List of Current Students
Ackerman, Seth (5th year) - US political and foreign relations history; US/European relations in the
20th Century; sa332@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Amstutz, Andrew (2nd year) - South Asia; British empire; ama245@cornell.edu. Advisor: Durba Ghosh
Ang, Claudine (5th year) - Southeast Asia, Vietnam. Advisor: Keith Taylor
Bailey, Christopher (7th year) - Medieval and early modern Scandanavia; Magic and witchcraft, historiography; clb66@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Balcerski, Thomas (1st year) - 19th Century U.S. history; tjb36@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Biba, Catherine (2nd year) - US history; cmb382@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Blome, David (1st year) - ancient history; dab379@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Cantwell, Christopher (7th year) - 19th century U.S., religious history focussing on everyday devotions and religious practices among American evangelicals and fundamentalists, in particular the role of everyday religious practices in the propagation, dissemination or subversion of ideologies of gender; thesis title: "The Word Made Flesh: The Adult Bible Class Movement and the Transformation of Evangelical America, 1880-1920 ," Curriculum Vitae. Advisor: Derek Chang
Cappiello, Dianne (4th year) - Colonial America and early Republic social, religious and intellectual history; dwc36@cornell.edu; Curriculum Vitae. Advisor: Margaret Washington
Casey, Christina (1st year) - British history; cc828@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Travers
Choudhury, Rishad (1st year) - Modern South Asian history; British colonialism; ric29@cornell.edu. Advisor: Durba Ghosh
Choi, Deokhyo (4th year) - International/transnational history and the Cold War in East Asia; modern Japanese and Korean history; dc353@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Crabtree, Mari (3rd year) - Twentieth-century African American history, African American radicalism, African American intellectual history, African American literature; mnc24@cornell.edu. Advisor: Nick Salvatore
Cuddy, Brian (1st year) - US history; international history; bjc249@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Davenport, Matthew F. (7th year) - Early Modern Europe; mfd25@cornell.edu. Advisor: John Najemy
DeGive, Michael - (8th year) - Latin Amercian history; med35@cornell.edu. Advisor: Ray Craib
Elefante, David (3rd year) - Ancient history and late antiquity; dae45@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Rebillard
Fear, Sean (2nd year) - 20th century US foreign relations history, 20th century Vietnamese history; saf237@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Fisher, Abigail (3rd year) - Gender and legal history in early modern England; aaf42@cornell.edu. Advisor: Rachel Weil
Fredona, Robert (9th year) - Medieval and Renaissance Italy; Law and Politics; Thesis title: "Conspiracy, Treason, and the Law in Late Medieval Florence," raf34@cornell.edu. Advisor: John Najemy
Furnas, Heather (7th year) - US history; hjf4@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Harris, Jessica C. (8th year) - 20th Century US History; jch56@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Harris, William J. (8th year) - U.S. history, American Slavery/ the American South; thesis title: "Fear and Violence: Slavery and Rebellion in Antebellum Mississippi," wjh26@cornell.edu. Advisor: Margaret Washington. Curriculum Vitae.
Hofer, Franz D. (7th year) - Modern German and japanese cultural and intellectual history, historiography, visual studies, war commemoration, theories of comparison and national identity formation; fdh3@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Hong, Soo kyeong (2nd year) - Modern Japanese cultural and social history, Japanese colonial empire, fascism movement and popular culture; sh662@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Horning, Kate (2nd year) - Modern European intellectual and cultural history, gender and sexuality; mkh56@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Hoshino, Noriaki (4th year) - modern Japanese history; nh63@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Ishii, Akiko (5th year) - Modern Japanese intellectual history; ai47@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Jacoby, Julie (7th year) - Modern Austria, Germany, East-Central Europe (especially Poland), Jewish history; jaj32@cornell.edu. Advisor: Isabel Hull. Curriculum Vitae
Jeong, Moon-Young (5th year) - Modern Japanese and Korean cultural and intellectual history; mj88@cornell.edu. Advisor: Naoki Sakai
Jones, Christopher (5th year) - Modern Japanese inetllectual and cultural history; contemporary Chinese intellectual history; chj7@cornell.edu. Bio Advisor: Naoki Sakai
Kane, Maeve (2nd year) - US history; mek235@cornell.edu. Advisor: Jon Parmenter
Kang, Tarandeep (7th year) - Modern European intellectual history; enlightenment and romanticism; philosophy of history; German Orientalism; tsk26@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick Lacapra
Katungi, Candace (5th year) - US history; clk28@cornell.edu. Advisor: Margaret Washington
Kohout, Amy (2nd year) - Late 19th/early 20th century U.S. history, environmental and cultural history; alk237@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Kuby, Emma (6th year) - European cultural and intellectual history/French history; ekk27@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Kuskowski, Ada-Maria (5th year) - Medieval History (Europe); Legal History; Roman History; ak393@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Lavelle, Peter (6th year) - Qing and modern China; empire and borderlands; environment and agriculture; pl249@cornell.edu. Advisor: Sherman Cochran
