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Christopher Arnold

Christopher Arnold

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Advisor:

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

cjarnold@syr.edu

Mohammad Ebad Athar

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

Eggers 28

Advisor:

Osamah F. Khalil

Radha Kumar

Mona Bhan

meathar@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Manufactured Terror: The Securitization of South Asian Identity in the U.S. and Persian Gulf”

Lydia Biggs

Lydia Biggs

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Junko Takeda

lbiggs@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“White Womanhood on the Frontier: The Ursuline Nuns, Race, and Gender in the French Caribbean”

Semaj Campbell Blake

Semaj Campbell

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Andrew Wender Cohen

sicampbe@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A City’s Neglectful Past: Young Mothers and The Creation of A Reproductive Health Crises in the Urban North 1955 ‐ 2005."

Sueun Chae

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Advisor:

George L. Kallander

suchae@syr.edu

Nitya Chagti

Nitya Chagti

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

CSIS, 4th floor

Advisor:

Brian Brege

nchagti@syr.edu

Tianyu Cheng

Tianyu Cheng

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, East Asia Program

 M.I.A., Penn State, 2020

Advisor:

Norman Kutcher

tcheng05@syr.edu

Philip Davis

Philip Davis

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Chris R. Kyle

padavis@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Cross-Confessional Alliances in Early Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Italian Diplomacy

Jessica Elliott

Jessica Elliott

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Jeffrey Gonda

jlterr01@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s"

Caleb Fouts

Caleb Fouts

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

Advisor:

Michael R. Ebner

cjfouts@syr.edu

Carl Firesenhahn

Carl Friesenhahn

Ph.D Graduate Student, History, Ph.D.

Advisor:

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

cfriesen@syr.edu

Ian Glazman-Schillinger

Ian Glazman-Schillinger

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Graduate Assistant, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Advisor:

Margaret Susan Thompson

Faculty Research Collaborators:

Margaret Susan Thompson

ijglazma@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“White Supremacy Goes Online: The Early Digital History of White Power Activists and how they Shaped the Internet, 1984-1999”

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Jessica Hogbin

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

Advisor:

Brian Brege

jrhogbin@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Innumerable Melancholies: Medicine, Mental Health, and Human Nature in Renaissance Italy, 1450-1650

Yifan Jiang

Yifan Jiang

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Faculty Research Collaborators:

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

yjiang65@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern U.S. cultural history, modern Chinese women's history, and modern U.S. women's history


Cameron Kline

Cameron Kline

Ph.D. Student, History Department

134 Eggers Hall

Advisor:

Susan Branson

Aaron Luedtke

Tessa Murphy

ckline@syr.edu

Holly M. Kuhl

Holly M. Kuhl

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Junko Takeda

hmkuhl@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Arena of Power: The King’s Library in the Global Enlightenment”

Tara S. Ross

Tara S. Ross

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

tsross@sunyocc.edu

Dissertation Title

“Not Your Mammy, Sapphire, or Prissy: Black Female Conservatives in Post-Modern America.”

Gabriel A. Roth

Gabriel A. Roth

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, East Asia Program

Advisor:

Norman Kutcher

garoth@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“A Cuisine Worthy of a Nation: Nationalizing and Internationalizing Beijing’s Cuisine in the Twentieth Century”

Abstract:

How did Beijing cuisine – originally several different cuisines, divided by ethnicity and class – get forged into a single entity which would come to represent the Chinese nation, and be exported abroad and revered at home?  By problematizing standardized elements of the cuisine of one Chinese urban center, this research considers the ethical importance of kitchen laborers during the republican (1911-1949) and revolutionary (1949-1979) periods and the ways that modernization goals of nationalism and socialism impacted the interlocking spheres of both food production and consumption.  

Hector I. Sanchez

Ph.D. Student, History, Ph.D.

Advisor:

George L. Kallander

hisanche@syr.edu

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Kazi Farzana Shoily

Ph.D. Student, History Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A. in Modern Literature at University of Leeds, UK

Advisor:

Radha Kumar

fakazi@syr.edu

Sarah Stegeman

Sarah Stegeman

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Carol Faulkner

srstegem@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“Becoming Americo-Liberian: African American Women, Culture, and the Creation of Liberia, 1840-1912”

Alex Vazquez

Alex Vazquez

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

Jeffrey Gonda

avazqu08@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

"As Seen on TV: Growing Influence of Latinidad in the United States"

Marian Vlasak

Marian Vlasak

Ph.D. Candidate, History Department

Advisor:

David H. Bennett

mevpaz@msn.com

Dissertation Title

The War of More: The 20th Century American Military Logistic Dilemma and the Influence of Consumer Culture

Kevin Wang

Ph.D. Student, History, Ph.D.

Advisor:

George L. Kallander

Norman Kutcher

kwang81@syr.edu

History Department
145 Eggers Hall