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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Stephen Allen
Latin American History/Global and Comparative
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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 second 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.

Christopher Bischof
Modern European History/Women’s ahd 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.  She is a second year doctoral student at Rutgers and plans to study nineteenth century British and French cultural history.  She plans to do a minor field in Global and Comparative history.  Sara’s current research interests are centered on nineteenth century drug culture.

AJ Blandford
US/STEH
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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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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 ahd Gender
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Hilary Buxton received her B.A. in History from Smith College in 2011.  She is currently a first year doctoral student at Rutgers and plans to study Modern European history, focusing on the history of sexuality, gender, and medicine in the twentieth century.  In particular, she is interested in the interplay of body politics in 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 first year doctoral student in African American History. Her research interests include black middle class identity and institutions, and African American womanhood.

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 tentative dissertation project will take up the intersection between formal politics and cosmopolitan performances in a pan-European context, analyzing how new visual forms influenced the turbulence of early twentieth-century politics, particularly in the context of new conservatism, fascism,

Elizabeth Churchich
Early modern European History/Medieval Europe
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Elizabeth Churchich received her B.A. from American University in 2007. She currently focuses on religion and the state in seventeenth-century France, with an emphasis on their influence on society. Her dissertation explores the aftermath of Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, focusing on the forced reeducation of Protestant children that accompanied this edict. She is interested in the ideals of education found in this period and their relation to the changing place of religion and the state in early modern society.

Melissa Cooper
African American History/African Diaspora
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Thomas Cossentino
US/Political/African American
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Thomas Cossentino is a first 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.

Leslie Doig
Early American History/Women’s and Gender
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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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Elisabeth Eittreim
Women’s and Gender History/Modern U.S.
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Andrea Estepa
Women’s and Gender History/Modern American
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Dina Fainberg
Modern European History(Russia) /Modern U.S.
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Leigh-Anne Francis
American History/African American
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Matthew Friedman
American History (20th Century)
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Matthew Friedman holds a BA and MA in History from Concordia University in Montreal. A former journalist and the author of three books on information technology, Friedman is also a musician and composer, and brings his lifelong passion for making odd – and often quite rude – electronic noises to his research into sound, noise and subjectivity in post-WWII America. His dissertation, tentatively entitled "Signal to Noise: Modernity, Music and Subjectivity in Postwar America," explores the deployment of noise and disorder by American avant garde music as a dissident critique of postwar rationality and the subversion of modernist subjectivity. Friedman has written on American music, reception, performance art and radicalism and is currently drinking coffee in a café in Manhattan.

Alla Gaydukova
Medieval European History/Women’s and Gender
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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 currently a fifth year doctoral student in US history, focusing on women's and gender history and the history of sexuality.  Her research interests include the interplay of gender, sexuality, desire, and non-normative identity formation in post-World War II America.  Her dissertation explores these issues in relation to butch-femme lesbian culture, 1945-1965, as well as the tangible histories of women, social and romantic life, political consciousness, and survival within this marginalized but vibrant subculture.

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.

Terrence Golway
American History/Colonial U.S.
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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

Bridget Gurtler
Women’s and Gender History/History of Medicine and Technology
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Bridget Gurtler received her BA in History from Wellesley College and her M.A. in History from University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is a fifth year doctoral student and her research focuses on the history of assisted reproduction and addresses the role of patients and popular culture in shaping and understanding medical practice. Her dissertation on the history of artificial insemination, 1900-1980 pinpoints pivotal moments of change in the history of this medical technology and works to unravel the complicated meanings of consumption, knowledge, gender and race when medicine, profit and the pursuit of parenthood intersect. She is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Women’s Seminar on “Gendered Agency” she is also entering her second year as a research assistant at the Center for Race and Ethnicity.

Dennis Halpin
American History/U.S. in Global Context
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Adrienne Harrison
Early American History/Early Modern European
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Christopher Hayes
American History (20th Century)/African American
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Christopher Hayes graduated with a B.A. in history from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2004. His dissertation, Police, Poverty and Resistance: the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant Uprising, July, 1964, uses those events as a focal point to show that black New Yorkers made a distinct, vigorous civil rights movement dating back to World War II, heavily centered on economic rights, with a strong focus on police brutality. Christopher's work contributes to the historiographical redefining of the national civil rights movement, demonstrating that it did not solely emerge from the South in the 1950s and that different regions of the country had different goals, as well as a deeper understanding of how the Cold War reconfigured civil rights movements throughout the country and the centrality of police reform to the New York civil rights movement.

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 second 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.

Vanessa Holden
African American History/Women’s and Gender
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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/Early Modern Europe
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Travis is an Early Americanist specializing in Native American history and the history of the American West. His current work focuses on Indians of the northern Plains and the upper Missouri valley in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is also interested in the Atlantic World, specifically the rise of capitalism and indigenous peoples’ resistance to and eventual incorporation into the Atlantic world-economy and the rising American state.

Johanna Jochumsdottir
Women’s and Gender History/Modern Europe
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Stephanie Jones-Rogers
African American History/American
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Stephanie Jones-Rogers is a fifth year doctoral student in African American History. She earned her M.A. in United States History from Rutgers-Newark and her B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers-Livingston College. She is interested in articulations of racialized and gendered power in slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Her dissertation examines the ways in which white slaveowning women navigated the new economic and juridical terrain of the post-revolutionary South, the social and ideological implications of slaveownership for white women in the antebellum era, and their economic investment in the perpetuation of chattel slavery.