Funded Graduate Students

Funded Graduate Students 2024-2025

Medha Bhattacharyya
CanAm Center Fellow

PHD – Communications and Journalism Dissertation Title: “Foodways in South Asian Diaspora Literature in Canada and the United States.”

Medha.Bhattacharyya@maine.edu

David Coombs
NEAPQ

PHD – History david.coombs@maine.edu

Rachel Darling
NEAPQ

PHD – Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology Dissertation Title: “American Woodcock Migration and Offshore Wind Energy in the Gulf of Maine.”

Rachel.darling@maine.edu

Gianna DeJoy CanAm Center Fellow

PHD Anthropology and Environmental Policy Dissertation Title: “Rural Maternity Care and Climate Change in the Northeastern Borderlands.” 

gianna.dejoy@maine.edu

Lara Johannson
FLAS

MA French

lara.johannson@maine.edu

Joelle Kilchenmann

Joelle Kilchenmann
CanAm Fellow

PHD Ecology and Environmental Sciences Working Dissertation Title: “Adaptation and Risk taking in the Homarus Americanus Fishing Fleet.

joelle.kilchenmann@maine.edu

Greyson Kurtz
FLAS

PHD Interdisciplinary Working Dissertation Title: “Community-based Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey Language Reclamation.”

greyson.kutz@maine.edu

Tom Pinette
FLAS

MA French Tom’s scholarship involves efforts to preserve and revitalize St. John Valley French in Northern Aroostook County, Maine.

tom.pinette@maine.edu

Lydia Soctomah
FLAS

PHD Peace and Reconciliation Studies

lydia.soctomah@maine.edu

Joseph Wrobleski
FLAS PHD History Dissertation Title: “Wabanaki Legalities:  Land, Property, and Sovereignty on the Maritime Peninsula, 1713 – present..” 

joseph.wrobleski@maine.edu