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Associate Professor, The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Ph.D Department of History, 2016, supervisor Fraser Ottanelli
Dr. Alena Pirok
Assistant Professor of History, SUNY-Cortland
Ph.D. Department of History, 2017, supervisor Philip Levy
Assistant Professor of History, Randolph-Macon College
Ph.D. Department of History, 2023, supervisor Davide Tanasi
Lecturer, Coastal Carolina University
PhD. Department of History, 2022. supervisor Julia Irwin
Dr. Chelsea Watts
Associate Professor of Humanities, College of Central Florida
PhD. Department of History, 2016. supervisor David Johnson
Associate Director for Fellowships, Folger Shakespeare Library
PhD. Department of History, 2018. supervisor Giovanna Benadusi
Theses and dissertations (last 5 years)
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2025
Professor: Fraser Ottanelli
Title: The American Friends of Irish Neutrality and the American Irish Defense Association: The Last Irish American Committees
Sahir Hismiogullari (PhD)
Professor: Philip Levy
Title: Rattlesnake and Enlighment Science: An Unlikley Epistemology of Early American
Herpetology
Paula Pack (PhD)
Professor: Brian Connolly
Title:
Douglas Ponticos (PhD)
Professor: Brian Connolly
Title:
Michael Strawbridge (PhD)
Professor: Matthew King
Title: The Book of the Promises and Prophecies of God by Bishop Quodvultdeus of Carthage:
A Translation with Critical Introduction and Commentary
Kevin Youngberg (PhD)
Professor: Brian Connolly
Title:
Donald Zimmerman (PhD)
Professor: Erin Mauldin
Title: Broken Brotherhood: Freemasonry in Jim Crow Florida, 1880-1930
Ryan McGahan (MA)
Professor: Brian Connolly
Title: The Orange GLOW in the Sunshine State: Three Visions of PLATO in Florida (1970-1990)
Rachel Stanton (MA)
Professor: Kees Boterbloem
Title:
2024
Christopher Adkins (PhD)
Professor: Brian Connolly
Title:
Scott Miller (PhD)
Professor: David Johnson
Title:
Sofia Almeida (MA)
Professor: Philip Levy
Title:
Sara White (MA)
Professor: Philip Levy
Title:
Sarah Whiting (MA)
Professor: Philip Levy
Title:
2023
Stephan Hassam (PhD)
Professor: Davide Tanasi
Title:
Kaitlyn Kingsland (PhD)
Professor: Davide Tanasi
Title:
Bishoy Garis (PhD)
Professor: Matthew King
Title:
Jason Old (PhD)
Professor: Adriana Novoa
Title:
Michael Swierczynski (PhD)
Professor: Kees Boterbloem
Title:
Patrick Green (MA)
Professor: Kees Boterbloem
Title:
Alissa Roy (MA)
Professor: Philip Levy
Title:
Connor Lasseter (MA)
Professor: David Johnson
Title:
Reagan Vernon (MA)
Professor: Matthew King
Title:
2022
Charles Harris (PhD)
Professor: Julia Irwin
Title:
Hannah Lipsey (PhD)
Professor: Julia Irwin
Title:
Michael LoSasso (PhD)
Professor: David Johnson
Title:
Tamala Malerk (PhD)
Professor: Kees Boterbloem
Title:
Alaina Scapicchio (MA)
Professor: Philip Levy
Title:
2021
Shannon Bruffett (PhD)
Professor: K. Stephen Prince
Title:
Christina Csensich (PhD)
Professor: Darcie Fontaine
Title:
Paul Dunder (PhD)
Professor: K. Stephen Prince
Title:
Sean Krummerich (PhD)
Professor: Golfo Alexopoulos
Title:
Sofia Paschero (MA)
Professor: K. Stephen Prince
Title:
Ashley Wessel (MA)
Professor: Giovanna Benadusi
Title:
2020
Christina Hotalen (PhD)
Professor: Julie Langford
Title:
Arwen Puteri (PhD)
Professor: Kees Boterbloem
Title:
Aaron Lewis (PhD)
Professor: K. Stephen Prince
Title:
Sahir Hismiogullari (MA)
Professor: Davide Tanasi
Alexander Obermueller (MA)
Professor: David Johnson
Title:
Alumni Selected publications
Christopher David Adkins, 鈥�The Canine Crucible of Labor, Love, Killing, and Kindness of the Gold Rush North,鈥� Alaska History, vol. 38, no. 2 (Fall 2023), pp. 67-98
Nicole C. Cox, "Damage Control and the 1921 Hurricane: Boosters, Businessmen and Bad Press," Tampa Bay History, Vol. 22, no. 1 (2008), 1-18.
Michael A. LoSasso, The Unknown War of the Eastern Front: The First American-Soviet Television Production and D茅tente鈥檚 Word War II,鈥� Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, vol. 42, no. 4 (2022), pp. 823-840.
Stratton D. Nauman, 鈥�The Metropolitan Community Church Goes to Denny鈥檚: Religion, Bar Culture, and the Origins of LGBT Activism in Tampa,鈥� Tampa Bay History, Vol. 28, (2014).
Alena Pirok, 鈥溾�� Southern Cultures vol. 29., no 4 (Winter, 2023): 17-31
Alaina Scapicchio, 鈥淟iving Memory in Los Angeles: Cornelius Johnson's 1936 Olympic Oak in Art, History, and Preservation; Christian Kosmas Mayer in Conversation with Alaina Scapicchio" in Branching Out: The Public History of Trees, eds. Leah S. Glaser and Philip Levy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2025).
Jason Vickers, 鈥溾�淭hat Deep Kind of Discipline of Spirit鈥�: Freedom, Power, Family, Marriage, and Sexuality in the Story of John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community,鈥� American Nineteenth Century History, vol. 14, no. 1 (2013), pp. 1-26
Kaitlyn Kingsland, "", Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 18 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2020.e00157
Stephan Hassam, "Post-Prehistoric pottery from the 1909 and 1959 excavations at Qlejg魔a tal-Ba魔rija", in The Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History, eds. Davide Tanasi and David Cardona (Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing 2020, pp. 100-108.
Brittany Merritt, "", in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 18.3, (2017), https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2017.0042