Corcoran Department of History PhD Recipients Placement Results

Last Updated: December 2, 2014

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Explanation of terms:

T	=	Tenured
TT	=	Tenure-track
Term	=	Temporary Employment
P/T	=	Part-time Employment
O	=	Other Employment
O-R	=	Other Employment, but in field related to PhD, e.g. secondary teaching, museum, or editing
O-S	=	Other Employment, but seeking academic employment
Post-Doc	=	Holds post-doc, and intending to seek academic employment

CALENDAR YEAR 2014

May 2014 PhD Recipients

Brettle, Adrian (Gallagher), “The Fortunes of War: Confederate Expansionist Ambitions During the American Civil War”. University of Virginia, Department of History, Post-Doc

Daniels, Anne (Owensby), “Growing Up in the Land of the Future: Youth Culture and Politics in Brazil, 1920-1985”. Navex Global, Bilingual Communication Specialist (O)

Dilbeck, Dale (Gallagher), “War in Earnest: The Union and its Effort to Wage a Just War”. Oklahoma Baptist University, Assistant Professor of History (TT)

Luebke, Peter (Gallagher), “Shattering the Slave Power: Northern Soldiers Interpret Their Civil War”. On the Job Market

Ray, Daren (Miller), “Disentangling Ethnicity in East Africa, ca. 1-2010 CE: Past Communities in Present Proactive”. Connecticut College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Weidner, Heather (Halliday), “The Ocean in the Atlantic: British Experience and Imagination in an Imperial Sea, ca. 1600-1800”. University of Virginia, Adjunct Faculty (Non-TT)

August 2014 PhD Recipients

Caires, Michael (McCurdy), “The Greenback Union: The Politics and Law of American Money in the Civil War Era”. Hampden-Sydney College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Cebul, Randall (Balogh), “Developmental State: The Politics of Business, Poverty, and Economic Empowerment from the New Deal to the New Democrats”. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Post-Doc

Pierce, Rachel (Aron), “Capital Feminism: Work, Politics, and Gender in Congress, 1960-1980”. On the Job Market

Wilson, Lee (Edelson), “Masters of Law: English Legal Culture and the Law of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina and the British Atlantic World, 1669-1783”. Clemson University, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2014 PhD Recipients

Flaherty, Randall (Onuf), “To ‘the Most Distant Parts of the Globe’: Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819”. University of Virginia, School of Law, Post-Doc

Kayaoglu, Barin (Leffler), “Loving and Hating America in Turkey and Iran: A Cold War Story of Alliance Politics and Authoritarian Modernization, 1945-1980”. On the Job Market

Moulds, Loren (Balogh), “The Domestic Standard: American Homeownership and the State, 1917-1950”. University of Virginia, School of Law, Digital Collections Librarian (O-R)

Terry, John (Kershaw), “Imagining Nature and Creating Sacred Landscapes in Early Medieval England and Francia, c. 400-850”. On the Job Market

CALENDAR YEAR 2013

May 2013 PhD Recipients

Allison, James (Russell/McMillen), "Sovereignty for Survival: American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination". Christopher Newport University, Adjunct (Non-TT)

Gilliam, George (Ayers), "Building a Modern South: Political Economy in Nineteeth-Century Virginia". University of Virginia, History, Adjunct (Non-TT)

Jacobs, Amy (Hale), "Redefinig "Veterans": The Vietnam War and the Making of Women Veterans 1979-1997".  Stevenson School, High School History Teacher (O-R)

Lee, Rosemary (Osheim), "A Printing Press for Shah Abbas: Science, Learning, and Evangelization in the Near East, 1600-1650". Sweet Briar College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Macekura, Stephen (Leffler), "Of Limits and Growth: Global Environmentalism and the Rise of "Sustainable Development" in the Twentieth Century".  Dartmouth College, International Security and U.S. Foreign Policy Post-Doc

Nemchenok, Victor (Leffler), "A Dialogue of Power: Development, Global Civil Society, and the Third World Challenge to International Order, 1969-1981". Defense Department, Internal Affairs Analyst (O-R)

Spencer, Scott (Schuker), "Establishing Empire's State, Engineering Empire's Nation: The South African Constabulary, the Imperial Policing Network, and a Greater Britain, 1900-1918". Tufts Univ., Researcher and Project Manager (O-R)

August 2013 PhD Recipients

Collins, John Michael (Halliday), “One of Many: Martial Law and English Laws c. 1500-c. 1700”.  Eastern Washington, History Lecturer (Non-TT)

Elias, Allison (Aron), “Standardizing Sex Discrimination: Clerical Workers, Labor Organizing, and Feminism". Cornell Univ., Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Grinspan, Jonathan (Gallagher), “The Virgin Vote: Young Americans in the Age of Popular Politics”. Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Post-Doc & Massachusetts Historical Society, National Endowment for Humanities Fellow

Kabalek, Yaakov (Confino), “The Rescue of Jews and the Memory of Nazism in German, from the Third Reich to the Present”. Ben Gurion Univ., Overseas Program, Adjunct Lecturer (Non-TT)

