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.
Shepherd Aaron Ellis
Graduate Assistant, History
Casey Alan Huegel
Graduate Assistant, History
Huegel has published in North Carolina Historical Review, Ohio History, and American National Biography. He currently serves as the book review editor for Ohio Valley History and has worked for the National Park Service since 2012.
Evan Breese Johnson
History
Evan Johnson is currently a doctoral candidate working on a dissertation in Early Modern German History under the direction of Dr. Sigrun Haude. His research is specifically focused on the experiences of small towns in Brandenburg during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). In addition to early modern europe, his teaching areas include 19th century comparative empire and medieval Islam and the West.
Evan plans on defending in 2020.
Trevor S Johnson
Graduate Assistant, History
Kevin Patrick McPartland
Graduate Assistant, History
Felicity Perpetua Moran
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
Anthony R. Russomano
Graduate Assistant, History
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 Faye White
History
Theresa Gilbride Whitely
Graduate Assistant, History