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

Asia & the Middle East

Britain, Ireland, & British Empire

Medieval & Early Modern Europe

Modern Europe

 


   American History:

Area of Interest:

Email:

Morgan Adams

U.S. History morgan.adams.1@bc.edu

Laura Baines-Walsh

U.S. History

baines@bc.edu

Llana Barber

Race and Migration

llana.barber.1@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

Ian Delahanty

19th Century US ian.delahanty.1@bc.edu

Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan

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

Hidetaka Hirota

19th century; Immigration & Ethnicity; the American Irish

hirotah@bc.edu

Jeffrey Malanson

Politics & Foreign Policy

malanson@bc.edu

David McCowin

 U.S. History/Religion

mccowin@bc.edu  

Darren McDonald

Foreign Policy and Religion darren.mcdonald.1@bc.edu

GrĂ¡inne McEvoy

20th Century Irish-American mcevoygr@bc.edu

Seth Meehan

Antebellum US Religious History meehanse@bc.edu

Ted Miller

19th Century America

ehmiller1986@earthlink.net

Alexander Noonan

19th & 20th Century US alexander.noonan.1@bc.edu

Jeffrey Penny

Politics & Reform in 19th Century America

jeffrey.penny.1@bc.edu

Adam Rathge

Late 19th & 20th Century US rathge@bc.edu

Carrie Schultz

Religion; 20th Century US social history

schultca@bc.edu

Emily Sloan

US Religious History emily.sloan.1@bc.edu
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  



   Asia & the Middle East

Rachel Ball

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

Aniruddha Bose

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

Jeffery Dyer

Middle East dyerjd@bc.edu

Jingge Li

Modern East Asia jingge.li.1@bc.edu
   

   Britain, Ireland & British Empire:

 

Amanda Bidnall

Culture & Identity

bradenam@bc.edu

Jill Bender

British Empire

benderji@bc.edu

Erica Foss

British Studies erica.foss.1@bc.edu

Joshua Friedman

Social & Political history

joshua.friedman.1@bc.edu

Jonathan Kuiken

British Studies kuiken@bc.edu

Megan Myers

British/Irish; Women & Gender

hektner@bc.edu

Michael Rosenberger

British

rosenbmd@bc.edu  

Jesse Tumblin

Modern Britain & Ireland tumblin@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

Christopher Riedel

Early medieval pilgrimage and the place of Jerusalem in Western thought riedelc@bc.edu
   

   Modern Europe:

Jared Bjornholm

Modern Europe 

 

Jessica Butler

Modern Germany jessica.butler.1@bc.edu

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

Peter Moloney

Modern Europe 

molonepc@bc.edu 

Nancy Hamlin Soukup

Human Rights

soukupn@bc.edu