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Department News

In the Fall 2025, the department welcomed five new faculty!

 

Dr. Benedetta Carnaghi is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida. A historian of modern Italy, Germany, and France, she studies totalitarianism 鈥渇rom below,鈥� focusing on how ordinary people navigated authoritarian regimes. Her first book project, Agents of Betrayal, examines little-known spies in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, while her second, Making Fun of the Fascists, explores humor as resistance to leader cults. She earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University and previously studied at the Universit脿 di Padova, Paris 1 鈥� Panth茅on-Sorbonne, and the 脡cole normale sup茅rieure.

Dr. Ann Marsh Daly is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2021 and teaches courses on nineteenth-century U.S. history, including political economy, race, slavery, and material culture. Her research explores the labor and political economy behind coinage in early America, particularly who made money, how it gained value, and its significance in early national capitalism, through her book manuscript Minting America: Labor and the Political Economy of Money in the Early United States University of South Florida.

Dr. Jesse Obert is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History in the Department of History at the University of South Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023, following an M.A. in Ancient History from University College London in 2013. Dr. Obert's research examines the roles of violence, warfare, slavery, and inequality in ancient Greek city-states, approaches that intersect archaeological material, textual evidence, disability theory, and digital humanities

Satgin Hamrah is a Visiting Assistant Instructor in the Department of History at the University of South Florida, slated to complete her Ph.D. in History at Tufts University in December 2025 University of South Florida. She teaches courses on the modern Middle East, approaching complex issues such as religious and ethnic identity, sectarianism, and conflict through an interdisciplinary and transnational lens University of South Florida. Her research鈥攈ighlighted by the 2023 edited volume Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia: Identity, Competition and Conflict鈥攅xamines how identity, culture, and memory inform violence, wars like the Iran鈥揑raq conflict, and geopolitical security dynamic

Dr. Benjamin Thomason is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of History at the University of South Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Bowling Green State University in 2024. His teaching focuses on U.S. history since the late nineteenth century, highlighting how domestic developments intersect with global affairs. His research and courses integrate approaches from media studies, political science, and sociology, encouraging students to explore how cultural and political forces have shaped modern America