This year's U-M History PhD graduates will convene on April 30, 2021, at 6:00 PM, to commemorate a momentous occasion: the completion of their doctorate degree. A virtual celebration is less than ideal, but it does not diminish the accomplishments of this year’s PhD class.
The History PhD Ceremony is open to family, friends, and History faculty and staff. Please message elizabac@umich.edu for registration information.
Other History commencement links: 2021 History Honors Symposium webpage, 2021 History Undergrduate Commencement webpage.
Ceremony Program
Welcome
James W. Cook
History Department Chair
Professor of History and American Studies
Opening Remarks
Farina Mir
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of History
Fondiler Dissertation Prize
Amanda Reid
History
Dissertation: To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Post-Independence Jamaica
Presented by Farina Mir
Recognition of Graduates
Amanda Respess
Anthropology and History
Dissertation: The Abode of Water: Shipwreck Evidence and the Maritime Circulation of Medicine between Iran and China in the 9th-14th Centuries
Committee: Kathryn Babayan (chair), Miranda Brown, Jatin Dua, Carla Sinopoli
Jamie Andreson
Anthropology and History
Dissertation: Mothers in the Family of Saints: Gender and Race in the Making of Afro-Brazilian Heritage
Committee: Paul Johnson (chair), Paulina Alberto, Victoria Langland, Gayle Rubin
Molly Brookfield
History and Women's Studies
Dissertation: Watching the Girls Go By: Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980
Committee: James W. Cook (co-chair), LaKisha Simmons (co-chair), Nadine Hubbs, Matthew Lassiter
Stephanie Fajardo
History
Dissertation: Illicit Intimacies: Gender, US Empire, and Nationalist Politics in the Postwar Philippines
Committee: Deirdre de la Cruz (chair), Manan Desai, Victor Mendoza, Anthony Mora
Katie LaPlant
History
Dissertation: Women's Crime and Social Capital in Eighteenth Century London
Committee: David Hancock (chair), Katherine French, Clement Hawes, Mary Kelley, Marlous van Waijenburg
Nana Quarshie
Anthropology and History
Dissertation: Bounding "Alien Lunatics" in Modern Ghana
Committee: Derek Peterson (co-chair), Vinh-Kim Nguyen (co-chair), Amal Fadlalla, George Steinmetz
Amanda Reid
History
Dissertation: To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Post-Independence Jamaica
Committee: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (chair), Paulina Alberto, Clare Croft, Paul Johnson
