Rate My Professor Mandy Link

Dr. Mandy Link is an Associate Professor of Modern European History in the History Department at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she also serves as Graduate Advisor. She earned her B.A. in History from the University of Montana in 2005, her M.A. from Washington State University in 2010, and her Ph.D. from Washington State University in 2015, with a dissertation titled “Specters of Empire: Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937.” Her fields of study include Modern Britain, Modern Europe, and World History. Prior to her appointment at UT Tyler in 2017, she served as Full Time Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Oregon University from 2016 to 2017, Full Time Visiting Lecturer at Central Washington University from 2015 to 2016, and held various instructor and teaching assistant positions at Washington State University from 2009 to 2015.

Dr. Link's research focuses on the Irish experience of World War I, memorialization efforts in the Irish Free State, gender roles in war memory, and British imperialism. She is currently researching connections between gender and World War I memorialization in the United Kingdom and Ireland for her second monograph, “The Girls Who Helped”: First World War Medical Women of the British Isles and Postwar Commemoration. Her major publications include the monograph Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937: Specters of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); the co-edited collection New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land with Matthew M. Stith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), which includes her contributions “Introduction: All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land” and “Chapter 12: Eminently, appalling suffering’: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services and the Failure of Remembrance”; and the peer-reviewed article “Neither for King nor Empire’: Irish Remembrance of the Great War, 1923-1929” in Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History (2014). Additional works encompass biographical essays on historical figures such as Maria Bochkareva, Anna Pavlova, Sophia Duleep Singh, and Margarethe Zelle in Women Who Changed the World (ABC-CLIO, 2022), and a chapter “Give my regards to the people of Tyler’: Edelle Parker and the Western Front” in The Chronicles of Smith County, Texas (2018). She has chaired and served on multiple graduate thesis committees and delivered numerous conference presentations, including at the North American Conference on British Studies and the World History Association of Texas. Dr. Link teaches courses on World War I, World War II, women and war in Europe, Modern Ireland, the British Empire, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Her honors include the 2015 College of Arts and Sciences PhD Student Achievement in the Humanities Award and the 2011 Teaching Assistant Merit Award from Washington State University.