History Graduate Students
Meet our department's gradaute students and learn more about their work.
The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) is a vibrant graduate student community. Learn more about current HGSA officers and an annual graduate student conference in Student Association page.
JeMiah Baht Israel
Graduate Assistant, History
The focus of her MA thesis (Critical Race Theory and Enslavement at the Dinsmore Plantation) is the enslavement of Africans and African Americans at the Dinsmore Plantation in Boone County, Kentucky. JeMiah’s research used archival records and archaeological methods to examine enslavement from the perspective of those who were enslaved. The purpose of this research is to give a voice to those who were enslaved on the Dinsmore plantation and to advocate for the importance of educating the community about the history and truth of what took place at this site.
Ultimately, JeMiah’s goal is become a tenured professor in African American History with a research focus on the period of the enslavement of African and African Americans. It is also her fervent hope to use doctorate education in History to help resolve contemporary problems that plague the African American community.
Shepherd Aaron Ellis
Graduate Assistant, History
I previously earned my M.A. in history from the University of Cincinnati in 2022. My thesis, "Religious Conversion in the Spanish Empire: Identity Formation in Hapsburg Spain and Baroque Mexico" won the second place Zane Miller prize, which is given in recognition of excellence in graduate student writing and research. In 2016 I graduated with my B.A. with a double major in history and classics from the University of North Carolina- Asheville.
Starting as an undergraduate, I have presented my work at numerous conferences, and am an active member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. On September 29, 2022, I will present my paper “Fruit of the Seventeenth-Century Church: Proto-Nationalism in the Hispanic and British Cis-Atlantic” at the annual SRC meeting. On October 16, 2021, I presented the paper “Transmutation and Refinement: The Metaphysics of Conversion and Alchemy in Renaissance Spain” with the SRC. On March 26, 2021, I delivered my paper “Dynasty, Interrupted: The Stuart Monarchy, the Protestant Reformation, and Early Nationalism” at the South Central Renaissance Conference. On August 23, 2021, I gave a guest lecture at Thomas More University for a world history class, titled “Looking for Perfection: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Art.”
Joseph Solomon Eskin
Graduate Assistant, History
Theodore Francis Jansen
Graduate Assistant, History
Michael Kilmore
Graduate Assistant, History
Kevin Patrick McPartland
Graduate Assistant, History
Charles Wilson Morriss
Graduate Assistant, History
University of Cincinnati
Candidate for Masters in History, May 2023
Concentration in Public History
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of the Arts, cum laude, May 2021
Majors in History and Film and Media Studies
Minor in American Cultural Studies
Work and Research Experience
Teaching Assistant, Dr. Mark Raider, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant, Dr. Jason Krupar, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2021
Fellow at the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board, Summer 2021
Erena Nakashima
Graduate Assistant, History
Sayre C O'Cull
Graduate Assistant, History
Katherine Ranum
Graduate Assistant, History
I previously received a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati (2017). My thesis, “With a Mother’s Hand: A Study of First World War Chaplains, Religion and Gender Identity,” was awarded first place for the 2017 Zane Miller Award for original graduate research and writing. I also defended my thesis with distinction. In 2004, I graduated with a B.A. in history from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. I have also taken courses in German language at Columbus State, and the Reformation at The Ohio State University.
As a graduate assistant, I have had the pleasure of serving as a teaching assistant in the courses Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, The History of Show Business, Themes in World History: Immigration, Drugs in the Americas, Human Rights and Security, and U.S. Survey I.
I have also conducted research for other historians including Dr. David Stradling (University of Cincinnati, for his monograph In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati, 2018), Dr. Susan Longfield Karr (University of Cincinnati), Dr. Gary Zola (Hebrew Union College), and for popular history author Karen Abbott (for her book The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, 2019). Researching for others has been an exciting opportunity to expand my exposure to areas outside of my immediate foci, including the history of education, legal history, American Jewish history and crime respectively.
I have been the grateful recipient of several academic awards. Not only did I receive the Zane Miller Prize for my master’s thesis, but I placed first the next year as well for my paper entitled “Hearing the Gospel in a Silent Word: Disability, Gender and Religion in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1684.” In 2018, the Department of History awarded me the Niehoff Fellowship, which granted me a no service year as well as providing funding for my research.
