Our Graduate Students

PhD in History

Feruza Aripova is a PhD Candidate in World History at Northeastern University and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Currently, Feruza is a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Colu…

PhD in History

Rhiannon is PhD student in World History at Northeastern University where she has worked as a research assistant for Professor Angel Nieves for the 2020-2021 academic year. In this position, she has been privileged to contribute to Apartheid Heritag…

PhD in History

Mark Capansky Jr. graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in History and received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Tufts University in 2018. His research interests include the influence of various interpreta…

PhD in History

I am a PhD candidate with a BA in history from Colgate University, and an MA in public history from Northeastern. My dissertation focuses on how people in the 19th and 20th century British metropole portrayed the empire to the general public. Specifi…

PhD in History

Cassandra earned her B.A. in History from Keene State College in 2016 and M.A. in History from Northeastern University in 2020. During her undergraduate career, she focused on US History and Twentieth Century Studies. In 2018, Cassandra entered North…

PhD in History

Victoria earned her B.A. in French and International Relations from the University of Rochester in 2021 and began the World History doctoral program at Northeastern University the following semester.  Victoria’s research interests include the i…

PhD in Public History

Janika graduated with honors from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a BA in Communications and a minor in German. Her honors thesis, Female Arguments: An Examination of the Utah Woman’s Suffrage Debates of 1880 and 1895, was accepted to the annual …

PhD in History

Benjamin is a PhD student in the World History program at Northeastern University.  He graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a BA in History and Philosophy in 2018.  Benjamin later spent a year abroad in Rome studying Theology before moving t…

PhD in World History

James Ikeda is a PhD student in World History at Northeastern University. He holds an MA in History and an M.Ed. in Learning and Instruction from Northeastern, as well as an MA in History from Tufts University, and a BS in Social Studies Education fr…

PhD in History

I am a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University studying the Ottoman empire, modern Middle East, modern Europe, and World history. I am interested in state-religion relations in imperial settings and nation-states. Currently, I work on my disser…

PhD in History

Jeffrey Lamson is a doctoral student in World History at Northeastern University. He holds an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in History from Colby College, where his senior thesis drew on the National Archives in Santiag…

PhD in Public History

Claire Lavarreda is a PhD student (previously a Public History MA student) at Northeastern University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2021 with her BA in History & Social Sciences. Claire has worked in …

PhD in History

I graduated with my BA in Journalism from Boston University in 2018 and my MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019. My previous research was focused on interrogating the British Left’s response to the Ruhr Crisis, and my cur…

PhD in History

Chris McNulty graduated with an MSc in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016, having earned a BA in History from the same university in 2015. Before joining Northeastern, he worked as…

PhD in History

I am a doctoral student in World History at Northeastern with a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. My research interests include examining how workers have resisted, shaped, and mediated colonialism. I hope to understand …

PhD in History

Molly Nebiolo is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in history at Northeastern University (with a certificate in Digital Humanities) and the 2022-2023 Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania….

PhD in History

Colleen is a PhD student in World History at Northeastern University, continuing after earning her MA from Northeastern in 2019. She completed her BA in History and Political Science from Union College in 2016. She has graduate certificates in Digita…

PhD in Public History

Kasya O’Connor Grant earned her B.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Education Policy from Kenyon College in 2016. She went on to spend several years as an educator before returning to school. Kasya’s research interests includ…

PhD in History

Aaron Peterka graduated from Wichita State University in Wichita, KS, with a Bachelor’s of Arts in History, followed by a Master’s of Arts in 2016. He is currently developing a dissertation prospectus that centers upon a transnational comparison of r…

PhD in History

Alicia is a doctoral student in World History at Northeastern University. She completed her M.A. in Public History at Northeastern in 2021. She has a B.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and a M.Arch. from the University of …

PhD in History

Cassie Tanks is a first year World History Ph.D. student at Northeastern University. During the course of her studies, Cassie aims to deepen her engagement with public facing historical and archival work, as well as explore the histories of the Cold …

PhD in History

Adam Tomasi is a second-year PhD student specializing in the trans-Atlantic Left in the twentieth century, with a special focus on the underground press and intellectual history. He is also interested in public history and digital history, pursuing p…

PhD in History

Vanessa (She/Her/Ella) is a second year World History Ph.D. student and 2021-2023 HASTAC Scholar at Northeastern University. As a graduate research assistant, she has been involved in “Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist,…

PhD in History

Claire is a history PhD student at Northeastern University studying cultural history in the Atlantic World, the urban history of the Northeastern United States (particularly in New England), the history of the American education system, and public hi…

M.A. in World History

Ayah Aboelela graduated from UMass Boston in 2021 summa cum laude, with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Arabic studies. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in World History and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at Northeastern Univer…

M.A. in History

Erin graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2017, earning a BA in History with a minor in Classical Civilizations and memberships in Phi Alpha Theta and Tau Beta Sigma. Her fieldwork has focused on archival management and collectio…

M.A. in World History
Plus One in History

Joe Cataliotti is an M.A. student in World History at Northeastern University. He earned a B.A. in History and Political Science from the same institution with a senior capstone project studying US far-right movements in the 1930s and 2010s. His rese…

M.A. in World History

M.A. in World History

Luke Pilkington is an International student from the UK. Having graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies and an MSc in Human Resource Management, Luke has spent the past 5 years working within international student…

M.A. in World History

I graduated Roger Williams in 2021 with a double major in history and secondary education. I am from Tewksbury, Massachusetts. My research interests are in Eastern History (China, Japan, Mongol history) since I did a thesis paper my senior year on Ge…

M.A. in Public History

Zobeida Chaffee-Valdes is earning a masters degree Public History and Digital Humanities at Northeastern University. Having earned a BA in History from Carleton College in 2019 with concentrations in Archaeology and Medieval Studies, Zobeida is inter…

M.A. in Public History

M.A. in Public History

Anna Halgash is from Corning, New York. She graduated magna cum laude from The College of Wooster and double-majored in English and History. For Anna’s Fall 2019 semester, she studied abroad at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Her junior and…

M.A. in Public History

Sarah Heavren graduated from Providence College with a BA in history, mathematics, and American studies.  She wrote her honors history thesis on the American chestnut tree, and one of her chapters placed first in the Phillips Memorial Library Craft o…

M.A. in Public History
Plus One in History

Allyson Koehler graduated from Northeastern University in 2021, where she majored in history with a minor in French. She is enrolled in the PlusOne Program for Public History at Northeastern. Her senior capstone entitled, “Peace in the 21st Century: …

M.A. in Public History

Tom spent the last three and a half years serving as an Armor Officer in the United States Army, based out of Fort Hood, TX. Prior to commissioning he attended Clark University in Worcester, MA where he graduated Cum Laude in 2017, with a B.A in Amer…

M.A. in Public History

Originally from Austin, Texas, I graduated from Trinity University in 2021 with a BA in Anthropology. I’ve interned with the Massachusetts Historical Society transcribing John Quincy Adams’ diary and writing blog posts. I also contributed…

M.A. in Public History

Morgan Richards graduated from Boston University in 2019 with a BA in the History of Art and Architecture and a minor in French. Since graduation, she has worked in both contemporary art gallery and advisory settings with a focus on archival work and…

M.A. in Public History

M.A. in Public History

Catarina graduated with honors from Texas A&M University in December of 2020 with a BA in History and minors in French and Museum Studies. As an undergraduate, Catarina interned with the National Museum of American History, Gettysburg National Mi…