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MA Students
Derek Akin
Research Interests:
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013
HSTA 102: American History II
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email: derek.akin@msu.montana.edu
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Alexander Aston
Research Interests:
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013
RLST 100: Intro to the Study of Religion
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email: alexander.aston@myportal.montana.edu
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Suzy Avey
Research Interests: American West, Early American History
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013
HSTA 102: American History II
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email: suzannah.avey@msu.montana.edu
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Jeff Bartos
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century U.S. history, with a focus on private detective agencies, mining, militarism, and finance in the American West
Graduate Research Assistant - Spring 2013
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email: jeffrey.bartos@msu.montana.edu
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Tyler Campbell
Research Interests: American Environmental History
Email: tyler.campbell2@msu.montana.edu
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Clinton Colgrove
Research Interests: History of Science, Pre-20th Century Science in America and Europe, Mapping Science in America and Europe, History of Science Education
Email: clinton.colgrove@msu.montana.edu
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Kate Cottingham
Research Interests: Early Central and South American Social and Cultural History: Emphasis in symbolic art and architecture
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013
ARTH 201: Art of World Civilization II
Email: katrinon@mac.com
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Dallas Diehl
Research Interests: Early American History
Email: dallas.diehl@msu.montana.edu
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Chad Freitag
Research Interests: American Presidents
Email: chad.freitag@student.msubillings.edu
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Michael Jones
Research Interests: American West
Email: michael.jones20@msu.montana.edu
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Linda Little
Research Interests:
Email: linda.little@msu.montana.edu
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LaTrelle Scherffius
Research Interests: Photography and Image in the American West,
Immigration and settlement, Borderlands, Reconstruction
Email: latrelleinmt@gmail.com
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Bryan Sciulli
Research Interests:
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013:
HSTA 416: Race & Class in America
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email:bryan.sciulli@msu.montana.edu
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Gary Sims
Research Interests: History of World War II naval weapon technology
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013
HSTR 140D: Modern Asia
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email: gary.sims@msu.montana.edu
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Ryan Sparks
Research Interests: Environmental History, Agricultural History
*Graduate Program Mentor Coordinator *
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Spring 2013
HSTR 102IH: Western Civilization II
Office: History Graduate Student Offices, Wilson 2-169
Email: ryan.sparks2@msu.montana.edu
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Michael Taylor
Research Interests: Colonial American History, Early American History
Email:
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Estella Terrazas
Research Interests: Environmental History, Gender, American West
Email: estella.terrazas@msu.montana.edu
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Craig Townsend
Research Interests: American Railroads,
National Parks,
Museum History,
American West
Email: craig.townsend@msu.montana.edu
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Andrea Yaeger
Research Interests: Global Environmental History, American West
Email: andrea.yaeger@msu.montana.edu
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PhD Students
Michael Fox
Research Interests: Museum History
Betsy Gaines-Quammen
Research Interests: Religion and Environmental History
Robert Gardner
Research Interests: Environment and Technology
Dissertation Abstract: Technological Forests: Engineering Nature with Tree Planting on the Great Plains, 1870-1942
Cheryl Hendry
Research Interests: Environmental History and US West
Jared Infanger
Research Interests: American West
Jerry Jessee
Research Interests:
Conservation and Environmental History
Dissertation: Radiation Ecologies: Bombs, Bodies, and Environment During the Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing Period, 1942-1965
Natalie Scheidler
Research Interests: Women and Gender in the US
Paul Sivitz
Research Interests: Dissemination of Knowledge and Institutionalization of Knowledge
Dissertation: Communication and Community:
Moving Scientific Knowledge in Britain and America, 1732-1782
Diane Smith
Research Interests: National parks, zoos, and museums; Wildlife and conservation biology; Women in science; Late 19th-early 20th century models of informal learning and education
Dissertation “Animals and Artifacts: A History of Animal Exchanges and Displays in Yellowstone National Park and the Nation’s Leading Zoos 1872-1929”
Bradley Snow
Research Interests: Environmental and Social history of the Silver Valley region of northern Idaho
Dissertation: Fully Leaded: Work, Bodies, and Environment in Three Rocky Mountain Smelter Communities
Daniel Zizzamia
Research Interests: Environmental History, the History of Science, the History of Technology.
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Graduate Mentor Program Coordinator
The mentor's job is to answer questions new graduate students may have about the History Department Program or the faculty.
The email address is:ryan.sparks2@msu.montana.edu
