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Abbott, Nicholas          eMail: nabbott@wisc.edu          Advisor: Wink, André

  • Areas of Interest (if available): South Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "State and Faction: Ethnicity and Political Practice in the Sultanate of Gujarat, 1420-1572"

Aldous, Gregory          eMail: gwaldous@wisc.edu          Advisor: Morgan, David O.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle Eastern History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The History of the Concept of the Islamic City: A Reappraisal"

Anderson, Melissa          eMail: mlanderson6@wisc.edu          Advisor: McCoy, Alfred W.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
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Asaka, Ikuko          eMail: iasaka@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kantrowitz, Stephen / Boydston, Jeanne

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Negotiations of Freedom across Borders: Constructions of Race, Gender, and National Identities around Discourses on Fugitive Slaves from the United States to Canada, 1830-1869"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Bacher, Marcus          eMail: mbacher@wisc.edu          Advisor: Archdeacon, Thomas J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/Immigration/Foreign Relations
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Backer, Kellen          eMail: kbacker@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century Cultural Social Hist
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "World War II and the Triumph of Industrialized Food"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Balto, Simon          eMail: sebalto@wisc.edu          Advisor: Plummer, Brenda Gayle

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/Civil Rights History
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Bellais, Leslie          eMail: lbellais@wisc.edu          Advisor: Lee, Jean B.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early 20th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Bringing Up the Rear: Late Nineteenth-Century Bustles and their Significance"

Belson, Mark          eMail: mbelson@wisc.edu          Advisor: McDonald, David M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History
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Bernstein, David          eMail: caseydavidvt@yahoo.com          Advisor: Cronon, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US West, Native American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): “How the West was Drawn: Geopolitics on the Eastern Plains, 1787-1846.”
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Towards A More Stable Agricultural Future: The Political and Economic Strategies of the Iowa Indians, 1803-1846"

Binzley, Ronald          eMail: rabinzley@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Colonial American Religion
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Jesuit Missions in the British Atlantic World and the Shaping of Early American Catholicism, 1720-1815."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'Popery in Protestantism:' Religious Toleration, Roman Catholics, and the Meaning of Protestantism in Massachusetts, 1805-1833"

Biss, Athan          eMail: athanbiss@gmail.com          Advisor: Plummer, Brenda Gayle

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History--African American Transnational
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Bloch, Sean          eMail: sbloch@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sweet, James H.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
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  • MA Thesis (if available): "Snakes and Shifta: Violence and Modernity in the Mid-Twentieth Century Horn of Africa"

Bonuso, Erin          eMail: bonuso@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early America
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Bradley, Francis          eMail: frbradle@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thongchai Winichakul

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Social Dynamics of Islamic Revivalism in Southeast Asia: The Rise of the Patani School, 1785-1909"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The World of the Hikayat Patani "

Brady, Alison          eMail: agbrady2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Young, Louise C.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Japanese History
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Bragg, John          eMail: jkbragg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Yosmaoglu, Ipek

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle East
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Local Ayan-Eshraf and Community Participation in the Islamization, Modernization, and Democratization of the Ottoman State: The Case of Tokat, 1840-1923"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Early Village Novels of Depression-Era Turkey: An Intersection of Statist Economics, Social Science, and Realist Fiction"

Brinegar, Sara          eMail: brinegar@wisc.edu          Advisor: Hirsch, Francine

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Azerbaijani Turks: Nationalism, Identity, and Revolution in Baku, 1917"

Burkhardt, Scott          eMail: stburkhardt@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Environmental Optimism in an Apocalyptic Age: The Paley Commission and Resource Scarcities during the Early Cold War"

Burns, Catherine          eMail: cmburns2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Immigration and Ethnic History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Cranks and Kickers, Vixens and Spitfires: American Nativism and New York's 'Progressive' Irish Nationalists, 1912-1925"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Superfluous Women or Dutiful Daughters?: Irish-American Women's Schooling and Work in the Irish Middle-Class, Boston c. 1910"

Cahill, Charles          eMail: charlie1513@yahoo.com          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History/20th Century German Histor
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Camacho, Sarah          eMail: scamacho@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Is This Progress?: San Antonio's North Expressway Battle, 1959-1978"

Carmack, Roberto          eMail: carmack@wisc.edu          Advisor: Hirsch, Francine

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History/Russian History
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Case, Andrew          eMail: ancase@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Making an Organiculture: J.I. Rodale,Tthe Rodale Press, and American Environmental Culture"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Battle for Our 'Precious Bodily Fluids': Fighting Fluoridation in Postwar America"

