ALUMNI NEWS AND JOB PLACEMENTS

Suzanne Brown-Fleming (PhD, 2002, Modern Europe; Advisor: James Harris), Senior Program Officer in the University Programs Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (Washington, DC), published The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience: Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany (University of Norte Dame Press) in January 2006.

Harvey G. Cohen (PhD, 2002, US; Advisor: David Grimsted), author of Duke Ellington's America (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Cultural and Creative Industries at Kings College (London, UK).

Naomi Coquillion (MA, 2006, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has been appointed School Resources Coordinator at the Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, MD).

Christian Esh (PhD, 2006, US; Advisor: Herman Belz) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Northwest Nazarene University (Nampa, ID).

Brooks Flippen (PhD, 1994, US; Advisor: Keith Olson), Professor of History at Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Durant, OK), published his second book Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism (Louisiana State University Press) in September 2006.

David Habeker (PhD, 2003, Russia & Former USSR; Advisor: Michael David-Fox), recently completed a two-year posting as a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has returned to the Washington DC area and is working as a Foreign Affairs Analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).

David Hostetter (PhD, 2004, US; Advisor:James Gilbert), Director of Programs and Research for the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies and Adjunct Professor of History at Shepherd University (Shepherdstown, WV), published Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics (Routledge) in December 2005.

Scott A. Ickes (PhD, 2003, Latin America; Advisor: Daryle Williams) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL).

Mark E. Kehren (PhD, 2006, Latin America: Advisor: Barbara Weinstein) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Loras College (Dubuque, IA).

Cynthia Kennedy (PhD, 1999, US; Advisor: Ira Berlin), Associate Professor of History at Clarion University (Clarion, PA), published Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society (Indiana University Press) in November 2005.

Rebecca A. Lord (PhD, 2003, Latin America; Advisor: Daryle Williams), formerly an assistant editor at the Samuel Gompers Papers Project (College Park, MD), is Political Director for Jamie Raskin, a 2006 Maryland State Senate candidate.  

Alexander Magoun (PhD, 2000, US; Advisor: Robert Friedel), executive director of the David Sarnoff Library (Princeton, NJ), recently received the New Jersey Historical Commission's Award of Recognition for "outstanding service to public knowledge and preservation of the history of New Jersey." He also administered a program of three public lectures on industrial innovation in New Jersey, accompanied by exhibits, funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Matthew Mason (PhD, 2002, US; Advisor: Ira Berlin), an assistant professor at Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), has been appointed as a Gilder Lehrman Senior Scholar at the New York Public Library for his latest research project, "The Doughfaces: Northern Men of Southern Principles in U.S. Politics, 1819-1865."

Paul D. Moreno (PhD, 1994, US; Advisor: Herman Belz), Associate Professor at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI), published Black Americans And Organized Labor: A New History (Louisiana State University Press) in March 2006.

William Nolte (PhD, 1975; Advisor: Donald Gordon), retired Chancellor of the National Intelligence University System (Washington, DC), has returned to the University of Maryland as a research professor in the School of Public Policy.

Johnathan O'Neill (PhD, 2002, US; Advisor: Herman Belz), an assistant professor at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA), published the co-edited collection America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism (Palgrave Macmillan) in September 2006. The work draws upon themes explored in his monograph Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History (Johns Hopkins University Press), published the year prior.

Michael Petersen (PhD, 2005, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf), Historian/Archives Specialist with the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Interagency Working Group of the National Archives and Records Administration, was awarded the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for History Studies Dissertation Prize for his dissertation "Engineering Consent: Peenemünde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile, 1924-1945." Dr. Petersen has also authored "The Intelligence That Wasn't: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan," to be published in a forthcoming collection, Researching Japanese War Crimes: Introductory Essays.

Donald A. Ritchie (PhD, 1975, US; Advisor: H. Samuel Merrill), Associate Historian of the United States Senate since 1976, published  Our Constitution: What It Says, What It Means  and Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps (both Oxford University Press) in 2006.

Marie J. Schwartz (PhD, 1994, US; Advisor: Ira Berlin), Associate Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI), published Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (Harvard University Press) in May 2006.

Andrew Smith (PhD, 2004, Ancient Mediterranean; Advisor: Ken Holum), formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the Albright Institute for Archeological Research (Jerusalem, Israel), has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Dowling College (Oakdale, NY).

Richard Striner (PhD, 1982, US; Advisor: David Grimsted), Professor of History at Washington College (Chestertown, MD), published Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford University Press) in February 2006.

