movement in France, 1910-1945 Adjunct Faculty, Oakland Community College, Southfield MI

Jason Gavilan , PhD in History Advisor: Scott Kurashige Dissertation: Politics of Enlistment and the “U.S.-Philippine Nation”: Civilian and Enlisted Filipinos within (and beyond) the U.S. Navy, circa 1941-1965 Postdoc, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Powel Kazanjian , PhD in History Advisor: Joel Howell Dissertation: The Beginnings of Bacteriology in American Medicine: Frederick Novy 1888-1933 Professor, University of Michigan Medical School

Dong Ju Kim , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Gillian Feeley-Harnik Dissertation: Taking Better Care of the Fields: Knowledge Politics of Sugar Beet, Soil, and Agriculture after Socialism in Western Poland Assistant Professor, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

Sara Lampert , PhD in History Advisor: Jay Cook Dissertation: Performing Women, Public Womanhood, and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century Cultural Marketplace Assistant Professor, History, University of South Dakota

Susanna Linsley , PhD in History Advisor: Susan Juster Dissertation: The American Reformation: The Politics of Religious Liberty, Charleston and New York 1770-1830 Teacher, Archer School for Girls, Houston TX

Sarah McDermott Thompson , PhD in History Advisors: Joshua Cole & Rita Chin Dissertation: Creole Citizens of France: The Trans-Atlantic Politics of Antillean Education and the Creole Movement since 1945 Researcher, Washington DC

Nafisa Essop Sheik , PhD in History Advisor: David W. Cohen Dissertation: Colonial Rites: Custom, Marriage Law and the Making of Difference in Natal, 1830s - c.1910 Lecturer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Jared Secord , PhD in Greek and Roman History Advisor: Ray Van Da Dissertation: Elites and Outsiders: The Greek-Speaking Scholars of Rome, 100 BCE - 200 CE Harper Smith Fellowship, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago

Stephen Sparks , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Gabrielle Hecht Dissertation: Apartheid Modern: South Africa’s Oil from Coal Project and the History of a Company Town Lecturer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Joshua White , PhD in History Advisor: Rudi Lindner Dissertation: Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Colleen Woods , PhD in History Advisor: Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: Bombs, Bibles, and Bureaucrats: The United States, the Philippines, and the Making of Global Anti-Communism, 1945-1960 Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

2011 Graduates

Karen Acton , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisor: David Potter Dissertation: Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Arizona

Danna Agmon , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Diane Owen Hughes & Sumathi Ramaswamy Dissertation: An Uneasy Alliance: Traders, Missionaries, and Tamil Intermediaries in Eighteenth-Century French India Assistant Professor, History Department and ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought), Virginia Tech

Alexander Angelov , PhD in History Advisor: John V.A. Fine, Jr. Dissertation: Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Missionaries, Foreign Rulers, and Christian Narratives (ca. 300-900) Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, College of William and Mary

Millington Bergeson-Lockwood , PhD in History Advisor: Martha Jones Dissertation: Not as Supplicants but as Citizens: Race, Party, and African American Politics in Boston, Massachusetts, 1864-1903 2012-13 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and Economy, Carnegie Mellon University

Anne Berg , PhD in History Advisor: Geoff Eley Dissertation: In and Out of War: Space, Pleasure and Cinema in Hamburg, 1938-1949 Lecturer, Department of History, University of Michigan and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History

Guillermo Bustos , PhD in History Advisor: Rebecca Scott Dissertation: The Crafting of Historia Patria in an Andean Nation: Historical Scholarship, Public Commemorations and National Identity in Ecuador, 1870’s-1940’s Profesor agregado, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador

Ian Campbell , PhD in History Advisor: Douglas Northrop Dissertation: Knowledge and Power on the Kazakh Steppe, 1845-1917 Postdoc (2011-2012), Department of History, Harvard University Assistant Professor (2012), Department of History, University of California, Davis

Andrew Conroe , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Webb Keane Dissertation: Generating History: Violence and the Risks of Remembering for Families of Former Political Prisoners in Post-New Order Indonesia Assistant Professor, Sociology / Writing and Critical Thinking, National University of Singapore

