Ph.D.'s Awarded & Placement Roster

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Degrees Awarded December, 1997

Daniel Albert
Order Out of Chaos: Traffic Safety, Technology and Society, 1925-1965
Committee: W. Andrew Achenbaum & Nicholas Steneck, Co-Chairs, Joel Howell, Jonathan Levine (Urban Planning)

Terry Bodenhorn
Scribes at War: Propagandists and the Contentious Construction of a 'Modern China' circa 1935
Committee: Ernest Young, Chair, Ysi-Tsi Feuerwerker, Brian Porter, David Rolston (Asian Languages & Cultures)

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Department of History
University of Illinois, Springfield
September 2000

Andrew Chittick
Pride of Place: The Advent of Local History in Early Medieval China
Committee: Chun-Shu Chang, Chair, Ernest Young, Raymond Van Dam, Kenneth Dewoskin (Asian Languages & Cultures)

John Cornell
Social Harmony: Music, Modernism and the Mass Public in Nineteeth-Century France
Committee: Raymond Grew, Chair, Nicholas Dirks, David Bien, K. Korsyn (School of Music)

Susanne Pohl
Negotiating Honor and State Authority: The Prosecution and Punishment of Manslaughter in Zurich and Southwest Germany, 1350-1600
Committee: Thomas Green & Diane Hughes, Co-Chairs, Thomas Tentler, William Miller (Law School)

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
Cornell University
1998

Karen Robert
The Argentine Babel: Space, Politics, and Culture in the Growth of Buenos Aires, 1856-1890
Committee: David Scobey & Rebecca Scott, Co-Chairs, Sueann Caulfield, J. M. Rabasa (Romance Languages)

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
St. Thomas University
2000

Lynn Thomas
Regulating Reproduction: State Interventions into Fertility and Sexuality in Rural Kenya, c. 1920-70
Committee: David Cohen, Chair, Kathleen Canning, Frederick Cooper, Nancy Hunt, Ann Stoler (Anthropology)

Degrees Awarded August, 1997

Mary Wells Cavender
Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate and Local Loyalties in Provincial Tver', 1820-1860
Committee: Jane Burbank, Chair, Valerie Kivelson, William Rosenberg, Rosamund Bartlett

Kenneth Gold
Mitigating Mental and Moral Stagnation: Summer Education and American Public Schools, 1840-1990
Committee: Maris Vinovskis, Chair, Terrence McDonald, Martin Pernick, David Angus (School of Education)

Jennifer L. Jenkins
Provincial Modernity: Culture, Politics and Local Identity in Hamburg, 1885-1914
Committee: Geoffrey Eley & Kathleen Canning, Co-Chairs, Scott Spector, Fernando Coronil

Degrees Awarded April, 1997

Stephen Rapp
Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past
Committee: John Fine, Jr., Chair, Rudi Lindner, Ronald Suny, K. Bardakjian (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

Theresa Ursic
Religious Freedom in Post-World War II Yugoslavia: The Case of Roman Catholic Nuns in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1945-1960
Committee: John Fine, Jr., Chair, Brian Porter, Thomas Tentler, William Zimmerman (Political Science)