Faculty & Staff

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Dr. Kara E. Barr

  • Position: Associate Teaching Professor
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: kebarr@bgsu.edu
  • Address: kebarr@bgsu.edu

Early Modern Europe; Modern World

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Dr. Michael Brooks

  • Position: Professor of Teaching, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: mebrook@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 139 Williams Hall

Modern America; Modern World; European Expansion; online learning

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Dr. Michael Cangemi

  • Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Phone: 419/372-2018
  • Email: mcangem@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 142 Williams Hall

Experiential Learning, Latin American History, American History.

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Dr. Amílcar E. Challú

  • Position: Associate Professor and Department Chair, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-2769
  • Email: achallu@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 132 Williams Hall

Latin American and world history; Mexican society and political economy, 18th and 19th centuries

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Dr. Cheryl X. Dong

  • Position: Assistant Professor of History, Internship Advisor
  • Email: cdong@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 18 Williams Hall

African American History, Modern U.S. History, Memory and Commemoration, Public History

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Dr. Douglas J. Forsyth

  • Position: Associate Professor, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-8284
  • Email: dougfor@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 21 Williams Hall

Comparative Modern European and Economic History; Modern Italy; Policy History, H-Policy Editor

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Dr. Walter E. Grunden

  • Position: Professor, Graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-8639
  • Email: wgrund@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 134 Williams Hall

Modern China and Japan; World War II; Science and Technology; Public Policy; Policy History

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Dr. Nicole Jackson

  • Position: Associate Professor, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-7597
  • Email: nmjacks@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 25 Williams Hall

African diaspora; African-American History; Modern U.S. History

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Dr. Rebecca Mancuso

  • Position: Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-7424
  • Email: rmancus@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 22 Williams Hall

History of Canada, Public History

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Dr. Scott C. Martin

  • Position: Professor, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-8767
  • Email: smartin@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 419-372-8767
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Dr. Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa

  • Position: Professor, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-9483
  • Email: nwauwa@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 138 Williams Hall

Modern Africa, African Diaspora; African Intellectual history  

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Dr. Andrew M. Schocket

  • Position: Professor, Graduate Faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-8197
  • Email: aschock@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 19 Williams Hall

Early American history and culture, the American Revolution, and the Atlantic World

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Dr. Casey M. Stark

  • Position: Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, graduate faculty
  • Phone: 419-372-9323
  • Email: starkcm@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 133 Williams Hall


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Dr. Lillian Ashcraft-Eason

Afro-American culture, religion, women

Dr. Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., The College of William & Mary, 1975).  Dr. Ashcraft-Eason's research and teaching focus on African American, religious, and cultural history.  She has been awarded fellowships from the UNCF Distinguished Faculty Scholar's Fellowship, a Lilly Summer Seminar Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.  She is a past president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.  She is author of About My Father's Business: The Life of Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux (Greenwood, 1981) and has co-edited Inside Ethnic America: An Ethnic Studies Reader (Kendall-Hunt, 1996).  Her most recent publications include an essay on Fenda Lawrence, an eighteenth-century Gambian woman in the Georgia colony and the edited collection, Women and New and Africana Religions (Greenwood, 2009).  Her current research focuses on cosmological thought among African women in British colonial America.


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Dr. Lawrence J. Daly

  • Position: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: ldaly@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 32 Williams Hall

The Bible; Greece and Rome; Early Christianity and Late Antiquity; Asian History

Dr. Lawrence J. Daly, Emeritus Professor (Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago, 1969) teaches courses on the Bible as History (The Old Testament and the New Testament, separately), Ancient Greece, the Roman Republic and Empire, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity, and the Hollywood and History workshop. His research interests focus on fifth-century Athenian populism and imperialism, the Augustan Principate and the Julio-Claudian imperial dynasty, pagan-Christian relations in the fourth century, and the historiography of the Homeric, Mosaic, and Synoptic Questions, the results of which inquiries have been published in journals like Ancient History, Byzantion, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Historia, Klio, and Latomus; his most recent publication was "The Mutiny of the Militia at Mytilene in 427 B.C." His current scholarship involves a reinterpretation of the conversion of Julian the Apostate as well as an on-going study of the fourth-century pagans Symmachus of Rome, Libanius of Antioch, and Themistius of Constantinople as "mandarins of Late Antiquity."


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Dr. Benjamin P. Greene

  • Position: Associate Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: greeneb@bgsu.edu

20th Century U.S. History, American Foreign Relations, and Military History.

