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2020-2021
- Director: Jonathon Glassman
- Assistant Director: Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
Summer 2020 fellowships: Anisha BHAT at Illinois Humanities and Guangshuo YANG at Chicago Leather Archives and Museum, plus
- Colored Conventions Project (with Prof. Kate Masur): Hope McCAFFREY and Emiliano AGUILAR
- Classicizing Chicago Project (with Prof. Sara Monoson): Brian FORMAN, Robin POKORSKI, John SULLIVAN
T.H. BREEN GRADUATE FELLOWS
- Ruby DAILY—convener of a graduate conference on “The Me: Historicizing the Self”
- Sian OLSON DOWIS—convener of a graduate conference on “'The End of the World as They Knew It': Crisis and Conflict in History"
- Digital Media Fellow: Gil ENGELSTEIN
QUINN FELLOW in collaboration with the Doris G. Quinn Foundation
- Laura NOBOA—dissertation on “Your Most Dedicated and Obsequious Consort: The Self-Representation of Three Consorts in Renaissance Italy”
CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWS
- William FITZSIMONS—dissertation on “Power without a Center: Age, Mobility, and Political Institutions in the Grasslands of East Africa, c. 500 BCE-1800 CE”
- Laura McCOY—2020 dissertation: “In Distress: Family and a Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic”
CCHS TEACHING INITIATIVE
- In Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 Prof. Paul GILLINGHAM with Andrea ROSENGARTEN as his graduate co-instructor will design and offer a new Winter 2021 History course on “The End of Citizenship.”
2019-2020
- Director: Jonathon Glassman
- Assistant Director: Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
- Student Employee: Alex Manaa (History and Theatre major) in the Fall, Dylan Zou (freshman in Communications Studies and History) in winter and Spring.
Summer 2019 fellowships: Holly DONAT at Timeline Theatre, Gideon COHN-POSTAR at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Guangshuo YANG at the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum.
T.H. BREEN GRADUATE FELLOWS
- Sean HARVEY—convener of conference on “The Politics of Progress: Growth in and throughout History” (dissertation: “Assembly Lines: Maquiladoras and the Making of the U.S.—Mexico Borderlands, 1932-1992”)
- Katya MASLAKOWSKI—working on CCHS digital media (dissertation: “Men of Violence: Counterinsurgency and British Colonial Violence at the End of Empire”)
- Laura McCOY—convener of conference on “All in a Day’s Work: Labor in History" (dissertation: “In Distress: Family and a Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic”)
QUINN FELLOW in collaboration with the Doris G. Quinn Foundation
- William FITZSIMONS—dissertation on “Power without a Center: Age, Mobility, and Political Institutions in the Grasslands of East Africa, c. 500 BCE-1800 CE”
CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWS
- Jessica BIDDLESTONE—2019 dissertation on “Empire of Ruins: France in Roman Africa 1830-1900”
- Ryan BURNS—2019 dissertation on “Potential Protestants: Catholics, Conformity and Conversion in Early Modern Scotland, 1560-1780”
Both will teach in the History Department.
CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW in PUBLIC SERVICE
- Teng LI—2019 dissertation on “Chinese Judiciary at the Crossroads: Property Laws, Policies, and Courts in Taiwan and Manchuria, 1945–1953”—working at the American Bar Association: https://www.americanbar.org/ (Mapping Chinese Courts, 1906-Present)

2018-19
T.H. BREEN GRADUATE FELLOWS
- Kevin BAKER—Conference convener: “Back to the Future: Visions of Tomorrow in World History”(dissertation: “Word Processors: Computer Simulation, Global Environmentalism, and the Birth of Sustainable Development”)
- Jessica BIDDLESTONE—Digital media (dissertation: “France in Roman Africa: Antiquity and the Making of Empire in French Algeria and Tunisia 1830-1900”)
- Aram SARKISIAN—conference convener: “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories”(dissertation: “The Cross Between Hammer and Sickle: Russian Orthodox Christians in the United States, 1908-1926”).
QUINN FELLOW in collaboration with the Doris G. Quinn Foundation
- Keith Allan CLARK II—dissertation on “Defining China: Beijing, Taipei, and the United Nations’ ‘China Seat,’ 1949-1992”
CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWS
- Alex HOBSON (School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017-18)—2017 dissertation: “Chains of Vengeance: The United States and Anti-Imperialism in the Middle East, 1967-2001”
- Alexandra THOMAS (NU)—2018 dissertation: “Reasons of State and the Politics of Botero, Campanella, and Sarpi in the Waning of the Renaissance”
New CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW in PUBLIC SERVICE
- Beth HEALEY (NU)—2017 dissertation: “Nazi Crimes, British Justice: The Royal Warrant War Crimes Trials in British-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949”—working and conducting research for the non-profict organization UnSilence.
2018-2019 CCHS ADVISORY COUNCIL:
Sarah Maza (CHS Director), Laura Hein (History Chair), Dyan Elliott (History), Keith Woodhouse (History), Lina Britto (History), Taco Terpstra (Classics), and Gary T. Johnson (President, Chicago History Museum).Back to top