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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

Completed Theses

All theses are available publicly via ProQuest.

• 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