#  Advising 

 



I advise student research on the history of the United States in the world and modern international history. I am especially interested in working with students who adopt fresh approaches and/or look at understudied actors, themes, or connections. My main regions of expertise outside the US are Asia and the Middle East and most students I supervise have some interest in at least one of those regions.

**Note to potential applicants to the PhD program in History**: I am generally open to accepting new students and look forward to reading your applications. If you have questions about the program, please contact our graduate program coordinator, Dan Bertwell (<bertwell@fas.harvard.edu>).   
  
Doctoral advisees:

- Dina Hassan, "Colored Empires: The Comparative and Connective History of Pan-Asianism and Pan-Africanism in the Early 20th Century"
- [Daniel Chardell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-chardell/) PhD '23. "The Gulf War: An International History, 1989-1991"
- [Marino Auffant](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/marino-auffant/) PhD '22. "Globalizing Oil, Unleashing Capital: An International History of the 1970s Energy Crisis"
- [Ruodi Duan](https://www.haverford.edu/users/rduan) PhD '22. "Ends of Solidarity: China, Tanzania, and Black Internationalism, 1960-1972"
- [Thomas M. Jamison](https://nps.edu/faculty-profiles/-/cv/thomas.jamison) PhD '20. "Pacific Wars: Peripheral Conflict and the Making of the U.S. 'New Navy,' 1865-  
    1897"
- [Lydia Walker](https://history.osu.edu/people/walker.1380) PhD '18. "States-in-Waiting: Nationalism, Internationalism, Decolonization"
- [Steffen Rimner](https://people.ucd.ie/steffen.rimner) PhD '14. "The Asian Origins of Global Narcotics Control, c. 1860-1909"
- [Jane Hong](http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/jane-hong) PhD '13. "Reorienting America: Race, Geopolitics, and the Repeal of Asian Exclusion, 1940-1952"

Dissertation committee member:

- [Jesus Solis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesus-solis-81149b37/) PhD '24. "Black Market Empire: The Illicit Sale of American Goods, Combat Supplies, and Drugs in Japan and America’s Underground Lake, 1945-1975"
- [Bohao Wu](https://www.history.pku.edu.cn/jszy/wbh/1fa76d4564d54800bfd4ab26228b0326.htm) PhD '23. "Uneasy Friends and Convenient Enemies: Sino-Japanese Competition and Coordination in Cold War Asia, 1950–1972"
- [Rachel Steely](https://www.rsteely.com/about) PhD '22. "Invisible Giant: The Global Rise of Soy in the Twentieth Century"
- [Kristin Oberiano](https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/koberiano/profile.html) PhD '21. "Territorial Discontent: Chamorros, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire on Guam"
- [Madeleine Dungy](https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/madeleine.dungy) PhD '17. "Peace, Power, and Economic Order: International Rivalry and Cooperation in European Trade Politics, 1900-1930"
- [Eva Payne](https://olemiss.edu/profiles/ebpayne) PhD '17. "Purifying the World: Americans and International Sexual Reform, 1865–1933"
- [Zach Fredman](https://scholars.duke.edu/person/zach.fredman) PhD '16. “From Allies to Occupiers: Living with the U.S. Military in Wartime China, 1941–1945” (BU, external reader)
- [Asher Orkaby](https://www.linkedin.com/in/asher-orkaby-7aa595188/) PhD '14. "The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1968"
- [Kimberly A. Lowe](https://www.lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/kimberly-lowe-frank) PhD '13. "The Red Cross and the New World Order, 1918-1924" (Yale, external reader)
- [Jeremy Yellen](https://www.jeremyyellen.net/about) PhD '12. "The Two Pacific Wars: Visions of Order and Independence in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines, 1940-1945"
- [Erik Linstrum](https://history.virginia.edu/people/erik-linstrum) PhD '12. "Making Minds Modern: The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, 1898-1970"
- [Vernie Oliveiro](https://sg.linkedin.com/pub/vernie-oliveiro/15/2b8/692) PhD '10. "The United States, multinational corporations and the politics of globalization in the 1970s"
- [Ann Marie Wilson](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ann-marie-wilson#tab-1) PhD '10. "Taking liberties abroad : American and the international humanitarian advocacy, 1821-1914"
- [Trygve Throntveit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/trygvethrontveit/) PhD '08. "Related states : pragmatism, progressivism, and internationalism in American thought and politics, 1880--1920"

Undergraduate senior theses advisees:

- Kendall Carll '26, "“Limits of Liberty: The United States, China, and the Rise of Democratic Taiwan, 1989–1998” (winner, [Hoopes Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/hoopes-prize))
- Ryan Santos '23, "The Quiet Filipino: The Philippines and the clandestine outsourcing of the American Wars in Indochina, 1954 - 1967"
- Jonah Lefkoe '19, "Defending the Open Door: The Promise and Perils of Economic Diplomacy in US China Relations, 1898-1922"
- Sophie Mehta '19, "Front Organizations and Back Doors: The Indian Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA in the Cold War"
- Richard Tong '19, "'SO CALD CIVILIZED NATIONS': Anglophone Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century"
- [Anatol Klass](https://www.belfercenter.org/person/anatol-klass) '17, "China's New Order: The Republic of China and the United Nations System in Asia, 1945-1950" (winner, [Hoopes Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/hoopes-prize))
- Benjamin Harland '16, "Universality and Inclusion or Neutrality and Exclusion: Magen David Adom’s Campaign for A New Red Cross Symbol, 1948-2006"
- [Julian Gewirtz](http://www.juliangewirtz.com/) ’13, “River Crossings: The Influence of Western Economists on Chinese Reform, 1978-1988” (winner, [Hoopes Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/hoopes-prize)and [Philip Washburn Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#W)). Revised and expanded version published as [Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China](https://www.amazon.com/Unlikely-Partners-Chinese-Reformers-Economists/dp/0674971132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471618729&sr=8-1&keywords=Unlikely%20Partners) (Harvard, 2017)
- David Alan Fuller ’13, “The Balangiga Inflection: Massacre, Media, and the United States’ Understanding of Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1902”
- Peter Gamble Bacon ’11, “Ambassadors with Bulldozers: American Development in Afghanistan, 1945-1959”
- Mohindra Rupram ’10, “The American Intervention in Guyana: International, Regional and Domestic Contexts”
- Robert Gerard King ’10, “Academic Scribblers: Policy Reports and the Making of American Strategy on Latin America, 1948-1980”
- Amy Michelle Zelcer ‘07, “Henry Morgenthau Jr., the Holocaust, and the Transformation of American Jewish Identity” (winner, Lillian Bell Prize in History)