Kealani Cook , PhD in History Advisor: Damon Salesa Dissertation: Kahiki Native Hawaiian Relationships with Other Pacific Islanders 1850-1915 Adjunct Professor, Hawai'i Pacific University

James Dator , PhD in History Advisors: Susan Juster & Julius Scott Dissertation: Search for a New Land: Space, Power, and AfroCreole Resistance in the British Leeward Islands, 1624-1745 Assistant Professor, Goucher College

Dasa Francikova , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisors: Geoff Eley & Scott Spector Dissertation: 'All Czechs, but Particularly Women:' Women's Role and Place in Building the Modern Czech Nation, 1820s - 1850s Visiting Lecturer (2011-2012), Feminist Studies Department, University of California-Santa Barbara

Daniel Hershenzon , PhD in History Advisor: Diane Owen Hughes Dissertation: Early Modern Spain and the Creation of the Mediterranean: Captivity, Commerce, and Knowledge Assistant Professor, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Connecticut

Lauren Hirshberg , PhD in History Advisors: Damon Salesa & Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: Targeting Kwajalein: U.S. Empire, Militarization and Suburbanization and the Marshall Islands, 1944-1986 Visiting Assistant Professor (2012-14), Department of History, University of California Los Angeles

Jeff Kaja , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Worlds in Motion: Internal Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1800 Assistant Professor, California State University Northridge

Monica Kim , PhD in History Advisor: Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: Humanity Interrogated: Empire, Nation, and the Political Subject in United States-controlled Prisoner of War Camps during the Korean War, 1942-1960 Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany

Kirsten Leng , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisors: Kathleen Canning & Scott Spector Dissertation: Contesting the "Laws of Life": Feminism, Sexual Science, and Sexual Governance in Germany and Britain, 1880-1914 Postdoc (2011-2013), Gender Studies, Department of History and Sexualities Project, Northwestern University

Mark Lotito , PhD in History Advisors: Michael Allen & Tom Tentler Dissertation: Wittenberg Historiography: Philipp Melanchthon and the Reformation of Historical Thought Attorney, Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Labor and Employment Practice Group

Alex Lovit , PhD in History Advisor: J. Mills Thornton Dissertation: “The Bounds of Habitation”: The Geography of the American Colonization Society, 1816-1860

Rob Maclean , PhD in History Advisor: Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: After Modern Jazz: The Avante-Garde and Jazz Historiography Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Janam Mukherjee , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Barbara Metcalf Dissertation: Hungry Bengal; War, Famine, Riots, and the End of Empire, 1939-1946

Graham Nessler , PhD in History Advisor: Richard Turits Dissertation: A Failed Emancipation? The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola during the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1809 Adjunct Assistant Professor (2012), Texas A & M

Angela Parker , PhD in History Advisor: Philip Deloria Dissertation: Taken Lands: Territory and Sovereignty on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 1934-1960 Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, Dartmouth College

Ray Patton , PhD in History Advisor: Brian Porter-Szücs Dissertation: Screamed Poetry: Rock in Poland’s Last Decade of Communism Assistant Professor,History, Geography & Political Science, Drury College

Andrew Ross , PhD in History Advisor: Joshua Cole Dissertation: Urban Desires: Practicing Pleasure in the “City of Light,” 1848-1900 Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College

Aaron Sealy , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: In Their Place: Marking and Unmarking Shi’ism in Pahlavi Iran

Brian Zottoli , PhD in History Advisor: Victor Lieberman Dissertation: Reconceptualizing Southern Vietnamese History from the 15th to the 18th Centuries: Competition along the Coasts from Guangdong to Cambodia Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council

2010 Graduates

Dea Boster , PhD in History Advisor: Martin Pernick Dissertation: Unfit for Bondage: Disability and African American Slavery in the United States 1800-1860 Lecturer, Columbus State Community College, Columbus OH

Heloise Finch-Boyer , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: David W. Cohen Dissertation: We could have had a revolution!: “creolizing” French citizenship and social rights in La Reunion, a French Overseas Department 1946-2009 Curator, National Maritime Museum, Greenwhich, UK

