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Current M.A. Students

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This page is intended to give a sense of the range and focus of graduate student research in our department. You may write to current students care of the Department of History, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003-9312. View graduate student office hours here.


John Dickson

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Jonathan Dusenbury

 

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James Fiorentino

Fields: History of Science and Technology; History of Historiography; Early Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History.
Faculty: Larry Owens and Brian Ogilvie
Education: B.A., University of Massachusetts; History
Interests: I'm interested in the history of the practice of historical scholarship. In particular, I'm fascinated by the gradual "professionalization" of history as a discipline during the nineteenth century, and the ways in which this disciplinary 'hardening' may have been related to and influenced by factors outside of academe. In HST, I'm most interested in the role of state science as both a major component of 'development' projects undertaken by national elites in the postcolonial world, and as a powerful 'discourse' capable of providing a political vocabulary of disinterest and authority useful for the maintenance of elite rule. Over AY 2009-10 and 2010-11 I'll be teaching the Junior Honors Seminar in the STPEC department at UMass.

Katherine Garland

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Veronica Golden

 

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Andrew Grim

 

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Michael Holmes

 

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Daniel McDonald

 

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Jacob Orcutt

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Shuko Tamao

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Erika Tomoyose

 

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Brian Eagan, in memoriam (1959-2007)

I've had a lifelong passion for the study of history, but unlike many of my colleagues I had little academic background in it before I entered the Masters program. I studied at the theater conservatory (playwriting) at Rutgers University in the late 1980s; several plays of mine have been produced at various New York and regional venues, most recently at Circle Rep. Lab and Theater Off Park. I've also been employed in radio for many years, in western Massachusetts and Atlanta, Georgia, as a program director and producer of syndicated radio shows. Working on these projects in particular ultimately prompted me to seek formal training in methods of historical inquiry.

Brian Eagan died of congestive heart failure on August 5, 2007.