Kari Turner (MA, 2006, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has been appointed Director of Education for the National Museum of Civil War Medicine (Frederick, MD).

Ingo W. Trauschweizer (PhD, 2006, International & Diplomatic; Advisor: Jon Sumida) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Norwich University (Northfield, VT).

J. Samuel Walker (PhD, 1974, US; Advisor: Wayne S. Cole), historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Washington, DC), published the paperback edition of his 2004 monograph Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (University of California Press) in January 2006. A Japanese-language edition was published by ERC Books the same year.

John Carter Wood (PhD, 2001, Modern Britain; Advisor: J.S. Cockburn), a research fellow at the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research/Department of History at the Open University (Milton Keynes, UK), published Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (Routledge) in June 2004.

Yafeng Xia (PhD, 2003, International & Diplomatic; Advisor: Shu Guang Zhang), Assistant Professor at Long Island University (Brookville, NY), published Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972 (Indiana University Press) in 2006. 

FELLOWSHIPS , GRANTS, AWARDS, PRIZES, AND HONORS

External Fellowships and Awards

Patricia Acerbi (PhD, Latin America: Advisor: Barbara Weinstein) has been awarded a Fulbright-IIE fellowship for dissertation research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for calendar year 2006.

Jennifer Copeland (PhD, US; Advisor: James Henretta) has been awarded a Lord Baltimore Fellowship at the Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, MD) for the 2006-07 academic year.

Ian Drake (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz) has been awarded an Earhart Foundation fellowship for graduate study for the 2006-07 academic year.

Susanne Eineigel (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Mary Kay Vaughan) has been awarded a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship for dissertation research in Mexico City, Mexico for the 2006-07 academic year.

Tony Glocke (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: John Lampe) has been awarded an International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) fellowship for dissertation research in the Balkans and Austria for the 2006-07 academic year.

William Howes (PhD, East Asia; Advisor: James Gao) has received a China Scholarship Council fellowship, which he will take at Peking University in Beijing, China over the 2006-07 academic year.

Rinna Kullaa (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: John Lampe) has been awarded a Helsingin Sanomain Centennial Foundation fellowship for dissertation research in the Balkans and Russia for the 2006-07 academic year.

Philip Lyon (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: John Lampe)  has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for dissertation research in Germany for the 2006-07 academic year.

Christina Morina (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been awarded a Stiftung Aufarbeltung fellowship for dissertation research in Germany for Fall 2006.

Nicholas Schlosser (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been awarded a Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies for dissertation research in Germany for the 2006-07 academic year.

Jonathan White (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz) has been awarded a Bradley Foundation fellowship for graduate study for the 2006-07 academic year.

Department of History Dissertation Awards

Askar Askarov, "Reporting from the Frontlines of the First Cold War: U.S. Diplomatic Dispatches about the Internal Conditions in the Soviet Union, 1917-1933"

Jennifer Copeland, "Shaping Their Sphere: The Lives of Baltimore's Women, 1790-1860"

Claire Goldstene, "America Was Promises: The Ideology of Equal Opportunity, 1877-1898"

Andrew Kellett, "Fathers and Sons: American Blues and British Rock 'n' Roll, 1960-1972"

Luc LeBlanc, "Building the Motor City: Race, Class and the Making of a Black Metropolis in Detroit, 1910-1930"

Ricardo López, "'A Beautiful Class. An Irresistible Democracy': The Formation of the Middle Class in Bogotá, Colombia, 1940-1960"

Trisha Posey, "Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor, and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia

Sarah Sarzynski, "History, Identity and the Struggle for Land in Northeastern Brazil, 1955-1985"

Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowships, College of Arts and Humanities

Max Grivo (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland), has been awarded the Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, given by the College of Arts and Humanities, for the 2006-07 academic year.  The dissertation title is "'There Slavery Cannot Dwell': Rural Labor in Northern Maryland 1790-1860."

Nathan and Jeannette Miller Center for Historical Studies Dissertation Awards

Thomas Castillo (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle) has been awarded a Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies Dissertation fellowship for his dissertation "Laboring in the Magic City: Workers in Miami, 1915-1965," to be taken in Fall 2006.  

David Hunter (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle), has been a one-year Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies Dissertation fellowship for his dissertation "'Jim Crow Goes Abroad': Race and the American Nation During World War Two."

