Graduate Students

Alyssa Warrick (adw268@msstate.edu )

I am a second-year master's student at Mississippi State University. I am originally from Rogersville, Missouri (between Springfield and Branson). I study modern U.S. history, African American history, and environmental history. In addition to my academic career, I have been a Park Ranger at four different national parks. I love going to movies and traveling wherever the road may take me.

EDUCATION

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS Master of Arts in History; Degree expected May 2010
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
Bachelor of Arts in History; Degree awarded December 2005

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Teaching Assistant, Mississippi State University

Discussion Leader, Spring 2009, Early U.S. History; Fall 2009, Modern U.S. History
Responsibilities: Leading class discussions of primary and secondary documents related to class; grading quizzes and exams.

Teaching Assistant, Mississippi State University

Grader, Fall 2008, Early U.S. History
Responsibilities: Grading papers and exams.

Research Assistant, Truman State University

Spring 2002-Fall 2005
Responsibilities: Transcribing correspondence from microfilm.

Assistant Editor, The Apprentice Historian

Spring 2003, Spring 2005
Responsibilities: Selecting and editing papers submitted to journal of Truman State University's Phi Alpha Theta chapter.

PAPERS PRESENTED

Bathing Jim Crow: African-American Workers at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.  Graduate Association of African American History Conference, University of Memphis, Septebmer 2009.

Jim Crow Takes a Bath: African Americans at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.  Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Mississippi State University, April 2009.

HONORS

Best Graduate Student Paper, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Mississippi State University, 2009
James W. Garner Scholarship, Mississippi State University, Fall 2008-Present
President s List, Truman State University, Fall 2005
Phi Alpha Theta, Inducted Fall 2003; Vice President of Chapter, 2009-2010.

Joshua Camper (jc943@msstate.edu )

I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2005 with certification to teach grades 7-12 in United States and World History, Economics, Government, and Geography. I earned my Master of Arts in History from Murray State University in Kentucky. My Master's Thesis is entitled, Forrest's Commanders: Nathan Bedford Forrest, His Commanders, and the First West Tennessee Campaign, December 1862-January 1863.  My thesis argued that General Forrest is an over glorified commander whose main reasons for military success can be traced to extremely capable commanders. I use his First West Tennessee Campaign as an example to illustrate how effective his commanders were and the ineffective role Forrest played. I am currently a second year PhD student in American History with an emphasis in early U.S. history, Science and Technology, the History of Medicine, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Military History.

I have presented papers at numerous Phi Alpha Theta student conferences across the country and at professional regional historical conferences in Kentucky and Tennessee. This October I will be presenting a paper at the Ohio Valley History Conference in Lexington, Kentucky that deals with the significance of dogs to the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

I have contributed several entries in the upcoming ABC-CLIO American Military History Encyclopedia, and I have written book reviews for the Tennessee Historical Quarterly and H-Net on Reconstruction and biographies on Abraham Lincoln. I have had published in the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers an article entitled The Extrication of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Command from West Tennessee, 25 December 1862- January 1863.  (vol. LXII, 2009).

I have been the recipient of the James Garner Scholarship at Mississippi State University, Department of History, the recipient of the George C. Herring Graduate Student Writing Award for the best paper by a graduate student in Kentucky in 2007, and first place awards at the Kentucky Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta Graduate Paper Awards in 2007 and 2008.

I have taught 8th and 11th grade United States history at the middle school and high school levels. At the college level I have taught Early World History from prehistory to 1500 and Modern World History from 1500 to the present. I have also led discussion classes in both early and modern United States history.

Whitney Adrienne Snow (was140@msstate.edu )

M.A., History, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2008.

Thesis: “The Cotton Mills of Huntsville.”  Thesis Advisor: Dr. Andrew Dunar.

B.A., Magna cum laude, History, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2006.

Experience:

MSU Graduate Teaching Assistant:

HI 1063 Early U.S. to 1877, Fall 2008.

HI 1073 Modern U.S. Since 1877, Spring 2009.

HI 1073 Modern U.S. Since 1877, Summer 2009 (Instructor of Record).

HI 1063 Early U.S. to 1877, Fall 2009.

Honors:

James W. Garner Scholarship, Mississippi State University, 2008-2009.

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges, 2008.

Sigma Tau Delta, 2007.

The National Scholars Honor Society, 2007.

Phi Kappa Phi, 2006.

Phi Alpha Theta, 2006.

Frances Cabaniss Roberts History Scholarship, UAH, 2005-07.

Service:

Secretary, Gamma Nu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, MSU, 2009-2010.

Secretary, Tau-Omega Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, UAH, 2007-08.

President, Tau-Omega Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, UAH, 2006-07.

Academic Interest:

Nineteenth Century United States; Post-Civil War South; and Women's Studies.

My area being the New South, I place emphasis on Southern industrialization or more specifically, the economic, cultural, and social impact of textile mills.  I explore the question of mills symbolizing progress or intransigence, a query which ties in with the debate on whether or not the New South is in fact new.

Publication:

"Slave Owner, Slave Trader, Gentleman: Slavery and the Rise of Andrew Jackson," The Journal of East Tennessee History 80 (2008): 48-60.

Article under Review: "Teaching Young Dogs New Tricks: Early Boys  and Girls  Clubs in Central Mississippi." Submitted to The Journal of Mississippi History.

