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Abbott, Nicholas          eMail: nabbott@wisc.edu          Advisor: André Wink

  • Areas of Interest (if available): South Asian History
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Aldous, Gregory          eMail: gwaldous@wisc.edu          Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle Eastern History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The History of the Concept of the Islamic City: A Reappraisal"

Alpire, Jillian          eMail: jmjacklin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Camille Guérin-Gonzales

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Anderson, Melissa          eMail: mlanderson6@wisc.edu          Advisor: Alfred W McCoy

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
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Asaka, Ikuko          eMail: iasaka@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeanne Boydston

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Negotiations of Freedom across Borders: Constructions of Race, Gender, and National Identities around Discourses on Fugitive Slaves from the United States to Canada, 1830-1869"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Backer, Kellen          eMail: kbacker@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century Cultural Social Hist
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Balto, Simon          eMail: sebalto@wisc.edu          Advisor: Brenda Gayle Plummer

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/Civil Rights History
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Bellais, Leslie          eMail: lbellais@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jean B Lee

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early 20th Century US
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Belson, Mark          eMail: mbelson@wisc.edu          Advisor: David M McDonald

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History
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Bernstein, David          eMail: caseydavidvt@yahoo.com          Advisor: Ned C Blackhawk

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US West, Native American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): “How the West was Drawn: Geopolitics on the Eastern Plains, 1787-1846.”
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Towards A More Stable Agricultural Future: The Political and Economic Strategies of the Iowa Indians, 1803-1846"

Binzley, Ronald          eMail: rabinzley@wisc.edu          Advisor: Charles L Cohen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Colonial American Religion
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Jesuit Missions in the British Atlantic World and the Shaping of Early American Catholicism, 1720-1815."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'Popery in Protestantism:' Religious Toleration, Roman Catholics, and the Meaning of Protestantism in Massachusetts, 1805-1833"

Bjerk, Paul          eMail: pkbjerk@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas Spear

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "A Western Plot: Political Strategy in Nyerere's Tanzania, 1964"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'The Soil Is Mine': Tanzanian Citizenship in Local Political Idiom"

Bloch, Sean          eMail: sbloch@wisc.edu          Advisor: James Sweet

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
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Bond, Gregory          eMail: gtbond@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stanley K Schultz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Jim Crow at Play: Race, Manliness, and the Segregation of American Sports, 1876-1916"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Whipped Curs and Real Men: Race, Manliness, and Segregation of Organized Baseball in Late 19th Century"

Bonuso, Erin          eMail: bonuso@wisc.edu          Advisor: Charles L Cohen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early America
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Bradley, Francis          eMail: frbradle@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thongchai Winichakul

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The World of the Hikayat Patani "

Bragg, John          eMail: jkbragg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Ipek Yosmaglu

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle East
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Local Ayan-Eshraf and Community Participation in the Islamization, Modernization, and Democratization of the Ottoman State: The Case of Tokat, 1840-1923"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Early Village Novels of Depression-Era Turkey: An Intersection of Statist Economics, Social Science, and Realist Fiction"

Brinegar, Sara          eMail: brinegar@wisc.edu          Advisor: Francine Hirsch

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Azerbaijani Turks: Nationalism, Identity, and Revolution in Baku, 1917"

Burkhardt, Scott          eMail: stburkhardt@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Environmental Optimism in an Apocalyptic Age: The Paley Commission and Resource Scarcities during the Early Cold War"

Burns, Catherine          eMail: cmburns2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Immigration and Ethnic History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Cranks and Kickers, Vixens and Spitfires: American Nativism and New York's 'Progressive' Irish Nationalists, 1912-1925"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Superfluous Women or Dutiful Daughters?: Irish-American Women's Schooling and Work in the Irish Middle-Class, Boston c. 1910"

Cahill, Charles          eMail: charlie1513@yahoo.com          Advisor: Rudy J Koshar

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History/20th Century German Histor
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Camacho, Sarah          eMail: scamacho@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Campbell, Rachel          eMail: racampbell2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
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Carmack, Roberto          eMail: carmack@wisc.edu          Advisor: Francine Hirsch

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern European History/Russian History
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Case, Andrew          eMail: ancase@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Battle for Our 'Precious Bodily Fluids': Fighting Fluoridation in Postwar America"

