Adviser: Klaus Larres and Miguel La Serna

Education

B.S. Bryant University, 2008
M.A. Northeastern University, 2014
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

Alyssa’s dissertation focuses on the Chile solidarity movements in Western Europe from 1973 until Augusto Pinochet’s arrest in London in 1998. Focusing especially on the movements in France, Italy, and Spain, her project examines the role that the Chile solidarity movement played in the transformation of the European left, from an emphasis on anti-fascism and anti-imperialism to a human rights-based orientation. It also seeks to understand the way that this leftist transformation came to bear on Chile during and in the wake of the country’s “return to democracy,” as Europeans invested their time and financial resources in civil-society building and human rights projects in Chile. While these resources were often offered at the bequest of Chilean elites, such forms of solidarity were routed in specific European contexts and differed notably from the solidarity offered in 1973. In this way, Alyssa’s project looks to both historicize the concept of solidarity and trace the global logic of neoliberalism.

Adviser: Harry L. Watson

Graduate Email: fennessy@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. Sewanee: University of the South, 2012
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

My dissertation, “Reconstructed Rebels: The Ex-Confederate Allies of Congressional Reconstruction,” examines former Confederates who joined the Republican Party. My research interests include 19th and 20th century U.S. history and the long history of American empire, nation-building, political institutions, and citizenship.

Adviser: Harry Watson

Graduate Email: lucaspk@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. Centre College, 2013
M.A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2015
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

My research interests focus on Native peoples, the United States during the Early Republic, and the U.S. South.

Recent Publications

“A Divided State in a Divided Nation: An Exploration of East Tennessee’s Support of the Union in the Secession Crisis of 1860-1861.” Journal of East Tennessee History 84 (2013): 3-22.

“‘The Noblest Enterprise of Modern Times’ : Robert Y. Hayne’s 1836 Address to the Knoxville Convention.” Journal of East Tennessee History 87 (2016): 93-107.

“Ardent Nullifier and Gradual Emancipator: The Paradox of Virginia Governor John Floyd.” Southern Historian 37 (Spring 2016): 23-45.

Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch and Karen Auerbach

Graduate Email: drweiner@stanford.edu

Education

AB Vassar College, 2012 (History and Italian)
MS Johns Hopkins University, 2014 (Education)
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017 (History)
PhD University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, 2020 (History)
Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies, 2020

PhD Dissertation: “Teaching a Dark Chapter: Representations of the Holocaust and the Second World War in East German, West German, and Italian History Textbooks, 1943-2000”

Adviser: Benjamin Waterhouse

Education

B.A. The University of Canterbury (2011)
M.A. The University of Canterbury (2013)
M.A. Thesis: “The Right, With Lincoln: Conservative Intellectuals Interpret Lincoln, c. 1945-1989”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020)

Research Interests

My dissertation is entitled Conservatism and the American Political Tradition. It analyzes conservative efforts to construct historical narratives about the American past. My broader research interests are 20th century conservatism, the American right, right-wing intellectual and political history and new trends in right-wing thought.

Recent Publications

“Mencius Moldbug and the Reactionary Enlightenment” in Key Thinkers of the Radical Right, (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch

Education

B.A. Willamette University, 2011
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
M.A. Thesis: “A Crisis of Marriage? The Debate on Marriage Reform in the Social Democratic Weimar Women’s Press, 1919-1933”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020

Research Interests

My dissertation, entitled “After Socialism: The Transformation of Everyday Life in Eisenhüttenstadt, 1980-Present,” explores Eisenhüttenstadt’s transformation from the thriving socialist model-city to a declining eastern German town on the Polish border. My research interests include urban history and everyday life in a united Germany and the former Eastern bloc.

Recent Publications

Adviser: Harry L. Watson

Education

A.B. Princeton University, 2009
M.A. Yale University, 2011
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020

Research Interests

My dissertation is entitled: “Panic and Power: The First Great Depression in North Carolina, 1819-1833.” It explores the political, economic and social consequences of the first major financial collapse in American history—the Panic of 1819—through the lens of one critical yet understudied Southern state.

Adviser: Donald Raleigh

Education

BA University of Virginia, 2013
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
MA Thesis: “Nationalizing Fashion: Soviet Women’s Fashion and the West, 1959-1967”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020
Dissertation: “Soviet by Design: Fashion, Consumption, and International Competition During Late Socialism, 1948-1982”

Research Interests

My dissertation examines the evolution of a Soviet fashion industry and the primary state institution of clothing design, the All-Union House of Design (ODMO). I consider how, during the height of the Cold War, fashion became a vital arena for Soviet self-identity and rivalry with the West. I examine the ODMO’s place within the Soviet state and economy, the impact of the organization domestically and internationally, and the artistic and cultural contexts influencing design.

Adviser: W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Education

BA Trinity College, Hartford 2010
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020

Research Interests

Caroline Wood Newhall’s dissertation project, “‘Under the Rebel Lash’: Black Prisoners of War in the Confederate South,” examines the experiences of black Union soldiers who were captured and enslaved in the Confederacy. Using United States Colored Troops’ regimental service records, black veterans’ pension files, and correspondence in the Official Records of the war, her work emphasizes the intersections of race, labor, gender, and capital in wartime. She plans to expand her research into a genealogical project as she identifies formerly enslaved soldiers’ family and community networks through the USCT pensions.

Adviser: Richard J. A. Talbert

Research Interests

Gabe Moss studies imperialism in the ancient Roman world, and in particular the relationship between Roman armies and the physical environment. His work draws heavily on cartography, GIS, and the digital humanities. He is a former Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center and the Digital History Lab, and works as a consultant on a variety of digital projects.