Find out more about the HGSA officers! Ph.D. candidate Baylee Staufenbiel is the treasurer who ensures that the HGSA has enough funds for its day-to-day activities as well as the annual conference it organizes. Staufenbiel's own research is on medieval conceptions of the body.

Find out more about the HGSA officers! Emily Lu as vice president is in charge of planning and running the annual graduate conference. In this article, she explains how she got interested in modern East Asian history.

Find out more about the HGSA officers! HGSA president Danielle Wirsansky discusses both her student career at FSU as well as the importance of the HGSA for graduate students in the FSU Department of History.

In this article, Noah discusses what drew him to his dissertation topic, an analysis of the sermons on factionalism by observant preachers, as well as his experience of conducting research in Italy.

In her Ph.D. dissertation, Randy Smookler investigated the motivations of women to join the NSDAP before it came to power in Germany and how these women remembered their service to the party. Her research led her to focus on the experiences of 27 women who were between 15 and 70 years old when they joined the party.

Follow along as Emily Lu shares her insights and experiences as a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellow on research in Japan.

In his dissertation, Frank Amico investigates the impact of gender on the making of atmospheric science and meteorology through a case study of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Here he talks about the challenges of doing oral history to research more recent events.

Lauren Owens has spent her graduate career looking at home-made medical remedies. Here she discusses her dissertation research into women making medicines and science at home in early modern France.

Kimberly Windham is the subject librarian for History. She received her BA in History from FSU and is currently completing her Ph.D. in the History department. In this interview she talks about her position and the ways students can utilize the university’s library system.

With an oral history grant from the History department, Danielle Wirsansky was able to make a documentary on Margot Graebert, a Holocaust survivor whose story had not been told before. Here she talks about her experiences in visual story telling so far.