Graduate Student News
At Marquette University, graduate students share a professional camaraderie as well as a strong emphasis on academic excellence. Each generation of graduate students introduces unique personalities and varied research interests. This diversity of specialty areas encourages a wider breadth of understanding in each graduate student's academic career at Marquette.
Overall, the program is marked by an emphasis on teaching experience, creative research, and collegiality among faculty and students. The Marquette history graduate program looks forward to the contributions of future generations of graduate students and takes great pride in the achievements of its current and past members.
Congratulations to Our Newest Doctorates:
Christopher Miller
- Milwaukee's nineteenth-century suburbs in particular, engaging larger questions about the nature of the suburbanization process more generally. Peter d’Agostino Fellowship (H-Urban and the Society for American City and Regional Planning History)
- Editor and member of Board of Directors of H-Urban and the Urban History Association
- Current Research: 19th Century Suburbanization in Milwaukee County
- Papers Presented: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the undergraduate classroom (American Historical Associaton meeting, Atlanta)
- Teaching World History at the undergraduate and graduate levels (World History Association Conference, Milwaukee)
- Publications: Book Review of "The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy" (Urban Affairs Review 2007)
- "Strange Facts in the History Classroom: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Wiki(pedia)" (Perspectives, American Historical Association)
- What's Next: Looking forward to a summer working at Miller Park and doing some construction work; in the fall, return to adjuncting at several Milwaukee-area colleges and continue the hunt for full-time academic work
Daryl Webb (Dissertation Chair, Dr. James Marten)
Congratulations to our Newest Masters:
Sara Bailey (M.A.)
- Modern American History with a focus on Non-Profit Leadership
- Trinity Fellowship
What's Next: Teaching, curriculum development or other educational program for high school students
Jennifer De Nicola (M.A.)
- Medieval Europe
Kerry Devine (M.A.)
- Modern Europe
- Research Assistant
What's Next: stepping stone job to start paying off student loans
Mike Ebel (M.A.)
- Modern American History
What's Next: taking a year off, and then applying to Ph.D. programs in anticipation for resuming studies in the fall of 2008
Dominic Faraone (M.A.)
- Modern American History
Gabriel Hill (M.A.)
- Medieval Europe with a focus on Late-Medieval Religion and Heresy in England
- Teaching Assistant
- Papers Presented: "John Mirk and Parish Conflict" (2007 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo)
What's Next: Ph.D. program at University of Minnesota
Jessica Gile (M.A.)
- Medieval Europe with a focus on Women and Gender
- Teaching Assistant
- Current Research: Late Medieval Courtesy Texts, Artisan Class Masculinity, and Urban Youth Subculture
What's Next: Applying to Medieval History Ph.D. programs in the fall
Jess McCullough (M.A.)
- Medieval Europe with a focus on Early Medieval Scandinavia and Northern Europe
- Research Assistant
- Current Research: Viking Age Icelandic Law and The Walking Dead in Scandinavian Mythology
What’s Next: Hopefully into the public history field near Lake Superior.
Dave Muse (M.A.)
- Modern American History
Brian Ross (M.A.)
- Modern American History
Amanda Schmieder (M.A.)
- Early American with a minor field of Early Modern Europe
- Research Assistant
- Current Research: American Revolution Rhetoric during the first 6 months of 1861 in Richmond, VA and NYC, New York
What's Next: taking a few years off to get married and work, then pursue a B.A. in secondary education and be a high school history teacher
Graduate Student Who's Who
Kathy Callahan (ABD)
- was awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to study in China last summer.
- Currently an Assistant Professor at UW-Stout, Kathy continues her connection with China through by raising funds to support a teaching project in economically depressed Qinghai province.
Chris Chan (Ph.D. program)
- Modern U.S. and British History with a focus on History as/in literature and Antimodern studies
- Current Research:
- The U.S. Office of War information and its impact on the film and radio entertainment industries during WWII;
- Resistance to the eugenics movement in early 20th-century Milwaukee;
- A study of "dangerous literature" in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union;
- A critical analysis of numerous novels about the American Civil War era;
- The history and influence of the Green Sheet, a section of the Milwaukee Journal
- Papers Presented:
- "The Modern British Writers vs. G.K. Chesterton" (2004 Chesterton Conference, St. Paul)
- "The Man Who Was Thursday: Living the Nightmare" (2007 Chesterton Conference, St. Paul)
- Publications:
- An article covering a student political convention (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 2000)
- Contributing editor for "Gilbert Magazine" (published eight times a year), with a regular column on literary theory and frequent book and DVD reviews (2004 to present)
- "The Gleeful Cynicism of Evelyn Waugh" ("The Dusty Shelf" e-zine [www.thedustyshelf.com] 2005)
- Book review of "Investigating CSI" (Journal of Film and Television Studies, forthcoming)
- "Charles L. Blockson" (The African-American National Biography, forthcoming)
John French (M.A.)
