PhD Student Bios

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  • Rachel B Birch

    Rachel B Birch

    U.S. History: American History, 19th and 20th century American Religion, Women's history, Benevolence, Citizenship, Mormon History, American West

  • Matthew Robert Bowling
  • Benjamin Brands

    Benjamin Brands

    U.S. Army, Professional Military Education, Professionalization, American Civil War

  • Georgia J. Brown

    Georgia J. Brown

    U.S. History: Virginia Legal History, Reconstruction and the Freedmen's Bureau, Local History

  • Clarke Bursley

    Clarke Bursley

    World History: Modern Japan in a global context, U.S. foreign relations, military history, national security state, propaganda

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  • Kenneth S Capps

    Kenneth S Capps

    U.S. History: Military History with a specific focus on comic books published during the Vietnam era that reflect the collective memory and cultural significance of World War II.

  • Anne Champlin
  • Gail Coleman
  • Shana Bushyhead Condill

    Shana Bushyhead Condill

    U.S. History: Native history, public history, and museum studies

  • Shae Corey

    Shae Corey

    U.S. History: Religious History, Women's History, 20th Century, Digital History, Public History

  • Savannah Chastain Cravey

    Savannah Chastain Cravey

    U.S. History: African American history, Cemetery and Death Studies, Digital history

  • Laura Crossley

    Laura Crossley

    U.S. History: Indigenous histories, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, world's fairs, digital history, public history

  • Daniel T Curry

    Daniel T Curry

    U.S. History: U.S. History, Economic History, Borderlands History, American West, Agrarian and Populist Movements

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  • Ally DelDonna

    Ally DelDonna

    U.S. History: Early America, material culture studies, religion, Jewish studies, women's history, public and digital history.

  • Anne Dobberteen

    Anne Dobberteen

    U.S. History: Visual & Material Culture; Military History; Women’s History; History of Washington, D.C.; WWII Home Front

  • Marion Ransell Dobbins

    Marion Ransell Dobbins

    U.S. History: Public and African American History, community history of the District, Maryland, and Virginia from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. Afro-Indigenous of the District, Maryland, and Virginia.

  • Spencer Duncan

    Spencer Duncan

    World History: Premodern Muslim World, Medieval Spain, and the Crusades

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  • Chappy Hall

    Chappy Hall

    European History: French Colonialism, Empire, The Atlantic World, Digital History, Public History, and History Video Games.

  • Janet K Hammond

    Janet K Hammond

    Early Modern Europe, Digital History, Public History

  • Mark Harnitchek

    Mark Harnitchek

    U.S. History: American Colonial Period, the American Revolution, the Early Republic

  • Pearl Harris-Scott

    Pearl Harris-Scott

    World History: East Asia, Sub-saharan Africa, Empire and Gender in the 19th and 20th centuries

  • Caitlin Hartweave

    Caitlin Hartweave

    U.S. History: Gender and gender-non-conformity in the 18th century Atlantic world

  • Daniel T Howlett

    Daniel T Howlett

    U.S. History: Early America, Disability History, Religious History, Digital History

  • Janine Hubai

    Janine Hubai

    U.S. History: U.S History, Digital History, Race Relations, American Indian History, Military History, Civil-Military Relations, Public History

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  • Hannah LeComte

    Hannah LeComte

    U.S. History: Women and Gender, Girlhood, Public History, Oral History

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  • Paige M Magoto

    Paige M Magoto

    U.S. History: Women, Gender, and Sexuality; History of Sex Work; Race and Slavery; U.S Southern History; Digital History

  • Lina Mann

    Lina Mann

    U.S. History: U.S. History, White House history, slavery and emancipation, history of Washington, D.C., 19th century

  • David William Marsich

    David William Marsich

    U.S. History: Early America, American religious history, political and cultural history

  • Brian D. Medley

    Brian D. Medley

    U.S. History: Navassa Island and the guano empire (yes, those are things). Broad interests include the long nineteenth-century; expansion and empire; national security.

  • Alexandra Miller

    Alexandra Miller

    U.S. History: Spatial History, Environmental History, Urban Studies, Childhood, Gender, Race, Sports, US Progressive Era, Modern Europe

  • Jennifer Mills

    Jennifer Mills

    U.S. History: Civil War & Reconstruction; American Religious culture; Digital Humanities; Military History; Labor History; Race Relations

  • Luz Adriana Giraldo Mueller

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  • Christopher Nelson

    Christopher Nelson

    U.S. History: Military History, Civil-Military Relations, War and Memory

  • Kris Nohe

    Kris Nohe

    Digital Pedagogy, Intragender Race Relations between American Black and White women, Spatial History, and American Southern History

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  • Amber Pelham

    Amber Pelham

    U.S. History: Public and Digital History; Local and Community History; Migration; Labor History

  • Nicole Penn

    Nicole Penn

    U.S. History: Religion, Gender, Politics, Military History

  • John Peyton

    John Peyton

    U.S. History: Native American history, Public history, digital History, early American Republic

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  • Savannah Scott

    Savannah Scott

    U.S. History: 20th century U.S. history, digital history, women's history

  • Tom Seabrook

    Tom Seabrook

    U.S. History: My interests include memory, technology (especially the built environment), and local history.

  • John Sheehan

    John Sheehan

    U.S. History: U.S. History; Military History; Political History; Cultural History; War & Society;

  • Annabelle Spencer

    Annabelle Spencer

    U.S. History: 19th Century, Women & Gender, Digital Humanities, Race, Motherhood, Womanhood, Kinship Networks, Girlhood, Enslavement & Freedom Seeking, Reproductive Autonomy, Spatial Analysis

  • Tom G Stickney

    Tom G Stickney

    U.S. History: Military History, US Army History

  • Allison Stowers

    Allison Stowers

    U.S. History

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  • LaQuanda Walters Cooper

    LaQuanda Walters Cooper

    U.S. History: Black public history, digital studies, history/social studies education, history of educational institutions

  • Theodore L Warren
  • Rachel Anne Whyte

    Rachel Anne Whyte

    U.S. History: Indigenous History, Public and Digital History, Museum Studies

  • Ashleigh N Williams

    Ashleigh N Williams

    European History: Modern Europe; Military History and Societies; Race, Gender, and Non-conforming Sexualities

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  • Kacey Marie Young

    Kacey Marie Young

    U.S. History: Early US Colonial History; Mid-Atlantic Indigenous Studies; African and African American Studies; Movement, Cultural History, Landscape Analysis; Public History