Christianson, Jenna          eMail: jmchristian2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe/Social and Cultural History
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Coakley, John          eMail: jcoakley@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early America
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Politics and Profits of Plunder: Privateers in Henry Morgan's Jamaica, 1655-1682"

Cook, Vaneesa          eMail: vcook@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History--Intellectual, Cultural & International
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Cooney, Jacquelyn          eMail: jcooney@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johnson, Susan L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Program in Women and Gender
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Coons, James          eMail: coons@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suzanne Desan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European Religion-Early Modern
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Fronde of the Prince: Conde, theOrmee, Noble Identity, and Absolutism"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Noble Nation: The Fronde, Mazarinades, and Noble Identity, 1648-53"

Cosby, Matthew          eMail: mcosby@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
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  • MA Thesis (if available):

Covey, Brian          eMail: btcovey@wisc.edu          Advisor: Donnelly Jr., James S.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): British and Irish History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Cross, the Harp, and the Red Flag: Irish Anti-communism in the Twentieth Century, 1923-1991"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Fighting for Virtue: The Moral-Purity Crusades in the Irish Free State, 1923-1937"

Cross, Bennett          eMail: bcross2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Bernault, Florence

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Nationalism Unframed: The Malian Trade Diaspora in Post-Independence Lagos"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "No Country for Old Men: Continuity and Disjuncture in a Diasporic Community"

Cushing, Sarah          eMail: scushing@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern European History
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Dagonese, April          eMail: dagonese@wisc.edu          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J./Boswell, Laird

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Davidson, Neal          eMail: ndavidson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Germany
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de Llobet, Ruth          eMail: rdellobet@wisc.edu          Advisor: McCoy, Alfred W.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Chinese and Spanish Mestizos: Formation of the Modern Philippine Political Elite, 1730-1830."
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Disantis, Charles          eMail: disantis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kleijwegt, Marc

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity: Theology and Practicality"

Dobbins, Kerry          eMail: kedobbins@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Legal Knowledge and Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century Essex."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Christopher Hill and the Radical Quakers"

Doney, Skye          eMail: doney@wisc.edu          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Dorais, Genevieve          eMail: dorais@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "La critique maiste peruvienne face a la Reforme agraire de Velasco (1969-1980): Enquete sur les causes d'une revolution qui ne vint pas"

Dotson, Jerome          eMail: jkdotson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African-American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Black Bodies, Black Soil: Race, Gender and Power in the Alabama Black Belt, 1830-1865"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Dresser, Todd          eMail: dresser@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Nightmares of Rural America: Fearing the Future in the Transition from Country Life to the Family Farm"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Eade, Katherine          eMail: eade@wisc.edu          Advisor: Boswell, Laird/Roberts, Mary Louise

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Easum, Taylor          eMail: easum@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thongchai Winichakul

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Mountains, Pillars, Temples, and Kings: Sacred Space and the Premodern Chiang Mai State"

Eggers, Nicole          eMail: neggers@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kodesh, Neil

  • Areas of Interest (if available): East Africa, Gender
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Kitawala in the Congo: Politics, Religion, Health and Healing in 20th Century African History"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Millenial Healing: Yesu Mukombasi and the Lubutu-Mukombozi Uprising, 1944"

Eisenberg, Ariel          eMail: eisenberg2@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Urban/Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Life on the Margins: The Contested Space of Greenwich Village's Hudson River Waterfront, 1890-2001"

Ellis, Angela          eMail: akellis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "In Defense of yr Hen Ffydd: Early Modern Welsh Catholicism on the Anglo-Welsh Border"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Thomas Cromwell and 16th Century Anglo-Welsh Political Assimilation"

Erickson, Andrew          eMail: aerickson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Industry that Made Milwaukee Famous: Geography, Demography, and the Growth of Brewing in Pre-Prohibition Wisconsin"

Falater, Megan          eMail: falater@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/20th Century
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  • MA Thesis (if available):

Feinstein, Tamara          eMail: tfeinstein@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century Peru, Historical Memory
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Peruvian Legal Left in the Era of Massacre (1980-2000)"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Remembering Lurigancho: The Uses of a Massacre"

Ferrell, Lacy          eMail: lferrell@wisc.edu          Advisor: Bernault, Florence

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Changing Educative Practice in Ghana, 1900-1940"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Educative Practices in Taleland, 1900-1940"

