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.
Aidan did two internships as an undergraduate student, one was archive-based, the other education-focused. These experiences helped him discover his passion for public history and his desire for working in the museum field.
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.
In this article, Tom Fodor discusses how he got interested in researching 1964 Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills and talks about his recent trip to South Dakota to visit Mills' birthplace.