Graduate Students
| Ph.D. Students | M.A. Students |
Fields: 18th and 19th century American-Canadian religious history; American-Canadian literary history
Advisor: Scott See
Education: B.A., University of Maine-Machias; M.A., University of Maine-Orono
Dissertation topic/title: The Freewill and Free Christian Baptist Movements in Maine and New Brunswick
Fields: American History
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., Thiel College (History of Philosophy); M.A., Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (Social Science)
Notes of Interest: Adam loves biking, backpacking, any sport (especially b-ball and tennis), reading, and board games.
Fields: Environmental History, History of Science & Technology, Intellectual History, Maine History, Historical Geography, Medieval Pilgrimage History
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., Western State College (CO); M.A., University of Maine-Orono
Dissertation topic/title: An environmental, intellectual and cultural history of the Appalachian Trail. I examine evolving ideas of the Trail from its inception in 1921 through the passage of the 1968 National Trails System Act.
Fields: Canadian-American history
Advisor: Scott See
Education: B.A., SUNY-Potsdam; M.A., SUNY-Empire State
Dissertation topic/title: The Failure of Democratic Socialism to take root in Quebec, 1930-1970
Notes of Interest: Chuck is very active with UMaine’s Club Canada and the Canadian-American Center. He is also an avid baseball fan and is a supporter of the Montreal Expos, but is not a fan of their displaced current incarnation, the Washington Nationals. Chuck is the proud owner of the department’s greatest mustache, a tribute to some of his favourite stars from the 1970s.
Fields: Colonial America
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: B.A., M.A., Arkansas State University
Dissertation topic/title: undecided
Fields: Environmental history
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., Colby College; M.A., University of New Hampshire
Dissertation topic/title: Atlantic Borderlands and International Resource Management in the Early Industrial Fishery
Presentations: Rob has presented his research at the History of Marine Animal Populations summer meeting at the University of Southern Denmark in 2001, the American Society for Environmental History annual conference in Victoria, British Columbia, in 2004, and in Tallahassee, Florida in 2009, the Alice R. Stewart Lecture Series at the University of Maine, and the New England Historical Association conference in 2009.
Notes of Interest: Rob has been an adjunct instructor of history at Southern New Hampshire University and Hesser College in Manchester, New Hampshire, and is a Registered Maine Guide with Coastal Kayaking in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Fields: Colonial U.S.
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: B.A., University of Maine-Farmington; M.A., University of Southern Maine
Dissertation topic/title: John’s dissertation examines the uses of literacy in Colonial America.
Fields: Revolutionary America, 1765-1815
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Rutgers University
Dissertation topic/title: In his dissertation, Robert is examining morality in New England, in the forty years after the American Revolution, through the lens of primary and secondary education. He is also looking into the role that morality played in helping form a nascent sense of nationalism in the Early Republic.
Presentations: Robert has given a number of conference presentations, his most memorable being “An Exploration into Historical Memory: Lumber, Roadside Attractions, and the World’s Largest Axe!” presented at the University of Maine – University of New Brunswick International History Graduate Student Conference, in September 2009.
Publications: “Unionism and Wartime Reconstruction in West Virginia and Tennessee,” Journal of East Tennessee History, Vol. 82 (2010).
Awards: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2009, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Maine; Presidential Teaching Fellow, Spring 2011, University of Maine.
Notes of Interest: Robert enjoys long walks along the beach, going to baseball games (Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays), cooking, pet dogs, wolves, and watching movies starring Christian Bale (the worlds greatest, most handsome actor).
Fields: American History, Maine History
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., Kansas State University; M.A., University of Maine
Dissertation topic/title: The Connections Between Maine and the Polar Regions: Historical, Economic, Scientific & Cultural
Publications: The Fifth Man: Life of H.R. Bowers (Caedmon of Whitby, 1999)
Fields: 19th Century U.S. History, Maritime History
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: M.A. Boston College
Fields: 20th century U.S., urban history, history of technology and society, U.S. religion
Advisor: Howard P. Segal
Education: M.A. University of Maine; B.A. Western Kentucky University
Dissertation topic/title: “A House That’s Always Haunted: Urban Renewal in Bangor, Maine, 1945-1985,” a study of the city’s post-World War II development, focusing on its housing, wholesaling, retailing, and transportation structure, as well as its reuse of Dow Air Force Base.
