Seth Kershner
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)
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OFFICE HOURS
FIELD
- 20th-century U.S. History
- 20th-century Latin America
- Labor History
FACULTY
- Professor Christian Appy
EDUCATION
- B.A, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (2007)
- M.S., Library & information Science, Simmons University (2011)
- M.A., History, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2021)
INTERESTS
- Modern U.S.
- U.S. Labor
- Carceral Studies
- Modern Latin America
MASTERS THESIS
- “A Constant Surveillance”: The New York State Police and the Student Peace Movement, 1965-1973.
BACKGROUND
Seth Kershner is a Ph.D. student studying Vietnam-era US social movements. His master’s thesis explored patterns of political surveillance by the New York State Police during the 1960s and ’70s. Kershner is co-author (with Scott Harding and Chuck Howlett) of Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education (University of Georgia Press, 2022). He and Harding also co-authored an earlier book, Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools (Palgrave, 2017). Kershner’s dissertation project explores resistance and activism by American GIs in military prisons during the Vietnam War.