Current History Graduate Students

PhD Candidates

Public History/American History

Hannah Fuller
Dissertation Title: Somewhere That’s Green: Rurality, Recreation, and Rethinking Lesbian Chicago,1970-1996
Dissertation Director: Dr. Benjamin Johnson

Shannon Honl
Dissertation Title: Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: Historical Narratives in Presidential Library Museums, 1940-Present
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Abbie Reese
Dissertation Title: The Committee Men: Private Investigations of Prostitution in Chicago During the Progressive Era 
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Anthony Stamilio
Dissertation Title: Factories of Fame: Production of American Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Chicago Theaters
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Emily-Paige Taylor
Dissertation Title: Lost in the Woods: Mobile Logging Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, 1911 – 1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

American History

June Coyne
Dissertation Title: A Cultural History of Educational Software
Dissertation Director: Dr. Elliott Gorn

PhD Degree Students

Public History/American History

• Connor Barnes
• Erin Carosella
• Eleanor Carter
• Michael Connolly
• Ivan Guzman
• Meridian Lattig
• Brittany Von Kamp
• Casey Welby
• Adam Yunis

American History

• Rachel McGough
• Seth Wilbur

MA Students

American History

• Kiley Blankenship
• Riley Burkhart
• Margaret Deady
• Maddie Griffith
• Mallory Hardesty
• Dabin Kim
• Cassandra Kiser
• Andrew Medlock
• Amy Ruplinger
• Zach Stevenson
• Mason Tolbert
• Jonathan White

Public History

• Dariel Chaidez
• Charles Chmielewski
• Lucia Heppner
• Will Hitesman
• Zach Hughes
• Logan Jaffe
• Brenna Large
• Hannah McCarthy
• Gemma Rosenthall
• Cody Shepard
• Rachel Shugarts
• Chandler Tapella
• Lily Theders

Public History/Master of Library and Information Science Dual-Degree

• John Feeley
• Alexis Garcia
• Sarah Gawo
• Imani Joseph
• Hope Nagai
• Frank Potiker
• Rose Silvera
• Allison Szywala
• Megan Wise

BA/MA Students

• Kate Douglas
• Max Ingram
• Amanda McGreal
• Victoria Prom

Non-Degree Seeking Students