Anthony Johnson (amj239@msstate.edu )

I am a first year M.A. student at Mississippi State University. My B.A. in history is from the Mississippi University for Women. I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa. My main historical interests are centered mainly on the United Kingdom during the early nineteenth century, including topics that center mainly on political and military history.

Thomas Chapman (tachapma@bellsouth.net )

Thomas began his career in education as a Peace Corps representative in the beautiful Kyrgyz Republic, also known as Kyrgyzstan, in the year 2000. There he met his blushing future bride with whom he came to Mississippi in 2004 in order to participate in an alternative teacher certification program through the University of Mississippi. After teaching high school for two years in both the Mississippi Delta and in Jackson, Thomas came to Mississippi State University in the fall of 2006 to study history full time. Having taken a year off from his studies to help welcome his beautiful daughter into the world, Thomas has returned to the professional discipline of history with a renewed sense of purpose. Professionally, Thomas is interested in studying how education, public and private, shaped early American history as well as in studying economic interpretations of the period.

Katie Bruton (ktb21@msstate.edu )

My name is Katie Bruton. I am a third year PhD student focusing on European History. My focus area is late 19th Century nationalism in Eastern Europe and the consequent problems it caused for the Great Powers of Europe. I have presented papers on the historiography of Russian Pogroms against the Jews in the late 19th and early 20th century Russia, Benjamin Disraeli and the Bulgarian Atrocities, and will present a paper this October on Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria, and Russophobia. On a personal note, I am from Huntsville, AL. I have two bachelor s degrees, one in political science and one in international affairs, both from the University of South Alabama. I also have two masters degrees, one in public affairs and one in history, both from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. I have two siblings, a sister who is 11 and a brother who is almost 8 who amuse me to no end.

Bradley Brewer (bjb176@msstate.edu)

I am a second year Ph.D. student and teaching assistant. The classes I have taught so far are Early Western World and Modern Western World.

As for my Ph.D. work goes, I am specializing in Modern European History with emphasis on Germany and France, plus European diplomatic history, U.S. diplomatic history and African civilization.

Research interests include international relations especially European and U.S. foreign policies, also nationalism and ethnic conflict.

Holly M. Haimes (hmh64@msstate.edu )

I graduated in May 2008 with a B.S. in Secondary Education from Mississippi State University. My goal is to teach high or middle school history. To aid in this pursuit, I am seeking an M.A. in history focusing on United States and European history. In my spare time I enjoy being in the country with my menagerie.

Benjamin Clanton (blc@msstate.edu )

Bio - Born: July 27, 1982

- Hometown: Cadaretta, MS

- Married to Leigh-Ann Sallis since December 27, 2003

Education

- Eupora High School, 2000

- B.A. in History and English, Mississippi State University, 2005

- Working towards M.A., Mississippi State University


Teaching

- Graduate Assistant since Fall 2005

- Taught discussion groups in Early and Modern U.S. History


Experience

- Presented at Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Jackson State University, 2007

- Presented at IS/IS Conference, Mississippi State University, 2007

- Submitted article to Civil War History, 2006


Research

- Major Field: Early United States

- Minor Field: American South

- Research interests include Native Americans from the Early Republic to Jackson and Slavery in the American South


Hobbies

- reading fiction of all kinds

- watching movies of all kinds with my wife

- watching almost any kind of sport, especially baseball, soccer, football, and tennis

Mike Goleman (mjg100@msstate.edu )

Education Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
M.A. in History, Summer 2006
Thesis: "To Become Men: Resistance, Revolt, and Masculinity in Antebellum Rural Slave Communities "
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jason K. Phillips

Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
B.A. in History, Fall 2003
Thesis: "An Evil of Colossal Magnitude: The Struggle to Free the Slaves during the American Revolution "
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Susan Cottler

Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
A.S. in General Studies, Spring 2001
Areas of Concentration: History, Psychology, Music

Awards
First Prize in the Gender Studies Graduate Student Paper Contest, Mississippi State University Women's Study Program, 2005.
Teaching Assistantship, Mississippi State University, 2005-2010
James W. Garner Scholarship, 2006-2010

Teaching Experience
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS,
Courses taught as Instructor of Record: U.S. History before 1877, U.S. History since 1877, Early Western World, World History before 1500, World History Since 1500

Publications
"Forged in Blood: Foreigners, Common Consciousness, and Social Solidarity in Antebellum Mississippi," Southern Historian 29 (Spring 2008): 51-60.

Paper Presentations: 
"Wave of Mutilation: The Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon of the 1970s," Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Mississippi State University, 18 April 2009.
"Forged in Blood: Outsiders, Social Solidarity, and the Mississippi Slave Revolt of 1835," The University of Missouri-Columbia Sixth Graduate Student Conference on History: This Land is Whose Land?: Civil Identity and Civil Conflict  (April 2008).
Chair and Commentator: "Global War on Terrorism Oral History Project, Round Table." International Security, Internal Safety Conference, Mississippi State University, 24 March 2007.
Finding Light in Darkness: Gender in Antebellum Slave Communities.  Gender Lecture Series, Mississippi State University, 5 April 2006.

Languages
Passed Spanish proficiency test, Mississippi State University, 2006.

Memberships and Organizations
Phi Alpha Theta
President for Mississippi State University, 2007-2008
Phi Kappa Phi

Jason Freeman
Education:

B.A. in history, the LaGrange College
Senior Seminar: British Colonial Policy in Canada from 1822-1841

M.A. in history, Georgia Southern University
Thesis: Redeeming Vienna, Revolution and Counter Revolution in 1848

Honors:

2006 Second place Phi Alpha Theta regional conference recipient for Georgia Loyalists in Revolutionary America

Research:

Major Field, Modern Europe
Minor Field, Early America
Research Interests, politics, diplomacy, imperialism
Area of Concentration, Britain and British Empire

While I was still working on my Masters, I first considered pursuing
further graduate study at M.S.U. as a consequence of seeing one of its Ph.D.
Students present a paper on post-war Sudeten Germans at the 2006 conference of the
Southern Historical Association. What impressed me then about the graduate program at M.S.U.
was the high standard of attention given to its students and the diversity of study offered there.
Since arriving at M.S.U. in the fall of 2009 I have now experienced those same qualities first hand.
The level of enthusiasm, insight, and inquiry to which professors here engage with graduate students is
truly remarkable. In addition to having a stellar history department, the M.S.U. campus is great too. Besides
possessing a strong collection of regional and agricultural sources, the Mitchell Memorial Library also has an
impressive number of primary source collections on micro film ranging from nineteenth century British political correspondence
to Nazi S.S. Papers. The reference and monographs holdings are both diverse and specialized. The staff at the library are eager
to help and like the rest of the university and community of Starkville, itself, gracious. In conclusion,
since coming to M.S.U. I have been immensely pleased with my decision to study here, and I encourage prospective students
to check M.S.U. graduate history program out.

Wilm K. Strawbridge

Professional Information
--PhD candidate in History
--advisor: Dr. Jason Phillips

--areas of concentration: The Civil War, Southern History, The Progressive Era, nineteenth-century American culture, and American gender studies
---Current work: I am writing about Confederate heroes of The Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis, and American masculinity from 1865 to World War I. My project bases its premises on western archetypes of the ideal man that mostly predate the American nation. These characters that exist in the popular imagination are reflected in Confederate heroes and thus stories of The Civil War. I hope to contribute to the study of Civil War romanticism and American gender by connecting these together using masculine archetypes as a framework.

Recent Professional Highlights
---article entitled A Monument Better than Marble: Jefferson Davis and The New South  published by The Journal of Mississippi History in 2007.
---presented a paper entitled The Jefferson Davis Myth: Southern Nation Building After The Civil War  at The University of Maryland Historical Conference, 2007
--won first prize at the 2008 Mississippi State gender essay competition
---presented paper at the 2008 Mississippi State Gender Lecture Series entitled Imagined Men: Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln and American Masculinity 
---presented paper entitled A Rebel Journal: The Land We Love and Southern Identity  at the 2008 Free Expression, The Civil War, and nineteenth-century media conference, at The University of TN Chattanooga
---Won the Marszalek Award for best paper at Mississippi State University and delivered lecture entitled Modernity, Tradition, and Identity: A Former Confederate General s South  in 2009
---paper entitled The Arch Traitor: Jefferson Davis and Northern Memory of The Civil War  was one of two from MS selected to be delivered at the 2009 meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society

Jeffery B. Howell (Jeff, jbh164@msstate.edu )
PhD Candidate
U. S. Hisory

Education and Research

• B.A. in History, University of Mississippi, 1987
• Masters of Divinity, Mid American Baptist Theological Seminary, 1993
• M.A. History, Mississippi State University, 2005; Thesis: “The Undiscovered Country: The Civil Rights Movement in Holmes County, Ms 1954-1968”
• PhD candidate, ABD, Dissertation Research: Mississippi newspaper editor Hazel Brannon Smith, a proponent of segregation who was pushed into an alliance with civil rights activists when her civil liberties were threatened by white extremists; her career demonstrates the complexity of moderate white response to white backlash and civil rights
• Research consultant, forthcoming University of Alabama television documentary on the career of Hazel Brannon Smith
• Prospective completion date: Summer 2010

Papers delivered, Publications, and Awards

• Phi Alpha Theta, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2005
• Phi Alpha Theta, Mississippi College, Spring 2006
• Forum on Agricultural and Rural History at Mississippi State (FARHMS), April 2008
• Index, Thomas Adams Upchurch, Legislating Racism: The Billion-Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow. University Press of Kentucky, 2004
• 2 articles for the forthcoming work, Mississippi Encyclopedia, by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture of the University of Mississippi.
• Spring 2007 John F. Marszalek Graduate Lecture Prize Winner, paper topic, “Heritage or a Slap in the Face: Confederate Symbols in 21^st Century Mississippi”

Work Experience

• August 2007 to Present, Research Assistant, African American Studies Department, Mississippi State University, The Black Entrepreneur Project in the South
• Summer 2008,  Adjunct Instructor, Mississippi State University, Civil War & Reconstruction
• 2004 to 2007 – Graduate Teaching Assistant, History Department, Mississippi State University (taught all four freshman surveys)

Memberships

• Southern Historical Association
• Mississippi Historical Society
• Phi Alpha Theta (Gamma Nu chapter, MSU, President, 2006-2007)
• Phi Kappa Phi

Brian Rumsey (br248@msstate.edu )

BS in History, Iowa State University, 2005
BS in Journalism, Iowa State University, 2006

I am a third-year MA student. My areas of interest include environmental history, the history of science and technology, and medical history. I am working on my MA thesis, on the subject of flood plains in the United States, advised by Dr. Jim Giesen. Particularly, my research focuses on Gilbert F. White, a geographer who brought various new ideas to the field of floodplain management.

