2022-2023 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Suvendu Ghatak (Ph.D. Student, English)
Malarial Modernity: Colonialism and the Politics of Health in Modern South Asia
Katherine McNamara (Ph.D. Student, Environmental and Global Health)
People, Plants, and Pandemics: How Past and Present Crises Shape the Fate of the ‘Andean Wonder Drug’
2021-2022 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Belay Alem (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
Heirs’ Property in African American Communities in Alachua County, Florida: Inheritance, Taxation and Security
Tim Blanton (Ph.D. Student, History)
When Main Street Met Wall Street: Bucket Shops and the Rise of the American Retail Investor
Erika Davis (Ph.D. Student, Teaching and Learning)
Exploring Latinx Educational Advocacy and City Politics in the New Latinx Diaspora
Zheyuan Deng (Ph.D. Student, Religion)
The Spatial Histories of Ahmadiyya in Nigeria
Abigail Lindo (Ph.D. Student, Music)
Sensing Azorean Autonomous Identity: A Feminist Ethnography of São Miguel’s Sonic Culture
Mandy Moore (Ph.D. Student, English)
Just Fandom Things: A New Materialist Approach to Fandom Rhetoric
Rachel Polinsky (Ph.D. Student, Art History)
“Fair-Ankled” Korai: Feet, Foot, Footwear, and a Reconsideration of Stylistic Progression in the Art of Ancient Greece
Yekatit Tsehayu (Ph.D. Student, Religion)
Intersectional Agency of Contemporary Revivalist Muslim Women in Ethiopia
2021-2022 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Michael Stoop (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
(Re)claiming Literacy: Appropriation, Modernity, and Mississippi Choctaw Language Revitalization
Meghna Sapui (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
Edible Empire: Eating in Indian Anglophone Literature, 1820–1910
2021-2022 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Brianna Anderson (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
Greening the Gutters: Representations of Environmental Education and Youth Eco-Activism in Children’s Comics
Licínio Nunes de Miranda (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Land of Light: Slavery, Freedpeople and Abolitionism in Brazil, 1880–1888
Macarena Deij Prado (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History)
Public Performance and Display in Spanish America 1570–1630
Qingming Huang (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science)
North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula
Venu Mehta (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion)
The Making of a Jaina Divinity: Devotion for the Jaina Goddess Padmāvatī among the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat
Jeeye Song (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science)
Treaty-Making and Colonization in East Asia: Vietnam and Korea in the Nineteenth Century
Georgios Topalidis (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Criminology & Law)
The Whitening Process Model: Forging an Anti-Racist Praxis for Descendants of Ottoman Greek Immigrants in the United States
2020-2021 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
David Meltsner (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
New York City and the Making of the School-To- Prison Pipeline
Rachal Burton (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
Slavery, War, and Genocide in the Work of Toni Morrison
2020-2021 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Laura Colkitt (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History)
In Between Relations: Liliana Porter’s Art
Alison Raper (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History)
Francesco di Vannuccio’s Croce Dipinta and the Iconography of Mary Magdalene in Late-Trecento Siena
Emily Theobald (Ph.D. Candidate, Music)
National and Transnational Politics in Post-1945 Polish Music
Lauren Walter (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History)
Entre Nous: The Art of Female Friendship in Late Eighteenth-Century France
2019 – 2020 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Kyra Rietveld (Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Art History)
Iconography of the Cult of Artemis in the Greek Classical and Imperial Periods
Kaitlyn Muchnok (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Sentenced but Not Silenced: Female Juvenile Delinquency in Mid-Twentieth Century Florida
2019 – 2020 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Clemens Ottenhausen (Ph. D. Candidate, Art and Art History)
Documenta in the context of mid-century art history, exhibition architecture, and its role in rehabilitating political practices in the visual arts
Oren Okhovat (Ph. D. Candidate, History)
The Portuguese Jewish Atlantic: Constructed Identities and Cross-Cultural Networks in the Seventeenth Century
Mary Ibarrola (Ph. D. Candidate, Anthropology)
Placemaking in the Borderland: An Archaeological Perspective on African and African Descendent Peoples Negotiations within Colonial Florida’s Evolving Political Landscape
Meagan Frenzer (Ph. D. Candidate, History)
Dancing in the Devil’s Playground: The Intersection of Labor, Morality, and Pleasure in Chicago’s Dance Halls, 1910-1930
Daniel Fernández (Ph. D. Candidate, History)
Weaponizing Solidarity: Spanish Republican Exiles, Identity, and the Cuban Revolution, 1929-1976
Madison Cates (Ph. D. Candidate, History)
Landscapes of Destruction, Landscapes of Preservation: Poverty, Planning, and the Bulldozer Revolution in the Postwar South, 1945-1994
Arianne Boileau (Ph. D. Candidate, Anthropology)
Colonial Life in the Maya/Spanish Borderlands: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Political Economy at Lamanai, Belize
Mark Hodge (Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Art History)
Ancient Sarcophagi and Roman Religion in Late Antiquity
2018 – 2019 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Luc Houle (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
On the Margins of Medieval Power: Ramon Berenguer V and Mobility
2018 – 2019 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Alexandria Wilson (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science)
Framing Exploitation: The Women’s Movement and Anti-trafficking Policy in East Central Europe
Jodi Shaw (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion)
The Goddess and Dancing Śiva in the Multiple Ritual Worlds of Chidambaram
Tameka Samuels-Jones (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Criminology & Law)
Regulatory Law and Local Stakeholder influences on Green Crime in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica
Elizabeth Currin, Department of Education (Ph.D. Candidate, Education)
Storied Stance: An Oral History of Long-Term Teacher Researchers in the Age of Accountability
Matthew Strickland (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Civilizing Slaves: Imperialism, Anglicanism, and African Slavery on Codrington Plantation
2017 – 2018 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Elyssa Gage (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
A Softer and More Durable Glory: Justice and Colonialism in Post-Revolutionary France, 1802-1830
Navid Bargrizan (Ph.D. Candidate, Music)
2017-2018 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellow
Microtonality, Technology, and Dramatic Narrative in the Theatrical Music of Harry Partch and Manfred Stahnke
2017 – 2018 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Matthew F. Simmons (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Revolt in the Fields: The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union and the New Deal
Prea Persaud (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion)
Vocalizing Authenticity: The Role of Pundits, Temples, and Indian Organizations in the Creation of Caribbean Hinduism
Cacey Farnsworth (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Atlantic Lisbon: From Restoration to Baroque Splendor, 1640-1755
Adrienne deNoyelles (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
The ‘Lung Block:’ Tuberculosis and Progressive Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century New York
Derek Boetcher (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Webs of Identity and Memory: Commemorative Artwork in Britain, Ireland, and the Dominions, 1700-2015
Alexis Baldacci (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Daily Heroics: Women, Material Culture, and Everyday Life in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1989
2016 – 2017 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Nicholas Foreman (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
The Calorie of Progress: Food and Culture in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1760-1850
Brandon Jett (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
African-American communities and the police in the Jim Crow South in the cities of Memphis, New Orleans, and Birmingham from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
Bhakti Mamtora (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion)
The Making of a Modern Scripture: The History of a Book from 19th-century Gujarat
2016 – 2017 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Ralph Patrello (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Power and Self-Representation in Southern Gaul, 395-600 AD
Kenneth Noble (Ph.D. Candidate, Education)
Patrolling the Hallways: The History of Police Presence in Urban Public Schools
Brian Hamm (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Between the Foreign and the Familiar: The Portuguese, the Inquisition, and Local Society in Cartagena de Indias, 1550-1700
2015 – 2016 Tedder Fellows
Michael Vincent (Ph.D Candidate, Music)
Cosmopolitan Culture in Boccherini’s Madrid, 1785-1800
2015 – 2016 Rothman Fellows
Alana Lord (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Constructing Royal Power: Host Desecration and Kingship in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon
John Hames (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
Activism and the Politics of Language Loyalty: The Pulaar Movement in Senegal and Mauritania
Rebecca Devlin (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Bishops and Community in Northwestern Hispania: Transforming Roman Society, ca. 370 to 470 C.E.
2014 – 2015 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Yeonhaun Kang (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
Re-designing the American Garden: Transcultural Exchange and the Global Environmental Imagination in Contemporary Multiethnic Women’s Fiction
Kevin Funk (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science)
Capitalists of the World Unite? Locating an Imagined Community of Transnational Capitalists in Latin America’s Booming Relations with the Arab World
2014 – 2015 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Andrew Welton (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Forging Entanglements: The Spear in Early-Medieval English Society
Deborah Andrews (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
An Investigation into the Local Dietary and Agro-diversity Consequences of Globalized Traditional Agriculture in the Peruvian Andes
2013 – 2014 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Ryan Morini (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
Heritage in the Interstices: ‘Tradition’, history, and Alternative Futures on the Duckwater and Ely Shoshone Reservations
Nicole Cox (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Toxic Treatment: The Wood-Preservation Industry and the Making of Superfund Sites
2013 – 2014 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Anna Lankina (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Reassessing Historiography in Late Antiquity: Philostorgius on Religion and Empire
Allen Kent (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Black Power in Power: The African American Police League and Community Policing in Chicago, 1966-1987)
2012 – 2013 Tedder Doctoral Fellows
Robin Globus Veldman (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion)
An Inconvenient Faith? Christianity, Climate Change and the End of the World—which examines how conservative Christians view climate change, the environment and environmentalism
Andrei Gandila (Ph.D. Candidate, History)
Marginal Money: Coins, Frontiers, and Barbarians in Early Byzantium (6th-7th Centuries)
2012 – 2013 Rothman Doctoral Fellows
Stéphanie Borios (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
Children’s Social Learning of Plants in the Peruvian Andes