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Sopanit Angsusingha

sa1386@georgetown.edu

Middle East & North Africa
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Women and Gender in the Arab World; British Mandate of Iraq; Comparative Colonialisms; Christian-Muslim Relations…

Ishmael Annang

ina11@georgetown.edu
He/His
Africa
Advisor: Kathryn de Luna
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: The African Atlantic; Environmental History of Africa; Health and Healing in Africa; Indigenous Slavery in West Africa…

Greg Beaman

gab107@georgetown.edu

Transregional
Advisor: Adam Rothman
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: slavery; urban development; 18th and 19th century Atlantic Louisiana; early United States…

Claire Bents

cmb408@georgetown.edu

Transregional
Advisor: Alison Games
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Atlantic World; Memory; Material Culture; Piracy; Public History…

Diogo Bercito

drb113@georgetown.edu
He/His
Middle East & North Africa
Advisor: Osama Abi-Mershed
Cohort Year: 2020
Research Interests: Migration; Middle East; Latin America…

Joel Berger

jfb113@georgetown.edu

United States
Advisor: Joseph McCartin
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. labor history; public sector labor history; political economy; race; education politics…

Victoria Broadus

vrb7@georgetown.edu

Latin America
Advisor: Bryan McCann
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Brazilian history; Afro-Brazilian cultural forms; slavery and post-abolition; Black Atlantic; jazz and popular music of the Americas…

Jakob Burnham

jb2675@georgetown.edu
He/His
Europe
Advisor: James Collins
Cohort Year: 2016
Research Interests: French Empire; Indian Ocean; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century; Urban History; Gender and Sexuality…

Calla Cameron

cjc314@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Latin America
Advisor: Erick Langer
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Human Rights; Transitional Justice; Political Violence; Ethnic Violence…

Paula Chan

pc771@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Russia & Eastern Europe
Advisor: Michael David-Fox
Cohort Year: 2016
Research Interests: Soviet Union; World War II; Holocaust; Information History; Memory Politics…

George Clay

ggc13@georgetown.edu
He/His
Transregional
Advisor: Ananya Chakravarti
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Atlantic History; State Violence; Religious Violence; History of Emotions; Jesuit History…

Natalie Donnell

nad75@georgetown.edu

Europe
Advisor: James Collins
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: Women and Gender; Nobility and Court Studies; Transregional History; French History…

Dina El-Baradie

dme57@georgetown.edu

Middle East & North Africa
Advisor: Osama Abi-Mershed
Cohort Year: 2020
Research Interests: nationalism and national identity; gender; Egyptian military; masculinities…

Luke Frederick

ljf39@georgetown.edu

United States
Advisor: Maurice Jackson
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Racism, Policing, and Incarceration in Antebellum Washington, DC; Slavery and Capitalism; The Black Atlantic…

Loren Galesi

llg38@georgetown.edu

Environmental
Advisor: John McNeill
Cohort Year: 2020
Research Interests: Environmental history; Atlantic history; material history; food history…

Yuan Gao

yg207@georgetown.edu

East & Central Asia
Advisor: James Millward
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Central Eurasia; Russia; China; Food; The Environment…

Jason Halub

jkh49@georgetown.edu

East & Central Asia
Advisor: James Millward
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Modern China; Identity and Nationalism; Martial Culture…

Marcella Hardin

mch290@georgetown.edu

Transregional
Advisor: Katie Benton-Cohen
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: 20th Century Immigration; Borderlands and Identity; Social Movements…

Idun Hauge

ish10@georgetown.edu

Middle East & North Africa
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Modern Lebanon; Gender; Visual Culture; Cultural History…

Elisha Henry

ebh47@georgetown.edu

Russia & Eastern Europe
Advisor: Michael David-Fox
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: Soviet and Cold War History; Information History; Strategic Messaging…

J. Killion

jak330@georgetown.edu

Europe
Advisor: James Shedel
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Urban History; Austrian History; History of the Urban Environment; History of Vienna…

Erica Lally

el786@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
United States
Advisor: Michael Kazin
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: National Security; Civil Liberties; Citizenship; Empire; Race and Gender…

Armen Manuk-Khaloyan

am3861@georgetown.edu

Middle East & North Africa
Advisor: Mustafa Aksakal
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: Ottoman Empire; Transnationalism; Mass Society; Human Rights; World War I…

Debra Mayfield

dm1480@georgetown.edu

United States
Advisor: Adam Rothman
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: 19th-Century U.S.; French Revolutionary Period; Slavery and Reconstruction; 19th-Century Women’s History…

Brent McDonnell

brm47@georgetown.edu

Europe
Advisor: Anna von der Goltz
Cohort Year: 2016
Research Interests: Far-Right Activism in Italy and West Germany after 1945; Transnational and Comparative History; Political Violence; Cultural History of Political Movements…

Dale Menezes

dlm131@georgetown.edu

Transregional
Advisor: Ananya Chakravarti
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: Colonialism; South Asia, Early Modern Empire, Decolonization, Commodity History…

Tracy Mensah

tm1292@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Africa
Advisor: Meredith McKittrick
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: New Economic History of Africa; African Urban History…

Emma Moesswilde

ecm119@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Environmental
Advisor: Dagomar Degroot
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Agriculture Before 1800; Climate; Northern Atlantic World; Rural Communities; Britain…

Abhishek Nanavati

an605@georgetown.edu

East & Central Asia
Advisor: Jordan Sand
Cohort Year: 2015
Research Interests: Food History; Urban Design; Race, Medicine, and Environment; Asia-Pacific; Social History of Military Occupations…

Jeffrey Ngo

cn460@georgetown.edu
He/His
East & Central Asia
Advisor: James Millward
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: Chinese Territorial and Maritime Frontiers; Qing Empire; Modern Vietnam; U.S. Foreign Relations; Sovereignty, Law, and Rights…

Sophia Nimlo

stn45@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
United States
Advisor: Chandra Manning
Cohort Year: 2022
Research Interests: African American History; Education History; 19th Century; Emancipation and Reconstruction…

Emily Norweg

elb63@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
United States
Advisor: Marcia Chatelain
Cohort Year: 2016
Research Interests: Education; Mass Incarceration; Race and Ethnicity; Twentieth Century U.S.…

Natascha Otoya

nd515@georgetown.edu

Environmental
Advisor: John McNeill
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Environmental History; Latin America; History of Oil; History of Science; Brazil…

João Rabello Sodré

jr1834@georgetown.edu
He/His
Latin America
Advisor: Bryan McCann
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Latin America; Cultural History; Race and Ethnicity; Law; Transnational History…

Chad Reger

car257@georgetown.edu

United States
Advisor: Katie Benton-Cohen
Cohort Year: 2015
Research Interests: Plains Indians; Military History; Airpower; Strategy; Diplomacy…

Andrew Ross

ajr155@georgetown.edu
He/His
United States
Advisor: Toshihiro Higuchi
Cohort Year: 2020
Research Interests: US Cold War; US Imperialism; History of Climate Change; STEM History; Environmental History…

Rachel Singer

rbs73@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Environmental
Advisor: Timothy Newfield
Cohort Year: 2022
Research Interests: Early Medieval; Environmental; Celtic Studies; Historical Epidemiology; Europe…

Anna Smelova

as4412@georgetown.edu

Russia & Eastern Europe
Advisor: Michael David-Fox
Cohort Year: 2018
Research Interests: Late Imperial Russia; Temperance Movement; History of Russian Orthodox Church; Anthropology of Religion…

Katherine Steir

kes265@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Transregional
Advisor: Alison Games
Cohort Year: 2014
Research Interests: Material Culture; Slavery; Food History; History of Science…

Leigh Stephens

lvs7@georgetown.edu

Europe
Advisor: James Collins
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Early Modern France; Global History; History of Emotions; Violence and Language; Women and Gender…

Mariia Telegina

mt1219@georgetown.edu

Russia & Eastern Europe
Advisor: Gabor Agoston / Greg Afinogenov
Cohort Year: 2017
Research Interests: Early Modern Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire; Diplomacy; Material Culture…

Cooper Wingert

chw52@georgetown.edu
He/His
United States
Advisor: Chandra Manning
Cohort Year: 2020
Research Interests: U.S. Civil War; Slavery and Abolition; Underground Railroad; 19th-century U.S.; Military History…

Perry Young

py94@georgetown.edu
She/Hers
Russia & Eastern Europe
Advisor: Michael David-Fox
Cohort Year: 2020
Research Interests: Russian History; Soviet History; History of Scandinavia; Marxism-Leninism; Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism…

Yujin Zhou

yz748@georgetown.edu
He/His
East & Central Asia
Advisor: James Millward
Cohort Year: 2021
Research Interests: Imperial Qing History; Central Eurasia; Nationalism; Foreign Relations of Imperial China; The Islamic World…