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
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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