Graduate Student Bios and Research

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

Badal, Jacob
MA Student
Advisor: Fabricio Prado

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

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

Brotz, Skylar
M.A. Student
Advisor: Dr. Kathrin Levitan
Current Research: Modern Europe, Transnationalism and Human Rights, Historiography and Historical Memory
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/skylar-brotz-961a0a334

Bull, Mary
MA Student
Advisor: Andrew Fisher

Burner, Fallon
MA Student
Advisor: Joshua Piker

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

Chia, Eve-Marie
M.A. Student
Advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura

Chrysanthis, Thalia
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
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

Copeland, Emmaline
MA Student
Advisor: Catherine Kelly

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

Diestelow, Kevin
M.A. Student
Advisor: Paul Mapp
Current Research: Early America; Political History

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

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

Gilbert, Abigail
MA Student
Advisor: Catherine Kelly

Glahn, Meredith
MA Student
Advisor: Kathrin Levitan

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

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

Haygood, Tamia
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Hannah Rosen
Email: [[tkhaygood]]

Heil, Jonathan
MA Student
Advisor: Carol Sheriff

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

Huber, Elliot
MA Student
Advisor: Julia Gaffield

Inomata, Maho
MA Student
Advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura

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

Keegan, Lucy
M.A. Student
Advisor: Julia Gaffield

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

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

Lewis, Nia-Patrice
MA Student
Advisor: Nicole Dressler

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

McCall, Sidney Rose
Ph. D. Student (ABD)
advisor: Jody Allen
Email: [[srmccall01]]
Current Research: Environmental History, Long Civil Rights Movement, Childhood, Gender, and Unfreedom

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

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

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

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

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

Pintaude, Luigi
MA Student
Advisor: Fabricio Prado

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

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

Tamae, Rafael
MA Student
Advisor: Fabricio Prado

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

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

Warren, Elliot
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor: Simon Middleton
email: [[ejwarren]]
Current Research: Age of Revolutions; History of Capitalism; Early America

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: Joshua Piker
Email: [[kwerner]]
Current Research: Spanish Borderlands; Early America; American West

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

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

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