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  • 2024-2025: 10 Graduates
    Name  Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Second Position
    Diana Heredia Lopez IMPERFECT REDS: A NEW HISTORY OF COCHINEAL CULTIVATION AND COMMERCE IN THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLD Jorge Canizares Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin  
    Fei Guo LOCAL ELITES, REGIME RIVALRIES, AND MOBILIZATION: FROM STATE FAILURE TO STATE-BUILDING IN HENAN, CHINA, 1911-1950 Huaiyin Li Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Texas Christian University  
    Gabrielle Esparza  BEYOND TRANSITIONS: THE MAKING OF EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY IN ARGENTINA, 1982-1989 Seth W Garfield and Jonathan Brown Scholarly Acquisitions Editor, Vanderbilt University Press  
    Kirtan Patel DIVINITY IN DISPUTE: BUILDING A HINDU COMMUNITY IN COLONIAL GUJARAT Sumit Guha and A. Azfar Moin Assistant Professor of South Asian History, Utah State University  
    Marcus Golding  THE PRICE OF DOING BUSINESS: FOREIGN CAPITAL AND THE VENEZUELAN OIL INDUSTRY (1936-1976) Seth W Garfield Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History at UT Austin and Director of Educational Operations at ClioVis   
    Paula O'Donnell DISMEMBERED SOVEREIGNTY: ARGENTINE NATIONALIST THOUGHT AND THE FALKLANDS/MALVINAS DISPUTE Seth W Garfield Assistant Professor, History & Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University  
    Alina Scott MURDER BY INCHES: FAMILY, RACE, AND WAMPANOAG NETWORKS OF PETITIONERS (1800-1870) Erika Bsumek Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin  
    Alyssa Peterson SUDDEN VAPOURS: CHEMISTRY, MEDICINE, AND EARTHQUAKES IN THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH EMPIRE Neil Kamil and Bruce Hunt  Graduate Coordinator, Texas Materials Institute, UT Austin  
    Jonathan Parker  POLICING THE REVOLUTION, SECURING THE REPULIC: THE CZECHOSLOVAK SECURITY SERVICES AND THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY, 1918-1924 Tatjana Lichtenstein    
    Atar David  DATE PALM MONOCULTURE BETWEEN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, 1869-1939 Yoav Di-Capua  History Course Coordinator, OnRamps, UT Austin  
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  • 2023-2024: 13 Graduates
    Name  Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Second Position
    Ted Banks SONGS OF A NATION: THE LOST CAUSE, TEXAS FRONTIER AND REVOLUTIONARY MEMORY, AND THE MAKING OF THE "EMPIRE OF TEXAS," 1900-1936 Walter Buenger   Lecturer, History (University of Texas at Austin)
      Sheena L. Cox EXPANSION, ETHNOGENESIS, AND EXCLUSION: TEXAS AND THE EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN BORDERLANDS, 1763-1845  Walter Buenger  Division of Architecture State and Federal Project Reviewer (Texas Historical Commission)  Historic Architectural Easement Monitor (Texas Historical Commission)
    Jian Gao CROSSING BORDERS, CREATING NETWORKS: CHINESE MEXICANS' JOURNEYS OF LONGING AND BELONGING, 1900S-1950S Matthew J Butler Presidential Post Doctoral Scholar,
    School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University 
     
    Ashley Garcia HARBINGERS OF HARMONY: AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONISTS AND UTOPIAN SOCIALIST THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Steven Mintz, Virginia Garrard Assistant Professor, Baker University  
    Diego Antonio Godoy Master of Detection: Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón's Intellectual Universe Matthew Butler   Associate Curator of the Library’s California and Hispanic Collections (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens)
    Isabelle Headrick A FAMILY IN IRAN: NETWORKS OF LOVE, LEARNING, AND LABOR IN THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE, 1908-1978 Benjamin C. Brower Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor of Instruction, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT Austin
     Anuj Kaushal Fann-I Mubasharat: The Sharifs of Shahjahanabad and Their Knowledge of Greco-Arabic Sexology, c. 1800-1930 Sumit Guha and Indrani Chaterjee    
    Madeleine Olson FOR THE GREATER GOOD: CATHOLICS AND ANTI-PROTESTANTISM IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY MEXICO  Steven Mintz Visiting Assistant Professor, Rollins College   
     Jesse Ritner MAKING SNOW: CLIMATE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE RISE OF THE US SKI INDUSTRY, 1934-PRESENT  Erika M. Bsumek Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor, Georgia College and State University
    Daniel Jeremy Samet America Arms Zion: Defense Policy Toward Israel During the Cold War Jeremi Suri   Analyst, Foreign-affairs researcher (Washington, D.C.)
