NICHOLAS D. CHABRAJA CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES

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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.

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