Current Graduate Students
Anne Bardaglio
Ph.D. Student
anne.bardaglio@maine.edu
Advisor: Mary Freeman
Jacob Barker
MA Student
jacob.barker@maine.edu
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Christian Bradford
MA Student
christian.bradford@maine.edu
Fields: Western Concepts of Gender and Sexuality
Advisors: Liam Riordan, Mary Freeman
Education: AA in Liberal Studies from Kennebec Community College in 2020, BA in History from the University of Maine in 2022
Research Interests: Gender transing in eighteenth century Britain and America, Queer History, History of Femininity, History of Masculinity
Joseph Campbell
MA Student
joseph.campbell@maine.edu
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Brian Campion
PhD Student
brian.campion@maine.edu
Advisor: Mark McLaughlin
Savannah Clark
M.A. Student
savannah.clark@maine.edu
Fields: Nineteenth-Century American history, Women’s history, Religious history
Advisor: Mary Freeman
Education: BA in History and Religious Studies from Gettysburg College in 2018 and MA in History from University of Maine in 2022
Research Interests: My research focuses on the experiences of Northern New England women during the Civil War
Tobey Crawford
MA Student
tobey.connor@maine.edu
Advisor:
David Coombs
Ph.D. Student
david.coombs@maine.edu
Fields: His most recent work investigates the intersecting roles of the Teamsters union, deregulation, and the trucking industry-in-transition during a 564-day strike involving Coles Express of Maine in 1982.
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Education: B.A. in Philosophy (2016) and M.A. in English and Education (2019), University of Nevada
Research Interests: His research examines the effects of government deregulation and corporate centralization in late twentieth century New England, as seen through the eyes of the trucking industry.
Laura Curioli
MA Student
laura.curioli@maine.edu
Fields: American Constitutional studies, early American colonialism, twentieth century American political history, religious history.
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: B.S. in History and Secondary Education
Research Interests: My studies observe the rise and establishment of Constitutional ideologies, such as the juxtaposition of originalism and textualism, and how those impact the evolution of American political history.
Derek DeMello
Ph.D. Student
derek.demello@maine.edu
Fields: Northeastern Native Americans, Ethnohistory, Environmental History
Advisor: Micah Pawling
Education: BA in History with minor in secondary education from Bridgewater State University (2010); MA in history and CGS in public history from Rhode Island College (2023)
Research Interests: My research interests are the Native peoples of northeast North America and their cultures, intertribal relationships, land and resource utilization, actions when faced with European settler colonialism and invasive species, and persistence to the present day. My MA thesis work examined the historiography of King Philip’s War.
Publications: Review of The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790 by Thomas Peace, Maine History (forthcoming summer 2024)
Susan Dickson-Smith
Ph.D. Student
susan.dicksonsmith@maine.edu
Fields: Nineteenth Century American History, African American History, Religious History, Northeast Borderlands Studies, African Canadian History, Canadian Studies.
Advisor: Mary Freeman
Education: B.A., Cultural Studies, Hampshire College; M.A., History, University of Maine.
Research Interests: My research focuses on nineteenth century independent African American churches in the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.
Group Affiliations: American Historical Association (AHA), Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society.
Recent Publications:
Review of Native Trailblazer by Ed Rice, Maine History, winter 2024.
Recent Presentations:
“Independent Black Churches of Nineteenth Century New Brunswick and Maine:
Denominational Diversity and Points of Convergence,” Middle Atlantic and New England
Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference on Canadian Studies, Plymouth,
Massachusetts, November 8-9, 2024.
“Independent Black Churches on the Border: Nineteenth Century Congregations in
Maine and New Brunswick,” University of Maine-University of New Brunswick
International History Graduate Student Conference, University of Maine, November 1-3,
2024.
“The Independent Black Church in Nineteenth Century Atlantic Canada and Maine:
Cross-Border Connections,” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, University of Maine,
May 9-11, 2024.
Gregory Gaines
Ph.D. Student
gregory.gaines@maine.edu
Fields: Scandinavian studies, Immigration history, Cultural studies, Medieval studies, Digital Humanities.
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Education: B.A. History, Clark University (2015), M.A. History, Clark University (2016), M.A. Medieval Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland (2018).
Research Interests: I am interested in the movement of Scandinavians to North America in the nineteenth century, and how this movement was affected by various cultural artifacts from the Medieval period.
