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Dustin Gann
Dustin is working on a M.A. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Jeffrey Moran.
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Ryan Gaston
Ryan Gaston is working on a Ph.D. in modern Europe and is advised by Dr. Luis Corteguera.
Email: rcgaston@ku.edu
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Troy Hinkel
Troy Hinkel is working on a M.A. in modern European history and is advised by Dr. Leslie Tuttle.
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Dezeree Hodish
Dezeree Hodish entered the master’s program at the University of Kansas in August 2008. She earned her B.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in May 2008, majoring in History and Political Science. Her advisor is Eve Levin, and her major field is Russian and East European history. Dezeree’s scholarly interests include late nineteenth–century Russia, urbanization and industrialization, migration, political movements, and women’s history.
Email: Dezeree@ku.edu
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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.
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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
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Emily Lowrance-Floyd
Emily Lowrance-Floyd is studying British history and is advised by Dr. Victor Bailey.
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Marina Maccari
Marina Maccari, who is advised by Dr. John Sweets, entered the history graduate program in Fall 1999. She earned her undergraduate degree at the Universita’ degli Studi di Milano (Italy) in 1998, focusing on Historical Geography, Economic History, and Italian Literature. At KU, her major field is Modern Europe, with a concentration in international migration and Italian history. Her dissertation is titled “Global Migration in Transition: The Americas, Europe, and Italian Diaspora.” Marina has published an encyclopedia article, several book reviews, and two refereed journal articles in Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies. While at KU, she has taught or served as a TA for a number of history courses, including two 100–level survey courses, Historical Methods, Western Thought I & II, Film and Migration, 19th century European History, and Europe on the Move: Migration in Modern European History.
Email: mari@ku.edu
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Maddalena Marinari
Maddalena Marinari earned a B.A. in English from Istituto Universitario Orientale. Maddalena is working toward a Ph.D. in U.S. and European history, emphasizing migration from the 1920s to the 1960s, and is advised by Dr. Jeffrey Moran.
Email: madddie@ku.edu
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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 advised by Dr. William 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 Nygren entered the graduate program in August 2008, working with Dr. Karl Brooks. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2006, majoring in History and Political Science with an Economics minor. His major field is environmental history, focusing particularly on the United States. He is currently a TA for HIST128: U.S. History Through the Civil War.
Email: jmnygren@ku.edu
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Shannon O'Connor
Shannon is working on a M.A. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Jonathan Earle.
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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 history graduate program in August 2008 to complete his doctorate under the supervision of Dr. William Tsutsui. His major field is environmental history, focusing particularly on the intersection of environmental and military history and also the twentieth–century United States (including the Vietnam War era). He is a TA for the U. S. history survey course.
Email: oatsvall@ku.edu
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