Current Graduate Students
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Email: dabrams@pas.rochester.edu
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. in Physics, University of Rochester; M.A. in Physics and M.A. in History, University of Rochester
Fields:History of Science
Adviser: Theodore Brown
Research Interests: History of Science
Katherine A. Achter
Email: kasachter@aol.com
M.A. Candidate
B.A. Campbell University
Fields: American; Minor: Cold War Era; Women and Family
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
Research Interests: Social and Cultural History (20th Century)
Joseph R. Avitable
Email: joeavitable@juno.com
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. Central Connecticut State University; M.A. Trinity College
Fields: Global; Minor: Atlantic history; Latin American history
Adviser: Joseph Inikori
Dissertation Title: "The Atlantic World Economy and Colonial Connecticut"
Research Interests: Atlantic World
Email: vasudhab@gmail.comLoren A. Broc
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. University of Delhi; M.A. University of Delhi
Fields: Global; Minor: History of Modern South Asia; Nationalism and National Identity
Adviser: Stewart Weaver
Research Interests: nationalism and national identity, and how they interact with language, especially within the context of modern South Asia
Email: brmn@mail.rochester.edu
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton; M.A. State University of New York, University at Albany
Fields: American; Minor: 19th century European cultural history; global history
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
Dissertation Title: "Religion and Insanity in the United States, 1820-1880"
Research Interests: American religious history
Publications and Honors:
Glyndon VanDeusen Prize, University of Rochester, 2006
William F. Harkins, Jr., Memorial Prize, University of Rochester, 2004
Hackman Research Residency, New York State Archives, 2000-01
Conference papers:
"Religious Insanity, Then and Now," Convivium 2003, Siena College
"Researching the Life of Rev. Jedediah Burchard, a Nineteenth-Century Revivalist," Researching New York 2001, SUNY Albany
Michael James Brown
Email: mjbrown55@gmail.com
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. Cornell University; M.Sc. London School of Economics
Fields: American; Minor: 19th and 20th c. Intellectual History, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Research Interests: public intellectuals; anti-intellectualism in America; the public sphere
Publications and Honors:
"Of Adolescents and The Aristotle," Philosophy Now, Issue 63, September/October 2007
Shane M. Butterfield
Email: brfd@mail.rochester.edu
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Fields: American; Minor: 19th Century British History and Global Sports History
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Dissertation Title: "The Meaning of Tradition: Reform and Culture in Midwestern Rural Schools, 1890-1960"
Research Interests: 20th c. American Social/Cultural History; Sports History; American Rural History; the American Revolution and Early National Period
Publications and Honors:
2007-2008 Edward Peck Curtis Award for excellence in graduate student teaching
Review of book Third Down and A War to Go: The All-American 1942 Wisconsin Badgers. Published in the Michigan Historical Review, Volume 31, #2, Fall 2005 issue, p. 166-167
2005 Donald Marks Dexter Perkins Prize recipient
Review of book Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image. Published in the Southern Historian, Spring 2003 issue, 55-57
Email: agcarman@hotmail.com
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. Houghton College; M.A. University of Rochester
Fields: American; Minor: Atlantic History; Enlightenment Era
Adviser: Michael Jarvis
Research Interests: Cultural History; Revolutionary Philadelphia
Kathleen B. Casey
Email: kc002i@mail.rochester.eduKimberly Dana Cristal
Ph.D. Candidate, ABD
B.A. History, University of Rochester, 2003
Fields: American; Minor: History of Gender and Sexuality and African-American History
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
Dissertation Title: "Racedressers and Crossdressers: Gender, Race, and Sex on the American Vaudeville Stage, 1895-1925"
Research Interests: Social and cultural history; representations of gender, race, and sex/sexuality in 20th century American popular culture
Publications and Honors:
David B. Parker Memorial Prize given to the graduate student who best exemplifies David Parker's qualities of historical imagination and dedication to learning, May 2008
William F. Harkins Jr. Prize for the best research paper presented at the University of Rochester's annual graduate student conference, May 2005
Email: kdcristal@yahoo.com
M.A. Candidate
B.A. Brandeis University
Fields: American
Adviser: Larry Hudson
Research Interests: Racism in the United States; history of American Indians; genocide; modern United States History; hopes to return to teaching high school social studies next fall
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Jessica M. DeWitt
Email: jdewitt@mail.rocheseter.edu
M.A. Candidate
B.A. History, Bethany College WV
Fields: American
Adviser: Daniel Borus
Research Interests: Contemporary American Social, Economic, and Environmental History particularly in regards to leisure, recreation, tourism, and conservation
Paul E. Dingman
Email: pdingmn@gmail.com
Ph.D. Candidate, ABD
B.A. University of Rochester; M.A. SUNY Albany
Fields: Medieval Europe; Minor: Medieval Japan, Environmental History
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Research Interests:Chivalric Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Drama; Humanism; Twelfth Century Renaissance (France and England); Art and Nature in Medieval Japan; Parks and Preserves; Naval History
Publications and Honors:
"The Rise of Latin Christian Naval Power in the Third Crusade", published in International Journal of Naval History, Vol 7, No. 3, Dec. 2008.