Fields, David          eMail: dpfields@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available):
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  • MA Thesis (if available): "Reevaluating U.S.-Nicaraguan Relations, 1909-1933"

Fields, Jarett          eMail: fields2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Plummer, Brenda Gayle

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Flamingo, Margaret          eMail: mflamingo@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Fojtik, Christine          eMail: cmfojtik@wisc.edu          Advisor: Roberts, Mary Louise

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Gender and Women's History; 20th Century Germany
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Hunger Hysteria: Fact, Fantasy, and Food in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Konsumgenossenschaften in Ceskoslovensko: Gender, Consumerism, and Germaness in Interwar Bohemia-Moravia"

Ford, Ryan          eMail: rcford@wisc.edu          Advisor: Winichakul, Thongchai

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Gagen, Colleen          eMail: gagen@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early US History
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Gant, Jesse          eMail: gant2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz/ Will Jones

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/19th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Freemen to the Rescue! Wisconsin Commemorates the Underground Railroad"

Garcia, Lynette          eMail: lmgarcia2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Chamberlain, Michael

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle Eastern History
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Gedacht, Joshua          eMail: gedacht@wisc.edu          Advisor: McCoy, Alfred W.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Massacres on the U.S. Imperial Frontier, from South Dakota to the Southern Philippines"

Gehring, David          eMail: dgehring@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "International Protestantism and the English State, c. 1553-c.1640"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "William Tyndale: A Lutheran?"

George, Brendon          eMail: bggeorge@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johnson, Susan L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/Urban West
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Gibbings, Julie          eMail: gibbings@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Another Race More Worthy of the Present: Race and Progress in Alta Verapaz Guatemala, 1860-1961"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Giblin, Anne          eMail: giblin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Louise Young

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Japan
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "From the Inside-Out: Social Networks from the Tohuko Region, 1880-1937"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: National Policy Realities versus Ideals in the Redemptive Colonial Theory of Yanaihara Tadao"

Gilbert, David          eMail: dwgilbert@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century Cultural, Music
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): ""'Product of Our Souls': James Reese Europe, Commercial Markets, and U.S. Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Gillen, Sean          eMail: smgillen@wisc.edu          Advisor: McDonald, David M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Russian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'A Foggy Youth': The Early Development of Vladimir Solov'ev, 1853-1878."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "A Cloudy Youth, or Faith, Reason, and Social Thought in the Chteniia o Bogochelovechestve of Vladimir Sergeevich Solov’ev, 1872-1878"

Goldberg, Mark          eMail: magoldberg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Colonial US West
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Diseased Empires: Health, Healing, and Race in Texas, 1780-1861"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Negotiating the Boundary: The Caddo Indians and the Construction of the Texas-Louisiana Border, 1779-1819"

Golden-Krasner, Maya          eMail: mdgoldenkras@wisc.edu          Advisor: Leavitt, Judith

  • Areas of Interest (if available): History of Medicine
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'A Common Disease of Mankind': Tooth Decay and Fluoridation in Public Health and the Courts"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Toxic Prairie: The History of Pollution at Badger Army Ammunition Plant Since World War II"

Grant, Paul          eMail: pgrant@wisc.edu          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Europe/Intellectual History
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Graves, Kori          eMail: kgraves@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Domesticating Foreign Affairs: The African-American Family and US-Korean Interracial and International Adoption, 1950-1970"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Greer, Brenna          eMail: bwgreer@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century, Race, Afro-Am
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Sights of Struggle: Black Politics of the Image, 1937-1957"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Gross, Rachel          eMail: rsgross@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cronon, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental and American Western History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Gross, Robert          eMail: rngross@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Reese

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Halderman, Chanda          eMail: halderman@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern England
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Hamilton, Brian          eMail: bfhamilton@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cronon, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US History/Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Harrisville, David          eMail: david.harrisville@gmail.com          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History
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Henry, Brian          eMail: blhenry@wisc.edu          Advisor: Yossmaoglu, Ipek

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Middle Eastern History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Hinrichs, Alexandra          eMail: ahinrichs@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeremi Suri

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Hobbs, Jeffrey          eMail: hobbs@wisc.edu          Advisor: Boswell, Laird

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Liberal Crucible: Grassroots Politics, State Power, and Political Culture in July Monarchy France, 1830-1848"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Duchesse de Berry in Captivity: Political Legitimacy and the Nation-State in 1830s France"

Hoel, Nikolas          eMail: nhoel@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mazzaoui, Maureen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Byzantine
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "A Hub of Relations: The Effect of Religious Disputes and Conversion on Lombard Diplomatic Relations with the Franks, Papacy, Byzantines, and Muslims, 500-1050"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Hogue, John          eMail: jhogg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Social History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Cheeseburger in Paradise: Making American Leisure in the Twentieth Century Anglophone Caribbean"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Cruise Ship Diplomacy: The Consumer Culture of American Tourism in the British West Indies, 1938-1980."

Holland, Jennifer          eMail: jlholland@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US West
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Holzman, Mayalisa          eMail: mholzman@wisc.edu          Advisor: Hirsch, Francine

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Hommerding, Christopher          eMail: hommerding@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enke, Anne

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US Women's & Gender History/Rural
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Homsey, James          eMail: homsey@wisc.edu          Advisor: Young, Louise C.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): East Asia
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Horn, Ariana          eMail: aphorn@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/Religious Pluralism
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "De Participatione Christianorum et Saracenorum: Ramon Llull as Disputant and Comparative Religionist"

Huerta, Dalila          eMail: dhuerta@wisc.edu          Advisor: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Intellectual History
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Hughes, Charles          eMail: clhughes2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kantrowitz, Stephen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US South, Cultural History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Country-Soul: Race, Work, and Commerce in the Production of Southern Popular Music, 1960-1980"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Hull, Jennifer          eMail: jahull@wisc.edu          Advisor: Boydston, Jeanne / Johnson, Susan L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th-20th Century US, Urban
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'No longer polluted by the foot of a slave': Emancipation and the Creation of White Imagined Space in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City"

Hur, Hyun          eMail: hhur@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Search for Nationalism in the North: The Debate over the 13th and 14th Amendments in Wisconsin"

Hyun, Sinae          eMail: hyun2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thongchai Winichakul

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Indigenizing Counterinsurgency: The Transformation of Thai Border Patrol Police"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Cold Warriors on the Margins: Thai-U.S. Relations and the Emergence of the Border Patrol Police, 1947-1965"

Ivens, John          eMail: jp_ivens@yahoo.com          Advisor: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer

  • Areas of Interest (if available):
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  • MA Thesis (if available):

Jacklin, Jillian          eMail: jmjacklin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Guérin-Gonzales, Camille

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Jacobus, Amy          eMail: galyeforce@aol.com          Advisor: Cooper Jr., John M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 20th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Jarvis, Katie          eMail: kljarvis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Roberts, Mary Louise/Desan, Suzanne

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Crafting a Revolutionary Identity: The Dames des Halles and Political Activism during the French Revolution"

Johnson, Joy          eMail: jejohnson26@wisc.edu          Advisor: Wink, André

  • Areas of Interest (if available): South Asia
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Johnson, Doria          eMail: ddjohnson4@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Shh---Big Momma and Dem' Left Last Night: Shifting Violent Memories and the African American Chain Migration, Abbeville, South Carolina to Evanston , Illinois, 1910-1940"

Justiniano, Maureen          eMail: justiniano@wisc.edu          Advisor: McCoy, Alfred W.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Southeast Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Kelly, Michael          eMail: kelly2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Shoemaker, Karl B.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Medieval History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Origin of the interpretationes in the Lex Romana Visigothorum"

Kiel, Douglas          eMail: dkiel@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cronon, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): American Indian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Oneida Resurgence: Modern Indian Renewal in the Heart of America"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Oneida Resurgence: Land, Sovereignty, and Identity on a Wisconsin Indian Reservation, 1921-1974"

Kilic, Ayten          eMail: aytenk@hotmail.com          Advisor: Karpat, Kemal H.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ottoman Empire
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, an Ideological and Political Blueprint for Nineteenth-Century Balkan Nationhood: Great Power Conflict and Ideology"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Kim, Daniel          eMail: ddkim2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Young, Louise C.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Japanese History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

King, Farina          eMail: fking@wisc.edu          Advisor: Bernault, Florence

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Kirstein, Jessica          eMail: kirstein@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "What an Argentine is Not: Jews, Political Participation and the Making of Argentine Nationality and Citizenship, 1895-1919"

Krug, Jessica          eMail: krug@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sweet, James H.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African Diaspora
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "They 'Glorify in a Certain Independence': Maroonage and Kisama Identity in Angola and Brazil, c. 1500-Present"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Social Dismemberment, Social Remembering: Contested Kromanti Identities, Nationalism, and Obeah, 1675-present"