     Horus Tran THE SOYBEAN EMPIRE: TRANSREGIONAL TRADE AND THE PEASANT ECONOMY IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA, 1700-1900  Huaiyin Li    
     Jared Michael Wait Grasping the Throat of the Americas: Anglo-Spanish Commercial Conflict, Political Factionalism, and the Kingdom of Panama, 1700-1751 Jorge Canizares Professor, History (Tyler Junior College)  
     Ben Nathan Weiss Afrocentrizing “Globalized” Ideologies: Theory, Positionality, and Knowledge Systems in African History Oloruntoyin Falola    
  • 2022-2023: 14 Graduates
    Name  Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Second Position
     Marcelo Jose Domingos The Modernist City, Racial Repression and Political Resistance: Narratives of National Security and Black Activism in Brasilia, Brazil (1978–1988) Seth Garfield Professor, Subsecretaria de Formação (Continuada de Profissionais da Educação, Brasilia, Brazil) Historian (Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Distrito Federal - IHGDF, Brazil)
     Brittany Taylor Erwin Treated With The Esteem That They Deserve: Privilege And Justice In Peru And Rio De La Plata, 1780–1810 Neil Kamil and Susan Deans-Smith  Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies (University of Texas at Austin)  
     Gwendolyn Reid Lockman Greening A Copper City: Parks, Mining, And Community In Butte, Montana, 1879-2020 Erika Bsumek Exhibit Developer and Historian, History Colorado Center (State of Colorado Department of Higher Education) Senior Exhibit Developer and Historian, History Colorado Center (State of Colorado Department of Higher Education)
    Vasken Gregory Markarian Forced Indigenous Perpetrators: The Civil-Defense Patrols in Guatemala, 1981–1996 Virginia Burnett Adjunct Assistant Professor (City University of New York-Herbert H. Lehman College) Historian for Texas Historical Commission, Austin, TX
     Charalampos Minasidis Minority Citizen-Soldiers, Mobilizations and Discrimination in the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece during the Early 20th Century Mary Neuburger Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for War Studies (University College Dublin, Ireland) Lecturer, Yale University 
     Abisai Perez Empire, Law, Religion and Native Agency in the Early Colonial Philippines, 1565–1600 Matthew Butler and Ann Villalon Financial Data Analyst (BBVA) Data Governance Analyst (Launch Consulting Group)
     Dillon Bradley Savage After the Decline of the West: Decolonization and the Critical Philosophy of History in France and North Africa Tracie Matysik and Benjamin Brower Visiting Assistant Professor in Social Science and Cultural Studies (Pratt Institute)  
     Haley Mae Schroer Scandalizing the Public': Clothing and Perception in Mexico City's Seventeenth-Century Inquisitorial Sumptuary Trials Julie Hardwick and Susan Deans-Smith  Visiting Assistant Professor of History (Texas Lutheran University) Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latine History, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
     Nathan Joseph Stone A Call to Armed Rebellion: The Emergence of Chile's Mir, 1965–1970 Joshua Frens-String and Virginia Burnett Instructional Support Specialist - History (The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor of Instruction, Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin 
     Julia Connell Stryker But Then, You'll Say, She was Used to the Sea': Women's Work at Sea and Britain's Nineteenth-Century Empire Philippa Levine Ewart A. Pratt Postdoctoral Researcher (Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland)  
     Edward John Watson Masculinity Is the System: British Punk and Working-Class Masculinities, 1976-1990s Philippa Levine Instructional Support Specialist - History (The University of Texas at Austin) Project Coordinator for Online Courses, LAITS, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin
     Andrew M. Wilkins Web of Enlightenment: The State and Economic Development in Scotland, 1727–1765 Neil Kamil and James Vaughn George Washington Forum’s Postdoctoral Scholar in History (Ohio University)  
     Tiana Unique Wilson Revolution and Struggle: The Enduring Legacy of the Third World Women's Alliance, 1968–2010 Ashley Farmer Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African American Studies, (Pennsylvania State University) Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
     Jing Zhai Raising the Communist Successors: Childrearing in Rural China (1953–1983) Huaiyin Li Postdoctoral Fellow - Institute for Historical Studies (The University of Texas at Austin) Assistant Director of Programming and Operations, Children's Haven Association, Austin, Texas
  • 2021-2022: 12 Graduates
    Name  Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Second Position
     Chukwuemeka C. Agbo Dependency Labor in Atlantic and Colonial Economies: Slavery, Pawnship, and Forced Labor in Eastern Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Oloruntoyin Falola Editor (African Humanities Research and Development Circle)  
     John Anthony Carranza Explaining Sex: Sex Education and Disability in the United States From the 1960s to the 1990s Abena Osseo-asare Lecturer in American Studies (The University of Texas at Austin) Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Honors College (Texas State University)
     Suet Yee Shery Chanis Friends and Strangers: Presenting Guongdong in the Provincial Gazetteers in Late Ming China, 1535-1602 Neil Kamil Visiting Instructor for History (Southwestern University) Visiting Assistant Professor, Molloy University, NY