2008 William F. Harkins Jr. Award for Best Paper (co-recipient)
2008 Meyers Graduate Teaching Award
Kerry B. Donovan
Email: kdonovan@mag.rochester.edu
M.A. Candidate
B.A. Vassar College
Fields: American
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
Research Interests: 17th-19th c. women's history; American art
Sara H. Dougherty
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Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Fields: American
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Michelle R. Finn
Email: mfinn2@mail.rochester.edu
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. University of Pennsylvania
Fields: American; Minor: Women, Popular Culture
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
Research Interests: Manifestations of feminism in American popular culture, 1920-1960s
Michael C. Fisher
Email: mcfisher84@yahoo.com
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. History, University of California, Davis
Fields: American; Minor: 20th c. Cultural and Intellectual history
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
Research Interests: Postwar American liberalism, philosophy, and culture wars; the breakdown of American cultural and intellectual consensus in the post-1960s era
Douglas J. Flowe
Email: dflowe@mail.rochester.eduDaniel P. Franke
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. State University of New York at Geneseo
Fields: American; Minor: Urban History and West Africa
Adviser: Larry Hudson
Research Interests: Late 19th/early 20th century African-American history; urban antebellum South; Great Migration and the urban North; culture, poverty, and crime in cities; Southern convict labor; Depression era migratory and city life; modern West African urban and social history
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Ph.D. Candidate, ABD
A.A. Lower Columbia College, B.A. Rice University
Fields:Medieval; Minor: Archeology/Art History; Modern Germany
Adviser:Richard Kaeuper
Dissertation Title: "Domestic Governance and the Culture of War: East Anglia and the Hundred Years' War in the Reign of Edward III."
Research Interests:Hundred Years' War; Crusades; Medieval Germany; Chivalry; Pilgrimage; Military History and Affairs; modern Germany; Holocaust
Publications and Honors:
Review of Clifford Rogers’ Soldiers’ Lives Through History: The Middle Ages (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007), for De Re Militari, January, 2009. http://www.deremilitari.org.
“Chivalry.” Article for the Encyclopedia of Political Theory, three volumes, ed. Mark Bevir. SAGE Publications, forthcoming.
Chivalry: The Knight and the Knightly Ethos. Exhibit and pamphlet for the Robbins Library, University of Rochester, 2008.
“Papal Diplomacy and the Third Crusade: A Setback for Papal Power?” Seventh Quadrennial Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and Latin East. Avignon, France, August 2008.
“The Politics of the Imperial Coronation, 1155 – 1220.” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
“Chivalry: An Annotated Bibliography for Teachers.” The Once and Future Classroom, vol. 6, issue 1. The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS), ed. Christine Neufeld. http://www.teamsmedieval.org/ofc/SP08/chivbib.php
Robert and MarySproull Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2005-2007.
“Margery Kempe’s Germany: Contours of Pilgrimage, Prayer, and Politics.” Presented as part of The Medieval West: Contemporary Views, The Humanities Project, University of Rochester, November 2007.
“The Politics of Holy War: Frederick Barbarossa and the Third Crusade.” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2007.
William F. Harkins Jr. Prize, History Department, University of Rochester, 2007.
Egon Berlin Prize, History Department, University of Rochester, 2007.
“The Medium and the Message: the Aftermath of the Besançon Incident of 1157.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2007.
“Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and the Courtly Ethic.” Fourth Annual Conference for Medieval Studies, Purdue, Indiana, February 2006.
William Coates Book Award, History Department, University of Rochester, 2006.
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Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. University of Rochester; M.A. University of York
Fields: Medieval; Minor: Modern Intellectual History; Late Medieval Literature
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Research Interests: Heresy and sedition; kingship and sanctity; monastic chroniclers
Email: agharris@gmail.comJames P. Hermann
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. University of Buffalo; M.A. University of Buffalo
Fields: Meedieval Europe; Minor: Early Modern Europe; Africa
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Research Interests: Late medieval government and local administration particularly in northwestern Europe
Email: jphermann@frontiernet.netSamuel J. Huntington
M.A. Candidate
B.A. and B.S. University of Rochester; D.M.D. Boston University
Fields: American
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
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Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. SUNY Albany
Fields: American
Adviser: Daniel Borus
Email: pkaderca@mail.rochester.eduAlexis C. Kaelin
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. Bosphorus University,Istanbul; M.A. Marmara University, Istanbul
Fields: Modern German and European history; Minor: Global history w/emphasis on the Middle East; International Human Rights
Adviser: Celia Applegate
Dissertation Title: "Construction of the White Turk and the Unlikely Architects of Modern Turkish National Identity?: The Case of German Refugees from the Third Reich, 1919-1961"
Research Interests: Transnationalism; Nationalism and national identity; ethnic conflict; Human Rights; War and Propaganda; American Foreign policy; Fascist Networks in European and World history; EU and the Middle East
Publications and Honors:
"Military Intervention in Turkey: A Study on Military Motives and Institutional Evolution" is forthcoming in the Journal of Turkish Studies
Lina and A. William Salomone Prize, University of Rochester, 2007
Egon Berlin Prize, University of Rochester, 2006
William F. Harkins Jr. Memorial Price, University of Rochester, 2006
"Construction of the White Turk?: Republican Revolution & the Emergence of Turkish National Identity", Second American Canadian Conference, Buffalo, 2006
"The Relationship between Civil Society & State in the Process of Turkey’s integration with EU with special reference to Business Associations", 2003 Masters Thesis
Email: akaelin@mail.rochester.eduJill A. Kinney
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. College of NJ
Fields: Global
Adviser: Joseph Inikori
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B.A. Lehigh University
Fields: American; Minor: Native American History; History of Migration/Ethnicity
Adviser: Mary Young
Dissertation Title:"A Friendly Education: Quaker Schools Among the Seneca Indians, 1798-1852"
Research Interests: Eastern Native Americans and schools/education; Native Americans and gender; immigration
Publications and Honors:
2001 VanDeusen Award
Email: mlamb3@mail.rochester.eduJoseph W. Lanning
M.A. Candidate part-time
B.A. University of Rochester
Fields: American
Adviser: Daniel Borus
Email: jlanning@admissions.rochester.eduPatrick LaPierre
M.A. Candidate
B.A. University of Rochester
Fields: Global
Adviser: Dorinda Outram
Email: patlapierre@hotmail.comJay D. Learned
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. McGill University; M.A. Concordia University
Fields: American Intellectual; Political Philosophy
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Dissertation Title:"The Disenchantment of American Liberalism"
Publications and Honors:
2005 Raymond N. Ball Dissertation Year Fellowship
2001 William F. Harkins Jr. Award
2001 Meyers Graduate Teaching Award
Email: jlearned@mail.rochester.eduJeffrey R. Ludwig
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. Walla Walla College; M.A. University of Colorado
Fields: American; Minor: Russian history, Religious history
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
Dissertation Title:"The Response of America's Christian Conservatives to the Soviet Threat, 1945-1955"
Research Interests: American thought; evangelicals and fundamentalists and anti-modernism; Cold War; Russian-American immigration; anti-urbanism; consumerism
Email: jludwig3@mail.rochester.eduback to top
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. Elizabethtown College; M.A. Villanova University
Fields: American History; Minor: Intellectual History
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Research Interests: American Historiography
Publications and Honors:
"'I Am a Western Man': The Progressive Historian as Midwesterner; The Lives and Works of Turner, Beard, and Becker." Concept (2005)
Karl F. Matzky
Email: kmatzky@mail.rochester.eduEmily C. Morry
M.A. Candidate
B.A. St. Lawrence University; MST State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh
Fields: American
Adviser: Michael Jarvis
Email: emorry@mail.rochester.eduback to top
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. McGill Univesity; M.A. McGill Univesity
Fields: American; Minor: Race and Popular Culture, Urban History
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
Research Interests: 20th century popular music and popular culture; race and ethnic history; and urban history with a particular interest in conceptualizations of geographical place and living space in African American popular music of the twentieth century
Publications and Honors:
