People Type: Current Graduate Students

Daddis, Cameron

Biography Biography II work at the intersection of the history of the earth sciences and environmental history, with a focus on the politics of the deep past during the nineteenth century. My dissertation project examines Ireland’s peat bogs as sites of prehistory, objects of agricultural development schemes, and symbols of death and regeneration. I have …

Danquah, E. Mintah

Biography Biography I am interested in Atlantic return migration, transnationalism and decolonization in West Africa. My PhD. research interest focuses on how the Kru people used their connections and settlements, particularly Krutowns, in British West Africa to question the legitimacy of Black Americo-Liberian domination/rule in Liberia. Through their challenge of the Americo-Liberian state, I focus …

Dasgupta, Rohini

Biography Biography My research focuses on the history of medicine, with particular emphasis on public health issues and the epistemic anxieties surrounding them in 19th and 20th-century India. I examine these dynamics within a comparative global framework, exploring how subaltern ideologies and economic disparities intersect in the convergence of traditional and Western medical practices. Education …

Day-Lucore, Nicole

Biography Biography My research focuses on modern U.S. foreign policy, with a particular interest in U.S.-Latin American relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. I am interested in the construction and implementation of U.S. foreign policy as a reflection of various associated issues, including domestic politics, international power dynamics, racism, and different national histories. I …

Decke, Ludwig

Biography Biography Trained in German, Jewish, and modern European history, I study how liberal democracies have been grappling with ethnic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity throughout the twentieth century. Education M.A. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena B.A. University of Leipzig Field MA Title Working Dissertation Title Selected Publications Selected Awards Professional Affiliations Courses Taught as TA Courses Taught as …

do Prado, Julia

Biography I am a PhD candidate working on the history of reproduction in the United States in the 20th century. Education University of Wisconsin, History M.A. Field Courses Taught as TA

Donnelly, Emma Jo

Biography Biography I am interested in late-20th century labor and racial justice movements, particularly those led by Black communities in the southeastern United States. My research incorporates oral history methodologies. Education M.A., Public History, North Carolina State University, 2025 B.A., History, University of Florida, 2022 B.A., Spanish, University of Florida, 2022 Field Selected Awards

Drakos, Ayanna

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Du, Baiyi

Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. Candidate specializing in Late Imperial and Modern China. I am interested in the intersection of natural resource management, economic history, and state capacity. My current dissertation investigates the administration of mineral resources and related criminal activities in 18th and 19th century South China. I am interested in the historical …

Ehrisman, Lindsay

Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. Candidate in African history. My dissertation research explores the interconnected histories of intimacy and health in precolonial Uganda. My broader research interests include early African history, gender, sexuality, affect, and health and healing in sub-Saharan Africa. My work on gender, intimacy, identity, and health in Uganda and Ghana has …