Law, Aaron (3rd year) - US history; anl23@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Lee, Seo-Young Samantha (2nd year) - Japanese history; sl962cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Lee, Seok-Won (7th year) - Modern Japanese/Korean Intellectual History; sl379@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Lightfoot, Gregg (6th year) - US/Latin American History; gtl7@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Lim, Julian S. (6th year) - 19th- and 20th- century U.S. history; multiracial relations between Chinese, Mexicans, African Americans, and Anglo Americans in the El Paso-Juarez region, and the impact of this diverse populace on the construction of the border; jsl66@cornell.edu. Advisor: Maria Cristina Garcia, Derek Chang
Lim, Samson (5th year) - Southeast Asia, Thailand; swl3@cornell.edu. Bio Advisor: Tamara Loos
Liu, Oiyan (5th year) - Southeast Asia, Chinese Diaspora, Nationalism; ol23@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
MacDonald, John (7th year) - US history; jhm37@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Magura, Julie (2nd year) - 19th and 20th century U.S.; social and cultural history; jrm44@cornell.edu. Advisor: Nick Salvatore
Maskiell, Nicole (3rd year) - Colonial America, specifically New Netherland/New York and New England; Early modern Dutch and British Empire, Barbados and Curacao; gender and women's studies; African slave trade; African diaspora, African American history. Bio Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Masuda, Hajimu (5th year) - 20th century international and transnational history, focusing on the roles of imagination in war, politics, and history. In particular, US foreign policy, Cold War, McCarthyism, social movements, and popular attitudes. Also, wartime and postwar East Asian history, including Chinese civil war and revolution, US occupation of Japan and the Korean War; immigration and social history; propoganda, radio, and cartoon. Thesis title: "Whispering Gallery: War and Society in the First Year of the Korean War and the Social Constitution of the Cold War at Home and Abroad." hm93@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
McSweeney, Thomas (4th year) - Connections between English and Northern French legal culture in the 12th and 13th centuries; tjm37@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Miller, Daegan (4th year) - Nineteenth-century U.S.; environmental, cultural, intellectual;
drm43@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Mitchell, Vernon C. (5th year) - African American religious and political thought late 19th, early 20th century; vcm3@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Morris, J. Brent (6th year) - 19th century United States history; slavery and abolition; jbm34@cornell.edu. Curriculum Vitae. Advisor: Margaret Washington
Muschalek, Marie (5th year) - Modern European History; German History; Military History; Colonialism; mam292cornell.edu. Advisor: Isabel Hull
Pearson, Trais (3rd year) - Southeast Asia; qap2@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Petit, Gabrielle (2nd year) - Advisor: Rachel Weil
Portillo Villeda, Suyapa G. (8th year) - Working title for project: The Honduran Banana Strike of 1954: Worker Identity Formation in an Enclave Economy; sp297@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Roldan
Ratel, Guillaume (10th year) - Advisor: Steven Kaplan
Rigo, Mate (1st year) - Modern European social, urban, gender history; 19-20th century Central Europe, modern Hungarian history; mr633@cornell.edu. Advisor: Holly Case
Rivera Marin, Jorge (6th year) - 20th century U.S. foreign relations history, Cold War history, decolonization, modern U.S. history; jlr229@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Romero, Susana (2nd year) - Modern Latin American history; sr575@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Roldan
Schaefer, Stefanie (4th year) - Postwar Japanese history, memory and war commemoration, civil rights and peace movement, popular culture; ss628@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Schmidli, William Michael (6th year) - U.S. foreign relations history; ws75@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Shuboni, Simona (2nd year) - Modern European history, East-Central Europe; sas477@cornell.edu. Advisor: Holly Case
Soenarto, Ermita (1st year) - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Islam; es597@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Taglliacozzo
Son, Joo-Rak (3rd year) - ancient societies and intercommunity relations using theory and material culture; specialization is Classical and Hellenistic Greece; js949@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Staudenmaier, Peter (6th year) - Modern European cultural and intellectual history; ps283@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Tally, Rebecca (6th year) - Modern Latin American History; rebecca.tally@cornell.edu. Curriculum Vitae. Advisor: Mary Roldan
Thomas, Karen E. (8th year) - Colonial America; working dissertation title: "A Few Good Men?: Masculinity and the New England Soldier during the Seven Years' War," ket25@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Todt, Kimberly (5th year) - Early American history, early modern England, 18th century British Empire, economic history; krt5@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Vrinte, Irene (4th year) - U.S. foreign relations history, Cold War history, US/European relations history; iv29@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Wang, Yuanchong (3rd year) - Modern China; Chinese-Korean relations, East Asian international history; yw264@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian
Wilde, Ann (5th year) - Twentieth Century US, Eastern European History, and Film; aw257@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Willoughby, Emma (7th year) - Early American History, native American History, British Imperialism, Australian History; ecw26@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Zhou, Taomo (1sy year) - Modern China; Cold War history, Chinese/Southeast Asian relations history; tz84@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian