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Francis Park
Francis,
a currently serving Army strategist, entered the Ph.D. program in
August 2009, studying under the direction of Dr. Ted Wilson. He
received a B.A. in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 1994,
an M.A. in International Relations from St. Mary's University of San
Antonio, Texas in 1999, and an M.M.A.S. in Theater Operations from the
U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies in 2007. His major
fields are military and U.S. history, with specialization in American
and Soviet operational art, military theory, and coalition
warfare. His publications include articles in Military Review and
Armor. His dissertation, tentatively titled "The Unfulfilled
Promise: American Operational Art from 1973 to 1994," traces the
origins and practice of American military campaigning from the
aftermath of the Vietnam War to the period immediately after Operation
DESERT STORM.
francispark@ku.edu
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Krystle Perkins
Krystle
Perkins earned a B.A. in Spanish, history and French from Lyon College
in 2003. She is working on a Ph.D. in medieval history and is advised
by Dr. Ernest Jenkins. Krystle’s interests include topics in social and
cultural history such as Spain, urban life, gender, families,
neighbors, education and writing, sexuality, and conflict. Her
dissertation title is “Envisioning Urban Life in Medieval Catalonia
through 14th and 15th Century Notarial Marginalia.” She has taught
Medieval History, Gender, Sexuality and the Taboo, Ancient Roman
History, American History, Western Civilization, Early World History,
Modern World History, and Modern European Culture from
1945-present. She currently teaches at Northwestern State
University in Louisiana.
Email: krystle@ku.edu
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Ben Post
Ben
Post earned a B.S. in history from Iowa State University and a M.A. in
history from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is working
on a Ph.D. in military and diplomatic history. Ben is currently ABD and
is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson. The topic of his dissertation is an
analysis of the political battle for full implementation of
desegregation in the armed forces during the Korean War, two years
after President Truman's Executive Order 9981 of 1948 mandated the end
of segregated units. Ben's interests also include the role of
asymmetrical warfare from World War II to the present.
Email: benjamin.t.post@usdoj.gov
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Jeremy Prichard
Jeremy
Prichard earned a B.A. in history from KU. He is working on a M.A. in
U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Jennifer Weber. His interests
include U.S. Civil War, political and military affairs.
Email: jprich@ku.edu
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Amber Roberts
Amber Roberts is a graduate student of early modern
British history and works primarily with Dr. Katherine Clark. She
completed baccalaureate work in Economics and Spanish at the University
of Arizona in 2006. Before coming to KU, she also completed a
postgraduate programme at the University of St. Andrews where she
studied public, performative behaviour and ritual culture in fifteenth-
and sixteenth-century England. Her current research interests
include the conceptual role of horsemanship within English culture in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the history of sport and
medicine, particularly as they relate to each other, and environmental
history with an eye toward land-use in a changing England.
Email: amberts@ku.edu
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Jason Roe
Jason
received a B.A. and an M.A. in history from KU in 2006 and 2008,
respectively. He is currently the Richard and Jeanette Sias
fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities and is currently working
on his dissertation: "From the Impoverished to the Entitled: The
Experience and Meaning of Old Age in America since the 1950s." As
well as the history of aging, Jason's interests include the history of
medicine, African-American history, political history and the history
of Kansas City. Jason has served as a teaching assistant or
graduate instructor for a variety of courses and twice as treasurer of
the HGSO. In addition, he has undertaken several public history
activities with the Kansas City Public Library and the Kansas City
Museum at Corinthian Hall. His adviser is Dr. Jeff Moran.
Email: jasonroe@ku.edu
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L. Candy Ruff
L. Candy Ruff is working on a M.A. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Kim Warren.
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Brian Rumsey
Working under the direction of Dr. Greg Cushman, Brian
Rumsey is a doctoral student in environmental history. A native of Iowa
City, Iowa, Brian received an M.A. in history from Mississippi State
University and B.S. degrees in history and journalism from Iowa State
University. He is especially interested in ideas of risk and the
environment, and envisions a dissertation examining the history of
flood insurance. Brian is a trainee in KU’s NSF C-CHANGE IGERT program,
an interdisciplinary graduate research traineeship that is organized
around the central theme of climate change.
