Graduate Student Directory
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Graduate Courses
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Anderson | email Lizzie |
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Lizzie received her bachelor's degree in History and Women's Studies from The College of William and Mary in 2007 and received a distinguished graduate student fellowship in the fall 2008 from Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts, Department of History and Religious Studies Program and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center.
In October 2008 Lizzie presented a paper "Living the Good Death: Grief and Faith in the Diaries of Two Appalachian Women" at the Department of History and Religious Studies Program Graduate Student Conference. |
| Research Interest: 19th Century American History and History of Women and Gender |
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| Anne Brinton | email Anne |
| This year Anne co-organized the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center Graduate Student Conference in February 2008 and the Department of History and Religious Studies Program Graduate Conference held in October 2008. Anne's research interests are in 19th-Century American History and Women's History. |
| Doctoral Dissertation: Wartime Slave Emancipation in the Loyal Western Border States. |
| Advisor: William A. Blair |
| William Bryan | email Will |
William graduated in 2007 from Furman University with a B.A. in history and a B.A. in political science.
During the summer of 2008, Will attended the Frank C. Munson Institute for American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut and won the 2008 Hardin Craig Prize for a paper entitled "'Corporate Ruler of the Seas': The Influence of Marine Insurance on Ship Timber." |
| Research Interest: 19th Century United State history and environmental history |
| Advisor: Adam Rome |
| Debra Daggs | email Deb |
| Debra Daggs is the Learning Enrichment Teacher at the Mount Nittany Middle School in State College, PA and will be on a sabbatical leave of absence spring semester 2009 to pursue her Ph.D. |
| Research Interest: Suppression of the Slave Trade |
| Advisor: William A. Blair |
| Susan DeWeese | email Susan |
| 19th-Century American History, Women's History, Gender History |
| Doctoral Dissertation: "The Woman's Relief Corps and the Politics of Female Loyalty in the Gilded Age U.S." |
| Advisor: Lori Ginzberg |
| David Greenspoon | email David |
| In 2008 David received a Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant, a Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Support Grant from the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, and a Predoctoral Fellowship from the History Department at Penn State. David was also a commentator for the Richards Center Graduate Student Conference held in February and for a Richards Center Graduate Student Workshop in April. |
| Doctoral Dissertation: "Children's Mite: Juvenile Philanthropy in America, 1815-1865" |
| Advisor: Lori Ginzberg |
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| Antwain Hunter |
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| Antwain received his M.A. from the University of Connecticut. |
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| Matthew Isham | email Matt |
Matt is currently teaching an on-line web course, American civilization since 1877, and writing his dissertation.
In February 2008 he was a commentator for two papers for the Richards Center Graduate Student Conference: Liberty and Freedom During the Civil War and he delivered a paper at the 11th annual New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference at York University in Toronto, Canada. The paper was titled, "Maine’s Manifest Destiny: Maine, Canada and the Expansion of International Trade, 1845-1848."
Matt's book review of Yonatan Eyal's, The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861, will be forthcoming in Civil War History in 2009. |
| Doctoral Dissertation: "The political antislavery movement, 1848-1865." |
| Advisor: Mark E. Neely, Jr. |
| Kelly Knight | email Kelly |
Kelly received her bachelor's degree from Messiah College, Harrisburg, PA in May 2007.
In February 2008 she chaired a panel at the Richards Center Graduate Student Conference held at Penn State. |
| Research Interests: Black churches in the Civil War era. |
| Advisor:William A. Blair |
| Timothy Orr | email Tim |
Tim received his B.A./B.S. (History/Biology) from Gettysburg College in 2001 and his M.A. (History) from Penn State in 2003.
In April 2008, Tim delivered a presentation titled: A Deadly Game: Combat on the Skirmish Line at Gettysburg on July Third at the 12th Biennial Gettysburg National Military Park Scholarly Seminar. At the Society of Civil War Historians Conference held in June 2008, he presented a paper, “We are No Grumblers”: The Mutiny and Muster-Out of the Pennsylvania Reserve Division in 1864. Tim also delivered two presentations to the Centre County Civil War Round Table this year.
