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Current Students

  • 2011 Cohort
    2011 Cohort Students
  • 2010 Cohort
    2010 Cohort Students

  • 2009 Cohort students

  • 2008 Cohort students

Contacts

Becky Drasin
Graduate Program Associate

Ann Meier
Director of Graduate Studies

Graduate News

  • Yu-Ju Chien Successful Defense

    Yu-Ju Chien successfully defended her dissertation "Constructing Knowledge and Policies on Avian Influenza: How Do International Organizations Craft Global Models?" on May 10, 2013. Dr. Chien is advised by Joachim Savelsberg.

    May 14th, 2013
  • Four Students Receive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (DDF) for 2013-14

    Hollie Nyseth Brehm, "Conditions and Courses of Genocide" Advisors, Joachim Savelsberg and Elizabeth Boyle.

    Wen Fan, "Children of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Disrupted Education, Send-Down Experience, and Midlife Health". Advisor, Phyllis Moen

    Kyle Green, "The Allure of Mixed Martial Arts: Meaning Making, Masculinity, and Embodiment in Suburbia." Advisors, Doug Hartmann and Teresa Gowan

    Wenjie Liao, "Remembering the Faces of Law: Engaging the Law through Constructing the Past in Transitional China". Advisors, Elizabeth Boyle and Joachim Savelsberg

    May 7th, 2013
  • Siguru awarded Bernard and Fern Bazin Fellowship

    Wahutu Siguru has been awarded the Bernard and Fern Badzin Graduate Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies for 2013-14. His proposal is titled "Western African Media Representations of Mass Violence: The Case of Darfur." Congratulations!

    April 23rd, 2013