Graduate Students
My research interests include late 20th century United States Political history, liberalism, technocracy, and bipartisanship.
Advised by: David Farber
I am interested, broadly speaking, in the British Empire during the late 19th and 20th centuries. My dissertation analyzes the ways in which British imperial actors constructed Antarctica as a colonial and post-colonial space. Along the way, I will also examine themes of masculinity, leisure, and the Cold War's influence on decolonization. I am a member of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research-Humanities and Social Sciences (SCAR-HASS) expert group. You can see my and other member profiles here: http://antarctica-hasseg.com/2018/05/andrew-j-avery/
Advised by Erik Scott
Dissertation Title: "Land of the Midnight Sun: Antarctica and the British Empire, 1768 - Present"
My research interests include American environmental history. My research focuses on the interplay between race and the environment, specifically examining to what extent environmental change affected the racial dynamics in and around Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.
Advised by Sara Gregg
East Asian History, World History, History of Medicine.
Advised by Megan Greene.
Dissertation Title: “Tradition Reinvented: The Rationalization of Kanpō Medicine in Twentieth Century Japan.”
My research interest is in 20th century African American history
Advised by David Roediger and Shawn Alexander
My research interests include Nineteenth-century U.S. History; American Civil War/Reconstruction; Environmental History; and Food History
Advised by Jennifer Weber
Dissertation title: "Civil War in a Can: War as an Agent of Change in Food Consumption and Production, 1850-1870"
My research interests are centered in 19th and 20th century China and Inner Asia, especially the study of migration/migrants, the development of the state, and borderlands.
Advised by Megan Greene
My research interest lie at the intersection of the U.S. military, American society, and socio-economic inequality.
Advised by Beth Bailey
Research interests are primarily in the history of American education, particularly in regard to the perspectives of students on social, political, and curricular changes in education
I study gender relations in Japanese food history. Specifically, my research analyzes the presence of gender roles associated to ingredients and techniques in cookbooks during the transition from Edo period to Meiji period.
Advised by Eric Rath
My research interests include U.S. Military History, 20th Century U.S. History, Civil-Military Relationships, Counterinsurgency, & Psychological Warfare.
My research focuses on the relationship between U.S. military personnel and local populations in the Middle East in early 21st century conflicts. I am particularly interested in understanding how changes in the troops’ cultural training helps to shape their behavior and experience in theater.
Advised by Beth Bailey
My research interest centers upon late medieval Christianity. Specifically I study the effects of Reformation ideology upon more traditional forms of Christianity during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. My interests extend to the role of the Church and influence of monasticism upon spiritualism in English society.
Advised by Steven Epstein
Dissertation Title: "The English Carthusians: Spiritual Idealism in the English Reformation"
19th Century U.S. History, Russian History, Empire, Foreign Relations, and American West
Advised by Sheyda Jahanbani and Andrew Isenberg
Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, cultural history, the Holocaust, borderlands, and law and society
My research uses artistic and legal responses to the Holocaust in Soviet Lithuania and Communist Poland to explore the relationship between justice and ideology in shaping memorialization and citizenship. I have received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and American Councils for International Education to support my research.
Advised by Nathan Wood
Dissertation title: The Art of Retribution: Holocaust Memory and Justice in People’s Poland and Soviet Lithuania, 1944-68
Environmental History, Animal Studies, Health and Nutrition, Twentieth-Century U.S.
Advised by Sara Gregg
My research interest is in the intersection of environmental and military history in the 20th century, specifically focusing on the Vietnam conflict.
Advised by: Beth Bailey and Andrew Isenberg
17th Century New England
Advised by Kim Warren
Dissertation Title: "Salem at What Cost? Exploring Excommunication, Reparations and the Aftermath of the Witch Trials"
I am interested in family and gender dynamics in the early modern Italian and Spanish worlds and how these helped to shape group identity. I study the fluidity of group ties and how personal connections between the nobility shaped the formation of early modern states.
Advised by Luis Corteguera
Dissertation Title: "Princes and Popes: Family Ties and the Creation of the Early Modern State"
I study the spiritual encounters that occurred in sixteenth-century Mexico between the Spanish and the native Nahua. Specifically, I look at the ways in which both "sides" perceived, received, transferred, adapted, and adopted Christianity.
Advised by Robert Schwaller
My research interests include Modern Latin American History with attention to Brazilian History after the 1930 revolution. He currently teaches the courses HIST124/LAA100 Latin American Culture & Society and LAA300 Interdisciplinary Themes in Latin American Studies.
Advised by Elizabeth Kuznesof
My research interests include Modern US History,, with a focus on US and the World, Policy history, the US Presidency, and Political history.
Advised by David Farber
Dissertation Title: "Restructuring the National Security State: President Richard M. Nixon, the War in Vietnam, and Executive Reorganization"
My research interests include World War I, History of the Body, Social History of Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Disability History, and Modern Europe
Advised by Christopher Forth
My primary area of research focuses on the social history of medicine in 18th- and 19th-century Great Britain. More specifically, I examine the practices of midwifery, obstetrics/gynecology, and surgical practice in Scotland.
Advised by: Christopher E. Forth
I research democratic participation in the modern United States after 1945. Broadly, I am interested in understanding how American citizens express political demands through traditional and non-traditional means. Currently, this question leads me to study anti-Apartheid activism between the 1960s and 1980s.
Advised by: David Farber.
Environmental history, Latin America, Amazonia, and indigenous peoples in the colonial period.
Advised by Greg Cushman.
Dissertation Title: "On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of the Montaña Region of Peru before the Rubber Boom"
My research interest is in Military history, History of Modern Korea, East Asia-US relations
Advised by Adrian R, Lewis
Dissertation Title: “The Forgotten Army of the Vietnam War": A History of The Republic of Korea Forces’ Conduct of the Vietnam War (1965-1973)
Modern U.S.; Gender and Sexuality; the State
Advised by Beth Bailey
Dissertation Title: “Sex Crimes and Criminal Sexuality: Legislating and Policing Community Boundaries in Nebraska, 1880-1980”
She studies religious minorities and political activism in England on the eve of the American Revolution.
Advised by JCD Clark
Dissertation Title: The Crisis of English Protestant Dissent on the Eve of the American Revolution