Le Zotte, Jennifer (Hale), “From Goodwill to Grunge: Secondhand Consumerism in the Twentieth-Century United States”. Tarleton State Univ., Assistant Professor (TT)

Nalty, Sean (Holt), “We are Going to Destruction as Fast as We Can: Slavery, the Rule of Law, and the Constitutional Union Party, 1849-1861”. Banking (O)

Otis, Jessica (Halliday), “By the Numbers: Understanding the World in Early Modern England”.  Carnegie Mellon Univ., Post-Doc

December 2013 PhD Recipients

Dudley, Brian (Halliday), “The Constitution of This Realm: Political Decision-Making, Office-Holding, and Religious Change in England’s Parishes, 1559-1700”. National Ground Intelligence (O-R)

Nesbit, Clark Scott (Ayers), “The Irony of Emancipation in the Civil War South”. University of Georgia, Assistant Professor (TT)

Stubbendeck, Megan (Hale), “This Wrong Being Done to My People: Street Gangs, Historical Agency, and Crime Politics in Postwar America”. ArborBridge, Associate Director (Non-TT)

Wood, Nicholas (Onuf), “Considerations of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early National Antislavery Movement”. Library Company of Philadelphia, National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doc

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2012

May 2012 PhD Recipients

Elmore, Bart (Hale), "Citizen Coke: An Enviromental and Politcal History of the Coca-Cola Company".  University of Alabama, Assistant Professor (TT)

Kurtz, William (Gallagher), "Roman-Catholic Americans in the North and Border States during the Era of the American Civil War". Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Assistant Editor (O-R)

Lewis, Margaret (Midelfort), "Infanticide in Early Modern Germany & The Experience of Augsberg, Memmingen, Ulm and Nordlingen, 1500-1800". University of Tennessee at Martin, Assistant Professor (TT)

Lovelace, Herbert (McCurdy), "International Legal History from Below: The Civil Rights Movement and the US Origins of the International Convention". Indiana University School of Law, Associate Professor (TT)

Wasserman, Daniel (Midelfort), "Language Policy and Religious Instruction in Spain and Mexico, 1550-1600".  Alma College, Assistant Professor (TT)

August 2012 PhD Recipients

Herrington, Philip (Hale), “The Exceptional Plantation: Slavery, Agricultural Reform, and the Creation of an American Landscape”.  James Madison Univ., Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2012 PhD Recipients

Conklin, Carli (McCurdy), "The Pursuit of Happiness in Historical Context".  University of Missouri, School of Law, Associate Professor of Law (TT)

Martinko, Whitney (Onuf), "Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1785-1860".  Villanova University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Stryker, Lawrence (Midelfort) " The Swedish Monarchy and the Cooper Trade: The Copper Company, The Deposit System, and the Problems of "Free Trade", 1600-1640". Mendham Metals, LLC, Trader (O)

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2011

May 2011 PhD Recipients

Center, Seth (Leffler), "Confronting Decline: The Resilience of the Conception of the U.S. Role in the Word, 1968-1975. State Department, Research Historian (O-R)

Cotter, Cory (Midelfort & Halliday), "Anglo-Dutch Dissent: British Dissenters in the Netherlands, 1662-1688".  George School, History Teacher (O-R)

Hatter, Lawerence (Onuf), "Channeling the Spirit of Enterprise: Commercial Interests and State Formation in the Early American West, 1763-1825".  Washington State University, Assistan Professor (TT)

Jones, William (Ayers), "Moving Mountains: Southern Appalachia and the Faith of the Nation, 1730-1835". The Ministry (O)

Shelden, Rachel (Holt), "Washington Brotherhood: Friendship, Politicis, and the Coming of the Civil War".  University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor (TT)

Throckmorton, Anne (Halliday), "The Persistence of Saints in Early Modern England".  Randolph Macon College, Assistant Professor (TT)

Zimring, David (Gallagher), " Crossing the Line: Northern-Born Men and Women in the Confederacy".  University of Maryland  at Shady Grovey, Adjunct Faculty (Non-TT)

August 2011 PhD Recipients

Harris, Michael Keith (Gallagher), "Across the Bloody Chasm: Reconciliation in the Wake of Civil War". Cosmicamerica, Blog Owner & Writer

Kolar, Laura (Balogh), " Conserving the Country in Postwar America: Federal Conservation Policy from Eisenhower to Nixo".  State Department, Research Historian (O-R)

Mattes, Armin (Onuf), "Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland:' The Transatlantic Context of the Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood, 1775-1840".  University of Missouri, Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy (Post-Doc)

Murray-Miller, Gavin (Berlanstein), "Making France Modern: Democracy, Empire and The Construction of French Modernity, 1848-1870".  Leibniz Institute of European History, Post-Doc

Ohman, Martin (Onuf), "Ambiguous Bonds of Union: American Political Economy and the Geopolitical Origins of Interregional Cooperation and Conflict, 1783-1821".  Library Company, Phila (Post-Doc)

Phillips, Laura (Balogh), "The American Fair Trade Controversy: Law and Economics in Transition, 1890-1940".  Harvard Univ., Assistant Professor  (TT)

Wilson, James Graham (Leffler), "Bolts from the Blue: The United States, the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War".  State Department, Research Historian (O-R)

December 2011 PhD Recipients

Alexander, Erik (Holt), "A Revival of the Old Organization": Northern Democrats and Reconstruction, 1868-1876". Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Assistant Professor (TT)

Chapin, Christy (Balogh), "Ensuring America's Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry".  University of Maryland, Assistant Professor (TT)

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2010

May 2010 PhD Recipients

Dean, Adam (Ayers), "An Agrarian Republic: How Conflict Over Land Use Shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction". Lynchburg College, Assistant Professor (TT)

Goff, Lisa (), "Shantytowns in the United States, 1820-1890".  University of Virginia, Department of English, Adjunct Professor (Non-TT)

Meier, Kathryn (Ayers), " 'No Place for the Sick': Nature's War on Civil War Soldier Health in 1862 Virginia". Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Assistant Professor (TT)

Mushal, Amanda (Onuf), "'My Word is My Bond': Honor, Commerce, and Status in the Antebellum South". Citadel, Assistant Professor (TT)

Nevin, Mark (Balogh), "Politicized Democracy: The Nixon Presidency and the Rise of Public Opinion Polling in American Politics".  Ohio University, Assistant Professor, (TT)

Stoermer, Taylor (Onuf), "Constitutional Sense, Revolutionary Sensibility: Political Cultures in the Making and Breaking of British Virginia, 1707-1776".  SUNY-Ulster, Adjunct Professor (Non-TT)

Winslow, Stanley (Schuker), "A Boy's Empire: The British Public School as Imperial Training Ground, 1850-1918". Divinity School (O-R)

August 2010 PhD Recipients

Hayter, Julian (Balogh), "We've Been Overcome: Black Voter Mobilization and White Resistance in Richmond, VA, 1954-185". University of Richmond, Assistant Professor (TT)

Meyer, Victoria (Rosenfeld), "Divining the Pox: The Controversy over Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteeth-Century France".  East Tennessee State University, Post-Doc

Nicoletti, Cynthia (Gallagher), "The Great Question of the War: The Legal Status of Secession in the Aftermath of the American Civil War, 1865-1869".  University of Virginia Law School, Associate Professor (T)

Sawyer, Logan (McCurdy), "Federalism and Reform: Party Politics and Constitutional Argument in the Progressive Era Fight for Federal Child Labor Reform".  University of Georgia Law School, Associate Professor of Law (TT)

Wongsrichananlai, Kanisorn (Gallagher), "The Burden of Their Class: College-Educated New Englanders and Leadership in the Civil War Era".  Angelo State University, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2010 PhD Recipients

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2009

May 2009 PhD Recipients

Dierksheide, Christa (Onuf), "The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1770-1840".  Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Historian (O-R)

Geraghty, David (Onuf), "Emigrants, Exiles, Refugees, and Appeals for Land Grants in American's Public Lands, 1783-1852". Longwood University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Haberkern, Philipp (Midelfort), "The Presence of the Past: History, Memory, and the Making of St. Jan Hus".  Boston University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Jortner, Adam (Onuf), "Reign of Witches: A Political History of American Miracles, 1780-1840".  Auburn University, Associate Professor (T)

Stoykovich, Eric (Russell), "In the National Interest: Improving Domestic Animals and the Making of the United States, 1815-1870".  Fold3, Digital Operations Manager (O)

August 2009 PhD Recipients

Botts, Joshua (Leffler), "Between Nightmares and Dreams: The Cold War and Neoconservative Strategic Culture, 1968-200".  State Department, Research Historian (O-R)

Torget, Andrew (Ayers), "Cotton Empire: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands, 1820-1837".  University of North Texas, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2009 PhD Recipients

Gillis, Matthew (Kershaw), "Gottschalk of Orbais: A Study of Power and Spirituality in a Ninth-Century Life".  University of Tennessee, Assistant Professor (TT)
 

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2008

May 2008 PhD Recipients

Haffner, Jeanne (Rosenfeld), "Social Space Revolution: Aerial Photography, Social Science, and Urban Politics in Post War France".  Havard Historical Science Program, Reseach Assistant (O-R) 

Jorgensen, Dolores (Carlson), "Private Need, Public Order: Urban Sanitation in Late Medieval England and Scandinavia".  Umea University, Research & Project Coordinator for Restore (O-R)

Matthews, Scott L.  (Hale), "Up Against The World Like It Is: Documentary Expression In The South, 1925-1965".  Georgia State University, Lecturer (Non-TT)

Metcalf, Cynthia Gray-Ware (Clancy-Smith), "From Morality Play to Celebrity: Women, Gender, and Performing Modernity in Egypt: c. 1850-1939". Manhattanville College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Murphy, Brian P. (Onuf), "Empire State Building: Interests, Institutions, and The Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783-1845".  Baruch College, Assistant Professor (TT)

Nichols, Christopher (Zunz)," From Empire to Isolation: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Thought".  Oregon State University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Ragosta, John A. (Onuf), "Fighting for Freedom: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win The American Revolution and Religious Liberty". Oberlin College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Schermerhorn, Calvin Jack L. (Ayers), "Against All Odds: Slavery and Enslaved Families in the Making of the Antebellum Chesapeake". Arizona State University, Associate Professor (T)

