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Doctoral Students in History

 

Onek Adyanga

Email: onek.adyanga@uconn.edu
Advisor: Amii Omara-Otunnu
Primary Field: Africa

 

Salvatore Aliberti

Email: salvatore.aliberti@uconn.edu
Advisor: John Davis
Primary Field: Modern Italy

 

Anthony Antonucci

Email: anthony.antonucci@uconn.edu
Advisor: Robert Gross
Primary Field: Early America

 

Paul Baran

Email: paul.baran@uconn.edu
Advisor: Robert Gross
Primary Field: Early America

 

Barbara Beeching

Email: barbara.beeching@uconn.edu
Advisor: Altina Waller
Primary Field: Early America

 

Patrick G. Blythe

Email: Patrick.blythe@uconn.edu
Advisor: Cornelia Dayton
Education: MA, Ball State University; BA, Chadron State College
Primary Field: Early North America
Other Fields: Native America, Early Modern Europe

 

Brian Carroll

Email: brian.carroll@uconn.edu
Advisor: Richard Brown
Primary Field: Early America

 

Lindsay Hunter Carlson

Email: Lindsay.hunter@uconn.edu
Advisor: Peter Baldwin
Education: MA, University of Connecticut; BA, Albertus Magnus College
Primary Field: U.S. History
Other Fields: Environmental History, Family History

 

Ronald Catrone

Email: ronald.catrone@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Primary Field: Foreign Relations

 

Paulo Contreras

Email: paulo.contreras@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Primary Field: Foriegn Relations

 

Christopher Curry

Email: cestolcurry@huskymail.uconn.edu
Advisor: Melina Pappademos
Education: B.A. History, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont., Canada; M.A. History, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada; Diploma in Education, The College of The Bahamas
Primary Field: Latin America/Caribbean
Other Fields: Atlantic World and African Diaspora
Publications:

Christopher Curry, “Christianity and slave conversion in The Bahamas: A catalyst for revolutionary change or a quest for respectability?” in The Journal of The Bahamas Historical Society, (October, 2005): 4-8.

Christopher Curry and Neil Sealey, Social Studies for Bahamian Secondary Schools, Three volumes, London: Macmillan Caribbean Press, 2006.

Christopher Curry, “A Critique of Bahamian Society after Emancipation,” AT Random, IX (2004): 26-28.

 

Dominic DeBrincat

Email: DFDmadison@yahoo.com
Advisor: Cornelia Dayton
Education: MA, Wayne State University; JD, Wayne State University Law School; BA, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Experience: Book Review Editor, American Journal of Legal History
Primary Field: United States History through 1877
Other Fields: US Legal and Constitutional History
Dissertation: "Yankee Jurisprudence: The Court and Legal Culture of Colonial New London County, Connecticut"

 

Elliotte Draegor

Email: elliotte.draegor@uconn.edu
Advisor: Nancy Shoemaker
Primary Field: Early America

 

Eric Fauss

Email: Eric.Fauss@uconn.edu
Advisor: Peter Baldwin
Education: MA, University of Connecticut; BA, History and Music, SUNY Potsdam
Primary Field: 20th Century U.S. Urban/Environmental History
Other Fields: History of space and place; Music as it relates to space/place/environment
Publications: "The Postsuburban Development of Riverbend, Long Island: 1970-2000" in The Long Island Historical Journal

 

Robb Haberman

Email: robb.haberman@uconn.edu
Advisor: Richard Brown
Primary Field: Early America

 

Alea Henle

Email: alea.henle@uconn.edu
Advisor: Richard Brown
Education: MS, Libraries and Archives, Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science; BA, Religious Studies, College of Wooster
Primary Field: Early America
Other Fields: Early Modern Europe

 

Antonio Hernandez Matos

Email: Antonio.hernandez_matos@uconn.edu
Advisor: Christopher Clark
Education: MA, History, University of Connecticut; BA, Secondary Education - History, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras
Primary Field: Modern U.S. History
Other Fields: Caribbean, Cultural History, Theories of History

 

Michael Hoven

Email: michael.hoven@uconn.edu
Advisor: John Davis
Education: M.A., University of Connecticut B.A., Gonzaga University
Primary Field: Modern Europe; Italy

 

Robert Howe

Email: robert.w.howe@uconn.edu
Advisor: Brendan Kane
Primary Field: Early Modern Britain/Ireland

 

Jessica Linker

Email: Jessica.linker@uconn.edu
Advisor: Cornelia Dayton
Education: MA, History, Brown University; BA, History, Wellesley College
Primary Field: Early America
Other Fields: Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Women and Gender

 

Anthony Macchiarulo

Email: anthony.macchiarulo@uconn.edu
Advisor: John Davis
Education: MA, MPS, BFA, New York University
Primary Field: Modern Italian History
Other Fields: Science and Religion

 

Jacqueline McNeil

Email: jacqueline.mcneil@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Primary Field: U.S. History

 

Brian McSorley

Email: brian.mcsorley@uconn.edu
Advisor: Helen Rozwadowski
Education: U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Primary Field: U.S. History, Maritime History
Other Fields: Ocean & Littoral Space, “Command” of the Sea

 

Linda Meditz

Email: Linda.meditz@uconn.edu
Advisor: Cornelia Dayton
Education: MA, History, University of Connecticut; BA, History, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Primary Field: Early America
Other Fields: Religion, Women in Religion
Dissertation: Diary of Stephen Williams of Longmeadow, MA (1715-1782)

 

Jonathan Michaels

Email: jonathan.michaels@uconn.edu
Advisor: Robert Asher
Primary Field: U.S. History

 

Brian Mullgardt

Email: brian.mullgardt@uconn.edu
Advisor: Peter Baldwin
Primary Field: U.S. History

 

Michael Neagle

Email: Michael.neagle@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Education: MA, University of Connecticut BA, College of the Holy Cross
Primary Field: U.S. Foreign Relations
Other Fields: U.S. Since 1865, Modern Latin America
Dissertation: “With Kindly Consideration and Honorable Obligation: The Latin American Policies of Elihu Root.”
Publication: Contributing writer to Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881-2006 (University Press of New England, 2006)

Contributing writer to Latino America: State by State (Greenwood Press, 2008)

 

Catherine Page

Email: catherine.page@uconn.edu
Advisor: Christopher Clark
Primary Field: U.S. History

 

Chad Reid

Email: Chad.reid@uconn.edu
Advisor: Christopher Clark
Education: MA, New Mexico State University BA, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Primary Field: Early North American History
Other Fields: History of the Book, Labour History, U.S. social and cultural history
Publication: “‘Widely Read by American Patriots’: The New York Weekly Journal and the Influence of Cato’s Letters on Colonial America” in Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, eds. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon Harris (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005)

 

Michael Rindge

Email: michael.rindge@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Primary Field: Foreign Relations

 

Margaret Robinson

Email: margaret.robinson@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Primary Field: U.S. History

 

Giusi Russo

Email: giusi.russo@uconn.edu
Advisor: John Davis
Education: MA, History, University of Connecticut; LAUREA, Political Science, University of Catania, Italy
Primary Field: Modern Europe

 

Daniel Simmons

Email: Daniel.simmons@uconn.edu
Advisor: Jeffrey Ogbar
Education: MA, University of Connecticut; BA, Stonehill College
Primary Field: 20th Century American Popular Culture

 

Catherine Lynne Thompson

Email: cthompgo@aol.com
Advisor: Cornelia Dayton
Education: M.L.A. in European History and Literature, Louisiana State University BA, Biology, University of Colorado
Primary Field: U.S. History to 1877
Other Fields: Early Modern Europe, History of Medicine
Dissertation: "Therapeutic Expectations and Experiences: Medical Communities in Early America, 1750-1850"

 

David Thurston

Email: david.thurston@uconn.edu
Advisor: Janet Watson
Education: MA, Boston University; BA, Wesleyan University
Primary Field: 19th Century Britain
Other Fields: Empire, Cultural Studies

 

Karl J. Trybus

Email: karl.trybus@uconn.edu
Advisor: John Davis
Education: MA, International Studies (European concentration), University of Connecticut; BA, History, BA, Hispanic Studies, Connecticut College
Primary Field: Modern Europe
Other Fields: Modern Russia, Colonial Latin America, Movements of People
Dissertation Topic: Comparing the Language of Lost Identity in Spain's Generation of 1898, with the Country's Current Immigration Issues

 

Tom Westerman

Email: Thomas.westerman@uconn.edu
Advisor: Frank Costigliola
Education: MA, University of Connecticut BA, The Honors College, Adelphi University
Primary Field: Modern U.S. History, U.S. Foreign Relations
Other Fields: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, Modern Europe
Dissertation: “Anglo Saxons of the Western World: The Culture of U.S. Humanitarianism in Europe, 1914-1918.”

 

Britney Yancy

Email: britney.yancy@uconn.edu
Advisor: Jeffrey Ogbar
Primary Field: U.S. History

 

Sherry Zane

Email: sherry.isaacson@uconn.edu
Advisor: Peter Baldwin
Education: MA, History, University of Connecticut BA, English, BA, History, University of Connecticut
Primary Field: U.S. History since 1865
Other Fields: Gender, War

 

 
      
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