Current History Graduate Students

(Updated 7/17/2021)

PhD Candidates

	United States
	Matthew Amyx Dissertation: "Detrimental Influences”: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
	Lucas Bensley Dissertation: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970 Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
	Janette Clay Dissertation: “Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War” Advisor: Dr. Michelle Nickerson
	June Coyne Dissertation: A Cultural History of Educational Software Advisor: Dr. Elliott Gorn
	Nathan Ellstrand Dissertation: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946 Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Johnson

	Public History and United States History
	Emily Davis Dissertation: "Enshrining Memory" Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
	Will Ippen Dissertation:"Threads that Bind: Cotton, Unfree Labor, and the Ecology of Capitalism" Advisor: Drs. Theodore Karamanski & Harold Platt
	Sean Jacobson Dissertation: "Hidden in Plain Sight: Challenges of Remembering Removal Era Indian Missions in the Great Lakes and the South" Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski
	Cate LiaBraaten Dissertation: "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Depression-Era World’s Fairs, Imagined Pasts, and Hopeful Futures" Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Johnson
	Katherine Macica Dissertation: "Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II" Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
	Kelly Schmidt Dissertation: "We heard sometimes their earnest desire to be free in a free country": Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands, 1823-1907 Advisor: Dr. Kyle Roberts
	Ella Wagner Dissertation: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920 Advisor: Dr. Michelle Nickerson
	Sebastian Wuepper Dissertation: "Reams, Revolutionaries and Radicals - The German American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1890" Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle