Recent Publications by PhD Alumni

Books

Ramey, Andrew. Saving the Chesapeake: The History of a Movement. Charlottesville, VA: UVA Press, 2025.

Neu, Jonathan. Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025.

Busch, David S. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025. 

Grunewald, Susan. From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.

Klanderud, Jessica D. Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Littel-Lamb, Elizabeth A. The YWCA in China: The Making of a Chinese Christian Women’s Institution, 1899–1957. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2023.

Roszman, Jay. Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Gao, Yan. Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Brown, Kevin. Devils Hole Pupfish: The Unexpected Survival of an Endangered Species in the Modern American West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2021

McMahon, Cian T. The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine. New York: NYU Press, 2021.

Magnusson, Sigurdur Gylf. Emotional Experience and Microhistory: A Life Story of a Destitute Pauper Poet in the 19th Century. London: Routledge, 2020.

Articles

Bonilla, Francisco Javier. “‘Sanitary Purposes’: Engineering, Landfills, and Health During the Construction of the Panama Canal.” Environment and History 30, no.4 (2024): 569-574.

Clemente, Deirdre. “‘A Style Conscious Nation Eagerly Awaits’: Chambers of Commerce and the Making of the American Fashion Industry, 1900-1960.” Journal of Urban History 51, No. 2 (2023): 288-307.

Bellotti, Alissa. “The rock star and the dictator: Udo Lindenberg’s East German celebrity diplomacy.”  Cold War History 23 (2023): 83-102.

JuRoos, Julia. “Constructing Racial Visibility: Biracial ‘Occupation Children’ in the Third Reich, 1933-37.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 2-24.

Siddiqi, Asif A. “The materiality of secrets: everyday secrecy in postwar Soviet Union.” Continuity and Change 38, no.1 (2023): 75-97.

Hauser, Mark. “‘A Violent Desire for the Amusements’: Boxing, Libraries, and the Distribution and Management of Welfare During the First World War.” Journal of Military History 86, no.4 (October 2022): 883-913.

McMahon, Cian T. “‘That City Afloat’: Maritime Dimensions of Ireland’s Great Famine Migration.” American Historical Review 127, no. 1 (2022): 100-128.

Grunewald, Susan. “‘Victory or Siberia’: Imaginings of Siberia and the Memory of German POWs in the USSR.” German History 40, no.1 (2022): 88-106.

Liu, Zhaokun. “Icebreaking Cooperation: Resuming the Repatriation of U.S. Servicemen’s Remains from North Korea, 1985–1990.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 28 (2021): 247-274. 

Siddiqi, Asif A. “Secret Secrecy: Towards a Social Map of Knowledge.” American Historical Review 126, no.3 (2021): 1046-1071.

Siddiqi, Asif A. “Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 41, no.1 (2021): 41-55. 

Siddiqi, Asif A. “Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities.” Urban History 49, no.1 (2021): 190-210.

McMahon, Cian T. “Tracking the Great Famine’s ‘Coffin Ships’ Across the Digital Deep.” Éire-Ireland 56, nos. 1–2 (2021): 81-109.

Liu, Jiacheng. “Courting Actresses and Exploring Love in Late Qing and Early Republican China.” Frontier History of China 15, no.1 (2020): 1-33.

Siddiqi, Asif A. “Whose India? SITE and the origins of satellite television in India.” History and Technology 36, Nos.3-4 (2020): 452-474.

Liu, Jiacheng. “From social drama to political performance: China’s multi-front combat with the Covid-19 epidemic.” Critical Asian Studies 52 (2020): 1-21.