News and Accomplishments

Student and Alumni News and Accomplishments

Current students and graduates from the M.A. in History have a sustained record of accomplishments both as students pursuing their M.A. in History and as graduates pursuing doctoral work or as professionals in varied careers.

If you are a graduate of the M.A. History program or a current M.A. History student and would like your accomplishment added to the website, please email Dr. Cadra McDaniel, cadra.mcdaniel@tamuct.edu

M.A. History Graduates Currently Pursuing a Ph.D.

Gregory Sellers, pursuing a Ph.D. at Texas A&M University
James Burke, pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Houston
Bearington Curtis, pursing a Ph.D. at the University of Southern Mississippi
Patrick Leech, pursuing a Ph.D. at Baylor University

Examples of M.A. History Graduates’ Employment

Gregory Sellers, Adjunct Faculty, History, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas
Dawn Beard, Adjunct Faculty, History, Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas
Michael Cotton, Assistant Professor, Taylor Campus, Temple College, Taylor, Texas
Hannah Dysinger, Assistant University Registrar and Process Analyst, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Nicholas Saylor, Archivist, the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
Chawnean Williams, Adjunct Professor of History, Temple College, Temple, Texas

Examples of M.A. History Graduates and Current Students’ Conference Presentations

Martha Brown, “Социализмди Курдук! Soviet Transformations in Kyrgyzstan as Studied Through Art,” 60th Annual Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2024. Received funding from the conference organizer to attend as a first-time presenter.
Jonathan Rolfe, “Republicanism in Action: Washington's Councils of War and the Turning Point of the Revolution (December 1776 - January 1777),” 14th Annual History Graduate Student Organization Conference at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2024.
Greogry Sellers, “These Colonies, Whose Industriousness and Economy Receive Such Praise, will be the Cause for the Mexican Federation to Lose Tejas: Manuel de Mier y Terán's Foresight into the Texas Rebellion”14th Annual History Graduate Student Organization Conference at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2024.
Makenzie Wiley, “Wheatville: The First Black Settlement in Austin Texas, 1867-1930s,” 14th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2024.
Gregory Sellers, "Massacre in the Texas Borderlands: The Failed Colonial Policies that Led to the Cordova Rebellion" at the Texas A&M History Graduate Student Organization Conference, College Station, 2023.
Morgan Powell, “Russian Alaska: A Study on Religion,” 59th Annual Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Gainesville, FL. 2023 Recipient of an SCSS Conference Travel Award, 2023. Award sponsored by the US Russia Foundation, University of Florida Russian Studies, in collaboration with University of South Florida’s Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies (IREES).
Brian Tomczek, “Impact of Soviet Arctic Energy Policy on Russian Geopolitical Relations in the 21st Century,” 59th Annual Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Gainesville, FL. 2023 Recipient of an SCSS Conference Travel Award, 2023. Award sponsored by the US Russia Foundation, University of Florida Russian Studies, in collaboration with University of South Florida’s Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies (IREES).
Morgan Powell, “Russian Settlements in North America: The Relationship Between Russian Nationalism, Indigenous Peoples, and Commerce,” (Virtual Presentation), 47th Annual European Studies Conference (ESC), Omaha, NE, 2022.
Curtis Keltner, “An American Identity: Why the Potawatomi Chose to Fight for the Union Army in the Civil War,” Society for Military History Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, 2021
Curtis Keltner, “Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwa Soldiers: The Three Fires Confederation in the Civil War,” James A. Barnes Graduate Research Conference, Temple University, 2021
Curtis Keltner, “Prophetic Traditions: The Tenskwatawa Witch Hunts,” World History Association of Texas Annual Conference, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2021
Bearington Curtis, “The US Army in Antebellum Texas: An Agent of Change,” 11th Annual Texas A&M History Graduate Student Organization Conference (HGSO), College Station, Texas, 2020
Julius Isaac, “Vengeance of Vigilantes: The Dramatic Rise of Southern American Lynching, 1890-1900,”11th Texas A&M History Conference, 2020
Curtis Keltner, “Napoleon to New Spain: How France began the Mexican War of Independence,” 45th European Studies Conference (ESC), 2020
Bearington Curtis, “The White Bear: The Russian White Resistance and How it Failed,” 10th Annual Texas A&M History Graduate Student Organization Conference (HGSO), College Station, Texas, 2019
Hannah Dysinger presented her research entitled, “An Affair of Land and Sea: British Military Objectives in the War of 1812,” 43rd European Studies Conference (ESC), Omaha, Nebraska, 2018
Chawnean Williams, “Lifting the Veil: How Khrushchev and Brezhnev Cracked the Iron Curtain,” 55th Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), 2017
Patrick Leech, “Operation ‘Safe Haven’: a Spectacular Feat in American Organizational Ability,” 55th Central Slavic Conference (CSC), St. Louis, Missouri, 2016

