Designated Graduate Contacts
If you are interested in pursuing graduate level studies in the MU History Department and would like to speak with someone in the graduate community, we are happy to suggest the following representatives. Please feel free to email these individuals who will gladly answer any questions you may have about applying at MU, the student community here in the History Department, or specific questions you may have about the program.
United States History Contact
Jeff Ramsey
Email Jeff
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History, Gender, and Sports
European History Contact
Matthew Douglas
Email Matt
Research Interests: Seventeenth and eighteenth century criminal history, Early Modern masculinity, and religious conflict in France
Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Lezlie Knox
Email Dr. Knox
Department Chair
Dr. James Marten
Email Dr. Marten
Meet the Graduate Community
European History
Doctoral Candidates
McKayla Sutton
Research Interests: Modern Ireland, Gender, and Nationalism
Advisor: Dr. McMahon
Dissertation: "Illuminating the Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity and the Promotion of the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme"
Michael Pulido
Research Interests: German Democratic Republic, Socialism, and the 1953 East German uprising
Advisors: Dr. Ruff and Dr. Staudenmaier
Doctoral Students
Alissa Condon
Research Interests: Modern Europe and Ireland, specifically World War I and its effects on nationalism, public memory, and commemoration in post-war Ireland
Advisor: Dr. McMahon
Matthew Douglas
Research Interests: Seventeenth and eighteenth century criminal history, Early Modern masculinity, and religious conflict in France
Advisor: Dr. Ruff
Olga Shchennikova
Research Interests: Modern European History
Advisor: Dr. Ball
M.A. Students
Marcus Bouterse
Research Interests: Early modern Europe, and environmental history
Christine Holthus
Research Interests: Early modern Europe, British history, and Tudor England
Michele Weber
Research Interests: Modern European History
Hannah Werner
Research Interests: Modern Europe, nineteenth century British imperialism, and women
United States History
Doctoral Candidates
Brian Burns
Research Interests: U.S. Military, Foreign Relations, and Cultural History
Chris Chan
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History and mass consumption
Advisor: Rev. Avella
Dissertation: "Mass Consumption in Milwaukee: 1920-1970"
Dominic E. Faraone
Research Interests:
Modern U.S. History and Catholicism
Bethany Harding
Research Interests: Revolutionary America and the Early Republic with an emphasis on identity and post-colonialism
Advisor: Dr. Foster
Charissa Keup
Research Interests:
Twentieth-century social history with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, youth, and girlhood
Advisor: Dr. Jablonsky
Jeff Ramsey
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History with an emphasis on gender and sports
Advisor: Dr. Jablonsky
Dissertation: "Big Men on Campus: Reaction and Resistance to Title IX in the Big Ten Conference"
Karalee Surface
Research Interests: Modern U.S. social history with an emphasis on gender and disability
Advisor: Dr. Jablonsky
Dissertation: Deals with injured workers and the intersection between labor, disability, and gender.
Doctoral Students
Peter Borg
Research Interests: U.S. History with an emphasis on race and segregation
Matthew Costello
Research Interests: Early Republic and Antebellum America with an emphasis on sectional identities
Advisors: Dr. Foster
Dissertation: Will explore the importance of the founding of America to the emerging sectional identities in the early Republic by looking at cultural and social elements of Northern and Southern societies.
Bill Fliss
Research Interests: U.S. Religious history and the Catholic Church
Aaron Hyams
Research Interests: The American West and Native American History
Dissertation: Investigating cultural evolution of the emergence of a landed elite on the Flathead, Nez Perce, and Crow Reservations.
Gayle Kiszely
Research Interests: Modern U.S history with a focus on evangelical religion and community
M.A. Students
Leah Davis
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History
Andrew Faltin
Research Interests:
U.S. History
Alyssa Klubeck
Research Interests: Early American History
Christopher Mallas
Research Interests: U.S. History
B.J. Marach
Research Interests:
Modern U.S. History and Post-Civil War Reconstruction in the North
Maggie Nettesheim-Hoffman
Research Interests: American history with an interest in intellectual history, women's history, and the history of philanthropy
Graham Palmateer
Research Interests: United States foreign relations, post-colonial Africa, and Latin America
Nina Teresi
Research Interests: Modern U.S. History
Hannah Zimmerman
Research Interests: Early American/Colonial History, Women's History
Medieval History
M.A. Students
John Callebert
Research Interests: Middle Ages, Italian history
Christopher Lyon
Research Interests: Medieval History
Sarah Strack
Research Interests: Medieval history
Global History
M.A. Students
Jeremy Ault
Trinity Fellows Program
Research Interests: Nonprofit management, human rights, social justice, environmental stewardship and Czech/Slovak culture
Don Hamm
Research Interests: Global History
Andrea Seehusen
Research interests: Global history, particularly post-colonial Latin America
THE GRADUATE COMMUNITY
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