I have presented this research at several conferences, including the above papers at the Queen City Colloquium (University of Cincinnati graduate student conference) in 2017 and 2018, respectively. I also delivered a version of “Hearing the Gospel in a Silent World” at Calvin College in 2018 at the Faith and History Conference and at the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife “Living with Disabilities, 1600-1900.” in June of 2021. In 2019 I presented my paper, “Not Cutting Covenant: Circumcision, Rhetoric and Nonconformity in the Early Modern Atlantic” at QCC. I have also been a guest lecturer in the Department of Sociology, presenting on religion and gender, and an invited panelist at the Midwest American Academy of Religion Conveference (2021).
As a member of the Department of History, I have had several opportunities to participate in university service. During the 2017-2018 academic year, I was treasurer for the History Graduate Student Association and helped plan and execute the Queen City Colloquium. The following year I helped spearhead a new, interdisciplinary course entitled Public Fellowship for the Humanities. During the 2018-2019 academic year, I was the graduate student representative to the faculty, and in that capacity assisted in reviewing our curriculum and helped propose reforms. In that year as well, I was invited to serve on the committee conducting the headship search for t
Disha Ray
Graduate Assistant, History
For her Master’s thesis, she will be working on the history of birth control, contraception, abortion, and population politics in colonial South Asia with a focus on the issues of reproduction and sexuality, intersecting with caste, community, class, and race politics. She wants to explore reproductive politics in the context of communalism, nationalism and colonialism and analyse how imperial legal and moral legacies impacted post-colonial policies and shaped people's reproductive destinies.
Mary C Redmond
History
Anthony R. Russomano
Graduate Assistant, History
Jason H Rutledge
Mgr Building Ops - Regional Campus, History
BA MUNTZ
Anna Kathleen Sensel
Graduate Assistant, History
My current research focuses on religious perspectives of slavery in New England between the 1830s-1840s.
Sage Alessandra Turner
History
Delaney F White
Graduate Assistant, History
JeMiah Baht Israel
Graduate Assistant, History
The focus of her MA thesis (Critical Race Theory and Enslavement at the Dinsmore Plantation) is the enslavement of Africans and African Americans at the Dinsmore Plantation in Boone County, Kentucky. JeMiah’s research used archival records and archaeological methods to examine enslavement from the perspective of those who were enslaved. The purpose of this research is to give a voice to those who were enslaved on the Dinsmore plantation and to advocate for the importance of educating the community about the history and truth of what took place at this site.
Ultimately, JeMiah’s goal is become a tenured professor in African American History with a research focus on the period of the enslavement of African and African Americans. It is also her fervent hope to use doctorate education in History to help resolve contemporary problems that plague the African American community.
Shepherd Aaron Ellis
Graduate Assistant, History
I previously earned my M.A. in history from the University of Cincinnati in 2022. My thesis, "Religious Conversion in the Spanish Empire: Identity Formation in Hapsburg Spain and Baroque Mexico" won the second place Zane Miller prize, which is given in recognition of excellence in graduate student writing and research. In 2016 I graduated with my B.A. with a double major in history and classics from the University of North Carolina- Asheville.
Starting as an undergraduate, I have presented my work at numerous conferences, and am an active member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. On September 29, 2022, I will present my paper “Fruit of the Seventeenth-Century Church: Proto-Nationalism in the Hispanic and British Cis-Atlantic” at the annual SRC meeting. On October 16, 2021, I presented the paper “Transmutation and Refinement: The Metaphysics of Conversion and Alchemy in Renaissance Spain” with the SRC. On March 26, 2021, I delivered my paper “Dynasty, Interrupted: The Stuart Monarchy, the Protestant Reformation, and Early Nationalism” at the South Central Renaissance Conference. On August 23, 2021, I gave a guest lecture at Thomas More University for a world history class, titled “Looking for Perfection: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Art.”