Van Cleve, George W. (Onuf), "A Slaveholders Union: The Law and Politics of American Slavery, 1770-1821". Seattle University School of Law, Law-Distinguished Adjunct (Non-TT)

Witmer, Andrew D. (Ayers), "God's Interpreters: Protestant Missionaries, African Converts and Conceptions of Race in the Unites States, 1830-1910". James Madison, Assistant Professor (TT)

August 2008 PhD Recipients

Blair, Melissa Estes (Aron), " Women's Organizations And Grassroots Politics: Denver, Durham, and Indianapolis, 1960-1975". Warren Wilson College,  Assistant Professor (TT)

Jackson, Robert A. (Ayers), "Fade In, Crossroads: The Southern Cinema, 1890-1940". University of Tulsa, English Department, Associate Professor (T)

Martin, Roderick (Middlefort), "The Reformation of Conscience: Rhetoric in the Lutheran Casuistry of Friedrich Balduin (1575-1627". Piedmont Community College, Assistant Professor (TT)

Martinez, Jaime A. (Gallagher), "For The Defense of the State: Slave Impressment in Confederate Virginia and North Carolina". University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2008 PhD Recipients

Alexander, Michael J.(Osheim & Schutte), "Disputing Vows: Struggling for a Spouse in the Paduan Episcopal Court (c.1400-1500)". Miss Hall's, Teacher (O-R)

Bridges, David (Rossman), "In Moscow's Image: Creating a Soviet State and Society in Kaliningrad Province, 1945-1970". Unknown

Holt, Daniel (Zunz), "Acceptable Risk: Law, Regulation and the Politics of American Financial Markets, 1878-1930".  Federal Judicial System, Historian (O-R)

McMahon, Stephanie Hunter (McCurdy), "Money, Sex, and Tax Policy: Developments in Tax Avoidance and Martial Tax Returns, 1913-1948".  University of Cincinnati College of Law,  Professor (T)

Rakove, Robert (Leffler), "A Genuine Departure: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World".  Stanford University, International Relations Program, Lecturer (Non-TT)

Speiser, Matthew (Gallagher), "Seeking the Roots of the Lost Cause: The Continuity of Regional Celebration in the White South, 1850-1872".  Maymount School, History Teacher (O-R)

CALENDAR YEAR 2007

May 2007 PhD Recipients

Sribnick, Ethan (McCurdy), “Rehabilitating Child Welfare:  Children And Public Policy, 1945-1980”. Children & Poverty, Historical Research Manager (O-R)

August 2007 PhD Recipients

Bracken, Hillary (Nair), “Maternity And Child Welfare Reform In North India, 1900-1947”. Gynuity Health Projects, New York, NY, SR Program Associate (O-R)

Gao, Bei (Reed), “China, Japan And The Flight Of European Jewish Refugees To Shanghai, 1938-1945” (Reed) College of Charleston,  SC, Associate Professor (T)

May, Vanessa (Aron), "Working In Public And In Private:  Domestic Service, Women’s Reform, And The Meaning Of The Middle-Class Home In New York City, 1870-1940”. Seton Hall University, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2007 PhD Recipients

Loss, Christopher (Balogh), “From Democracy To Diversity:  The Politics Of American Higher Education In The Twentieth Century”. Vanderbilt University, Associate Professor (T)

Wilson, Rai Imani (McCurdy), "Foundations of Sand: Federalism, Formalism, And The Matter of Money In The African-American Legal Experience, Florida, 1900-1950". UC San Diego, History Lecturer (Non-TT)

CALENDAR YEAR 2006

May 2006 PhD Recipients

Cuthbertson, Susan (Schuker), "Politics, Empire, and the Italian Nation, 1896-1949".(geographically constrained search, for family reasons), Independent Scholor, LA (O)

Flecher, André (Gallagher),"The Revolution of 1861: The Legacy of The European Revolutions of 1848 and the American Civil War". Castleton State College, Associate Professor & Department Chair (T)

Flemma, Thomas (Holt), "Taming the ‘Chaos of a Mighty World’: Contesting California Culture, 1846-1856" (Holt)  Hotchkiss School, Department of History, Department Head (O-R)

Stokes, Laura (Midelfort), "Demons of Urban Reform: The Rise of Witchcraft Prosecution in Basel, Lucerne, and Nuremberg, 1430-1530". Stanford University, Assistant Professor (TT)

August 2006 PhD Recipients

Black, Monica (Confino), "The Meaning of Death and the Making of Three Berlins: a History, 1933-1961". University of Tennessee, Associate Professor (T)

Pierce, Katherine Anna (Ayers), "Networks of Disunion: Politics, Print Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War". Sam Houston State University, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2006 PhD Recipients

Hochstetler, Laurie (Onuf), “Sacred Rites:  Religious Rituals And The Transformation Of American Puritanism”.  Western Washington University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Mooney, Alfonso (Ayers), “Shadows Of Dominion:  White men And Power In Slavery, War, And The New South”. Windhover Capital Management, Financial Advisor (O)

