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Current Students

The History Department is proudly home to cohorts of Ph.D. and M.A. students who specialize in an array of historical topics. Information about these students, their focuses, and faculty advisers can be found below. Please note that students opted into displaying their information on this page, so it does not represent a complete list of USF history graduate students. Want to get involved in our fantastic community of graduate students? Check out the History Department Graduate Student Organization.

Ph.D. Students

Name

Focus

Advisor(s)

Abney, Ann

CV

Memory and Commemoration, Transnational Education History  
Benner, Douglas America Pre-1877 Connolly, Brian

Costello, Angela

CV

Digital Humanities/Public History; Ancient and Medieval History; Material Culture and Dress History Tanasi, Davide

Ferro, Ryan C.

CV

Global Communism, Modern China, Sino-Soviet Relations. Boterbloem, Kees

Hom, Ryan

CV

Ancient Greece, War and Society, Classical Reception

 Tanasi, Davide

Horan, Patrick J.

CV

Modern European History, Irish History, Transatlantic History Ottanelli, Fraser
Jünke, Sarah Early America Levy, Phil

Kraft, Madeleine

CV

Digital Archaeology, Mortuary Archaeology, Early Christianity  Tanasi, Davide

Muhseneen, Ummul

CV

Public History; Genocides and Mass Atrocity Crimes; South Asia; Oral History; Memory; and Memorialization Levy, Phil

Pack, Paula

20th Century British History; History of Children and Youth

Connolly, Brian

Ponticos, Douglas

19th and 20th Century US, Environmental History, Florida History

Connolly, Brian

Rios, Urian

CV

Cold War, The “Long Sixties"

Fontaine, Darcie

Scapicchio, Alaina

CV

Public History, Early America, Memory & Commemoration Levy, Phil
Strawbridge, Michael Late Antiquity, Donatism, Roman North Africa

King, Matt

Youngberg, Kevin R.

19th Century US Political, Religious, and Southern History; American Civil War and Reconstruction

Prince, K. Stephen

Zimmerman, Jr., Don

Freemasonry in Jim Crow Florida

Mauldin, Erin

M.A. Students

Name Focus Advisor(s)

Dace, Ysabella

CV

Early Modern Europe; the Italian Peninsula; Social History; Cultural history; Women and Gender Benadusi, Giovanna

Davis, Tami

Post-Civil War, Reconstruction Era American History Prince, K. Stephen

Downing, Kathryn Mary Lulu

CV

Medieval Irish History, Digital Humanities/ Public History, Art History Knight, Jennifer

Thieryung, Hannah

CV

19th and 20th Century Irish and American History, Irish Playwrights, Public History, Florida History  Knight, Jennifer

Thurston, Danielle

CV

Public History and Digitial Humanities Levy, Phil