List of Current Students
Ackerman, Seth (7th year) - US political and foreign relations history; US/European relations in the
20th Century; sa332@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Amstutz, Andrew (4th year) - South Asia; British empire; ama245@cornell.edu. Advisor: Durba Ghosh
Ang, Claudine (7th year) - Southeast Asia, Vietnam. Advisor: Keith Taylor
Bailey, Christopher (9th year) - Medieval and early modern Scandanavia; Magic and witchcraft, historiography; clb66@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Balcerski, Thomas (3rd year) - 19th Century U.S. history; tjb36@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Bartel, Fritz (1st year) mfb87@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Biba, Catherine (4th year) - US history; cmb382@cornell.edu. Advisor: Derek Chang
Blome, David (3rd year) - ancient history; dab379@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Cantwell, Christopher (9th year) - 19th and 20th century U.S. social and religious history, particularly the ways in which popular devotional practices among American evangelicals and fundamentalists intersect and influence political engagements; thesis title: "The Bible Class Teacher: Piety and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalism," Curriculum Vitae. Advisor: Derek Chang
Casey, Christina (3rd year) - British history; cc828@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Travers
Chia, Jack (1st year) - Southeast Asia-China interactions, Chinese Buddhism and popular religion, Chinese diaspora; mc2286@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Choi, Deokhyo (6th year) - International/transnational history and the Cold War in East Asia; modern Japanese and Korean history; dc353@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Choudhury, Rishad (3rd year) - Modern South Asian history; British colonialism; ric29@cornell.edu. Advisor: Durba Ghosh
Crabtree, Mari (5th year) - Twentieth-century African American history, African American radicalism, African American intellectual history, African American literature; mnc24@cornell.edu. Advisor: Nick Salvatore
Cuddy, Brian (3rd year) - US history; international history; bjc249@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Davenport, Matthew F. (9th year) - Early Modern Europe; mfd25@cornell.edu. Advisor: John Najemy
Deets, Mark (2nd year) - African history, focusing on the Senegambia; North African history; Empires, Colonialism, and Decolonization; mwd45@cornell.edu. Advisor: Judith Byfield
Edwards, Ryan (2nd year) - Modern Latin America, environmental history, and historical geography; rce43@cornell.edu. Advisor: Ray Craib
Fear, Sean (4th year) - 20th century US foreign relations history, 20th century Vietnamese history; saf237@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Fisher, Abigail (5th year) - Gender and legal history in early modern England; aaf42@cornell.edu. Advisor: Rachel Weil
Giacomelli, Joseph (1st year) - US environmental history; jng53@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Hofer, Franz D. (9th 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 (4th year) - Modern Japanese cultural and social history, Japanese colonial empire, fascism movement and popular culture; sh662@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Horning, Kate (4th year) - Modern European intellectual and cultural history, gender and sexuality; mkh56@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Hoshino, Noriaki (6th year) - Modern Japanese history, Asian American history, Transpacific racism, Imperial nationalism, mobility; nh63@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Ishii, Akiko (7th year) - Modern Japanese intellectual history; ai47@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Israelachvili, David (2nd year) - Modern European intellectual history; dbi5@cornell.edu. Advisor: Camille Robcis
Jacoby, Julie (9th year) - Modern Austria, Germany, East-Central Europe (especially Poland), Jewish history; jaj32@cornell.edu. Advisor: Isabel Hull. Curriculum Vitae
Jeong, Moon-Young (7th year) - Modern Japanese and Korean cultural and intellectual history; mj88@cornell.edu. Advisor: Naoki Sakai
Jones, Christopher (7th year) - Modern Japanese inetllectual and cultural history; contemporary Chinese intellectual history; World history; chj7@cornell.edu. Bio Advisor: Naoki Sakai
Kane, Maeve (4th year) - US history; mek235@cornell.edu. Advisor: Jon Parmenter Curriculum Vitae
Kang, Tarandeep (9th year) - Modern European intellectual history; enlightenment and romanticism; philosophy of history; German Orientalism; tsk26@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick Lacapra
Katungi, Candace (7th year) - US history; clk28@cornell.edu. Advisor: Margaret Washington
Kohout, Amy (4th year) - Late 19th/early 20th century U.S. history, environmental and cultural history; alk237@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Krell, Jacob (1st year) jk2438@cornell.edu. Advisor: Camille Robcis
Kuskowski, Ada-Maria (7th year) - Medieval History (Europe); Legal History; Roman History; ak393@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Lavelle, Peter (8th year) - Qing and modern China; empire and borderlands; environment and agriculture; pl249@cornell.edu. Advisor: Sherman Cochran
