Ph.D. Recipients
2020 - Present
- Samantha Shine Trabucco, “Returning to Roots: The History of Adobe and Earthen Structures in San Antonio,
Texas,”
Advisor: Raúl Ramos
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago - Seth Whitty, “Fearocracy: Race, Slavery, and Conspiracies in Nineteenth Century Tennessee.”
Advisor: Matt Clavin
- John Fairchild, “They Intend to Conduct Us Out of Their Country: The Choctaw Diaspora"
Advisor: Todd Romero
Current Position: Historian, National Park Service, Golden Spike National Historical Park - Caitlyn Jones, "The Most Important Event Nobody Knows About:' The 1977 National Women's Conference
in Public Memory"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Mellon Fellow, National Park Service, Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument - Karla Lira, "For the City: Latinx and Black College Athletes in Houston 1939 - 1975"
Advisor:
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Houston - Allison Sáenz, "Being a U.S. Central American: Migration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Houston Post-1965"
Advisors: Monica Perales and Mark A Goldberg
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Utah
- Derek Ide, "The Anticolonial International: Black Internationalism and the Palestinian Revolution,
1965-73"
Advisor: Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan - Alex Paul, "Unwilling Doughboys: The U.S. Army’s Foreign-Born Conscripts in World War I"
Advisor: Jimmy Schafer - Darah Vann, "Roman Rape Culture: The Pervasiveness of Sexual Violence in Augustan Era Rome"
Advisor: Kristina Neumann - Ezell Wilson, "Inhabiting Pará, Brazil: Landscapes of Resistance, 1750-1850"
Advisor: Philip Howard
- Timothy Vale, "Lone-Star Strong: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Transformation of Texas’s LGBTQ
Communities"
Advisor: Jimmy Schafer
- Quentin Adams, "Laudianism in the North: The Impact of Laudianism in the Archdeaconry of Nottingham”
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Teacher, Second Baptist School, Houston, TX - Ramiro Contreras, "Mexican Inclusion and Exclusion in Houston from 1900-1940"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Instructional Designer at Circle - Matthew Finnie, "The Dry Bones Speak: Hero Cult and the Staging of Heroes in Ancient Athens"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Lecturer in Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio - Gary Girod, "The Rise of the Information State: Domestic Surveillance in France and Britain during
World War I"
Advisor: Sarah Fishman - Kim Goodling, “Privateering in the American Revolution: Its Effectiveness, Its Annoyance, and
the British Assault on Connecticut”
Advisor: Matthew Clavin - Francesca Guerri, “The Friendship Network of Matilda of Tuscany: Reconstructing Matilda’s Motivation
and Ideology through the Lens of Her Individual Relationships”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Assistant Professor of European History, University of St. Thomas - Kevin Johnson, “An Inglorious War: The US Civil War, Guerrilla Fighting and the American Plains Indians”
Advisor: Raúl Ramos - Alberto Wilson III, “Pan American Cities: Sunbelt Development and Mexican Community Formation in El Paso
and Ciudad Juárez, 1945-1994”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Latinx History, Wichita State University
- Anna Marie Anderson, “Brothers in Arms? African Americans and Jewish American Prisoners of War in World
War II Europe"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Texas Central College, Corinth; Faculty Fellow, Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA) for 2021-2022 - Lindsay Drane, "Too Poor to Eat: A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Research Manager at Hunger Free America and ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Recipient - Ela Miljkovic, "The Air of the City: Atmospheric Dialogues in the Making of Landscape in Mexcio City"
Advisor: Richard Mizelle
Current Position: Stevens Historical Research Associates, Boise, ID - Timothy Quevillon, "From Palestine to Howard Beach and Houston: Meir Kahane, Moshe Cahana, and the Anti-Colonialism
of American Civil Rights Struggle"
Advisors: Mark Goldberg and Leandra Zarnow
Current Position: Instructional Professor, Kansas State University - Tara Sewell-Lasater, "Becoming Kleopatra: Royal Marriage, Incest, and the Path to Female Rule"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Assistant Director of University Studies at Montana State University
2010 - 2019
- Crescida Jacobs, “Biography of Mabel of Belleme (1030-1082)”
Advisor: Sarah Fishman
Current Position: Professor of History and Humanities, Houston Community College Northwest College - Alex LaRotta, "Young, Gifted, and Brown: The History of San Antonio's West Side Sound"
- Advisors: Monica Perales and Mark Goldberg
Current Position: Houston Community College; 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Research Scholar Fellowship, Columbia University - Eric McDonald, "Violent Identity: Elite Manhood and Power in Early Barbados"
Advisor: Todd Romero
Current Position: Southern New Hampshire University - Curtis Mooney, "From Moral to Immoral Treatment: The Failure to Fund the Treatment of the Seriously
Mentally Ill in Texas and the Nation, 1860-2018"
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Retired; Research materials are at TMC in a special archive - Gianncarlo Muschi, "Peruvian Immigration to the United States"
Advisor: Natalia Milanesio
Current Position: Independent Scholar/Austin Independent School District (Barbara Jordan Early College Prep School Elementary School) - Mallory Neil, "Curating the Nation: Gender, Class and Empire at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Assistant Director of Experiential Learning/PhD Plus Graduate Career Advisor, University of Virginia
- Deanne Ashton, “The Industrialization of English Brewing in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann - Rikki Bettinger, "Imperial Counterparts: North Atlantic Women's Travels in the Caribbean and Mexico,
1800-1860"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Associate Director of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards, University of Houston - Daniel Mendiola, "Constructing Imperial Spaces: The Spanish and Mosquito Conquests of Eighteenth-Century
