Graduate Students

Sandra Acocal, first-year PhD student. Degree in Social Anthropology from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), Master in History and Ethnohistory from the Escuela Nacional de...

Josh Anthony is a third-year PhD student specializing in Latin American and Global and Comparative History. He studies the indigenous history of colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Avigyan Banerjee is interested in the Social and Cultural Histories of South Asia, Colonialism and Empire, Death, Dying and End of Life, Urban and Spatial Histories, Migration and Oral Narratives,...

  Jeff Berryhill is a first year student studying Modern American history. He graduated with a BA from The Evergreen State College and a MA in Historical Studies from The New School for Social...

Danny Bottino is a doctoral candidate from Kittery Point, Maine.  He received his BA in History and Psychology from Tufts University and his MA in European Studies at Yale University.  At Rutgers, his...

Elissa Branum is a PhD student in 20th c. US History and Latinx History at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. She has contributed to the National Council on Public History's History at Work and the Rutgers...

Rachel Bunker is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at Rutgers. Her research examines politics, finance, race, and gender in the context of U.S. imperialism. Her dissertation, "Insuring Empire: U.S. Actuaries,...

I graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University in 2010 as a «Specialist» in history. In 2017 I received my MA at European University at Saint-Petersburg where I majored in memory studies. My...

Sarah Coffman is a second-year history PhD student focusing on twentieth century African American and urban history. Her research focuses on Black life in Philadelphia across a century, 1890-1990...

Henry graduated with a BAS in Secondary Education and American History from Salve Regina University in 2010. He earned his MA in Global and Comparative History from Rutgers University in 2014. He...

Laura is a first year PhD Student in the History Department at Rutgers University. She is interested in migrations and diasporas in Colombia in the XX century, especially in the Colombian Caribbean...

Lindsey Dixon is a first year 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...

Anaïs is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European and women’s and gender history. Her dissertation traces the global history of child protection amid the violence of French decolonial wars in Algeria,...

Whitney Fields is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers University- New Brunswick specializing in African American History. Whitney’s dissertation is a history of the incarceration and labors of...

Harold’s dissertation, tentatively titled “Poland’s Europe: A Social History of Poland and its ‘West,’ 1953–1983,” shows Poland as a microcosm of Europe’s 20th century. Examining state and social...

Mary White Gently is a third-year PhD student studying 20th century U.S. history, gender, sexuality, and religion. Mary's research examines the diverse and evolving ways that gay evangelicals have navigated...

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...

Hannah is a fifth year PhD student at Rutgers, studying Modern Europe and Women and Gender History. Her research focuses on violent women in the British Empire during the First World War, and...

Sam Hege is a doctoral candidate researching the entangled histories of the environmental justice movement, the politics of water, and the rise of industrial agriculture in the American West. Within...

Nawel Kahouaji is a first year PhD student 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...

I am a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, Rutgers University. I'm interested in gender and imperialism, migration and settler colonialism, and historiography/memory/knowledge...

Aries is a PhD candidate in History and specializing in the history of U.S.-East Asian relations during the 20th century. Her dissertation “Shared Past, Discordant Memories” explores and compares...

Raven is a Ph.D. student 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...

  Hugo earned his B.A. and M.A. at Wichita State University. His research focuses on the role of women in debates about God’s omnipotence and limits of nature during the long twelfth century.

Adam McNeil is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University focusing on Black Women’s lives during the Revolutionary and Founding eras in the Chesapeake Bay. My scholarship focuses on...

    Paul is pursuing a PhD in modern European History. He received a BA in history and Russian Studies from The College of New Jersey. His research focuses on the Soviet Union during the Second World...

Timur Mukhamatulin is a seventh-year graduate student with a major in Modern European history and a minor in Women and Gender history. He is finishing his dissertation about the history of Soviet...

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...

Jeongeun Park is a PhD student in Asian and Middle Eastern History and Modern European History. She studies the history of knowledge and cultural transfer during the Cold War in Northeast Asia...

Bea Pearson is a Black Feminist Public Historian who researches Black women's early American archival (after)lives.

Cherene is interested in the labor histories of migrants across the Indian Ocean, particularly South Asians under British colonialism working in the Arabian Gulf.

Jian Ren is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers. His research examines China-Latin America relations in the Cold War period. His dissertation investigates how diplomats, politicians,...

Lauren T. Rorie's  research interests explore Black women's intellectual history, Black women's expressive culture, and Black women's internationalism across the diaspora in the twentieth century.

Jesse Siegel is a PhD Candidate in Modern European History, with a minor field in Global Comparative Studies. His dissertation, tentatively titled "Gambling Against the Dark: German-Czechoslovak...

Ilya is a PhD student focusing on Ukraine in the post-Russian Empire revolutionary and civil war periods, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries. I...

Nick Sprenger is a fifth year PhD candidate who studies the history of imperial violence in the British Empire during the long nineteenth century. His dissertation, tentatively titled "The Outrage...

Adam J. Stone is a PhD candidate studying transnational women’s transnational anti-nuclear and peace activism across the Cold War Eastern and Western blocs in the 1980s. His dissertation, “Women...

Daniela Valdes is a doctoral candidate studying twentieth-century United States history. Her dissertation explores the history of gender nonconformity in Black and Brown communities in New York,...

Yuntian Xuan is interested in the global production and consumption of "chinoiserie" and "occidenterie" in early modern Europe and China, and secondly, in studying how they disseminated and shaped...