Commencement

Nine History Doctoral Students Recognized at May 2023 Commencement

At the May 2023 Emory Commencement nine PhD candidates from the History Department were recognized for completing their degrees. Some of the students received their diplomas in the summer or fall of 2022 but were not honored until the 2023 ceremony. The students represent more than seven areas of research specialization and are pursuing an array of professional positions inside and outside the academy. In the table below, find the names, advisors, and dissertations of these recently-minted PhDs.

StudentAdvisorGraduation YearDissertation
Hannah R. AbrahamsonYanna Yannakakis2022Women of the Encomienda: Households and Dependents in Sixteenth-Century Yucatan, Mexico
Stephanie BryanAllen Tullos2023‘Domesticated Outlaws’: Indigenous Species and Monocultural Capitalism in the American South
Alexander Maximilian CorsYanna Yannakakis2022Newcomers and New Borders: Migration, Settlement, and Conflict over Land along the Mississippi River, 1750-1820
Mary Grace Gibbs DuPreeJudith Evans Grubbs2022Faces of David: Late Antique and Medieval David Cycles in East and West
Alexandra Lemos ZagonelJeffrey Lesser and Thomas Rogers2022Blessed Generation: Countercultural Youth, Music, and Spirituality in Authoritarian Brazil
Arturo Luna LorancaJavier Villa-Flores2023The Dog Remains: Mexico City’s Canine Massacres During the Enlightenment, 1770-1821
Timothy Reid RomansTonio Andrade2022The Rise and Fall of the Suetsugu Maritime Dynasty of Tokugawa Japan, 1571-1676
Madelyn StoneClifton Crais2022Sovereignty Work: Policing Colonial Capitalism in South Africa, 1867–1936
Anastasiia StrakhovaEric Goldstein and Ellie Schainker2022Selective Emigration: Border Control and the Jewish Escape in Late Imperial Russia, 1881-1914

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