Central America"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Vassar College - Samantha Rodríguez, “Carving Spaces for Feminism and Nationalism: Texas Chicana Activism in the Matrix of Social Unrest, 1967-1978”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Professor of History and Humanities, Houston Community College - Joseph L. Thompson, "Something Like a Failed War: Major League Baseball's Unwinnable Conflict against
Drugs"
Advisors: James Kirby Martin and Linda Reed
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston
Publication: Co-authored, Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas (Arcadia Publishing, 2017) - Ty Welborn, “Lone Star Crusader: Antonio Maceo Smith and the Texas Civil Rights Movement”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Program Director of History, Phoenix College
- Ally Castillo, “Constructing Race: The Catholic Church and the Evolution of Racial Categories and
Gender in Colonial Mexico, 1521-1700”
Advisor: Susan Kellogg - Sandra Davidson, “Propaganda, Pressure, and Patriotism: The Texas Council of Defense and the Politics
of Gender, Race, and Class during World War I”
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Project Manager, Center for Public History, University of Houston - Brett Olmstead, “Los Mexicanos de Michigan: Claiming Space and Creating Community Through Leisure
and Labor, 1920-1970”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Humble High School
- Tracy Butler, "Selling Mexico: Race, Gender & American Influence in Cancun, 1970-2000"
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: Adjunct for History and WGSS, University of Houston - Carlos L. Cantú, "Self-Determined Education and Community Activism: A Comparative History of Navajo,
Chicana/o, and Puerto Rican Institutions of Higher Education in the Era of Protest"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Independent Researcher - Sandra Enriquez, "El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!': Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community
Preservation in El Paso, Texas"
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public History Emphasis, University of Missouri, Kansas City - Christopher Haight, "From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence
Movement"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Houston Community College - Benjamin Hoffman, "A College for the Community? : A Comparison of the Histories of an Urban (San Antonio
College) and Rural (Navarro College) Community College in Texas"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware - Allison Robinson, "Troubling Gender: Southern Women, State Carceral Policy, and the Myth of the Pedestal"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Consultant, The Alexander Group - John Huntington, "Right-Wing Paranoid Blues: The Role of Radicalism in Modern Conservatism"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Houston Community College
Publication: Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) - Frances Ann Marcinkiewicz-Joseph, "Demetrius I of Bactria: An Analysis of Hellenistic Royal Power Through Numismatic
Evidence"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Independent Researcher, The Hague, Netherlands - Andrew Joseph Pegoda, "If You Do Not Like The Past, Change It: The Real Civil Rights Revolution, Historical
Memory, and the Making of Utopian Pasts"
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Lecturer, WGSS, University of Houston - Juan Galvan Rodriguez, "Historical Memory, Proto-Nationalism, And Nationalism in Mexico: Southwestern Puebla
From 1519 To 1862"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, Lone Star College-Kingwood - Julie Sarpy, "Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders and the Case for
Feudal Constraint"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Liaison Librarian at Nova Southeastern University, Miami, Florida - Katie Streit, "Beyond Borders: A History of Mobility, Labor and Imperialism in Southern Tanzania"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Franklin College (Indiana) - Savannah Williamson, "Caring for Human Property: A Medical Biography of American Slavery, 1808-1865"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and DEI Coordinator (Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), Sul Ross University
Grant: Co-PI, NSF STEM grant, 2020-2026 (to develop, implement, revise, organize a minimum of twelve training modules—pertaining to equity, inclusion, and diversity—for faculty mentors and students in STEM fields who intend to become educators) - Jeffrey Womack, "Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy. 1895-1925"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Instructor, Penn State Brandywine
Publications: Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, an Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
- James Arlington, "The Art of Manipulation: Agents of Influence and the Rise of the American Security
State, 1914-1960"
Advisor: Gerald Horne
Current Position: Spanish Teacher, Wichita Falls Independent School District - Brittany Hancock, "The Neighborhood Union and the Transformation of the West Side of Atlanta"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Central Texas College - Daniel LeClaire, "A New Period of Great Guns: Edward Boxer, the Ordnance Select Committee, and the
Weapons Development Process in mid-19th c. England"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Historian, 71st Training Wing, Vance AFB
Publications: The British Military Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: The Great Gun Question and the Modernization of Ordnance and Administration (McFarland, 2019). - Guillermo Nakhlé, "Economics in History: The Apologetic Science in Argentina, 1913-1953"
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: Profesor Asociado, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
- Jordan Bauer, "Sunbelt Growing Pains: Urban Environmental Politics in North Carolina's Research
Triangle, 1950-2000"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Credentialed Course Instructor, History, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Ira Lee Berlet, "Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863"