     Augusta Lynn Dell'omo Saving Apartheid: Transatlantic Whiteness in the U.S.-South African Relationship, 1980-1994 Jeremi Suri Present Associate Policy Researcher for Bridging Divides Initiative (Princeton University) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Presidential History (Southern Methodist University); Associate Policy Researcher for Bridging Divides Initiative (Princeton University)
     Jacob Westbrook Doss Making Monastic Men: Gender and Imagined 'Childhood' in Cistercian Formation in the Long Twelfth Century Martha Newman Postdoctoral Fellow -  Institute for Historical Studies (The University of Texas at Austin) Assistant Professor of Instruction in Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy, Texas State University, San Marcos TX
    Rebecca Adeline Johnston The End of Illusion: Putting Culture to Work in Post-Stalinist Era, 1953-1964 Joan Neuberger Postdoctoral Fellow - Institute for Historical Studies (The University of Texas at Austin) Postdoctoral Fellow at Russian Studies and Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics (University of Kansas) 
     David Andrew Rahimi Where Glamor Catches the Eye: Consumer Capitalism and Modernity in Late Pahlavi Iran, 1941-1979 Kamran Aghaie History, Literature, and Theology teacher (Chesterton Academy of the Holy Family)  
     Brandon J. Render Colorblind University: Racial Inequity and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Peniel Joseph Assistant Professor -  History (University of Utah) Assistant Professor, History, UT El Paso, Texas
     Jonathan J. Seefeldt An Upwelling of Stone: The Postcolonial Life of a Climate Infrastructure Project, Rajasamand c. 1656-1818 Cynthia Talbot University of Pittsburg Global Experiences Executive Director, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
     Stefanie M. Shackleton For the Education and Improvement of the People: Working Class Knowledge and Culture in the Nineteenth Century British World Philippa Levine Graduate Program Administrator - Economics (The University of Texas at Austin) Instructional Support Specialist - History (The University of Texas at Austin)
     Cali Rhiann Slair The International Politics of Smallpox, 1945-2002 Laurie Green and Jeremi Suri Education and Engagement Director (Northwest African American Museum in Seattle)  
     Jermaine Thibodeaux The House That Cane Built: Sugar, Race, and the Gendered Foundations of the Texas Prison System, 1843-1920 Daina Berry Assistant Professor, African and African-American Studies, (University of Oklahoma)  
  • 2020-2021: 10 Graduates
    Name  Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Second Position
    Andrew Cyrus Akhlaghi Liberty and Fear: Social Conflict and Society in Iran 1941-1953 Kamran Aghaie Integrations and Analytics Manager (Sayari) Data Scientist, Sayari, Washington, D.C.
    Abikal Borah Aftertaste of Empire: Amandiya and Racial Violence in South Africa (1843-1949) Oloruntoyin Falola Public History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow (Cornell University) Assistant Professor - History (San Diego State University)
     Natalie Rose Cincotta Here Comes the Sex Wave: Visual Culture and Mass Media in Postwar Germany David Crew Postdoctoral Fellow - Institute for Historical Studies (The University of Texas at Austin) Technical Training Editor (Apple)
    Juan Carlos De Orellana Sanchez The Politics of Knowing: Movement, Experience, and Political Writing in the Construction of the Spanish New World (1526-1700) Jorge Canizares Postdoctoral Fellow - Institute for Historical Studies (The University of Texas at Austin) Research Assistant - College of Information (Univeresity of Arizona)
    Alejandra C. Garza From Laborer to Legend: The Evolution and Memory of Mexican American Vaqueros in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1900-Present Emilio Zamora American Historical Association Career Diversity Fellow, History Department (The University of Texas at Austin) Coordinator for District Programs and Alumni, (The Holsworth Center)
    Maria Esther Hammack South of Slavery: Freedom Fighters & Black Movement Across a Global Frontier, Mexico, The United States and Beyond, 1790-1868 Daina Berry Barra Postdoctoral Fellow - McNeil Center for Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor of African American History (Ohio State University)
    E. A. Mercado Montero Nations Across the Seas: The History of the Carib People and the Making of the Early-Modern Caribbean Jorge Canizares and Lina Del Castillo Mellon Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor - History (Dartmouth College)  
    Albert Anthony Palacios Preventing 'Heresy': Publishing in 16th-Century Mexico Jorge Canizares and Ann Villalon LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator (The University of Texas at Austin) Lecturer at the School of Information and LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator (The University of Texas at Austin)
    Brooks Riley Winfree Black in Native Texas: Slavery, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous People, 1800-1865 Daina Berry Assistant Professor - History (Michigan State University)  
    Benjamin Hudson Yeager Knowledge Capitalism in Socialist China: The Political Interplay of Intellectuals, Cadress, and the Party-State, 1950-1959 Huaiyin Li Hospitals Program Coordinator (Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas) Hospitals Program Manager (Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas)
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