Editor Louisa Parker Mattozzi is a doctoral candidate in European history, with an emphasis on late medieval and early modern Italy. Her outside field is the Middle East. Her dissertation is on the role of sixteenth-century duchesses in the diplomatic and political networks of their courts.
Jen Creger is a master’s candidate in East Asian history. Her focus is on late imperial China. Her research interest is on the legal history of the Qing dynasty. She is also interested in the history of ethnic minorities in imperial China.
Victor Abraham Delnore is a doctoral candidate in European history, with an emphasis on the medieval ages. His dissertation investigates ideas about peace and violence in the early Middle Ages. His outside field is the Middle East.
James Edward Guba earned his doctorate in history in 2000, specializing early modern Europe with an emphasis on France and England. His disseration is entitled "Cardinal Jacques Davy Du Perron: Conversion, Schism, and Politics in Early Modern France."
Kurt Hohenstein is a doctoral candidate in American history, with an emphasis on legal and political history. His outside field is modern China. His research interests include analyzing the concept of corruption and its impact on campaign finance laws.
Bernie D. Jones is a doctoral candidate in American history, with an emphasis on legal history. Her outside field is southern Africa, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Her dissertation topic is on critical race theory as a post-Civil rights movement phenomenon within the legal academy.
James Cuba Owens is a doctoral candidate in European history, with an emphasis on early modern Europe. His outside field is late imperial China. His dissertation is on the process and progress of religious change in the diocese of Winchester, England.
John T. Phillips, II, is a doctoral candidate in American history with an emphasis on colonial Virginia. He is currently working on a project on British activities in the Chesapeake during the American Revolution.
Aaron C. Sheehan-Dean is a doctoral candidate, with an emphasis on American history. His dissertation focuses on the social and political history of Virginia during the Civil War period. He also has an interest in southern history, with special emphasis on west and central Africa in the period of the Atlantic and Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Brian Yost is a doctoral candidate with and emphasis on early modern Europe. His special field is early modern Germany, and his outside field is medieval and early modern South Asia. He is currently doing research for his dissertation on print culture and the transmission of witchcraft theory in sixteenth-century Germany.