· Ian Abbey
E-mail: ironbrig4@neo.tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Military History; Naval History; World History
Dissertation Title / Topic: The Woodes Rogers Privateering Expedition
Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford
· Colt Allgood
E-mail: colt045a@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: American Military History / Southern History
Thesis Title / Topic: "Confederate Partisans in the Civil War and the Southern Mind"
Chair: Dr. Joseph G. Dawson, III
· Alan Anderson
E-mail: legman688@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: European History; Military History; Renaissance / Early Modern History; History of Technology; History of Energy
Dissertation Title: "Military Architecture and the Making of Strategy in Tudor England"
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Coopersmith
· Damon Bach
E-mail: dbach@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 1960s America; social, cultural, and political history
Thesis Title / Topic: "Breaking Free: The Rise and Fall of the American Counterculture"
Chair: Dr. Terry H. Anderson
· David W. Bath
E-mail: dbath@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: United States; Asia; Middle East; Diplomacy and War in Society; Cold War
Thesis Title / Topic: "Motivations of the Militia and Volunteers during the Second Seminole War"
Chair: Dr. Joseph G. Dawson
· Douglas Bell
E-mail: douglasibell@neo.tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 20th Century and Eastern Europe; Postwar Germany; War and Society in Europe
Thesis Title / Topic: STEG: The Acquisition, demilitarization, and utilization of Wehrmacht and U.S. Army matériel in Postwar Germany
Chair: Dr. Adam Seipp
· Delilah Besa
E-mail: delilah63@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Identity; Gender; Borderland; Mexican Americans; Food; Early Cold War
Thesis Title / Topic: “Recipe for Democracy: Home Economics Curriculum and South San Antonio High School, 1945”
Chair: Dr. Julia K. Blackwelder
· John P. Blair
Phone: (979) 691-4033
E-mail: john-p-blair@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 19th Century United States; Military and Social History
Chair: Dr. Joseph G. Dawson, III
· Brittany Bounds
Office: Glasscock 005C
Areas of Interest: 20th Century United States; Cultural, Military, and Diplomatic History
Thesis Title / Topic: "The Right Response: The Reaction of the Silent Majority to the Social Movements of the Sixties"
Chair: Dr. Terry H. Anderson
· Bradley Cesario
Office: Glasscock 005A
E-mail: cesario2@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Modern British History; European History; Naval and Military History
Thesis Title / Topic: The Professional and Cultural Memory of Horatio Nelson in British Culture and Naval Service, 1880-1916
Chair: Dr. R. J. Q. Adams
· Jonathan Chavanne
E-mail: invincimus75@neo.tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: U.S. Navy / Military; Vietnam War; Cold War
Thesis Title / Topic: "Boats, Mines, and Bunkers: Task Force Clearwater and the U.S. Navy's War in Vietnam, 1967-1970"
Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford
· Jeffrey Crean
E-mail: jpcrean@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Domestic politics and foreign policy; war and public opinion; Cold War culture
Thesis Title / Topic: "With Fear and Favor: The Return of the Yellow Peril and the Path to Normalization"
Chair: Dr. Jason Parker
· Steven Davis
Office: Glasscock 005B
E-mail: stevebdavis@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe; Collective Memory; Identity; Social Movements; Global History; Historical Sociology
Thesis Title / Topic: Germany, the Czech Republic and the Europeanization of Expulsion Memory, post-1989
Chair: Dr. Adam Seipp
· Jared Donnelly
E-mail: jrd0153@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 20th Century Europe; Modern Germany (particularly post-1945); War and Society in Europe
Thesis Title / Topic: "Conscientious Objection in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1958-1968"
Chair: Dr. Arnold Krammer
· Ben Duerksen
Areas of Interest: 17th-early 19th Century Naval and Maritime History
Thesis Title / Topic: Perceptions of duty and motivations for service in the Continental Navy
Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford
· Rainlilly Elizondo
E-mail: rainlilly@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 20th Century Mexican American History; African American History; Race and Ethnicity; Educational/Geographical/Political Segregation
Thesis Title / Topic: Mexican and African Americans and the process of school desegregation
Chair: Dr. Carlos Blanton
· Mike Fasulo
Office: Glasscock 005
E-mail: mfasulo1@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Cold War; U.S.-Soviet Foreign Relations; 20th Century American Diplomacy
Thesis Title / Topic: Criminal activity among U.S. troops in the American army occupation in Germany
Chair: Dr. Jason Parker
· Brian Franklin
E-mail: brianfranklin@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Early American Republic; 18th Century U.S.; American Religion and Reform; American Literature
Thesis Title / Topic: "Home Missions and the Early Republic, 1796-1845"
Chair: Dr. Charles E. Brooks
· Mary Lee Grant
E-mail: mleegrant@aol.com
Areas of Interest: Comparative Border Studies, Gender, U.S.-Mexico Border
Thesis Title / Topic: "Becoming the Crossroads: Transgressive Women in San Antonio, 1890-1965"
Chair: Dr. Julia K. Blackwelder
· Justin Harris
E-mail: justinharris@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: American Military History
Thesis Title / Topic: "American Soldiers and P.O.W. Killing in the European Theater of World War II"
· Charles Heaton
E-mail: charles.heaton@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: British Atlantic World, Puritan New England
Thesis Title / Topic: The role of conflict and violence in Massachusetts following King Phillip's War
Chair: Dr. April Hatfield
· Lori Henning
E-mail: lhenning@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: History of Technology; European History; Modern American and European Military History
Thesis Title / Topic: “Envisioning the Airplane: Comparing the Spectrum of Responses in the American and British Armies to a Technology without Precedent, 1903-1940”