Cline, Sharon          eMail: sharonelisecline@gmail.com          Advisor: Laird Boswell

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Gender and French National Identity: 1945-2000"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Coakley, John          eMail: jcoakley@wisc.edu          Advisor: Charles L Cohen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early America
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Cole, Danielle          eMail: dcole2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeanne Boydston

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Program in Women and Gender
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Cook, Vaneesa          eMail: vcook@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeremi Suri

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History--Intellectual, Cultural & International
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Cooney, Jacquelyn          eMail: jcooney@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Program in Women and Gender
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Coons, James          eMail: coons@wisc.edu          Advisor: Suzanne Desan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European Religion-Early Modern
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Noble Nation: The Fronde, Mazarinades, and Noble Identity, 1648-53"

Cosby, Matthew          eMail: mcosby@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
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Covey, Brian          eMail: btcovey@wisc.edu          Advisor: James S Donnelly Jr

  • Areas of Interest (if available): British and Irish History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Cross, the Harp, and the Red Flag: Irish Anti-communism in the Twentieth Century, 1923-1991"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Fighting for Virtue: The Moral-Purity Crusades in the Irish Free State, 1923-1937"

Cross, Bennett          eMail: bcross2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florence Bernault

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
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Cundiff, Ashley          eMail: acundiff@wisc.edu          Advisor: Anne Enke

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Program in Women and Gender
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Cushing, Sarah          eMail: scushing@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern European History
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Dagonese, April          eMail: dagonese@wisc.edu          Advisor: Rudy J Koshar/Laird Boswell

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Davidson, Neal          eMail: ndavidson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Rudy J Koshar

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Germany
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de Llobet, Ruth          eMail: rdellobet@wisc.edu          Advisor: Alfred W McCoy

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Chinese and Spanish Mestizos: Formation of the Modern Philippine Political Elite, 1730-1830."
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Dean, Alexandra          eMail: asdean@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeremi Suri

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Disantis, Charles          eMail: disantis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity: Theology and Practicality"

Djakababa, Yosef          eMail: ymdjakab@wisc.edu          Advisor: Alfred W McCoy

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Construction of History under the New Order: The Case of the Lubang Buaya Killings"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Politics of History of the Lubang Buaya Killings in Indonesia"

Dobbins, Kerry          eMail: kedobbins@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Legal Knowledge and Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century Essex."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Christopher Hill and the Radical Quakers"

Doney, Skye          eMail: doney@wisc.edu          Advisor: Rudy J Koshar

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Dorais, Genevieve          eMail: dorais@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florencia E Mallon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "La critique maiste peruvienne face a la Reforme agraire de Velasco (1969-1980): Enquete sur les causes d'une revolution qui ne vint pas"

Dotson, Jerome          eMail: jkdotson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African-American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Black Bodies, Black Soil: Race, Gender and Power in the Alabama Black Belt, 1830-1865"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Downey, Kevin          eMail: krdowney@wisc.edu          Advisor: André Wink

  • Areas of Interest (if available): South Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Impact of the Fara'idi Islamic Reform: Practice, Production and Political Stability in rural East Bengal"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Reform on the Farm: Rural Islamic Movements in 19th Century Bengal, Jave, and Sumatra"

Dresser, Todd          eMail: dresser@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental History
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Eade, Katherine          eMail: eade@wisc.edu          Advisor: Laird Boswell/Mary Lou Roberts

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Easum, Taylor          eMail: easum@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thongchai Winichakul

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Mountains, Pillars, Temples, and Kings: Sacred Space and the Premodern Chiang Mai State"

Eggers, Nicole          eMail: neggers@wisc.edu          Advisor: Neil Kodesh

  • Areas of Interest (if available): East Africa, Gender
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Eisenberg, Ariel          eMail: eisenberg2@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Urban/Environmental History
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Ellis, Angela          eMail: akellis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "In Defense of yr Hen Ffydd: Early Modern Welsh Catholicism on the Anglo-Welsh Border"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Thomas Cromwell and 16th Century Anglo-Welsh Political Assimilation"

Erickson, Andrew          eMail: aerickson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Industry that Made Milwaukee Famous: Geography, Demography, and the Growth of Brewing in Pre-Prohibition Wisconsin"

