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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 Student [HIST]

Research Interests: Landscape, environmental, and early North American history Education: MS in Historic Preservation, University of Vermont, 2010 BA in Anthropology with minor in History, Iowa State University, 2007 BA in English, Cornell College, 1996

Catherine Swan

Graduate Student [HIST]

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 Assistant [HIST]

Kevin Klimowski

Graduate Student [HIST]

I am returning to Iowa State University after a 30 year career in public education teaching middle school in Des Moines. I taught Geography and Civics to 11-14 year olds, primarily at Harding Middle School. This partially accounts for my...

Grace Tomasi

Graduate Assistant [HIST]

I am a R.A.T.E student on the Ph.D track here at Iowa State, with an emphasis on Environment. Currently, I am working on my Master’s Thesis, which focuses on land and forest management of the Northwoods/Upper Great Lakes Region of...

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