"Arrested Development: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution" (2003), available at The Hungarian Presence in Canada website, http://www.hungarianpresence.ca
Email: amnagel1@yahoo.comCraig M. Nakashian
M.A. Candidate
B.A. Print Journalism and History, Hofstra University
Fields: European
Adviser: Stewart Weaver
Research Interests: Colonial/Post Colonial Ireland
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Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. Western New England College; M.A. University of Durham, UK
Fields: Medieval; Minor: Medieval Japan, Archaeology
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Dissertation Title: "'A new kind of monster...part-monk, part-knight': The Paradox of Clerical Militarism in the Middle Ages"
Research Interests: Medieval England and France; Urban history, institutional and social developments; Military and cultural history
Publications and Honors:
"The Myth of Harold Godwineson’s Oath to William of Normandy", Presented to the 24th New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference (2007)
"The Use and Impact of Non-feudal Levied Soldiers in Anglo-Norman England", Comitatus: A Journal for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 37 (2006)
"Sworn Association: Knightly Military Behavior On and Off Crusade", Presented to the 41st Annual International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (2006)
2006 Elwitt Memorial Prize recipient
"The Use and Importance of the Native English Levies in Anglo-Norman England", Presented to the Haskins Society Conference (2001)
Monique D. Patenaude
Email: mpatenau@mail.rochester.eduStanley Pelkey
Ph.D. Candidate
A.A. Onondaga Community College; B.A. LeMoyne
Fields: American, 19th c. African-American; Minor: Atlantic World, 19th c. American Literature-Race
Adviser: Larry Hudson
Dissertation Title: "A Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, New York, 1840-1870"
Research Interests: Antebellum African-Americans and communities in the North
Publications and Honors:
Session Presentation: Frederick Douglass International Underground Railroad Conference, 2007, "Forging Steel: New York State Historical Markers & the UGRR"
David B. Parker Memorial Prize, 2007
Book Review: New York History, Winter 2006, Andrew W. Arpey, The William Freeman Murder Trial: Insanity, Politics, and Race
Daughters of the American Revolution Fellowship, Cornell University, 2003
Book Review: New York History, Summer 2002, Austin Steward, Graham Russell Hodges, ed., Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Free Man
Sage Fellow, Cornell University, 2001-2002
Paper Presentation: Communal Studies Annual Conference, 2001, “The Loss of Religious Allegiance Among the Youth of the Oneida Community”
Kerr Prize recipient, New York State Historical Association, Article Prize, 2001
"The Rescue of William 'Jerry' Henry: Antislavery and Racism in the Burned-over District." New York History, Vol. 82, 2001
"The Loss of Religious Alliance among the Youth of the Oneida Community." The Historian, Vol. 63, Summer 2001
Email: stanley.pelkey@wmich.eduback to top
M.A. Candidate
B.A. Asbury College
Fields: European
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Email: sarareubens@hotmail.comChristine Ridarsky
M.A. Candidate
B.A. State University of New York, College at Brockport
Fields: European
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Email: christine.ridarsky@rochester.eduJonathan E. Robins
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. Kent State; M.A. State University of New York, College at Brockport
Fields: American
Adviser: Michael Jarvis
Dissertation Title: "Becoming Modern: Rural Life and Community in Upstate New York during the Second Great Transformation"
Email: jonathan.robins@rochester.eduback to top
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. St. Mary’s of MD
Fields: Global history, British imperial history, Modern Islamic history
Adviser: Stanley Engerman
Dissertation Title: "The Cotton Crisis: international challenges and the global cotton industry, 1900-1914."
Research Interests: Global and world history; imperial history; commodity histories; the global cotton textile industry
Publications and Honors:
"The Colonial Kitchen in British Nigeria," / Cultural Studies / Critical Methodologies / forthcoming
"Finding a local for global history," Global History Symposium, University of Rochester, May 2008
Elwitt Memorial Prize, University of Rochester, 2007
Jamie C. Saucier
Email: jsaucie3@mail.rochester.eduJeremy K. Saucier
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. Louisiana State University
Fields: American; Minor: Philosophy, Cultural theory
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Dissertation Title:"Suburbanizing the American Imagination: Cul-de-sac Culture in Postwar Social Thought"
Research Interests: post-World War II Suburbanization and Social Thought, race and identity, political culture
Publications and Honors:
Meyers Graduate Teaching Award, 2007
David B. Parker Memorial Prize, 2009
Email: jsaucier@mail.rochester.eduLaura Anita Sikes
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. Wesleyan University
Fields: American; Minor: Africans in the Americas, Film Studies
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Dissertation Title:"Army Advertising and the Politics of Memory and Culture in Post-Vietnam America"
Research Interests: Modern American political and military culture; War in American thought, culture, and memory; the combat film and combat simulations.