Falater, Megan          eMail: falater@wisc.edu          Advisor: Charles L Cohen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/20th Century
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Feinstein, Tamara          eMail: tfeinstein@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florencia E Mallon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century Peru, Historical Memory
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Remembering Lurigancho: The Uses of a Massacre"

Ferrell, Lacy          eMail: lferrell@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florence Bernault

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
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Fields, Jarett          eMail: fields2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Brenda Gayle Plummer

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Flamingo, Margaret          eMail: mflamingo@wisc.edu          Advisor: Charles L Cohen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Fojtik, Christine          eMail: cmfojtik@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mary Lou Roberts

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century, Germany
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Hunger Hysteria: Fact, Fantasy, and Food in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Konsumgenossenschaften in Ceskoslovensko: Gender, Consumerism, and Germaness in Interwar Bohemia-Moravia"

Gant, Jesse          eMail: gant2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz/ Will Jones

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History/19th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Garcia, Lynette          eMail: lmgarcia2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle Eastern History
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Gedacht, Joshua          eMail: gedacht@wisc.edu          Advisor: Alfred W McCoy

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Massacres on the U.S. Imperial Frontier, from South Dakota to the Southern Philippines"

Gehring, David          eMail: dgehring@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Europe
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "International Protestantism and the English State, c. 1553-c.1640"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "William Tyndale: A Lutheran?"

Gibbings, Julie          eMail: gibbings@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florencia E Mallon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
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Giblin, Anne          eMail: giblin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Louise Young

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Japan
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: National Policy Realities versus Ideals in the Redemptive Colonial Theory of Yanaihara Tadao"

Gilbert, David          eMail: dwgilbert@wisc.edu          Advisor: Nan Enstad

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century Cultural, Music
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Gillen, Sean          eMail: smgillen@wisc.edu          Advisor: David M McDonald

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Russian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'A Foggy Youth': The Early Development of Vladimir Solov'ev, 1853-1878."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "A Cloudy Youth, or Faith, Reason, and Social Thought in the Chteniia o Bogochelovechestve of Vladimir Sergeevich Solov’ev, 1872-1878"

Goddard, Eric          eMail: edgoddard@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Courtenay

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Medieval History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Norman University Scholars at Paris and Orleans: Education, Ecclesiastical Careers and Politic Engagement in the Later Middle Ages, c. 1300 - c. 1415"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Pursuing Peace in the Body of Christ: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and the Genevan Consistory, 1542-1544"

Gokcek, Mustafa          eMail: gokcek@yahoo.com          Advisor: Kemal Karpat

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Russian and Ottoman History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Russian Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Goldberg, Mark          eMail: magoldberg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Colonial US West
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Negotiating the Boundary: The Caddo Indians and the Construction of the Texas-Louisiana Border, 1779-1819"

Golden-Krasner, Maya          eMail: mdgoldenkras@wisc.edu          Advisor: Judith Leavitt

  • Areas of Interest (if available): History of Medicine
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "'A Common Disease of Mankind': Tooth Decay and Fluoridation in Public Health and the Courts"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Toxic Prairie: The History of Pollution at Badger Army Ammunition Plant Since World War II"

Goshorn-Maroney, Daniel          eMail: goshornmaron@wisc.edu          Advisor: Ipek Yosmaoglu

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Middle Eastern History
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Graves, Kori          eMail: kgraves@wisc.edu          Advisor: Nan Enstad

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Domesticating Foreign Affairs: The African-American Family and US-Korean Interracial and International Adoption, 1950-1970"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Greer, Brenna          eMail: bwgreer3@juno.com          Advisor: Nan Enstad

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century, Race, Afro-Am
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Gross, Robert          eMail: rngross@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Reese

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
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Grout, Holly          eMail: hlgrout@wisc.edu          Advisor: Laird Boswell/Lou Roberts

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Beauty Marks: the Production, Practice, and Performance of Feminity in France, 1880-1939"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Negotiating the Boundaries of a ‘Knowable’ France: Tourist Guidebooks to Normandy and Brittany (1919-1939)"

Halderman, Chanda          eMail: halderman@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern England
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Hamilton, Brian          eMail: bfhamilton@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US History/Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Hobbs, Jeffrey          eMail: hobbs@wisc.edu          Advisor: Laird Boswell

