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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 social and cultural history: Spain, urban life, gender, families, neighbors, education and writing, sexuality, conflict. Her tentative dissertation title is “Envisioning Urban Life in Medieval Catalonia through 14th and 15th Century Notarial Marginalia.” She has taught Medieval 108, Gender, Sexuality, and the Taboo and Modern European Culture from 1945-present.
Email: krystle@ku.edu
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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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James Quinn
James Quinn received a B.A. in History from the University of Dayton in 1990. He earned his M.A. in History here at KU in 2007. He is working on a Ph.D. in modern Europe and is advised by Dr. John Sweets. His interests include modern France, military history, World War II Europe, and the POW experience. His dissertation is titled, “‘We Have No Place’: The Captivity and Homecoming of the French Prisoners of War, 1940-1948.” He has also published an article on a related subject in the Western Society for French History Proceedings, Vol. 35. James has taught a number of classes in the history department as either a TA or instructor, including HIST114: Early Modern Europe, HIST340: World War II, HIST396: Historical Methods, and HIST100: World History. He has also taught in Humanities and Western Civilization.
Email: jtquinn@ku.edu
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Chris Rein
Chris Rein entered the doctoral program in August 2008, working under the direction of Adrian Lewis and Ted Wilson. He received his bachelor’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 (in Marine Engineering), and later went on to earn his M.A. in History from Louisiana State University in 2001. Chris studies American history, environmental history, and military history, focusing especially on the Air Force, airpower in World War II, and the Great Plains region. His dissertation is titled “Properly and Profitably Employed: American Tactical Airpower in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II.” He has taught various courses at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Email: crein1@ku.edu
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John Ringquist
John Ringquist entered the Ph.D. program in August 2007 to work with Dr. Ted Wilson. John earned his bachelor’s degree in History from Mount Saint Mary’s College in 1995, and then received his M.A. in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Missouri (St. Louis) in 2005. He also holds an associate’s degree in Biology. His major fields are African history and military studies, and his diverse research interests include post–colonial East Africa, diaspora studies, British colonial administration prior to 1939, city planning and management, American chemical and flame weapons development, and urban warfare in the post–1975 period. His dissertation is titled “They Fought Like Tigers: A Social History of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Race Relations in Kansas, 1862-1866.” John’s publications include articles in the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter (available online), Army Engineer, and Army Chemical Review.
Email: bendog21@ku.edu
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Jason Roe
Jason received a B.A. in history from KU in 2006. He is working on a M.A. in U.S. history and is advised by Dr. Jeffrey Moran. Jason’s interests include the history of medicine and public health in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries.
Email: jasonroe@ku.edu
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Alex Rosser
Alex Rosser is working on a Ph.D. in British history and is advised by Dr. Victor Bailey.
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Karl Rubis
Karl Rubis earned a B.A. in history from Pepperdine University. He is working on a Ph.D. in military and diplomatic history and is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson. Karl’s interests include intelligence history and civil/military relations during interwar periods, especially between the Civil War and World War I and between World War I and World War II.
Email: krubis@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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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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Joe Ryan
Joseph W. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree in History from Texas A&M in 1984, his M.A. in Education from Long Island University (1997), and another master’s degree, in History, from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (1999). He entered KU full time in 2007, studying American history and military history. He is advised by Ted Wilson. His dissertation is entitled “Samuel A. Stouffer and The American Soldier.” He has served as a TA and/or instructor for HIST340: World War II, HIST301: The Historian’s Craft, and HIST129: U.S. History after the Civil War, in addition to teaching a course at Haskell University.
Email: jwryan@ku.edu
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Nicholas Sambaluk
Nicholas is working on a Ph.D. in U.S. history.
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Amanda Schlumpberger
Amanda Schlumpberger earned her B.A. in History from Waldorf College in May 2008. She entered the M.A. program in history in August 2008 to study with Dr. Sheyda Jahanbani. Her research interests include modern American history with a focus on international relations and policy of the Cold War. She is currently a TA in the history department.
Email: schlumpa@ku.edu
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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
Neil Schomaker entered the graduate program at KU in Fall 2008, working under the direction of Dr. Leslie Tuttle and studying early modern France. He earned his bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Minnesota in 1995. Neil currently teaches in the history department.
Email: neilscho@ku.edu
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Kimberly Schutte
Kim Schutte entered the Ph.D. program at KU in August 2006, working under the direction of Katherine Clark. She earned two bachelor’s degrees from Missouri Western State College, one in psychology (1986) and another in history (1987). Kim then earned her master’s degree in history from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1989. As a historian of British history, her dissertation will examine the marriage patterns of elite British women from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries and how those patterns intersect with changing conceptions of rank, class, and gender. Kim is also interested in Tudor court culture. She has taught in both Humanities and Western Civilization and History. In HWC she has been both a TA and an instructor for the Western Civilization survey. In the history department she has been a TA for British History and The Historian’s Craft, and has been an instructor for HIST114: Europe from Renaissance to Revolution. Kim has published a biography of Margaret Douglas, titled “Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox and Tudor Marriage Law.”
Email: kimschut@live.com
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Vaughn Scribner
Vaughn Scribner received his bachelor’s degree in History from Kansas State University in 2008. He then entered the University of Kansas to pursue his doctorate, working under the supervision of Dr. Paul Kelton. Vaughn’s research focuses on the early contact between Native Americans and Europeans in the Atlantic World. He is a TA in the history department.
Email: VaughnS@ku.edu
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Mark Shelton
Mark is working on a Ph.D.
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Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart is working on a M.A. in military history and is advised by Dr. Ted Wilson.
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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
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Darrick Taylor
Darrick Taylor received his Bachelor of Arts in English in 2000 from the University of Florida, and three years later received his master’s in history from the same institution. Taylor entered the Ph.D. program at KU in 2004, working under J.C.D. Clark. His research focuses on early modern British political and social history, including the history of the “public sphere,” the religious history of the French and American revolutions, and other topics in intellectual and cultural history. His dissertation is tentatively entitled “L’Estrange His Life: The Career of Sir Roger L’Estrange and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Restoration England.” He is currently teaching in the Humanities and Western Civilization department.
Email: sophia25@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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Sally Utech
Sally Utech earned a B.A. in history and French from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2002 and a M.A. in history from KU in 2005. She is working on a Ph.D. in early modern Europe and France and is advised by Dr. Leslie Tuttle. Her interests include the French nobility, social, cultural and family history.
Email: salford10@hotmail.com
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Mindy Varner
Mindy Varner entered the Ph.D. program at KU in Fall 2008 to study pre–modern Japanese history with Dr. Eric Rath. She earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Asian Studies at Colorado State University in 1998. She then went to Yale University, where she received her master’s degree in East Asian Studies in 2000. Her research interests include political history, tea cultivation, women’s studies, and Muromachi Japan. Mindy has published an article called “Teaching Heian Japan” in the journal Education about Asia.
Email: mvarner@ku.edu
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Shay Wood
Shay Wood earned his bachelor’s degree in History from Utah State University in 2006. In August 2007 he entered the master’s program here at KU to study Eastern Europe and Russia, working under the direction of Dr. Nathan Wood. His research interests include urban history, sports, leisure, and immigration.
Email: svudovski@yahoo.com
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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
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