Muravchik, Stephanie (Balogh), “Came To Believe:  American Faith In An Age Of Psychology”.Claremont McKenna College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Nehls, Christopher (Balogh), “A Grand And Glorious Feeling:  The American Legion And American Nationalism Between The World Wars”. CQ Roll Call Group, Managing Editor (O-S)

Reis, Jehnie (Berlanstein), “French And Foreign Students In Interwar Paris:  Creating The Cite Universitaire”. Point Park University, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Vandermeulen, David (Zunz), "The Country Of The Second Chance:  Economic Failure And Recovery In Atchison County, Kansas, 1865-1896”. Law (O)

CALENDAR YEAR 2005

May 2005 PhD Recipients

Ackerman, Michael (Kett), "Interpreting the "‘Newer Knowledge of Nutrition’": Science, Interests, and Values in the Making of Dietary Advice in the United States, 1915-1965".  CSC, Senior Programmer/Analyst (O)

Doody, Colleen Patrice (Lichtenstein), "Anticommunism in America: Detroit’s Cold War, 1945-1960". De Paul University, Associate Professor (T)

Drogula, Fred Kilday  (Meyer), "The Office of the Provincial Governor Under the Roman Republic and Empire (To AD 235): Conception and Tradition".  Providence College, Associate Professor (T)

Fisher, Nevan Andrew (Israel), "A House Divided: Christmas Church and the Protestant Community of Anqing". Nazareth College, Assistant Professor (TT)

Janney, Caroline (Gallagher), "‘If not for the Ladies’: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Making of the Lost Cause". Purdue University,  Professor (T)

Owens, James Clayton, Jr. (Halliday), "Between King and Conscience: Law, Politics, and Community in Early Modern England’s Diocese of Winchester, 1520-1641".  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, Attorney (Law) (O)

Parkinson, Robert Glenn (Onuf), "Enemies of the People: The Revolutionary War and Race in the New American Nation". Shepherd University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Thorndike, Joseph Jacobs, III (Lichtenstein), "The Price of Civilization: Taxation for Depression and War, 1932-1945". Northwestern University, School of Law, Adjunct Faculty (Non-TT)

Whitener, Bradford Duane (Megill), "Varieties of Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-century Germany: Ranke, Dollinger, Marx".  Saint Mary ‘s University, Adjunct Faculty (Non-TT)

August 2005 PhD Recipients

Bolden, Jesse (Thomas), "A Study of the Rise and Fall of the John McCown Liberation Movement in Hancock County, Georgia, 1870-1976". Pastor and teacher in Georgia (Clergy) (O)

Jennison, Watson Woodson, III (Ayers), "Cultivating Race: Slavery and Expansion in Georgia, 1750-1860".  University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Associate Professor (T)

Lee, Susanna Michele (Ayers), "Claiming the Union: Stories of Loyalty in the Post-Civil War South".   North Carolina State (Raleigh), Associate Professor (T)

Brooks, Clayton (Hale), "Conversations across the Color Line: Interracial Cooperation and the Making of Segregation in Virginia, 1900-1930". Mary Baldwin College, Adjunct (Non-TT)

Hoff, Derek  (Zunz), "Are We Too Many: The Population Debate and Policymaking in the Twentieth-Century United States". Kansas State University, Associate Professor (T)

Minton, Amy (Ayers), "A Culture of Respectability: Southerners and Social Relations in Richmond, Virginia, 1820-1865".  Marymount University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Morrissey, Christof (Schuker), "National Socialism and Dissent among the Ethnic Germans of Slovakia and Croatia, 1938-1945". Independent Scholar in Berlin (O)
 

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2004

May 2004 PhD Recipients

Bynum, Cornelius Lyn  (Zunz), "Fighting for Identity: A. Philip Randolph’s Search for Class-Consciousness in the Age of the Harlem Renaissance". Purdue University, Associate Professor (T)

Carp, Benjamin Louis (Onuf), "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783".  Brooklyn College, CUNY, Associate Professor (T)

Hohenstien, Kurt Alan (McCurdy), "Coining Corruption: Deliberative Democracy, the Constitution, and the Making of the American Campaign Finance System, 1876-1976".  Winona State, Associate Professor (T)

Morsman, Amy Feely (Aron), "The Big House After Slavery: Virginia’s Plantation Elite and their Postbellum Domestic Experiment". Middlebury College, Associate Professor (T)

Murphy, Maire Agnes (Zunz), "The Metropolitan Project: Leadership, Policy and Development in St. Louis, Missouri, 1945-1980".  Washington Univ., St. Louis, American Culture Studies, Academic Coordinator (O-R)

Neem, Johann Nuru (Onuf), "The Transformation of Civil Society in Massachusetts, 1780s-1840s". Western Washington University, Associate Professor (T)

August 2004 PhD Recipients

Celello, Kristin M. (Aron), "Making MarriageWork: Marital Success and Failure in the United States, 1920-1980". Queens College, Associate Professor (T)

Schweinitz, Rebecca L. de (Aron), "‘If They Could Change the World’: Children, Childhood, and African-American Civil Rights Politics". Brigham Young University, Associate Professor (T)

Delnore, Allyson J. (Rosenfeld), "Political Convictions: French Deportation Projects in the Age of Revolutions, 1791-1854". University of Pittsburg, Associate Director of the European Union Center (TT)

Hsieh, Wayne (Ayers & Gallagher), "The Old Army in War and Peace: West Pointers and the Civil War Era, 1814-1865". United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Assistant Professor (TT)

Mitchell, Dayo (Drayton & Miller), "The Ambiguous Distinctions of Descent: Free People of Color and the Construction of Citizenship in Trinidad and Dominica, 1800-1838". Stanford University , UAR Academic Director (O-R)

Morton, Jack D. (Holt), "Ohio’s Gallant Fight: Northern State Politics During the Reconstruction Era, 1865-1878". Standard Textile, Corporate Accounting (O)

Murphy, Sharon A. (Thomas), "Security in an Uncertain World: Life Insurance and the Emergence of Modern America". Providence College, Associate Professor (T)

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2003

May 2003 PhD Recipients

Hudgins, Nicole Herz (Berlanstein), "Photographic Culture in Two Industrial Cities: Manchester and Lille, 1839-1914".  University of Baltimore, Assistant Professor (TT)

Irons, Charles (Ayers), "'The Chief Cornerstone'": The Spiritual Foundations of Virginia’s Slave Society, 1740-1861". Elon University, Associate Professor (T)

LaFleur, James (Miller), "The Culture of Crops on the Gold Coast (West Africa) from the Earliest Times to circa 1850". Unknown

Meacham, Sarah (Onuf), "From Women’s Province to Men’s domain: Gender, Technology, and Alcohol in the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1800". Virginia Commonwealth University, Associate Professor (T)

Sadosky, Leonard (Onuf), "Revolutionary Negotiations: A History of American Diplomacy with Europe and Native America in the Age of Jefferson". Weill Cornell Medical College, Digital Content Producer (O-R)

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron (Gallagher), "The Family War: Motivation and Commitment in the American Civil War". West Virginia University, Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies (T)

 Vettel, Eric (Parshall), "'Research Life!'" Bioscientists, the Bay Area, and a Research Revolution, 1946-1972". American Energy Society, President/CEO (O)

August 2003 PhD Recipients

Diefenderfer, Lara (Schutte), "Making and Unmaking Saints in Seventeenth-Century Madrid". St. Catherine's, Head of Upper School (O-R)

Garver, Valerie (Noble & Schutte), "Carolingian Aristocratic Women and the Transmission of Culture". Northern Illinois University, Associate Professor (T)

Kirn, John (Holt), "Voters, Parties, and Legislative Politics in New York State, 1846-1876". John Tyler Community College, Associate Professor (T)

Laub, Thomas (Schuker), "The Politics of Occupation: The German Military Administration in France, 1940-1944".  Delta State University, Assistant Professor (TT)

December 2003 PhD Recipients

Bon Tempo, Carl J. (Lichtenstein), "Americans at the Gate: The Politics of American Refugee Policy, 1952-1980".  Suny Albany, Associate Professor (T)

Mattozzi, Louisa Parker  (Schutte & Osheim), "The Feminine Art of Politics and Diplomacy: The Roles of Duchesses in Early Modern Italy".  U.S. State Dept., Program Manager (O) 

Richards, Lawrence G., Jr. (Lichtenstein), "‘Union Free and Proud’: America’s Anti-Union Culture and the Decline of Organized Labor". Miami University Ohio, Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Schoen, Brian Dale (Onuf), "The Fragile Fabric of Union: The Cotton South, Federal Politics,and the Atlantic World, 1783-1861". Ohio University, Associate Professor (T)

 

CALENDAR YEAR 2002

May 2002 PhD Recipients

Campion, David (Barnett), "Watchmen of the Raj: The United Provinces Police, 1870-1931 and the Dilemmas of Colonial Policing in British India". Lewis and Clark, Associate Professor (T)

Culpepper, Danielle (Osheim & Schutte),"Court, Convent, and Counter Reformation: Ursulines in the Farnese Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, 1575-1731".  University of Virginia Rare Book School, Assistant Director (O-R)

Fain, William Taylor III (Leffler), "Toll-Gates and Barbicans of Empire: The United States, Great Britain, and the Persian Gulf Region, 1950-1968".  UNC-Wilmington, Associate Professor (T)

Ingram, Robert (Halliday & Midelfort), "Nation, Empire, and Church: Thomas Secker, Anglican Identity, and Public Life in Georgian Britain, 1700-1770". Ohio University, Associate Professor (T)

Jones, Bernie Donna-Maria (McCurdy),"Critical Race Theory: Protesting Against Formalism in the Law, 1969-1999". Suffolk University Law School, Associate Professor of Law (T)

Lee, Lauranett (Ayers), "Crucible in the Classroom: The Freedpeople and Their Teachers, Charlottesville, VA 1861-1876". VA Historical Society, Curator of African American History (O-R)

Mizelle, Peter (Geraci & Rossman), "'Battle with Famine'": Soviet Relief and the Tatar Republic, 1921-1922". Central Intelligence Agency (O-R)

Norris, Stephen (Geraci), "Russian Images of War: The Lubok and Wartime Culture, 1812-1917". Miami of Ohio,  Professor (T)