Kwas, Michael          eMail: makwas@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 19th Cent, US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'Look Out For th Corruptionists!': Political Culture, the State, and Narratives of Corruption and Conspiracy in Wisconsin, 1846-1862"
  • MA Thesis (if available): Two-article option

LaCroix, Helen          eMail: lacroix@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "A Head with the Union, a Heart with the South: Race, Labor and Politics in Kentucky's Bluegrass Region, 1865-1900."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Perfect Africa": The Politics of Race and Property in Post-Reconstruction Arkansa

Lamberson, Christine          eMail: lamberson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Are We a Violent Nation?: Violence and the Remaking of American Identity in the 1960s and 1970s"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "A Climate of Violence: Fear, Violence, and American Identity in the 1960s and 1970s"

Lambert, Erin          eMail: elambert@wisc.edu          Advisor: Wandel, Lee Palmer

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Reformation
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Singing God's Image: Resurrection and Religious Identity in Sixteenth-Century Visual and Musical Culture"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Todt Ist Kein Sterben: Mortality and Resurrection in the Illustrated Song Sheet of Reformation Nuremberg"

Lanner-Cusin, Johanna          eMail: lannercusin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kodesh, Neil

  • Areas of Interest (if available):
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Ledesma, Monica          eMail: mledesma@wisc.edu          Advisor: Donnelly Jr., James S.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Marching with Mary: The Legion of Mary, Lay Piety, and Catholic Activism in the Irish Free State"

Lee, Margaret          eMail: mblee@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Ethnic Suburbia: Building and Bridging Boundaries in Chicago Suburbs, 1920 to 1960"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'All That Marching Business': Negotiating Ethnic Identity through St. Patrick's Day, St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1851-1901"

Leech, Brian          eMail: bleech@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Immigration History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The City that Ate Itself: Ethnic Neighborhoods, Environmental Hazards, and Labor in the Mining Landscape of Butte, Montana"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Corporate Tyranny and Foreign Labor: Populism, Nativism, and Montana’s 1894 State Capital Election"

Levesque, Faron          eMail: flevesque@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Program in Women and Gender/Critical Race Theory
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Liwe, Amelia          eMail: ajliwe@wisc.edu          Advisor: McCoy, Alfred W.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Loch, Jason          eMail: jason.loch@gmail.com          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Convocation of Canterbury in the Early Modern Period"

Lopez, Yeri          eMail: ylopez2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Lund, Peter          eMail: pjlund@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kleijwegt, Marc

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ancient European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Mahoney, Maureen          eMail: mmahoney2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Development of the Cocaine/Crack-Cocaine Trades in New York City and their Impact on the City’s Politics, 1975-1995"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'True' Patriotism: Conceptions of Polish American Ethnicity in Polish Roman Catholic Union and Polish National Alliance Newspapers, 1891-1922"

Malka, Adam          eMail: acmalka@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Walking the Line: Policing and the Production of Criminality on the North-South Divide."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Haitian Evolution: Emigration and Diasporan Consciousness in Nineteenth Century America."

Martin, Jennifer          eMail: jamartin4@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "When the Shark Bites: The Rehabilitation of Sharks in American Cultures and Waters in the Twentieth Century"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Do They Practice Law in Washinton?: The Foundation of Natural Resources Defense Council as a Non-Profit Environmental Law Organization"

Martin, Hunter          eMail: hkmartin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Boswell, Laird

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "From Ideas to Icons: The Commodification of French Intellectual Culture, 1945-1990".
  • MA Thesis (if available): "American Jazz in France: French debates on American values during the early Cold War."

Matenaer, James          eMail: jmmatenaer@wisc.edu          Advisor: Shoemaker, Karl B.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Medieval History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Matthew on the Eve of Reformation: Late Medieval Exegesis on the Gospel of Matthew"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Nicholas of Lyra's Place in Franciscan Exegesis"

Matias-Ortiz, Andres          eMail: amatiasortiz@wisc.edu          Advisor: Scarano, Francisco

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Puerto Rico
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Evolutionary Populism in a Place Where Nothing Happens: Coamo, Puerto Rico, 1930-1969."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Ambivalent Solidarities: Homeworkers, Needlework Unions, and the ILGWU in Puerto Rico, 1930-1940"

McGee, Holly          eMail: hymcgee@wisc.edu          Advisor: Plummer, Brenda Gayle

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Talking on Water: Transnational Connections in Black Women's Political Work in the United States and South Africa, 1945-1965"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Trifling Elaborations: The Memory of the Movement in Arkansas After '57"

