Graduate Student Bios and Research

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

Bell, Frances
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Hannah Rosen
email: [[frbell]]
Current Research: Atlantic World, Diaspora and Migration, Slavery and Abolition

Bowthorpe, Avonlea
Ph.D. Student
advisor: Paul Mapp
Email: [[acbowthorpe]]
Current Research: Atlantic World, Gender and Sexuality, Labor and Unfreedom

Boyce, Kathleen (Katie)
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Adrienne Petty
email: [[klboyce]]
email: kboyce@usga.org
Current Research: History of Sports & Leisure; Gilded Age & Progressive Era

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

Brooks, Grace
M.A. Student
advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura
Email: [[gcbrooks]]
Current Research: International relations of the interwar period, Anglo-American relations, and historical memory
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-brooks-history/

Carrington, Colleen
M.A. Student
advisor: Andrew Fisher

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

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

Conner, G. Jasper
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Melvin P. Ely
Current Research: African American, Disability, Labor
Website: gjasperconner.com

Cooke, Ethan
M.A. Student
advisor: Simon Middleton
email: [[eacooke]]
Current research: Atlantic World, Early America, Enlightenment

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

Estreicher, Justin
Ph. D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Andrew Fisher
Email: [[jtestreicher]]
Current Research: United States, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Cultural/Intellectual

Garrison, Taylor M.
Ph.D. Student
advisor: Hannah Rosen
email: [[tmgarrison]]
Current Research: Early America, Women and Gender, Family

Goldberger, Tyler J.
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura
email: [[tjgoldberger]]
Current Research: Historical memory, America in the World, transnationalism and human rights
Website: tylergoldberger.com

Gruntner, Holly
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Karin Wulf
email: [[hlgruntner]]
Current Research: Early America, Science, Labor

Haddad, Samantha (Sam)
Ph.D. Student
advisor: Dr. Leisa Meyer
Email: [[srhaddad]]
Current Research: Ireland/Irish America, Women/LGTBQ, Nationalism/Republicanism, Transnational Social Movements

Hardin, Jenna
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Kathrin Levitan
Current Research: History of Emotion, Early America, Early Modern Britain

Haygood, Tamia
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Hannah Rosen
Email: tkhaygood@email.wm.edu

Jackson, Bryleigh
M.A. Student
advisor: Jody Allen
Email: [[bpjackson]]

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

Knox, Lucy
M.A. Student
advisor: Joshua Piker
Email: [[lhknox]]

Lee, Travis
Ph. D. Student
advisor: Andrew Fisher
Email: [[thlee02]]
Current Research: Early America, America in the World, Social/Cultural

Lukow, Jamie
M.A. Student
advisor: Nicholas Popper

Macdonald, Alexandra M.
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Nicholas S. Popper
Email: [[ammacdonald]]
Current Research: Material Culture, Time & Temporality, Atlantic World
Website: http://alexandrammacdonald.com/

Magness, Emily Dixon
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Joshua Piker
email: [[edmagness]]
Current Research: Gender and Sexuality, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Early America

McCall, Sidney Rose
Ph. D. Student
advisor: Jody Allen
Email: [[srmccall01]]
Current Research: U.S. South, Environmental Racism and Resistance (slavery and Jim & Jane Crow), Childhood, Historic Black Communities, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Website: https://www.instagram.com/rosecolored_scholar/

Merriman, Jennifer
Ph.D. Student
advisor: Nicholas Popper
Email: [[jamerriman]]
Current Research: Germany, Atlantic World, History of the Book

Miralles Bianconi, Micaela
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Dr. Fabricio Prado
email: [[mmirallesbianc]]
Current Research: Atlantic History- Latin American History- Rio de la Plata

Monahan, Pierce
M.A. Student
advisor: Julia Gaffield
Current Research: Barbary Wars; Atlantic World; National Identity

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

Munda, Brandon
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Nick Popper

Oxford, Mitchell Edward
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Christopher Grasso
email: [[meoxford]]
Current Research: American Religion; Atlantic world; Catholicism in the Americas

Packel, Zoë
M.A. Student
advisor: Joshua Piker
Email: [[zmpackel]]
Current Research: Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Environmental History, Early America

Pellissier, Marie
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Karin Wulf
email: [[mapellissier]]
Current Research: Early America, Food History, Memory & Public History

Powell, Anne
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Karin Wulf
email: [[acpowell]]
Current Research: Early America, New England Studies, Native American/Indigenous Studies

Pressley, Gabrielle
M.A. Student
advisor: Leisa Meyer
Current Research: Women and Gender History, Military History/War and Society, Women in Wartime
Email: [[gsgranger]]

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

Sneff, Emily
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Karin Wulf
email: [[ejsneff]]
Current Research: Early America, Book History
website: emilysneff.com

Sweat-Montoya, Sydney
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Dr. Julia Gaffield and Dr. Fabricio Prado
Email: [[ssweatmontoya]]
Current Research: Caribbean History, Political Economy

Telling, Katy
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Karin Wulf
email: [[kstelling]]
Current Research: Quakers in early America; 17th/18th c. Family/Gender; early American South

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

Warren, Elliot
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Paul Mapp
email: [[ejwarren]]
Current Research: Age of Revolutions, History of Capitalism, the French and British Atlantics

Weisenberger, Kayla P.
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Dr. Joshua Piker
email: [[kmpittman]]
Current Research: Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Historical Memory, Race

Wells, Emily
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Karin Wulf
email: [[epwells]]
Current Research: Girlhood, Material Culture, American South

Werner, Kai R.
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Josh Piker
Email: [[kwerner]]
Current Research: Spanish Borderlands, Knowledge, the American West

Wu, Qiong
M.A. Student
advisor: Paul Mapp
email: [[qwu11]]
Current Research: global Early America, history of capitalism, the early US-China Ocean Commerce

Young, Peighton
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Hannah Rosen