Amy McClain

Amy is a graduate teaching assistant while also pursuing her M.A. in early U.S. history under Dr. Little’s guidance. Her research focus is on early U.S. military and their families’ social structures during times of conflict.

Amy is the first woman in her family to graduate high school and earn a college degree. History has always been a passion, therefore when she had the opportunity, she decided to change career paths. She obtained her second college degree in December of 2024 in history with a minor in anthropology from the University of Texas at Tyler.

In the fall of 2025, Amy worked as a research assistant on a Civil War history project. In the spring of 2026 she was awarded a two week Memorial Libraries Research Fellowship in Deerfield, MA. Most recently, she finished a 2026 summer internship for the Art of Ranching project with the Archives and Special Collections of CSU Libraries.