I am currently a research assistant in the department of psychology for Dr. Gary Bradshaw, working on a NSF grant to study the psychology of invention. Previously, I have served as a teaching assistant for Early U.S. History, Modern U.S. History, and Early Western World.

I am a native of Iowa, but come to MSU by way of New England. For the past two years before returning to school, I worked as a sports reporter for the Brattleboro Reformer in Brattleboro, Vermont.

I am a native of Iowa, but came to MSU by way of New England. In between my undergraduate coursework and entering graduate school, I worked for two years as a sports reporter in Vermont.

Awards, Honors, and Presentations:

George Robson Prize for best graduate conference paper, Mississippi State University, 2009.

Accommodation, not Domination: The Gilbert White Approach to Floodplain Management,  paper presented at the Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, 2009.

Inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, 2009.

James W. Garner scholarship, 2007, 2008.

Andi Knecht (amk42@msstate.edu )

Education:

B.A., North Carolina State University, 1995

History, with an emphasis on medieval education and literacy

M.A., Mississippi State University, 2005

Thesis: "The Tallulah Falls School: Female Reform and Rural Education in the New South."

Doctoral fields of study:

Modern U.S., Early U.S., Southern U.S. Agricultural/Rural, Medieval Europe.

Area of research: Philanthropic influence on rural education in the New South.

Teaching Experience: Early U.S. History, 4 years.

Award: William E. Parrish Graduate Teaching Award, Mississippi State University, 2006.

Papers presented:

From Common Sense to Love and Marriage . . . Revolutionary Words in Action  at the 2006 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Conference.

 We Are From the City, and We Are Here to Teach You : Rural Southern Education Reform in the Early Twentieth Century  at the 2006 SAWH Seventh Conference on Southern Women s History.

Memberships:

Southern Historical Association, Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH), Phi Alpha Theta, Gamma Beta Phi, MSU History Graduate Student Association.

Tracy Robertson (srr50@msstate.edu )

Education: B.A. in History, Mississippi State University, May 2008



I am a second year graduate student. My primary interests are late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history, particularly in the development of transportation systems and popular culture. Starting in August 2009, I am a teaching assistant for Religion in America and American Life and Thought.

Outside of school, I enjoy taking road trips, listening to my vinyl albums and singles, watching television, and playing video games

Michael Allen Jones (maj150@msstate.edu )

Michael has been a Ph.D. student in History at Mississippi State University since 2005. Over the last ten years he has instructed courses at the high school level in U.S. History and Government/Economics. His research interests include current geo-political issues as well as environmental topics in the deep Southern frontier. He includes among his hobbies; real estate investment, travel abroad, and attending competitive sporting events. Michael will present a paper this fall at the Tennessee Conference of Historians. He lives and works in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Education

MA in International Political Economics
Troy State University, 2004
MS in Education
University of Montevallo, 2001
BS in Education
University of Alabama, 1995

Papers Presented

Union University Conference of Historians Panel: Struggles in Frontier Struggles Paper Presented: Nature s Rites: Passages in the Wilderness on the Deep Southern Frontier Jackson, Tennessee September 15, 2007

Mississippi State University International Security/Internal Security Conference Paper Presented: Europe Reawakens Starkville, Mississippi April 24, 2007

Tennessee State University Conference of Historians Panel: Church & State Issues in History Paper presented: The Legacy of Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer Nashville, Tennessee September 30, 2006

Projects

Inter-Cultural Studies Video Project POL 6631 Intercultural Communications Chaldeans Then & Now: A Look at Modern Iraq Troy State University 2002 Term 1

Internship on Historical Preservation Bear Bryant Museum Tuscaloosa, Alabama Spring 2000

Memberships

American Historical Association Since 2005
Journal of the Early Republic Since 2005
The Journal of Southern History Since 2005

Kayla Moore(kbh75@msstate.edu )

James S. Kinsey(jsk75@msstate.edu )

Education:

·       B.A. Social Welfare, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1982

·       M.Div. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 1987

·       M.A. Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, 2005

·       Currently working toward Ph.D. in United States History, Dr. James Giesen, Advisor

Teaching Experience

·       Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mississippi State University, Early United States History, 2008, Mississippi History, Spring 2009, Modern United States History (online), Fall 2009

·       Adjunct Instructor, Jackson State University, World Civilizations 2005-2008

·       Social Studies Teacher, Crystal Springs High School, Mississippi Studies, World Geography, World History, AP World History, 1999-2008

·       Dual Enrollment Instructor, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, World History, 2007

·       AP World History Grader, Colorado State University, 2007 & 2008

·       Served on the Mississippi History Now Teacher Forum, 2004-2008

Research Interests

·       Major Field - Modern United States History,

·       Minor Fields - Progressive Era, American South

Presentations/Publications/Awards

·       Presented, and won second prize, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference in 2004. 

