BA University of Virginia, 2009
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
MA Thesis: “The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: The Virginia Slave Trade During the Civil War.”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
BA, The College of Wooster, 2008
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
Dissertation: “Unexpected Humanitarians: Albania, the U.S. Military, and Aid Organizations during the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis”
BA North Carolina Wesleyan College, 2011
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: “The Exigencies of Combat Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Junior Officers in the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars”
MA James Madison University, 2013
MA Thesis: “Limited War, Limited Enthusiasm: Sexuality, Disillusionment, Survival, and the Changing Landscape of War Culture in Korean War-era Comic Books and Soldier Iconography”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
BA University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
MA Thesis: “The Medical Discourse on Military Psychiatry and the Psychological Trauma of War: World War I to DSM-III”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
BA Carleton College, 2010
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
MA Thesis: “From Pacifist to Anti-Fascist? Sylvia Pankhurst and the Fight Against War and Fascism”
PhD University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, 2019
Dissertation: “Confronting the Fascist Menace: The Politics of British Women’s Activism at Home and Abroad, 1918-1945”
My dissertation, “Confronting the Fascist Menace: The Politics of British Women’s Activism at Home and Abroad, 1918-1945” analyzes the impact fascism had on the British feminist movement before and during the Second World War. I argue that British feminists, who dominated the leadership roles of international women’s organizations in this period, identified fascism as the single largest threat to women’s rights in this period. My project illustrates how the threat of fascism united the activism of these women across organizational and political lines, regardless of their nationality, marital status, religion, or politics.
B.A. Grinnell College, 2009
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
M.A. Thesis: “Decisions amid Chaos: Jewish Survival in Budapest, 1944 – 1945”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
My dissertation is entitled: “The Bitter End: Jewish Life and Survival in Budapest Under the Arrow Cross Regime, October 1944 – February 1945.” My research interests include the Holocaust and comparative genocide, twentieth-century Central-Eastern European History, Jewish history, and gender history.
BA Southwestern University
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
BA University of Florida, 2004
MA University of North Florida, 2010
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
My research interests include ethnohistory, Ibero-American borderlands, mission history, colonial economies, slave systems and the effects of colonial expansion on indigenous populations.
BA Trinity University, 2010
MA University of Chicago, 2011
MA Thesis: “The Military Culture of Counterinsurgency in the Philippine-American War”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
PhD dissertation: “The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics 1990-2003”
My dissertation, “The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics 1990-2003”, looks at the containment of Iraq in the 1990’s through the broader lenses of American politics and debates about America’s role in the post-Cold War world. I argue that over the course of this decade, containment came under heavy criticism from multiple sources, making it a highly discredited policy by the end of the decade. I examine the beliefs formed about Iraq and containment in this period that carried over into post 9/11 policy making. These include the idea that the U.S. could never negotiate with Saddam Hussein, the belief that the international coalition behind sanctions and inspections could not be restored, and the consensus that the only way to solve the Iraq problem was regime change. The discrediting of containment in the 1990’s is vital for understanding why the Bush administration embraced a regime change through invasion strategy after 9/11 and why this policy received so much support across the political spectrum.
BA DePaul University, 2009
MA Cardiff University, 2011
MA Thesis: “Rex Christianissimus, Rex Crucesignatus: Kingship, Crusading and the Myth of Capetian Supremacy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
PhD dissertation: Narrative, History, and Kingship in Angevin England
I am broadly interested in the political and cultural history of Latin Christendom in the Middle Ages, particularly the long twelfth century in Britain. My research is chiefly concerned with medieval historical writings as both constructed narratives and expressions of historically situated worldviews. My dissertation seeks to understand the kinds of circumstances which produced unusually rich concentrations of historical narrative in particular cultural moments, and the narrative possibilities of which contemporaries could avail themselves in memorializing and constructing their pasts. It identifies the Angevin period of English history (c. 1150-1220) as a cultural moment of this kind, during which deep anxieties about the nature and practice of English kingship found their expression in an unequaled trove of sophisticated historical narrative texts. By understanding the recurring themes and narrative techniques which gave these texts contemporary meaning, we can gain insights into the way medieval writers and readers ordered their world, and into the kinds of disruptions and discontinuities which drove them to take up their pens.
