Ross Caputi is a Ph.D. student in Modern U.S. and Italian history, with special interests in the U.S. wars in Iraq and the social and cultural history of southern Italy.
Maya González (she/they) is a PhD student studying the history of the Yiddish language, radical Jewish politics, and genocide memory in the United States. She holds an MA in History and a certificate in Public History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in History and Jewish History from the University of California Santa Cruz. Maya has worked at the Yiddish Book Center, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the JFCS Holocaust Center in San Francisco, and the Institute of Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst.
Cheryl Harned's research focuses on material culture and the practice of collecting, especially in regards to the relationship between objects, memory, emotions, and display at the birth of the modern museum movement.
Tim Hastings is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying early American history, public history, and Atlantic World slavery and the African Diaspora.
María Portilla Moya researches the history of cartography, with a focus on the colonial period in Latin America, specifically in the northern Andes. Her goal is to describe history through the eyes of the map.
Ross Caputi is a Ph.D. student in Modern U.S. and Italian history, with special interests in the U.S. wars in Iraq and the social and cultural history of southern Italy.