Paper: “Henry Lewis Whitfield: Progressive Reformer of Mississippi”

·       Three articles forthcoming (2009) in the Mississippi Encyclopedia, University of Mississippi Press,

entitled:  “Mississippi and the New Deal,” “Mississippi and the Great Depression,” and

“The Indian Removal Act of 1830”

·      Journal Article (under review) in Journal of Mississippi History entitled Business Progressivism and Social Reform in Mississippi Under Henry L. Whitfield, 1924-1927 

·       Book Review: Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800. By Muzaffar Alam and

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 399 pp. $99.  Reviewed in

World History Bulletin, a publication of The World History Association, Spring, 2008

·      Southern Historical Association, Member

·      Mississippi Historical Association, Member

·      Agricultural History Society, Member

·      Organization of American History, Member

·       Recipient of the James Garner Scholarship, Mississippi State University, Department of History, 2008

·       Phi Alpha Theta, National Historical Honorary Society, Member

·       Phi Kappa Phi, National Honorary Society, Member

Cameron Collins(cdc167@msstate.edu )

Lauren Blumkin(leb149@msstate.edu )

Erinn Catherine McComb(ecm127@msstate.edu )

Summer Johnson (slj29@msstate.edu )

Summer is a first year M.A. student at Mississippi State University. She received a B.A. degree in Film from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2002. For the past six years, she has taught A.P. U.S. History in Palm Beach County Florida where she has served as department chair and an active participant in the Teaching American History Grant. Summer attended a variety of teacher seminars hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, including seminars with Tony Badger, Gary Gallagher, and Carol Berkin. Summer is very interested in Southern History, particularly New South.

Karen Senaga(ks775@msstate.edu )

Kirk Strawbridge (kstraw80@yahoo.com )

Amanda Butler (abb217@msstate.edu )

Education:

Blue Mountain College, B.S in Social Science 06

Research Interest:

Modern U.S
Diplomacy

Teaching Assistant:

Early U.S, fall 2009

I am a first year graduate student focusing on 20th century U.S.
I recently moved back to MS from Jacksonville, FL. I plan on
teaching college U.S History upon completion of my M.A and PhD.
In my free time I enjoy being outdoors, playing the piano, drums, and guitar.

Gary C. Cheek, Jr. (Cole) (cacheek@bellsouth.net )

Present - Currently working on my Ph.D. dissertation at MSU
2005 - M.A. Mississippi State University. Thesis title: "Cultural Flexibility: Assimilation, Education, and the Evolution of Choctaw Identity in the Age of Transformation, 1800-1830"
2002 - B.A. Millsaps College, cum laudi. Major: History, Minor: Classical Studies
1998 - Valedictorian, Kosciusko High School

Achievements:

William E. Parish Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, 2006-2007
The Glover Moore Award for best master's thesis on a topic in Mississippi history complete in 2005
Garn Scholarship recipient
Academic Sumners Scholarship recipient
Phi Alpha Theta, lifetime member, National History Honorary
Mu Phi Epsilon, Delta Nu Chapter, Naional Music Honorary
Eta Sigma Phi, National Classics Honorary

Selected Conferences and Presentations

Invited guest speaker: "'A People of Clay': Choctaw Adaptation and Survival through History." Presented at Choctaw Spirit Seminar in Choctaw, MS July 7, 2007
Invited guest lecturer: "Choctaw Culture" presented for the anthropology class of Cultural Anthropology, Cobb building, Mississippi State University, April 16, 2007
Invited guest speaker: "James McDonald: Choctaw Lawyer, Choctaw Diplomat." Presented at the Mississippi Historical Society meeting, Jackson, MS, March 3, 2007.
"Identity Crisis: Warriors, 'Mixed-Bloods,' and the Treaty of Washington, 1825." Presented at the Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference, University of Pembroke, North Carolina, April 20, 2006.
Invited guest speaker: "Stereotypes and Realities: Debunking Myths about the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi." Presented at the Oktibbeha Historical and Genealogical Society, Starkville, MS, January 26, 2006.
"The Best Offense is a Good Defense: Warrior Culture, Native Identity, and the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi." Presented at the Tennessee Conference of Historians, University of Memphis, TN, September 18, 2004.

Publications

Books reviews in the American Indian Quarterly, Southern Historian, and Journal of Mississippi History "David Folsom" and "James McDonald" for publication in the Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, tentative 2008

David Bradley Hall(dbhall@hindscc.edu )

Ph.D. Student Research Interests: European history, Colonia America and medicine

Liberal Arts Education
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS MA in European history, December 2004 Modern Europe, Medicine and Religion Thesis: "Combat Medical Soldiers: U. S. Army First Echelon Medics in the European Theater of Operations During the Second World War" Phi Alpha Theta
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS B.A. in European History, August 2002 Dean's List Scholar
Spring Hill College, Jackson, MS Extension Site Coursework in Church History & Theology, 1999-2000
Jones County Junior College, Ellisville, MS Associate of Arts, 1998

Medical Training/Technical Education
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS Paramedic Certificate, 1997
Forrest General Hospital, Hattiesburg MS EMT-Basic Certificate, 1992

Experience in Education
Chair and Instructor of Emergency Medical Technology, Hinds Community College (Aug 2001-Current)

Adjunct Instructor of History, Hinds Community College (June 2006-Current)

