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