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Winter 2007
Spring 2006

SPRING COMMENCEMENT

On May 21, 2007, the Department faculty, the Dean of the Graduate School, and family and friends welcomed two new doctoral recipients and ten master of arts conferees to the ranks of History graduate alumni. The Commencement festivities can be viewed online by clicking here.

ADMISSIONS

For the 2006-2007 admissions cycle, the Department received 265 applications, a historic high. Seventy-six offers of admissions were made. The incoming class will number approximately twenty-five students in three degree programs.

ALUMNI NEWS AND JOB PLACEMENTS

Elaine G. Breslaw (PhD, US, 1973; Advisor: David Grimsted), Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has an article, "'Scotch drollery' in the Market Place: Dr. Alexander Hamilton's Amusing Instruction in the Maryland Gazette," appearing in the forthcoming issue of Early American Literature .  Her monograph, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture, will appear in the fall 2007 under the Louisiana State University Press' Southern Biography Series . 

Glenn R. Bugh (PhD, Ancient Mediterranean, 1979; Advisor: Kenneth Holum), Associate Professor of History Department at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) has edited Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (Cambridge University Press), published in 2006.

Jerrold Casway (PhD, Britain, 1971; Advisor: Marvin Breslaw), Professor and Division Chair at Howard Community College (Columbia, MD), announced the release of the paperback edition of Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball (University of Notre Dame Press) as well as the publication of "Octavius Catto and the Pythons of Philadelphia,” in Pennsylvania Legacies, and "The Ulster Refuge of the Northern Army, 1648-49,” in Breifne. Dr. Casway has also given talks at Loyola University and the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL) as well as the Cooperstown Symposium, in Cooperstown, New York.
           
Denise Z. Davidson (MA, Modern Europe, 1992; Advisor: Gay ullickson), Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA), published France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order (Harvard University Press) in April 2007. Dr. Davidson was also a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship for France for 2006-2007.

Charles Errico (PhD, US, 1973; Advisor: Wayne Cole), Professor and Assistant Dean at Northern Virginia Community College (Annandale, VA), has been selected as a recipient of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia 2007 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, the highest honor conferred on higher education faculty by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Jonathan C. Friedman (PhD, Modern Europe, 1996: Advisors: James Harris and Marsha Rozenblit), Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Education Center at West Chester University (West Chester, PA), published his forth book, Rainbow Jews: Gay and Jewish Identity in the Performing Arts (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books) in May 2007.

James Frusetta (PhD, Modern Europe, 2006: Advisor: John Lampe), Assistant Professor at the American University of Bulgaria (Sofia, Bulgaria), has been Charles Revson Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial (Washington, DC) in the summer 2007. Dr. Frusetta will be a visiting assistant professor at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) in the fall 2007.

Richard Hallion (PhD, US, 1975; Advisor: Keith Olson) recently finished a thirty-year career at the Department of Defense, including the position of Senior Advisor for Air and Space Issues at the Pentagon's Directorate of Security, Counterintelligence, and Special Programs Oversight. Dr. Hallion has been honored with the Harry B. Combs Award from the National Aviation Hall of Fame and the Gardner-Lasser Historical Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 2007-2008, he will serve as Alfred Verville Fellow in the Department of Aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC).

Kevin R. Hardwick (PhD, US, 1996; Advisor: James Henretta), Associate Professor of History at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA), coedited the two-volume Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought, published by Hackett Publishing in March 2007.

Megan Harris (HiLS, US, 2006; Advisor: Saverio Giovacchini) is currently employed working at the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC).

Jeremy Hayhoe (PhD, Modern Europe. 2000: Advisor: Donald Sutherland), Assistant Professor of History at the Université de Moncton (New Brunswick, Canada), will publish his monograph, Enlightened Feudalism: Seigniorial Justice and Village Society in Northern Burgundy, with the University of Rochester Press in late 2007.

Jeffrey Hornstein (PhD, US, 2001: Advisor: James Gilbert), District Organizing Coordinator for the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, is currently working with janitors in Philadelphia, PA. His 2005 monograph A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century American Middle Class (Duke University Press) continues to receive strong reviews in academic journals as well as the mainstream press.  The National Association of Realtors featured Dr. Hornstein on the back cover of Realtor Magazine. 

