History Graduate Students

James Brett Adams
ABD
Focus: Earlier 20th-century rural peoples in the south central US
Dissertation: "Resistance in the Oklahoma-Arkansas Borderlands, 1900-1918."
Jbadams@ou.edu

Damon B. Akins
ABD
Focus: race/gender identity formation in labor and religious organizations in the late 19th century/early 20th century American West
Dbakins@ou.edu

Dan Balkwill
ABD
Focus: North American West, Environmental
Dissertation: To compare twentieth-century land use on U.S. and Canadian Plains and Prairies.
Danbalkwill@ou.edu

Hava benYosef
MA Student
Focus: Ancient History, Jewish Emphasis
Thesis: Targum of Proverbs
Hava@ou.edu

Jon Blackman
ABD
Focus: 20th Century Federal Indian Policy
Dissertation: Oklahoma's Newer New Deal, The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936
Jblackman@ou.edu

George Bogaski
ABD
Focus: Twentieth Century Social History, American Protestantism
Dissertation: American Religious Response to Vietnam
Bogaski@swbell.net

Patrick Bottiger
ABD
Focus: American Indians, Early Nineteenth Century Indian Identity
Dissertation: Identity Formation in Vincennes, Indiana
PBottiger@ou.edu

Cecelia Brooks
Focus - Oklahoma History
Thesis - Oklahoma's "First Black Governor": Dr. Isaac William Young
Ccsawcc@aol.com

Anthony Everett Carlson
ABD
Focus: Nineteenth century U. S., Environmental history
Dissertation: Western railroads, conservation, and the environment
Anthony.E.Carlson-1@ou.edu

Heather Clemmer
ABD
Focus: Early 20th Century social history, Iimpact of World War I.
Dissertation: "Doing Our Bit": Life in San Francisco During World War I
Hclem@ou.edu

Chris Davis
ABD
Focus: History of Sport, 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History
Dissertation Topic: Race, Masculinity, and Oklahoma Football, 1965-1989
Crdavis@ou.edu

Jay R. Dew
ABD
Focus: American West, Environmental, Politics, Progressive Era, 20th Century
Dissertation: "Francis E. Warren and Wyoming Opposition to Conservation"
Jrdew1@aol.com

Daniel Flaherty
Ph.D. Student
Focus: Nineteenth century American West; Cultural Interaction among Natives and Settlers
dbflaherty@ou.edu

Sterling Fluharty
ABD
Focus: American Indian, Sixties in America, Ethnohistory
Dissertation: "Warriors for Self-Determination: Student-Youth Movements in Indian America, 1954-1974"
E-mail: sterling@ou.edu
Web site: http://students.ou.edu/F/Sterling.R.Fluharty-1/

Andrew Wayne Franklin
ABD
Focus: U.S. environmental history, Progressive Era and New Deal environmental history, history of the biological sciences in the U.S.
Dissertation: Utility and power industries (oil, electricity) ca. 1920s-1945 Andrewwfranklin@ou.edu

Catharine Franklin
Ph.D. Student
Focus: 19th century US Army history and Great Plains ethnohistory
Franklin@ou.edu

David Frazier
MA Student
Focus: American West and US military
Thesis: "The Development of Roping as a Necessary Occupational Skill" or "Steel Rain: the 158 Field Artillery in the Gulf War"
David.Frazier@OK.ngb.army.mil

Leslie Fretwell
MA Student
Focus: Classical History and Religion
Thesis: Greco-Roman Mystery Cults
Leslie.C.Fretwell-1@ou.edu

Lee Green
Ph.D Student
Focus: Medieval & Judaic Studies
leegreen-hall@ou.edu

Patti Jo King
Ph. D. Student
Focus: Contemporary Native America. The Impact of Urbanization on the Evolution of Modern American Indian Tribalism.
Pattijo.king@ou.edu
Website: www.walosienterprises.com

Sunu Kodumthara
ABD
Focus: Women, American West, Post-1865 US History
Dissertation: Antisuffragists in the East Versus Suffrage in the West
Sunu@ou.edu

Katrina Lacher
PhD Student
Focus: 20th-century United States, Environmental History
klacher@ou.edu

Stephen A. Martin
Ph.D Student
Focus: Native America, The West, Latin America
Dissertation: Native American migration into Upper Louisiana during the Spanish period, 1763-1803.
SMartin@ou.edu

Paul McKenzie-Jones
MA Student
Focus: American Indians - 20th century activism
Paulmcj@hotmail.com

Robyn McMillin
ABD
Focus: Long American 18th Century, Mid-Atlantic
Dissertation: The cultural work of science in the 18th century
rmcmillin@ou.edu

Jeff Means
ABD
Focus: Northern Great Plains Native American culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Dissertation: "From Buffalo to Beeves," an ethnohistory of the Oglala Lakota from 1868 to 1917, centering on the tribe's participation in the burgeoning cattle industry on the Northern Plains during this liminal period in the tribes' history.
kjmeans@ou.edu

Jeri Lynn Reed
ABD
Focus: Transnational agricultural modernization, particularly Mexico, and the relation of Texas and Oklahoma Progressives to the national movement
Dissertation: "The White Folk Tenants of Texas: Cotton, Race and Modernization in Progressive-Era Texas and Oklahoma"
jlreed@ou.edu

John Mark Rhea
Ph.D Student
Focus: Post Civil War American West and Nineteenth/Twentieth Century
America, Social-Cultural
Dissertation: The relationship between gender, race, historical narrative, western myths and women's suffrage in the American West.

Thomas Roy
ABD
Focus: Native American History In The Nineteenth Century
Dissertation: Yìsaùm: Parker McKenzie’s Double Vision of Kiowa Language and Culture.
Tfroy@prodigy.net

Charles D. Russell
MA Student
Focus: Early American Republic - Church, State, and Religion
Thesis: Early American Views of Islam
chuck@ou.edu

Tash Smith
ABD
Focus: Christian Missionaries and Indians in the American West
Dissertation: Analyze the interaction among various Christian missionaries and Indian groups in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Tash.Smith@ou.edu

Sam Stalcup
Ph.D Student
Focus: American West, Oklahoma, Environmental History
Thesis: The Desegregation of Oklahoma City Public Schools (1954-1991)
Samuel@ou.edu

http://students.ou.edu/S/Samuel.R.Stalcup-1/

 

Michele Stephens
ABD
Focus: Native American History, Colonial American History, Women's History
Michelemc@ou.edu

Amanda Taylor-Montoya
ABD
Focus: American West; Land, Identity, and Citizenship in the Southwest; Labor and Social Movements
Dissertation: "'Under the Same Glorious Flag': Race, Citizenship, and the Incorporation of New Mexico."
Ataylor-Montoya@ou.edu

Toni Tanner
MA Student
Focus: 19th Century Europe and the German Empire
Non-Thesis option

Sarah Thomas
MA Student
Focus: 19th Century women's social history
Sarah.C.Thomas-1@ou.edu

Rhonda L. Tintle
Ph.D. Student
Focus: American West; China
email: tintle à ou.edu

Jana Vogt
ABD
Focus: U.S. Gender History, Early 20th century
Jvogt@ou.edu

Chris Wallace
MA Student
Focus: Classical Greece
christopher.m.wallace-1@ou.edu

Emily Wardrop
MA Student
Focus: Native American History, Womens History
Thesis: Lakota Women
Emily.wardrop@ou.edu

Crystal Williams
ABD
Focus: Colonial America, Seafaring, Religion, Crime Dissertation: "Saving the Tribe of Zebulun: Religion and Sailors in Early America"
Ougradcw@aol.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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