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Acocal, Sandra
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- Latin American History
Sandra Acocal is a PhD candidate with a degree in Social Anthropology from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), Master in History and Ethnohistory from the Escuela Nacional de... -
Adams, Anh
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- Women's and Gender History, US
Ánh Adams (she/her) is a PhD student in American History and Women’s and Gender History. She earned a B.A in History and Geography from Texas State University. Her research explores the history of... -
Anthony, Joshua
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- Latin American History, Global and Comparative
Josh Anthony is a doctoral candidate studying the Indigenous history of Mexico. His dissertation, "A Nahua Family History: Kinship and Colonialism in Amaquemecan Chalco, 1465-1630" uses... -
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Banerjee, Avigyan
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- Asian and Middle Eastern History, Global and Comparative History
Avigyan Banerjee is a PhD student majoring in Asian and Middle Eastern History. His research interests broadly include social and cultural histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, violence... -
Bellamy, Andrew
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- Modern European History
Andrew Bellamy is a PhD candidate trained in modern European and global history. His dissertation, "Defying Gravity: The Namazi Family and the Persian Opium Trade in the Age of Prohibition," is a... -
Berryhill, Jeffery
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- American, African American History
Jeff Berryhill is a PhD Candidate specializing in American history and African American history, with broad interests in politics, social movements, sexuality, and medicine. He received a BA from... -
Bertinotti, Florencia Elizabeth
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- Latin America, Women’s and Gender History
Florencia Elizabeth Bertinotti is a second-year PhD student. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, gender, class relations, and emancipation by investigating the lives of laundresses in... -
Bleecker, James
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- Modern European History/Environmental History
James Bleecker is a PhD student in Modern European History with a minor in Environmental History. He received his B.A in History from Skidmore College and an M.A in Museum Studies from The George... -
Boyd, A.J.
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- African American History
A.J. Boyd is a doctoral candidate studying 20th-century African American history with an interest in the history of race, gender, and war. Her research focuses on Black female soldiers in the World... -
Branum, Elissa
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- US History, Latinx History
Elissa Branum is a PhD candidate in 19th-20th c. US History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She has contributed to the National Council on Public History's History at Work and the Rutgers AAUP... -
Bruno, Andrew
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- Science, Technology, Environment and Health; Asian and Middle Eastern History
Andrew is a second-year PhD student in the "Science, Technology, Environment & Health” field. His research examines how flows of oil, water, capital, and technology in the modern Middle-East... -
Bunker, Cameron
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- American History, STEH
Cameron Bunker is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at Rutgers. His research examines politics, finance, race, and gender in the context of U.S. imperialism. His dissertation, "Insuring Empire: U.S... -
Cauthen, Sloane A.
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- African Diaspora and African American History
Sloane A. Cauthen is a first-year PhD student in History focusing on African Diaspora Studies and African American Studies. She received her B.A. in African American Studies, with minors in African... -
Cazu, Nadja Efsun
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- European, Global and Comparative History
Nadja Efsun Cazu is a history PhD student specializing in global Francophone intellectual history with a focus on philosophy, archaeology and psychiatry. Her side research accompanying her archival... -
Christensen, McKenzi
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- Women's and Gender History, Modern European/American
McKenzi Christensen is a PhD candidate studying Women's and Gender History. Her research interests include the history of childhood and youth, girlhood, youth activism, and women's suffrage. McKenzi... -
Clio Isaacson
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- Latin American History, Women’s and Gender History
Clio Isaacson is a PhD candidate in Latin American history. Her research focuses on Indigenous women in central Mexico during the colonial period. Her dissertation, “Women of the Nahuatl Annals:... -
Coffman, Sarah
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- African American History
Sarah Coffman is a PhD candidate focusing on twentieth century African American and urban history. She received her BA in History and African American studies from Lake Forest College in Lake... -