Max Grivno (PhD, US, 2007; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has accepted a position of assistant professor of history at Southern Mississippi University (Hattiesburg, MS).

Manning Marable (PhD, US, 1976: Advisor: Louis Harlan), Professor of History at Columbia University (New York, NY) has been selected give the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Lecture, to be held on campus September 26, 2007.

Courtney Michael (HiLS, US, 2007; Advisor: David Sicilia) has been appointed Film and Media Digital Archivist at Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO).

Jacqueline M. Moore (PhD, US 1994; Advisor: Louis Harlan), Associate Professor of History at Austin College (Austin, TX), has been named the 2007-2008 Summerlee Foundation Research Fellow for the Study of Texas History at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX). As a Summerlee Fellow, Dr. Moore will be working on a scholarly monograph, Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Nineteenth Century Masculinity and Class on the Texas Frontier, under contract with New York University Press.  

Timothy P. Mulligan (PhD, International & Diplomatic, 1985; Advisors: Gordon W. Prange and James O. Kent) completed a thirty-six career at the National Archives and Records Administration in January 2007. He has received the NARA Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the processing and providing access to the captured German and related World War II records in National Archives custody as well as the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for his work in the microfilming and restitution of captured German records and his publications in the field of modern German history.

Franklin Noll (PhD, 2001: Advisor: Richard Price), a historical consultant to the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Washington, DC), chaired several sessions at the 2007 meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society.

Richard Osborn (PhD, US, 1990; Advisor; Emory Evans), President of Pacific Union College (Angwin, CA), will serve as Chair of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, a 77-college consortium of private colleges.

Michael Petersen (PhD, Modern Europe, 2005; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been appointed Historian with the Defense Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC). Dr. Petersen's monograph, Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemünde and the Forging of the V-2, is expected to be published with Cambridge University Press in late 2007. His new project is a book-length study of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Trisha Posey (PhD, US, 2007; Advisor: David Grimsted) has accepted a position of assistant professor of history at John Brown University (Siloam Springs, AR).

Donald A. Ritchie (PhD, US, 1975; Advisor: Samuel Merrill), Associate Historian of the United States Senate, appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss his book, Our Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2006), which has been cited by the National Council on Social Studies and the New York Public Library as a notable trade book for students.

Timothy J. Runyan (PhD, British, 1972: Advior: R. Robertson), Professor and Senior Research Associate in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC), has accepted an offer to serve as manager of the Maritime Heritage Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The Program works to enhance public awareness of our nation's marine resources and maritime heritage through scientific research, monitoring, exploration, educational programs and outreach.

Kelly Ryan (PhD, US, 2006; Advisor: Clare Lyons) has accepted a position of assistant professor of history at Indiana University Southeast (New Albany, IN). 

Sarah Sarzynski (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein), a doctoral candidate working on regional identity and rural labor movements in Cold-War Brazil, has been appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME) for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Beth Schuster (HiLS, Modern Europe, 2007; Advisor: Katherine David-Fox), has accepted a position as Library Reference Specialist at the Thomas Balch Library for History and Genealogy (Leesburg, VA). Prior to graduating, she served as an intern-contractor at the Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives, where she was working on a digitization of original documents of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit, Sektion für Rassen-und Volkstumforschung (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland).

Andrew M. Smith II (PhD, Ancient Mediterranean, 2004; Advisor: Kenneth Holum), Assistant Professor at Dowling College (Oakdale, NY), delivered a paper, "Crossing Southern Jordan: New Light on the Arabian Spice Route," at the international conference Crossing Jordan, held at George Washington University (Washington, DC) on May 21, 2007.

Ingo Trauschweizer (PhD, International and Diplomatic, 2006; Advisor: Jon Sumida) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of History at New Mexico Tech (Socorro, NM) for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Jessica Wagner (HiLS, US, 2007; Advisor: James Gilbert) has been appointed Manuscript Cataloger at the New-York Historical Society (New York, NY).

