Graduate Alumnus Karyna Hlyvynska graduated with her doctoral degree in history December 2024. She specializes in the U.S. economic and financial policy in the years following the Revolutionary War. Her research concerns customs legislation, taxes, national debt, banking, and the emergence of a strong federal government in the United States in the late eighteenth century. Research Dissertation/Thesis Title: 'Putting the Machine in Motion': How the U.S. Treasury Department Built a Fiscal-Military State Degree Completion Date: Fri, 12/13/2024 - 12:00pm Education Education: B.A. in History: Odessa National Mechnikov University, Odessa, Ukraine M.A. in History: Odessa National Mechnikov University, Odessa, Ukraine M.A. in History: Villanova University Ph.D. in History, University of Georgia, 2024