Advisor: Eric Walther - Maria Corsi, "Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to
14 centuries"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Archivist at the Massad Family Research Center and Assistant Archivist of the Hilton College Archives, University of Houston
Publications: Urbanization in Viking Age and Medieval Denmark: From Landing Place to Town (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). - Mahdi Domitrovich, "An Examination of Prevailing Economic Thought as a Neglection of Ethics and Historical
Analysis"
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Teacher, Houston Independent School District - Natalie M. Garza, "Mexico Flotante: Migration, Culture, and National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College Central - John Goins, "Confronting Itself: The AIDS Crisis and the LGBT Community in Houston"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Kyle T. Goyette, "Southern Discomfort: The Equal Rights Amendment, the New Right, and the Southernization
of American Politics"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young - Clarissa Hinojosa, "'A Man Moste Meet': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England,
1547-1582"
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Independent scholar and adjunct instructor, Austin, TX - Alejandra Jaramillo, "Litigious Paupers: Natives and Colonial Demands in Tlaxcala, 1545-1800"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Professor, History, San Jacinto College North Campus - Michael Phifer, "Property, Power, and Patriarchy: The Decline of Women's Property Right in England
after the Black Death"
Advisor: Robert Palmer - Natalie Schuster, "Political Disasters: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief, 1927-2005"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
- Julie Cohn, "Biography of a Technology: The North American Power Grid Through the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Research Historian at the UH Center for Public History
Publications: The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (MIT Press, 2017) - Kristen Contos Krueger, "From Problem Girls to Welfare Queens: Teenage Pregnancy and Public Policy, 1950-1980"
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Adjunct Professor of History, Lonestar College Cy-Fair - Kelsie Jackson, "Such a Tornado: The Life and Times of James Thomson Callander, Scandalmonger"
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Project Manager of Grants, Research, and Innovation, J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts, Texas Tech
- Debbie Z. Harwell, "'Like a Long-Handled Spoon': How Wednesdays in Mississippi United Women Across Regional,
Racial, and Religious Lines"
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston; Editor of Houston History Magazine
Publications: Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 (University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for Best Book in Southern Women’s History presented by the Southern Association for Women Historians, 2015. - Bernice Heilbrunn, "Faith as Motive for Reform: Emil G. Hirsch and Chicago Jewish Progressives"
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
- Alfonso R. Lopez, "The Visions and Rites of the Mayan Ancestors in Yucatan: A Historical Account of the
Continuity of Mayan Cosmovision Among the Milperos of the Chilam Balam Route”
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: History Professor, Austin Community College - Alberto Rodriguez,“The Making of the Modern Lower Rio Grande Valley: Situating and Reframing Race, Class,
Ethnicity in Urbanizing South Texas, 1930-1960”
Advisors: Raul Ramos & Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Associate Professor and Coordinator of Publications for the Institute for Architectural Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Editor of the Journal of South Texas; Series Editor at University of Oklahoma Press - Jason Theriot, “Building America’s Energy Corridor: Oil and Gas Development and the Louisiana Wetlands”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Jason P. Theriot Consulting, LLC; Former Energy Policy Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- John M. Barr, “The Anti-Lincoln Tradition in American Life”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Professor of History, Lone Star College-Kingwood
Publication: Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present (LSU Press, 2014); Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award, 2014 - F. James Bingley, Jr., “Becoming American: The Welsh Mormon Journey”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann - Angela Calder, "More than a Centerfold: Gender and the Politics of Playboy Magazine in Modern America"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Drew University - Holle Canatella, “Scripsit amica manus: Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in England and France, ca.
1050-1200”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Lock Haven University - Courtney De Mayo Pugno, “The Cathedral School at Reims and the Early Capetian State, 969-1031”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Creator and Executive Director of the Owen Center for Teaching and Learning, and Assistant VP for Academic Affairs, Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH); Crain's 2019 Notable Women in Education - Lauran Kerr-Heraly, “Race, Gender and African American Women Doctors in the Twentieth Century”
Advisor: James Schafer
Current Position: Professor of History, Houston Community College - Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss,"Down and Out in Old JD: Urban Public Hospitals, Institutional Stigma and Medical
Indigence in the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Sarah Fishman and Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
Current Position: Director of the University Honors Program, University of Houston-Downtown - Gregory Peek, “Upland Southerners, Indiana Political Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Associate Teaching Professor of History, Penn State University - Benjamin Pugno, "The Integration of Classical Medicine with Christian Conversion and Monasticism in
Anglo-Saxon England”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of Humanities, Columbus State Community College