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.