Samantha Goodrich

2024 Graduate Student Peer Mentors Award

Samantha is a PhD student specializing in comparative history between early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. She is specifically interested in the Germanies and the Ottoman Empire, and Muslim/Christian relations. Her main focus is on the 16th century, especially in relation to sovereigns Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Ottoman Sultan Suleyman. She plans to continue studying and researching the ways in which these two rulers utilized propaganda, rhetoric, regalia, religion, processions, and titulature to exert their authority and power.

A remarkably engaged peer mentoring group, the History Graduate Association (HGA) plays a critically important role in the success not just for our graduate students but for undergraduates and for other graduate students across campus. They are a model of a peer mentoring community. Both through its individual peer mentor program for new students and through its work as a peer mentor community, the HGA serves as a raft that buoys fellow students through the ebbs and flows of graduate school.