Presentations: “Sherman’s March Through Urban Renewal: A Planner’s Challenge of Federal Rules for Small-Town Revival in Maine, 1966-1971.” New England Historical Association fall meeting, Biddeford, Maine, October 16, 2010.
Dissertation topic/title: “Soul of a City: Memory, Modernism, and Urban Renewal in Bangor, Maine.”
Interesting Notes: McCord teaches the American history survey at University of Maine at Augusta. He spent 30 years in journalism, including stints as a reporter for The Associated Press in Tennessee and as an editor at the Bangor Daily News. He lives in Winterport.
Field: Maritime, 17th-19th Century British Atlantic, Crime, Landscape
Advisor: Liam Riordan
Education: B.A., Hanover College; M.A., Eastern Illinois University (European History); M.A. in progress, East Carolina University (Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology)
Topic: Undecided, but likely something British Atlantic
Publications: “An Inadequate Ideology: Republican Motherhood and the Civil War,” Historia, 2005; “Literary Law Enforcement: Gender in Crime Ballads in Early Modern England,” Historia, 2004.
Interesting Notes: “I got to work on the USS Monitor project as part of the turret excavation crew in 2007. My favorite brewery is Founders and my favorite animal is the dog, followed closely by the dolphin and the whale. I dig most kinds of music, but especially acoustic, and am currently scheming to trade in my guitar for a fiddle. I spend most of my time hanging out with my husband and our three dogs.”
Fields: U.S. environmental history
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., Eastern Connecticut State University
Thesis topic: The relationship between religion (specifically Christianity) and the American environmental movement.
Notes of Interest: Josh is co-founder of a movement to replace the Black Bear mascot of the University of Maine with Rufus the Rottweiler. He also occasionally plays the drums in his band: J.P. and the Other Two.
Fields: International History, U.S.-Latin American Relations
Advisor: Elizabeth McKillen
Education: B.A., University of Southern Maine; M.A., University of Southern Maine
Dissertation topic/title: Popular opposition to U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Presentations: Norlands Humanities Conference, 2008
Fields: Colonial North America, War & Society, Frontiers & Borderlands, Political History
Advisor: Jacques Ferland
Education: B.A., SUNY Geneseo (Political Science); M.A., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (History)
Presentations: “Imperial War and Provincial Self-Interest: The Government of Colonial Rhode Island, 1739-1748,” Ruptures of War Conference, Claremont Graduate University, April 2010
“Human Cargoes: Privateering Captives in Newport, Rhode Island in the Mid-Eighteenth Century,” Piracy Conference, Brandeis University, October 2010
“Eden with Iroquois: Pierre Boucher’s L’Histoire Veritable et Naturelle and the Colonial Argument for the Second Conquest of New France” UNB/University of Maine Graduate Student History Conference, October 2011
Publications: “Seeing Pennsylvania as the Keystone of the Revolution: Charles H. Lincoln’s Treatment of Ethnicity,” The Forum: Cal Poly’s Journal of History 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2010)
Notes of Interest: When Greg isn’t pursuing the study of history he enjoys reading non-historical works (very eclectic), canoeing, traveling around America, and watching television.
Fields: Women’s History
Advisor: Jacques Ferland
Education: B.A., Carroll College (Political History; Sociology); M.A., Sarah Lawrence College (Women’s History)
Presentations: Lisa has presented papers at multiple conferences, including the Mid-America Conference on History in 2008 and the Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College in 2006 and 2007.
Fields: Canadian-American, Gender Studies
Advisor: Scott See
Education: B.A., College of the Atlantic; M.A., University of Pittsburgh (European History)
Dissertation topic/title: A comparative history of the origin of welfare in the United States and Canada, particularly focusing on maternalism and social welfare.
Notes of Interest: Rebecca and her husband have a large garden and enjoy living in the wilds of Eddington with their three year old and two greyhounds. She enjoys Netflix, crosswords, hiking, and trying to read history books while her son watches Bob the Builder.
Fields: Media history
Advisor: Nathan Godfried
Education: BFA, Kent State University; MFA, Ohio State University
Fields: European History
Advisor: Jacques Ferland
Education: B.S., Johnson & Wales University (International Business & Economics)
Notes of Interest: Sarah enjoys traveling, as often as she possibly can.
Fields: Intellectual History, 20th Century America
Advisor: Jacques Ferland
Education: B.A., University of Maine (History; Philosophy)
Notes of Interest: Todd enjoys intellectual history, philosophy, politics, labor history, and soccer.