Cordasco, Kenneth
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- American, Middle Eastern History
Kenneth Cordasco is a first-year PhD student in American history with a minor field in Middle East history. He received his B.S. in Marine Transportation from the State University of New York... -
Cordero Cruz, Rosa Emilia
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- Latin America and the Caribbean, Women and Gender, African Diaspora, Race and Slavery
Rosa Emilia Cordero Cruz (ella/elle) is a Puerto Rican history Ph.D. candidate specializing in Latin American and Caribbean and Women’s and Gender History at Rutgers University. Her dissertation... -
Curry, Joy
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- Early Modern European History
Joy Curry is a first-year PhD student in Early Modern European History. She received her BA in History at the Univeristy of Iowa, and an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at... -
Darmiento, Nathan
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- Latin American History, US
Nathan Darmiento is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University specializing in Latin American history, with a minor in U.S. history. He earned his B.A. in History and Latin American Studies from the... -
De Moya-Guerra, Laura Carolina
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- Latin American History; Global and Comparative
Laura is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers University, specializing in the migrations, diasporas, and mobilities of 20th-century Latin America and the Caribbean. Her dissertation, 'The Chinese... -
Dixon, Lindsey
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- African American, American History
Lindsey Dixon is a PhD student studying African-American history. Prior to attending Rutgers, she earned her B.A. in Political Science from Howard University, where she was a Mellon Mays... -
Drake, Koda
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- American, Women’s and Gender History
Koda is a second-year PhD student in American History with a minor field in Women's and Gender History. They received their B.S. in Museum Studies from Rochester Institute of Technology and their... -
Dunn, Ethan
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- STEH, US
Ethan Dunn is a doctoral candidate studying the history of technology and capitalism in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. His current project seeks to understand the combined... -
Federico, Joanna Paxton
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- Women's and Gender History, STEH
Joanna Paxton Federico is a PhD candidate specializing in the history of science and medicine. Her current research traces the emergence of violence as an object of public health science, practice,... -
Feldman, Hannah
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- American History and STEH
Hannah Feldman is a PhD student in American History and Science, Technology, Environment, and Health. She received a B.A. in history from Harvard University and an M. Phil. from Trinity College... -
Fong, Alison
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- Southeast Asian History, Women’s and Gender, Comparative
Alison Fong (she/her) is a PhD student in History at Rutgers University. Her interests include modern Southeast Asian history, women’s and gender history, and legal history, as well as East Asian... -
Fowler, Gwendolyn
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- African American, Women's and Gender History
Gwendolyn Fowler is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the women of the Welfare Rights Movement. Specifically, she researches the welfare rights group the Westside... -
Gerasimov, Andrei
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- Modern European, Asian and Middle Eastern History
Andrei Gerasimov is a first-year PhD student in late Modern European History, with a minor field in Asian and Middle Eastern History. He received his B.A. in History from Novosibirsk State... -
Goffinet, Hugh
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- African American and African Diasporic History
Hugh Goffinet is a PhD student, majoring in African Diaspora and minoring in Latin American/Caribbean, who has been in the department since 2024. His research interests surround the circulation of... -
Gomez, Yazmin
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- American, Women's and Gender History
Yazmin Gomez is a doctoral candidate studying American and Women and Gender History. She received her B.A. in Psychology and History from Marquette University, where she was a Ronald E. McNair... -
Gonzalez Cortes, Javier
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- STEH, Latin American History
Javier is a Ph.D student interested in understanding the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals in Colombia and other parts of Latin America from a historical perspective. He is... -
Goode, Morgan
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- Early American, African-American History
Morgan Goode is a second-year doctoral student studying early American and African American history. Her research and methodological interests span social, political, labor, and economic history;... -
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Jacob, Ben
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- Science, Technology, Environment and Health, Global and Comparative History