Public Service/Medical Experience
EMT-Paramedic, Rankin Medical Center Oct. 1997 - Jan. 2002, Brandon, MS EMT-Intermediate, Rankin Medical Center Jul. 1997 - Oct. 1997, Brandon, MS EMT-Basic, Rankin Medical Center Feb. 1996 - Jul. 1997 EMT-Basic, City of Magee Ambulance Nov. 1992 - Jan. 1996

Registrations, Certifications, Competencies
Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic
Mississippi EMT-Paramedic
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Basic Life Support, American Heart Association-Healthcare Provider (CPR)

Professional Networking
American Association for the History of Medicine (2004)
American Society of Church History (2002)
Phi Alpha Theta (2004)
Phi Kappa Phi
Southern Historical Association-European History Section (2005)
Mississippi EMS Educators Association (2004)
National Association of EMTs (2005)
Mississippi Emergency Medical Technicians Association (MEMTA) (2005)
Southern Conference on British Studies (2006)

Presentations and Publications
Presentation to the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference (2006): Researching Culture of Profession and Political Sentiment in the American Revolution: A Study of Physicians and Surgeons

Presentation at the Southern History of Science and Technology Conference (2007) Researching Cultural Communities, Profession and Political Sentiment: A Study of Physicians and Surgeons 

Awards
The Chancellor's List (An Award for Graduate Students) (2004-2005)
Who's Who Among American Teachers (2003)
Who's Who Among American Teachers (2005)

Cari Casteel (clc96@msstate.edu )

Micah Rueber (mar265@msstate.edu )

BA in Music, Carleton College
BS in Mathematics, University of Oregon
MA in History, Iowa State University

I am currently finishing my dissertation, tentatively titled "Making Modern Milk: Scientists and New Dairy Cattle," and I expect to complete my PhD in early 2010. In my work I examine how researchers studied dairy cattle, and how that reflected their understanding of the natural world. I argue that between 1890 and 1940 the vision of the world as comprised of discrete, autonomous constituents broke down; in its place, a younger generation of agricultural scientists employed a new methodology that relied on the use of statistics and replaced "certainties" with "probabilities."

In addition, I am interested in, and have written on, American reaction to the launch of the first and second Sputnik satellites, John Harvey Kellogg and "internal hygiene," and the Tom Swift books and their role in popularizing science and technology. Once done dissertating I hope to look at America's Cold War fascination with deception, identity, and false appearances.

Sean Halverson(sch168@msstate.edu )

Jonathan Phillips(jpp151@msstate.edu )

Jonathan Peter Phillips

I come to Mississippi State as a mid-career professional, having actively practiced law for nearly twenty years. I elected to attend law school directly upon graduation from college as an American Civilization major at the University of Pennsylvania. While I gave equal consideration to the immediate pursuit of a doctoral degree in History, only one of the two paths could be taken and I choose law. Extensive exposure to, and participation in, advocacy and legislative processes crystallized the decision to pursue a legal career. I now am effectuating a career transition and pursuing my historical interests. My interests lie primarily in the study of twentieth century American foreign policy, with an emphasis upon the post-Cold War period. I further maintain a strong interest in maritime history.
Education:

Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi
Doctoral Candidate in United States History August, 2009 - Present

The University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois
Juris Doctor June, 1989

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization May, 1986
Cum Laude with Distinction in Major

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Mississippi State University, Department of History Fall, 2009
Graduate Assistant; History 1063 Early U.S. History 
Responsible for teaching three discussion sections of approximately thirty undergraduate students each.

HONORS and AWARDS:

Mississippi State University, Department of History James W. Garner Scholarship Spring, 2010
Mississippi State University, Department of History James W. Garner Scholarship Fall, 2009
University of Pennsylvania Writing Across the University Program 1984-85, 1985-86
Designated university courses required preparation of numerous research, critical, and analytical written reports.
Student liaison representative to corporate partners
University of Pennsylvania Dean's List 1984 - 1985
Muhlenberg College Dean's List Fall, 1983
Muhlenberg College NCAA Varsity Letter, Cross Country 1983-84

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Admitted to Bar:

Pennsylvania, 1990
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1991
District of Columbia, 1992
United States District Court for the District of Colorado, 1997
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1997
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2003

Member:

American Bar Association (1990 - 2001)
Pennsylvania Bar Association (1990 - Present)
Clinton County Bar Association (1991 - 1992), Treasurer, 1992
District of Columbia Bar (1992 - Present)
Schuylkill County Bar Association (1994 - 2005)
Berks County Bar Association (2006 - 2008)
Surfrider Foundation (2007-Present)

REPORTED LEGAL CASES:

Spradlin v. Borough of Danville, 2005 U.S. LEXIS 37621 (M.D.Pa)
Sovereign Bank v. Catterton, 2004 WL 1166591 (E.D.Pa.)
Sovereign Bank v. Catterton, 2004 WL 834721 (E.D.Pa.)
Sovereign Bank v. Catterton, 2003 WL 23162405 (E.D.Pa.)
United States ex rel. Rahman v. Oncology Assocs., P.C. 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22185 (D.Md.)
United States v. Oncology Services Corporation, 60 F.3d 1015 (3d Cir. 1995)

LEGAL EXPERIENCE:

Jonathan P. Phillips, Esquire, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August, 2008 - August, 2009
Attorney. Trial lawyer emphasizing complex civil litigation, employer defense, and corporate counseling.