Email: laurasikes@yahoo.comBrian D. Simon
M.A. Candidate
B.A. Louisiana State University
Fields: American 20th century; Minor: Oral history and Global 1960s
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
Research Interests:1960s cultural, intellectual, and political history; pop music, folk music; the Civil Rights Movement, Free Speech Movement, Anti-war Movement, Black Power Movement, and counterculture and their connections to popular music.
Email: bsimon2@mail.rochester.eduAimee C. E. Slaughter
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. State University of New York, College at Geneseo; M.A. State University of New York, University at Buffalo; Teaching certification, St. John Fisher College
Fields: American
Adviser: Michael Jarvis
Email: aimee@pas.rochester.eduMatthew Joseph Smalarz
M.A. Candidate
B.S. College of William and Mary; M.A. in Physics, University of Rochester
Fields: European; Minor: History of Science
Adviser: Celia Applegate
Email: msmalarz@mail.rochester.eduHenry S. Sommerville
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. La Salle University; M.A. La Salle University
Fields: American
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
Research Interests: African-American; Cultural and Intellectual History
Email: smrv@mail.rochester.eduPeter W. Sposato
Ph.D. Candidate ABD
B.A. Yale University; M.A. University of Texas at Austin
Fields: American
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
Dissertation Title:"Mass Modernism: Avant-Garde Publishers from the Paperback Revolution to the End of Western Civilization"
Email: psposato@mail.rochester.eduKatherine E. Stoller
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. SUNY Stony Brook
Fields:Medieval; Minor: Atlantic World in the Age of Sail, Medieval Christianity and Monasticism
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
Research Interests: MEDIEVAL- Social, political, and cultural history of medieval England and Italy; chivalry, court culture, law, lordship, landed society and gentry studies; EARLY MODERN/ATLANTIC WORLD- Elizabethan/Tudor England, chivalric revivals and aristocratic culture, dynastic politics, privateering, and Atlantic empires
Publications and Honors:
Lina and A. William Salamone Prize (2009)
Wilson Coates Book Prize (2008)
Short-Term Pre-Doctoral Residency in Norman-Siculo History, Dumbarton Oaks (Summer '08)
“The Perception of Anglo-Norman modernity and the Conquest of Ireland,” in Comitatus: A Journal of Med. and Ren. Studies, vol. 40 (Sept. 2009)
Articles for the International Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (BREPOLS)
Articles for the Encyclopedia of Elizabethan England (ABC-CLIO)
Email: kstoller@mail.rochester.eduback to top
M.A. Candidate
B.A. St. Lawrence University
Fields: Late 19th c. social and cultural history with focus on women's history
Adviser: Daniel Borus
Research Interests: Women in higher education post-civil war America
Alexander H. Tepperman
Email: alex.tepperman@utoronto.caKira L. Thurman
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. University of Toronto
Fields: American
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
Research Interests: American social and cultural history; work has primarily focused on the interactions of societal interactions of societal subgroups (such as ethnic or racial minorities) with dominant groups, and the way in which these subgroups are "Americanized" through media, art, and particularly sports. I have been particularly interested in the way baseball has been used to Americanize Jewish-Americans, though my interests in the use of sports to create cultural commonality remain fairly broad
Publications and Honors:
David and Helen Eisen Scholarship for cultural studies
Published biographies of Jewish baseball players Goody Rosen and Izzy Goldstein, the Society of American Baseball Research
Email: kthurman@mail.rochester.eduback to top
Ph.D. Candidate
B.M. Baldwin-Wallace College
Fields: Modern Europe; Minor: Music history, Contemporary Black Europe/Multicultural Europe
Adviser: Celia Applegate
Research Interests: German nationalism and its relationship to music; Women in the arts; European integration and multicultural assimilation; Viennese culture
Email: dweiner@admissions.rochester.eduback to top
M.A. Candidate
B.A. University of Rochester
Fields: European
Adviser: Celia Applegate
Research Interests: German Political and Cultural History (19th and 20th Century)