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Dr. Ruth Wallis Herndon

Colonial/Revolutionary U.S.; Early American women and families; American slavery

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Dr. Gary R. Hess

  • Position: Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: ghess@bgsu.edu

American Diplomatic History

Dr. Gary Hess, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1965). Dr. Hess's research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, especially the U.S. and Asia, and U.S. national security policy.  A past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (1991) and a former chair of the U.S. State Department's Committee on Historical Deiplomatic Documentation, he has received two NEH fellowships and three Fulbright awards.  In 1993, he served as the John A. Burns Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii.  He serves on the Board of Editors of Diplomatic History.  His books include Sam Higginbotham of Allahabad: Pioneer of Point Four to India(University Press of Virginia, 1967); America Encounters India (Johns Hopkins, 1971);America and Russia: Cold War Confrontation to Coexistence (Crowell, 1973); The United States' Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940-1950 (Columbia University Press, 1987); Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Macmillan/Pwayne, rev. ed. 1998); The United States at War 1941-1945 (Harland Davidson, rev. ed. 2000); and Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf (John Hopkins University Press, 2001).  His most recent book is Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War (Wiley/Blackwell, 2008).  A forthcoming expanded edition of Presidential Decisions for War will include material on the current war.


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Dr. Thomas R. Knox

  • Position: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: tknox@bgsu.edu

History of Britain

Dr. Thomas Knox, Emeritus Professor (Ph.D., Yale University, 1969).  Dr. Knox's research and teaching interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, early modern Europe, and local history.  His work, funded in part by grants from the American Philosophical Society, has appeared in such scholarly journals as Albion, Past & Present, and The Durham University Journal.  His most recent article is "'Peace for Ages to Come': The Newcastle Elections of 1780 and 1784" (Durham University Journal); he is a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).  He continues to work on popular politics, reform, and radicalism in eighteenth-century England.


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Dr. Judith Sealander

  • Position: Professor Emerita
  • Phone: 419-372-2030

20th Century U.S.; Policy History

Dr. Judith Sealander, Emeritus Professor [Ph.D., Duke University, 1977].


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Dr. David Skaggs

Colonial and Revolutionary America; US Military History

Dr. David Curtis Skaggs, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1966).  Dr. Skaggs’ research and teaching concentrated on colonial and revolutionary America and United States military history.  He is the author of Roots of Maryland Democracy, 1753-1776(Greenwood Press, 1973), Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy(Naval Institute Press, 2002), Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2006) and principal co-author of A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 (Naval Institute Press, 1997, paperback 2000).  The latter was a History Book Club alternate selection; it and the Perry biography won the North American society of Oceanic History’s prizes for naval history.  He is the editor or co-editor of several books including The Poetic Writings of Thomas Cradock, 1718-1770 (University of Delaware Press, 1983), War on the Great Lakes (Kent State University Press, 1991), The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes (Michigan State University Press, 2001, paperback 2010) and a translation of Hessian Captain Johann Ewald’s Treatise on Partisan Warfare (Greenwood Press, 1991) which was originally published in Germany in 1785.  Among visiting scholar positions he has been three times visiting professor of military history and strategy, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, Distinguish Visiting Professor, Defense Intelligence College, Washington, DC, William C. Foster Visiting Fellow, U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency in Washington, consulting faculty member, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, visiting professor, East Carolina University, and visiting associate professor University of Wisconsin—Madison.  He is currently writing an analysis of the military career of William Henry Harrison.


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Nicki Reimer

  • Position: Department Secretary
  • Phone: 419-372-2030
  • Email: nreimer@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 128 Williams Hall




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Becky Brown

  • Position: Outreach Coordinator
  • Email: rebebro@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 26 Williams Hall
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Dr. Matt Schumann

  • Position: Adjunct Instructor
  • Phone: 419/372-3848
  • Email: mattsch@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 707 Administration Building
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Dr. Dustin McLochlin

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Dr. James H. Forse

  • Position: Professor Emeritus

Medieval History; Tudor England; History of English Theater in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; tenth- and eleventh-century Holy Roman Empire; Medieval Church-State Relations.

Dr. Forse passed away in April 2023. For more information, please see this link.

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Chase Fleece

  • Position: Graduate Student

20th century United States and Canada; Agricultural History; Animal History; Environmental History; Labor History; Public History

Broadly speaking, my research examines the intersections between commercial agricultural production, environmental degradation, and farm labor. More specifically, I’m interested in how vegetable production shaped soil sustainability, informed growers’ practices, and influenced farmworkers' unionization in the twentieth-century United States. My thesis project, “Mayhem in the Muck: An Environmental and Labor History of Ohio’s Scioto Marsh,” is in its initial stages. A local history with national significance, this study illustrates how a vegetable-fueled monoculture and union militancy amid the Great Depression vanquished “King Onion” in this once-proclaimed “Onion Capital of the World.” For more information about my research and experience please visit www.chasefleece.com.  