Roland & Schlegel, P.C., Reading, Pennsylvania November, 2006 - August, 2008
Attorney. Active in complex corporate and commercial litigation, sophisticated corporate transactions and contracts, appellate practice, real estate, and corporate counseling. Represent individual, corporate, college, and municipal clients in varied lawsuits involving diverse issues including breach of contract, negligence, trade secrets, higher education law, fraud, employment discrimination, and real estate assessment. Throughout career appear regularly in the Court of Common Pleas, Federal District Court, State and Federal Appellate Courts, and private and judicial arbitration and mediation.

Saul H. Krenzel & Associates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December, 2005 - November, 2006
Attorney. Trial lawyer in boutique firm emphasizing complex civil litigation, employer defense, and corporate counseling.

Williamson, Friedberg & Jones, LLC, Pottsville, Pennsylvania November, 1999 - December, 2005
Attorney. Member, November, 2001 - December, 2005. Active in complex corporate and commercial litigation, sophisticated corporate transactions and contracts, appellate practice, real estate, and corporate counseling. Represented individual and corporate clients in varied lawsuits involving diverse issues including breach of contract, negligence, breach of warranty, fraud, employment discrimination, and residential construction disputes. Appeared regularly in the Court of Common Pleas, Federal District Court, State and Federal Appellate Courts, and private and judicial arbitration and mediation.

Marcy L. Colkitt & Associates, P.C., Pottsville, Pennsylvania June, 1993 - November, 1999
Attorney. Active in all areas of numerous multi-million dollar corporate litigation matters and transactions, along with appellate practice and corporate counseling. Represented individuals and corporations in complicated lawsuits involving issues including breach of contract, lender liability, breach of warranty, fraud, employment discrimination, healthcare and governmental regulatory matters. Appeared regularly and/or tried cases to verdict in the Court of Common Pleas, Federal District Court, State and Federal Appellate Courts, and arbitration. Firm responsible for providing legal services to international network of corporations affiliated with entrepreneur Douglas R. Colkitt, M.D., including EquiMed, Inc.

Roberts & Miceli, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania September, 1991 - November, 1992
Attorney. Active in all phases of litigation-oriented general practice. Frequent court appearances related to varied substantive matters including family law, criminal law, contracts, municipal law, tort law, zoning and real estate.

Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Delaware August, 1989 - July, 1991
Attorney. Corporate Litigation section. Researched and prepared legal briefs and memoranda on Delaware corporation law issues for sophisticated corporate clients. Substantial contact with clients, co-counsel, and opposing counsel.

Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Delaware June - September, 1988
Summer Associate. Researched and prepared legal briefs and memoranda on diverse substantive topics with emphasis upon Delaware corporation law issues. Attended hearings, depositions, oral arguments, and client interviews.

Weaver, Mosebach, Piosa, Hixson, Wallitsch & Marles, Allentown, Pennsylvania June - September, 1987
Summer Associate. Researched and prepared legal briefs and memoranda. Attended hearings and depositions.

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE:

Office of United States Senator Arlen Specter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1985 - December 1986
Senatorial Intern. Coordinated casework in eastern Pennsylvania, responded to constituent inquiries, arranged press conferences, and summarized pending legislation.

Office of Pennsylvania State Representative Roy Reinard III, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, July - September 1985, 1986
Legislative Intern. Coordinated district casework, responded to constituent inquiries, attended legislative meetings and conferences, and summarized pending legislation.

Cadra P. McDaniel
Cadra Peterson McDaniel 500 Mallory Lane Apt. 27B
Starkville, MS 39759
cpm93@msstate.edu

Education:
Doctoral Student, Modern European History, Present
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS Node of Study: International Security/Internal Safety
Modern European History, primary emphasis in Russian History

The GRINT Language Center of the Moscow Humanities University
The University of Arizona Russian Abroad Program, June 2009
Studied the Russian language and attended lectures on contemporary Russian politics in Moscow, Russia

Master of Liberal Arts, Political Science, May 2007
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR
Thesis: Oppositional Politics in Painting: An Analysis of the Depiction of Late Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Russia 

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, May 2005, Summa Cum Laude
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR
Minors: Spanish and International Studies
Henderson State University Honors Scholar

Experience: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Aug 2008-Present
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
1 Led student discussion sections of Early Western World and Modern Western World
2 Conducted class lectures when professors were at conferences
3 Maintained students  academic records for each class

Lecturer, Department of History, Summer 2009
Mississippi State University, Mississippi, MS
1 Taught Modern Western World
2 Engaged students in discussions interpreting the relationship between historical and contemporary events

Graduate Assistant, Department of Social Sciences, Aug 2006-May 2007
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR
1 Compiled information regarding female political leaders and their role in political movements utilizing primary and secondary data
2 Analyzed primary data concerning female slaves in Texas
3 Composed literary review of existing methods used to analyze the impact of social documentaries
4 Formulated surveys and tabulated the surveys  results to assess the impact of specific documentaries
5 Issued a report on the historical and contemporary development of prosopographical research as well as summarized studies employing this technique
6 Proctored exams and presentations for faculty members of the Department of Social Sciences

Graduate Assistant, Department of English, Writing Center, Aug 2005- May 2006, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR
1 Tutored students, including students from Brazil, Cameroon, Russia, China, and Bulgaria perfect their usage of Standard English grammar and punctuation
2 Familiarized students with utilizing the online library resources to be able to conduct more in-depth research
3 Became proficient in daily office tasks such as answered visitors  questions and oversaw the maintenance of needed office supplies
4 Proctored exams for faculty members of the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy

Presentations: 2009 3rd Regional International Security and Internal Safety Conference, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
"The United States and Russia: Dangerous Points of Conflict."

