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Email: jkoshan@thiel.edu About: Dr. James C. Koshan, Associate Professor of History, received his bachelor’s degree from Clarion University, his M.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. from Kent State University. Dr. Koshan has also studies at the graduate level at The Pennsylvania State University. At Thiel College, Dr. Koshan has progressed through the ranks of Adjunct, Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant, and Associate Professor. Before arriving at Thiel, he was a Pennsylvania public school substitute teacher for four years. In addition, Dr. Koshan has been a Graduate Assistant and Instructor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Graduate Reader at The Pennsylvania State University, and a Graduate Advisor, Teaching Assistant, and Teaching Fellow at Kent State University. Dr. Koshan’s teaching areas include a broad range of United States history classes, including both survey and advanced courses. His major interests focus on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, along with the greater Civil War era. American immigration and labor history are special topics throughout his classes, along with a constant focus on race, class, and gender, as lenses on historical development. Dr. Koshan’s research interests focus on the intersection of immigration and labor in western Pennsylvania, along with the roles of radicalism and repression. His dissertation, “’We Hold the Center on the Line of Battle’: The IWW, Immigrant Labor, and the Industrial Unionism in the Pittsburgh District, 1909-1913,” brings these elements together, demonstrating that the labor ideology that developed between the IWW and immigrant workers and their families left a powerful impact on the region through the 1930s. Dr. Koshan continues to do research into related labor conflicts and their impact in the greater Pittsburgh area.
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