Graduate Awards & Achievements

 

MA Degree-by-Thesis

Morgan Flaherty, “Spinning Sugar, Refining America: Consumers and Creators of Dessert in the Long Eighteenth Century”; Advisor: Dr. Holly Brewer

 

Angelo Sfondiles, “The Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century”; Advisor: Dr. Madeline Zilfi

 

Dissertation Prospectus

Derek Litvak; Advisor: Dr. Holly Brewer

Kerry Tanner; Advisor: Dr. Saverio Giovacchini

Mischa Wolfinger; Advisor: Dr. Robyn Muncy

 

Dissertations

Christiane Marie Abu Sarah, “To Drink a Cup of Fire: Morality Tales and Moral Emotions in Egyptian, Algerian, and French Anti-Colonial Activism, 1945-1960”; Advisor: Dr. Peter Wien

 

Jonathan Allen, “Self, Space, Society, and Saint in the Well-Protected Domains: A History of Ottoman Saints and Sainthood, 1500-1780”; Advisor: Dr. Ahmet Karamustafa

 

Joshua Bearden, “Intimate Entanglement: The Gendered Politics of Race and Family in the Gulf South, 1740-1840”; Advisor: Dr. Clare Lyons

 

Lucien Holness, “Between North and South, East and West: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania”; Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

 

Joshua Klein, “The ‘Europa-Gedanke’ and the Transformation of German Conservatism, 1930-1955”; Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Herf

 

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

Diego Hurtado Torres (Ph.D.), Advisor: Karin Rosemblatt

1. Published a book entitled Las palabrasno se laslleva el viento: Lenguajespolíticosy democracia durante el gobierno de la Unidad Popular (1970-1973) [The Wind Cannot Sweep WordsAway: Political Languagesand Democracy during the Popular Unity Government]. Santiago: Centro de Estudios Bicentenario, 2019.

 

Thomas Messersmith (Ph.D.); Advisor: Marsha Rozenblit

1. Co-authored "The Canaries of Democracy: Imagining the Wandering Jew with Artist Rosabel Rosalind Kurth-Sofer” for Contemporaneity 8 (2019).

 

AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

 

ARHU Travel Award

Dustin Cranford (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Arthur Eckstein

 

Goldhaber Travel Awards

Stanley Maxson (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Leslie Rowland

 

EXTERNAL AWARDS & PRIZES

Nicole Mahoney (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

1. AHA Council Annual Meeting Travel Grant

2. American Antiquarian Society Stephen Botein Fellowship

3. Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship

 

JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Marie Abu Sarah (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Peter Wien

1. Assistant Professor at Erskine College

2. Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

MA Degree-by-Examination

Alexis Castillo; Advisor: Dr. David Sartorius

 

MA Degree-by-Thesis

John Andrews, “Between Rebel Flags: Iraqi Vexillology and State Iconography, 1921-2017”; Advisor: Dr. Peter Wien

 

Ana Nadalini Mendes, “Engendered Experiences of Freedom: Liberated African Women in Rio de Janeiro (1834-1864)”; Advisor: Dr. Daryle Williams

 

Kathryn Schmitt, “Odd Characters: Queering Baltimore’s Past”; Advisor: Dr. Clare Lyons

 

Dissertation Prospectus

Caroline Angle; Advisors: Dr. Paul Landau & Peter Wien

Charlie Fanning; Advisor: Dr. Julie Greene

Sophie Hess; Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

Diego Hurtado Torres; Advisor: Dr. Karin Rosemblatt

Liz Novara; Advisor: Dr. Robyn Muncy

Mauricio Restrepo; Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Cañeque

 

Dissertations

Laura Frank, “Jewish Marriage and Divorce in America, 1830-1924”; Advisor: Dr. Marsha Rozenblit

 

Ryan Haddad, “America’s Commercial Cold War: Global Trade, National Security, and the Control of Markets”; Advisor: Dr. David Sicilia

 

Nicole Mahoney, "Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: Francophilia in the Early Republic, 1775-1800”; Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

 

Tyler Pitrof, “Too Far on a Whim to Walk Back on a Hunch: The US Navy and High-Steam Technology, 1930-1945”; Advisor: Dr. Jon Sumida

 

Justin Shapiro, “Decent, Safe, and Sanitary?” Public Housing and the Environment of Eastern Washington, D.C.; Advisor: Dr. Thomas Zeller

 

Rene Staedtler, “The Price of Reconciliation: West Germany, France and the Arc of Postwar Justice for the Crimes of Nazi Germany, 1944-1963”; Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Herf

 

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

Evan Ash (Ph.D.); Advisor: Saverio Giovachinni

1. Review of Comics in Wisconsin by Paul Buhle published in The Cleveland Review of Books

2. Review of American Splendor, forthcoming in The Metropole, Urban History Association

3. "Combat on Crusade: Religious Moral Advocacy in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1953-1969," was accepted for presentation at the Midwestern History Association conference in May.

 

John Patrick Fetherston (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

1. Presented his paper "I would not lift a hand...': A Tavern Fire, the Domestic Slave Trade, and Honorable Protest in Early Washington, D.C." at the Barnes Conference.

 

AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

 

DEPARTMENT

 

Dissertation Awards

Katie Labor; Advisor: Dr. Holly Brewer

Lauren Michalak; Advisor: Dr. Holly Brewer

Kader Smail; Advisor: Dr. Antoine Borrut

Kerry Tanner; Advisor: Dr. Saverio Giovacchini

 

ARHU/UNIVERSITY

 

Goldhaber Travel Awards

Nicole Mahoney (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

 

Ann G. Wylie Fellowship

Eben Levey (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Karin Rosemblatt

Kyle Pruitt (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Julie Greene

 

Mabel S. Spencer Award

Sabrina Gonzalez; Advisor: Dr. Karin Rosemblatt

 

Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship

Kader Smail (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Antoine Borrut

Derek Litvak (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Holly Brewer

 

EXTERNAL

John Patrick Fetherston (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

1. Barnes Conference Paper Prize

 

JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Laura Frank (Ph.D.), Advisor: Dr. Marsha Rozenblit

1. Director of the Contemporary Jewish Life Department at AJC (the American Jewish Committee)

 

Nicole Mahoney (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Richard Bell

1. Adjunct Assistant Professor in the CUNY School of Professional Studies Museum Studies Program

 

Justin Shapiro (Ph.D.); Advisor: Dr. Thomas Zeller

1. Postdoc at Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)