Ph.D. Students
Colton L. Babbitt
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Rebecca Marchiel
Research Interests: 20th-Century United States, Religion, Politics, U.S. South, Globalization
cbabbitt@go.olemiss.edu
Philip Baltuskonis
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Douglass Sullivan-González
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Colombia, Age of Revolutions, Spanish American Enlightenment
pjbaltus@go.olemiss.edu
Mary M. Báthory Vidaver
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Jarod Roll
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century United States, Southern History, Religion, Social Movements, Environmental History
mbathory@go.olemiss.edu
Scott Blusiewicz
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Ted Ownby
Research Interests: 20th-century United States, Southern History, Civil Rights
sblusiew@go.olemiss.edu
Andrew Boldt
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Undeclared
awboldt@go.olemiss.edu
David Bruno
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Undeclared
Research Interests: Modern American labor, political, and urban history
dpbruno@go.olemiss.edu
Adam Clemons
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Isaac Stephens
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain
jaclemon@olemiss.edu
Jordan R. Cleveland
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Marc Lerner
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Europe, Political Thought, Switzerland and the Netherlands
jclevela@go.olemiss.edu
Kelsea DuVall
Ph.D Student
Research Interests: Modern European History, 20th Century World History, International Relations
Kari Edwards
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Ted Ownby
Research Interests: 20th-century United States, Religion, Science
kedward2@go.olemiss.edu
Sarah Elliott
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: April Holm
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century United States, Civil War, Memory, Reconciliation, Native Americans
selliot1@go.olemiss.edu
Don Guillory
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Undeclared
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century United States and the Americas, Race, Gender History
dguillor@go.olemiss.edu
Bruce Hodell
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Undeclared
Research Interests: Modern Britain, Political Movements, Gender History, British Empire
bwhodell@go.olemiss.edu
Abdul Kuba
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Bashir Salau
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Ghana, Commercial History, Atlantic Word, African Diaspora
akuba@go.olemiss.edu
Jeannie M. Speck-Thompson
Ph.D Student
Research Interests: 19th and 20th-Century America, Southern History, Memory, Folklore and Art History
Matthew Lempke
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: April Holm
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century United States, Civil War and Reconstruction, Religion, Southern History, Georgia
mlempke@go.olemiss.edu
Andrew Marion
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Jarod Roll
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th- century United States, Immigration, Labor, Capitalism, Higher Education
amarion@go.olemiss.edu
Colin Mathison
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Susan Gaunt Stearns
Research Interests: Early 19th Century, Spanish-American borderlands, revolts and revolutions in 19th century America
crmathi1@go.olemiss.edu
Hanna Merrell
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Jarod Roll
Research Interests: 20th-Century United States, Southern History, Alabama, World Wars I & II, Industrialization, Race, Labor
hmerrell@go.olemiss.edu
Paul Mora
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Undeclared
Research Interests: 20th-Century US History, Gender, Social Protest Movements, Southern History, US Military History
pcmora@go.olemiss.edu
Austin Nicholson
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Darren Grem
Research Interests: 20th-Century United States, U.S. South, Texas, Religion & Politics, Conservatism, Evangelicalism
apnichol@go.olemiss.edu
Oyedele Oluokun
Ph.D Student
Research Interests: Economic history on African histories, security and history of prisons
ooluokun@go.olemiss.edu
Travis Patterson
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Ted Ownby
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century United States, Southern History, Lynching, Memory
tpatter2@go.olemiss.edu
Kelsa Pellettiere
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Susan Gaunt Stearns
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century United States, Revolutionary America, Diplomacy, and the Atlantic World
kpellett@go.olemiss.edu
John Ridge
Ph.D Student
Research Interests: British Empire of the 18th century, particularly military/naval/maritime history
jridge@go.olemiss.edu
Pedro Rios
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Classical philology, Greco-Roman religion, Language continua
pcazares@olemiss.edu
James Segars
Ph.D Student
Advisor: April Holm
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century United States
jsegars@go.olemiss.edu
C.G. Savage
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Oliver Dinius
Research Interests: 20th-Century and Contemporary Latin America, Brazil, southern Lusophone Africa; International Financial Institutions, Cold War Economic Relations and Negotiations
csavage1@go.olemiss.edu
Amberly Sheffield
Ph.D Student
Research Interests: 20th-century America, segregation academies as a form of white resistance in Alabama, education in the South, and the Civil Rights Movement
afsheffi@go.olemiss.edu
Alysia Burton Steele
Ph.D Student
Advisor: Rebecca Marchiel
Research Interests: U.S. History Since 1877, with an emphasis in the Civil Rights Movement & Black Women’s Labor, minoring in African American Studies and Gender Studies
alysia@go.olemiss.edu
Joel Walker Sturgeon
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Anne Twitty
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century United States, Politics, Southern History
jpwalke2@go.olemiss.edu
Robrecus Toles
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Charles Ross
Research Interests: African American History, 20th Century Black Freedom Struggle, and Mississippi
rgtoles1@go.olemiss.edu
Alex Ward
Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Undeclared
Research Interests: Evangelicalism, Church-State Relations, Southern History, 19th and 20th century United States
ajward1@go.olemiss.edu
April Williams
Ph.D Student
adwilli4@go.olemiss.edu