McGrath, Elena          eMail: ecmcgrath@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

McKay, James          eMail: jsmckay@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Mekel, Sonja          eMail: smekel@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): American Jewish History, 20th Cent
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Relationship between German and German-Jewish Immigrants in Milwaukee and Chicago, 1840-1890".
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Miller, Jennifer          eMail: jmmiller8@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US Foreign Relations
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Constructing Cold War Sovereignty: Building Political Consensus in the U.S.-Japanese Alliance, 1951-1954"

Mink, Nicolaas          eMail: njmink@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sharpless, John

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Tourist's Table: Taste, Technology, and the making of the American Culinary Landscape"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Mintner, Terrance          eMail: tjmintner@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mazzaoui, Maureen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Ideology of Conspiracy in Renaissance Florence"

Mobley, Arthur Scott          eMail: mobley@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Moore, Bradley          eMail: bmoore2@wisc.edu          Advisor: McDonald, David M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Central Europe/Public Health
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Healthy Comrades: The Stalinization of Public Health in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1948-1956"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Fatal Delay: Extensive Growth and Ecological Devastation in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989"

Moore, Jessica          eMail: jlmoore6@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kleijwegt, Marc

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ancient European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Moten, Crystal          eMail: moten@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Afro-American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Milwaukee as a Microcosm?Towards an Understanding of African American Women's Activism in the Postwar North"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Moua, MaiGer          eMail: maigermoua@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cheng, Cindy I-Fen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Moua, Chong          eMail: cmoua3@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cheng, Cindy I-Fen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Nelson, Susan          eMail: ssnelson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Desan, Suzanne M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Conceiving Female Nature: la querelle des femmes in 18th Century France"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Nilson, Jennifer          eMail: jknilson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kleijwegt, Marc

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ancient European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Noseworthy, William          eMail: noseworthy@wisc.edu          Advisor: Winichakul, Thongchai

  • Areas of Interest (if available):
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Nyala West, Hannah          eMail: nyalawest@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cronon, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 18-19th Century US West and Women's History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "At Sea in the World (or, The UnNatural Histories of a Ship): The Cruise of U.S. Frigate ESSEX, 1798-1837"
  • MA Thesis (if available): Two Article Option

O'Connor, Eric          eMail: ekoconnor@wisc.edu          Advisor: Boswell, Laird

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Oreck, Steven          eMail: sloreck@facstaff.wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Park, Sarah          eMail: sfpark@wisc.edu          Advisor: Bernault, Florence

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Developing the Periphery: Modernization and Re-Traditionalization in Southeastern Sengal in the 1970s"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Politics of Seeds in Tambacounda, Senegal, 1920-1959"

Park, Eunhee          eMail: epark22@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kim, Charles

  • Areas of Interest (if available): East Asian History/Modernization
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Peterson, Terrence          eMail: tgpeterson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Boswell, Laird

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History, French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Pierce, Stephen          eMail: sapierce2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kodesh, Neil

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History/East Africa and the Indian Ocean
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Pollack, Haley          eMail: hpollack@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US West
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Making of Jewish Masculinity in the Hinterland: The Galveston Immigration Movement"

Porter, Camarin          eMail: cmporter@wisc.edu          Advisor: Courtenay, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Medieval Intellectual History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "De subiecto theologiae: Gerardus Odonis, Peter Auriol, and the Nature of Theological Knowledge and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Real Presence of Fictum: Walter Chatton, William of Ockham, and the Mental Object of the Act of Loving God"

Pumarada-Cruz, Yesenia          eMail: pumaradacruz@wisc.edu          Advisor: Scarano, Francisco

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Puerto Rico
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Tierradentro Nasa and Tierrafuera indigenas: Modernization, Politics, and Indigeneity in Cauca, Columbia, 1886-1940"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Nasa Politics in Nineteenth Century Colombia: Warfare and the Negotiation of Distance and Integration, 1810-1880"

Quintana, Ryan          eMail: raquintana@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'The Plantation All in Disorder': South Carolina's landscape and the Spatial Practices of Black Carolinians, 1790-1830"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Creating Connections: John Brown the Barber, Social Networks, and the Navigation of the 19th Century South"

Raiklin, Benjamin          eMail: beraiklin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Hirsch, Francine

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Soviet History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Film on the Frontline: The Making and Fate of Soviet War Documentary and Newsreel during World War II"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Crisis, Debate, and Dissent in Soviet Cinema under Stalin: The Experience of Film Workers on the Artistic Council of Mosfilm, 1939-1941"