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Coopersmith
· Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
Office: Glasscock 005C
E-mail: jrayherzogenrath@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Dance; American Culture and Identity; Women; Progressive Era
Thesis Title / Topic: “Dancing American-ness: Dance and American Identity in the Progressive Era”
Chair: Dr. Julia K. Blackwelder
· Jennifer Heth
Office: Glasscock 002
E-mail: smokey1@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th Century American social and cultural history; memory and commemoration
Thesis Title / Topic: Commemorations and representations of Theodore Roosevelt in the 20th Century
Chair: Dr. Terry H. Anderson
· Brian Hilton
Phone: (803) 795-1135
E-mail: bphilton@gmail.com
Areas of Interest: Sino-U.S.-Taiwanese Relations; Post-1945 American Culture and Politics
Thesis Title / Topic: "'A Tolerable State of Order': The United States, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1948-1979"
Chair: Dr. Terry H. Anderson
· Roger Horky
E-mail: rhorky@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Technology; Military Aviation
Thesis Title / Topic: “Aerial Warfare in Transition: The Korean War, 1950-1953”
Chair: Dr. Anthony N. Stranges
· Michael Kegerreis
E-mail: kegerreism@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: American Diplomatic and Military History; Counterinsurgency
Thesis Title / Topic: Counterinsurgency against Latin American Communist insurgents
Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford
· Paul Lee
E-mail: phlee@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Colonial Southeast Atlantic World during the 18th and 17th Centuries
Thesis Title / Topic: British Troops, Colonists, Indians, and Slaves in Southeastern North America, 1756-1763
Chair: Dr. April Hatfield
· Cameron McCoy
E-mail: cdm35@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: U.S. Military History
Thesis Title / Topic: "Breaking the Color Barrier: African Americans in the All-Volunteer U.S. Marine Corps, 1942-1948"
Chair: Dr. Joseph G. Dawson, III
· Dorimar Ortiz-Torres
E-mail: dorimarortiz@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Latin American / Caribbean History, U.S.-Latin American relations
Chair: Dr. Glenn Chambers
· Neall Pogue
Office: Glasscock 003
E-mail: npogue77@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: U.S. Environmental History
Thesis Title / Topic: "The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Protestants and the Environmental Movement
Chair: Dr. Thomas Dunlap
· James H. Pruitt, II
E-mail: jhpruitt@hotmail.com
Areas of Interest: U.S. Military and Diplomatic History; Progressive Era
Thesis Title / Topic: Leonard Wood and the American Empire
Chair: Dr. Brian Linn
· Cassie Rincones
E-mail: crincones@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Southwest / Comparative Border Studies
Chair: Dr. Carlos Blanton
· Jeff Roberts
Office: Henderson 312
E-mail: jeff.roberts@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: American Civil War; Naval History; 19th Century American History
Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford
· Thaddeus Romansky
E-mail: tmromo@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Civil War Era; Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship; European War and Society
Thesis Title / Topic: "'The Rank and File are Determined': Citizenship, Authority, and Mutiny in the Union Army, 1861-1865"
Chair: Dr. Charles E. Brooks
· Sara Schueneman-Leimon
Office: Glasscock 003
E-mail: sesa229@neo.tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: American History
Thesis Title / Topic: Minority groups, especially women and hispanics, with an emphasis on their religion, education, and professionalization
Chair: Dr. Sara Alpern
· Katherine Kuehler Walters
E-mail: kkwalters@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: History of the South; Gender; Texas History
Thesis Title / Topic: Comparative County Study on the White Primary in Texas
Chair: Dr. Walter L. Buenger
· Nathaniel Weber
Office: Glasscock 003B
E-mail: webernr1@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: American History; Military History
Thesis Title / Topic: American military advisors during the early years of the Cold War
Chair: Dr. Brian Linn
· Blake Whitaker
Office: Glasscock 003A
E-mail: blacwhit@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 20th Century British Empire; 20th Century Southern Africa; Colonial Zimbabwe
Thesis Title / Topic: "African Soldiers in the Rhodesian Security Forces, 1965-1980"
Chair: Dr. R. J. Q. Adams
· David Wright
Office: Bolton 303
E-mail: d-wright@philosophy.tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Intellectual History; 19th Century British History
Chair: Dr. R. J. Q. Adams
· Micah Wright
Office: Glasscock 001C
E-mail: micah921@neo.tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Inter-American Relations; Cultural syncretism and its effect on the conduct of popular uprisings; civil-military relations and cultural nationalisms in the Caribbean and Latin America, 1880-1940s
Thesis Title / Topic: "Puerto Rican Military Service and the Construction of the Nations, 1899-1940"
Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford
· Huichen (Hillary) Xiao
E-mail: xiaohc@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Social and cultural history of Modern China
Chair: Dr. Di Wang
· Marshall Yokell
Office: Glasscock 004A
E-mail: marshallyokell@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 19th and Early 20th Century Europe; Modern Germany (particularly pre-WWI); Diplomatic, Cultural, and Military History
Thesis Title / Topic: "The German Foreign Office and the Developing World, 1871-1914"
Chair: Dr. Adam Seipp
· Matthew Yokell
Office: Glasscock 004A
E-mail: mattyokell@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th Century Germany; Military and Diplomatic History; Central Europe; Modern China and Japan; Modern Britain; World War I; Interwar Europe; World War II
Thesis Title / Topic: "Qingdao and the German Experience in China, 1890-1918"
Chair: Dr. Adam Seipp
· Qianyue (Sherry) Zhang
E-mail: zhangqianyuehh@tamu.edu
Areas of Interest: Modern China
Chair: Dr. Di Wang
