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Dustin Gann
Dustin
received his M.A. in American history at Emporia State and currently is
working on a project - tentatively titled "Written in Black and White:
Creating an Ideal America on the Page and in the Mind" - which analyzes
competing notions of ideal Americanism originating in Kansas between
1920 and 1970. He has sub fields in Gender with an emphasis in
Masculinity and African-American history and is advised by Dr. Jeffery
Moran.
Email: dustin.gann@gmail.com
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Jason Gladney
Evgeny Grishin
Email: egrishin@ku.edu
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Benjamin Guyer
John Hess
Email: jdhess@okstate.edu
Will Hickox
Will Hickox received a BA in History from The City College of New York
in 2010. He is working toward an MA in American History at KU, where he
is advised by Dr. Jennifer Weber. Will is primarily interested in 19th
century U. S. history, especially the Civil War and the Northeast. His
current research project is an examination of how Union Army
recruitment evolved as the war progressed.
Email: will.hickox@gmail.com
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Dezeree Hodish
Dezeree
Hodish received a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science
from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. In 2010, she received an M.A. degree in
History from the University of Kansas. She is currently pursuing
a Ph.D. in Russian and East European history and is advised by
Professor Eve Levin. Her dissertation will explore the roles of
social organizations in the acculturation of immigrants to industrial
cities in America and Ukraine. Dezeree’s other scholarly
interests include religious history and urban history. She has
previously worked as the graduate teaching assistant for Introduction
to Russian History (HIST 117) and Huns, Turks and Mongols: The Nomad
Factor in Asian History (HIST 392).
Email: Dezeree@ku.edu
Michael Hogg
David Holden
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David Hunter-Chest
David is working on a Ph.D. in East Asian history and is advised by Dr. William Tsutsui.
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Natalia Jensen
Natalia is working on a Ph.D. in Russian history and is advised by Dr. Eve Levin.
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Michael Jeter-Boldt
Michael is working on a Ph.D. in British history and is advised by Dr. Clark.
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Margarita Karnysheva
Margarita is working on a Ph.D in East Asian history and is advised by Dr. William Tsutsui.
Young Jun Kim
Capt. Youngjun Kim is an active duty army officer of the
Republic of Korean Army (ROK) and a Permanent Military Professor of
International Politics at the Korean National Defense University (KNDU)
in Seoul. Capt. Kim graduated from the Korea Military Academy in Seoul
in 2003, and did postgraduate study at King's College London, where he
obtained an MSc in Public Service Policy and Management. He was
selected as a Permanent Military Professor of International Politics at
the KNDU in 2009 after finishing his mission as a Battery Commander at
the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), an aide de camp to the Brigadier
commanding general, an advisor on the officer promotion selection
boards at the Human Resource Command of the Headquarters of the Army,
and an advisor to a military attach at the Korean Embassy in the United
Kingdom. When he was in London, he built an academic cooperation
DoD with The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) in Sandhurst, and
The UK Joint Service Command and Staff College (JSCSC) in Shrivenham,
as well as an independent project with the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in Vienna. He is currently working on a PhD
in History at KU under the tutelage of Prof. Adrian Lewis on a
Department of Defense scholarship. His research is focused on the
Soviet Union's influence on the creation of the North Korean Army from
1945 to 1950. After finishing his Ph.D, he is going to work at the
House of Parliament, National Security Council and DoD as well as KNDU
as a policy maker and a national security advisor. He lives with his
wife, son and daughter. He likes opera, classical music, painting, ski,
golf and sushi bar.
George Klaeren
klaerenga1@gcc.edu
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Juergen Kruger
Juergen
is working on a M.A. in history and international relations and is
advised by Dr. Nathan Wood. Juergen earned a B.A. from the University
of Maryland in 2001 and a DiplomIngenieur, Fachhochschule des Heeres
fuer Maschinenwesen in 1970. Jurgen’s research interests include
Germany post 1870 and Europe post 1789. A tentative dissertation title
is “Nationalvolksarmee transition to Bundeswehr”.