A second publication was released in 2008 for Tim entitled, “ ‘On Such Slender Threads does the Fate of Nations Depend’: The Second United States Sharpshooters Defend the Union Left on July Second,” published in “The Most Shocking Battle I Ever Witnessed”: The Second Day at Gettysburg (Published by Gettysburg National Military Park, 2008). In addition he had two book reviews published this year, one in The Annals of Iowa and the other in Civil War History. |
| Doctoral Dissertation:Cities at War: Urban Military Mobilization in the North During the Civil War |
| Advisor: Carol Reardon |
| Andrew Prymak | email Andrew |
Andrew received his bachelor’s degree from Furman University and his master’s degree from Penn State.
Andrew Prymak is the 2009–10 Editorial Assistant with Civil War History and is funded by both the James Landing Graduate Fellowship in History and the Warren W. Hassler Graduate Fellowship in the Richards Center. During the 2008–09 school year, Andrew was appointed as a research assistant thanks to funds provided by Howell and Sondra Rosenberg. As a research assistant he collected data and surveyed the collections found in the Special Collections Library located at Pattee Library, Penn State University Park campus for the statewide digital project the Richards Center is spearheading. He also chaired a panel at the Richards Center Graduate Student Conference held in February 2008. |
| Research Interest: Southern History and Reconstruction |
| Advisor: William A. Blair |
| J. Adam Rogers |
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Adam received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 2001 and his master’s degree from Penn State in 2004.
During the summer 2008, Adam was accepted into a highly selective program at the United States Military Academy, West Point Summer Seminar in Military History. In addition, Adam was a respondent for the Department of History and Religious Studies Program 2008 Graduate Conference held in October 2008 and will present a paper, “Union Odyssey: The Demobilization and Readjustment of Pennsylvania’s Civil War Veterans” for a Richards Center Graduate Student Workshop in January 2009. |
| Doctoral Dissertation: Union Odyssey: The Demobilization and Readjustment of Pennsylvania's Civil War Veterans |
| Advisor: Carol Reardon |
| Jonathan Steplyk | email Jonathan |
| Jonathan spent his summer as an intern at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. In October 2008 he presented a paper, “Fighting to the Death: David Crockett and the Battle over Meaning and Memory” at the Department of History and Religious Studies Program Graduate Conference. |
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| Advisor: Carol Reardon |
| Sean Trainor |
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| Sean received his B.A. from George Washington University. |
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| Alfred Wallace - Web Site |
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Alfred received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and his master’s degree from Missouri State University in 2006.
At the Society of Civil War Historians conference held in June 2008, Alfred presented a paper, “Pressured on Every Side: Conflicts Between Military and Civilian Priorities Planning the Camden Expedition of 1864” . At the Society of Military History annual meeting of 2009 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he presented a paper entitled, "Drunks, Prostitutes, and Traitors: Crime in Occupied Vicksburg." In the summer of 2009, Alfred held the Ruth Internship at the Army Heritage and Education Center for three weeks, allowing him time and materials to begin work on his dissertation. |
| Research Interest: "The Union occupation of the Mississippi River valley, and military-civilian relations generally." |
Advisor: Carol Reardon
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| Timothy Wesley |
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Tim received his masters from Tennessee Technological University in 1997 and taught history in public schools and as an adjunct at MTSU (Murfreesboro) and Volunteer State (Gallatin) in Tennessee.
In March 2008, Tim was awarded the Milton B.
Dolinger Graduate Fellowship Research Award from the College of the Liberal Arts.
In April 2008, his work was featured in the annual Graduate Student Workshop for the Richards Center, entitled "The Politics of Faith: The Crosscurrents of Denominational Church Life and Politics during the Civil War." Tim presented the paper "Faith in a Time of Trouble: Religion, Politics, and Resistance in the Occupied South" at the Society of Civil War Historians Conference held in June 2008. Later in June, he spent a week in New Orleans as a member of the Center's contingency at the Richards Center/UNESCO Teacher's Institute on the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
In October, Tim served as a participant reader in the "1808 Bicentennial Commemoration of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the United States," presented by the Richards Center and the Center for American Literary Studies, and attended the Southern Historical Association Conference in New Orleans (Tim will participate in a panel, chaired by noted historian Donald G. Matthews, at the 2009 SHA Conference in Louisville).
Tim learned recently that a manuscript he submitted for consideration by the prestigious Journal of Religious History has made it past an initial round of scrutiny and been sent out for peer review. |
| Doctoral Dissertation: The Crosscurrents of Politics and Denominational Church Life During the Civil War |
| Advisor: William A. Blair |