Ben Jacob is a second-year PhD student in the history of Science, Technology, Environment and Health. At the broadest level, he is interested in the relationship between histories of colonialism,... -
Jefferson, La'Nora
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- African American, American History
La’Nora Jefferson graduated from the University of Houston in 2016 with a BA in History. She is currently a doctoral candidate whose major field of focus is 20th century African American history... -
Kahouaji, Nawel
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- Early Modern European History
Nawel Kahouaji is a PhD candidate with interests in women and gender history and early modern British studies. She intends to focus her research on the seventeenth-century through the lens of women... -
Karacan, Işıl
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- Middle Eastern and Women's and Gender History
Işıl Karacan is a PhD student in Middle Eastern History and a minor field in Women’s and Gender History. She obtained her double major in LLB and Political Science. After practicing law, she began... -
Lenoe-Williams, Eleanor Eriko Tsuchiya
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- Asia/Middle East, Women's & Gender History, US
Eleanor Eriko Tsuchiya Lenoe-Williams is a doctoral candidate with interests in transnational histories of Japan and the US, children during the American Occupation of Japan, and family history in... -
Li, Rong (Aries)
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- American History, U.S.-East Asian relations, Modern East Asian History, Memory Studies
Aries Li is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Rutgers University. She is writing her dissertation “Shared Past, Discordant Memories,” which explores the profound ways that memories of... -
Long, Leah
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- Women’s and Gender, American History
Leah Long is a second-year PhD student specializing in Women’s and Gender History and American History. She received a B.A. in History with a minor in Sociology from Macalester College. Her current... -
Manygoats, Raven
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- US, Native American History
Raven is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in United States History and Gender and Women's History. She received her B.A. in History from Otterbein University in 2019. Her research focuses on Native... -
March, Kyra
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- African American History, Women's and Gender History
Kyra March (she/her) is a PhD student in African American History and Women’s and Gender History with a Public Humanities Certificate. She obtained her BA in African American Studies and Studies of... -
Marron, Ayelet J.
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- American, Gender and Women’s History
Ayelet Marron is a doctoral candidate in history, specializing in American foreign relations. Her dissertation, “Occupation Economics in WWII”, examines the first large-scale occupation the US... -
Mathis, Andrew
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- Modern European, Early Modern European
Andrew Mathis is a second-year doctoral student studying the political history of the late Habsburg monarchy, focusing on the political mobilization of ethnic minorities. He has a postgraduate... -
Mercandetti, Paul
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- Modern European History, Global and Comparative
Paul is a doctoral candidate in modern European history focusing on memory of the Second World War in the Soviet Union. His dissertation “Beyond a Fiery Line: The Memory of the Burned Villages in... -
Miller, Ian
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- African American History
Ian Miller is a PhD student majoring in African-American history. He received a BA in History with a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University. Ian is interested in... -
Motieram (Baldeo), Kiran
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- Latin American History
Kiran Motieram (Baldeo) is a Ph.D. candidate studying Latin America, the Caribbean, and the British Empire. Her dissertation explores the history of childhood and youth in post-emancipation British... -
Mukherjee, Amrita
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- Asian and Middle Eastern History, Science, Technology, Environment and Health
Amrita Mukherjee is a PhD student in Asian and Middle Eastern History, with a minor in Science, Technology, Environment, and Health (STEH). She earned her B.A. in History from Presidency University,... -
Naeve, Catherine Harris
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- Early Modern History, British Isles, Global and Comparative
Catherine is currently a doctoral candidate whose research focuses on the British Isles in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century, with an emphasis on state formation, immigration,... -
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O’Connell, Colin
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- Modern European History, Women's and Gender History
Colin O’Connell is a PhD student studying Women’s and Gender History and Modern European History. Colin’s research explores gay male life in Thatcherite Britain. He is mainly interested in the... -
Pacatte, Jerrad P.
