Graduate Student Directory

Students are listed on a voluntary basis. To be added, e-mail your full name, department defined field, advisor, and scholarly interests to jfrankli@umd.edu . Requests for changes or removal should be sent to the same address.

Name	Field	Advisor	Scholarly Interests
Acerbi, Patricia acerbi@umd.edu	Latin America	Barbara Weinstein	Modern Latin America, Brazil, Atlantic World, Slavery and Emancipation, Urban History
Benmergui, Leandro lbenmerg@umd.edu	Latin America	Daryle Williams	Urban History (Social and Cultural); U.S.-Latin American Relations; Argentine and Brazilian History; Planning History; Latino Studies
Best, Jeremy jbest@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	Modern Germany, Nineteenth Century, European Empires and Imperialism
Brennan, Cate cbrennan@umd.edu	United States	Clare Lyons	Early American History; Gender and sexuality in Early American religious communities
Brideau, Jeffrey jbrideau@umd.edu	Science and Technology	Thomas Zeller	Environmental history; water history, Canadian-American transboundary water relations, Canadian-American relations
Burghart, William wburghar@umd.edu	Ancient Mediterranean	Arthur Eckstein	Third and Second Century Interstate Relations, Ancient Greek theory on Interstate Relations, Rome and the Hellenistic East
Castillo, Thomas tcastill@umd.edu	U.S. History	Gary Gerstle and David Sicilia	Labor history; Culture, Southern History, Race, Class, Immigration, African-American, Urban, Florida, Globalization (diss)
Cather, Louise lcather@umd.edu	U.S. History	t.b.d.	Nineteenth Century South
Chase, Robert chasehistory@yahoo.com	U.S. History	Gary Gerstle	Twentieth century United States; Social Movements, Politics, Labor, Civil Rights, Immigration, Race and Nation (diss)
Cheser, Matt mcheser@umd.edu	U.S. History/Early National	Whit Ridgway	American Revolution, American Early National Political and Cultural History, The War of 1812
Cohen, Ted tcohen4@umd.edu	Latin America	Mary Kay Vaughan	Blacks in Twentieth Century Mexico, Caribbean History, Black Atlantic, History of Anthropology, Popular Culture
Coplen, Megan mcoplen@umd.edu	U.S. History	Clare Lyons	North American and Caribbean comparative colonial history, Cartography, Seven Years' War
Crowder, Ashby acrowder@umd.edu	Modern Europe	John Lampe	Postwar Eastern Europe, Cold War, European Communism, Contemporary Romanian History
D'Amato, Michael michael@mida.com	Economic	David Sicilia	Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic and Political History, especially the industrial revolution and post-war economic growth; Twentieth Century History of Technology, especially the impact of technology on economic growth
Drake, Ian idrake27302@yahoo.com	United States	Herman Belz	American constitutional and tort law in the 20th century
Duncan, Stephen srduncan@umd.edu	United States	James Gilbert	The role of American culture in social and political change, from jazz and Appalachian folk music in the early twentieth century to film and the countercultural movements of the 1950s and 1960s
Dwyre, Megan mdwyre@umd.edu	Women and Gender	Elsa Barkley Brown	Quilts & Quiltmaking, Design History, Fashion History, Museums
Eineigel, Susanne eineigel@umd.edu	Latin America	Mary Kay Vaughan	Modern Mexico, Latin America, and Carribbean history; Gender and women's history
Finch, Robert rfinch1@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Katherine David-Fox	Modern Eastern Europe and Russia
Finkelstein, Allison afinkels@umd.edu	United States	TBD	Early America, American Revolution, Civil War, Cultural History, Early American Theater, War and Memory, Public History
Franklin, Jonathan jfrankli@umd.edu	U.S. Business and Economic	David Sicilia	Federal Reserve, Business Reform in the Progressive Era, Post-War Institutionalism
Furman, Joshua jfurman@umd.edu	Modern Jewish	Marsha Rosenblit	Eastern European and American Jewish social/cultural history, late 19th and 20th centuries
Gibson, Paul slcpaul@umd.edu	U.S. History	Julie Greene	Twenieth Century; The Left, Labor, Globalization, masculinity and sexuality
Glocke, Anthony aglocke@umd.edu	Modern Europe	John Lampe	Central and Eastern Europe, Continental Empires, Borderlands, Balkans
