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Recent Graduate Student Publications

Rutgers graduate students in history regularly publish in major journals across the discipline. Here is a selection of recent graduate student publications between 2020 and 2025:

  • Acocal, Sandra. “Ritual Para Los Niños Dios Entre Los Nahuas De San Pablo Del Monte Cuauhtotoatla, Tlaxcala.” Dimensión Antropológica, vol. 85, August 2022, pp. 123-45, https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/dimension/article/view/22025.
  • Babikian, Catherine. "'Partnership Not Prejudice': British Nurses, Colonial Students, and the National Health Service, 1948-1962." Journal of British Studies, vol. 60, no. 1, January 2021, pp. 140-168, https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.188. 
  • Bellamy, Andrew. “Mechanisms of Morality: The Opium Trade and the Collapse of East India Company Rule in India, 1839-1858,” The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 26, no. 1, April 2025, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960512
  • Bellamy, Andrew. “The Aftermath and Afterlives of the ‘Napier Fizzle’ across the British Empire; Or, How Did Lord Napier Die?” Historical Research, vol. 98, no. 279, February 2025, pp. 73–85, https://academic.oup.com/histres/article/98/279/73/7750782
  • Berryhill, Jeffery and Ian Gavigan. “Fusion Voting and a Case Study in Restrictive Two-Party Politics.” January 01, 2024, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4988196.
  • Boyd, Kendra. “’Body of Business Makers’: The Detroit Housewives League, Black Women Entrepreneurs, and the Rise of Detroit’s African American Business Community.” Enterprise & Society, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2022, pp. 164-205, https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.39.
  • Coffman, Sarah (co-authored with Rudi Batzell). “Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis: Gender, Reproduction and Capitalism in Chicago, 1870–1911.” Gender & History, vol. 32, no. 3, October 2020, pp. 581–601, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PZ3NMUHSFYSPXNKYNFXF?target=10.1111/1468-0424.12498. 
  • Coffman, Sarah (co-authored with Rudi Batzell). “Infanticide, Infant Mortality, and the Racialized Construction of Fordist Motherhood: Household Surveillance, Suspicious Death Investigations, and 'Neglectful' Mothers in Progressive Era Chicago.” Journal of Social History, (forthcoming).
  • Council, Ashley. "Ringing Liberty's Bell: African American Women, Gender, and the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, vol. 87, no. 3, July 2020, pp. 494-531, https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.87.3.0494. 
  • De Moya-Guerra, Laura. “La viuda migrante de Zahlé y sus hijos: migración árabe a Barranquilla, Colombia, 1900-1945.” Península, vol. 19, no. 1, 2023, pp. 157-178, https://doi.org/10.22201/cephcis.25942743e.2024.19.1.87320.
  • De Moya-Guerra, Laura Carolina, and Vidal Ortega, Antonino. “Migración árabe a Barranquilla: el caso de Elías Muvdi.” Anaquel de estudios árabes, vol. 32, 2021, https://doi.org/10.5209/anqe.69395.
  • Esty, Kaisha. “’I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me’: Black Women and Girls and the Battle Over Labor and Sexual Consent in Union-Occupied Territory.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2022, pp. 32–51, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/850875. 
  • Faurt, Anaïs, “Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century,” Contemporary European History, 2025, pp. 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777325101021.
  • Gavigan, Ian. "Read All Over: The Reading Labor Advocate and Socialist Power in Pennsylvania, 1927–1936.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, vol. 88, no. 1, Winter 2021, pp. 56-84, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/779910. 
  • Hight, Alison. "'A Ceremony of National and Representative Character': The Four-Nations Politics of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee." Journal of British Studies, vol. 63, no. 1 2024, pp. 139-166, click here for article.
  • Jacob, Ben. “Planting in the Ruins: Climate, Indentureship and the Cultivation of Freedom in British Guiana and Mauritius.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 26, no. 2, 2025. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2025.a968702.
  • Kitada, Eri. “Fragments of multi-layered settler colonialism: mixed-race children in Japanese schooling, the American Philippines, 1924–1945.” Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 555-574, https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2023.2265094. 
  • Li, Rong (Aries). “Wartime Storytelling and Mythmaking: Interpreting and Remembering the Flying Tigers in the United States, 1941–1945.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, vol. 27, no. 4, 2020, pp. 347-373, https://doi.org/10.1163/18765610-27040003. 
  • Ren, Jian. "Repensar la diplomacia cultural desde la perspectiva china: Guillermo del Pedregal y la imagen del liderazgo chino sobre Chile (1959-1975)." Intus-Legere Historia, vol. 15, no. 1, 2021, pp. 171-185, http://intushistoria.uai.cl/index.php/intushistoria/article/view/420.
  • Ren, Jian. "From Tradition to Modernity: Chinese Latin American and Chinese Caribbean Perspectives on Gambling and Sinophobia in the Twentieth Century." Chinese America: History and Perspective, 2021.
  • Roth, Sarah. “Burn after reading: Operation Focus and the Fictional Nemzeti Ellenzéki Mozgalom in the Lead-up to the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.” Cold War History, vol. 23, no. 2, December 2022, pp. 239-262, https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2022.2124972.
  • Sprenger, Nick. "The Politics of Outrage: Violence, Policing, and the Archive in Colonial Ireland." Journal of British Studies, 2024, pp. 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.115.
  • Sprenger, Nick. "Jeffrey A. Auerbach, Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2020)." World History Connected, vol. 21, no. 2, 2024, https://doi.org/10.13021/whc.v21i2.4166.
  • Snow, Henry. "Fugitive Harbour: Labour, Community, and Marronage at Antigua Naval Yard.” Journal Slavery and Abolition, vol. 42, no. 4, 2021, pp. 803–826, https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2021.1910470. 
  • Staton, Christine. “Editor’s Note.” Material Matters, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp 3-4, https://cmsmc.org/vol-2. Christine also edited the article: Bedell, Mary. “Teaching Material Culture Online: Imperatives, Challenges, and New Directions.” Material Matters, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp. 35-42.
  • Valdes, Daniela. “In the Shadow of the Health-Care City: Historicizing Trans Latinx Immigrant Experiences during the Coronavirus Pandemic.” US Latino and Latina Oral History Journal, no. 5, 2021, https://www.utexaspressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7560/OHJ503?download=true&journalCode=ohj.
  • Wiesner, Caitlin. "'The first thing we cry about is violence': The National Black Women's Health Project and the Fight Against Rape and Battering." Journal of Women's History, vol. 34, no. 1, 2022, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/849138.