Kent Condition University’s Graduate Enter in History offers two levels: online resources Arts and also the Physician of Philosophy.

Research and teaching happen to be the standard goals of graduate education, but folks are more and more applying their learning history to archival and museum work, government and diplomacy, publishing, business, and law. Recent graduates in our M.A. program have acquired admittance to a number of doctorate programs about the nation and also have guaranteed employment in museums and libraries. Our doctorate graduates might be found teaching at colleges and universities through the U . s . States in addition to employed in museums and libraries as well as in public and government service and business.

General queries regarding graduate study ever ought to be forwarded to the department’s Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Timothy Scarnecchia, tscarnec@kent.edu .

Completed MA Thesis

“The Crucifix of Memory: Community and Identity in Greenville, Pennsylvania” Dr. Ken Bindas, Consultant, May 2015.

Ongoing MA Students

Colin Grenig, 2 nd year,

Paper Presented: “Creating a completely independent Foreign Policy: Conservative Internationalist Rhetoric within the Harding Administration” Kent-Akron Graduate Symposium (Feb 2015).

Public History concentration,

is going to be an exchange student in Wurzburg Germany in Fall 2015 included in the Department’s Cultural Landscapes program in the MA level

Christine Pienoski, 1 st year,

Public History concentration,

Ohio Museum Association Student Scholarship

Conference attended: Ohio Museum Association Annual Conference

Philip Shackelford, 1 st year,

GSS Research Award,

Research Trip Historic Research Agency at Maxwell Air Pressure Base, Montgomery Alabama

Conference Papers Presented:

“Silent Mavericks: The U.S. Airforce Security Service and Signals Intelligence in Cold War National Security” Kent-Akron Graduate Symposium (Feb 2015) and also at the KSU Graduate Research Symposium (April 2, 2015).

“Flying High: The U.S. Air Pressure Security Service and it is Rise to Preeminence within the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Society of Military History Conference, April 2015.

Whitney Stalnaker, 1 st year,

Public History concentration.

Ohio Museums Association Student Scholarship

Paper Presented: “Questions of Collective Memory: the Diary of Anne Frank and also the Traumatic Evolution of Holocaust Narratives” Akron-Kent Graduate Symposium. Feb 2015.

Conference attended: Ohio Museum Association Annual Conference,

is going to be an exchange student in Wurzburg Germany in Fall 2015 included in the Department’s Cultural Landscapes program in the MA level.

James Johnson, 1 st year,

Person in KSU Model NATO team representing Slovenia, Washington Electricity, Feb 2015

PhD Students

Completed Dissertation

Melissa Steinmetz,“National Insecurity within the Nuclear Age: Cold War Manhood and also the Gendered Discourse of U.S. Survival, 1945-1960” Dr. Ann Heiss, Consultant. August 2014.

Current PhD Students

Conference paper Presented: “’Evidence of the Lower Standard’: The Navy, Homosexuality, and Robert A. Martin Junior.’s Discharge Trial” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, March 21, 2015.

Attended the American Historic Association Meeting in New You are able to City, The month of january 2015

Organized the Akron-Kent Symposium, Feb 2015

Michele Curran Cornell, ABD,

General and Mrs. Matthew Ridgeway Grant 2014/2015

Research travel: Gettysburg College the Military History Institute, Carlisle PA and Bowling Eco-friendly Condition College

Conference Paper presented:
“Be Good: Sexual Tension in American Military Marriages during World War II” Society for Military History Annual Conference, Montgomery Alabama, April 10, 2015.

Guest lecture at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA

Research travel: U . s . States War College, the Pennsylvania Historic Society and also the College of Pennsylvania

Guest lecture at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA

Paper Presented: “The Arresting from the Maryland Legislature, 1861: A Historiographical Discussion” Akron-Kent Symposium, Feb 6, 2015.

Conferences Attended: Society of Civil War Historians (June 2014) and also the Southern Historic Association (November 2014)

“Peace Be around You: Leftist Activism at John Carroll college, 1967-1969” 15 th Annual Bakhtin Conference. Stockholm, Norway This summer 2014.

“Untangling the Tingle: Deep Throat, ‘Deep Throat’, and Indicating Cultural Production” Phi Alpha Theta Ohio Regional Conference. Lourdes College, March 21, 2015. Awarded Best Graduate Paper honors.

Journal Article: “Peace Be around You: Leftist Activism at John Carroll college, 1967-1969” Ohio History Journal. March 2015.

Conference Paper Presented: “From Radical Reform to ‘A New Despotism”: Commentary and Welfare Programs”

Akron-Kent Symposium. Feb 2015. Champion from the “Z” award for the best Paper.

Emily Hager Kasecamp, ABD,

GSS Travel Award

Research travel: College of Pittsburg, West Virginia College, and Frostburg Condition College. Also traveled towards the Pennsylvania Historic Society and also the Library Company of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and also the William and Mary Swen Library and also the Colonial Williamsburg Rockefeller Library in Williamsburg, Veterans administration

Conference Paper: “Oldtown Maryland—historic crossroads” Frontier Forum” and “Roundtable on Local History”, Michael Cresap Museum June 6 2014

Forthcoming Publication: “Oldtown Maryland: A colonial Crossroads”, Journal from the Alleghenies. 2016.

Research travel: John Ford Paper, College of Indiana

Papers presented: “Deterrence versus Disentanglement: Military Potential to deal with Nixon’s Troop Withdrawal from Columbia, 1969-1971”, Society of Military Historians, 11 April 2015.

Grant Received: Harry B. Leonard travel grant: U.S. intellectual history

Conference Papers presented:

“Producing Protest in Page” US Intellectual History Conference, October 9, 2014

“Religious Ideology in Racial Agitation” Midwest Popular Culture Association, October 3, 2014.

Grant Received: Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historic Society Departmental travel grant

Conference Paper presented: “Charles Scott Venable: Scholar and Soldier,” Kent-Akron Graduate History Symposium, 2015

Stephanie Vincent, ABD,

Kent Condition College Fellowship, Spring and Summer time 2014

Research travel: New Castle PA, Columbus Ohio, and Newell, WV

Conference Paper posted: “Competition and Cooperation within the American Pottery Industry” posted for that 2016 Organization of yankee Historians Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.

Conference Paper Presented: “Replying towards the Demon: The Polyphony of Praxis in 1960s Yugoslavia,” at 15 th Worldwide Annual Bakhtin1 Conference. Stockholm, Norway (This summer 2014).

Conferences Attended: European Association of Social Anthropologists in Tallinn, Estonia (This summer-August 2014)

New MA and PhD Assistantships for 2015-16:

New PhD assistantships:

Jacob House (2 nd year PhD), 20 th Century Intellectual History, MA College of Illinois Springfield.

Nick Mays (2 nd year PhD), 20 th Century Black Political History, MA Kent Condition.

Frederick Bean. 20 th Century American Political History, MA College of Illinois, Springfield.

New MA assistantships:

Megan Smeznik. Public History, BA Wooster College.

Frederick Stewart. Early American History, BA Ohio College.