Karl Nycklemoe

Department of History
Pronouns: he/him

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History who focuses on the history of water, fluidity, and wetlands, with a particular research focus on historical borderlands, bodies, and practices of property. My dissertation research investigates how the Upper Mississippi River became a federally-managed, "American" river throughout the nineteenth-century, undermining but never wholly displacing native ecologies and the long borderland precedent of Indigenous nations and polities. I am looking forward to working with the Graduate School, Dean Celia Marshik, and her team this semester to further their goals related to IDEA.