Current History Graduate Students
(Updated 6/14/2019)
PhD Candidates
United States
Janette Clay
Dissertation: “Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War”
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Nickerson
Nathan Ellstrand
Dissertation: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946
Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Johnson
John Kelleher
Dissertation:"The Entrepreneur as Hero: Peter V. Ueberroth and Rise of Neoliberalism in the Reagan Era"
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Manning
Nicole Perez
Dissertation: "The Audacity to Dream": Black Suburbanization in Metropolitan Detroit, 1920–1990
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Nickerson
Matthew Sawicki
Dissertation: "The Flower of the Army:" Illinois Volunteers in the U.S.-Mexican War
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karmanski
Public History and United States History
Chelsea Denault
Dissertation: "We All Live Downwind:" Trash, Technology, and "Terrorism" in Detroit, 1973-1989
Advisor: Dr. Elliot Gorn
William Ippen
Dissertation:"Threads that Bind: Cotton, Unfree Labor, and the Ecology of Capitalism"
Advisor: Drs. Theodore Karamanski & Harold Platt
Katherine Macica
Dissertation: "Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
Ruby Oram
Dissertation: "They Taught Us To Be Ladies": Vocational Education for Girls in Chicago, 1880-1930
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
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
Hope Shannon
Dissertation: "Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Metropolitan Chicago, 1960-1980"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin
Joshua Wachuta
Dissertation: "Trading Fortunes: Settler Capitalism and American Indians on the Upper Mississippi, 1816-1890"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski
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
PhD Degree Students
United States
- Matthew Amyx
- Lucas Bensley
- June Coyne
- Noel Sucese
Public History and United States History
MA Students
Medieval and Renaissance
- Melissa Imburgia
United States
- Molly Kettler
- Allison Page
- Keegan Sims
- Davis Stubblefield
Public History
- Anna Claspy
- Alexandra Gradwohl
- Lisa Hartman
- Hannah Overstreet
- Anthony Stamilio
- Austin Sundstrom
- Rebecca Tucker-Ramsey
- Alicia Zeimet
Public History Dual-Degree MA/MLIS
- Bianca Barcenas
- Tara Cajacob
- Emily Muszynski
- Molly Sampson
Non-Degree Seeking Students
BA/MA Students
