History Department

Current History PhD Students

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The following students are all candidates in Boston College's Ph.D. program in History.  Below they are listed by their fields of interest.  Please click here to view an alphabetical list of all of the students. 

Fields of Interest:

American

Britain, Ireland, & British Empire

Medieval & Early Modern Europe

Modern Europe

South Asia

 


American History:

Area of Interest:

Email:

Laura Baines

U.S. History

baines@bc.edu

Llana Barber

Race and Migration

llana.barber.1@bc.edu

Brooke Barbier

American Women & Culture barbiebr@bc.edu

Casey Beaumier, S.J.

Roman Catholicism in America; Religion and Culture beaumier@bc.edu

Kathryn Black

20th C. America; Immigration & Gender; WWI blackkg@bc.edu

Monica Black

U.S. History  blackmo@bc.edu 

Mimi Cowan

19th C. Urban Immigration, Labor & Radicalism cowanmb@bc.edu

Meaghan Dwyer

Immigration & Ethnicity;
19th-20th C. US Society/Culture
dwyermk@bc.edu

Hidetaka Hirota

19th century; Immigration & Ethnicity; the American Irish

hirotah@bc.edu

Bethany Jay

U.S. History 

 

Jeffrey Malanson

Politics & Foreign Policy

malanson@bc.edu

David McCowin

 U.S. History/Religion

mccowin@bc.edu  

Darren McDonald

20th Century America darren.mcdonald.1@bc.edu

GrĂ¡inne McEvoy

20th Century Irish-American mcevoygr@bc.edu

Michael Mezzano

 U.S. History/Immigration mezzano@bc.edu  

Ted Miller

19th Century America

ehmiller1986@earthlink.net

Sarah Nytroe

American Catholicism; Memory Studies

Jeffrey Penny

Politics & Reform in 19th Century America

jeffrey.penny.1@bc.edu

Carrie Schultz

Religion; 20th Century US social history

schultca@bc.edu

Kenneth Shelton

U.S. History 

 

John Spiers

20th Century U.S. Urban History

spiersj@bc.edu
Clayton Trutor 19th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History trutor@bc.edu

Gregory Walsh

Colonial America

walshgc@bc.edu  
   

Britain, Ireland & British Empire:

 

Morgan Adams

Irish

morgan.adams.1@bc.edu 

Amanda Bidnall

Culture & Identity

bradenam@bc.edu

Jill Bender

British Empire

benderji@bc.edu

Joshua Friedman

Social & Political history

joshua.friedman.1@bc.edu

Megan Myers

British/Irish; Women & Gender

hektner@bc.edu

Michael Rosenberger

British

rosenbmd@bc.edu  

Wei Keen Sung

British

wei.sung.1@bc.edu

Bethany Tanis

Intellectual & Religious history tanisbe@bc.edu
   

Medieval & Early Modern Europe:

 

Alecia Arceo

The Material Culture of Northumbria alecia.arced.1@bc.edu

David Crane

Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman urban history dcrane@bc.edu

Kylie Dodson

Early medieval monasticism and St. Columbanus kylie.dodson.1@bc.edu

Regan Eby

Eleventh-century Breton borders and charters ebyr@bc.edu

Austin Mason

The religion & material culture of pre-Conquest England austin.johnson.1@bc.edu

Jessica Ostrom

Anglo-Saxon mortuary archaeology; disease

ostromj@bc.edu

Sally Shockro

Bede and Apocalypticism

sally.shockro.1@bc.edu

   

Modern Europe:

Jared Bjornholm

Modern Europe 

 

Jason Cavallari

19th Century France; History of Sexuality cavallaj@bc.edu

Katherine Hubler

Modern Germany; Gender & Sexuality; Cultural/Intellectual hublerka@bc.edu

Natalia King

Modern Germany 

natalia.king.1@bc.edu

Anna Kolchinsky

Modern Central Europe

anna.kolchinsky.1@bc.edu

Eric LaForest

Religion & Modernity

laforese@bc.edu

Peter Moloney

Modern Europe 

molonepc@bc.edu 

Robert Niebuhr

Russia & Eastern Europe; Military and Diplomatic

rniebuhr2000@yahoo.de

Nancy Hamlin Soukup

Human Rights

soukupn@bc.edu

   

South Asia:

Rachel Ball

Women & Gender in Modern South Asia ballra@bc.edu

Aniruddha Bose

South Asia and the Indian Ocean World bosean@bc.edu