Tracy Flemming , PhD in History Advisors: Mamadou Diouf & Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Dissertation: Negro: Travel and the Pan-African Imagination During the Nineteenth Century Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Grand Valley State University

Lily Geismer , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: Don’t Blame Us: Grassroots Liberalism in Massachusetts, 1960-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College

Emanuela Grama , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Gillian Feeley-Harnik & Katherine Verdery Dissertation: Searching for Heritage, Building Politics: Architecture, Archaeology, and Representations of the Past in Romania (1947-2007) PostDoctoral Fellow, European University

Monty Hindman , PhD in History Advisor: Terrence McDonald Dissertation: The Rise and Fall of Wealth Taxation: An Inquiry into the Fiscal History of the American States Program Manager, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

Clay Howard , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: The Closet and the Cul de Sac: Sex, Politics, and Suburbanization in Postwar California Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross

Sergio Huarcaya , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisors: Fernando Coronil & Bruce Mannheim Dissertation: Othering National Identity Alterity and Indigenous Activism in Otavolo, Ecuador PostDoctoral Fellow, University of London, Royal Holloway

Najeeb Jan , PhD in History Advisors: Juan Cole & Nicholas Dirks Dissertation: The Metacolonial State: Pakistan, the Deoband ‘Ulama and the Biopolitics of Islam Assistant Professor, Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder

Daniel Livesay , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary

Diana Mankowski , PhD in History Advisors: Jay Cook & Matthew LassiterGendering the Disco Dissertation: Inferno: Sexual Revolution, Liberation and Popular Culture in 1970s America

Cynthia Marasigan , PhD in History Advisor: Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: Ambivalent Belligerents: African American Soldiers, Filipino Revolutionaries, and the Philippine-American War Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Asian & Asian-american Studies, SUNY Binghamton

A. Azfar Moin , PhD in History Advisor: Barbara Metcalf Dissertation: Islam and the Millennium: Sacred Kingship and Popular Imagination in Early Modern India and Iran Assistant Professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University

Minayo Nasiali , PhD in History Advisors: Rita Chin & Joshua Cole Dissertation: Native to the Republic: Negotiating Citizenship and Social Welfare in Marseille “Immigrant” Neighborhoods since 1945 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona

Isabela Quintana , PhD in History Advisors: Maria Montoya & Philip Deloria Dissertation: Neighborhood Borders, National Boundaries: Gender, Space and Border Formation in Chinese and Mexican Los Angeles, 1871-1938 Assistant Professor (2013), New Mexico State University

Will Redfern , PhD in History Advisor: Rudolf Mrazek & Victor Lieberman Dissertation: Sukarno’s Guided Democracy and the Takeovers of Foreign Companies in Indonesia in the 1960s Postdoc, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, University of Michigan

Sam Temple , PhD in History Advisors: Joshua Cole & Laura Downs Dissertation: Mountain, Moor and Marsh: The Politics of Environmental Transformation in Southern France, 1850-1950 Lecturer, Expository Writing Program, University of Oklahoma

Sudipa Topdar , PhD in History Advisors: Tom Trautman & Sumathi Ramaswamy Dissertation: Knowledge and Governance: Political Socialization of the Indian Child within Colonial Schooling and Nationalist Contestations in India (1870-1925) Assistant Professor, Department of History, Illinois State University

Lenny Ureña Valerio , PhD in History Advisors: Geoff Eley & Brian Porter-Szücs Dissertation: The Stakes of Empire: Colonial Fantasies, Civilizing Agendas and Biopolitics in the Prussian-Polish Provinces (1840-1914) Assistant Director for Administration,Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

Ying Zhang , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisors: CS Chang & Wang Zheng Dissertation: Politics and Morality during the Ming-Qing Dynastic Transition (1570-1670) Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University

2009 Graduates

Allison Abra , PhD in History Advisors: Kali Israel & Sonya Rose Dissertation: On With the Dance: Nation, Culture, and Popular Dancing in Britain, 1918-1945 Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Southern Mississippi

Nate Andrade , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisors: Ray Van Dam & David Potter Dissertation: “Imitation Greeks”: Being Syrian in the Greco-Roman World (175 BCE - 275 CE) Assistant Professor, Department of History, West Virginia University

