Jessica Clark
PhD Student in History, North Dakota State University
In 2002, Jessica Clark earned her Bachelor of Arts from Central Washington University (CWU) in History Broad Area: Secondary Education. More than two years later, she graduated with her Master of Arts from North Dakota State University (NDSU). Using the methodology of oral history and archival material, Clark focused her thesis - "Holocaust Education and Collective Memory in West Germany, 1945-1970" - on collective memory and social history. Currently, Clark is coordinating the Dakota Memories Oral History Project (DMOHP), as well as teaching at North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS). Clark created (with the assistance of Michael M. Miller and Tom Isern) the DMOHP to document the childhood memories of second- and third-generation Germans from Russia on the Northern Plains. At NDSCS Clark is the adjunct faculty member responsible for teaching the history courses, including the US History sequence, Western Civilization sequence, and North Dakota History. Clark, a childhood and oral historian, is also working on her doctorate in the joint PhD program at NDSU and the University of North Dakota (UND). A working title for the dissertation is "Growing up German-Russian: An Oral History," for which the DMOHP collection will serve as the basis.
Dissertation:
"Growing Up German-Russian on the Northern Plains: An Oral History" (working title)
Advisor Tom Isern / NDSU History Department
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