Graduate Student Contacts

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Gretchen Abbott
Women’s & Gender History/Modern U.S.
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John Adams
African American History/American
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Jahaira Arias
Latin American History/Global and Comparative
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Jahaira Arias received her BA at Trinity College, Hartford in 2004 and is now a fifth year doctoral student. She is currently conducting her dissertation research on nineteenth century politics in the Dominican Republic. In particular, she is interested in how popular conceptions of race, nation and freedom informed political behavior in this period.

Mekala Audain
African-American History/U.S.
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Marsha Barrett
American History/African American
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Marsha Barrett earned a B.A. in history from Yale University in 2005.  Her research interests include twentieth century United States political, social, and urban history.  Her dissertation, written under the direction of David Greenberg, is a political study that examines Nelson Rockefeller’s relationship with the Republican Party during his tenure as governor of New York from 1959 to 1973.  By focusing on the public’s reception to various policies Rockefeller forwarded as governor and three-time presidential candidate, this project explores the dissolution of moderate Republicanism as its most renowned proponent compromised his liberal ideals in hopes of becoming president.

Eric Barry
U.S. 20^th Century History/Early Modern European
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Jesse Bayker
Women's and Gender History
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Jesse Bayker received his B.A. in History from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2010.  He is currently a third year doctoral student in Women’s and Gender History, focusing on U.S. urban and social history and the history of sexuality.  In particular, he is interested in the boundaries of gender and the ways ordinary people constructed, policed, and traveled across those boundaries in the 19th century.

Moyagaye Bedward
African History/Global and Comparative
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Zachary Bennett
Colonial, African-American History, Comparative
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Christopher Bischof
Modern European History/Women’s and Gender
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Christopher Bischof received his BA in history from the University of Arizona in 2008 and is currently a fourth year doctoral candidate in modern European and women's and gender history.  His dissertation explores the personal and professional lives of elementary teachers in Victorian Britain and its Caribbean empire to connect class politics and pedagogy, teachers' career patterns and the making of a national culture, and self interest and the civilizing mission.  He is a 2011-2012 Spencer/National Academy of Education Dissertation Fellow.

Sara Black
Modern European History
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Sara received her BA in European studies and music from the College of William and Mary in 2009.  She is a third year doctoral student at Rutgers with a major field in modern European history and a minor field in global and comparative history.  Her dissertation explores the interwoven medical and cultural histories of mind-altering drugs, including morphine, hashish, opium, ether, chloroform, and cocaine, in nineteenth-century France.

Christopher Blakley
Colonial, STEH, Earyl Modern Europe
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AJ Blandford
US/STEH
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Ryan Blasingame
STEH, Comparative, Early Modern Europe
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Maria Booth
Modern European History/Women's and Gender
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Andy Bowers
American History/Trans-Atlantic Religious Culture
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Julia Bowes
US/Women's and Gender History
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Kendra Boyd
African American History
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Kendra earned a B.S in Business Administration (marketing major) from Wayne State University in May 2010. She is currently a second year doctoral student in African American History. Her research interests include urbanization and business, illegal business, and female entrepreneurship.

Danielle Bradley
Medieval European History/Global and Comparative
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Danielle has a BA from the University of Iowa, an MA from Reading University in medieval archaeology, and an MA from the University of Connecticut in medieval studies. Her research interests include chronicles and bureaucratic culture in later medieval England.

Mark Bray
Modern European History/Women’s and Gender History
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Mark Bray finished his BA in Philosophy at Wesleyan University in 2005, and his MA in Modern European History and American History from Providence College in 2008. Currently, his research focuses primarily on the history of anarchism in Spain, but in the future he will expand his outlook to include the history of socialism and social movements more broadly throughout the world. His tentative dissertation topic looks at the relationship between anarchism, human rights, and prisons in Europe and the Atlantic World in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Hilary Buxton
Modern European History/Britain/Empire/Women’s and Gender
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Hilary Buxton received her B.A. in History from Smith College in 2011.  She is currently a second year doctoral student at Rutgers studying Modern European history, focusing on the history of sexuality, gender, and medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  In particular, she is interested in the interplay of body politics and the movement of sexual and racial discourses between imperial metropoles and their colonies.

Miya Carey
African American History
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Miya Carey earned her B.A. in History from Drew University in May 2011. She is currently a second year doctoral student in African American History. Her research interests include black middle class identity and institutions, and African American womanhood.

Satyasikha Chakraborty
Women's and Gender History/Global and Comparative
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Satyasikha Chakraborty earned her BA and MA in history form Jadavpur University, India.  She is interested in women's history and visual culture in colonial South Asia.

