HGSO Students A-F

Richard Anderson

Richard earned his B.A. from the University of Iowa (2002). He is sudying U.S. and military history and is advised by Dr. Theodore Wilson.  His main reserch interest is U.S./British combined planning and operations during World War II.

Email: r051a669@ku.edu

Jeremy Antley

Jeremy Antley began his M.A. work in 2005. He is studying Russian history and is advised by Dr. Eve Levin.

Tom Arnold

Tom Arnold is a native of San Diego, California. He left that little piece of paradise to come to Kansas in 2005, attracted by the opportunity to study European and Environmental History and get some world-class barbecue. He received a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Davis and MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown in the early 1990's. He is currently writing his dissertation on the impact of WWII on the city of Munich, Germany in terms of access to natural resources. His research interests include military history, modern Germany, the history of cities, and many topics in environmental history, including energy, food and agriculture, coal, and animals.

Email: tarnold@ku.edu

Njdeh Asisian

Konstantin Avramov

Joseph Babb

Mandi Barnard

Mandi Barnard comes to KU from Texas Tech University, where she received her B.A. in Anthropology and History in 2006, and her Master of Education in Secondary Education, with a minor in History, in 2011.  She is working toward a Ph.D. in Modern British history and is advised by Drs. Victor Bailey and J. C. D. Clark.  Her research interests include the cultural and intellectual history of Victorian Britain, Darwinism, the working class, religion, and criminology.

mbarnard@ku.edu

Stefan Bergstrom

Stefan is working on a Ph.D. in European history and is advised by Dr. John Sweets.

Alex Boynton

Thomas Bradbeer

Thomas is working on a Ph.D. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson.

Gates Brown

Gates is working on a M.A. in history.

Drew Burks

drewpburks@gmail.com

Jeremy Byers

Jeremy Byers is working on a Ph.D. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson.

Email: tetsuko@ku.edu

Mark T. Calhoun

Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1988, then went on to receive two master’s degrees - one in history at The Command and General College (CGSC) and another at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS). He entered the Ph.D. program in the fall of 2008 to study with Dr. Ted Wilson. His major fields are military history and U.S. history, with specialties in the early 20th century U.S. Army, military theory and doctrine, and complexity science. He works full time at SAMS, where he is an assistant professor and author of a course in theory development and application. In the past year, Mark presented papers at the Hall Center’s Peace, War, and Global Change Seminar and at the 2011 Society of Military History conference, and earned two “Gold Pen” Awards from The Command and General Staff School, one bronze and one silver. He also earned a research travel grant from the KU graduate studies department, which enabled him to complete a week of research in the DC area, and his article “Clausewitz and Jomini: Contrasting Intellectual Frameworks in Military Theory” appeared in the summer 2011 issue of Army History. He works full time at SAMS while writing his dissertation on the military career of General Lesley J. McNair.

Dusty Clark

Katherine Clark

Catherine is working on a graduate degree in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Kim Warren.

Shelly Cline

Shelly is working on a Ph.D. in European history and is advised by Dr. John Sweets.

John Clune

john.clune@usafa.edu

Nicholas received a bachelor's degree in History & International Relations from Calvin College in 2007. After working at a nature center and organic farm for three years he enrolled at KU in the fall of 2010. His major field is United States history with minor fields in environmental and indigenous peoples history. He is advised by Dr. Paul Kelton.

Brady DeSanti

Brady DeSanti received an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies from the University of Nebraska (Omaha) in 2002. He entered the Ph.D. program in 2003, focusing his research on indigenous peoples and religious studies. He is advised by Dr. Paul Kelton. His dissertation discusses early American anthropology and American Indian agency in dialogues between themselves and scholars and is titled “Finding a Common Ground: Early American Anthropology and the Life of John Reed Swanton.” While at KU he served as a TA (or in some cases as an instructor) for the U.S. survey course, HIST353: Indigenous Peoples, and HIST348: Peoples of Kansas. He currently teaches in the Religious Studies department at the University of Nebraska–Omaha.

Email: bdesanti@ku.edu or
bdesanti@mail.unomaha.edu

Ryan Fagan

Ryan earned his bachelor's degree in history from Washburn University (Topeka) in 1996. He then received his M.A. in history from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2001. He entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas in 2005, advised by Dr. Benjamin Sax. His major field is European history, with research interests stretching from intellectual history and the history of philosophy to the history of science and medicine. Ryan's dissertation addresses Descartes, and is titled, "The Question Concerning Modernity: The Cogito and the Problem of Modern Science." He currently teaches in the Department of History. 

Email: rfagan@kumc.edu

Raymond Finch

Raymond is working on a Ph.D. and is advised by Dr. Eve Levin.

Phillip Fox

Phillip is working on a M.A. and is advised by Dr. Luis Corteguera