University of Maryland History Graduate Program

Grads in the News: Congratulations to Bridget Jamison (HiLS Student), she is the new Instruction and Public Services Archivist at the West Virginia and Regional History Center at West Virginia University.

Ex Libris Magazine | WVRHC welcomes instruction & public services archivist WVRHC welcomes instruction & public services archivist Tuesday, August 27, 2024 Bridget Jamison has joined the West Virginia and Regional History Center (WVRHC) as the Instruction & Public Services Archivist. Bridget earned her Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) and Master of Arts in H...

Congratulations to ​Brice Bowrey for successfully defending his dissertation titled “Doctors’ Domain: Innovation and Regulation in the U.S. Medical Device Industry, 1950-2000”​.

Congratulations to ​​Natalie Salive for successfully defending h​er thesis titled ​"Consistent Sounds Of War In Modern Iraq: Iraqi Soundscapes 1979-2006​".

Alums in the News: Dr. Debbie Goldman's new book Disconnected Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age will be published in August 2024 by the University of Illinois Press. The book launch will take place at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC) on September 4 at 7 pm.

Alums in the News: Dr. Melissa Kravetz has edited The Memoir of Ilse Seger, a firsthand account of the wife of Gerhart Seger, a German politician who opposed the N***s. https://www.longwood.edu/news/2024/one-womans-story-of-nazi-resistance/?utm_source=social%20media&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=magazine&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3VJpkZclSdCwabNrRHJNpp4BaYYwBsG617lBOmlUaMBG4C3cMYQ669cuA_aem_8DoMBjXzFVbVMs4bqoO6SQ

Faculty Research: One woman’s story of N**i resistance Dr. Melissa Kravetz is publishing a memoir later this year, but the story is not her own.

Grads in the News: Jack Werner (Ph.D. Candidate) published an article titled "The Deep Roots of the Chiquita Verdict" in the TIME's Made By History.

The Deep Roots of the Chiquita Verdict To understand the gravity of the legal decision against the banana company requires understanding its history.

Congratulations to Than Ament for successfully defending his thesis titled​ “‘Pillaged and Robbed So Well’: Captains in the Hundred Years War, 1350-1380”.

Congratulations to Julia Hemphill for successfully defending her thesis titled​ “They 'Boast of Dressing Like Gentleman': Cross-Dressing, Print Media, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Identity”

Congratulations to Shelly Justement for successfully defending her thesis titled “The ‘Unequal Wrongs Amendment’: State Court Interpretations of the Maryland Equal Rights Amendment”​.

Congratulations to Andrew Forschler for successfully defending his thesis titled “Scandalous Conduct Tending to the Destruction of Good Morals”: Dynamics and Tension in S*x Crime Courts-martial in the Interwar U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1919-1941.

Congratulations to Kourtney Lowery for successfully defending her thesis titled ​ “Chaos and Conspiracy: The Hagerstown Draft Riots and the Whiskey Rebellion”​.

Congratulations to ​Kelli Frangoulis for successfully defending her thesis titled “Soaked in Blue: Indigo, Enslavement, and Value in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina”.

Congratulations to ​Liguan Wang for successfully defending his thesis titled “The Development of Sibao Publishing Industry under Repressive Cultural Policies from 1660-1800”.

Congratulations to ​T​homas Messersmith for successfully defending h​is dissertation titled “‘God Rather Than Men’: Austrian Catholic Theology and the Origins of the Christian Social Party, 1848-1893”.

Congratulations to Caroline Angle Maguire for successfully defending her dissertation titled “Decolonizing Knowledge: Reclaiming Colonial Museums in Francophone North and West Africa”.

Congratulations to ​A​ndrea Gutmann Fuentes for successfully defending h​er thesis titled​ “‘Foreboding circumstances’: U.S. Labor Intervention and the Chilean Labor Movement during the Cold War, 1964-1973”.

Congratulations to ​Sophie Hess for successfully defending her dissertation titled​ “Hollow Ground: Industry, Ecology, and Climate Change in the Floodplains of Early Maryland”.

Congratulations to ​Clay Verkouw for successfully defending h​is thesis titled “Local Resistance and Recovery in the Neoliberal Era: A Case Study of the 1993 Naval Base Closure in Charleston, SC”.

Congratulations to ​D​ana Getka for successfully defending her ​thesis titled​ “‘Quite Young Limbs that Bled’:​ Accidents, Apathy, and the Failure of American Aviation During the First World War”

Congratulations to ​D​arien Brahms for successfully defending her​ dissertation titled“The New Old Deal: Colonial Social Welfare and Puerto Rican Poverty During the Great Depression, 1928-1941”