Emily Needham
Graduate Student
Fields/Specialties
Transnational and International History
US and the World
Modern Europe
Comparative Decolonization
Cold War
Education
M.A. History, University of Virginia, 2024
B.A. History, summa cum laude, The Ohio State University, 2022
Fellowships and Grants
- Norman A. Graebner Bicentennial Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia (2026)
- Central European History Society Research and Travel Grant (2026)
- Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia (2026)
- Albert Gallatin Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Virginia (2025-2026)
- Harry Ransom Center Dissertation Fellow, University of Texas, Austin (March 2026)
- Rockefeller Archive Center research stipend, Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY (2025)
- German Studies Research Grant, DAAD (German Academic Exchange) (2025)
- Summer Language Study Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia (2025)
- Graduate Global Research Grant, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, University of Virginia (2023)
- Editing & Public Scholarship Fellow, “Made by History” at the Washington Post & Governing America in a Global Era at UVA (2023)
Courses Taught
- HIEA 2101: Modern Korea-One Peninsula, Two Paths (TA for Professor Joseph Seeley, Spring 2025)
- HIUS 3161: Viewing America, 1940-1980 (TA for Professors Sarah Milov and Jack Hamilton, Fall 2024)
- HIST 2014: A Global History of Fascism (TA for Professors Manuela Achilles and Kyrill Kunakhovich, Spring 2024)
- HIEU/GERMAN 3390: Nazi Germany (TA for Professor Manuela Achilles, Fall 2023)