Book Reviews and Study Abroad Participants

Makenzie Wiley, Review of Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas. Book Review for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly Journal, April 2024.
Martha Brown, Study Abroad Participant, American Councils’ Summer Professional Development and Fellowship Opportunity, in partnership with Al Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2024.

Completed Theses

All theses are available publicly via ProQuest.

Gregory Sellers, “Trinkets and Baubles, or Bullets and Butchery: Transnational Native American Policies in Texas, 1680-1846.” 2024.
Morgan Powell, “The Russian American Company and the Its Policies: The Establishment of Russian Alaska, 1741-1867.” 2023.
James Burke, “The Conquest of Virginia: English Colonists’ Forty Years War with the Powhatan Chiefdom.” 2023.
Kathryn A. Miller, “Does Criticism Matter? The Eisenhower Administration, the Press, the Public, and the Impact on Policy.” 2021
Jarrod Weaver. “A Time for Reform: How Monroe’s Reforms Radically Changed the U.S. Army.” 2021
James P. Stanley, “Amerika AMERIKANISCHE WEIßHEIT: GERMAN TEXANS AND EFFECTUAL AMERICANIZATION.” 2021
Curtis J. Keltner, “We-Ta-Se: The Warrior Spirit of the Potawatomi and the American Identity.” 2021
Bearington Cecil Curtis, “A Sisyphean Task: Reevaluating Reconstruction in Texas Under the Command of Major General Charles Griffin. 2020
Carmen Catena Lewis, “Rewinding the Tape on Camelot: What Would John F. Kennedy Have Done in Vietnam?” 2019
Hannah Dysinger, “Guarding the Banners: MI5, The Spanish Civil War, and the Polarization of British Politics.” 2019
Kathryn J. Staton, “Corruption and Lawlessness: The Tenure of Marshal Crawley P. Dake and the Arizona Territory Between 1862-1890.” 2018
George A. Rymer, “Dissent in Texas During the Civil War.” 2018
Patrick Charles Leech, “The Forgotten Crisis: The Untold Story of Tracy S. Voorhes and the President’s Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief, 1956-1957.” 2017
Kevin Taylor, “What Would Johnson Do: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Pueblo Incident.” 2017
Andrew Michael Anderson, “Containing Castro: The Reagan Administration’s Policy towards Cuba.” 2016
Michael Wayne Cotton, “The Nixon Doctrine and Presidential Doctrines: Grand Strategy or Regional Policy.” 2015
Jessy Alan Scarlett, “6th SS Mountain Division, Nord: From Rabble to Warriors, 1941-1945.” 2015
Leah Elizabeth Trainham Bernie, “Khatun: Gertrude Bell and British Diplomacy in the Middle East.” 2015
Amy Marie Perry Hedrick, “Comparison of the Selection Criteria and Training Program of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and Aviation Cadets in World War II, 1942-1944.” 2012
John Kenneth Slaughter, “Grand Admiral Raeder and Kriegsmarine Strategy in the Second World War, 1938-1942: Improvisation or Leadership Failure?” 2012
John C. Paradice, “Characters in a Greek Tragedy: Perspectives on the Johnson Letter and the 1964 Cyprus Crisis.” 2010