Graduate Fellow
Research Interests
- Modern Germany
- Disability History
- Digital History
- Military History
Research Description
My primary field of interest is modern Germany. My current project examines the intersection of race, masculinity, and disability among injured soldiers in the Wehrmacht and SS during the Second World War. I consider the ideological underpinnings of disabled veterans and the Nazi desire to racially re-order Central and Eastern Europe. My dissertation is entitled "Broken Supermen: Disabled Veterans and Soldiers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1951.”
Education
- 2024 - Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2020 - B.S., Computer Science, Western Governors University
- 2019 - M.A., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2016 - M.A., Military History, Norwich University
- 2015 - A.A.S., Information Management, Community College of the Air Force
- 2010 - B.A., History and Economics University of Missouri-Columbia
Grants
- 2024 - University of Illinois History Department Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- 2022-23 - University of Illinois History Department ABD Fellowship
- 2021-22 - Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Grant
- 2020-21 - UIUC Graduate College Harry J. Diffenabugh Fellowship
- 2019 - UIUC History Department Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant
- 2018-2019 - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (French)
- 2018 - Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (French)
- 2017-2018 - University of Illinois History Department Fellowship
Awards and Honors
- 2023 - UIUC Humanities Research Institute Research Prize for Campus-Wide Best Graduate Student Essay (“What Difference Does a (Disabled) Husband Make? Disabled Veterans, Women, and the Limits of Population Policy in the Third Reich”)
Courses Taught
- Instructor of Record, Hist 207 - Digital Documentary Publishing (Fall 2023)
- Teaching Assistant, Hist 252 - The Holocaust (Spring 2020)
Highlighted Publications
- “Racial Colonists in the Nazi East: Disabled Veterans the Malleable Boundaries of Race, Masculinity, and Disability.” Central European History 57, no. 1 (2024).
- “What Difference Does a (Disabled) Husband Make? Disabled Veterans, Women, and the Limits of Population Policy in the Third Reich” Journal of Family History 48, no. 4 (2023): 447-469.
- “Creating GUIs in Python for Digital Humanities Projects.” Programming Historian 12 (2023). https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0107.
- “Surviving Crisis: The Napoleonic Upheavals and the ‘Time of the French’ as Cultural Trauma in Prussia, 1806-1812.” War and Society 41, no. 1 (2022): 1-20.
- “Patriotic Nationalism and Hegemonic Valorous Masculinity: The National Monument for the Prussian Wars of Liberation.” In War and Memorials: The Age of Nationalism and the Great War, edited by Frank Jacob and Kenneth Pearl, 93-128. Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019.
- Additional publications available on CV (see above)