In progress
Paul Brickner (Advisor: Cashin)
"Justice John McLean: A Biography"
James Farwig (Advisor: Newell)
“`Any Indyan which they shall attain to’: Slavery, Labor, and Early Intercultural Contact in North America and the Caribbean”
Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowship, 2020; John Carter Brown Library Digital Fellow, 2021-22.
Michael Kraemer (Advisor: Newell) “Rethinking Russian Colonialism in LingítAaní: The History of the Russian-Tlingit Settlement of Novo-Arkhangel’sk from 1799 to1867.”
American Councils Title VIII Grant for Russia; Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant; Phillips Fund for Native American Research from the American Philosophical Society, 2021
Evonne Turner-Byfield (Advisor: Newell) “The Skeletal Biology of Slavery in 18th Century Virginia and Maryland,” (Anthropology—committee member)
Completed
Joshua A. Morrow, Ph.D. 2023 (Advisors: Cashin and Brooke)
"The Lost Cause Triumphant: Politics and Culture in the Construction of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1890-1928"
Sydney Miller, Ph. D., 2023 (Advisor: Brooke):
"Politics, Gender, and the Crisis of the Virginia Gentry: 1824 - 1837"
James Turner, Ph.D. 2022 (Advisor, Cashin)
“’Singular, Fiery, Smoky’: A Food History of the U.S.-Mexican War”
Author of "Tortilla, Pepper, Chocolate, and Mezeal: A Food History of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848," Journal of the Southwest (2020) winner of the Society for Military History Vandervort Prize (2021).
Present Position: Lecturer in History, Ohio State University, Newark
Dylan Streifeneder, Ph.D. 2022 (Advisor: Brooke)
"’The Propriety of a Vigorous Government:’ State Formation in New York, 1740-1795’”
Present Position: Lecturer in History, State University of New York at New Paltz
John Bickers, Ph.D. 2022 (Advisor: Newell) "Miami Nation: A Middle Path for Indigenous Nationhood,” March 28, 2022. Present appointment: Assistant Professor of History (TT), Case Western Reserve University. Co-PI, Mellon Higher Learning Project, 2-23-2026; NASEM/Ford Foundation Fellow, 2021; Phillips Fund for Native American Research from the American Philosophical Society, 2020.
Kevin Vrevich, Ph.D., 2019 (Advisor: Brooke)
“The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism: Greater Rhode Island and the Emergence of Racial Justice”
Present Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
Joshua Wood, Ph.D. 2018 (Advisor: Newell)
"In the Shadow of Freedom: Race and the Building of Community in Ross County, Ohio, 1800-1855"
Present Appointment: Instructor in History, Ohio State University
Timothy Leech, Ph.D. 2017 (Adviser: Brooke)
"'Crossing the Rubicon': The Establishment of the Continental Army and American State Formation, 1774-1776"
Present appointment: Independent scholar
"'Crossing the Rubicon': The Establishment of the Continental Army and American State Formation, 1774-1776"
Present appointment: Independent scholar
Lisa Zevorich Susner, Ph.D. 2017 (Adviser: Brooke)
"To Think for Themselves: Teaching Faith and Reason in Nineteenth-Century America"
Present Appointment: Associate Academic Designer at McGraw Hill
"To Think for Themselves: Teaching Faith and Reason in Nineteenth-Century America"
Present Appointment: Associate Academic Designer at McGraw Hill
Abby Burch Schreiber, Ph.D. 2016 (Advisor: Newell) “’To Promote Your Interest and Gain your Confidence’: Baltimore’s Merchants in the Atlantic World, 1790-1830,” January 2016. Research Grants from David Library of the American Revolution. 2020 Individual Award for Excellence in Public History from the National Council on Public History and “Best of Baltimore” exhibit award, 2019: https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-NCPH-Awards-Full-Listing.pdf. Previous appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, William and Mary. Present appointment: Waterfront Historian, Office of Historic Alexandria (VA).
Marcus Nevius Ph.D. 2016 (Advisor: Shaw and Newell)
"'Lurking about the neighbourhood': Slave Economy and Petit Marronage in Virginia and North Carolina, 1730 to 1860"
Author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856 (University of Georgia Press, 2021).
Present appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
"'Lurking about the neighbourhood': Slave Economy and Petit Marronage in Virginia and North Carolina, 1730 to 1860"
Author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856 (University of Georgia Press, 2021).
Present appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
Jamie LeeAnn Hager Goodall, Ph.D. 2015 (Advisor: Newell) “Navigating the Atlantic World: Piracy, Illicit Trade, and the Construction of Commercial Networks, 1650-1791,” December 2015; Assistant Professor of History and Public History, Stevenson University, 2015-2020. Present Appointment: Staff Historian, The U.S. Army Center of Military History. Author, Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay (The History Press, 2020).
Cameron Shriver, Ph.D. 2016 (Advisor: Newell) "Indians, Empires, and the Contest for Information in Colonial Miami and Illinois Countries," August 2016. Research grants from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, American Philosophical Society, David Library of the American Revolution, Huntington Library, Filson Center. Researcher, Myaamia Center: https://miamioh.edu/myaamia-center/ , and Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University.