Jessica Graham
Ph.D. Student
jessica.a.graham@maine.edu
Advisor: Mary Freeman
Maggie Kontra-Emmens
Ph.D. Studentmaggie.kontraemmens@maine.edu
Fields: Identity, Scottish studies, Canadian studies, Popular Culture, Gender, Digital
Humanities
Advisor: Mark J. McLaughlin
Education: BA History, Old Dominion University; MA History, Old Dominion University
Research Interests: My dissertation will focus on the Scottish diaspora and Scottish identity and influence in Canada, 1870-1914. This is a slight change from my Masters work regarding a formation of Canadian identity through the trench newspapers of the Great War, although the seed of identity remains strong. Even though it has been mentioned that “identity” is the jello of historical topics, my focus is on solidarity or groupness while still touching on many aspects of its multivalence (such as, nationality, citizenship, ethnicity, race, name, family, heritage, class, employment, community, religion, language, and gender).
Group Affiliation(s): American Historical Association (AHA), Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Canadian Historical Association-La Société historique du Canada (CHA/SHC)
Poppy Lambert
4+1 MA Student
poppy.lambert@maine.edu
Advisor: Mark McLaughlin
Meghan Leacy
MA Student
meghan.leacy@maine.edu
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Christine Liu
Ph.D. Student
christine.liu@maine.edu
Fields: Holocaust Studies, Digital Humanities
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Education: B.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley; M.A. in Computational Media, Duke University
Nolan Merz
MA Student
nolan.merz@maine.edu
Advisor: Stephen Miller
Ryan Michaud
MA Student
ryan.michaud@maine.edu
Fields: 19th + 20th Century American History
Advisor: Mark J. McLaughlin
Education: BA in Classical Languages from the University of Southern Maine in 2009, MEd in Student Development in Higher Education from the University of Maine in 2013, and BA in History from the University of Southern Maine in 2024
Research Interests: American Prohibition, waves of nationalism, and immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries
Julian Ober
MA Student
julian.ober@maine.edu
Advisor: Mark McLaughlin
Tom Pinette
MA Student
tom.pinette@maine.edu
Advisor: Mark McLaughlin
Andrew Reddy
Ph.D. Student
areddy@biddefordschools.me
Fields: Acadian History, Diaspora Studies, Colonial History, Northeast Borderlands, Canadian Studies
Advisor: Mark McLaughlin
Education: BA Liberal Learning University of New England, 1988; MS Special Education University of Southern Maine 2009; MA American and New England Studies University of Southern Maine 2018
Research Interests: My research interests include the use of expulsion narratives by Acadian descendants as cultural identity markers and the post expulsion insurgency movements by Acadians who resisted relocation and lived on the margins of the British Empire, forming and maintaining alliances with indigenous populations.
Group Affiliations: Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society
Recent Publications: Book Review of A History of Maine Railroads by Bill Kenny. Maine History
Ethan Robbins
4+1 MA Student
ethan.robbins@maine.edu
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Darcy Stevens
Ph.D. Student
darcy.stevens@maine.edu
Fields: American Revolution, Early American, Canadian-American Northeast Borderlands
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: B.S. History Emporia State University; (2005) M.A. American History Emporia State University (2008)
Research Interests: My research focuses on the contentious socio-political terrain of the American Revolution, and how it influenced inhabitants’ decisions about allegiance and neutrality in the Northeast Borderlands of Maine, Nova Scotia, and Wabanakia.
Group Affiliations: UMaine Canadian-American Center Fellow, David Center for the American Revolution Fellow, New England Historical Association, Massachusetts Historical Society, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society. Maine History journal Book Review Editor
Recent Publications:
“’The Unhappy and Unparalled Defeat at Penobscott’ and the Entanglement of Machias and Bagaduce.” The Beehive, Massachusetts Historical Society. June 4, 2021
“Performing Allegiance and Neutrality in the Shadow of Fort George” – The Castine Visitor, publication of the Castine Historical Society, Vol 30, No 3 – Fall 2020
“Fontaine Leval: A Revolutionary Story” – Chebacco, journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Volume XXI – 2020
Recent Presentations:
“Performing Allegiance and Neutrality in Occupied Machias and Bagaduce Maine During the American Revolution. Conrad E. Wright Research Conference, Massachusetts Historical Society, July 14-16 2022
“Positioning Neutrality at the 1777 Aukpaque Conference,” Atlantic Canada Studies, biennial conference. University of New Brunswick, May 25-28, 2022.
“Navigating the Revolutionary Northeast: Borderlands through Fluid Allegiance and Neutrality.” Colonial Society of Massachusetts Graduate Student Forum, June 11, 2021.
Rosemary Thorne
MA Student
rosemary.thorne@maine.edu
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Lincoln Tiner
4+1 MA Student
lincoln.tiner@maine.edu
Advisor: Mark McLaughlin
Timothy Whiton
Ph.D. Student
timothy.whiton@maine.edu
Advisor: Anne Knowles
Joseph Wrobleski
Ph.D. Student
joseph.wrobleski@maine.edu
Advisor: Micah Pawling and Liam Riordan