Robin Chapdelaine
Women’s and Gender History/African
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Christina Chiknas
Modern European History/Women’s and Gender
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Christina Chiknas earned a B.A. in History and Philosophy from Georgia State University in 2009. Currently, she researches the mass visualization of cosmopolitanism in early twentieth-century Europe, with a particular focus on consumer culture in Germany and France. Her dissertation project takes up the intersection between formal politics and cosmopolitan performances in a pan-European context, analyzing how masquerades influenced the turbulence of early twentieth-century politics.

Thomas Cossentino
US/Political/African American
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Thomas Cossentino is a second year doctoral student from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. After attending Delaware County Community College, he transferred to Villanova University, where he earned a B.A. (2009) and an M.A. (2011) in history. His research explores twentieth century American history, and his interests include the politics of race, urban history and suburbanization, and the social and political implications of service in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War era.

Robert Daiutolo
Early American History/Early Modern Europe
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Raymond Dansereau
Medieval European History/Early Modern Europe
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Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego
American/African American History
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Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 2007, where he majored in American history and minored in Theater, and graduated with an M.A. in History from the University of Virginia in 2008. He has varied interests, including Nineteenth Century African American political history, Cuban-American relations after the Civil War, and post-World War II American cultural and literary movements (particularly the Beat Generation of the 1950s). His dissertation focuses on the lives and careers of six black congressmen, who served in the post-bellum era, and the ways in which their rhetoric and policies effectively represented the wants and needs of their constituents.

Courtney Doucette
Modern European History/Women’s and Gender
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Mario D’Penha
Women’s and Gender History/South Asian
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Mark Duggan
Early Modern History/Modern Europe
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Arika Easley
African American History/American
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Arika Easley is a doctoral candidate working on her dissertation entitled, "The Indian Image in the Black Mind: The Representation of Native Americans in Free African American Antebellum Public Culture." She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA from Columbia University.

Elisabeth Eittreim
Women’s and Gender History/Modern U.S.
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Kaisha Esty
African American History/Women's and Gender
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Maco Faniel
African-American History/American, Comparative
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Leigh-Anne Francis
American History/African American
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Hannah Frydman
Women's and Gender, American History, Modern Europe
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Alix Genter
American History/Women’s and Gender History
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Alix Genter received her B.A. in American Studies from Barnard College in 2005 and is in her sixth year in the doctoral program. Her dissertation explores the interplay of desire, gender, race, class, and age in the production of butch-femme lesbian culture in New York City from World War II to Stonewall.

Molly Giblin
Modern European History/ Women’s and Gender/ Global and Comparative
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Molly Giblin received her B.A. in French and History from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  After completing an M.A. in History at the same institution, she spent four years teaching English in Hong Kong before returning to the United States to pursue her doctoral studies.  Molly’s research turns upon questions of gender and French empire, particularly in relation to discourse formation and semi-colonial spaces.  Exploring the multivocality of Europeans who both deployed and subverted hegemonic conceptions of femininity, Molly’s work engages with sexuality, national and racial identity formation, and expressions of power.    Her current project, which she intends to develop into a dissertation, examines the narrative tactics that produced and confronted French perceptions of danger in nineteenth-century Chinese treaty ports.

Nigel Gillah
Medieval European History/Early Modern Europe
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Judge Glock
American History
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Judge Glock graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in History in 2004, and returned to William and Mary to receive an M.A. in American History in 2008, where he completed a thesis on the electric street in Richmond, Virginia.  He also spent a year teaching English in Suzhou, China, and spent two years doing historical research on Native American and environmental lawsuits for a contractor with the Department of Justice.   He started his PhD studies at Rutgers in 2010, and is focusing his research on urban history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Alexandro Gomez-del-Moral
Modern European History/Latin American
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Alex Gomez-del-Moral earned a BA from Amherst College in 2003 and an MA from the University of Georgia in 2007. His research interests include the cultural history of his native Spain, the history of subcultures, consumer culture and the relationship between the modern regime of consumed objects, society and cultural meaning. His dissertation, tentatively titled, “Buying into Change: Consumer Culture and the Department Store in Spain, 1931-1988” examines the key role that mass consumption played in Spain’s evolution from dictatorship to democracy, showing how a burgeoning Spanish consumerism propelled the liberalization of Spanish society and culture, paving the way for democratization


