List of Current Students
Ackerman, Seth (8th year) - US political and foreign relations history; US/European relations in the
20th Century; sa332@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Amstutz, Andrew (5th year) - South Asia; British empire; ama245@cornell.edu. Advisor: Durba Ghosh
Baba, Ai (1st year) - modern Japanese history; ab2335@cornell.edu.
Bailey, Christopher (10th year) - Medieval and early modern Scandanavia; Magic and witchcraft, historiography; clb66@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Balcerski, Thomas (4th year) - 19th Century U.S. history; tjb36@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Bartel, Fritz (2nd year) mfb87@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Biba, Catherine (5th year) - US history; cmb382@cornell.edu. Advisor: Derek Chang
Blome, David (4th year) - ancient history; dab379@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Bujalski, Nicholas (1st year) - Russian history; nrb63@cornell.edu.
Casey, Christina (4th year) - British history; cc828@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Travers
Chen, Shiau-Yun (1st year) - modern Chinese history; sc2453@cornell.edu.
Chia, Jack (2nd year) - Southeast Asia-China interactions, Chinese Buddhism and popular religion, Chinese diaspora; mc2286@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Choi, Deokhyo (7th 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 (4th year) - 17th and 18th C. South Asia; Mughal and British Empires; ric29@cornell.edu. Advisor: Durba Ghosh
Crabtree, Mari (6th year) - African American history (post-Emancipation), 20th century American history, African American literature, memory and trauma studies; mnc24@cornell.edu. Advisor: Nick Salvatore
Cuddy, Brian (4th year) - US history; international history; bjc249@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Davenport, Matthew F. (10th year) - Early Modern Europe; mfd25@cornell.edu. Advisor: John Najemy
Deets, Mark (3rd year) - African history, focusing on the Senegambia; North African history; Colonial & Postcolonial Geographies; mwd45@cornell.edu. Advisor: Judith Byfield
Deese, Adrian (1st year) - African history; focusing on politics and economy, movements toward modern state formation, and the political and historical thought in 19th century West Africa; amd335@cornell.edu.
Edwards, Ryan (3rd year) - Modern Latin America, environmental history, and historical geography; rce43@cornell.edu. Advisor: Ray Craib
Fear, Sean (5th year) - 20th century US foreign relations history, 20th century Vietnamese history; saf237@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Fibiger, Matts (1st year) - American history; mef249@cornell.edu.
Fisher, Abigail (6th year) - Gender and legal history in early modern England; aaf42@cornell.edu. Advisor: Rachel Weil
Giacomelli, Joseph (2nd year) - US environmental history; jng53@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Harvey, Kyle (1st year) - Latin American history; keh236@cornell.edu.
Hong, Soo kyeong (5th year) - Modern Japanese cultural and social history, Japanese colonial empire, fascism movement and popular culture; sh662@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Horning, Kate (5th year) - Modern European intellectual and cultural history, gender and sexuality; mkh56@cornell.edu. Advisor: Dominick LaCapra
Hoshino, Noriaki (7th year) - Modern Japanese history, Asian American history, Transpacific racism, Imperial nationalism, mobility; nh63@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Ishii, Akiko (8th year) - Modern Japanese intellectual history; ai47@cornell.edu. Advisor: J. Victor Koschmann
Israelachvili, David (3rd year) - Modern European intellectual history; dbi5@cornell.edu. Advisor: Camille Robcis
Jacoby, Julie (10th year) - Modern Austria, Germany, East-Central Europe (especially Poland), Jewish history; jaj32@cornell.edu. Advisor: Isabel Hull. Curriculum Vitae
Jones, Christopher (8th year) - Modern Japanese inetllectual and cultural history; contemporary Chinese intellectual history; World history; chj7@cornell.edu. Bio Advisor: Naoki Sakai
Kane, Maeve (5th year) - US history; mek235@cornell.edu. Advisor: Jon Parmenter Curriculum Vitae
Katungi, Candace (8th year) - US history; clk28@cornell.edu. Advisor: Margaret Washington
Kelly, Jason (1st year) - Modern China, modern United States, U.S.-China relations, East Asian international history; jmk467@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian
Kohout, Amy (5th year) - Late 19th/early 20th century U.S. history, environmental and cultural history; alk237@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Krell, Jacob (2nd year) jk2438@cornell.edu. Advisor: Camille Robcis
Kuskowski, Ada-Maria (8th year) - Medieval History (Europe); Legal History; Roman History; ak393@cornell.edu. Advisor: Paul Hyams
Law, Aaron (6th year) - US history; anl23@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Ledlie, Alyshia (3rd year) - European history; aml327@cornell.edu. Advisor: Rachel Weil
Lee, Sujin (2nd year) Modern Japanese social and gender history; women's bodies and medicine; population and biopolitics in the Japanese colonial empire; sl2425@cornell.edu. Advisor: Katsuya Hirano
Lightfoot, Gregg (9th year) - US/Latin American History; gtl7@cornell.edu. Advisor: Edward Baptist
Lim, Julian S. (9th 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
Liu, Oiyan (8th year) - Southeast Asia, Chinese Diaspora, Nationalism; ol23@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Maskiell, Nicole (6th 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
McComb, Max (2nd year) - early medieval Europe, Continental Saxony, religious conversion and missionary work; mpm279@cornell.edu. Advisor: Oren Falk
Milian, Alberto (3rd year) - American history; am949@cornell.edu. Advisor: Maria Cristina Garcia
Miller, Daegan (7th year) - Nineteenth-century U.S.; environmental, cultural, intellectual;
drm43@cornell.edu. Advisor: Aaron Sachs
Minarchek, Matthew (1st year) - Southeast Asian (Indonesia) history; environmental history; violence, resistance, and territoriality; mjm564@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Mitchell, Vernon C. (8th year) - African American religious and political thought late 19th, early 20th century; vcm3@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Moline, Margaret (1st year) - ancient history; mam744@cornell.edu.
Muschalek, Marie (8th year) - Modern European History; German History; Military History; Colonialism; mam292cornell.edu. Advisor: Isabel Hull
Pearson, Trais (6th year) - Modern Southeast Asia (Thailand); history of science and medicine; legal medicine; religious history; qap2@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Pontzer, Kaitlin (1st year) - Early modern Europe; kap257@cornell.edu.
Reeder, Matthew (2nd year) - Southeast Asia; chronicles in the Theravada mainland, especially Lan Na; mtr75@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Reynoso, Jacqueline (3rd year) - Colonial American intellectual history; jcr256@cornell.edu. Advisor: Mary Beth Norton
Rigo, Mate (4th year) - Modern European social, urban, gender history; 19-20th century Central Europe, modern Hungarian history; mr633@cornell.edu. Advisor: Holly Case
Rivera Marin, Jorge (9th year) - 20th century U.S. foreign relations history, Cold War history, decolonization, modern U.S. history; jlr229@cornell.edu. Advisor: Fredrik Logevall
Romero, Susana (5th year) - Modern Latin American history; sr575@cornell.edu. Advisor: Ray Craib, Mary Roldan
Rutledge, Brian (2nd year) - African history; modern South African history; historical geography; br354@cornell.edu. Advisor: Sandra Greene
Savala, Joshua (1st year) - Modern Latin America, particularly Chile; labor and working class history; anarchism; js2754@cornell.edu. Advisor: Ray Craib
Siddiqui, Osama (1st year) - British history; ors9@cornell.edu.
Soenarto, Ermita (4th year) - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Islam; es597@cornell.edu. Advisor: Eric Taglliacozzo
Son, Joo-Rak (6th 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 (2nd year) - ancient history; tds77@cornell.edu. Advisor: Barry Strauss
Tang, Christopher (3rd year) - Modern China; Cold War history; ct424@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian
Thomas, Karen E. (11th 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
Townsend, Rebecca (3rd year) - Southeast Asian history; rmt88@cornell.edu. Advisor: Tamara Loos
Wang, Yuanchong (6th year) - Modern China; Chinese-Korean relations, East Asian international history; yw264@cornell.edu. Advisor: Chen Jian
Wilde, Ann (8th year) - Twentieth Century US, Eastern European History, and Film; aw257@cornell.edu. Advisor: Robert Harris
Willoughby, Emma (11th 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