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Graduate Student Bios and Research

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Abrams

Abrams, Andrew
Ph. D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Simon Middleton
Email: [[aabrams]]
Current Research: Early America, Political Economy, History of Science

Bowthorpe

Bowthorpe, Avonlea
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Catherine Kelly
Email: [[acbowthorpe]]
Current Research: Women and Gender; Atlantic World; Economic History

Brabble

Brabble, Jessica
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Melvin Ely
Current Research: American South; Popular Culture; Eugenics and Disability
Email: [[jmbrabble]]

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Burner, Fallon
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Joshua Piker
Current Research: Indigenous History, Vast Early America, Atlantic World

Case

Case, Timothy
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Melvin Ely
Email: [[tacase]]
Current Research: Civil War/Emancipation Memory, African American History, Spatial History

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Chrysanthis, Thalia
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Hannah Rosen
Email: [[tchrysanthis]]
Current Research: United States, Legal History, Women and Gender

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Critchfield, William
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Dr. Adrienne Petty
Current Research: American South, Extralegal Violence, Historical Memory

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Donovan, Sarah
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Josh Piker
email: [[sfdonovan]]
Current Research: Early American Frontier, British/Irish Atlantic World, Extralegal Violence

Garrison

Garrison, Taylor M.
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Hannah Rosen
email: [[tmgarrison]]
Current Research: Family, Gender and Sexuality, Slavery

Haddad

Haddad Prophet, Samantha (Sam)
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Dr. Brianna Nofil
Email: [[srhaddad]]
Current Research: Immigration, Carceral State, Legal History, Ireland/Irish America, Twentieth Century U.S

Hardin

Hardin, Jenna
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Kathrin Levitan
Email: [[jlhardin]]
Current Research: History of Emotion, Early America, Early Modern Britain

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Hillam, Kaitlyn
Ph. D. Student
Advisor: Julia Gaffield
Current Research: Atlantic World; Family; Women and Gender

Maho Inomata

Inomata, Maho
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura
Current Research: Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Imperialism and Colonialism, Comparative and Transnational
Email: [[minomata]]

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Jockel, Joan
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Karin Wulf
Current Research: British Atlantic, Gender and Sexuality, Race

Knox

Knox, Lucy
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Joshua Piker
Email: [[lhknox]]
Current Research: Early America, religious history, indigenous history.

Lee

Lee, Travis
Ph. D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura
Email: [[thlee02]]
Current Research: U.S.-East Asian Relations, Hawaiʻi, Immigration, Labor

Sydney Livingston

Livingston, Sydney Marie
M.A. Student
Advisor: Catherine Kelly
Current Research: Early America, Women, Native American History
Email: [[smlivingston]]

McCall

McCall, Sidney Rose
Ph. D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Jody Allen
Email: [[srmccall01]]
Current Research: Environmental history of the American South, Black ecology, underground railroads, and abolition

Mason McClure

McClure, Mason
MA Student
Advisor: Nicholas Popper
Current Research: Atlantic World, Virginia, Seventeenth Century

Merriman

Merriman, Jennifer (Jenny)
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Nicholas Popper
Email: [[jamerriman]]
Current Research: Germany, Atlantic World, Book History

Miralles Bianconi

Miralles Bianconi, Micaela
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Fabricio Prado
email: [[mmirallesbianc]]
Current Research: Atlantic World, Vast Early Americas, Economic History and Capitalism, Imperialism and Colonialism.

Jen Motter

Motter, Jennifer
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Popper
Email: [[jamotter]]
Current Research: Early Modern Dutch Empire, Atlantic World, History of Knowledge

Packel

Packel, Zoë
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Joshua Piker
Email: [[zmpackel]]
Current Research: Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Environmental History, Early America

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Pintaude, Luigi
Ph. D. Student
Advisor: Fabricio Prado
Current Research: Transatlantic Slave Trade, History of Capitalism, Colonial Latin America
Website: https://wm.academia.edu/LuigiPintaude

Lucas Rodriguez

Rodriguez, Lucas R.
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Joshua Piker
Current Research: Early Indigenous history, race and race-making, early American Northeast
Email: [[lrrodriguez]]

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Schwartz, Kaila Knight
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Karin Wulf
email: [[kkschwartz]]
Current Research: Early America, the history of the family, New England

Smitherman

Smitherman, Kirsten A.
Ph. D. Student
Advisor: Catherine E. Kelly
Email: [[kasmitherman]]
Current Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Early America, History of the Body, Sex, & Gender

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Stackpole, Evan
M.A. Student
Advisor: Dr. Simon Middleton
Current Research: Early America; United States; Material Culture

Sydney

Sweat-Montoya, Sydney
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Julia Gaffield and Dr. Fabricio Prado
Email: [[ssweatmontoya]]
Current Research: Caribbean; Early America; Atlantic World

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Taylor, Lillian
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Nicholas Popper
Current Fields: Atlantic World, Environmental, Cultural/Intellectual

Luke Taylor

Taylor, Luke
M.A. Student
Advisor: Simon Middleton
Current Research: United States, Social History, Political Economy
Email: [[lptaylor]]

Toussiant

Toussaint, Rebekah
Ph. D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Adrienne Petty
Email: [[rljoyce]]
Current Research: Gender and Race; 19th/20th c. America; Transnational/Comparative; Public History and Memory

Ilan Werblow

Werblow, Ilan
M.A. Student
Advisor: Adrienne Petty
Current Research: History of Science and Technology, Agricultural History, Modern US.
Email: [[iwerblow]]

Bennett White

White, William Bennett
Ph. D. Student
Advisor: Carol Sheriff
Email: [[wbwhite]]
Current Research: Antebellum United States, U.S. Civil War Era, Civil War memory

Wu

Wu, Qiong
Ph.D. Student
advisor: Dr. Fabricio Prado
email: [[qwu11]]
Current Research: Vast Early America, the Early U.S.-China Trade, Comparative and Transnational

Xinyi Xu

Xu, Xinyi
Ph. D. Student
Advisor: Kathrin Levitan
Email: [[xxu12]]
Current Research: History of Emotion, Modern Britain