J. Carter Wood (PhD, Modern Britain, 2001; Advisor: J.S. Cockburn), Research Fellow in Criminal Justice History at the Open University (Milton Keynes, UK), published "The Limits of Culture? Society, Evolutionary Psychology and the History of Violence" in the 2007 volume of Cultural and Social History and "Locating Violence: The Spatial Production and Construction of Physical Aggression," in Assaulting the Past: Violence and Civilization in Historical Context (2007). He delivered the paper "Violence and Victimisation in Interwar Britain: The 'Martyrdom' of Mrs. Pace" at the Crime, Violence and the Modern State Conference, held at the University of Rethymnon (Crete) in March 2007.

Guangqiu Xu (PhD, US, 1993; Advisor: Wayne Cole), Associate Professor at Friends University (Wichita, KS), published Congress and the U.S-China Relationship, 1949-1979 (University of Akron Press) in March 2007.

FELLOWSHIPS , GRANTS, AWARDS, PRIZES, AND HONORS

External Fellowships and Awards

Tony Glocke (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: John Lampe) has been awarded American Councils of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in Southeast European Studies for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Paula Halperin (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein) has been awarded a Rockefeller Grant-in-Aid to pursue doctoral dissertation research at The Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY).

David Hunter (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle) has been awarded a Council on Library Resources Mellon Fellowship in Original Sources to support the research and writing of his dissertation, "'Jim Crow Goes Abroad': Race and the American Nation During World War II."

Thanayi Jackson (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has been awarded an Archie K. Davis Fellowship from the North Caroliniana Society to support research for her dissertation on black officeholders and the political culture of freedom in Wilmington, North Carolina during Reconstruction.

Katarina Keane (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has been awarded an Archie K. Davis Fellowship from the North Caroliniana Society to support research for her dissertation on second-wave feminism in the US South.

Andrew Kellett (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been awarded a slot at the summer 2007 at the Mellon Foundation's Summer Graduate Seminar in Modern British History, to be held at Columbia University (New York, NY).

Melissa Kravetz (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has been awarded a Cosmos Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid to Young Scholars to pursue preliminary dissertation research in Germany.

Tina Ligon (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland) is the 2007 recipient of the Graduate Student Award of the President's Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues. President Mote presented the award to her at a ceremony on May 8.

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein) was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the write-up of his dissertation, "'A Beautiful Class. An Irresistible Democracy.' The Formation of the Middle Class in Bogotá, Colombia, 1938-1963."

Stefan Papaioannou (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Lampe) has been awarded an International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Individual Advanced Research Opportunities fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Bulgaria and Macedonia. He has also been awarded a Cotsen Traveling Fellowship for research at the Gennadius Library (Athens, Greece).

Jonathan White (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz) has been awarded the Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for research in legal history, administered by the American Historical Association.

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships, The Graduate School

Robert Chase (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle), "Race, Reform, and the Rehabilitation Prison in New York and Texas, 1945-1990"

Christina Morina (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf), "Legacies of Stalingrad: the Eastern Front War and the Politics of Memory in the Two Germanys, 1943-1989"

Department of History Dissertation Awards

Leandro Benmergui (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Daryle Williams), "Landscapes of Urban Poverty: Slums, Squatter Settlements and Housing Policy in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1948-1973"

Erik Christiansen (PhD, US; Advisor: James Gilbert), "Inventing and Selling a Usable Past for Postwar America"

Susanne Eineigel (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Mary Kay Vaughan), "Distinction, Culture and Politics in Mexico City's Middle Class, 1890-1940"

Jason Guthrie (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle), "A Laboratory of Liberalism: The United States, the International Labor Organization, and the Social Politics of Empire in Latin America"

Paula Halperin (PhD. Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein), "Modernization and Visual Culture in Brazil and Argentina: Film, Photojournalism and Transformations in the Public Sphere, 1955-1980"

Rinna Kullaa (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: John Lampe), "The Tito-Stalin Split and the Soviet Border with Europe: Yugoslavia, the USSR and the Finnish Model for Neutrality 1948-1961"

Mark Levengood (PhD, US; Advisor: David Sicilia), "A Post-industrial State?: Work, Culture, and Deindustrialization in Post-World War II Eastern Pennsylvania"

Philip Lyon (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: John Lampe), "The Donauschwaben: Creating and Contesting a German Identity in Yugoslavia"

Giacomo Mazzei (PhD, US; Advisor: Saverio Giovacchini), "The Italian New Deal: Foreign Policy, Industrial Relations and Art in the Cold War, 1948-1973"

