Doctoral Candidate
Biography
Ph.D., History, University of Washington (in progress, projected completion in 2024)
M.A., Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
B.A., History, Michigan State University, 2006
B.A., Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, Michigan State University, 2006
Awards
Luckie Agee Waller Fellowship (2022)
Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2021-2022, declined)
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Summer Writing Program (2021)
American Councils Academic Fellowship in Russia (2021)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (2019-2020)
Doctor Ebba Dahlin Fellowship, UW History Department (2020)
Mellon Fellowship for Reaching New Publics in the Humanities (2017-2018)
Hannouer Recruitment Fellowship, UW History Department (2016-2017)
Research
Selected Research
- "From Don Juan to Comrade Ivan: Educating the Young Men of the Urals for Love and Marriage, 1953-1964," Aspasia 15, 1 (2021): 21-40. https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2021.150103
- Brendan McElmeel, "Comrades in Love: Intimacy and Morality in Soviet Institutions and Everyday Life, 1950s-1970s." PhD diss., University of Washington, (in progress).Adviser: Glennys Young
Courses Taught
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Winter 2019
Additional Courses
Spring 2024
HSTAA 353: Class, Labor and Capitalism
Winter 2024
ENGL 198A: Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences
Autumn 2024
ENGL 298B: Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences
Winter 2023
ENGL 298C: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences
Autumn 2023
HSTRY 570: Teaching History
Winter 2022
ENGL 198A: Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences
Winter 2021
HSTA 105A: Peoples of the United States
Autumn 2018
HSTAM 235 AA: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
HSTAM 235 AB: Myths and mysteries of the Middle Ages
HSTAM 235 AC: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Spring 2018
HSTAA 337A: The Holocaust and American Life
Winter 2018
HSTEU 250 AA: Rome
HSTEU 250 AB: Rome
Autumn 2017
HSTEU 234: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Graduate Study Areas
Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
The Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies