The History Department offers four degree programs - the M.A., Ph.D., HiLS (dual degree with Library Science) and HiHP (dual degree with Historic Preservation)
Congratulations to Hannah Nolan for successfully defending her dissertation titled ��Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight?”: The United Irishmen and the Legacy of Revolution in Irish America.
Congratulations to Chloe Kauffman (PhD Candidate), she was awarded the following research fellowships for next year: the American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s History, and the Helen L. Bing Fellowship. @chloejk7
Congratulations to Angelina Lincoln (PhD Candidate), she was awarded the following research fellowships for next year: the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
Alums in the News: Dr. Lane Windham was appointed Co-Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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Alums in the News: Dr. Jordan Sly was awarded a Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his dissertation "Protector of the Reformed: Oliver Cromwell's Religio-Political Motives and the Development of Protectorate Ideology".
Congratulations to Emma Lyons for successfully defending her thesis titled “‘So Comprehensive a Field’: Home Economics in the Department of Agriculture, 1915-1968”.
Congratulations to Marjorie Justine Cruz Antonio for successfully defending their thesis titled “Artists Under Watch, Guerilla Poets Dead: Transnational Filipino Arts Activism and Martial Law Memory, from Marcos Sr. to Marcos Jr.”.
Congratulations to JP Fetherston for successfully defending his dissertation titled “‘Daring to Call for Liquor’: African Americans, Alcohol, and the Making of Urban Undergrounds in North America, 1740-1850”
Congratulations to Liliana Rodriguez for successfully defending her thesis titled “From Atomic Cooperation to Lithium Supply Chains: A Historical Analysis of US-Argentina Energy Relations”.
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Grads in the news: Congratulations to Danielle Bing (Ph.D. Student), she was awarded a Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for AY 2025-26. @UMDGradSchool