Jeanine Mazak-Kahne, assistant professor (Ph.D. Michigan State University 2009), teaches courses in public history, the history of organized crime, and America in War and Depression (1914–1945). Her interests include public history education, small town organized crime, deindustrialization, organized labor, and gender representation in FBI files.
Dr. Mazak-Kahne’s current research project examines the late 1940’s conflict between an aluminum workers’ local (USWA 302) and the District 19 administration of the United Steel Workers of America, against the backdrop of USWA negotiations with Big Steel, as a power struggle for control of the union local as its influence in community affairs. She is also examining the importance of building partnerships between graduate public history education and local historical institutions as a tool for instruction as well as a way to foster civic engagement in future public historians.
Dr. Mazak-Kahne is also the History Department’s graduate program coordinator and internship coordinator. Her door is always open, and she looks forward to meeting and working with current and prospective students.
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