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Stephanie Russell
Stephanie
Russell earned a B.A. in history from Truman State University and a
M.A. in education from Fontbonne University. She is working on a Ph.D.
in medieval history and is advised by Dr. Ernest Jenkins. Her interests
include women and religious practice, specifically devotion to the
Virgin Mary by medieval monastics.
Email: SLR184@ku.edu
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Nicholas Sambaluk
Nicholas
entered the doctoral program in August 2008 under the direction of
Adrian Lewis. He received his bachelor's degree in history from Texas
Christian University in 2006 and his master's degree from the
University of North Texas in 2008. He has taught several classes of the
Humanities and Western Civilization regular curriculum and has been
named a finalist for the University's Outstanding GTA program. His
proposals for a HWC course on military occupations has been accepted by
the HWC Program. In Spring 2012, he will teach the European
Studies component of KU’s Study Abroad program in Florence, Italy, and
Paris, France. Currently a doctoral candidate, Nicholas is
writing his dissertation on the Air Force's Dynamic Soarer aerospace
glider program in the Eisenhower years of the Cold War; he is exploring
the impact of national public culture with military doctrine and US
defense policy.
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Amanda Schlumpberger
Amanda
earned her BA in History from Waldorf College in May 2008. She entered
the graduate program in August 2008 to pursue her PhD, working under
the supervision of Dr. Sheyda Jahanbani. Her research interests include
20th century American history, particularly focusing on the United
States in a global context and international relations during the Cold
War era. She is currently a TA in the history department.
Email: schlumpa@ku.edu
Allison Schmidt
Allison
received a B.A. in History, English Literature and German from
Concordia College, Moorhead. She entered the program in 2009 and is
advised by Roberta Pergher. She is currently researching German-Czech
historical relations.
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John Schneiderwind
John
Schneiderwind in B.A. in Japanese language and culture from KU. He is
working on a Ph.D. in modern Japan and is advised by Dr. William
Tsutsui. His interests include post-war sexual education in Japan.
Email: grendel@ku.edu
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Neil Schomaker With
a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota, Neil Schomaker
entered KU's graduate program in the Fall of 2008 to study medieval and
early modern France. Working under the direction of Dr. Leslie
Tuttle, Neil's research focuses on the political voice of the peasant
village. His dissertation will examine the tense relationship
between the royal forestry service and the peasant communities of
France. Neil has TAed KU's medieval history survey course as well
as From Mystics to Feminists, a course co-listed with the Women,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Neil currently teaches the
department's undergraduate methods class, The Historian's Craft.
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Vaughn Scribner
Vaughn
Scribner is a native of Wichita, Kansas and attended Kansas State
University where he earned his B.A. in History. Three months after
receiving his undergraduate degree, Vaughn traveled about eighty miles
northeast to pursue his Ph.D. in History at the University of
Kansas. He studies early modern British/colonial American history
in a global context, with a concentration on early American tavern
culture. Vaughn is currently in his fourth year in the graduate
program and has taught the general early American survey course as well
as serving as a GTA for numerous other history courses. Vaughn is
working on his dissertation, “The Social Atlantic: British American
Taverns as Key Nodes of Culture, Communication, Consumption, and
Identity, 1714-1763.”
Email: VaughnS@ku.edu
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Mark Shelton
Mark is working on a Ph.D.
Jaclyn Smith
Jacki
received her B.A. in History and Spanish from Nebraska Wesleyan
University in 2010. Her main area of concentration is the U.S. West,
and other interests include environmental and women's history. She is
advised by Dr. Kim Warren.
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Stephanie Stillo
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Lon Strauss
Lon
Strauss earned a B.A. in history, philosophy, theater and drama from
Indiana University and a M.A. in U.S. history from California State
University, Northridge. He is working on a Ph.D. in U.S. military
history and modern European history and is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson.
His interests include U.S. military in World War I.
