Stephen Arguetta received his BA in International Affairs from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) in 2000 and entered the PhD program in 2003 with a Presidential Fellowship. He is studying American diplomatic history and international history with Professors Mayers and Keylor. His interests include cold war history (specifically in US policy toward Europe and Latin America), as well as cultural and intellectual history. Prior to enrolling at Boston University, Stephen found work as a Development Research Analyst and as a professional musician.

David Atkinson received his BA in American Studies from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1999 and entered the PhD program in 2002 with a Presidential Fellowship. He intends to explore themes in international history with Professor William Keylor, and US diplomatic history with Professor David Mayers. His interests are varied and include the history of international relations, the nature of the metropolis-periphery relationship within empires, and US responses to the Sino-Soviet schism.

Christine Axen Christine Axen entered the PhD program in 2007 after receiving her BA from New York University in Medieval and Renaissance Studies with a minor in French. She wrote her senior honors thesis on the Crusade love lyric, and hopes to study the history of the Crusades and of France and England during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries with Professor Clifford Backman.

AJ Ballou received an MA degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2006 and an MTS (Master of Theological Studies) degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, in 2002. He received his BA from Maryville College in 1998. AJ will focus on modern US intellectual history with Professor Jon Roberts as his advisor. While at CU, he received a travel grant to visit the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and further his research into early twentieth century peace movements.

Ilona Baughman received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. After many years in the working world, she resumed her education in 2003, entering the MLA program in Gastronomy at Boston University. She entered the MA program in 2007 and plans to work with Professor Thomas Glick, pursuing her interest in the modern history of the Mediterranean region, particularly as expressed through the evolution and exchange of food traditions.

David Beale received his BA in History and Anthropology from the University of Maine at Farmington in 2004 and worked as a field archaeologist throughout New England before entering the PhD program in 2006. He is studying modern American intellectual history with Professors Charles Capper and Jon Roberts.

Andrew R. (Bob) Black received his BA in history from the University of Virginia in 1966. After serving in the military, he worked in the international food industry for PepsiCo, Mars, and Barilla Pasta. He received his Master's degree at Boston University and is now enrolled in the PhD program. He is particularly interested in early United States history.

Anne Blaschke began the PhD program in 2003 after earning her BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2000. She is working in US history and is particularly interested in the post-Civil War South. Her advisor is Professor Bruce Schulman.

Seth Blumenthal Field: American. Advisor: Schulman.

Kathryn Cramer Brownell received her BA from the University of Michigan in 2004 and entered the PhD program in 2005. She is working with Professor Bruce Schulman focusing her work on social and cultural protest in recent US history. During her study at Michigan, she received a travel grant to San Francisco to research the Bay Area counterculture, and her senior thesis explored the countercultural co-optation of the 1960s and the legacy of the Woodstock Generation.

Brian Casady earned his BA from Oregon State University in 1998 and entered the PhD program in 2004 and is studying African History with Professor Diane Wylie. His area of interest is the history of urban infrastructure in East Africa with a particular focus on the changing patterns of energy use and the interaction between built and natural environments.

Dane (D.J.) Cash received his BA in Philosophy and Religion from Ithaca College in 1997 and entered the MA program in 2002. He has worked at Sargent College’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation for the past 4 years, where he has co-authored a forthcoming article in the American Journal of Public Health on the use of alternative health care by people with psychiatric disabilities. He plans to study 20th-century US foreign relations and diplomatic history with Professors David Mayers and William Keylor. He received his MA in May 2003 and was admitted to the PhD program.

Andrew Chatfield is in the MA program working with Professor William Keylor.

Andrew David entered the PhD program in 2009 after receiving a BA in History from Boston University in 2005 and an MA in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics in 2006. He plans to work on topics relating to US foreign policy with Professor Mayers. He is especially interested in Anglo-American relations in the 20th century, the evolution of the National Security Council, and the foreign policy decision-making process.

