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Mauricio Castro, Ph.D. student: Hardly a new face, Mauricio hails from Costa Rica by way of Vassar College. He has been with us for two years, acquiring an M.A. and impressing people with his scholarship, dry wit, and good humor. Mauricio plans to continue his work in recent United States history, especially the intersections of race, ethnicity, and popular culture. His major professor is Randy Roberts.
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Sanket Desai, M.A. student: Sanket has a B.A. in history from Eastern Michigan University. He is interested in earning a masters in European history, especially Germany in the modern period, as well as the modern Middle East. He has not yet selected a major professor.
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Magda Gehring, visiting graduate student: Magda is a graduate student at the Technische Universitat Dresden, in Germany. She is spending the 2009-2010 academic year in residence at Purdue studying women's movements in the 19th century with particular attention to transatlantic links between American and German feminists. She is hoping to get to know Professors Janney, Walton, Gabin, and Gray.
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Joshua Jeffers, Ph.D. student: Joshua graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in history and philosophy and Norther Illinois with an M.A. in history. His interests lie in problems of race and frontiers in North America as well as post-colonial cultural issues from which many new interpretive lessons have been drawn. Joshua was awarded a Ross Fellowship by the College of Liberal Arts. He hopes to work with Professor Dawn Marsh.
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Robert Kirchubel, Ph.D. student: Another recent Purdue M.A. continuing on for his doctorate, Rob is attached to the Army ROTC Military Science program and is an established military historian. He plans to pursue the Ph.D. studying modern Europe in the era of the World Wars. He will be working with Professor Will Gray.
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Jill Krasuski, M.A. student: Jill graduated from Hamlin University in Minnesota with a bachelors degree in legal studies and political science. She came to Purdue in the International Relations M.A. program but has seen a vision and decided to rededicate her life to history instead. She is interested in early modern European history, but she has not yet selected a major professor.
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Natalie Latteri, Ph.D. student: Natalie is our first recruit on the new "fast-track" program. She comes to us from University of California Davis, where she earned her B.A. in history last winter. Her research interests lie in the Medieval Christianity, especially the Cistercian monastics and issues of gender and piety in the 12th and 13th centuries. Natalie also won a Ross Fellowship from the College of Liberal Arts. She plans to work with Professor Mike Ryan.
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Timothy Olin, M.A. student: Timothy holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin Madison in German after which he served a tour with the Peace Corps in Central Asia, where he became familiar with Russian-speaking Germans living there. His academic interests combine German and Russian history. He hopes to work with Professors Will Gray and Michael Smith.
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Chris Snively, Ph.D. student: Chris entered the Purdue M.A. program two years ago after taking a B.A. at the University of Missouri St. Louis. His interest is in the Balkan states of the former Yugoslavia. He has been teaching German at Purdue and has picked up Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language skills by way of language institutes at IU. He plans to continue his Balkans studies with Charles Ingrao as his major professor.
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Frederick Starks, post-bacc student: Fred is starting back to graduate school after a successful career in the military. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Southern Illinois University. He is interested in United States history and will plunge in as a non-degree student to test the waters.
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Brandon Ward, Ph.D. student: Brandon comes from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, via College Station, Texas, where he earned his M.A. at Texax A & M in May. His field of interest is recent US, with emphasis on the Vietnam War and resistance to that war. His M.A. thesis deals with antiwar activity in the American Southwest. He hopes to explore the same issues in the Midwest for a doctoral dissertation. He expects to work with Professors Randy Roberts and Nancy Gabin.
