Our Graduate Students

Ph.D 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…

Ph.D in History

Nav Athwal completed his M.A. in World History from Northeastern University in 2016, having previously completed his B.A. in History from University of California, Davis. His research interests broadly focus on the global context within which the Bri…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D 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…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. in History

Jack Gronau is a P.h.D Candidate at Northeastern University. His dissertation, “French Women but not Citizens: Colonial Emigration, Imperial Prostitution, and the Colonial Press of French Feminists, 1897-1962,” explores how French feminists participa…

Ph.D. in History

Ph.D. in History

I have done interdisciplinary studies that span International Relations, Islamic Studies, and History. For my dissertation I am interested in writing a global intellectual history on Ottoman Constitutionalism analyzing the networks of scholars, think…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. in History

Debra Lavelle is a doctoral candidate in Northeastern University’s World History Department. She focuses on women and witchcraft in America and is working on a dissertation entitled “A Desirable Calamity: Magic, the Body, and Transgressive Women in t…

Ph.D. in History

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. 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 …

Ph.D. in History

Molly Nebiolo is a doctoral candidate in the world history program with a B.A. in history and biology from Butler University. She is interested in how early colonial perceptions of the body influenced the construction of urban landscapes and how urba…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. 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…

Ph.D. in History

Simon Purdue is a PhD Candidate studying issues surrounding racism, gender and violence, specifically looking at the gender politics of global white supremacist movements between 1969 and 1999. Simon received his BA (international) in history from Un…

Ph.D in History

Luke Scalone is a historian of modern France and the French colonial empire in North Africa. More specifically, his research looks at the forging of a “Vichy Tunisia.”  His work examines the relationship of the French colonial administration with var…

Ph.D. in History

Dan Squizzero is a doctoral candidate in World History at Northeastern University. His dissertation, “The Great War for Emancipation: Italian Women’s Transnational Activism, 1900-1923,” traces the development of the Italian women’s moveme…

Ph.D. in Public History

Alicia is a doctoral candidate 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 o…

Ph.D. 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

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…

Ph.D. in History

Will Whitworth is a PhD candidate whose dissertation explores international reactions to social movements and domestic unrest in Cold War West Germany. The dissertation asks how dissenting voices from the streets affected high policy decision-making …

M.A. in World History

Amanda Farina completed her B.A. in History from Emmanuel College in the Spring of 2019. She graduated magna cum laude and earned distinction in the field with her thesis “From Prayers to Pilaf: Armenian-American’s Christian Culinary Narration of the…

M.A. in World History

Liam Moore graduated from Roger Williams University in 2020 with a B.A. in History along with minors in French and Latin. He graduated cum laude and completed a thesis entitled, “Pádraig Pearse: The Ghost of a Martyr.” He is interested in…

M.A. in World History

After serving in the military for five years, Ben Paronich attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he graduated with a BS in Biochemistry.  After receiving his BS, Ben immediately went on to pursue a BA in History from the University o…

M.A. in World History

M.A. in Public History

Alex Bice attended Carleton College, where he graduated with a BA in History and received the Ellen Rogers Steif Memorial Award. During his senior year, he interned with the Student Community Outreach Program Experience (SCOPE) where he taught 8th gr…

M.A. in Public History

Talia Brenner is an M.A. student in Public History and a current co-coordinator for the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Her research interests include history curriculum, museums, and urban history. Before beginning graduate school, Talia worked…

M.A. in Public History

Chuck grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. A graduate of Northeastern University (BA History, ’91), Chuck moved to New York in 1992 to attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AOS, ’94) for acting and was a member of the American Acade…

M.A. in Public History

Jillian graduated from Walsh University in 2019 with her BA in Business Management and Museum Studies with a minor in History. Jillian’s undergraduate research thesis was titled The Restitution of World War II-Era Looted Art: Case Studies in Transiti…

M.A. in Public History

Ben Federlin graduated from Brandeis University in 2014, where he double majored in History and Classical Studies. While at Brandeis, Ben interned for several years at the Classical Studies Artifact Research Collection, researching and cataloging obj…

M.A. in Public History

Sebastien graduated from Georgetown University in 2015, with a dual BA in History and Government. After graduating he spent several years working as an analyst and later manager in consulting and market research, but decided to make a change to pursu…

M.A. in Public History

Paul graduated from Roanoke College in 2020 after majoring in History and Religious Studies and completing a concentration in public history. During the Spring of 2019, he studied abroad in Perugia, Italy and worked with a number of museums through o…

M.A. in Public History

Hunter Moyler graduated from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2019. He double-majored in English literature and Journalism, with minors in Creative Writing and Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies (Spanish). During his …

M.A. in Public History

Clare Nelson graduated from St. Olaf College in 2019 with a BA in History. Throughout her time at St. Olaf College and since graduating, she has been involved with several historical institutions working as a costumed interpreter, in archives, and de…

M.A. in Public History

Anjelica Oswald graduated from Ohio University in 2015 as a Templeton Scholar with a BS in Journalism and minors in Spanish and political science. She interned for the Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles and later moved to New York City where she worke…

M.A. in Public History

Fahim grew up in the Richmond, Virginia area. He attended the College of William & Mary and graduated with a BA in History and a BA in Government. While there, he enjoyed studying the Atlantic World, later pursuing research on the intersection be…

M.A. in Public History

Danielle Rose previously attended the University of Florida, where she interned at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. She graduated in 2016 with a BA in history and minor in communication studies, and began working as a museum educator at Vizca…