Norton, Peter D ( Balogh), "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City". Univ. of Virginia, STS, Associate Professor (T) 

Schroer, Timothy (Confino), "Race After the Master Race: Germans and African Americans, 1945-1949". University of W. Georgia, Associate Professor (T)

Sheehy, Peter (Balogh), "The Triumph of Group Therapeutics: Therapy, the Social Self, and Liberalism in America, 1910-1960". Independent Scholar (O)

August 2002 PhD Recipients

Creasman, Allyson (Midelfort), "Policing the Word: The Control of Print and Public Expression in early-Modern Augsburg, 1520-1648." Carnegie Mellon University, Associate Professor (T)

Froysland, Haley (Braun), "Para el Bien Comun: Charity, Health, and Moral Order in Bogotà, Colombia, 1850-1936". Indianna University South Bend, Associate Professor (T)

December 2002 PhD Recipients

Dhavan, Purnima (Barnett), "The Warriors’ Way: The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Khalsa Panth". University  of Washington, Associate Professor (T)

Morris, Andrew (Zunz), "Charity, Therapy, and Poverty: Private Social Service in the Era of Public Welfare". Union College, Associate Professor (T)

Sklaroff, Lauren (Lichtenstein), "Ambivalent Inclusion: The State, Race, and Official Culture, 1930-1950". University of South Carolina, Associate Professor (T)
 

CALENDAR YEAR 2001

May 2001 PhD Recipients

Broome, Michael Jon (Holt), "Horses' Heads, Mint Drops, Talking Rats, and Bell Ringers: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Politics and the Wild World of Political Cartoons". VPI&SU (P/T Term)

Koerner, Steven Richard (Kett), "The Conservative Youth Movement: A Study in Right-Wing Political Culture and Activism, 1950-1980". Consultant, Washington DC

Milazzo, Paul Charles (Balogh), " Legislating the Solution to Pollution: Congress and the Development of Water Pollution Control Policy, 1945-1975". Ohio University, Associate Professor (T)

Van Hook, Laurie West (Schucker), "The Allies, the Axis, and the Serb-Croat Muddle, 1939-1945". Derby & Bierce, Inc., Free Lance Writing (O)

Watkinson, Patricia Ferguson (Edsall), "Empire's Champion: Leo Amery and the Imperial Idea, 1900-1945". Randolph-Macon College, Assistant Professor (TT)

August 2001 PhD Recipients

Dierenfield, Kathleen Murphy (Aron), "Marion Talbot: the Dean of Educated Women". Canisius College,
Professor of History, Adjunct (Non-TT)

Murrell, Amy Elizabeth (now Amy Murrell Taylor) (Ayers), "The Divided Family in Civil War America, 1860-1870". University of Kentucky, Associate Professor (T)

Schuyler, Lorraine Gates (Ayers), "The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Politics in the 1920's".   University of Richmond, Chief of Staff, Office of the President (O)

Taylor, Scott Kenneth (Eire & Midelfort), "Honor and Violence in Castile, 1600-1650". University of Kentucky, Associate Professor (T)

December 2001 PhD Recipients

Roth, Sara Nelson (Ayers), "Rebels and Martyrs: The Debate Over Slavery in American Popular Culture, 1822-1865". Widener College, Associate Professor (T)
 

CALENDAR YEAR 2000

May 2000 PhD Recipients

Dorr, Lisa Johanna (Lane), " 'Messin' White Women': White Women, Black Men, and Rape in Virginia, 1900-1960". University of Alabama, Associate Professor (T)

Eisenach, Emlyn (Schutte & Midelfort), "Marriage, Concubinage, and Marriage Dissolution in Sixteenth-Century Verona". University of Chicago, Admissions office (O-R)

French, Scot Andrew  (Ayers), "Remembering Nat Turner: The Rebellious Slave in American Thought, 1831 to the Present". University of Central Florida, Director of Center for Digital History, Associate Professor (T)

Holloran, John Robert (Megill & Midelfort), "Professors of Enlightenment at the University of Halle, 1690-1730". Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, History Department Chair & Teacher (O-R)

LaLonde, Kristine Lynn (Balogh), " Transformations of Authority: Reform, Rebellion, and Resistance in the Catholic Church of the 1960's".    Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Chief Innovation Officer (O)

Mahan, Erin Rose (Leffler), "The Burdens and Dilemmas of the Atlantic Alliance: John F. Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle and Western Europe, 1961-1963".Office of the Secretary of Defense, Chief Historian (O-R)

Mulroney, Kelly Ann (Megill), "Team Research and Interdisciplinarity in French Social Science, 1925-1952".  Dealertrack Technologies, Vice President of Product Strategy (O)

Potter, Dorothy Turner (Onuf), "The Cultural Influences of W. A. Mozart's Music in Philadelphia: 1786-1861". Lynchburg College, Professor of History (T)

Samuelson, Richard Adam (Onuf), "The Adams Family and the American Experiment". Cal State San Bernardino, Assistant Professor (TT)

August 2000 PhD Recipients

Clevenger, Bryson Edward (Thomas), "Ireland and the Ultraradicals: A Rhetoric of Engagement and Detachment in British Working-Class Ideology".  University of Virginia, Research Advisor and Librarian for Philosophy (O)

