Ph.D. Students
This page is intended to give a sense of the range and focus of graduate student research in our department. Current dissertation titles for Ph.D. students are provisional. You may write to current students via email or care of the Department of History, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003-9312.
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Current Ph.D. Students
Marwa Amer (ABD)
Modern United States
mamer@history.umass.edu
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Sheher Bano
South Asian History, Social History
sbano@umass.edu
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Cai Barias (ABD)
Modern Philippines, 20th century US, Gender and Sexuality
cbarias@umass.edu
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Justin Burch (ABD)
History of US International Relations, Cold War, American Empire
jeburch@history.umass.edu
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Joie Campbell (ABD)
19th-20th century United States, History of Women and Gender, African American History
joielynncamp@umass.edu
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Ross Caputi (ABD)
American History, European History
rcaputi@umass.edu
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Hee Yun Cheong
German and Japanese Colonialism, Memory Studies, Global/Comparative Studies
hcheong@history.umass.edu
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Anotida Chikumbu (ABD)
History of Zimbabwe, Comparative Labor History and 20th century US history
achikumbu@umass.edu
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Katlyn Durand
Public History, 20th century US and Atlantic World
kdurand@umass.edu
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Kimberly A. Enderle (Kim)
Twentieth Century American history, Women's history, LGBTQ history, and Military history.
kenderle@umass.edu
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Whyfu Fang
Yuri Gama (ABD)
Modern Latin America, Modern Brazil, Urban History and Public History
ygama@umass.edu
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Cheryl Harned (ABD)
Colonial America, Modern United States, Cultural/Intellectual History, Early Modern History of Science
charned@history.umass.edu
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Timothy Hastings
U.S. History Pre-1865, Atlantic History
tihastings@umass.edu
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Joanna Hejl
20 th Century U.S., Memory Studies, Urban History, Preservation
jhejl@umass.edu
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Sean Hough (ABD)
Modern Germany and the US; Comparative Memory Studies
shough@umass.edu
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Ragini Jha (ABD)
South Asian History, Land use and Agrarian Transition, Commemorative Practices
raginijha@umass.edu
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Deborah Kallman
Public History, Biography, Modern Europe and United States
dkallman@umass.edu
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Seth Kershner (ABD)
20th century U.S., 20th century Latin America, Labor History
skershner@umass.edu
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Destiney Linker (ABD)
20th century United States, African American History, Latin America
dllinker@history.umass.edu
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Jorge Minella (ABD)
Modern Brazil, 20th century Brazil-United Sates relations, Latin America
jminella@umass.edu
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Maria Portilla Moya
Maps, Politics, Colonial history, Latin America, Empires
mportilla@umass.edu
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Shay Olmstead (ABD)
Gender and Sexuality History; Modern U.S. History with a focus on Gender, Labor, and Capitalism; Inter-American Indigenous History with a focus on economic self-determination
solmstead@umass.edu
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Gaye Ozpinar (ABD)
20th century U.S. Immigration History, Legal History
gozpinar@umass.edu
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Elizabeth Pangburn
Women's Labor History, History of Dress, Material Culture
epangbur@umass.edu
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Tanya Pearson (ABD)
20th century U.S. History, Gender and Sexuality, Latin American History
tpearson@umass.edu
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Anthony Repucci (ABD)
19th century United States, Civil War
arepucci@history.umass.edu
Eric Ross
U.S. Foreign Relations (20th and 21st Century), U.S. Empire, Nuclear Weapons, Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Terrorism and Political Violence, Human Rights and International Law
ericross@umass.edu
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Alison Russell (ABD)
Early America, Public History
abrussell@umass.edu
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Casey Scarpati (ABD)
American Foreign Relations, the Vietnam War
cscarpati@umass.edu
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Jessica Scott
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Guanhua Tan (ABD)
History of Culture and Education in Twentieth-Century China
gtan@umass.edu
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Emily Whitted (ABD)
U.S. History Pre-1865, History of Technology, Material Culture Studies
ewhitted@umass.edu
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Bing Xia (ABD)