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Dr. Stephanie Makowski

Instructor

Department of History

Dr. Makowski
Contact Information

(719) 333-8534

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Bio

Stephanie Makowski is an Instructor of History at the United States Air Force Academy. She earned her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2024. Her research focuses on the connections between empire, war, gender, race, and migration in modern Britain. Her dissertation investigated how interracial relationships in Britian drove larger conversations about empire, nationalism, migration, and activism in twentieth-century Britain.

Education

PhD, History, Graduate Center, City University of New York

MA, War, Media and Society, University of Kent at Canterbury

BA, Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, Virginia

Professional Experience

Adjunct Instructor, The Cooper Union (2019-2023)

Adjunct Instructor, City University of New York (2020-2024)

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College (2016-2020)

Honors & Awards

Schomburg Center Scholars in Residence, Dissertation Fellow

North American Conference on British Studies, Dissertation Fellowship

Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Travel Grant

City University of New York Office of the Provost Dissertation Fellowship

Early Research Initiative Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies

Early Research Initiative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies

Research and Scholarly Interests

Modern Britain

History of Empire

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Ethnicity

Cultural History of War

Migration

Publications

“For the Duration Only: Interracial Relationships in WWII Britain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, May 2020.

Dissertation:
“Intimacy in the end means trouble” Interracial Relationships in Britain from Interwar to Postwar