Dorr, Gregory Michael (Kett), "Segregation's Science: The American Eugenics Movement and Virginia, 1900-1980". M.I.T., Visiting Assistant Professor (Non-TT)

Guba, James Edward (Osheim), "Cardinal Jacques Davy Du Perron: Conversion, Schism, and Politics in Early Modern France".  The Ministry (O)

Hammond, Mitchell Love (Midelfort), "The Origins of Civic Health Care in Early Modern Germany".  University of Victoria, British Columbia, Assistant Professor (TT)

Koschnik, Albrecht (Onuf), "Voluntary Associations, Political Culture, and the Public Sphere in Philadelphia, 1780-1830". Independent Scholar (O)

Lewis, Andrew Benjamin (Gaston), "Wandering in Two Worlds: Race, Citizenship, and Education in Virginia Since 1945". Red Room, Blog Writer (O)

Sheets, Kevin Brooks (Kett), "Et Tu, America? The Rise and Fall of Latin in Schools, Society, and the Culture of the Educated Man". SUNY Cortland, Associate Professor (T)

Troutman, Phillip Davis (Ayers), "Slave Trade and Sentiment in Antebellum Virginia". George Washington University, Assistant Professor (TT)
 

 

CALENDAR YEAR 1999

May 1999 PhD Recipients

Carlsmith, Christopher Henry (Osheim & Schutte), "Schooling and Society in Bergamo, 1500-1650". University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Assoicate  Professor & UML Fellowship Advisor (T)

D'Andrea, David Michael (Osheim & Schutte), "Civic Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Treviso: The Confraternity and Hospital of Saint Maria Dei Battuti". Oklahoma State University, Assistant Professor (TT)

Gutzman, Kevin R.C. (Onuf), "Old Dominion, New Republic: Making Virginia Republican, 1776-1840".   Western Connecticut State College, Associate Professor (T)

Harmon, Clifford Douglas (Berlanstein), "Balance and Power: Napoleonic Administration in the Department of Isere, 1800-1815". Bridgewater College, Instructor of History (Non-TT)

Henneke, Christian Edmund (Havran), "The Art of Diplomacy Under the Early Stuarts, 1603-42".   McGuire, Woods, Battle, & Boothe Law, Richmond, VA (O)

Howard, Agnes Rose (Innes), "The Blessed Echoes of Truth: Catechisms and Confirmation in Puritan New England". Gordon College, Adjunct Professor (P/T)

Klein, Jennifer Lisa (Lichtenstein), "Managing Security: The Business of American Social Policy, 1910-1960". Yale University, Professor (T)

Landphair, Julliette Lee (Gaston), "For the Good of the Community: Reform Activism and Public Schools in New Orleans, 1920-1960". Westhampton College at University of Richmond, Dean of Arts & Sciences (TT)

Lassiter, Matthew David (Gaston), "The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2005) based on his dissertation "The Rise of the Suburban South: The 'Silent Majority' and the Politics of Education, 1945-1975," won the 2007 Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction. University of Michigan, Associate Professor (T)

Michel, Gregg Laurence (Gaston), "The Southern Student Organizing Committee and the Radicalization of White Southern Students, 1964-1969". University of Texas, San Antonio Associate Professor (T)

Rohrer, Stephen Scott (Stagg), "Planting Pietism: Religion and Community in the Moravian Settlements of North Carolina, 1750-1830". National Journel, Senior Editor (O-R)

Rubin, Anne Sarah (Ayers), "Redefining the South: Confederates, Southerners, and Americans, 1863-1868". University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Associate Professor (T)

Van Hook, James Carlton (Schuker), "Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957".  Central Intelligence Agency (O-R)

August 1999 PhD Recipients

Fort, James Bruce III (Ayers), "The Politics and Culture of Literacy in Georgia, 1800-1920". Independent Scholar (O)

Kastor, Peter John (Stagg), "An Apprenticeship to Liberty': The Incorporation of Louisiana and the Struggle for Nationhood in the Early American Republic, 1803-1820". Washington University, St. Louis,  Professor (T)

Trees, Andrew Spencer (Onuf), " 'A Character to Establish': Personal and National Identity in the New Nation".  Author (O)

December 1999 PhD Recipients

Halperin, Terri Diane (Stagg), "Dangerous to Liberty: The United States Senate, 1789-1821". University of Richmond, Adjunct Professor

Hampson [now Patterson], Mary Regina Seeger (Havran), "Domesticating the Reformation: Religious Revolution and the Vocabulary of English Popular Piety".  Independent Scholar & Editor, NY (O)

Hay, William Anthony (Edsall), "Henry Brougham and the Whigs in Opposition, 1808-1830". Mississippi State University, Associate Professor (T)

Rothman, Joshua Daniel (Ayers)," 'Notorious in the Neighborhood': Interracial Sex and Interracial Families in Early National and Antebellum Virginia". University of Alabama,  Professor (T)

Wright, Dianne Swann (Ayers),"A Way Out of No Way: Learning the Ways of Freedom in the New South, 1865-1930". Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Director of Afrian American and Special Programs (O-R)