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- African American History, Women’s and Gender History, Slavery and Emancipation in Early America and the Atlantic World
Jerrad P. Pacatte is a doctoral candidate and School of Arts and Sciences Excellence Fellow in the Department of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick. Interested... -
Pan, Xiaoli
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- Women's and Gender History, STEH
Xiaoli is a PhD student working in medieval medicine and gender studies. She is interested in public health provisions and initiatives in the medieval and early modern period, with an emphasis on... -
Paxton Fofang, Shirley
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- African American History
Shirley Paxton Fofang is a PhD candidate studying 19th century African American history. She graduated with a BA from Yale University in History and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. Her research... -
Pearson, Bea
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- African American History
Bea Pearson is a Ph.D. candidate in African American and Women and Gender histories. Bea’s research and writing surround disability, enslavement, agency, and Black women’s archival (after)lives... -
Perez, Olivia
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- Modern European
Olivia Perez is a second-year Ph.D. student studying Modern European history, the Holocaust and Jewish history. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Lithuanian Nationalism,... -
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Puthethu, Cherene
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- Asian and Middle Eastern History, Women's and Gender History
Cherene is interested in the labor histories of migrants across the Indian Ocean, particularly South Asians under British colonialism working in the Arabian Gulf. -
Reyes, Melissa
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- American, Latin American History
Melissa Reyes is a first-year PhD student in American History. Her research interests include placemaking, public history, and transnational urban history, with a particular focus on Mexican... -
Rimer, Alexandra
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- History of Technology, Social and Cultural History
Alexandra R. Rimer is an Assistant Research Professor with The Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University, where she specializes in documentary editing, archival research, transcription, annotation,... -
Rorie, Lauren
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- African American History, Women's and Gender History
Lauren Rorie is a doctoral student in African American History and Women's and Gender History. Her research examines the intersection of Black expressive culture, placemaking, and Black... -
Scott, Ian
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- Atlantic Cultures and African Diaspora, Latin American History
Ian Scott is a second-year PhD student studying the History of Atlantic Cultures and the African Diaspora and Latin American History. He received his B.A. in African and African American Studies in... -
Siegel, Jesse
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- Modern European History, Global and Comparative
Jesse Siegel is a PhD Candidate in Modern European History, with a minor field in Global Comparative Studies. His dissertation, titled "Gambling Against the Dark: German-Czechoslovak Businessmen in... -
Slavutskiy, Ilya
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- Modern European History, Asia and Middle East
Ilya Slavutskiy is a PhD candidate focusing on Ukraine in the post-Russian Empire revolutionary and civil war periods, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Ukrainian Party of... -
Smith, Sydney
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- African American History, Women's and Gender History
Sydney Smith is a doctoral student specializing in African American History and Women’s and Gender History with a Certificate in Public Humanities. Her current research explores the activism,... -
Staton, Christine
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- Early Modern Europe; Global and Comparative History
Christine Staton is a PhD student studying early modern European global and comparative history. Her research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of pre-industrial Italy, specifically... -
Stawasz, K
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- STEH; Women's and Gender History
K. Stawasz is a PhD student pursuing a major field in STEH and a minor field in Women's and Gender History. They have a BA in History of Science and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies with a minor in... -
Stone, Adam J.
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- American History, Modern European
Adam J. Stone is a PhD candidate studying women’s transnational anti-nuclear and peace activism across the Cold War Eastern and Western blocs in the 1980s. His dissertation, “Women Citizen Activists... -
Swain, Soumya
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- Asian and Middle Eastern History, Science, Technology, Environment, and Health
Soumya Swain is a PhD student in Asian and Middle Eastern History, with a minor field in History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Health. She earned her BA in History from Lady Shri Ram... -
Tarasov, Aleksei
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- Modern European, Global and Comparative History
Aleksei is a second-year PhD student interested in the history of the Soviet Union, Stalinist ideology, and Hegelian Marxism. Aleksei received a B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy from Saint Petersburg... -
Taylor, Cydney
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- Diaspora History
Cydney R. Taylor is a Ph.D. student in Atlantic Cultures & the African Diaspora and European History. Her research interests include the culinary evolution of African American and West Indian... -
Valdes, Daniela
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- African American History
Daniela Valdes researches the history of gender diverse people of color in the twentieth century United States. Based on extensive research in the archives of criminalization of New York City and... -
Wexler, Walter
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- Early American History, Science, Technology, Environment, and Health
Walter Wexler is a PhD student with a major field in Early American history and a minor field in Science, Technology, Environment, and Health. He is also pursuing a certificate in Public Humanities... -
Xuan, Yuntian (“Christopher”)
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- British Empire, Global China
Yuntian (Chris) Xuan is a PhD student from Shanghai, China. He earned his B.A. in History from Fudan University and an M.A. in Social Sciences–History from the University of Chicago, before coming...
