• Alan Hatfield '16: "Patron of the Nation: The British State and the Emergence of Religious Nationalism in the Hindi-Urdu Controversy of the 19th Century" (2016)
• Alex Polofsky '14: "The Demise of the Gentlemen's Game: The Factors that Transformed Baseball in the 19th Century & The Rebranding of the Game" (2014)
• Charlotte Robbins '14: "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am: Popular Portrayals of King Henry VIII in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (2014)
• Matt Abola '11: "The Rise of Medicine in Public Health: A Look at the Black Death and the Changes Set in Motion by Regulations of Leprosy and Hospitals" (2011)
• Anna Toledano '11: "The Posthumous Lives of the Giant Sloth: The Megatherium's Path from Artifact to Idea" (2011)
• Sarah Allison '10: "Personal Piety in Fifteenth-Century Portrayals of St. James and the Camino de Santiago" (2010)
• Michael Lombardi '10: "Antonio Ruiz de Montoya: Just Another Jesuit?" (2010)

• Early Modern Iberia, ca. 1400–1800
• The Early Modern Spanish Atlantic
• Comparative Early Modern Empires
• Mediterranean Europe, ca. 1000–1800
• The Mediterranean, ca. 1000–1600
• Renaissance Humanism

I have advised the following dissertations:

• Valeria Escauriaza-López Fadul, "Languages, Knowledge, and Empire in the Early Modern Iberian World (1492–1650)" (2015; co-adviser with Anthony Grafton)

I have served on the dissertation committees of the following students:

• Fidel Tavárez, "The Commercial Machine: Reforming Imperial Commerce in the Spanish Atlantic, ca. 1740–1808" (2016)
• Matthew Growhoski, "John Barclay and the 'Wars of Interpretation': Secrecy, Satire, and Statecraft in Jacobean Britain, 1603–1621" (2015)
• Rebecca Johnson, "Praying for Deliverance: Childbirth and the Cult of the Saints in the Late Medieval Mediterranean" (2015)
• Jebro Lit, "A Reformation of Tears: Christianity and the Invention of Western Emotions" (2014)
• Frederic Clark, "Dividing Time: The Making of Historical Periodization in Early Modern Europe" (2014)
• Nicholas Naquin, "'On the Shoulders of Hercules': Erasmus, the Froben Press and the 1516 Jerome Edition in Context" (2013)
• Alexander Bick, "Governing the Free Sea: The Dutch West India Company and Commercial Politics, 1618–1645" (2012)
• Robert Cross, "To 'Counterbalance the World'—England, Spain, and peace in the early 17th century" (2011)
• Nicholas Bomba, "Caesar's Conscience: Counsel and Crisis in the Hispanic World, 1500–1560" (2010)