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Liberal Crucible: Grassroots Politics, State Power, and Political Culture in July Monarchy France, 1830-1848"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Duchesse de Berry in Captivity: Political Legitimacy and the Nation-State in 1830s France"

Hoel, Nikolas          eMail: nhoel@wisc.edu          Advisor: Maureen Mazzaoui

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Byzantine
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Hogan, Margaret          eMail: hogan@wisc.edu          Advisor: Charles L Cohen

  • Areas of Interest (if available): American Religious History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Sister Servants: Catholic Women Religious in Antebellum Kentucky"
  • MA Thesis (if available): Two-Article Option

Hogue, Michel          eMail: hogue@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US West/ 20th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Marking the Medicine Line: Race and Nation along the Forty-Ninth Parallel"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Hogue, John          eMail: jhogg@wisc.edu          Advisor: Nan Enstad

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Social History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Cheeseburger in Paradise: Making American Leisure in the Twentieth Century Anglophone Caribbean"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Cruise Ship Diplomacy: The Consumer Culture of American Tourism in the British West Indies, 1938-1980."

Holland, Jennifer          eMail: jlholland@wisc.edu          Advisor: Susan L Johnson

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US West
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Holzman, Mayalisa          eMail: mholzman@wisc.edu          Advisor: Francine Hirsch

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
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Hughes, Charles          eMail: clhughes2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US South, Cultural History
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Hull, Jennifer          eMail: jahull@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeanne Boydston

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th-20th Century US, Urban
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'No longer polluted by the foot of a slave': Emancipation and the Creation of White Imagined Space in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City"

Hur, Hyun          eMail: hhur@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Search for Nationalism in the North: The Debate over the 13th and 14th Amendments in Wisconsin"

Hyun, Sinae          eMail: hyun2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thongchai Winichakul

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
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Jacobus, Amy          eMail: galyeforce@aol.com          Advisor: John M Cooper Jr

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 20th Century
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Jarvis, Katie          eMail: kljarvis@wisc.edu          Advisor: Mary Lou Roberts/Suzanne Desan

  • Areas of Interest (if available): European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Johnson, Doria          eMail: ddjohnson4@wisc.edu          Advisor: Nan Enstad

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Justiniano, Maureen          eMail: justiniano@wisc.edu          Advisor: Alfred W McCoy

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Southeast Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Katz, Ethan          eMail: ebkatz@wisc.edu          Advisor: Laird Boswell/David J. Sorkin

  • Areas of Interest (if available): French Jewish History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Jews and Muslims in the Shadow of Marianne: Conflicting Identies and Republican Culture in France, 1914-1989"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Fateful Émigrés: Four Refugee Historians Examine Jewish Life in Pre-World War II Germany."

Kelly, Michael          eMail: kelly2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Karl B Shoemaker

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Medieval History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Origin of the interpretationes in the Lex Romana Visigothorum"

Kiel, Douglas          eMail: dkiel@wisc.edu          Advisor: Ned C Blackhawk

  • Areas of Interest (if available): American Indian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Oneida Resurgence: Land, Sovereignty, and Identity on a Wisconsin Indian Reservation, 1921-1974"

Kilic, Ayten          eMail: aytenk@hotmail.com          Advisor: Kemal Karpat

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ottoman Empire
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, an Ideological and Political Blueprint for Nineteenth-Century Balkan Nationhood: Great Power Conflict and Ideology"
  • MA Thesis (if available):

King, Farina          eMail: fking@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florence Bernault

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Kirstein, Jessica          eMail: kirstein@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florencia E Mallon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "What an Argentine is Not: Jews, Political Participation and the Making of Argentine Nationality and Citizenship, 1895-1919"

Krug, Jessica          eMail: krug@wisc.edu          Advisor: James H Sweet

  • Areas of Interest (if available): African Diaspora
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "They 'Glorify in a Certain Independence': Maroonage and Kisama Identity in Angola and Brazil, c. 1500-Present"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Social Dismemberment, Social Remembering: Contested Kromanti Identities, Nationalism, and Obeah, 1675-present"

