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Role: Graduate Students

Matthew Dawdy

Graduate Assistant [HIST]

Major Professor: Dr. Lawrence McDonnell Area of Research Specialization: Community, Conflict, and Religion in the Old South. Specifically focused on the Southern community experience during the Civil War. Publications: "Slaveholder's Paradise: Conceptions of Heaven in Antebellum Southern Presbyterian Thought" (Master's...

Laura Sadowsky

Graduate Assistant [HIST]

Research Interests: Environmental, landscape, and early North American history with special interest in water, pollution, and landscape change Education: MS in Historic Preservation, University of Vermont, 2010 BA in Anthropology with minor in History, Iowa State University, 2007 BA in...

Jesse David Chariton

Graduate Assistant [HIST]

Major Professor: Dr. Jeff Bremer Areas of interest: American Midwest Topics of interest: Nineteenth-century United States, German and Irish immigration, race/ethnicity, religion I am interested in the long nineteenth century in the United States and all the changes that...

Maxwell Harrison

Graduate Assistant [HIST]

Research Interests: American rural life and agriculture, education, gender, childhood, and family, Midwestern. Publications: “Rural Education’s Trailblazers: The Michigan State Normal College, Rural Communities, and the Transformation of Rural Education,” Michigan Historical Review (Forthcoming) Conference presentations: "'You Have to Be...

Daniel Fields

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Kristen Greteman

Assistant Teaching Professor [ARCH]

Originally trained as an architect and planner, I have been working towards a PhD in rural environmental history. I focus on the environmental and agricultural history in the rural spaces of north central Iowa. Currently, I am researching the Prairie...

Colton Adkisson

Graduate Student [HIST]

Area of research specialization: Internal Improvements, Environment, and Technology in the Antebellum South. Specifically focused on the usage of U.S. government snag boats on the western rivers and their economic and social impact. Conference Presentations: “Snags, Sawyers, and Shifting Opinion:...

Dirk Ringgenberg

Graduate Student [HIST]

Dissertation: The Creation, Implementation and Impact of Radio Command and Control Systems in the US Army Corps and below in the European Theater of Operation during the Second World War. Major professor: Dr. Timothy L. Wolters Expected Date of Graduation:...

Michael Belding

Graduate Student [HIST]

Dissertation title (tentative): The Making of King Corn, 1848-1877 Major Professor: Dr. Kathleen Hilliard Expected date of graduation: May 2022 Areas of research specialization: Nineteenth-century United States, agricultural history, environmental history, rural history, history of the Midwest

Kimberly King

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