Jennifer Malia McAndrew (PhD, US; Advisor: Al Moss), "All-American Beauty: A Multicultural Examination of Female Beauty Culture in the mid-20th Century United States"

Stephen Scala (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf), "Orthodoxy, Reformism, and Political Change: Foreign Policy Experts in the Soviet Union and East Germany, 1945-1971"

Nicholas Schlosser (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf), "Radio and the Shaping of Political Culture in Cold War Berlin 1945-1961"

Zack Wilske (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle), "Protecting American Citizenship: The Federal Naturalization Service, 1905-1935"

Department of History Research and Travel Awards

Theodore Cohen (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Mary Kay Vaughan), "Blackness in Mexican Mestizaje: The Formation of Afro-Veracruzano Identity, from 1920 to the 1960s"

David Hunter (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle), "'Jim Crow Goes Abroad': Race and the American Nation During World War II"

Katarina Keane (PhD, US; Advisor: Leslie Rowland), "Second-Wave Feminism and the American South"

Robert Peterson (PhD, East Asia; Advisor: James Gao), "Restructuring Hierarchies of Power: Provincial Elites and Militarists in Republic Sichuan"

Angela Ruocco (PhD, International and Diplomacy; Advisor: Jon Sumida), "Limited Justice?: Consequences of British Involvement in the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936"

Sarah Sarzynski (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein), "History, Identity, and the Struggle for Land in Northeastern Brazil, 1955-1985"

Sarah Walsh (PhD, Latin America; Advisor: Barbara Weinstein), "Venereal Disease Treatment and Prevention in Chile"

Jonathan White (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz), "'To Aid Their Rebel Friends'"

Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowships, College of Arts and Humanities

Angela Tudico (PhD, US; Advisor: Robyn Muncy), "They're Bringing Home Japanese Wives: Japanese War Brides in the Postwar Era"

Nathan and Jeannette Miller Center for Historical Studies Dissertation Awards

Claire Goldstene (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle), "America Was Promise: The Ideology of Equal Opportunity, 1877-1905" [Spring 2008]

Andrew Kellett (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf), "Fathers and Sons: American Blues and British Rock 'n' Roll, 1960-1975" [2007-2008]

Daniel Stotland (PhD, Russia and Former USSR: Advisor: M. David-Fox), "Back from the Crusades: Veterans and the New Communists in the Postwar USSR" [Fall 2007]

CONFERENCES, PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS, AND PRESENTATIONS

The Second Annual History Graduate Student Association Conference will be held February 9, 2007. Maryland paper presenters include Jeremy Best, Thomas Castillo, Erik Christiansen, Shane Dillingham, Paul Gibson, Melissa Kravetz, Brian Phelan, and Robert Peterson.

Robert Chase (PhD, US; Advisor: Gary Gerstle) presented "The American Working Class Behind Bars: Problems and Possibilities for Building the Labor Movement Then and Now" for the Southern Labor Studies / LAWCHA Conference Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context, held at the Terry Stanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University (Durham, NC) in May 2007.

Andrew Kellett (PhD, Modern Europe; Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) presented "The Cult of the Delta Blues Singer: Robert Johnson and British Mythmaking" at the Delta Blues Symposium XIII: The 1960s, held March 29-31, 2007, at Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR) and "Bringing It On Home: Some Thoughts on the Connections Between the Blues and the British Cultural Imagination" at the 2007 Joint Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, held in April 2007 in Boston, MA.

Evelyn Khoo (MA, East Asia) will present "Chinese Ritual Paper Offerings, 'Joss' – Sacred yet Temporary"and the ACRL 48th Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts (RBMS) Preconference on Ephemera "From Here to Ephemerality: Fugitive Sources in Libraries, Archives and Museums," to take place in Baltimore, MD, June 19-22, 2007.

Amy Rutenberg (PhD, US: Advisor: Robyn Muncy) published a review of Adam R. Nelson's The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston Public Schools, 1950-1985   (2005) in the Winter 2007 edition of the Journal of African American History.

Jonathan White (PhD, US; Advisor: Herman Belz), will publish an article adapted from his dissertation, "'Sweltering with Treason': The Civil War Trials of William Matthew Merrick," in the fall issue of Prologue, a publication of the National Archives.