2007 Arkansas College Art History Symposium, Revolutionary Russia on Canvas: The Visual Voice of Late Nineteenth-Century Radical Russia 
First student from Henderson State University to present at this conference

2006 South Central Writing Centers Association (SCWCA), Little Rock, AR,
Working with Nonnative English Speakers  as discussed in Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner s The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring (2nd ed.)

Publications: Revolutionary Russia on Canvas: The Visual Voice of Late-Nineteenth Century Radical Russia.  Henderson State University, Academic Forum # 25, 2007-2008. 41-63.

Scholastic Honors: James T. Garner Scholarship, the Department of History, Mississippi State University, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
2009 William E. Parrish Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of History, Mississippi State University, 2009
Graduate Ambassador for the Department of History, Mississippi State University, 2009
Phi Alpha Theta-Gamma-Nu Chapter, History Honor Society, Mississippi State University, 2009
Alpha Epsilon Lambda-Alpha Delta Chapter, Graduate Honor Society, Henderson State University, 2006-2007
Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges, Henderson State University, 2007
Pi Sigma Alpha-Phi Tau Chapter, The National Political Science Honor Society, Henderson State University, Undergraduate, 2004-2005, Graduate, 2005-2007
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Political Science, Henderson State University, 2005
Lions Club Curtis Echols Scholarship in International Studies, Henderson State University, 2005
Alpha Chi-Arkansas Epsilon Chapter, National College Honor Scholarship Society, Henderson State University, Undergraduate, 2004-2005
The Gamma Beta Phi Society, Henderson State University, Undergraduate, 2003-2005
The Honors College, Henderson State University, Undergraduate, 2002-2005
The University Academic Scholarship, Henderson State University, Undergraduate, 2002-2005
Undergraduate 2002-2005<

Corey Frederick (cmf86@msstate.edu )

Kevin Johnson (kjb41@msstate.edu )

Nathan Horn (nh7@msstate.edu )

Education:
BA: Mississippi State University, 2004
Mississippi State University, Certificate in Women’s Studies, 2004
Papers Presentations and Awards:
Shannon Mallory Award, Best Undergraduate Paper, Phi Alpha Theta, Mississippi State University, 2004-2005
Honorable Mention, Graduate Gender Studies Student Paper Award, Center for Women’s Studies, Mississippi State University, 2006
Round Table Discussant, Global War on Terrorism Oral History Project, First Regional IS/IS Conference, March 23-25, 2007, Mississippi State University
Social Environmentalism, Mid-America Conference on History, Fall 2007, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sacrificed for Progress: The Destruction of Holcut, Mississippi and Its Historical Memory, Forum on Agricultural and Rural History, Spring 2008, Mississippi State University
Converting A-bombs to Plowshares:  the Atomic Energy Commission’s Project Plowshare and the Domestic Use of Nuclear Weapons, Second Regional IS/IS Conference, Spring 2008, Natchitoches, LA
George Robinson Award, Best Graduate Research Paper, Phi Alpha Theta, Mississippi State University, 2007-2008
Organizations:
Phi Alpha Theta (Gamma Nu Chapter) Vice-President 2008-2009
Work Experience:
Graduate Assistantship, Information Technology Service – Systems and Network, Mississippi State University, 2005-present
Interviewer, Mississippi National Guardsmen, regarding service in Iraq and Afghanistan, Global War on Terrorism Oral History Project, 2006-2207
Historical Researcher, Documentary, The Building of a Dream: The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, Broadcast Media, 2008
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I come from Booneville, Mississippi located in the northeast corner of Mississippi.  In my working career I have worn many different hats including owning and operating a frame shop, traveling up and down the East Coast selling artwork at art shows and galleries, and finally as a paint contractor, before returning to Mississippi State University to complete my education.  I am a finishing Masters Thesis student and my primary field is Modern U.S. History.  My studies are within the Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental (ARE) node with my particular interests leaning toward Southern and Environmental History.  I have also earned a minor in historical Geography, as the story of place is just as interesting to me as the story of people and events.  My research centers on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and its environmental, social, political, economic, and physical effects on the people and landscape of Mississippi and Alabama from the 1970s to the present.  During my research, I have studied the history of the Army Corps of Engineers, the emergence of environmental history, as the Tenn-Tom, the name local people call the waterway, was the first major public works project after the passing of the Environmental Protection Act of 1969, and social history by exploring the displacement of the people within the region.  This summer I also worked as a historical researcher on a documentary about the history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.  My Assistantship is with the Infrastructure division of Information Technology Services, where I handle classroom technology, long distance classes and the live streaming of campus events onto the internet.  I especially enjoy instructing professors on the proper techniques of utilizing long distance learning and utilizing instructional technology.  I think that technology classrooms are the wave of the future and look forward to possible employing it in my future classes.
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