Catherine Cangany , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot, 1701-1837 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame

Victoria Castillo , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Sueann Caulfied Dissertation: Indigenous “Messengers” Petitioning for Justice: Citizenship and Indigenous Rights in Peru, 1900-1945 Lecturer, Departments of History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Sherri Charleston , PhD in History Advisors: Michelle Mitchell & Rebecca Scott Dissertation: The Fruits of Citizenship: African Americans, Military Service, and the Cause of Cuba Libre, 1898-1914 Law Student, University of Wisconsin

Shuang Chen , PhD in History Advisor: James Lee Dissertation: Where Urban Migrants Met Rural Settlers: State Categories, Social Boundaries, and Wealth Stratification in Northeast China, 1815 - 1913 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa

Robert Chidester , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Henry Wright Dissertation: Class, Community, and Materiality in a Blue-Collar Baltimore Neighborhood: An Archaeology of Hampden-Woodberry Faculty Researcher, University of Maryland Principal Investigator for Archaeology, Mannik & Smith Group

Daniel DeSelm , PhD in History Advisor: Paolo Squatriti Dissertation: Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian Era (c. 830-930) Term Faculty, George Mason University

Sara Babcox First , PhD in History Advisors: Mary Kelley and Susan Juster Dissertation: The Mechanics of Renown; or, the Rise of a Celebrity Culture in Early America Visiting Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, Miami University, OH

Madina Goldberg , PhD in History Advisor: William Rosenberg Dissertation: Russian Empire - Tatar Theater: The Politics of Culture in Late Imperial Kazan

Andrew Highsmith , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter & J. Mills Thornton Dissertation: Demolition Means Progress: Race, Class, and the Deconstruction of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan Assistant Professor, College of Public Policy, University of Texas San Antonio

Matthew Ides , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter & Regina Morantz-Sanchez Dissertation: Cruising for Community: Youth, Politics and Culture in Los Angeles, 1910-1970 Lecturer, Department of History and the University College,University of North Carolina

Robert Kruckeberg , PhD in History Advisor: Dena Goodma Dissertation: The Wheel of Fortune in Eighteenth-Century France: The Lottery, Consumption, and Politics Assistant Professor, Department of History, Troy College

Peter Lawless , PhD in History Advisors: Geoff Eley & Scott Spector Dissertation: The Nomad Past: German Histories, Italian Journeys, and the Visible Texture of Time Medical student

Ji Li , PhD in History Advisor: James Lee Dissertation: Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930 Senior Instructor in History, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sonja Luehrmann , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Alaina Lemon Dissertation: Forms and Methods: Teaching Atheism and Religion in the Mari Republic, Russian Federation Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

Craig MacAllister . PhD in History Advisor: J. Mills Thornton Dissertation: New England’s Calhounites: The Henshaw Faction of Massachusetts Democratic Party, 1828-1850

Will Mackintosh , PhD in History Advisor: Mary Kelley Dissertation: Expected Sights: The Origins of Tourism in the United States Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington

Afshon Ostovar , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: Guardians of the Islamic Revolution Ideology, Politics, and the Development of Military Power in Iran (1979-2009) Middle East Analyst at CNA, Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins University

Monica Patterson , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: David W. Cohen Dissertation: Constructions of Childhood in Apartheid's Last Decades Assistant Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

LaKisha Simmons , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisors: Hanna Rosen & Michelle Mitchell Dissertation: Black Girls Coming of Age: Sexuality and Segregation in New Orleans, 1930-1954 Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and History, University of Michigan

Deborah Solomon , PhD in History Advisor: Leslie Pincus Dissertation: Imperial Lessons: Discourses of Domination and Dissent in the 1929 Kwangju Student Protests Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Otterbein College

Peter Soppelsa , PhD in History Advisors: Joshua Cole & Gabrielle Hecht Dissertation: The Fragility of Modernity: Infrastructure and Everyday life in Paris, 1870-1914 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma

Stefan Stantchev , PhD in History Advisor: Diane Owen Hughes Dissertation: Embargo: The Origins of an Idea and the Implications of a Policy in Europe and the Mediterranean, ca. 1100 - ca. 1500 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Arizona State University