Charles Heaton
Early American History/Early Modern Atlantic World
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Jessica Herzog
Modern European History/Women’s and Gender
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Jessica Herzog earned her B.A. in History and Women's Studies from the Pennsylvania State University and her M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a third year doctoral student at Rutgers, studying modern European history and women's and gender history. Her research focuses on travel and leisure in Eastern Europe during the cold war era. Currently, she is examining the development of Hungary's tourism industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Michael Hill
Medieval European History/Global and Comparative
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Michael Hill earned his B.A. in History and International Studies at the University of South Florida in 2003 and received his M.A. in History at San Diego State University in 2008. His dissertation analyzes the impact of ethnic identity among religious houses in the borderlands of the British Isles and France between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Part of Mike’s dissertation attempts to conceptualize the role of ethnicity in the British Isles and France within a larger analysis of the function of borderlands in medieval Eurasia, which reflects Mike’s broad research and teaching interests. Mike taught World History courses as a teaching assistant for four semesters at SDSU and has taught survey courses on the Middle Ages and Western Civilization since arriving at Rutgers in 2008. Mike intends to teach a course on the Crusades in the summer of 2010.

Melissa Horne
Modern US/African American
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Melissa Horne received her BA and MA from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She is a fourth year doctoral student and her research interests include 19th and 20th century American and African American social and cultural history. Her current research focuses on the American South, particularly the history of higher education, student activism, town and gown relations, the history of public housing, and New Deal politics and policies.

Kate Imy
Modern European History/Global and Comparative
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After a college career as a perennial transfer student, Kate earned a B.A. in History from Metropolitan State College of Denver. In 2010, she completed an M.A. in European History at the University of Northern Colorado. Her thesis investigated British spiritual journeys to South Asia and analyzed the influence of travel and belief in enabling self-expression and individuality. She remains interested in cross-cultural exchanges and travel in the interwar era and looks forward to working on a project with global and comparative themes.

Travis Jeffres
Early American History/Native American
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Travis Jeffres an early Americanist specializing in Native American history. Broadly, I am interested in Euro-American empires and indigenous peoples in 17th, 18th, and 19th century North America. Currently I am looking at how Euro-Americans constructed (or conjured) empires in the mid-continent, and how Native Americans countered, negotiated, and brokered those efforts.

Johanna Jochumsdottir
Women's and Gender History/Modern European 
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Julia Katz
African American History/Global and Comparative
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William Kelly
Latin-American History/U.S.
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Annalise Kinkel
Modern European History/Women's and Gender
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Annalise Kinkel graduated from the University of Denver in 2005 with a BA in History and English. After working for two years in public relations, she came to Rutgers in 2007. Her dissertation, “In Ma’adi, Near Cairo: Locating Global History in British-Occupied Egypt, 1878-1962” examines the variety of multi-national relationships that allowed Ma’adi, an idyllic “garden city” south of Cairo, to come into existence, and thrive until revolution in the 1950s. Going beyond an imperial/national binary, she is interested in the expansive global relationships of colonial geographies, as they were impacted by networks of culture, commerce, and ideas. A former U.S. Fulbright Student to Egypt, she spent the 2010-11 academic year in Egypt and England, and is now a Rutgers graduate fellow, writing her dissertation in the US.

Alissa Klots
Modern European History/USSR/Women's and Gender
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Yvette Florio Lane
Modern European History/Women's and Gender
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Yvette Florio Lane is a PhD candidate whose research interests are at the intersection of histories of consumerism and advertising, technology, and material culture. Yvette holds a BA in Anthropology from the State University of New York College at New Paltz, and an MA in History from Monmouth University. Yvette has written on the use of rayon in comparative perspective, women immigrants and national identity, and is currently working on her dissertation, “Duty and Desire: Selling Benevolence in Modern Britian,” which focuses on how modern British identity was shaped, in part, through acts of philanthropic consumerism. Linking together these research interests are questions of in/authenticity, modernity, and the methodology of reading objects as texts through which aspects of lived experience are illuminated.

Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders
Modern American History/African American
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Katharine Lee
Early American History/Women’s and Gender
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Katharine Lee received her B.A. in American Social Development from Grinnell College, and an M.A. in History from the University of Tulsa. Her research focuses on questioning and redefining our understanding of American politics and political activism from 1760-1840 in order to reveal the ways in which women participated in community and national politics. In addition, her dissertation challenges prevailing concepts within her field such as separate spheres and women's economic ignorance in hope of better understanding women's experiences in the late colonial and early national eras. Through these explorations, Katharine seeks to reveal a more nuanced understanding of Early American political expression and the roles and responsibilities of women in this period.

