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Christopher Arnold

Christopher Arnold

Ph.D. Student, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Margaret Susan Thompson

cjarnold@syr.edu

Mohammad Ebad Athar

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Osamah F. Khalil

meathar@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

"Here but not Here: The South Asian    Immigrant Experience in the U.S. and the Persian Gulf"

Caroline Barraco

Caroline Barraco

M.A. Student, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Brian Brege

ckbarrac@syr.edu

Lydia Biggs

Lydia Biggs

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Junko Takeda

lbiggs@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“White Womanhood on the Frontier: The Ursuline Nuns, Race, and Gender in the French Caribbean”

Thomas Bouril

Thomas Bouril

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Martin S. Shanguhyia

tbouril@syr.edy

Dissertation Title

Contested Childhoods in Colonial Kenya: The Kikuyu Experience

Semaj Campbell

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Jeffrey Gonda

sicampbe@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A City’s Neglectful Past: Young Mothers and The Creation of A Reproductive Health Crises in the Urban North 1955 ‐ 2005."

Sueun Chae

Ph.D. Student, History Department

PhD Advisor:

George L. Kallander

suchae@syr.edu

Nitya Chagti

Nitya Chagti

Ph.D. Student, History Department

CSIS, 4th floor

PhD Advisor:

Brian Brege

nchagti@syr.edu

Tianyu Cheng

Tianyu Cheng

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, East Asia Program

 M.I.A., Penn State, 2020

PhD Advisor:

Norman Kutcher

tcheng05@syr.edu

Philip Davis

Philip Davis

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Chris R. Kyle

padavis@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Cross-Confessional Alliances in Early Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Italian Diplomacy

Jessica Elliott

Jessica Elliott

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Jeffrey Gonda

jlterr01@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s"

Philip D. Erenrich

Philip D. Erenrich

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Andrew Wender Cohen

pderenri@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

The Assumption of Identity: The Exclusion and Deportation of 'Gypsy' Immigrants from the US, 1891-1932

Caleb Fouts

Caleb Fouts

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

PhD Advisor:

Michael R. Ebner

cjfouts@syr.edu

Ian Glazman-Schillinger

Ian Glazman-Schillinger

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Graduate Assistant, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

PhD Advisor:

Margaret Susan Thompson

Faculty Research Collaborators:

Margaret Susan Thompson

ijglazma@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“White Supremacy Goes Online: The Early Digital History of White Power Activists and how they Shaped the Internet, 1984-1999”

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Jessica Hogbin

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

PhD Advisor:

Brian Brege

jrhogbin@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Innumerable Melancholies: Medicine, Mental Health, and Human Nature in Renaissance Italy, 1450-1650

Emily Hunter

Emily Hunter

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Faculty Research Collaborators:

Margaret Susan Thompson

ejhunter@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern America; women's history
Julia D. James

Julia D. James

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

jdjames@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Women in the Woods: War, Gender, and Community in the Native Northeast, 1675-1763”

Yifan Jiang

Yifan Jiang

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Faculty Research Collaborators:

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

yjiang65@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern U.S. cultural history, modern Chinese women's history, and modern U.S. women's history


Cameron Kline

Cameron Kline

Ph.D. Student, History Department

134 Eggers Hall

PhD Advisor:

Susan Branson

Aaron Luedtke

Tessa Murphy

ckline@syr.edu

Holly M. Kuhl

Holly M. Kuhl

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Junko Takeda

hmkuhl@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Arena of Power: The King’s Library in the Global Enlightenment”

Nicholas W. Mason

Nicholas W. Mason

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Andrew Wender Cohen

nwmason@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Anti-Chinese Violence in the United States, 1850-1910”

Tara S. Ross

Tara S. Ross

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

tsross@sunyocc.edu

Dissertation Title

“Not Your Mammy, Sapphire, or Prissy: Black Female Conservatives in Post-Modern America.”

Gabriel A. Roth

Gabriel A. Roth

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, East Asia Program

PhD Advisor:

Norman Kutcher

garoth@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A Cuisine Worthy of a Nation: Nationalizing and Internationalizing Beijing’s Cuisine in the Twentieth Century”

Abstract:

How did Beijing cuisine – originally several different cuisines, divided by ethnicity and class – get forged into a single entity which would come to represent the Chinese nation, and be exported abroad and revered at home?  By problematizing standardized elements of the cuisine of one Chinese urban center, this research considers the ethical importance of kitchen laborers during the republican (1911-1949) and revolutionary (1949-1979) periods and the ways that modernization goals of nationalism and socialism impacted the interlocking spheres of both food production and consumption.  

Hector I. Sanchez

Ph.D. Student, History, Ph.D.

PhD Advisor:

George L. Kallander

hisanche@syr.edu

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Kazi Farzana Shoily

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A. in Modern Literature at University of Leeds, UK

PhD Advisor:

Radha Kumar

fakazi@syr.edu

Amber Shoopman-DeVries

Amber Shoopman-DeVries

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

arshoopm@syr.edu

Joshua D. Shugarts

Joshua D. Shugarts

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Margaret Susan Thompson

jdshugar@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A Purely Platonic Sympathy”: American Socialists and the Negro Question, 1901-1920

Sarah Stegeman

Sarah Stegeman

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Carol Faulkner

srstegem@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Becoming Americo-Liberian: African American Women, Culture, and the Creation of Liberia, 1840-1912”

Alex Vazquez

Alex Vazquez

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

Jeffrey Gonda

avazqu08@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

"As Seen on TV: Growing Influence of Latinidad in the United States"

Marian Vlasak

Marian Vlasak

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

PhD Advisor:

David H. Bennett

mevpaz@msn.com

Dissertation Title

The War of More: The 20th Century American Military Logistic Dilemma and the Influence of Consumer Culture

Kevin Wang

Ph.D. Student, History, Ph.D.

PhD Advisor:

George L. Kallander

Norman Kutcher

kwang81@syr.edu

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