- American History
- Teaching Assistant
- Current Research: "The Active One: Thomas Francis Meagher’s Adventures in the Young Ireland Movement, the American Civil War, and Territorial Montana" (University of Wyoming)
- Papers Presented: "Nazi Defeat and Interventionist Powers: Franklin Roosevelt’s Vision for Postwar Europe" (2006 Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha)
- Publications: "The Slave Power Argument" (Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, The Greenwood Press, 2006)
Monica Storme Gallamore (Ph.D. program)
- 20th Century / Women Studies
- Teaching Assistant
What’s Next: take my Doctoral Qualifying Exams in Spring of '08; then begin working full time on dissertation.
Timothy Lay (Ph.D. program)
- 19th and Early 20th Century Europe with a focus on British politics and culture prior to and during the First World War.
- Current Research: Historiographical issues concerning militarism in Britain circa 1900, and ideas concerning British identity
- Papers Presented: British Militarism (Submitted to the 2007 Midwest Conference on British Studies)
Ann Ostendorf (ABD)
- Smith Family Research Fellowship
- Caretaker at Trimborn Farm
- Current Research: working on dissertation
- Papers Presented:
- "The Musical Culture of the Riverboat Men" (2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference)
- "The Sounds of Little Egypt: The Musical Culture of Cairo, Illinois during the Mid-Nineteenth Century" (2006 The Music of the Ohio River Valley Symposium)
- Publications:
- "Music-Popular and Folk" (Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America, 1787-1861, M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming)
- "Basile Jean Bares" and "Samuel Snaer" (African American National Biography, Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute and Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Wayne Riggs (ABD)
- one of Carla Hay’s Ph.D. students, has accepted a full-time, permanent position at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida
Kenneth Shonk (Ph.D. program)
- Modern European History with a focus in 20th century Ireland
- History Department Teaching Fellowship
- Current Research: The relationship between the formation of Fianna Fail and the Irish Republic to events in Europe, as well as the masculanization of the Irish Republican movement.
- Papers Presented:
- "Kwame Nkrumah, Eamon de Valera and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse" (2006 American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference, De Kalb)
- "Partners in Decolonization: Eamon de Valera, Kwame Nkrumah and the Creation of Nationalist Anti-Colonial Discourse" (2007 Annual Meeting of the World History Association, Milwaukee)
- "A Flower Among the Weeds: Ulster and the Politicization of Sinn Fein, 1917-1918" (Submitted to the 2007 North American Conference on British Studies Regional Meeting, Dayton)
- Publications:
- "Blacks in Ireland" (Blacks in Europe, Greenwood Press, forthcoming)
- "Cheikah Rimitti", "Kamala I Ishaaq", "Amir Ali Ghassemi" and "Tahar Djaout" (The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East Thompson/Gale, forthcoming)
- Book Review of "An American Heroine in the French Resistance—the Diary and Memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake" (The History Teacher 40, no. 1, November 2006)
Aaron Stockham (ABD)
- 20th Century American History with a focus on FBI Studies, National Security, Secrecy, Cold War and Popular Culture
- Teaching Fellowship; Smith Fellowship; Grant-in-aid from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
- Current Research: Relationship between FBI and U.S. Congress 1907-1975; Comic Books; Cold War Popular Culture
- Papers Presented: "Our Country, Right or Wrong- -Our Country!" Comic Portrayals of Changing American Values" (2006 Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis)
- Publications:
- Book Review of "We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II" (Journal of Popular Culture, forthcoming)
- "Federal Bureau of Investigation" (Encyclopedia of the Cold War, forthcoming)
- "Our Country, Right or Wrong- -Our Country!" Comic Portrayals of Changing American Values" (Submitted to the "Journal of Popular Culture")
Monica Witkowski (Ph.D. program)
- Colonial America
- Papers Presented: "'A Sport to Puzzle the Knowing One': Horse Racing in Milwaukee, 1850-1880" (2007 The University of Maryland Graduate Student Conference)
- Publications: "'To Live As Good Christians in a Busy Modern World': The Sisters of the Divine Savior and Female Education in Milwaukee, 1948-1960" (Milwaukee History: Special Issue on Religion and Milwaukee Life)
Susan Frost (M.A. program)
- Modern American History with a focus on the Truman Administration
Charissa Keup (M.A. program)
- Modern American History with a focus on Women and Gender Studies
- Teaching Assistant
Kevin Mondl (M.A. program)
- Early American History with a minor field of Late Medieval
- Current Research: Medieval research on leprosy and the epidemic in Early America
Kathryn Puls (M.A. program)
- Modern American History with a focus on Diplomacy, the Middle East and South Asia
- Curatorial Internship: Prepared a submarine exhibit (Wisconsin Maritime Museum)
Kylene Tucker (M.A. program)
- Early Modern Europe with a focus on the Italian Renaissance
- Current Research: Milwaukee urban history concerning the founder of the closed Layton School of Art
Clare Wilson (M.A. program)
- Medieval Europe with a focus on French Literature and Music
- Research Assistant
- Current Research: troubadours and trouvéres, chansons de geste
