History Graduate Student Association officers
President:
President:
Peter Kotowski is a 4th year PhD candidate studying early American history and the Atlantic world with a focus on labor and women’s and gender history. He has finished with his coursework and is in the process of writing his dissertation proposal and teaching HIST 111: United States History to 1877. In addition to his work with HGSA, Peter frequently contributes to organizations within the wider Graduate School.
Vice President:
Steve Catania is a 5th year PhD candidate studying early modern England with an emphasis on medicine and politics. He is working on his dissertation and teaching classes at Loyola. Outside of his work with HGSA, Steve enjoys traveling and baseball.
Treasurer:
Chris Ramsey is a 4th year PhD student at Loyola. His research interests are in twentieth-century America and urban history, especially Chicago.
Secretary:
Amelia Serafine is currently finishing PhD coursework, studying the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States with an emphasis on urban and gender history. Amelia has presented work at conferences on topics ranging from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the hobo in Gilded Age popular culture.
Media Coordinator:
William Ippen is aPhD student in the joint-doctoral program in American History and Public History. He received an MA in Public History from Loyola in 2011. His research interests lie in American and trans-national environmental history, political ecology, and world systems analysis. He is also interested in the application of digital methodologies and new media to historical research, publication, public history outreach and products, and pedagogy.
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