2025-2026
Current Graduate Students
fall 2025
Ming-hsi Chu published the article “Competing interpretations of international law: Law and politics in the war crimes trials of Nationalist China, 1946–1949” in the Leiden Journal of International Law (2025), 38(2), 299–321. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000232
Lauren Cole was elected a lifetime Fellow of Britain’s prestigious Royal Historical Society. In Germany she won a Leibniz-Institut für Europaisches Geschichte Fellowship for Doctoral Students, which she declined in favour of Northwestern’s Presidential Fellowship. She organised a panel and workshop at the International Medieval Congress, and presented papers at the International Medieval Congress, the DAAD Jubiläumstreffen, and the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies.
Elsa de la Rosa presented the paper “Transnational Roots of Anti-Chinese Sentiment in the Late Porfiriato (1880-1910)” in the Borderlands and Latino/a Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library. Her chronological follow-up paper "Transnational Dimensions of Anti-Chinese Sentiment and Measures in Mexico (1900–1934)” will form part of the panel Race and Ethnicity in the Remaking of the Modern Nation at the 2026 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.
Hannah Reynolds received the Gloria Ricci Lothrop Fellowship from the Huntington Library, the Littleton-Griswold Research Grant in US Legal History from the American Historical Association, and the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women's History from the National Archives Foundation to support her dissertation research. She is also the beneficiary of conference grants from the American Society for Legal History and the Coalition for Western Women's History to fund her participation in the ASLH and the Western History Association conferences, respectively.
Cole Roecker presented “Unstable Ground: A Watery History of Horicon Marsh and the Trouble with 'Restoring' Land” (the 2025 winner of our own George Romani Prize for the best First Year paper) at the Environmental Humanities Congress.
Aoi Saito, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, has accepted an offer for a three-year visiting position in Japanese language and studies at Williams College.
Sara Simon presented the paper “The Labor of Vital Statistics: John Shaw Billings, the 1890 U.S. Census, and the Rise of the Punched Card”, based on her 570 research, at the Society for the History of Technology's annual conference. She published a book review of Brian Michael Murphy's We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World with H-Sci-Med-Tech on H-Net Reviews, and began serving as a peer reviewer for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.