Graduate Students
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Major Professor: Dr. Kurt Piehler
Research Interests: World War II, German Prisoners of War, Military Culture and Ethos
Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Doel
Research Interests: History of Environmental Science, Gender, Public History, Global History
Major Professor: Dr. Will Hanley
Research Interests: Political and Intellectual History, Identity, Nationalism and Modern State-Building,
Major Professor: Dr. Paul Renfro
Research Interests: Public History, Gender & sexuality studies, Memory
Major Professor: Dr. James Palmer
Research Interests: Medieval Europe, Medieval political thought, Partisanship and factionalism, Preaching, Model sermons
Major Professor: Dr. George Williamson
Research Interests: Modern Germany and Poland, German Colonization and Germanization Efforts, Occupation & Identity Politics, Modern Silesian History
Major Professor: Dr. Maxine Jones and Dr. Paul Renfro
Research Interests: 20th Century Military History, African American History, Cold War, Civil Rights & Black Power
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Upchurch
Research Interests: 19th century British History with a focus on Benjamin Disraeli’s government.
Major Professor: Dr. Katherine Mooney
Research Interests: American Political and Legal History, Fourteenth Amendment History
Major Professor: Dr. Annika Culver
Research Interests: Modern China, American missionaries in China
Major Professor: Dr. Rafe Blaufarb
Research Interests: French Revolution, Political History
Major Professor: Dr. Maxine Jones
Research Interests: American History, Modern America, Desegregation
Major Professor: Dr. Annika Culver
Research Interests: Political music, Encountering the Others, Jesuit missionaries in East Asia, Performing arts, Cultural history
Major Professor: Dr. Andrew Frank
Research Interests: Dean Michel is a doctoral candidate writing a dissertation entitled: “A Watery Grave in the Desert: Termination, Survivance, and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe.” He has presented papers at several conferences, including the Western History Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and American Society for Ethnohistory, and will be a Mellon Fellow at Dunbarton Oakes 2025-2026.
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Creswell
Research Interests: War and Society, Modern US, Modern Europe, Asia
Major Professor: Dr. Kurt Piehler
Research Interests: History of Science and Technology, Cold War, Environmental History, Popular Culture, Diplomatic History, 20th Century U.S. South, Public History
Major Professor: Dr. George Williamson and Dr. Rafe Blaufarb
Research Interests: Franco-German relations during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era; cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment; development of nationalism and cosmopolitanism in modern Europe
Major Professor: Dr. Cathy McClive
Research Interests: Early Modern France, History of the Body, Crimes of Female Deviancy and Criminality
Major Professor: Dr. Will Hanley
Research Interests: Middle Eastern History (particularly the Levant), Ottoman History, cultural history, nationalism
Major Professor: Dr. Conti
Research Interests: African American History, Public History
Major Professor: Dr. Paul Renfro
Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. History, Policing, Welfare/Social Services, Homelessness, and Religious Groups
Research Interests: History of Modernity, 20th-Century U.S. Foreign Relations, Grand Strategy, the Global Cold War, Intellectual History, Capitalism, Science & Technology, Environmental History
Research Interests: Intersectional histories of African Americans and Indigenous communities in early America; Evolution of enslavement/bondage in early America; lesser-known histories of marginalized and underrepresented people (women and children), spaces, and narratives
Major Professor: Dr. Cathy McClive
Research Interests: History of Medicine, Intellectual History, Premodern Europe
Major Professor: Dr. Jones and Dr. Creswell
Research Interests: African American migration to the Soviet Union, Russian and Soviet history, Modern U.S. history, Race during the Cold War, Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests: World War I, Ethnicity and Immigration, Dutch-Americans, Religion, Calvinism, Progressivism, Modernism and Modernity
Major Professor: Dr. Maximilian Scholz
Research Interests: The German and American Turnverein
Major Professor: Dr. Nathan Stoltzfus
Research Interests: World Wars, the Holocaust, Gender & Sexuality, War & Society, Intelligence History, Public History
Major Professor: Dr. Cathy McClive
Research Interests: Southeastern Europe, Gender, Identity, Material culture, Cross-cultural exchange