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Amílcar E. Challú and Dr. Timothy Messer-Kruse

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Andrew Kistler

  • Position: Graduate Student

Modern European History; 19th Century German Society, Diplomacy, and Unification; World War One

I received my bachelor's degree, majoring in history and minoring in German, from Heidelberg University in 2021. During undergrad, I had the fortunate opportunity to study for two semesters at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, furthering my language skills and understanding of German culture and history. My senior capstone project examined the German "war guilt question" of inter-war and post-war historians. Currently, I am primarily interested in examining the complex process of German mediatization and unification, as well as the points of continuity between Imperial Germany and Nazi Germany societally, politically, and culturally. 

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Douglas J. Forsyth 

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Chloe Kozal

  • Position: Graduate Student

20th Century U.S. History; Latin American History; Military and Diplomatic History; Protest Movements; Women's History

Chloe graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in History from Bowling Green State University in December 2023. She presented at the 2023 and 2024 American Historical Association annual conferences and presented at the Ohio Academy of History, the International Society for the Scholarship Of Teaching and Learning, and other conferences. She published an article "Communication from Afar": The Role of Subversive Mail Art During the Argentine Dirty War, 1976-1983" in her university's International ResearchScape Journal in 2023. Chloe is a member of the AHA, the Society for Military Historians, her university's Phi Alpha Theta chapter, and she is a member of the Teaching With Primary Sources Learning Community at Bowling Green State University.

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Benjamin P. Greene and Dr. Rebecca Mancuso

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Jack Lawrence

  • Position: Graduate Student

History of Democratization; Policy History; Political History; Diplomatic History; Revolutionary History  

Originally, I am from Portage County in Northeast Ohio. I became aware of my interest in history relatively young, but I did not decide to make it my future until the end of high school. I enjoy sports immensely, and I find myself shackled to the Cleveland Browns despite my own better judgment. I am also a big fan of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Guardians, and oddly enough the San Francisco 49ers. When I am not watching sports, I enjoy running and hiking, as well as video games and recreational reading when I can get to it.

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Garrett Lewis

  • Position: Graduate Student

Eastern European Cultural History; Political History of Yugoslavia; History of Sport

I am a dual Master’s student in History and European Studies from Marquette, Michigan. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree from Saginaw Valley State University in History with minors in Public History and English in 2023. During my time there I developed a keen interest in developing educational podcasts, producing “The Only Writing Podcast You Will Ever Need” and co-hosting the “Historians in Lederhosen” podcast at the Frankenmuth Historical Association. These podcasts represent my passion for making academic historical research accessible to a general audience. Beyond history, I am an avid soccer fan and love the outdoors.

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Douglas J. Forsyth and Dr. Edgar Landgraf

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Peter Limbert

  • Position: Graduate Student

Public History; Museum Studies; Collective Memory and Social Identity; Early and 20th century Studies

I’m from a rural community in northwestern Iowa, where my family has lived for several generations. I earned my BA in History with a Public History minor and a Certificate of Museum Studies from the University of Northern Iowa in 2022. I currently work as an MA graduate teaching assistant in the History Department of Bowling Green State University. I specialize in studying public history, museum studies, and how societies construct social identities in the twentieth century. I enjoy volunteering with local historical societies and I conduct research as an intern for various regional museum institutions.

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Gabriel Rodriguez

  • Position: Graduate Student

Borderland Studies; Indigenous America; Colonial North America; Early United States

I graduated high school from Mentor High School. I then went to the University of Houston pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History. While at the University of Houston I minored in Economics and English. I gained an interest in Early American history along with the history of the North American borderlands and Indigenous Peoples of North America, which my capstone project involved. I graduated from the University of Houston Cum Laude in December 2022. I began my Master of Arts degree in History Fall 2023 at BGSU and I expect to graduate Spring 2025.

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Michael E. Brooks, Dr. Michaela Domiano, and Dr. Heidi Nees

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Cecilia Seibert

  • Position: Graduate Student
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Shelby Vasko

  • Position: Graduate Student

Folklore; Early Modern Europe; Renaissance Art; The Reformation; Public History

I graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor's in history in May of 2022. My minors were in Art History and Anthropology. My Senior Capstone paper that I worked on prior to graduation was called "An Analysis of Modern Fairy Tale Morphology: Does Disney Honor Tradition?". Exploring culture and how it relates to history tends to be a main focus of my research, especially with many of the areas I've studied in the past.

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Patrick Cook

  • Position: Graduate Student

19th & 20th century United States; Public History; Aviation History; Automotive History; Military History

Growing up in the historically rich city of Dayton, OH, significantly influenced my passion and life goals. I have spent much of my life exploring Dayton's numerous museums, and at the age of 18, I obtained my pilot's license. Upon completing my BA in History at BGSU, I spent the past two and a half years working in well-known aviation and automotive museums throughout Ohio. I am eager to continue building my career within the public history field by completing my master's degree at BGSU. My current thesis project focuses on tracing the creation of the United States military-industrial complex before the mid-20th century. For further information about my academic and professional experiences, please visit my LinkedIn profile at www.linkedin.com/in/pat-cook937.