Angela Dowdell Thompsell , PhD in History Advisors: Kali Israel & Sonya Rose Dissertation: Real Men/Savage Nature: British Big Game Hunting in Africa, 1880-1914 Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Brockport

Alice Weinreb , PhD in History Advisors: Kathleen Canning & Scott Spector Dissertation: Matters of Taste: The Politics of Food and Hunger in Divided Germany 1945-1971 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago

Christian Williams , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: David W. Cohen Dissertation: Exile History: An Ethnography of the SWAPO Camps and the Namibian Nation Senior Lecturer, University of the Free State, South Africa

2008 Graduates

Jose Amador , PhD in History Advisor: Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: “Redeeming the Tropics”: Public Health and National Identity in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, 1890-1940 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Miami University, OH

Jonathan Arnold , PhD in History Advisor: Ray Van Dam Dissertation: Theoderic, the Goths, and the Restoration of the Roman Empire Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Tulsa

Shiva Balaghi , PhD in History Advisor: Geoff Eley Dissertation: Nationalism and Cultural Production in Iran, 1848-1906 PostDoc, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University

Monica Burguera , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisors: Geoff Eley & Sonya Rose Dissertation: Class, Gender, and the Political Meanings of Philantropy: Redefining Women and the Social in Liberal Madrid (1837-1843)

Robert Chenault , PhD in Greek & Roman History Advisor: Ray Van Dam Dissertation: Rome Without Emperors: The Revival of a Senatorial City in the Fourth Century CE Assistant Professor, History & Classical Studies Departments, Willamette University

Anna Cichopek , PhD in History Advisors: Todd Endelman & Brian Porter-Szücs Dissertatioin: Jews, Poles, Slovaks: A Story of an Encounter, 1944-48 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Western Ontario

Saskia Coenen-Snyder , PhD in History Advisor: Todd Endelman Dissertation: Acculturation and Particularism in the Modern European City: Synagogue Building and Jewish Identity in Northern Europe Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina

Nathan Connolly , PhD in History Advisor: Matthew Lassiter Dissertation: By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of an American South Florida Assistant Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Isabel Cordova , PhD in History Advisor: Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: Transitioning: The History of Childbirth in Puerto Rico, 1948-1990s Assistant Professor, History & Political Science Departments, Nazareth College

Marie Cruz Soto , PhD in History Advisor: Fernando Coronil Dissertation: Inhabitating Isla Nena, 1514-2003: Time-Space Narrations, Imperial Dramas and Vieques, Puerto Rico Clinical Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

Christina DeLisle , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Penny Von Eschen Dissertation: Native Lives/Navy Wives: The Cultural and Historical Relations between American Naval Wives and Chamorro Women in Guam 1898-1945 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jonathan Eacott , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Owning Empire: The Matter of India in the English-speaking World, 1730-1830 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California Riverside

Saadia Eisenberg , PhD in History Advisors: Diane Owen Hughes & Stefanie Siegmund Dissertation: Reading Medieval Religious Polemic: The 1240 Debate between Friar Nicholas Donin and Rabbi Yehiel of Paris

Doris Essah , PhD in History Advisor: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Dissertation: Fashioning Hairdressing in Southern Ghana: The Roles of Education, Professionalism and Cultural Heritage, 1990 to the Present Assistant Professor, Guildford College

Joshua First , PhD in History Advisor: William Rosenberg Dissertation: Scenes of Belonging: Cinema and the Nationality Question in Soviet Ukraine, 1960-1980 Assistant Professor, Croft Institute for International Studies, University of Mississippi

Brendan Goff , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter & Richard Candida-Smith Dissertation: The Heartland Abroad: The Rotary Club's Mission of Civic Internationalism Visiting Assistant Professor, New College of Florida

Edin Hajdarpasic , PhD in History Advisors: John Fine & Geoff Eley Dissertation: Whose Bosnia? National Movements, Imperial Reforms, and the Political Re-Ordering of the Late Ottoman Balkans, 1840-1875 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago

Emil Kerenji , PhD in History Advisors: Todd Endelman & John Fine Dissertation: Jewish Citizens of Socialist Yugoslavia: Politics of Jewish Identity in a Socialist State, 1944-1974 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina

Clapperton Mavhunga , PhD in History Advisor: Gabrielle Hecht Dissertation: The Mobile Workshop: Mobility, Technology, and Human-Animal Interaction in Gonarezhou (National Park), 1850-Present Assiociate Professor, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Amanda Moniz , PhD in History Advisor: David Hancock Dissertation: Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815 Assistant Director, National History Center, American Historical Association

Jennifer Palmer , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Dena Goodman Dissertation: Atlantic Crossings: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Families in Eighteenth-Century La Rochelle Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia

Aleksandra Pfau , PhD in History Advisors: Diane Owen Hughes & Helmut Puff Dissertation: Madness in the Realm: Narratives of Mental Illness and Communities in Late Medieval France Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hendrix College

Jinny Prais , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisors: Mamadou Diouf & Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Dissertation: Imperial Travelers: The Formation of West African Urban Culture, Identity, and Citizenship in London and Accra, 1925-1935 PostDoc, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Kidada Williams , PhD in History Advisor: Michelle Mitchell Dissertation: In the Space of Violence: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Supremacy and Survival after Emancipation Assistant Professor, History Department, Wayne State University

2007 Graduates

Thomas Alvarez , PhD in History Advisor: J. Mills Thornton Dissertation: The Place Between: The New York Independent Colored Movement and the Democratic Party, 1883-1905

Sarah Arvey , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Rebecca Scott Dissertation: Labyrinths of Love: Sexual Propriety, Family, and Social Reform in the Second Cuban Republic, 1933-1958 Manager/Researcher, Lance Armstrong Foundation

Chandra Bhimull , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Sonya Rose Dissertation: Empire in the Air: Speed, Perception, and Airline Travel in the Atlantic World Assistant Professor, Colby College

Rebecca Brannon , PhD in History Advisor: Susan Juster Dissertation: Reconciling the Revolution: Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Community in the Wake of Civil War in South Carolina, 1775-1860 Assistant Professor, Department of History, James Madison University

Tamar Carroll , PhD in History Advisors: Matthew Lassiter and Regina Morantz-Sanchez Dissertation: Grassroots Feminism: Direct Action Organizing and Coalition Building in New York City, 1955-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Rochester

Michael Chiang , PhD in History Advisor: Ernest Young Dissertation: Lessons in Bureaucracy: The Politics of Crisis Management and the Pedagogy of Reform in Qing China Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drake University

Erika Gasser , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Carol Karlsen Dissertation: Manhood, Witchcraft, and Possession in Old and New England, 1580-1740 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati

Juan Hernandez , PhD in History Advisor: Fernando Coronil Dossertation: Walking with the Shadows of the Past: History, Space and Violence in Chile’s Transition Adjunct Professor, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

Caroline Jeannerat , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: David W. Cohen Dissertation: An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Aouspansberg, South Africa, in the 19th and 20th Centuries Lecturer in History, St. Augustine College of South Africa

Katrin Jellema , PhD in Anthropology & History Advisor: Gillian Feeley-Harnik Dissertation: When You Drink from the Stream, Remember the Source: A Moral Geography of Memory in Renovation-Age Vietnam Program Director, Certificate in Nonprofit Management, Marlboro College, VT

Mia Lee , PhD in History Advisor: Geoff Eley Dissertation: Art and Politics in West Germany: The Cultural Origins of 1968 Visiting Assistant Professor, American University Cairo

Marti Lybeck , PhD in History Advisors: Kathleen Canning & Geoff Eley Dissertation: Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin La Crosse

Roberta Pergher , PhD in History Advisors: Geoff Eley & Dario Gaggio Dissertation: A Tale of Two Borders: Settlement and National Transformation in Libya and South Tyrol under Fascism Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas

Rebekah Pite , PhD in History & Women's Studies Advisor: Sueann Caulfield Dissertation: Creating a Common Table: Doña Petrona, Cooking, and Consumption in Argentina, 1928-1983 Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Lafayette College

Bhavani Raman , PhD in History Advisor: Sumathi Ramaswamy Dissertation: Document Raj: Scribes and Writing in Early Colonial-Rule Madras, 1771-1860 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University

Tamara Walker , PhD in History Advisor: Rebecca Scott Dissertation: Ladies, Gentlemen, Citizens and Slaves: Dressing the Part in Lima, 1723-1854 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Taymiya Zaman , PhD in History Advisor: Juan Cole Dissertation: First-Person Narratives and the Writing of Mughal Empire Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of San Francisco

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What is Biden's team hiding about its pledge to 'shut down' America's largest Christian university?

