History Department @ FIU

Florida International University Department of History

Graduate Students

This is a current (9/07) list of the History graduate students sorted by area concentration. Information included is each student’s program status, email address and area of interest. Dissertation titles are given only for PhD students who have advanced to candidacy.

Africa

Josh Souliere, PhD Student, joshua.souliere@fiu.edu, West Africa/Western Sudan 900-1500 A.D.

Berbeth Foster , MA Student, inity98@yahoo.com, Africa and African Diaspora

Europe

Monica Cabrera, MA student, mcabr007@fiu.edu, Europe, Greco-Roman Antiquity, Pre-Modern Civilizations,
Women in the Ancient World, Religious Studies

Lisa Howe, PhD Student, lisa.howe@fiu.edu, Early Modern Britain and women

Amanda Snyder, PhD Student, asnyd002@fiu.edu, Piracy ( Atlantic and Mediterranean ); 16th/17th century maritime trade and diplomacy; European settlement in the Caribbean and Florida/Carolinas

Yehudis Benhamou, MA Student, chai96@aol.com, Modern Europe

Antonietta Di Pietro , MA Student, adipi001@fiu.edu, Early Modern Europe ( Italy , France, Central Europe )

Robert Harkins, MA Student, rhark001@fiu.edu, Public History, Florida , Pre-modern Europe

Elizabeth Hoisington, MA Student, ehois001@fiu.edu, 17^th to 21st century Central and Eastern Europe.

Derrick Lang, MA Student, dlang001@fiu.edu, European/Asian Interaction

Ashley M Mateiro, MA Student, Amate002@fiu.edu, European Studies

K. Erik Pedersen-Majors, MA student, erikmajors@aol.com European history

Eric Rodriguez, MA student, erodri19@fiu.edu, 19th Century Cuba, World War I, Greco-Roman Antiquity, Early Modern Spain

Suarmis Travieso , MA Student, suarmis@hotmail.com European 19th century History

Latin America

Melissa Armitage, PhD Student, melissa.armitage@fiu.edu, Modern Latin America, Argentina , Childhood and Youth, Women’s Studies
Quinn Dauer, PhD Student, qdaue001@fiu.edu, Environmental History, Nation-State Building, Identity FLAS Fellow
Erika Denise Edwards, PhD Student, eedwa003@fiu.edu, Latin America, African Diaspora, State Formation, Nation-building Fulbright Fellow

Joseph Holbrook, PhD Student, josenmiami@yahoo.com, Church and Politics in Brazil , Colombia , and Cuba , Pluralism and Modernization in the mid-twentieth century FLAS Fellow

Patrick Peacock, PhD Candidate, "Punishment and Empire in the Early Atlantic” patrick.peacock@fiu.edu, 16/17th c. Latin America / 17th c. English Atlantic, FLAS Fellow

Miguel "Willie" Ramos, PhD Student, ilari@eleda.org, Afro-Cuba & Afro-Brazil, 19th century

Yair Saguey, PhD Student, yairsagie@hotmail.com, Brazil , 20th century, Jewish Diaspora, Music

Maria Carolina Zumaglini, PhD Student, mzuma001@fiu.edu, Latin America
Sitela Alvarez, MA student, salva005@fiu.edu, Latin America, Gender, Culture, Cuba
Michelle Padron, MA Student, mpadr001@fiu.edu, Latin America, Caribbean

Miska Rodriguez , MA Student, miska.rodriguez@fiu.edu, Latin America , 16/17th c. Andean Region

Adam M. Silvia, MA Student, AdamMSilvia@yahoo.com, Latin America , Haiti , US-Haitian Relations

Ron Villela, MA Student, ronvillela@msn.com, Latin America

United States

Anthony D. Atwood, PhD Candidate, "The Restoration of historic NAS Richmond, Florida: A project in Public American Military History," Anthony.Atwood@fiu.edu, U.S. Military History and Historic Preservation, Principal Investigator, Miami Military Museum Project, Kauffman Fellow

Julio Capo, Jr., PhD Student, jcc303@nyu.edu, Modern American History,
Sexuality, Gender, Mass Media, Florida, Cuban migration

John Franklin Jennings , PhD Student ramblinjennings@aol.com, American History, Southern American History, Ethnomusicology

Kisha King, PhD Student, kking004@fiu.edu,African-American history, African history, Latin American history

Josue Rey, PhD Candidate, "An Intellectual History of Individualism, Conservatism, and Ayn Rand in Twentieth- Century America" jrey001@fiu.edu, Intellectual and Cultural US ; Cold War; and Russian Revolution

Ken Spiegelman, PhD Student, kspiegelman@dadeschools.net, American Revolutionary Period, The Drafting of the Constitution, The First House of Representatives Spiegelman is the author of Standby which will be released April 2008.

Rodney Earl Walton, PhD Candidate, "U.S. Army Front Line Artillery Observation During The 1945 Okinawa Campaign: An Oral History Case Study" rodney.walton@fiu.edu, Military History (both U.S. and European), American Political History, History of the U.S. Supreme Court

James Booker, MA Student, james@phdhealth.com, Religion, Philosophy , United States , Europe

Darren McDonough, MA Student, inf6@yahoo.com, Military History

Robert Mesa, MA Student, hisgrad25@mac.com, U.S. history, 20th century

Sayda S. Sahury-Clasca, MA Student, ssahury@yahoo.com, Miami 1896-1920

Jesse Spencer, MA Student, jspen004@fiu.edu, Public History, Colonial America, cartography, exhibition design

Regina Stuck, MA Student, rstuck@dadeschools.net, American History

Juan Valdes, MA Student, juanrvaldes@bellsouth.net, Music History , US , Blues/Rock n' Roll, 70's Pop Culture