Joseph Solomon Eskin
Graduate Assistant, History
Theodore Francis Jansen
Graduate Assistant, History
Michael Kilmore
Graduate Assistant, History
Kevin Patrick McPartland
Graduate Assistant, History
Charles Wilson Morriss
Graduate Assistant, History
University of Cincinnati
Candidate for Masters in History, May 2023
Concentration in Public History
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of the Arts, cum laude, May 2021
Majors in History and Film and Media Studies
Minor in American Cultural Studies
Work and Research Experience
Teaching Assistant, Dr. Mark Raider, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant, Dr. Jason Krupar, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2021
Fellow at the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board, Summer 2021
Erena Nakashima
Graduate Assistant, History
Sayre C O'Cull
Graduate Assistant, History
Katherine Ranum
Graduate Assistant, History
I previously received a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati (2017). My thesis, “With a Mother’s Hand: A Study of First World War Chaplains, Religion and Gender Identity,” was awarded first place for the 2017 Zane Miller Award for original graduate research and writing. I also defended my thesis with distinction. In 2004, I graduated with a B.A. in history from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. I have also taken courses in German language at Columbus State, and the Reformation at The Ohio State University.
As a graduate assistant, I have had the pleasure of serving as a teaching assistant in the courses Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, The History of Show Business, Themes in World History: Immigration, Drugs in the Americas, Human Rights and Security, and U.S. Survey I.
I have also conducted research for other historians including Dr. David Stradling (University of Cincinnati, for his monograph In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati, 2018), Dr. Susan Longfield Karr (University of Cincinnati), Dr. Gary Zola (Hebrew Union College), and for popular history author Karen Abbott (for her book The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, 2019). Researching for others has been an exciting opportunity to expand my exposure to areas outside of my immediate foci, including the history of education, legal history, American Jewish history and crime respectively.
I have been the grateful recipient of several academic awards. Not only did I receive the Zane Miller Prize for my master’s thesis, but I placed first the next year as well for my paper entitled “Hearing the Gospel in a Silent Word: Disability, Gender and Religion in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1684.” In 2018, the Department of History awarded me the Niehoff Fellowship, which granted me a no service year as well as providing funding for my research.
I have presented this research at several conferences, including the above papers at the Queen City Colloquium (University of Cincinnati graduate student conference) in 2017 and 2018, respectively. I also delivered a version of “Hearing the Gospel in a Silent World” at Calvin College in 2018 at the Faith and History Conference and at the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife “Living with Disabilities, 1600-1900.” in June of 2021. In 2019 I presented my paper, “Not Cutting Covenant: Circumcision, Rhetoric and Nonconformity in the Early Modern Atlantic” at QCC. I have also been a guest lecturer in the Department of Sociology, presenting on religion and gender, and an invited panelist at the Midwest American Academy of Religion Conveference (2021).
As a member of the Department of History, I have had several opportunities to participate in university service. During the 2017-2018 academic year, I was treasurer for the History Graduate Student Association and helped plan and execute the Queen City Colloquium. The following year I helped spearhead a new, interdisciplinary course entitled Public Fellowship for the Humanities. During the 2018-2019 academic year, I was the graduate student representative to the faculty, and in that capacity assisted in reviewing our curriculum and helped propose reforms. In that year as well, I was invited to serve on the committee conducting the headship search for t
Disha Ray
Graduate Assistant, History
For her Master’s thesis, she will be working on the history of birth control, contraception, abortion, and population politics in colonial South Asia with a focus on the issues of reproduction and sexuality, intersecting with caste, community, class, and race politics. She wants to explore reproductive politics in the context of communalism, nationalism and colonialism and analyse how imperial legal and moral legacies impacted post-colonial policies and shaped people's reproductive destinies.
Mary C Redmond
History
Anthony R. Russomano
Graduate Assistant, History
Jason H Rutledge
Mgr Building Ops - Regional Campus, History
BA MUNTZ
Anna Kathleen Sensel
Graduate Assistant, History
My current research focuses on religious perspectives of slavery in New England between the 1830s-1840s.
Sage Alessandra Turner
History
Delaney F White
Graduate Assistant, History