Email: lostraus@ku.edu
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Adam Sundberg
Adam
Sundberg received his B. A. from Truman State University in 2007. He
entered the master’s program at KU in the fall of 2008, studying under
Dr. Greg Cushman. As a student of environmental history, Adam’s
research focuses on Northern European environmentalism and art history.
Email: ads135@gmail.com
Jared Taber
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Gabriela Torres
Maria Gabriela Torres is a Ph.D student from Mexico. She holds a MA in
Mexican History from El Colegio de San Luis (Mexican Institution). She
is working in environmental history and is advised by Prof. Gregory T.
Cushman. Her research interests are El Nino phenomenon impacts in
Mexico (1870-1940).
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Email: gtorres@ku.edu
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Michael Tosee
Michael is working on a Ph.D. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Rita Napier.
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Steven Tucker
Steven
Tucker, who works with Dr. Jeff Moran, entered the M.A. program in Fall
2006 and expects to complete his degree in Spring 2009. Prior to his
time at KU, Steven earned his bachelor’s degree in Honors History from
Marquette University, graduating in 2006. His major field is American
history. He is interested in how popular culture has helped to form
political opinions and how those opinions led to action at a popular
level. Steven has served as a TA for both halves of the U.S. survey
course, and as both a TA and later an AI in Humanities and Western
Civilization, where he currently teaches.
Email: tuckers@ku.edu
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Caleb Turner
Caleb is working on a M.A. in British history and is advised by Dr. Jonathan C.D. Clark.
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Ph.D.
student Mindy Varner studies the cultural history of early modern Japan
(1603-1868) under the guidance of professor Eric Rath. She completed
the master's degree in East Asian Studies at Yale University in May
2000 and subsequently taught courses in Japanese language, literature
and Asian history at Colorado State University and the Unversity of
Wyoming during the period 2003-2008. Her research interests include the
history of Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu), early modern print culture,
and the multiple intersections between artistic expression and
political history. She is the author of an article called
“Teaching Heian Japan” in the winter 2005 issue of Education about Asia.
Under the auspices of a Japan Foundation dissertation research
fellowship, Mindy will be conducting archival research in Kyoto, Japan
in support of her dissertation-in-progress, "The Socio-Political
Dimensions of Warrior Chanoyu" during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Email: mvarner@ku.edu
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Julio Vasquez
Julio is a fifth-year PhD student majoring in United States
history with a minor in Latin American history. His interests include
immigrant social, political, and cultural history with a special
emphasis on Mexican immigration to the United States. His
dissertation topic is concerned with Mexican immigrant channel ways to
Kansas. Julio's advisor is Jeff Moran.
Jon Wells
Jon received his B.A. in Political Science in 2005 and his MA in
History in 2007 from the University of Tulsa. In 2004 he interned
with the State Department in Buenos Aries, Argentina and worked on the
Haiti peace keeping operation and G-8 counter terrorism assistance
projects. His research interests include 19th and 20th century
American Diplomatic History, particularly with U.S.- Cuban
relations. Currently he teaches at Allen Community College as an
instructor of history and political science.
Lena Withers
Claire Wolnisty
Claire Wolnisty is studying nineteenth-century United
States history as a major field with minor research fields in Latin
American history and Women and Gender. She is advised by Dr.
Jonathan Earle.
c895w097@ku.edu
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Shay Wood
Shay
is pursuing a Ph.D. in East European/Russian History under the
supervision of Professor Nathan Wood. He received his B.A. in History
from Utah State University in 2006 and his M.A. in History from Kansas
University in 2009. He researches urban life, popular culture, and
social identification in Yugoslavia. His dissertation examines the
cultural and political loyalties that Yugoslavs expressed in supporting
certain soccer clubs. Shay teaches a course on modern European history.
Email: svudnik@ku.edu
Joshua Wrigley
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Karenbeth Zacharias
Karenbeth
Zacharias earned a B.A. and a J.D. from KU. She is working on a Ph.D.
in British history and is advised by Dr. Victor Bailey. Her interests
include writing and teaching international and British imperial history.
Email: bfarmer@ku.edu
John Zdeb
jmzdeb@gmail.com
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