Ph.D. in World History

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

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…

Ph.D in History

Vanessa (She/Her/Ella) graduated from University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts in Chicana/o/x-Latina/o/x Studies with a double minor in Latin American Studies and Literary Journalism in 2021. She was a part of the approx. top 2% in th…

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…