Kvale, Nicole          eMail: nikvale@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 19th and German, Scandinavian Immigration
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Emigrant Trains: Migratory Transportation Networks through Germany and North America, 1847-1914"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'Suds Clause': Brewery Workers and Free Beer before Prohibition"

Kwas, Michael          eMail: makwas@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US 19th Cent, US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): Two-article option

LaCroix, Helen          eMail: lacroix@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "A Head with the Union, a Heart with the South: Race, Labor and Politics in Kentucky's Bluegrass Region, 1865-1900."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Perfect Africa": The Politics of Race and Property in Post-Reconstruction Arkansa

Lamberson, Christine          eMail: lamberson@wisc.edu          Advisor: Jeremi Suri

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "A Climate of Violence: Fear, Violence, and American Identity in the 1960s and 1970s"

Lambert, Erin          eMail: elambert@wisc.edu          Advisor: Lee Palmer Wandel

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Reformation
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Todt Ist Kein Sterben: Mortality and Resurrection in the Illustrated Song Sheet of Reformation Nuremberg"

Ledesma, Monica          eMail: mledesma@wisc.edu          Advisor: James S Donnelly Jr

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Marching with Mary: The Legion of Mary, Lay Piety, and Catholic Activism in the Irish Free State"

Lee, Margaret          eMail: mblee@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Ethnic Suburbia: Building and Bridging Boundaries in Chicago Suburbs, 1920 to 1960"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'All That Marching Business': Negotiating Ethnic Identity through St. Patrick's Day, St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1851-1901"

Leech, Brian          eMail: bleech@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US Immigration History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Corporate Tyranny and Foreign Labor: Populism, Nativism, and Montana’s 1894 State Capital Election"

Levesque, Faron          eMail: flevesque@wisc.edu          Advisor: Nan Enstad

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Program in Women and Gender
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Levin, Matthew          eMail: mplevin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Anthony Michels

  • Areas of Interest (if available): US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Madison and the Sixties"
  • MA Thesis (if available): two-article option

Lightstone, Dana          eMail: dlightstone@wisc.edu          Advisor: André Wink

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern India
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Reconstructing the History of Criminal Communities"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Organizing Against Violence: The Indian Women's Movement, 1975-2000"

Liwe, Amelia          eMail: ajliwe@wisc.edu          Advisor: Alfred W McCoy

  • Areas of Interest (if available): SE Asian History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
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Loch, Jason          eMail: loch@wisc.edu          Advisor: Johann Sommerville

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Early Modern Britain
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Lopez, Yeri          eMail: ylopez2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Florencia E Mallon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Latin American History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Lund, Peter          eMail: pjlund@wisc.edu          Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Ancient European History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available):
  • MA Thesis (if available):

Mahoney, Maureen          eMail: mmahoney2@wisc.edu          Advisor: Thomas J Archdeacon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 20th Century US
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "The Development of the Cocaine/Crack-Cocaine Trades in New York City and their Impact on the City’s Politics, 1975-1995"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "'True' Patriotism: Conceptions of Polish American Ethnicity in Polish Roman Catholic Union and Polish National Alliance Newspapers, 1891-1922"

Malka, Adam          eMail: acmalka@wisc.edu          Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

  • Areas of Interest (if available): 19th Century US South
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "Walking the Line: Policing and the Production of Criminality on the North-South Divide."
  • MA Thesis (if available): "The Haitian Evolution: Emigration and Diasporan Consciousness in Nineteenth Century America."

Martin, Hunter          eMail: hkmartin@wisc.edu          Advisor: Laird Boswell

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Modern French History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "From Ideas to Icons: The Commodification of French Intellectual Culture, 1945-1990".
  • MA Thesis (if available): "American Jazz in France: French debates on American values during the early Cold War."

Martin, Jennifer          eMail: jamartin4@wisc.edu          Advisor: William J Cronon

  • Areas of Interest (if available): Environmental History
  • Working Dissertation Title (if available): "When the Shark Bites: The Rehabilitation of Sharks in American Cultures and Waters in the Twentieth Century"
  • MA Thesis (if available): "Do They Practice Law in Washinton?: The Foundation of Natural Resources Defense Council as a Non-Profit Environmental Law Organization"

Matenaer, James          eMail: jmmatenaer@wisc.edu