I n testimony before Congress, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona vowed to "shut down" Grand Canyon University (GCU), one of the nation’s largest and most successful private colleges – and the motive appears purely political. 

Secretary Cardona’s department has targeted GCU with a $37.7 million fine, the largest fine ever assessed in agency history. By comparison, the Department of Education fined Penn State $2.4 million for failing to report the sex crimes of Jerry Sandusky, and Michigan State $4.5 million for failing to address sexual assault committed by Larry Nasser. 

What is the basis for this extraordinary fine? The department alleges that GCU failed to properly inform Ph.D. students that they must take courses while completing their dissertations. This is a pretextual deceit. 

Cardona’s testimony, and public records requested by the Goldwater Institute, reveal that the government’s real motive is not any misconduct on the part of GCU, but animus toward private, affordable education that does not tow the statist party line.

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By any metric, GCU is a success story . Starting with less than 1,000 students and few course offerings, now the university has over 100,000 students enrolled across its programs, and offers degrees in every conceivable discipline. 

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GCU is known for helping the low-income community of Phoenix. It has a successful record of graduating students into good jobs, including in the trades. It celebrates diversity of viewpoints and ideas. And most impressively, GCU has not raised tuition for their students in over 15 years. 

This is in stark contrast to the public universities plagued with extreme ideologies, bloated administrations and crippling student debt.

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One would think that the Biden administration’s Education Department would applaud this success. Instead, it has besieged the university with a coordinated effort among various federal agencies and politically motivated bureaucrats. 

When news of the government’s assault on GCU broke, the Goldwater Institute, where we work, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Department of Education, seeking communications among senior personnel at the department and other federal agencies. 

We also sought the number of student complaints that were submitted regarding GCU’s graduate programs. Tellingly, no records of complaints have been produced. Instead, the department produced 800 pages of records that were almost entirely redacted. 

What is the federal government hiding, and why won’t Department of Education officials inform the public about how and why it imposed the largest fine in its history on one of the nation’s largest, best-performing private schools?

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Cardona’s congressional testimony , and one record that was produced, suggests the reason: the federal government’s decision to attack GCU is not an enforcement decision, it is a political one. 

When the agency imposed the fine on GCU, it did so with a ceremonious press release – odd by any measure, and especially odd for government authorities who should impartially conduct investigations and bring only bona fide enforcement cases. 

We now suspect that press releases were done in coordination with the White House. In emails between Shin Inouye, the deputy assistant secretary for communications at the Department of Education, and senior department officials, Inouye is coordinating the department’s messages with the "WH," or White House. 

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In one Oct. 6, 2023, email, Inouye asks senior officials about a document he is "sending to the WH," and seeks a "[l]ast call for edits." Inouye then states, "WH cleared. Sending to reporters now." 

Unfortunately, the vast majority of these communications were redacted. So, it is unclear what sort of "clearance" department officials charged with investigating and prosecuting cases would seek from the White House. 

What is clear, however, is that politicians and political appointees appear more concerned with directing a press narrative than with fairly adjudicating legal allegations. This should alarm every American.   

Cardona’s testimony that he aims to "shut down" GCU reveals that the federal government has no interest in allowing private colleges and universities to provide successful alternatives to the higher education status quo. 

And because the department is refusing to provide information about this extraordinary fine, the public is still left wondering why the Biden administration isn’t focused on improving higher education in America, but instead on a politically motivated prosecution that is only harming students trying to get a good and affordable education. 

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Stacy Skankey is an attorney at the Goldwater Institute, which has filed suit against the Department of Education to compel production of public records. 

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