
Graduate Students


Semiu Adegbenle
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
African Diaspora and African American History; Colonial, Imperial, and Diasporic History
Advisor(s):
Sean Hanretta

Jacob Adesina
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Political & Policy History; Religious History: Urban History; War & Empire in History
Advisor(s):
Akin Ogundiran


Elizabeth Barahona
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Economic & Labor History; Political & Policy History; Religious History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Geraldo L. Cadava


Julia Barr
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial, and Diasporic History; Political and Policy History
Advisor(s):
Deborah Cohen; Kennetta Hammond Perry


Gabriel Ben-Jacob
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Political and Policy History; Religious History; Colonial, Imperial, and Diasporic History.
Advisor(s):
Caitlin Fitz



Gaby Bucio
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Field(s):
United States, Latin America
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History
Advisor(s):
Geraldo L. Cadava

Jiahao Cao
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Field(s):
East Asia, Modern Europe
Specialization:
Political and Policy History
Advisor(s):
Lauren Stokes

Cole Carter
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Legal & Criminal History
Advisor(s):
Michael J. Allen

Mariana Charry Esguerra
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Field(s):
Latin America
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History; Religious History
Advisor(s):
Paul Ramírez


Zhiqing Chen
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial, and Diasporic History; Economic and Labor History; Gender and Sexuality History, History of Science, Technology and Medicine War and Empire in History
Advisor(s):
Melissa Macauley


Ming-hsi Chu
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Modern China; Comparative Legal History
Advisor(s):
Melissa Macauley

Ramon Martin Co
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History; Economic & Labor History; Political & Policy History; War & Empire in History.
Advisor(s):
Michael J. Allen


Savoy Curry
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Field(s):
Early Modern Europe, Medieval Europe
Specialization:
Jewish Studies, Gender Studies
Advisor(s):
Dyan Elliott; David Shyovitz


Alexandra De Leon
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Modern Japan
Advisor(s):
Laura Hein

Adriaan Denbroeder
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Environmental History, Urban History, War & Empire in History
Advisor(s):
Melissa Macauley

Ziyana Fazal
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Field(s):
South Asia
Specialization:
Gender and Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Ashish Koul

Alison Foster
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora & African American History
Advisor(s):
Leslie M. Harris

Jose Galvan Mora
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Public History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Geraldo L. Cadava

Esther Ginestet
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Intellectual History, History of Gender and Ethnicity, History of Migrations
Advisor(s):
Jonathon Glassman; David Schoenbrun; Florence Bernault


Cayla Harrison
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora and African American History; Economic and Labor History; Gender and Sexuality History; Legal and Criminal History
Advisor(s):
Kate Masur

Kathryn Birks Harvey
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Legal History
Advisor(s):
Kevin Boyle; Ajay Mehrotra, Joanna Grisinger, Erin Delaney



Brooklyn Hortenstine
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
History of Science, Technology & Medicine; Legal & Criminal History; Political & Policy History
Advisor(s):
Benjamin Frommer

Elizabeth Howell
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
Central Europe
Advisor(s):
Lauren Stokes

Maria Katsulos
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Field(s):
Medieval Europe, Early Modern Europe
Specialization:
Gender & Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Scott Sowerby

Mila Kaut
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Environmental History; Gender and Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Kate Masur


Dami Kim
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora and African American History; Gender & Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Leslie M. Harris

William Kirsch
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Economic and Labor History; Political and Policy History
Advisor(s):
Kathleen Belew


Junwoo Lee
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Field(s):
International History
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History; Economic & Labor History; War & Empire in History; History of Science, Technology & Medicine
Advisor(s):
Daniel Immerwahr


Danylo Leshchyshyn
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial, and Diasporic History; Political and Policy History; Religious History; Urban History; War and Empire in History
Advisor(s):
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern


Youjia Li
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Social, gender, and immigration history in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century Asia, specifically in Japan and China.
Advisor(s):
Amy Stanley

David Li
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
War & Empire History; Economic & Labor History; Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History;
Advisor(s):
Melissa Macauley




Madelyn Lugli
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Field(s):
International History
Specialization:
International Europe
Advisor(s):
Deborah Cohen; Daniel Immerwahr