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Alex Eckhart

  • Position: Graduate Student
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Noah Fitch

  • Position: Graduate Student

Modern U.S. History; Modern World History; Policy History; U.S. Social History 

Noah will graduate with a B.A. in History and Ethnic Studies from Bowling Green State University in December 2024. His Undergraduate Capstone was “The Author and Apartheid: Building Pro-Blackness at BGSU Through James Baldwin and The Anti-Apartheid Movement,” which explored the U.S. in a post-Civil Rights Era 1970s and 1980s through the racial issues present at BGSU during that period and was published on ScholarWorks in April 2024. Through working on his M.A. at BGSU, he wants to continue contextualizing intersecting narratives in the 20th century. More specifically post-World War II narratives that deal with the intersection of societal issues and policymaking.

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Fia Larsen

  • Position: Graduate Student

Latin America Colonial History; pre-Columbian America; Gender and Sexuality in Religion; Oral History; Public History; Historical Memory  

I am a History and Spanish MA student at BG and wish to combine my interests and strengths together in my future research and career. As an undergraduate student at Bemidji State University, I examined the sociocultural history of German POWs in Greater Minnesota and it resulted in a paper for the McNair Scholars program and later, my thesis entitled “Education, Recreation, and Fraternization: German POWs in Greater Minnesota During World War II.” In these papers, I examined oral history transcripts, letters, newspapers, and military reports to form a clear understanding of how POWs came to the United States, how POWs interacted with the civilian population, and how the POWs were treated during their time in Minnesota. I have presented this research nationally at the National McNair Conference, at the MN Capitol Rotunda, and at numerous local historical societies.

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Alexander LoPresto

  • Position: Graduate Student

Classical Antiquity; French Revolution; LGBTQ+ History; The World Wars 

I received my BA in History from Baldwin Wallace University, where I served as president of the History Club and Delta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta for the 2023-24 academic year. My previous research includes “Spears Queers: An Examination of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece” and “God Save the Queen(s): Gay Men and the British Power Structure of the 18th and 19th Centuries,” which I presented at Baldwin Wallace’s Ovation Day of Excellence. Additionally, I have experience in public history, having worked with the university archivist at BW and as an intern and Special Projects Assistant at the Oberlin Heritage Center.

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Shelley McClure

  • Position: Graduate Student

20th century United States; Women's History; Military History 

I graduated summa cum laude with a dual BA in History and in Adolescence to Young Adult Education (Social Studies)  from Lourdes University in May 2024. I enjoy researching how world conflicts have influenced gender equality and representation in the United States and the U.S Military. My capstone paper at Lourdes was titled: "Women in the United States Air Force during the Korean War" and it won Lourdes University's Martha Mewhort Historical Scholarship Excellence Award. 

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Evan Nagel

  • Position: Graduate Student
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Riley Peterson

  • Position: Graduate Student

Early Modern/Modern German Religious History 

My research interests include the evolving and shifting role of religion within German-speaking lands with modernization and scientific innovation. As a dual MA student in German as well as History, I am currently writing a thesis regarding the varying views of Martin Luther throughout time, as measured by an analysis of the Reformation Day centennial celebrations. Another research interest of mine is the spread of ideas through social groups, religious or otherwise. A recent paper of mine delves into Berta Szeps-Zuckerkandl’s impact within the Viennese intellectual’s coffeehouse and salon culture that often goes unnoticed. Her impact relied heavily on her interdisciplinary experience that allowed her to foster such social connections. For future studies, I want to study other social 'connectors' that bring others together for cross-cultural pollination and evaluate the 'hubs' of social and cultural life within Germany and Austria.

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Abraham Reid

  • Position: Graduate Student
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Ian Small

  • Position: Graduate Student

Ancient History; Late Roman Republic; Popular Culture

I recently completed my undergraduate degree at BGSU and I am thrilled to be able to return for my master’s as I am excited to connect with my colleagues and professors. During my undergraduate studies, I was drawn to ancient history where I have spent time researching agriculture, food, and mythology. I have also developed an interest in the history of popular media as well as how these avenues of media portray and discuss historical events and ideas. While I did not originally come to BGSU to pursue history, I was welcomed by the staff and students as I switched paths, and even became involved in the history club, participating for a semester as secretary. Bowling Green has been very good to me and I am very excited to continue my education and research here. 

Updated: 08/14/2024 02:12PM