Kelsey Dorwart entered the MA program in 2007 after graduating from Hamilton College in 2006 with a double BA in history and French. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the Shakers as subjects of popular culture, and is being reworked for publication in American Communal Societies Quarterly. She is particularly interested in American history through the 19th century, and plans to integrate her studies with her ongoing work in public television at WGBH Educational Foundation.

Beth M. Forrest Field: European, history of food. Advisor: Glick.

Margaret Fowler received her BA from the University of Denver in 2008 and entered the MA program in 2009. She is especially interested in modern British history and plans to study social reform during the Victorian period with Professor Arianne Chernock.

Zach Fredman received his BA from the University of Arizona in 2003. He entered the PhD program in 2009 after spending several years working in Chengdu, China, as an ESL and Research Methods teacher. He is interested in studying the history of 20th-century American foreign policy and international relations, particularly US-China relations. His advisor is Professor Andrew Bacevich.

Heather Garrett completed her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 with a BA in both History and English. She went on to earn an MAT in Arts and Teaching at the University of Southern California. After teaching elementary school in Los Angeles, she moved to Prague, Czech Republic, for a year to teach third grade in a dual language school. While interning at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, she researched women writers in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. She entered the PhD program at Boston University in 2009 and is interested in continuing to study Germany during the Cold War under the guidance of Professor Jonathan Zatlin.

Sara Georgini entered the MA program in 2007 after earning a BS in Journalism in 1998 and a BLS in History in 2007, both from Boston University. Admitted to the PhD program in the fall of 2009, she plans to study early American history with Professor Jon Roberts and is particularly interested in the link between colonial religion and revolution.

Melissa Graboyes entered the graduate program after earning her BA in history from the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation is about the history of medical research in East Africa, and she spent 2008 conducting field work in Tanzania and Kenya. She is working with Professors Jim McCann and Diana Wylie and anticipates graduating in 2010. For more information, see her website.

Katherine Hollander (Kate) earned an interdisciplinary BA in poetry and German history from Marlboro College in Marlboro, VT, in 2002. A poet as well as a student of history, she has a master’s degree from Boston University’s graduate program in Creative Writing and has published poetry and criticism in a variety of literary journals, most recently a review of a new translation of the late work of the German-language poet Paul Celan. She has a longstanding interest in German cultural and political history, particularly in the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and would like to pursue research on the SPD’s stance on the arts during the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods. She is very happy to be back in Boston and back at BU, where she is looking forward to working with James Schmidt.

Michael Holm holds a BA (1998) and an MA (2002) in Contemporary History from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, and a MA in History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2007). He entered Boston University's PhD program in History in 2008. His primary interest is the Cold War, and he plans to work with Professor William Keylor on the interplay of American ideology and trans-Atlantic relations during the Eisenhower era.

Ellen Horrow received her AB in history from Princeton University in 2004 and entered the PhD program in 2006 with a Presidential Fellowship. She is focusing on American diplomatic history with Professor Mayers. Prior to enrolling at Boston University, Ellen taught middle school English and social studies.

Scott Hough entered the MA program after receiving his BA from the University of Washington in 2008. In between programs, he spent six months studying Japan’s language and modern culture in Tokyo. He plans to work in U.S. diplomatic history with Professor Nolan and is especially interested in the international crisis of the mid-twentieth century and how it transformed America, its view of itself, and role in the world.

Rosemary Hynes Field: American.

Kate Jewell, a 2001 graduate of Vanderbilt University, entered the graduate program at Boston University in 2002. Her focus is both economic and political history of the twentieth-century South. She plans to explore the development of southern industry in the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the organization of southern industrialists in the political arena.

Douglas C. Kierdorf Field: medieval European. Advisor: Glick.

Linda Killian Field: American. Advisor: Schulman.

Jonathan Koefoed received his BA in Philosophy and his BA in History from The Barrett College at Arizona State University in 2004. He received his MA in Historical Theology (American emphasis) from Saint Louis University in 2007, and entered the PhD program the same year with a Dean’s Fellowship. Jonathan will study nineteenth-century American intellectual history with Professors Roberts and Capper. He is particularly interested in the advent of American Transcendentalism and the transatlantic influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the American story. While at Saint Louis, Jonathan was recognized by the Graduate Student Association for presenting the best original research paper at the Annual Graduate Research Symposium.

Jolanta Komornicka received her BA from Reed College in 2004 for History-Literature and entered Boston University’s PhD program that fall. She is studying medieval history under Professor Clifford Backman. Jolanta is particularly engaged by the Crusades and the Eastern European middle ages. While at Reed, she worked on a grant with Michael Faletra concerning John of Cornwall’s Prophecy of Merlin and wrote her senior thesis on the relationship between the English aristocracy and several Middle English Charlemagne romances of the fourteenth century.

François Lalonde entered the PhD program in 2005 after earning his BA and his MA at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is mostly interested in 20th-century International Relations, particularly the early Cold War, and plans to work with Professor William Keylor. He is also interested in modern American history and in American foreign policy.

Kathryn Lamontagne received her BA and MA from Providence College in 2001 and 2003 respectively. She also earned an MA from the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London in Cultural Memory in 2005. Her MA dissertation in London explored the dual roles of remembrance and forgetting of the Irish Civil War at Kilmainham Gaol and Museum, Dublin. Entering the PhD program in 2006, she is working with Professor Charles Dellheim and Professor Arianne Chernock in the field of modern British cultural history.

Ronald Lamothe entered the PhD program in 2003 after earning his MA at the University of Massachusetts. He is working in modern African history with Professor James McCann. He is particularly interested in the events surrounding the Scramble for Africa.

Carla Lovett received her BA in archaeology from Yale University in 1990 and after exploring the world entered the Master's Program at Boston University in the fall of 1998. She received her MA and subsequently transferred into the PhD program in September 1999. Carla is particularly enthralled by the social history of religion in Europe since the Reformation (particularly 19th- and 20th-century France and Germany) and is working with Professors Dietrich Orlow and David Hempton on this topic.

Scott Marr received his BA in history from Kansas State University and entered the PhD program at Boston University in fall of 1999. He is working with Professor Diefendorf in early modern Europe. He is interested in social and religious history in sixteenth-century France, especially Catholic/Protestant relations.

Amanda Mathews received her BA in History from Boston College in May 2008. She will be pursuing her Ph.D. with a focus on Early American History, particularly the American Revolution and Early National period. Her advisor is Professor Brendan McConville.

William McCoy entered the MA program in 2002 after earning a BA in history two years before at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA. Having been admitted to the PhD program, he is working in the field of African history with Professor Diana Wylie and is particularly interested in the history of southern Africa and the development of contemporary Africa out of the colonial period.

Gareth McFeely entered the PhD program in 2008. He received his BA from Trinity College Dublin in 1995 and his MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 1998. His primary interest is in the history of leisure in Africa, and he plans to work on African popular culture and audience responses, particularly related to the movies.

Michael McGuire received his BA in history from Vassar College in 1998 and in the fall of 1999 entered the PhD program with a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. His main academic interest is the domestic and foreign situation of the French Army prior to World War I. His advisor is Professor Keylor.

Danielle McKanic-Berman is working in medieval history with Professor Thomas Glick. She entered the PhD program in fall 2008.

Robyn Metcalfe began her studies in the PhD program in fall 2004 with a keen interest in agricultural and food history. She received her BA from the University of Michigan in American Studies in 1970. After a career in publishing, writing, teaching, and management consulting with Arthur D. Little, Inc., she founded a non-profit conservation and educational farm in Maine. Its purpose was to conserve heritage breeds of farm animals and to develop agricultural history programs. After raising sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry, and cows for ten years, she welcomes the opoportunity to focus on the historical perspective of food production systems.

Natalie Mettler entered the PhD program im 2005. She received her BA in anthropology and French from Macalester College in 2003. Her interests include: African agricultural and food history and its relevant applications to contemporary development efforts, transformation in African Diaspora societies, and the repercussions in governance of colonial changes in Africa.

David Mislin entered the PhD program in September 2006 after receiving a BA in history from Oberlin College in 2003 and a Masters of Theological Studies in American religious history from Harvard Divinity School in 2005. His area of interest is twentieth-century American social and religious history, with a focus on the experience of US Catholics. He is working with Professor Jon Roberts.

Andrea Mosterman entered the PhD program in 2004 after earning her MA degree in history at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. There she majored in American Studies with a minor in African and African American Studies. During the academic year of 2002-03 she studied at Louisiana State University, where she did additional research in the fall of 2003 for her Master's thesis on the representation of slavery at the River Road plantation museums. Her area of interest is the African Diaspora, and especially subjects such as racial thought, representation, and cultural exchanges. At Boston University she is working with Professor Linda Heywood.

Amy Noel entered the PhD program after receiving her BA from California State University, Fresno in 2009. She plans to study Early American history with Professor McConville and is particularly interested in the revolutionary era, as well as iconography and public memory during the early republic.

David Olson received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in History from McGill University in his home town of Montréal. He has broad interests in international and global history. In 2008, he received a Travel Grant from the European Union Center of Excellence in order to pursue archival research in Europe. He entered the PhD program in 2009 and intends to study transatlantic relations in the seventies.

Katherine Opie received her BS from the United States Military Academy in 2001 and entered the MA program in 2009. She is looking forward to transitioning back to academic mode after serving in the Army for the last eight years. She is taking this opportunity to branch out and study African History. She is particularly interested in East Africa in the aftermath of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War.

Mark Pace received his BA in History and Italian from Connecticut College in 2007. His primary historical interests include rural peasants, the Ancients, and Renaissance humanism.

Patricia Peknik entered the PhD program in 2004 after earning an MA from the English Department and an MA from the Department of History at Boston University. She is working with Professor Jon Roberts and Professor Charles Capper, focusing on nineteenth-century American intellectual history.

Charles Pollack entered the MA program in 2008 after receiving his BA in history and political science from Boston University. Interested in early American history, his research focuses on the colonial period, American Revolution, and establishment of the republic. He is working with Professor Brendan McConville.

Darcy Pratt received her Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University in 1990 and entered the MA/PhD program in Autumn 2006. Prior to returning to school she had an interim career as a marketing manager and writer in Massachusetts and Washington State. Darcy is studying medieval history at BU and has a strong interest in dynastic ties throughout Europe during the high and late medieval periods, particularly those connected to the Angevin empire. Her advisor is Professor Clifford Backman.

Chris Seely received both his BA and his BS from the University of Utah in 2005. He entered the MA program in 2006. He is most interested in studying twentieth-century US political history and working closely with both Professor Bruce Schulman. He was admitted to the PhD program in fall 2007.

Zachary Smith received his BA from Emory University in 2001 and his MA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2005. He is studying modern United States history with Professor Bruce Schulman. He is particularly interested in political history, especially the post-World War II conservative movement and Congress.

Carina Steller received her BA from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 2008 and entered the non-degree-program in fall 2009. She is particularly interested in foreign relations of the United States to Germany, as well as 20th century US-American History in general.

Jeffrey Stout entered the PhD program in American History after completing a MPhil in the History of Science at Oxford University. His background is in physics (BS, University of Denver) and theology (MSt, Oxford), and, under the supervision of Professor Jon Roberts, he wishes to examine science and religion issues in early twentieth-century America. He is particularly interested in the Eastern Orthodox Churches' approaches to science and evolution theory.

Kallie Szczepanski received her BA in the History of Africa/the Middle East from Western Washington University in 1997, and a JD from the University of Washington School of Law in 2002. She entered the PhD program in 2008 with a Presidential Fellowship. She is studying the Environmental History of Africa with Professor James McCann. Her interests include the history of interactions between people and landscapes in Ethiopia, and legal issues surrounding land use.

Sarah Westwood received her BA in history from DePaul University in 2003. She entered the MA program in 2007 after completing two years of Peace Corps service in Senegal. She was admitted to the PhD program in 2009. Her interests lie in modern West African history and she plans to study the historical background of the conflict in Sierra Leone.