Graduate News and Awards 2024-2025
Current Graduate Students
fall 2024
Elizabeth Barahona accepted a job as Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
John Branch is to publish his article "Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951-1976" in Modern American History. The article won the journal’s Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize, the committee describing it as “an impressively researched essay [thst] constitutes a significant contribution to the way in which a capitalist society simultaneously valorizes and sidelines nonprofit labor.” He also published review essay in Public Books earlier this summer.
Lauren Cole Published an article with our very own Lydia Barnett, “Teaching with Isis: From the Cultural Turn to TikTok,” Isis centennial issue, vol. 115 no. 3 (2024). She also accepted a position on the Board of Directors for Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages.
Jojo Galvan-Mora was one of only six scholars from across the College to be inducted to the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.
Miguel Giron: won a Mellon Fellowship in Latino Studies at Santa Fe School for Advanced Research, a residential fellowship with a stipend and free apartment from Sept 2025-May 2026.
Mila Kaut received two grants, one from the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries to conduct dissertation research at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the other the National Council on Public History’s Graduate Student Travel Award to attend their 2025 conference in Montreal. I was accepted last fall to present in the NCPH's "Decolonial Approaches to America 250" working group.
Jacqueline López completed a CCHS Fellowship at the Newberry Library, working with Rose Miron on the Indigenous Chicago exhibition, website, and curriculum. During Fall quarter she began a year-long Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship with the Block Museum, working closely with the curatorial staff on upcoming exhibitions - Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland and It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig, both opening January 25th; she contributed a chapter for the exhibition book that will be coming out for Woven Being.
Elsa de la Rosa has an article forthcoming in the journal Hermès, which is not published by a prestigious luxury brand but rather by the prestigious Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Both Parisian. Her article is entitled “Mexican Nationalism, Chinese Immigration, and the U.S. Example: The Rise of Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Sonora in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.”
Aisha Valiulla was accepted to a 3-day graduate workshop at NYU-Abu Dhabi in February.
Matthew Wong Foreman published his epistolary novel Sunset at Lion Rock in Hong Kong to enthusiastic reviews. The book takes the form of a letter from a nephew to his uncle who died before he was born. It serves as a window into parts of a Eurasian child’s life which his family can never know, documenting his attempt to navigate racial confusion, religious trauma, the meaning of friendship, and the struggle for self-discovery in a shifting culture on the eve of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRO).
The US version is due in 2026.