Hope McCaffrey
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Gender, Women's History, Nineteenth Century
Advisor(s):
Kate Masur

Drew Meinecke
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Religious History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Brett Gadsden

Heather Menefee
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Native American & Indigenous Studies, Universities & Colonialism, Dakota Language & History
Advisor(s):
Kate Masur

Jan Michael
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Gender & Sexuality History; Legal & Criminal History; Political & Policy History
Advisor(s):
Kathleen Belew

Bennett Miller
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora & African American History; Political & Policy History
Advisor(s):
Kathleen Belew; Kevin Boyle

Hugh Milner
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Field(s):
Medieval Europe, Modern Europe
Specialization:
Environmental History
Advisor(s):
Lydia Barnett


Anastasiya Novatorskaya
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
Gender & Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Ifeayin Eziamaka “Ezi” Ogbuli
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Economic and Labor History; Gender & Sexuality History; Legal & Criminal History; Religious History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Helen Tilley

Uchechukwu Oguchi
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Environmental History; Legal and Criminal History; Political and Policy History; Religious History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Helen Tilley

Esther Osei Adjei
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Environmental History; Religious History, Urban History
Advisor(s):
Akin Ogundiran

Daniel Ospina Perez
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Field(s):
Latin America
Specialization:
Political & Policy History, Religious/Urban History
Advisor(s):
Lina Britto


Catherine Perez
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Field(s):
Early Modern Europe, Medieval Europe
Specialization:
Gender & Sexuality History; Political & Policy History; Religious/Urban History
Advisor(s):
Scott Sowerby



Erika Revelo
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Field(s):
Latin America
Specialization:
Economic & Labor History; Political & Policy History; Religious History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Lina Britto

Hannah Reynolds
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History; Gender & Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Susan J. Pearson

Eric Michael Rhodes
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Field(s):
Latin America, United States
Specialization:
Religious History; Urban History
Advisor(s):
Kevin Boyle


Cole Roecker
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Environmental History
Advisor(s):
Keith Woodhouse


Aoi Saito
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Japanese History, Global History
Advisor(s):
Amy Stanley

Kenneth Salter
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora & African American History
Advisor(s):
Kate Masur

Rachel Sarcevic-Tesanovic
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
France and the French Empire from the 18th to the 20th Century
Advisor(s):
Sarah Maza

Eunike G. Setiadarma
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Field(s):
Southeast Asia
Specialization:
Modern Indonesia
Advisor(s):
Haydon Cherry

Maya Shenoy
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
Economic & Labor History; legal & Criminal History; Political & Policy History
Advisor(s):
Susan J. Pearson; Ajay K. Mehrotra



Sara M. B. Simon
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
History of Science, Technology & Medicine
Advisor(s):
Susan J. Pearson




Angela Tate
Field(s):
International History
Specialization:
Black Internationalism
Advisor(s):
Daniel Immerwahr

Marquis Taylor
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora and African American History; Gender & Sexuality History; Political & Policy History
Advisor(s):
Leslie M. Harris

Deborah Tulloch
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Field(s):
United States
Specialization:
African Diaspora and African American History; Colonial, Imperial, and Diasporic History; History of Science, Technology & Medicine; Political & Policy History; Religious & Urban History.
Advisor(s):
Brett Gadsden


Rita Velasco
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Field(s):
Latin America
Specialization:
Mexico
Advisor(s):
Paul Gillingham; Geraldo L. Cadava

Rachel Wallner
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Field(s):
East Asia
Dissertation Title:
“Knowledge Politics, Science, and the Struggle for Power in the South China Sea, 1890-1966”
Advisor(s):
Melissa Macauley

Yiming Wang
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Field(s):
East Asia
Specialization:
Gender & Sexuality History
Advisor(s):
Peter J. Carroll

Aaron Wilford
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Environmental History
Advisor(s):
Sean Hanretta; Helen Tilley

Kyle Woods
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Field(s):
Modern Europe
Specialization:
Political & Policy History; War & Empire in History
Advisor(s):
Benjamin Frommer

Umar Yandaki
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Field(s):
Africa
Specialization:
Colonial, Imperial and Diasporic History; Political & Policy History
Advisor(s):
Sean Hanretta