Reid, Jonathan          eMail: jreid@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early America
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Richardson, Haley          eMail: hrichardson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sorkin, David J. and Desan, Suzanne

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Roark, Kelly          eMail: karoark@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon/Susan L. Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental, US 20th Cent
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Parsing People and Place: Social Stratification and Landscape Change in Hot Springs, Arkansas"

Robinson, Sarah          eMail: serobinson2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suzanne Desan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "State and Society in French Controlled Holland, 1806-1813"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Prefects on the Scene: Sociability, Politics, and State Building in Napoleonic France"

Rodriguez, David          eMail: dmrodriguez@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Cent, US Foreign Relations, Reform Movements
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Beneath the United States? U.S.-Caribbean Relations and the New Cold War History, 1945-1965"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Preventing a Second Cuba: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic during the Johnson Administration and the Politics of Anticommunism"

Ross, Danielle          eMail: danielleross@wisc.edu          Advisor: McDonald, David M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Central Asia
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Defending the Nation: Nation, Islam, Socialism, and Empire in the Competing Visions of Community Identity among the Volga-Ural Muslims of Late Imperial Russia (1870-1920)"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "In Dialouge with the Shadow of God: Imperial Mobilization, Islamic Revival and the Evolution of an Administrative System for the Tatars, Bashkirs and Mishars of Eighteenth-Century Russia."

Ryan, Carolyne          eMail: cryan1@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Ideological Savage: Elite Euro-Argentine Representations of the Frontier Indian, 1852-1880."

Sartore, Melissa          eMail: masartore@wisc.edu          Advisor: Shoemaker, Karl B.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Medieval History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Savran, Scott          eMail: sosavran@wisc.edu          Advisor: Chamberlain, Michael

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle East History, Mamluk Sultanate
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Dhikr Muluk al-Sassaniya: Muslim Perspectives of a pre-Islamic Persian Empire"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Mamluk Sultanate Par Ecellence: An Analysis of Rulership Systems in Mamluk States"

Schoellhorn, Brian          eMail: schoellhorn@wisc.edu          Advisor: McDonald, David M.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Ausgleich and Army: Austria-Hungary, the Army Language Crisis of 1905, and Kriegsfall Ungarn."

Scott, Brennan          eMail: bhscott@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kodesh, Neil

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Scribner, Campbell          eMail: cscribner@wisc.edu          Advisor: Reese, William J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available):
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Shannon, Benjamin          eMail: btshannon@wisc.edu          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Germany
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Shannon, William          eMail: wpshannon@wisc.edu          Advisor: Donnelly Jr., James S.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Sharnak, Debbie          eMail: sharnak@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/Foreign Relations and Human Rights
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Shearier, Rebecca          eMail: rsshearier@wisc.edu          Advisor: Young, Louise C.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): East Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Simonowitz, Ethan          eMail: ewsimonowitz@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Caribbean
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Making of El Pueblo Chileno: Race and Nation in Twentieth-Century Chile"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Intimate Practices: Masculinity, Female Sexuality, and the Struggle for Cuba Libre, 1888-1915"

Skousen, Lesley          eMail: skousen@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sommerville, Johann

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern England
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Benefit of Clergy: A Legal, Social, and Cultural History of Early Modern England"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Taking the 'Clergy' Out of Benefit of Clergy: Legal Privilege and the English Reformation, 1455-1540"

Stark, Casey          eMail: cstark2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Kleijwegt, Marc

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ancient History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Vestal Virgins: Position and Perception under the Roman Empire"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Starkey, Lindsay          eMail: lstarkey@wisc.edu          Advisor: Wandel, Lee Palmer

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Nature in John Calvin's Commentaries and Sermons on the Book of Genesis"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Presenting Christian Doctrine: Philip Melanchthon's Method for Reading Scripture in His 1521 Loci communes"

Steckman, Laura          eMail: bluechiron@aol.com          Advisor: McCoy, Alfred W.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Spectrum of Response: Ethnonationalism in Indonesia from a Historical Prospective"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Sunwall, Lane          eMail: sunwall@wisc.edu          Advisor: Donnelly Jr., James S.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Surdam, Maia          eMail: masurdam@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan/Guérin-Gonzales, Camille

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 20th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'We Could Make a Home Out of Anything': Farming Families and the Boundaries of Belonging in Wisconsin Agriculture, 1930s-1960s"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "From Migrant Camps to Family Farms: The Politics of Housing, Community, and Citizenship in Wisconsin Agriculture, 1933-1972."