Law, Aaron (5th year) - US history; anl23@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Ledlie, Alyshia (2nd year) - European history; aml327@cornell.edu. Advisor: Rachel Weil
Lee, Sujin (1st year) sl2425@cornell.edu. Advisor: Katsuya Hirano
Lightfoot, Gregg (8th year) - US/Latin American History; gtl7@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Lim, Julian S. (8th 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 (7th year) - Southeast Asia, Thailand; swl3@cornell.edu. Bio Advisor: Tamara Loos
Liu, Oiyan (7th year) - Southeast Asia, Chinese Diaspora, Nationalism; ol23@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Maskiell, Nicole (5th 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 (7th year) - 20th century global and comparative history, focusing on the roles of popular imaginations in war, society, politics, and history, as well as impacts of those on the construction of social order and global politics. In particular, history of the cold war, US foreign relations, McCarthyism, racism, and grassroots conservatism; immigration history; and propaganda, radio, and cartoon. Also, social, cultural, and political history of wartime and postwar East Asia, including the Civil War and Communist Revolution in China, US Occupation of Japan and Korea, and waves of nationalism and decolonization. Thesis title: "Whispering Gallery: War and Society during the Korean War and the Social Constitution of the Local and Global Cold War." hm93@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall (Curriculum Vitae)
McComb, Max (1st year) - early medieval Europe, Continental Saxony, religious conversion and missionary work; mpm279@cornell.edu. Advisor: Oren Falk
Milian, Alberto (2nd year) - American history; am949@cornell.edu. Advisor: Maria Cristina Garcia
Miller, Daegan (6th year) - Nineteenth-century U.S.; environmental, cultural, intellectual;
drm43@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Mitchell, Vernon C. (7th year) - African American religious and political thought late 19th, early 20th century; vcm3@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Muschalek, Marie (7th year) - Modern European History; German History; Military History; Colonialism; mam292cornell.edu. Advisor: Isabel Hull
Pearson, Trais (5th year) - Southeast Asia; qap2@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Ratel, Guillaume (12th year) - Advisor: Steven Kaplan
Reeder, Matthew (1st year) - Southeast Asia; chronicles in the Theravada mainland, especially Lan Na; mtr75@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Reynoso, Jacqueline (2nd year) - Colonial American intellectual history; jcr256@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Rigo, Mate (3rd year) - Modern European social, urban, gender history; 19-20th century Central Europe, modern Hungarian history; mr633@cornell.edu. Advisor: Holly Case
Rivera Marin, Jorge (8th year) - 20th century U.S. foreign relations history, Cold War history, decolonization, modern U.S. history; jlr229@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Romero, Susana (4th year) - Modern Latin American history; sr575@cornell.edu. Advisor: Ray Craib, Mary Roldan
Rutledge, Brian (1st year) African history; modern South African history; historical geography; br354@cornell.edu. Advisor: Sandra Greene
Soenarto, Ermita (3rd year) - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Islam; es597@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Taglliacozzo
Son, Joo-Rak (5th year) - ancient societies and intercommunity relations using theory and material culture; specialization is Classical and Hellenistic Greece; js949@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Sorg, Timothy (1st year) - ancient history; tds77@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Tally, Rebecca (8th year) - Modern Latin American History; rebecca.tally@cornell.edu. Curriculum Vitae. Advisor: Mary Roldan
Tang, Christopher (2nd year) - Modern China; Cold War history; ct424@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian
Thomas, Karen E. (3rd 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 (7th year) - Early American history, early modern England, 18th century British Empire, economic history; krt5@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Townsend, Rebecca (2nd year) - Southeast Asian history; rmt88@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Vrinte, Irene (6th year) - U.S. foreign relations history, Cold War history, US/European relations history; iv29@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Wang, Yuanchong (5th year) - Modern China; Chinese-Korean relations, East Asian international history; yw264@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian
Wilde, Ann (7th year) - Twentieth Century US, Eastern European History, and Film; aw257@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Willoughby, Emma (10th year) - Early American History, native American History, British Imperialism, Australian History; ecw26@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Zhou, Taomo (4th year) - Modern China; Cold War history, Chinese/Southeast Asian relations history; tz84@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian