Grad Student Accomplishments
Here is a list of graduate student accomplishments during the 2021-2022 Academic Year. This impressive record makes the department proud. These achievements have been won during a difficult time for all. Kudos, everyone!
Emiliano Aguilar has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Notre Dame in LatinX history. Emiliano also presented his paper, “`To attain undreamed heights': Latino Leadership in Local 1010, Latinos as Establishment, and Sadlowski’s Steelworkers Fight Back Campaign, 1970-1981,” at the Newberry Library’s Labor History seminar.
Elizabeth Barahona won the 2022 the Southern Studies Doctoral Fellowship at Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Travel and Research Grant. In addition, Elizabeth won the Frederick A. Cervantes award from the National Association for Chinan and Chicano Studies for her paper, “Fighting White Supremacy, Poor-Housing, and Over-Policing-Black and Latino Coalition Building in Durham, North Carolina.”
Alex Barna will spend next year studying Arabic abroad, thanks to a full-year fellowship from the Center for Arabic Study Abroad.
Ryan Burns has accepted a tenure-track job in the History of Great Britain and the British Empire at Jacksonville State University.
Mian Chen was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize from the China and Inner Asia Council for his presentation, “Great-Leap Forwarding the Great Leap Forward: The Institutional Change of the Propaganda Machines in Socialist China (1957-1960).” Mian has also been awarded a Buffett Graduate Dissertation Research Travel Award to support his dissertation research. Mian won the 2022 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History for “‘Let’s Have a Great Leap Forward in Printing!’: The Printing Industry and Radical Political Campaigns in Socialist China (1958-1962).” This award, from the American Printing History Association, will help Mian support his dissertation research. Last but not least, she has been also been awarded a fellowship from the Esherick-Ye Family Foundation to support dissertation research.
Ming-hsi Chu has been accepted to The Max Plank Summer Academy for Legal History and Legal Theory.
Felipe Cole (JD/PHD) has accepted a job at Boston College School of Law.
Holly Dayton has been accepted to the Business History Doctoral Colloquium, which will provide her an opportunity to attend the next Business History Conference where she will present and receive feedback on her scholarship from senior scholars in the field.
Elsa De La Rosa received a fellowship from the Mexican Department of Education to support her graduate study.
Dexter Fergie has won several awards: a Graduate Research Grant from TGS; the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant from the Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations; a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Truman Library Institute; and a Travel Award from the Buffett Institute at NU to support his dissertation research. Dexter also recently published a book review, "How American Culture Ate the World,” in The New Republic.
Miguel Giron has won a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, which funds three years of graduate study. He has also been awarded a fellowship to participate in the NYU Cities Collaborative-Mellon Summer Institute on Urbanism.
Bright Gyamfi has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship from NU’s Graduate School. He has also busy publishing. You can read his piece on Black Lives Matter here. Bright also published "From Nkrumah’s Black Star to the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Intellectual Activists and the Development of Black Studies in the Americas," in The Journal of African American History’s Fall 2021 issue. Bright was selected as a 2022 Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee! The Society pays homage to Edward A. Bouchet, the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States and it recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement to promote diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.
Sean Harvey was awarded the W. Turrentine Jackson Award for the best dissertation from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
Norman Joshua received a TGS GRG grant for dissertation research support for 2022. Norman is also as part of the research team for the Indonesian Historical Encyclopedia (Ensiklopedia Sejarah Indonesia) project of the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, dan Teknologi Republik Indonesia). This is a large-scale, multi-year project conducted in cooperation with various public universities across Indonesia. The goal is to produce a reliable historical reference source for Indonesian schools, and public libraries. Last but not least, Norman has an upcoming article, “Counterinsurgency, Emergency and Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia” in the Marine Corps University Press’ Journal of Advanced Military Studies.
Madelyn Lugli has received a grant from the West Virginia & Regional History Center for her research on Pearl Buck.
Katya Maslakowski received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for next year, and then will be starting a tenure-track job at University of Southern Mississippi as their Modern British historian in August of 2023.
Hope McCaffrey received the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics (Honorable Mention) to support her dissertation research. She has also been awarded the Gunther Barth Fellowship from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
Heather Menefee has won an Emerging Scholars Research Grant from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, which will fund visits to their collections this summer and editorial support on a resulting manuscript. Heather was also invited to present her research at the Boston University symposium, "Critical University Studies: Legacies of Slavery and Settler Colonialism," March 17-18. Heather has also been named as one of next year’s Franke Fellows by the Kaplan Humanities Institute at Northwestern.
Caitlin Monroe has accepted a tenure-track job at the University of Northern Colorado, and to boot she has an article coming out in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East this August. It’s titled “Searching for Nyabongo: An Unconventional Ugandan Intellectual and the Limits of Global History.”
Hazal Ozdemir was awarded a research fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey to support her dissertation research.
John Pollard received the Beiling Wu Award in Writing from TGS for his 570 paper; John also presented material from this paper, on the Lionheart Gay Theatre Company, to the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives.
Jayson Porter has been awarded a Voss Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for the Environment and Society at Brown University. Following his stint at Brown, Jayson will take up a two-year postdoc at the University of Maryland, after which he will start a tenure-track job at U of M.
Charlotte Rosen has had an article accepted for publication in The Journal of Policy History, and she published a review of an important new book on criminal justice reform in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/carceral-con-review/
Rachel Sarcevic-Tesanovic has won a Fulbright to travel to France for her dissertation research. She is also the recipient of the Western Society for French History's Millstone Research Fellowship to support her research in France.
Eunike Setiadarma has won a Travel Award from NU’s Buffett Institute.
Melody Shum was invited to speak on a panel titled, “Getting There: Navigating Visas, Logistics, and Ethics of Research in and on Southeast Asia,” for the Public Universities Consortium of the New York Southeast Asia Network; Melody was also invited to give a talk, “Women and Revolution in Central Vietnam,” at the University of Bristol’s Asian History Seminar. And she has been selected to attend a fully-funded week-long summer school at the University of Venice on the theme of "Social Movements in Southeast Asia" at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In addition, Melody has won the Luce Southeast Asia Archives Fellowship at the University of Washington Libraries. Seattle.
Mikala Stokes has been appointed to the Membership Committee of the Organization of American Historians.
John Sullivan has been awarded the Interamericas Fellowship to support three months of research at the John Carter Brown Library. He is the winner of a Bernadotte Schmitt Grant from the American Historical Association to help fund his research in the Giambattista Beccaria papers at the American Philosophical Society.
Angela Tate published an article in Volume 2, Issue 3 of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture: “Sounding Off: Etta Moten Barnett’s Archive, Diaspora, and Radio Activism in the Cold War;” she was also featured in a podcast with Utrecht University's The Decolonisation Group on the episode "Unsettling Bridgerton: Race, Representation, and Royalty" https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-6-unsettling-bridgerton-race-representation-and-royalty; finally, Angela served as a panelist on WBEZ's episode about Juneteenth - https://www.wbez.org/stories/honoring-juneteenth-as-an-official-national-holiday/8d19b54a-485c-4543-b035-f4f638bab72d
Rachel Wallner has won a dissertation fellowship from the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science in East Asia.
Guangsho Yang and Youjia Li both presented papers on the AHA panel, "Animated Capital and Capitalized Animals: Capitalism and the Negotiation of Modern Animality in East Asia."