Current M.A. Students

Fields: Public History, Early American History
Faculty: David Glassberg
Education: B.A. in History, Temple University
Interests: Material Culture, Historical Memory, Slavery, Folklore
E-mail: frankenf@history.umass.edu 

Fields: Early American and Early Canadian history
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Education: B.A., History and French, Vassar College, 2006
Interests: Material culture and architecture of colonial America, New England maritime history,
interactions between English and French colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries, colonial
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Fields: Intellectual History, Modern Latin America, Critical Thought
Faculty: Joel Wolfe
Education: BA University of Florida History & Jewish Studies
Interests: Memory and Space, Jewish thought, Historiography, Diasporic studies, Globalization and the City, Critical theory, Aesthetics.
Email: juanh@history.umass.edu

Fields: Latin America
Faculty: : Lowell Gudmundson, Joel Wolfe
Education: BA Gustavus Adolphus College, MLIS Simmons College
Interests:Cold War Central America
E-mail: thohenst@history.umass.edu

Fields: 20th C U.S., U.S. military history, public history
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Education: B.A., History, University of Maryland, College Park
Interests: I'm a second-year MA student in the Public History program. I'm interested in twentieth-century American history, especially popular and literary culture in the Cold War era. I've put these interests to use most recently for an exhibit on American science fiction from 1945-1965, online at http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/exhibits/uncertain/ and as a physical exhibit currently in the Special Collections of the W.E.B. Du Bois library (winner of the 2011 National Council on Public History prize for the best project completed by a student in a public history program, awarded at the annual conference in Pensacola, Florida).
Non-Academic Interests: Hiking, camping, science fiction
Ambitions: After this program, I intend to work in publishing.

Fields: Public History, 20th Century U.S.
Faculty: David Glassberg
Education: B.A., American Studies, Wheaton College
Interests: I am interested in the ways museums, historical societies, and other cultural institutions can help their audiences develop a greater sense of place in the past. This can include the use of oral history as a means of documenting historical memory, the development of museum education theory, digital history as a means in enhancing access to historical resources, etc. 
E-mail: eingmund@history.umass.edu

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Fields:Public History, 19th century U.S., Women's history
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Education: B.A., History, Yale University (2008)
Interests:My primary interests lie in 19th-century America, especially women, religion, social reform movements, and the history of childhood. I am also interested in material culture throughout American history, especially as it relates to public history and the role of museums in society.

Fields: American History
Faculty: David Glassberg
Education: B.A., English, Loyola College in Maryland (2006)
Interests: I have pursued my interest in museums, history, and the history of museums through a research fellowship at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. More recently, I worked as a grant writer for the educational non-profit Facing History and Ourselves. My research interests include slavery in the United States before the Civil War and European colonialism in Africa, as well as the way contemporary Americans address, or choose not to address, the history of slavery. Museums and their histories continue to pique my curiosity.

Fields: Colonial Latin America
Education: B.F.A. in Theatre Arts, History from Catawba College (2007)
Faculty: Jose Angel Hernandez
Interests:I am interested in the conquest, colonization, and subsequent revolutions within Latin America.  I want to study how these forces effected and influenced the populations in both Latin America and Europe.

Fields: Classical and Late Antiquity, Early Modern Transatlantic, Public History
Faculty: Richard Lim, Brian Ogilvie, Marla Miller
Education: M.A., Holy Names College (1991); B.A., Wesleyan University (1987).
Interests:The intersection between public history and antiquity, history of religion, esoteric thought.
Email:mroblee@history.umass.edu

Fields: Cold War History (20th Century U.S.), History of Science & Technology, World History
Faculty: Christian Appy, Larry Owens
Education: B.A. History, UMass Amherst (2010, Summa, PBK); A.A. Global Studies, MassBay Community College (2007)
Interests: My lifelong love of history stems from the fact that it is the ultimate in holistic disciplines. One can quite literally study the history of anything. Most recently, my curiosity has been piqued by the history of human language, and particularly the English language, the origins of the military-industrial-academic complex, the political history of the space race and the role of intelligence gathering in driving the U.S. space program forward, and the comparative history of science & technology in China, Europe, and the Islamic world. I come to academia after many years as a salesman and consultant in the computer industry, which taught me, among many other things, the true value of an education.
Ambitions: To become a history professor at the college level after receiving my PhD. I plan to spend the rest of my life reading, writing, teaching, and gaining recognition as a scholar of history.
E-Mail: brudnick@history.umass.edu

Fields: Mo dern Europe, British Imperialism
Faculty: Jennifer Heuer
Education: B.A., University of North Carolina Greensboro (2009) 
Interests: My interests focus primarily on the British Empire and the influences (political, social, and cultural) that controlling an empire that spanned more than a quarter of the Earth’s land area and a quarter of its population had on Great Britain.
Ambitions:To continue my research by obtaining a Ph.D. and become a Professor of European History focusing on the British Empire.

Fields: Public History; Early Modern Europe
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Education: B.A. History, Pitzer College in California (2005)
Interests:A few of my otherwise very broad interests are society,  gender, the interplay of science and religion as well as public memory  and perceptions of history.
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E-mail: svillar@history.umass.edu

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