Rong Li
American History/S. Asia, Modern Europe
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Raechel Lutz
US/STEH
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Raechel Lutz earned her B.A. in History and Art History from Ithaca College in 2007. While working at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, NJ, she earned her M.A. in History from Rutgers University - Newark in 2010. Currently a second year Ph.D. student, Raechel's research explores the intersections between nature, work, and identity in the US.

Tara Malanga
Latin American History/Global and Comparative
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Hugo Marquez Soljancic
Medieval History, Women's and Gender
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Lytton McDonnell
US/Cultural History
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Steven McGrail
American History/Women’s and Gender
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Patrick McGrath
American History/Cultural and Intellectual
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Damien Miller
American History/Women’s and Gender
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Christopher Mitchell
Women’s and Gender History/American
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Taylor Moore
Women's and Gender History, Diaspora
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Kenneth Moss
Latin American History/Women’s and Gender
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Anna Nath
Modern European History
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Dustin Neighly
Medieval History/Global and Comparative
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Jessica Nelson
Latin American History/Early American
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Matthew O’Brien
Early Modern European History/Modern Europe
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Svanur Petursson
Modern European History/Women’s and Gender
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Marika Plater
American History/STEH
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Kristin Pinyan
Medieval European History/Women’s and Gender
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Kristin Canzano Pinyan earned her B.A. in Medieval Studies and English from Georgetown University in 2004 and her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Fordham University in 2005. She taught US history at a New Jersey high school before coming to Rutgers in 2007 to pursue a PhD in medieval European history. Her dissertation tentatively titled "Gentility and Status in Late Medieval England." Kristin also teaches Expository Writing and is a fellow at the Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute.

Jazmin Puicon
Women’s and Gender History/Latin American
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David Reid
American History/modern Mexico
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David Reid received his BA from Dalhousie University in Halifax and MA from York University in Toronto. He studies Latin America and is a first year PhD. For his dissertation he is looking at Mexico's Dirty War.

Benjamin Resnick-Day
Early American History/Atlantic
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Melissa Reynolds
Early Modern, Medieval, Women's and Gender.
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Charles Riggs
American History
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Charlie Riggs received a Bachelor's from Harvard College in 2010. As a first-year graduate student at Rutgers, he studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century American cultural, intellectual, and religious history.

Nova Robinson
Women’s and Gender History/Global and Comparative
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Nova Robinson is a third year PhD student in Women's and Gender History with a geographic concentration in the Middle East. Her dissertation "Syrian Women, Pan-Arab Women's Activism and the Politics of Palestine, 1900-1948" focuses on transnational Arab feminist networks in the early 20th century that advocated for women's rights and Arab sovereignty. Her research builds out of research into contemporary women’s activism conducted as a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan and Bahrain. Nova holds an A.B. in History from Dartmouth College (2008). Nova is currently a graduate fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.

Matthew Roth
American History (20th Century)/STEH
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Matthew Roth, who holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, combines environmental and cultural history in his dissertation topic: the career of the soybean in America. This encompasses both agricultural practices and movies such as "Soylent Green," but focuses on the multiple paths by which a cultural item -- in this case a crop -- makes its way from one continent into the heart of another. A vegetarian going on twenty years and someone who has helped make tofu at a commune, Matthew is uniquely qualified to write on this topic. He has also written about nature in Disney films (in particular “Bambi” and “The Lion King”), religion on television, and Amway in American life.

Michele Rotunda
American History/History of Medicine
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Kara Schlichting
American History, Urban and Environmental History
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Kara Schlichting came to Rutgers in 2007 after graduating with a B.A. in American Studies at Cornell University. She is particularly interested in urban-suburban history and environmental history. Her current research interests center on the evolving relationship between the metropolitan and suburban landscape surrounding Long Island Sound. She is interested in the use of space in waterfront communities along the Connecticut coast of Long Island Sound in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly the evolution of landscape and coastal access as the region transitioned from transportation and industrial geographies to residential neighborhoods. Kara is also exploring the post-WW II development of eastern Long Island’s agricultural communities into suburban and viticultural landscapes. She is analyzing how issues of class and local identity were triggered by these developments.

Kate Schmitz
Women's and Gender/American History
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Kate Schmitz earned dual BAs in English and History from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012.  She is a first-year PhD student interested in women's medical and public health history

Kristoffer Shields
Cultural History/History of Technology
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Raised in Florida, Kris has bounced around the Northeast since attending Yale University and receiving his B.A. in American Studies in 1997. He later received a J.D. from NYU and practiced law for just over two years before returning to academia. Kris studies legal and cultural history, particularly focusing on the relationship between famous trials and American culture. His current work examines a series of famous trials in the 1920s, analyzing their relationship to developing media technologies and changing cultural ideas about morality.