Goldberg, Sheldon fitrg8tr@verizon.net	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	German Rearmament; European Unification; Western European Union (WEU)
Grissom, Daryl "Gus" dgrissom@umd.edu	Ancient Mediterranean	Art Eckstein	Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, Greek and Latin Historiography/Literature, Imperialism in Antiquity
Gustafson, Reid rgustafs@umd.edu	Latin America	Mary Kay Vaughan	Mexico; gender, labor, Spanish immigration to Mexico, cultural history, the press, the Catholic church, sexuality, the Mexican left, Latin American airlines, the AFL
Harden, John C. jhardin@umd.edu	United States	David Sicilia	Twentith Century U.S., Consumerism, U.S. Religious History, Modern Conservative Movement
Hays, Evan ehays84@umd.edu	Middle East	Peter Wien	Modern Middle East, minorities under Islam, Christian-Muslim Relations, Missionary Efforts in the Middle East
Heerman, Scott sheerman@umd.edu	United States	Ira Berlin	French North American colonies, inter-cultural contact and the innovation of new mechanisms of power; race and slavery in the Northwest Territories during the young republic
Henderson, Robert hendersr@umd.edu	United States	David Freund	United States Federal Housing Policy, United States Metropolitan Development, African American History, Economic Inequality in the United States, Political Economy
Hosseini, Fatemeh Fatemeh@umd.edu	Women and Gender	Madeline Zilfi	Comparative women's history, women and imperialism, women and religion, sexuality
Houghton, Vincent houghtonv@hotmail.com	International & Diplomacy	John Sumida	Twentieth Century U.S. Foreign Policy, Soviet-U.S. Relations
Iles, Helena hiles@umd.edu	United States	Leslie Rowland	Women, Early Twentieth Century, South
Johnson, Stephen stephenpjohnson@hotmail.com	United States	James Gilbert	Twentieth Century U.S., Cultural/Political; Hardcore Pornographic Film Industry, Censorship, Free-Speech, Morality Activist Groups, American Communism/Conservatism, Military (diss)
Johnson, Jessica jmjohnso@umd.edu	United States	Ira Berlin	American and Atlantic African Diaspora
Katz, Fred fkatz@umd.edu	Science and Technology	Robert Friedel	History of technology, media and communications history, industrialization, history of science
Keane, Katarina kkeane@umd.edu	United States	Leslie Rowland	Women's History, Southern History; Postwar America, 1960s, social movements, civil rights movement (diss)
Kellett, Andrew akellett@umd.edu	Modern Europe, Modern Britain	Jeffrey Herf	Intellectual and cultural history, gender/sexuality, trans-Atlantic cultural exchange, popular music (diss)
Kobrick, Jake jkobrick@umd.edu	United States	Robyn Muncy	Twentieth century; Social, political, and urban history
Kopp, Laura lkopp@umd.edu	United States	Leslie Rowland	Nineteenth century, American South, the Confederate textbook campaign from 1861-1865, the American Civil War homefront, issues affecting the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Kravetz, Melissa mkravetz@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	Modern Germany, Gender, Professionalization, Eugenics, Female doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Libero, Peter libero@umd.edu	United States	Saverio Giovacchini	20th Century American Culture, especially the expertise and professionalization of social sciences, History of Sport, History of Science/Technology/Environment
McAndrew, Malia malia@umd.edu	United States	Alfred Moss	The domestic and transnational expereince of African American, European American and Japanese American women with beauty culture in the mid-Twentieth Century United States (diss)
Morina, Christina tina1@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	German, Russian/Soviet, Modern Jewish; Twentieth century modern German political and intellectual history, memory & political culture, WWII and its aftermath, East German political/cultural history (diss)
Myers, Sherry smyers@umd.edu	United States	Clare Lyons	Seventeeth and Eighteenth centuries; American women's and cultural history, Atlantic world, consumerism and material culture