Email: juergen@ku.edu
Linda Kruger
Hang Thi Thu Le
Hang
Le is working toward a Ph.D. in Modern U.S. History and is advised by
Professors Jeff Moran and Sherrie Tucker. Her research interests
include the Vietnam War and second Iraq War veterans. She earned an
M.A. in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from
Hanoi University of Foreign Studies (Vietnam) in 1998, and an M.A. in
American Studies from KU in 2004.
Email: hangle@ku.edu
Jillian Liesemeyer
Email: jliesemeyer@gmail.com
Alan Lowe
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Emily Lowrance-Floyd
Emily Lowrance-Floyd is studying British history and is advised by Dr. Victor Bailey.
Brandon Luedtke
Email: B.Luedtke@colostate.edu
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Mary A. McMurray
Mary earned her B.A. in History from the University of
Missouri-Columbia. After a short stint in the business world, she
returned to college in 2006. She earned a M.A. in U.S. History with an
emphasis in Gender Studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City
(UMKC), including a thesis, "Rules and Rituals: Creating the Army Wife
Ideal, 1941-1954," which was completed under the advisement of Miriam
Forman-Brunell. While at UMKC, Mary completed two internships at the
Truman Presidential Library and began work as Project Manager of
Children and Youth in History (http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/), an online
educational resource created by the Center for History and New Media at
George Mason University in partnership with UMKC and funded by a
three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mary
entered the Ph.D. program at KU in 2009. Kim Warren is her advisor.
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Randy earned his Bachelor's Degree from Texas Christian University
where his focus of study was Neuroscience. He has earned a MA in
Russian and Eastern European Studies from KU and a MMAS from the
Command and General Staff College. He entered the Ph.D. program
in the fall of 2010 and is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson. His major
fields are European History and military history.
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Rob Miller
Rob received a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Political Science
and Sociology from Eastern Kentucky University in 2009. He is now
pursuing a M.A. in European History from the University of Kansas and
is advised by Dr. Leslie Tuttle. He has been a teaching assistant
for The History of World War II, Modern European History, and The
History of Britain. His research interests include the French
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Chikako Mochizuki
Chikako
Mochizuki graduated with a B.S. from Georgia College and State
University and a M.A. from KU. Chikako is working on a Ph.D. in East
Asian history and is co-advised by Drs. Eric Rath and Bill Tsutsui. She is interested
in the development of the lives and education of people with
disabilities, especially the blind in Japan from the late 1800s through
the early postwar period of the late 1950s. Chikako is also interested
in the work of western missionaries in Japan, which relates with the
establishment of the various educational institutions for the disabled
such as Yokohama Christian School for the Blind. Her tentative
dissertation title is “The Path to the Lighthouse: The Development of
the Lives, the Education, and the Welfare System of the People with
Disabilities.”
Email: chikako@ku.edu
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Cynthia Nitschke
Cynthia is working on a M.A. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Paul Kelton.
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Josh Nygren
Josh
arrived at KU in August 2008 to work with Dr. Karl Brooks. He
graduated from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2006 with bachelor
degrees in History and Political Science and is now focusing his
studies on environmental history, U.S. history, and geography. In
particular, he is interested in land tenure and land use in U.S.
Midwestern agriculture during the long twentieth century. In Fall
2011, he will be the teaching assistant for HIST/EVRN 347 -
Environmental History of North America, taught by Dr. Sara Gregg.
Email: jmnygren@ku.edu
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Neil Oatsvall
Neil
Oatsvall received a bachelor’s degree in History and Asian Studies at
the University of North Carolina in 2005. He then moved to North
Carolina State University, where he earned his M.A. in history in 2008.
Neil entered the KU history graduate program in August 2008 and is
advised
by Dr. Sheyda Jahanbani. His major field is environmental history,
focusing particularly on the intersection of environmental and military
histories and also the twentieth–century United States (especially the
Cold War era). His dissertation will study the intersection of
the environment and both nuclear weapons and nuclear power during the
Eisenhower administration.
Email: oatsvall@ku.edu
Irene Olivares
Irene
received a B.A. in history from Arizona State University in 2008.
She is currently working towards an M.A. in Early Modern European
History. Her interests include the social and political history of
sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. She is particularly interested
in the roles of women in the preservation of the Spanish empire. She is
advised by Professor Luis Corteguera.
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