Mark Boonshoft, Ph.D. 2015 (Advisor: Brooke)
"Creating a ‘Civilized Nation’: Religion, Social Capital, and the Cultural Foundations of Early American State Formation"
Author of Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), finalist, George Washington Book Prize, 2021.
Present Appointment: Associate Professor and Conrad M. Hall '65 Chair in American Constitutional History at the Virginia Military Institute
"Creating a ‘Civilized Nation’: Religion, Social Capital, and the Cultural Foundations of Early American State Formation"
Author of Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), finalist, George Washington Book Prize, 2021.
Present Appointment: Associate Professor and Conrad M. Hall '65 Chair in American Constitutional History at the Virginia Military Institute
Emily Arendt, Ph.D. 2014 (Adviser: Brooke)
"Affairs of State, Affairs of Home: Print and Patriarchy in Pennsylvania, 1776-1844"
Author of "'Two Dollars a Day, And Roast Beef’: Whig Culinary Partisanship and the Election of 1840,” Journal of the Early Republic (2020), winner of the SHEAR Ralph D. Gray Article Prize; “‘Ladies Going About for Money’: Female Voluntary Associations and Civic Consciousness in the American Revolution,” Journal of the Early Republic (2014).
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, Montana State University-Billings
"Affairs of State, Affairs of Home: Print and Patriarchy in Pennsylvania, 1776-1844"
Author of "'Two Dollars a Day, And Roast Beef’: Whig Culinary Partisanship and the Election of 1840,” Journal of the Early Republic (2020), winner of the SHEAR Ralph D. Gray Article Prize; “‘Ladies Going About for Money’: Female Voluntary Associations and Civic Consciousness in the American Revolution,” Journal of the Early Republic (2014).
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, Montana State University-Billings
Melissah Pawlikowsky, Ph.D. 2014 (Advisor: Brooke)
"The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers & the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774"
Present Appointment: Lecturer, Department of History, Capital University
"The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers & the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774"
Present Appointment: Lecturer, Department of History, Capital University
Hunter Price, Ph.D. 2014 (Adviser: Gallay)
"Circuit Riders: Knowledge, Power, and Faith in the Settling of the Early West, 1780-1830"
Present Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Washington University
"Circuit Riders: Knowledge, Power, and Faith in the Settling of the Early West, 1780-1830"
Present Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Washington University
Daniel Vandersommers, Ph. D. 2014 (Adviser: Roth)
"Laboratories, Lyceums, and Lords: Zoos, Zoology, and the Transformation of Humanism in Nineteenth-Century America"
Author of Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive (University of Kansas Press, 2023).
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Dayton
"Laboratories, Lyceums, and Lords: Zoos, Zoology, and the Transformation of Humanism in Nineteenth-Century America"
Author of Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive (University of Kansas Press, 2023).
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Dayton
Jessica Wallace, Ph.D. 2014 (co-advised with Allan Gallay), “‘Building Forts in Their Hearts’: Anglo-Cherokee Relations on the Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier,” June 2014. Present appointment: Associate Professor, Georgia College: http://www.gcsu.edu/employee/jessica-wallace
Joseph Wachtel, Ph.D. 2013 (Adviser: Gallay)
"'Poor Savages and Churlish Heretics': The Jesuit Mission to Canada and the French Wars of Religion, 1540-1635"
"'Poor Savages and Churlish Heretics': The Jesuit Mission to Canada and the French Wars of Religion, 1540-1635"
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, History, and Political Science, Fitchburg State University
James Weeks, Ph.D. 2013 (Adviser: Newell)
"Getting the Goods, Building an Entrepot, Ruling a Province: Merchant-Planter Elites in Restoration-Era Maryland, 1660-1689"
Present Appointment: Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Ohio State University-Newark
"Getting the Goods, Building an Entrepot, Ruling a Province: Merchant-Planter Elites in Restoration-Era Maryland, 1660-1689"
Present Appointment: Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Ohio State University-Newark
Michael Alarid, Ph.D. 2012 (Adviser: Roth)
"Caudillo Justice: Intercultural Conflict and Social Change in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1837-1853"
Author of Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press (2022).
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Caudillo Justice: Intercultural Conflict and Social Change in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1837-1853"
Author of Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press (2022).
Present Appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Matthew Tyler Foulds, Ph.D. 2012 (Adviser: Roth)
"Enemies of the State : Methodists, Secession, and the Civil War in Western Virginia, 1845-1872"
Present Appointment: Instructor of History, University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio
"Enemies of the State : Methodists, Secession, and the Civil War in Western Virginia, 1845-1872"
Present Appointment: Instructor of History, University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Erin Greenwald, Ph.D. 2011 (Adviser: Gallay)
"Company Towns and Tropical Baptisms: From Lorient to New Orleans on a French Atlantic Circuit"
Author of Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World (LSU Press, 2016).
Present appointment: Curator/Historian, Historic New Orleans Collection
"Company Towns and Tropical Baptisms: From Lorient to New Orleans on a French Atlantic Circuit"
Author of Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World (LSU Press, 2016).
Present appointment: Curator/Historian, Historic New Orleans Collection
Kathryn Magee LaBelle, Ph.D. 2011 (Adviser: Newell) “Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: Leadership, Women, and Power within the Wendat Diaspora, 1600-1701,” June 2011. Grants from American Association of University Women, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Winner, Canadian Studies Network - Réseau d'Études Canadienne Book Prize for 2013; the John C. Ewers Award from the Western Historical Association for best book on Native American Ethnohistory in 2014; and the Canadian Studies Association's J.P. Bertrand Award for her co-written article: Brittany Luby and Kathryn Magee Labelle, "Researching Cooperative Education at the Day School on Dalles 38C Indian Reserve, 1890 – 1910: An Exercise in Indigenous Methodology." Latest book: Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations, in 2021. Present appointment: Editor, Ethnohistory, and Professor and Chair, University of Saskatchewan: http://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/KLabelle#/profile
Gregory Scott King-Owen, Ph.D. 2011 (Adviser: Brooke)
"The People's Law: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805"
Present appointment: Chair of United States History, Bexley High School
"The People's Law: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805"
Present appointment: Chair of United States History, Bexley High School
Christianna Elrene Thomas Hurford, Ph.D. 2010 (Adviser: Gallay)
"'In his arm the scar': Medicine, Race, and the Social Implications of the 1721 Inoculation Controversy on Boston"
Present appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbus State Community College
"'In his arm the scar': Medicine, Race, and the Social Implications of the 1721 Inoculation Controversy on Boston"
Present appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbus State Community College
Jose Diaz, Ph.D., 2009 (Advisor: Cashin)
"'To make the best of our hard lot': Prisoners, Captivity, and the Civil War"
Present appointment: Special Collections librarian, Ohio State University Libraries
"'To make the best of our hard lot': Prisoners, Captivity, and the Civil War"
Present appointment: Special Collections librarian, Ohio State University Libraries
Larry A. Skillin, Ph. D. 2009 (Adviser: Brooke)
"'If He would Have a Publick Audience, Let Him Print': The Colonial Press and the Opening of an American Public Sphere, 1640-1740"
Present appointment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Saint Ambrose University
"'If He would Have a Publick Audience, Let Him Print': The Colonial Press and the Opening of an American Public Sphere, 1640-1740"
Present appointment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Saint Ambrose University
Alison Clark Efford, Ph.D. 2008 (Co-advisers: Brooke, Snay)
"New Citizens: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Reconstruction of Citizenship, 1865-1877"
Author of German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Present appointment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Marquette University
"New Citizens: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Reconstruction of Citizenship, 1865-1877"
Author of German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Present appointment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Marquette University
David Dzurec, Ph.D. 2008 (Adviser: Cornell)
"An Entertaining Narrative of... Cruel and Barbarous Treatment”: Politics, Prisoners of War, and Debate in the Early American Republic 1775-1820"
Author of Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019).
Present appointment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Scranton
"An Entertaining Narrative of... Cruel and Barbarous Treatment”: Politics, Prisoners of War, and Debate in the Early American Republic 1775-1820"
Author of Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019).
Present appointment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Scranton
John Maass, Ph.D. 2007 (Adviser: Brooke)
"A 'Complicated Scene of Difficulties': The Revolutionary Settlement in North Carolina, 1776-1789"
Author of The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (History Press, 2020); The Road to Yorktown: Jefferson, Lafayette and the British Invasion of Virginia (History Press, 2015).
Present appointment: Historian, Contemporary Studies Branch, US Army Center of Military History
"A 'Complicated Scene of Difficulties': The Revolutionary Settlement in North Carolina, 1776-1789"
Author of The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (History Press, 2020); The Road to Yorktown: Jefferson, Lafayette and the British Invasion of Virginia (History Press, 2015).
Present appointment: Historian, Contemporary Studies Branch, US Army Center of Military History
Nathan Ross Kozuskanich, Ph.D., 2005 (Adviser: Cornell)
"'For the Security and Protection of the Community': The Frontier and the Makings of Pennsylvanian Constitutionalism"
Author of Benjamin Franklin: American Founder, Atlantic Citizen (Routledge, 2014).
Present appointment: Professor, Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
"'For the Security and Protection of the Community': The Frontier and the Makings of Pennsylvanian Constitutionalism"
Author of Benjamin Franklin: American Founder, Atlantic Citizen (Routledge, 2014).
Present appointment: Professor, Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
Tiwanna S. Simpson, Ph.D. 2002 (Advisers: Newell and Shaw)
"'She has her country marks very conspicuous in the face': The Development of Culture and Community Among Peoples of African Descent in Early Georgia, 1732-1820"
Present appointment: Director, Foundation for Historic Africana, and Adjunct in History, Morehouse College, Atlanta“`She has her country marks very conspicuous in the face’: The Development of Culture and Community Among Peoples of African Descent in Early Georgia, 1732-1820,” October 2002. Research grants: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame. Present appointment: Director, Foundation for Historic Africana, and Adjunct in History, Morehouse College, Atlanta.