Nath, Kimberly knath@umd.edu	United States	Whitman Ridgway	Early American social and political culture
Nalezyty, Nancy nalezyty@wam.umd.edu	East Asia	James Gao	Modern Chinese Political History, Chinese Republican Era
Papaioannou, Stefan spapaioa@umd.edu	Modern Europe	John Lampe	Eastern Europe; Southeastern Europe, agrarian/peasant movements, nationalism
Peterson, Robert rcp@umd.edu	East Asia	James Gao	Modern China, Republican era, social and political history, early Republican militarism and political fragmentation in Sichuan
Reed, Charles creed@umd.edu	Modern Britain	Richard Price	Victorian Britain, the British Empire, Southern Africa; the "colonial encounter," monarchy, and imperial culture; cultural and social history
Reichelderfer, Steph sreichel@umd.edu	United States	Julie Greene	20th century American imperialsim and Filipino migration to the United States; foreign student activism in the United States
Rhea, Daniel D.M.Rhea@ATT.Net	Modern Europe	John Lampe	Central and Eastern Europe; the Balkans
Richter, Daniel drichter@umd.edu	Latin America	Daryle Williams	Cultural history, Urban history, Americas, Immigration, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
Spencer Rivera, Dorothy dsrivera@umd.edu	United States	Clare Lyons	Colonial; Race, Gender and Identity in the American Colonies
Rosenberg, Amanda abrosenb@mac.com	United States	Clare Lyons Richard Bell	Early American Republic, regional conciousness, national and local identity, print and political culture
Ruark, Eric eruark@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	Intellectual History; Legal and Political Theory
Ruocco, Angela ARuocco@umd.edu	International & Diplomacy	John Sumida	War crimes committed by Italians in Ethiopia; World War II; intersection of international history/diplomacy and international law; politics of memory
Rutenberg, Amy arutenbe@umd.edu	United States	Robyn Muncy	War and gender, Twentieth century U.S. history
Sarzynski, Sarah ssarzynski@hotmail.com	Latin America	Barbara Weinstein	Gender and Women's History (diss)
Schlosser, Nicholas nschloss@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	Modern German Political, Cultural, and Social History; Media History, Propaganda, Intellectual and Cultural Developments in Post World War II Europe, the United States and Europe (diss)
Schmitt, Paul pschmitt@mail.umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	France's relationship with Subsaharan Africa
Skarlatou-Levi, Amalia amaliasl@umd.edu	Jewish History	Bernard Cooperman	Jewish History of Balkan and Ottoman communities; Archival settings in museums; Digitization
Scala, Steve sjscala@gmail.com	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	German History, Soviet History, Cold War, Intellectual History; Modern European political culture and intellectual history; GDR foreign policy; the role of cultural and intellectual elites in closed societies; the Soviet Bloc in comparative perspective
Soracoe, Michael MSoracoe@hotmail.com	Modern Britain	Richard Price	British Empire, Atlantic World, Military
Speece, Darren dspeece@umd.edu	United States	David Sicilia	Environmental politics, American political development, social movements, collective action, political thought, and rock 'n' roll
Sullivan, Jeremy jsyeoman@yahoo.com	United States	Gary Gerstle	Twentieth century U.S. History; history of education, suburban history, secondary school education, public/popular history
Walker, Josh jwalker9@umd.edu	Latin America	Mary Kay Vaughan	Mexico, Technological Development of Waste Systems
Walsh, Sarah swalsh2@umd.edu	Latin America	Karin Rosemblatt	Chile, Gender (various regions)
Welch, Kimberly kimberlymaewelch@yahoo.com	United States	Robyn Muncy	Race, gender, and sexuality in the 19th century; legal history
White, Jonathan jww@umd.edu	United States	Herman Belz	Nineteenth Century, Political, and Constitutional/Legal; Politics in the North during the American Civil War (diss)
Zakic, Mirna mzakic@umd.edu	Modern Europe	Jeffrey Herf	Twentieth century Germany; German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, fascism and Nazism, religion and politics
Zen, Be-gin bg_zen@yahoo.com	East Asia	James Gao	Ritual in early modern China