Connor Behm s a second-year Master’s student in Temple University’s Department of History. He secured an undergraduate degree in performance theater at West Chester University back in 2015 and has worked as a historical tour guide in Independence National Historical Park ever since. He is currently focusing on studying U.S. military history and atrocities during the long nineteenth century
Riley Boyer is a Master’s student in the Department of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He obtained his B.A. in History from Robert Morris University in Moon Township, PA. His primary interests and areas of study revolve around twentieth-century American military history, particularly regarding the relationship between military intelligence and institutional learning in the United States Army.
Marian Braccia In addition to pursuing her PhD in the Klein College of Media and Communication, Marian Grace Braccia is a full-time faculty member at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she has served as Director of the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy and a Practice Professor of Law since 2018. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA, summa cum laude) and Temple Law School (JD), Braccia spent 12 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia before joining Temple’s faculty. She teaches Evidence and Trial Advocacy, with research centered on gender bias in the courtroom.
Cas Casanova is a Masters student in the Department of History at Temple University. They are a two-time graduate of Florida State University with a Bachelors in International Relations and a Masters in Education. After teaching at the K-12 level for four years, Casanova returned to academia at Temple University. Their primary research interests revolve around the impact of extremist political/social groups on policy, particularly how socialist groups influence policy in times of war.
Tamar Sarai Davis is a second-year History PhD student at Temple University. She received her B.A. in Sociology and African American Studies from Wellesley College and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. Her research interests include 18th and 19th century African American history; Black women’s history; gender, sexuality, and slavery; and public memory of slavery.
Easton Ellenberg is a first-year History PhD student at Temple University. His research interests include US-Latin American relations and anti-Americanism in Latin America. He graduated from the University of West Florida in 2017 with a B.A. in History, entering active-duty service in the Army that same year. Easton is on assignment to the History Department, U.S. Military Academy at West Point to serve as an instructor following the completion of his studies at Temple University.
Will Hafer is a PhD student in the Department of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He obtained his B.A. in History from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 2021. Will studies Russian and Soviet history with a particular focus on the final two decades of the Soviet Union and its cultural and political impact on former Soviet and Soviet Socialist Republic’s citizens in the 21st century. Will’s most recent research involves the relationship between Soviet nostalgia, memory, and political power in former Soviet Socialist Republics.
Evan Kolodziejczak is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He studies the impact of organizational culture on amphibious warfare development in the twentieth century. Evan Kolodziejczak is a Major in the United States Marine Corps and a part of the Marine Corps Historian Program.
Jake La Fronz is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. His research focuses on twentieth-century queer and trans history, specifically topics such as bar raids, female impersonation, and the broader social and cultural shifts within LGBTQ+ communities. Geographically, his work engages with archives from San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Long Island, London, and Italy, which reflects his wide-ranging interests at the intersections of place, identity, and resistance in the United States but also the world.
Matthew Lynch is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Temple University, with a MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University and a BA in History from Cornell University. He spent the past five years working in museums from the President Woodrow Wilson House to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the George Eastman Museum (GEM), and the Slate Valley Museum (SVM). His primary interests are collective/historical/public memory, cultural history, public history, and social history.
Ella Scalese is a second-year history MA student at Temple University. She earned her B.A. in anthropology from Susquehanna University, with minors in creative writing, history, and Spanish studies. She currently works as a museum educator, and is interested in museum studies and repatriation.
Annie Stine is a Master’s student with the Department of History at Temple University. Prior to graduate school, Annie earned her Bachelor’s of Arts in History from Millersville University and interned with the Historic Harrisburg Association in Harrisburg, PA. Her interests include public history and museum studies. While at Temple, Annie is focused on researching urbanism, gentrification, and loss of marginalized neighborhoods in major cities in the United States.
Elisa Venzon is a PhD student in the Department of History at Temple University. She graduated from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) as both a historian and history teacher, where she received a Master’s degree in History. Her research interests lie in the social history of crime, with a focus on traditional and alternative forms of punishment and their role in both Brazilian and the United States societies.
Hilary Iris Lowe is an associate professor in the History Department at Temple University and MA Coordinator. She teaches courses in U.S. cultural history, public history, women’s history, and American studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. Her first book, Mark Twain’s Homes and Literary Tourism, was published in 2012 and is part of the Mark Twain and his Circle Series at the University of Missouri Press, and in 2024 she published “To Keep a Birthplace”: An Administrative History of John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site.