Fields: Native American history, environmental history, Maine history
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A, University of Maine
Thesis topic: James is studying the connection between Wabanaki people and the landscape in Maine and the Maritimes
Publications: “Burnt Harvest, Penobscot People and Fire,”Maine History (October 2008).
Notes of Interest: James is a member of the Penobscot Nation and is the Tribal Historian. He is also a photographer, graphic artist and fiction writer.
Fields: Maine in the Civil War, the history of Mount Desert Island
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.S., Southern Illinois University; M.H.S.A., George Washington University
Thesis Title/Topic: Mount Desert in the Civil War. Within this topic, I am exploring the effect of the war on the town’s soldiers, women, and dissenters.
Presentations:
“John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness” – A Civil War Cavalryman’s tombstone tells what happened to him, but gets it wrong.
“Casualties: Mount Desert’s Women and the Civil War” – Though separated from battlefields by 1,000 miles, women were profoundly affected by the war.
“The Histories of Saint Sauveur” – A historiography of the 1613 Jesuit settlement.
“The Woman Question: Francis Parkman’s Arguments against Women’s Suffrage” – The eminent historian made the case against women’s voting rights, but prominent suffragists pushed back.
“The Bar Harbor Fire of 1947” – How the town endured the frightening days of the fire, and how it recovered.
Publications: “The Histories of Saint Sauveur,” and “John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness,” Chebacco, 2011. “The Woman Question: Francis Parkman’s Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage,” and “Casualties: Mount Desert’s Women and the Civil War,” Chebacco, 2012 (in press).
Notes of Interest: Tim is the Executive Director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. He spent twenty-five years as a healthcare executive, and then changed course in 2009, enrolling in the Master’s Degree Program in History at the University of Maine. He worked as an interpretive park ranger in Acadia National Park in the summer of 2010, when he first encountered many of the topics he covers in his work as a historian. Tim and his wife Lynn enjoy hiking and backpacking, and can’t believe their good fortune to live in a place like Mount Desert Island.
Fields: European History
Advisor: Stephen Miller
Education: B.A. European History, minor in English Literature University of Delaware, MAT Social Studies, University of Maine, Orono.
Thesis title: Tom’s particular focus is the impact of contemporary devolution movements on British cultural and national identities
Notes of Interest: Tom has been teaching U.S., World, and European History at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, Maine, where he has also served as Social Studies Department Head since
Fields: 19th and 20th Century U.S. Environmental and Labor History
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., Virginia Tech
Notes of Interest: Cody enjoys bluegrass music, collecting old satirical and political cartoons, philosophy, racontuers, and, of course, his beloved Hokies.
Fields: Canadian American History
Advisor: Scott See
Education: B.A. in History, North Georgia College and State University (Senior Military College)
Thesis topic: Combat Stress and the Battle of Detroit (War of 1812)
Notes of Interest: Joe served in multiple capacities as an infantry officer in The 82nd Airborne, including the establishment of an Iraqi Government through Elections and the 2007 Troop Surge.
Fields: U.S. Environmental History
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A. in History with a concentration in Social Sciences and a minor in Social Change, University of Louisville, 2009
Notes of Interest: Eileen is interested in the land-use practices of intentional communities as well as the intersections of environmental and labor history as they occur in the study of resource-extraction industries. She also enjoys knitting, gardening, playing the piccolo, and escaping into the wilderness from time to time.
William Quintana
Fields: science and technology, economic history
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.S., Southern Illinois University
Thesis topic: interested in innovators and inventors from Maine
Notes of Interest: William is an expert on the development of human-borne computing for harsh environs.
Fields of Study: 19th Century American History, U.S. Environmental History
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: B.A., History (University of Maine)
Notes of Interest: Erik a 2nd year Masters student studying environmental history. He is currently working on a thesis project that explores the ways in which Massachusetts fishermen sough to protect and manage Merrimack River fisheries and how those efforts adjusted to the arrival of capitalism in the countryside.
He spends his free time fly fishing throughout New England, in addition to playing guitar and piano.
Fields: Early New England, particularly Maine; early Canada
Advisor: Richard Judd
Education: BBA, National University; HBA, University of Utah
Thesis topic: Queen City: Life and Lumbering in Bangor, Maine, 1830-1870