Student Contacts

The following individuals will be happy to answer any questions you might have about the program. The contacts are separated by geographic area of inquiry, and list their advisor, major field, minor field, research interests, and e-mail address. If you are not sure which area you are interested in feel free to contact any individual or the members of HGSA, and they would be happy to point you in the right direction. When you e-mail us please reference "Purdue HGSA" or "Questions about Purdue" in the subject line so we know you are not junk mail. We look forward to hearing from you!

American

Brittany Bayless-Fremion, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. John L. Larson
Major Field: U.S. Environmental History
Minor Field: Comparative U.S. and Sub-Sahara African Women's History
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century U.S. History, environmental politics, social movements, gender studies, and urban history
E-Mail: bbayless@purdue.edu

Mauricio Castro, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Professor Darren T. Dochuk
Major Field: 20th Century U.S. History
Minor Field: Gender and national identity in global history
Research Interests: Latino/Latina popular culture
E-Mail: mfcastro@purdue.edu

Josh Jeffers, PhD Student
Advisor:  Drs. Frank Lamber and Dawn Marsh
Major Field:  British North America and the Atlantic World
Minor Field:  Native North America and early modern Britain
Research Interests:  Post-structuralism, environment history of contact in North America, ethnogenesis of the Shawnee Confederacy
E-Mail:  jeffers@purdue.edu

Tim Lombardo, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Nancy F. Gabin
Major Field: 20th Century U.S. social history
Minor Field: Gender and sexuality in global history
Research Interests: Post-World War II labor and political history
E-Mail: tlombardo@purdue.edu

Erica A. Morin, PhD Candidate 
Advisor: Dr. John L. Larson
Major Field: U.S. Environmental History
Minor Field: Public Policy with Dr. Leigh Raymond
Research Interests: History of the Adirondacks, applied environmental history, environmental policy, environmental activism and opposition, post World War II travel and tourism, parks and recreation, and energy studies
E-Mail: eamorin@purdue.edu

Jeffrey T. Perry, PhD Student
Advisor:  Professor Yvonne M. Pitts
Major Field:  Antebellum U.S.
Research Interest:  Gender, law, and economy in early America
E-Mail:  perry30@purdue.edu

Patrick Pospisek, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. John L. Larson
Major Field: The Old Northwest in the early Republic and antebellum eras
Minor Field: Public History
Research Interests: Urban history, material culture, historic preservation, historical geography, Native American history
E-Mail: ppospise@purdue.edu

Andrew Smith, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Randy W. Roberts
Major Field: 20th century US social, cultural, and African American history
Minor Field: Theory and praxis of teaching global history
Research Interests: Race and gender in the history of US sport and pop-culture
E-Mail: smith604@purdue.edu

Erika N. Cornelius Smith, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Nancy F. Gabin and Rebekah Klein-Pejsova
Major Field: 20th Century American and the world
Minor Field: Modern east central Europe, feminist food studies, women's studies
Research Interests: Iterwar relations between America and Czechoslovakia, nationalism, INGOs
E-Mail: ecorneli@purdue.edu

European 

John E. Fahey, PhD Student
Advisor:  Drs. Charles W. Ingrao and Michael Smith
Major Field:  Habsburg Monarchy
Minor Field:  Late Imperial Russia, transnational history
Research Interests:  Central and eastern Europe, transnational history, military history, diplomacy, empires
E-Mail:  jfahey@purdue.edu

Amy Harris, Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor:  Dr. Whitney Walton
Major Field:  Modern Europe, gender and cultural history
Minor Fields: Postcolonial African women's history and Women's Studies
Research Interests:  Modern France, arts and entertainment, female performers, LGBTQ studies, postmodernism
Email:  harris53@purdue.edu

Timothy J. Olin, PhD. Student
Advisor:  Drs. Charles Ingrao and Michael Smith
Major Field:  Eastern Europe and Russia/USSR
Research Interests:  Early modern empire, Germans as colonists, nationalism, Russian borderlands, Soviet ethnic policy
E-Mail:  tolin@purdue.edu

Liberty Sproat, PhD. Student
Advisors:  Drs. Will Gray and Jennifer Foray
Major Field:  Twentieth-Century Europe
Minor Fields:  Imperilaism and Women's Studies
Research Interests:  Global Europe, decolonization, Indonesia and the Dutch Empire, women's organizations
Email:  lsproat@purdue.edu

Rebecca L. Venter, PhD Student
Advisor:  Professor Melinda S. Zook
Major Field:  Tudor Stuart England
Minor Field:  Medieval Europe
Research Interests:  English reformation, popular religion, witchcraft and the occult, Reformation Europe
E-Mail: rventer@purdue.edu

Yasir Yilmaz, Ph.D. Student
Advisors:  Dr. Charles Ingrao, Dr. Michael Smith, Dr. Virginia Aksan (MacMaster University)
Major Field:  Central Europe and Habsburg Monarchy
Minor Fields:  Early Modern Ottoman and Russian Empires
Research Interests:  Comparative history and historiography of early modern Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires, Economic historiography and Industrial Revolution
Email:  yyilmaz@purdue.edu

Global

Jacqueline Bethel Mougoue, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Professor Alicia C. Decker
Major: African History 
Minor: African feminist Anthropology, 18th/19th Century French Women's History
Research Interests:  African history, gender, women, nationalism, modernity, domesticity
E-Mail: jmougoue@purdue.edu  

Adrianna Lozano, PhD Candidate
Advisor: Professor Alicia C. Decker
Major Field: Global human rights and gender
Minor Field: 20th Century American Social Movements
E-Mail: alozano@purdue.edu  

Haesong Park, Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor:  Dr. Sally Hastings
Major Field:  Modern East Asia, particularly Korea; Imperialism, Orientalism
Minor Field:  Gender history
Research Interests:  Asian female immigrants to the U.S. before 1945, foreign students in the U.S. before 1945, studying abroad, missionaries
Email:  park5@purdue.edu
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