Daniel Stotland (PhD, Russia & Former USSR; Advisor: Michael David-Fox) has been awarded an ACTR Dissertation Fellowship for dissertation research in Russia for Fall 2006 and a one-semester Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies Dissertation fellowship for Spring 2007.

Other Grants, Awards, and Prizes

During Spring 2006, the Department awarded eight Department Dissertation awards, fourteen Research & Travel grants, and nine Prospectus Development grants. Other grants, awards, and prize recipients include:

Robert Chase (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle) has received the New York State Archives' Larry Hackman Research Residency Grant for 2006-07.

Claire Goldstene (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle) has won a Gilder Lehrman grant for dissertation research at the New York Public Library.

David Hunter (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle) has won a Gilder Lehrman grant for dissertation research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

Helena Iles (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has won the Northeast Popular Culture Association's 2005 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student.  The paper was "Patriotism, Grief, and Domesticity: Representations of the Civil War in Tableaux Vivants."

Kate Keane (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has received awards from the Schlesinger Library (Cambridge, MA) and the Duke University Libraries Special Collections to conduct dissertation research.

Melissa Kravetz (PhD, Modern Europe: Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been awarded a grant from the Deutsches Akademisches Austausch Dienst (DAAD) for summer study in Munich, Germany.

Courtney Michael (HiLS, US; Advisor: David Sicilia), a summer intern at the National Trust for Historic Preservation's President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument (Washington, DC), has won a scholarship to attend the conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Libraries Association: "Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?".

Stephen Scala (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Summer Seminar in Germany, organized by the German Historical Institute and the German Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Joseph Slaughter (MA, US; Advisor: Whitman Ridgway) has been awarded the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Naval History Supplemental Scholarship for the revision of his MA thesis, "A Navy in the New Republic: The Strategic Visions of the U.S. Navy, 1783-1812," into a publishable manuscript.

Jonathan White (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz) has been awarded travel grants from the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Filson Historical Society, the Princeton University Libraries, and the Huntington Library.

Rebecca Wieters (PhD, US) has been awarded a graduate scholarship from the Southern Conference Dorothy Hicks program for her first year of graduate study.

CONFERENCES, PAPERS, AND PRESENTATIONS

The History Graduate Student Association conference, organized by Emily Ades (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffery Herf), Daryl Grissom (PhD, Ancient Mediterranean: Advisor: Art Eckstein), Andrew Kellett (PhD, Modern Europe: Advisor: Jeffery Herf), Melissa Kravetz (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf), and Jessica Wagner (HiLS, US; Advisor: James Gilbert), was held February 9-10, 2006.  Seven students presented papers related to the conference theme, Popular and National Identities in a Transnational World.

The Second Latin American and Caribbean Graduate Student Conference, organized by Leandro Benmergui (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Daryle Williams), was held May 4-5, 2006. Nine Maryland graduate students participated, joining several more students from the CUNY and SUNY systems, Georgetown, American University, George Mason University, and the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.

Individual paper presentations included:

Patricia Acerbi (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein) presented "Legados escravistas, modernidade alternativa: Comércio ambulante no Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1930" at the ANPUH-Rio conference, held August 17, 2006 at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil).

Leandro Benmergui (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Daryle Williams) presented “The Threatened City: The Spatial Representation of Buenos Peronism in David Viñas's Los años despiadados and Beatriz Guido’s La Caída” at ILASSA XXVI Student Conference on Latin America, held February 9–11, 2006, at the University of Texas at Austin.
  
Christian Esh (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz) and Trisha Posey (PhD, US; Advisor: David Grimsted) have organized a panel for the American Historical Association Conference in January 2007.  The title of the session is "The Organic Idea in Antebellum New England Thought." 

Paula Halperin, (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein) presented “From Ganga Zumba to Xica da Silva. Cinema Novo and the Creation of a New Brazilian National Project in the Era of AI-5” at the XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held March 15-18, 2006, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Helena Iles (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) presented "Modernity and Marriage: Tableaux Vivants and Fantasies of America, 1860-1930" at the Seventh Southern Conference on Women's History, held June 8-10, 2006.

Mary-Elizabeth Murphy (PhD, US; Advisor: Elsa Barkley Brown) presented “To Remove This Undemocratic Blot From Our National Escutcheon”: African Americans Protest Civil Service Segregation, 1921-1928" at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, held in April 2006.

Sara Snyder (HILS, East Asia; Advisor: Marlene Mayo) presented at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities CoffeeHouse Conversation on "Experiences in Scholarly Recording with MiniDisc Technology" on May 2, 2006.