Graduate
2026 Graduates
PhD
Cheryl Harned, Ph.D.
Seth Kershner, Ph.D.
MA
Jillian Gochinski
Taylor Hayes
Laura McCullagh
Melina Olivas
Emma O’Neill-Dietel
Liliana Rodriguez
Nicholas Speranza
Public History Certificate Recipients
Jillian Gochinski
Taylor Hayes
Stacie Klinowski
Laura McCullagh
Nicole O’Connell
Melina Olivas
Emma O’Neill-Dietel
Liliana Rodriguez
2026 Graduate Award Recipients
Bauer-Gordon Summer Research Fellowship
Rebecca McClung
Eric Ross
Dr. Charles K. Hyde Public History Intern Fellowship
Katelyn Boss
Anaelle Cama
I’Maya Gibbs
Elizabeth Kinsman
Marvin Ogilvie Memorial Grant for Foreign Language Studies
Philip Wu
Rebecca McClung
Joyce A. Berkman Endowment in Women's History and Women's Studies
Sheher Bano
History Graduate Hands-on Grant
Hee Yun Cheong
Katelyn Durand
Whyfu Fang
Potash Graduate Travel Grant for Latin America, Spain, or Portugal
Maria Belen Portilla
Dr. Judith Barter Scholarship
Rebecca Lo Presti
Jumpstart Grant for Dissertation Research
Jaehee Seol
Richard Gassan Memorial Scholarship
Katlyn Durand
Hee Yun Cheong
Whyfu Fang
History Graduate Travel Grant
Fanqi Xu
Simon and Satenig Ermonian Graduate Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
Maya Gonzalez
Rebecca McClung
Caldwell Writing Prize
Katlyn Boss
Emma O’Neill-Dietel
Undergraduate
Thesis Writers
Lucas Finzi: Knives in the Dark and Heretics in the Castles
Professor Anne Broadbridge
Em Freihage: Representations of the Civil War and Reconstruction in 20th-Century Classrooms, 1910s - 1970s
Professor Sarah Cornell
Mia Galvam: The Unrecorded Revolution: Women of the Cabo Verdean Independence Movement
Professor Diana Sierra Becerra
Griffin Gee: Bootleggers and Brahmin: Enforcement, Resistance, and Social Change in Prohibition-Era Boston
Professor Jennifer Fronc
Hannah Linehan: Historical Tradition and Constitutional Interpretation: Missing History, Legal Deciphering, and Silenced Discourse in the Dobbs Decision
Professor Martha Yoder
Logan Moniz: Constructed Afterlives and Underground Palaces: the Evolution of Early Chinese Mortuary Culture
Professor James Wilson
Simon Nam Krane, "The Holy Revolt of the Oppressed": René Girard and the French Revolution
Professor Daniel Gordon
Jonah Scher: War, Memory, and Film: Portrayals of the Second World War in DEFA Films.
Professor Jon Olsen
Eric Strong: Empire in Disguise: Counterinsurgency, Policing and American Imperialism
Professor Jennifer Fronc
Cameron Theiss: The Problem of Executive Power in Democracy: From Locke to Trump
Professor Daniel Gordon
2026 Undergraduate Award Recipients
Richard W. Bauer Scholarship
Jared Parks
Chelsea Bureau
Ivan Fenn
Nicholas Carr Bergstein Scholarship
Jared Parks
Griffin Gee
Chelsea Bureau
James Sandler
Paul Giguere Scholarship
Jared Parks
Aidan Gallagher
Louis S. Greenbaum History Writing Prize Long Essay
Cecilia Marszalek
Louis S. Greenbaum History Writing Prize Short Essay
Em Freihage
Department of History Summer Internship Award
Leila Grasso
UMass History Oxford Summer Seminar Scholarship
Lukas Williams
Cristian Gomez
James and Cynthia Redman Scholarship
Chelsea Bureau
Robert H. McNeal Scholarship
Nathan Donnelly
Ivan Fenn
Simon & Satenig Ermonian Scholarship
Jared Parks
Chelsea Bureau
Ivan Fenn
Jared Parks
Griffin Gee
Chelsea Bureau
James Sandler
Jared Parks
Aidan Gallagher
Cecilia Marszalek
Em Freihage
Leila Grasso
Lukas Williams
Cristian Gomez
Chelsea Bureau
Nathan Donnelly
Ivan Fenn
Emerson Davis
Nathan Donnelly
Ivan Fenn
Joseph Smith
Joseph Zercie
Mabel Burlem
Leticia Sutton
Ahan Valsangkar
Joseph Biers-Browne
Lucy Howard
Avi Shapira
Ken Takagi
Lauren Brown
Charles Christel
Simon Nam-Krane
Em Freihage
Samuel Doria
Susannah Smith
Hannah Linehan
John Newhouse
Mary Ryan
Elliot Hartmann-Russell
Martin Gonzalez-Meyer
Charlotte Lucas
Harry Kennan
Catherine Wan
Griffin Gee
Maxwell Decker
Valentina Ramirez
Madison Boudreau