Tamarkina, Irina          eMail: tamarkina@wisc.edu          Advisor: Maureen Mazzaoui

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Byzantine History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Selection to Byzantium in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries"

Tamboli, Vikram          eMail: tamboli@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mallon, Florencia E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Tevis, Brittany          eMail: tevis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Michels, Anthony E.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History, Jewish History, and Legal History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Torunoglu, Berke          eMail: torunoglu@wisc.edu          Advisor: Yosmaoglu, Ipek

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle Eastern History/Balkan History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Trigg, Scott          eMail: sgtrigg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Chamberlain, Michael

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Joint PhD w/Hist of Sci
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Late Medieval Arabic Astronomy: Commentaries on al-Tusi's 'Tadhkira'"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Tronnes, Libby          eMail: lrtronnes@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johnson, Susan L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Placing Indians: Authenticity, Stories, and Place in the Making of Indian Country Wisconsin Since the Late Nineteenth Century"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Contested Place: The Menominee Warriors Society, Native and non-Native Placemaking, and Identity Construction in Rural Wisconsin, 1975"

Van Orsdol, Zoe          eMail: zfvanors@wisc.edu          Advisor: Plummer, Brenda Gayle

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Revolution: The Black Panthers, Young Lords, AIM and Health Care as a Civil Right"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Vigil, Skott          eMail: svigil@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johnson, Susan L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): American Indian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Walker, Vanessa          eMail: vpwalker@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suri, Jeremi

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US, Foreign Policy
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Ambivalent Allies: Advocates, Diplomats, and the Struggle for an 'American' Human Rights Policy"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Paradoxes of Human Rights Diplomacy:The Institute for Policy Studies and U.S.-Latin American Relations in the Carter Administration"

Warner, H (Billy)          eMail: hwarner@wisc.edu          Advisor: Wink, André

  • Areas of Interest (if available): South Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Watter, Edward          eMail: ejwatter@wisc.edu          Advisor: Wink, André

  • Areas of Interest (if available):
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Webb-Halpern, Leah          eMail: webbhalpern@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Weinstein, Laura          eMail: laweinstein@wisc.edu          Advisor: Donnelly Jr., James S.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Ireland, Political
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Westcott, Stephanie          eMail: slwestcott@wisc.edu          Advisor: Enstad, Nan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 20th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Challenging Obscenity: Political Rhetoric and the Publication of Lesbian Pulp Fiction During the Cold War"

Williams, Naomi          eMail: nrwilliams2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jones, William

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US Working Class History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Wing, Michelle          eMail: mcwing@wisc.edu          Advisor: Roberts, Mary Louise/Boswell, Laird

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Great Return of Notre-Dame de Boulogne: War, Devotion and Recovery in France (1938-1948)"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "She Is Always With Me: Popular Catholicism in France during the Great War"

Wobick, Sarah          eMail: sewobick@wisc.edu          Advisor: Sorkin, David J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): German and Jewish History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Between Kitchen and Coffeehouse: sites of sociability and modes of Jewish belonging in Berlin, Paris and St. Petersburg, under Empire and Cold War"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Siting the Public Sphere: The Place of the Coffeehouse in the Lives of Jews and Women in Central Europe in the 18th, 19th and Early 20th Centuries"

Woodhouse, Keith          eMail: kmwoodhouse@gmail.com          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Close to Nature: Summer Camps in Early-Twentieth-Century America "

Woodworth, Jed          eMail: jlwoodworth@wisc.edu          Advisor: Cohen, Charles L.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Colonial History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Wunnenberg, Mary          eMail: mfwunnenberg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Roberts, Mary Louise

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Women and Gender
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Lost Children of Europe: Images of Child Shoah Survivors, 1944-1960"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'Un mal de l'appartenance:' The Negotiation of Religious Categories by Jewish Children Hidden as Catholics in France during the Shoah"

Yasskin, Noah          eMail: yasskin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mazzaoui, Maureen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Renaissance
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Science in Renaisance Venice: The Ingenious Machines of Giovanni Fontana (ca. 1395-1455)"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "By Land and By Sea: Monstrous Beasts in Early Modern England"

Zimmerli, Nadine          eMail: zimmerli@wisc.edu          Advisor: Koshar, Rudy J.

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Germany
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Imperial Dresden: Cultural Innovation and Mobility in Elbflorenz"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "History in the Service of Politics: The East German Uprising of June 17, 1953, in German Memory"

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