History

Mandy Link

Title: Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor
Department: History
Building: CAS Office 128
Email: mlink@uttyler.edu
Phone: 903.566.7371

Biography

Dr. Link is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Texas at Tyler.  She has a B.A. in History from The University of Montana and an M.A. and PhD from Washington State University.  

Dr. Link's research focuses on the Irish experience of World War I and how the Irish in the Free State attempted to memorialize the war in a newly independent state.  Her book Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937: Specters of Empirewas published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. 

She is currently researching the connections between gender and the memorialization of World War I in the United Kingdom and Ireland for her second monograph. Her current edited collection with Dr. Matt Stith, New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man's Land, is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. This edited collection explores the global impact of World War I through the themes of gender, class, race, and the environment.

Dr. Link teaches courses on World War I, World War II, women's roles in war, Modern Ireland, and the British Empire as well as courses on nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Her interests also include war memory, gender, and empire.

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