Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch

Graduate Email: kennethalarconnegy@gmail.com

Education

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018

Research Interests

My research interests include 20th Century Europe, the interwar period, Germany, Spain, Nazism, Fascism, dictatorships, culture, ideologies, propaganda, language, and the transnational movement of ideas and people.

DISSERTATION TITLE: “The Transmission of Fascism: Spanish Understandings of National Socialism, 1931-1939”

ABSTRACT: In the early 1930s, Spain’s newly established Second Republic quickly proved that it was no exception to the general fragility of democracy in interwar Europe. The growing state of disarray encouraged many Spaniards to search for alternative political models to remedy their nation’s political and social ills. For the Spanish right, the unexpected rise of Nazi Germany in 1933 highlighted a possible solution in fascism, which now seemed capable of spreading outside of its Italian birthplace. From that point until the downfall of the Third Reich, a small minority of intermediaries in Spain and Germany would actively work to promote National Socialism in a Spanish context. This dissertation focuses on the ways in which the German variant of fascism was transformed to make it more suitable for a Spanish audience in the pre-WWII years, as well as on the intermediaries who sought to strengthen the fascist ties between the two disparate nations.

Adviser: Benjamin Waterhouse

Graduate Email: msheehan17@fordham.edu

Education

B.A. Fordham University, 2017
M.A. UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019
PhD UNC-Chapel Hill, 2022

Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch

Graduate Email: luke.g.grossman@gmail.com

Adviser: W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Graduate Email: erothberg@womenshistory.org

Education

B.A., Wesleyan University, 2015
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
M.A. Thesis: “Full-Grown, Large, and Shapely”: Parades, Free Labor, and Civic Manhood after the Civil War
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2022

Research Interests

My dissertation focuses on the cultural practices of urban democracy and identity in American cities at the turn of the twentieth century. My research interests include urban history, gender history, memory and digital history methodologies.

I currently am the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at the National Women’s History Museum. I served as Co-Director of the Digital History Lab from 2019-2021.

Adviser: Miguel La Serna

Graduate Email: alyssask811@gmail.com

Education

B.A. in History, University at Buffalo SUNY, 2012
B.A. in English with High Honors, University at Buffalo SUNY, 2012
M.A. in English, University at Buffalo SUNY, 2014

Research Interests

My dissertation is entitled: Becoming Zapatista: Violence and Political Mobilization in Chiapas, 1934-1996. My research interests include the 1994 Zapatista uprising, twentieth-century Mexican history, and Latin American social movements.

Adviser: Konrad Jarausch

Graduate Email: mskalski@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. Rutgers University, 2014
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

My dissertation, “A Socialist Neighborhood: Cross-Border Exchanges between Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, 1969-1989,” explores successes and failures of internationalism and integration in the Eastern Bloc. In it, I study the lived experience of border crossing, i.e. the social, cultural, and economic practices in borderlands, and transnational cooperation under state socialism.

Adviser: Richard J. A. Talbert

Graduate Email: Imholman@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. North Carolina State University, 2013
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

My dissertation, “Herzog’s Roman Tesserae: Their Nature and Purpose Revisited,” grounds the interpretation of Herzog’s tesserae in their physical appearance and inscriptions, rather than solely investigating the prosopography of the named individuals. My research interests broadly are Roman economic and social history, history of slavery, and Roman material culture.

Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch

Graduate Email: mhlazar927@gmail.com

Education

BA College of William & Mary, 2012
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
Dissertation: Jerusalem on the Main: Jewish Integration in Frankfurt, 1914-1938

Research Interests

My research interests include modern Germany, Jewish history, Holocaust history, urban history, and spatial theory. My dissertation, titled “Jerusalem on the Main,” is a local study of Jewish integration in Frankfurt am Main between 1914 and 1938. Until now, there has been a historical consensus that the First World War marked a negative turning point of what, until then, had been an upward arc of Jewish integration in Germany that had begun in the late eighteenth century. I challenge this master narrative of German-Jewish history by arguing that the Jews of Frankfurt continued to enjoy a high level of integration into the political, educational, cultural, and social life of their surrounding society until the Nazi Party’s seizure of power in 1933. Furthermore, I use examinations of local literature, popular culture, and the history of Jewish street names to show how scholars have frequently overlooked continuities in Jewish integration in Germany during the years preceding the Holocaust.

Adviser: Karen Auerbach and Donald M. Reid

Graduate Email: rmbuller@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. University of Toronto, 2014
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
Dissertation: Ottoman Jews in Paris: Sephardi Immigrant Community, Culture, and Identity, 1918-1939

Research Interests

Personal Website

I am a historian of migration, the Jewish Mediterranean, and modern France. I am particularly interested in questions of language, citizenship, and transnational networks. My dissertation (UNC 2021) examined Sephardi Jewish immigrants from the Ottoman Empire in twentieth-century Paris, with a focus on collective identity, communal life, and belonging in the Third Republic. Current and future research projects concentrate on the Holocaust, French colonialism, and immigrant identity in France.

Adviser: Susan Pennybacker

Graduate Email: mlreeves@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. Western Kentucky University, 2012
M.A. Western Kentucky University, 2014
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

My research focuses on the global history of anticolonialism in the twentieth century, especially intersections between anticolonialism and various forms of internationalism. My dissertation, “Lost Horizons: Anticolonial Internationalism, 1930-1970,” compares the internationalist and anticolonial careers of four leaders from different regions: Shukri al-Quwatli (1892-1967), the first president of Syria; V.K. Krishna Menon (1896-1974), the Indian diplomat and Minister of Defense; Carlos Romulo (1898-1985), the journalist and diplomat from the Philippines; and Nnamdi Azikiwe (1902-96), activist editor and first president of Nigeria.

Recent Publications

“‘Free and Equal Partners in Your Commonwealth’: The Atlantic Charter and Anticolonial Delegations to London, 1941-3,” Twentieth Century British History 29, no. 2 (June 2018): 259-283

“Teaching Decolonization beyond the Nation: The Case of West Africa,” World History Connected 13, no. 2 (June 2016)