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Role: Graduate Students

William Walker

Graduate Student [HIST]

I am a first-year graduate student. I use he/him/his pronouns. My main research areas of interest are LGBTQA+, working class, polytheism, and Mediterranean history. My primary goal is to research gender identity and sexuality of working class people in the...

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 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 Publications: “Black Lutheranism.” In Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-Contact to the Present, edited by...

Mustafa Emre Günaydi

Graduate Assistant [HIST]

Mustafa Emre Günaydı PhD Student and Research Assistant Günaydı is a specialist of the Ottoman Empire, the Modern Middle East, and the Indian Ocean. His principal research interests include the environmental and public health histories of cholera and plague epidemics...

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

Graduate Student [HIST]

Kristen Greteman

Graduate Assistant [VPR]

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 Assistant [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:...

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