Graduate Students

Name Department Areas of Interest Advisor/s
Caleb Allen Art History Early modern art; erotic images; the scientific/anatomical image Michael Gaudio
Alya Ansari Comparative Literature Literature and Labor Tony C. Brown
Anya Badaldavood Musicology Musical Instruments, Manuscripts, Timurid Dynasty Gabriela Currie
Kara Barker History Marriage and Gender; Europe, Early Modern and Modern Anna Clark
Sam Berk-Hinckley Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures The Aeneid, Narrative Structure Spencer Cole
Adam Borrego History of Science, Technology & Medicine Alchemy, 16th -17th Centuries, Robert Fludd, Religion and Science Jole Shackelford
Katelyn Buis Theatre Historiography Archival Practice, Performance of Memory, Philology, Linguistics Margaret Werry
Loren Cowdery History Ancient History, Roman Colonization, Iberia Andrew Gallia
Olivia Comstock Art History American Art, Craft Jenn Marshall
Jeffrey Cross Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures Revision and Reuse in Jewish literary work, 330 BCE - 70 CE Bernard Levinson
Tanner Deeds History Early Modern Europe, Reformation, Environmental History, Preaching Howard Louthan
Cihan Demir History Early Modern, Europe Howard Louthan
Emily Finck Theater Historiography Early Modern, Gender, Historical Dramas  
Luke Freeman History Early Modern Europe, Netherlands, Printing, Religion, Bernard and Picart's Cermonies and Customs of all the Religions of the World JB Shank
Sara Gardner Spanish and Portuguese Medieval Iberia, Jewish Culture, Food Studies Michelle Hamilton
Isabel Gellert History Early Modern China, Early Modern Spain, 17th Century, Women Writers Ann Waltner, Sarah Chambers
James Gresock History Early Modern Europe, Violence. Dissertation: “From Bloodshed to Broadsheet: Visual Narratives of Justice and the Mediation of Meaning in 17th Century Public Executions” Howard Louthan
Lily Cate Gunther-Canada Theatre Historiography    
Rushika Hage History Medieval Europe, Portolan Charts  
Clare Harmon Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature Dante, Anthropocene, Race, Poetry, Art and Scholarship  
Jake Henke History Late Antique, Syriac Andrea Sterk
Mykelin Higham English Early Modern, Genre Theory, Gender & Feminist Studies  
Abigail Hinrichs English Medieval and Early Modern women's writing Amit Yahav
Lu Johnston History Medieval and Early Modern, Disability Studies Howard Louthan
Pratiti Ketoki Comparative Literature  Global South Asia, Sound Studies, Archives, Futurisms Michael Gallope
Stephan Knott History Medieval Mediterranean, Frankish Greece Michael Lower
Kristi Lee Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures Religions in Antiquity Steve Ahearne Kroll
Libby LeDoux History Early Modern, America, Gender & Family, Medicine Katharine Gerbner
Shiman Li Design Medieval and Early Modern China, Textiles, Dragon Motif  
Kuan Liu Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Early Modern, China, Literature & Friendship Morgan Rouzer
Paula Molina Acosta MFA Fiction    
Samira Musleh Communication Studies Women's Labor, Reproductive Labor, Wages for Household Labor Kate Lockwood Harris
Jack O'Connell History Ancient, Rome, Religion, Gender, Poltics Andrew Gallia
Chelsea Osademe American Studies Gothic Literature, Critical Race Studies, Popular Culture Elliot Powell
Jasmin Pannier Art History Material Culture, Global Art, Colonialism Laura Kalba
Kelly Plevniak Anthropology Early Medieval England, Ironwork, Craft and Community Peter Wells
Elizabeth Quillen History Medieval Europe, Gascony, French and English colonization Michael Lower, Kathryn Reyerson
Kyle Riper English Early Modern, Emotion and Literature  
Hannah Smith History Early America, Gender, Midwifery, Power and Pregnancy Kirsten Fischer
Karen Soto English Old English, Old Norse, Anglo-Latin, Film Studies Andrew Scheil
Amelia Spell History Early Modern Europe, Religion Howard Louthan
Andrew Stoebig Musicology Early Modern Europe. Dissertation: “Et in Arcadia sumus: Oratorio and German-Italian Exchange in the Long Seventeenth Century” Kelley Harness
Jess Tharp History Late Antiquity & Middle Ages, Identity, Dalmatia Andrea Sterk
Kate Tuley History Medieval, Mediterranean, Networks, Social Relationships Michael Lower
Ana Joanna Vergara Sierra History Early Modern, Latin America, Caribbean, Exile, Wars of Independence Sarah Chambers
Jan Volek History Late Medieval, Early Modern Europe, Religion, Lay Practice Howard Louthan
Elijah Wallace History Late Roman and Medieval Europe, Military and Political History Andrea Sterk
Heather Wares History Africa, Maritime Spaces and Whiteness, African Understandings of Oceans and Coastal Spaces, Museums and Heritage Helena Pohlandt-McCormick
Hannah Wiepke Art History Early Modern Europe, History of the Book, Book Materiality, Science & Knowledge  Michael Gaudio
Mary Kate Wolken History of Science Technology & Medicine Early Modern/Modern, Gender, Motherhood, Medicine, Spain  
Ali Yildirim Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Queer/Trans Studies in Religion, Affect, Critical Ethnic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies