Jennifer Mills
Ph.D. Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
RRCHNM Graduate Affiliate
George Mason University
jmills31@gmu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
19th Century U.S. History, Military History, Religious History, Labor Movements, Digital Humanities, Civil Rights, US Immigration, South Asian History
EDUCATION
PhD in History, Anticipated Graduation 2029, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
M.A. in History, December 2023, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• “An Injury to One is An Injury to All: African American Labor Organizing and Civil Rights, 1865-1890”
• “The Bellingham Riot of 1907: A Historical Analysis of Labor Unions’ Reponses to Anti-Immigrant Violence”
• “Saris, Dhotis, and Saffron Robes: The Hare Krishna Movement and Challenges to Eastern Religious tradition in the United States Since the 1960s”
B.A. in History, December 2020-University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, GPA 3.9
• Senior Thesis: “Forgotten People: The South Vietnamese after 1975”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
American Historical Association Annual Conference 2025, “Sugar and Terror: The Thibodaux Massacre and the Political Economy of Violence in the Gilded Age,: January 2026
“In Memoriam: Memorialization of the 1983 Beirut Bombing, a Digital Project,” Marine Corps Museum, April 2025
American Historical Association Annual Conference 2025, “An Injury to One Is a Concern for All: Reconstruction, the Labor Movement, and the Fight for Civil Rights, 1865–90,” January 2025
History Graduate Student Conference, “An Injury to One is An Injury to All: African American Labor Organizing and Civil Rights, 1865-1890,” December 2023
History Graduate Student Conference, “The Bellingham Riot of 1907: A Historical Analysis of Labor Unions’ Reponses to Anti-Immigrant Violence.” University of Colorado Springs, May 2023
History Graduate Student Conference, “Saris, Dhotis, and Saffron Robes: The Hare Krishna Movement and Challenges to Eastern Religious tradition in the United States Since the 1960s,” University of Colorado at Colorado Springs December 2022.
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, “Dissenters and Conscientious Objectors: The Southern Quaker Experience During the American Civil War”, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, April 2021.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Co-organizer Spring 2024
Graduate Student Conference Committee, Moderator, Fall 2023
Graduate Student Conference Committee, Moderator, Spring 2023
Graduate Student Conference Committee, Moderator, Fall 2022
Graduate Student Conference Committee, Co-organizer, Spring 2022
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Co-organizer, Spring 2020
HONORS / AWARDS
GMU Kurt Andrew Dodd Endowed Scholarship in History, $1500, Spring 2026
Wonderli Scholarship, Undergraduate $500, Fall 2020, Graduate $1200 Fall 2022, Graduate $1200 Fall 2023UCCS President’s List, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020 & Fall 2020
PPCC President’s List, 2017-2018
Director’s List, 4.0 GPA, Intellitec Medical Institute Top Student, 2013
Academic Achievement Award, Airman Leadership School, July 2006
MEMBERSHIPS
- Society for Military History, 2025
- Organization of American Historians, 2023
- Southern Historical Association, 2023
- Labor and Working-Class Historians Association, 2023
- American Historical Association, 2022
- Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society UCCS, 2019
ACADEMIC REFERENCES
Dr. Paul Harvey
Department of History
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
pharvey@uccs.edu
Dr. Samantha Christensen
Department of History
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Schrist3@uccs.edu
Dr. Christopher Hamner
Department of History/Art History
George Mason University
chamner@gmu.edu
WORK EXPERIENCE
Centura Health/Parkview Medical Center, Medical Laboratory Scientist, 2013-Present
• Responsible for performance of all levels of general testing within the analytical laboratory
• Provide a high level of technical knowledge and application of that knowledge to department testing & clinical relevance.
• Analyzed & reported specimen findings and investigated any discrepancies.
• Responsible for maintenance, quality control and troubleshooting of all instrumentation in the clinical laboratory.
• Acts as the Education Lead helping fellow associates with complying with all education requirements to include CE’s, PPMs, CAP & LEARNs
• Perform lead responsibilities for Transfusion Medicine to include maintenance, blood inventory and paperwork review.
Federal Contractor, Peterson Air Force Base, Delta Solutions and Strategies & Infinity Systems Engineering, Administrative Entry Control Monitor, 2011-2019
• Deliver friendly & professional customer service to all visitors & staff
• Maintain Microsoft Excel entry authority listing for all customers entering the facility and helped streamline new procedures for visitor entry
• Monitor incoming paperwork for approximately 400 contractors, civilians and active duty personnel
• Answered multi-line phone system, responding to customer inquiries in a professional manner
United States Air Force, Security Forces, June 2002-May 2011
• Ensured highest possible degree of security protection provided for critical resources
• Responded to security incidents and reported an suspicious activity seen
• Monitored all personnel under the Personal Reliability Program
• Maintained security vigilance throughout assigned areas
• Assisted supervisor training new personnel
• Received, interpreted, evaluated and determined appropriate courses of action for dispatch of police patrols
• Maintained flight training program for incoming personnel
• Operated Air Force Law Enforcement Terminal System
• Provided initial command & control of on scene personnel until higher level leadership arrived