Ph.D.'s Awarded & Placement Roster

1997      1998       1999      2000      2001      2002      2003     2004       2005

Degrees Awarded December, 1998

Becky Conekin
The Autobiography of a Nation: The 1951 Festival of Britain, Representing Britain in the Post-War Era
Committee: Geoffrey Eley & Sonya Rose, Co-Chairs, Laura Downs, Martha Vicinus (English)

Jonathan Skaff
Straddling Steppe and Sown: Tang China’s Relations With the Nomads of Inner Asia (618-756)
Committee: Chun-Shu Chang, Chair, Ernest Young, Rudi Lindner, Michael Bonner (Near Eastern Studies)

Assistant Professor-Chinese History (tenure track)
Shippensburg University

Jonathan Wells
The Origins of the Southern Middle Class: Literature, Politics, and Economy, 1820-1880
Committee: J. Mills Thornton, Chair, Thomas Green, Susan Juster, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Patricia Yaeger (English)

Degrees Awarded August, 1998

Elizabeth Buettner
Families, Children, and Memories: Britons in India, 1857-1947
Committee: Nicholas Dirks & Sonya Rose, Co-Chairs, Simon Gikandi, Ann Stoler, Martha Vicinus (English)

Matthew Herbst
The Medieval Art of Spin: Constructing the Imperial Image of Control in Ninth-Century Byzantium
Committee: John Fine, Jr., Chair, Raymond Van Dam, Traianos Gagos, Thelma Thomas (History of Art)

Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
We have joys...they do not know. Letters, Federalism, and Sentiment in the New Nationa, 1790-1812
Committee: Susan Juster, Chair, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Julie Ellison (English)

Maud Mandel
In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth Century France
Committee: Todd Endelman, Chair, Geoffrey Eley, Laura Downs, Ronald Suny, Zvi Gitelman (Political Science) Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Department of History
Brown University
July 2001

Ian McNeely
Writing, Citizenship, and the Making of Civil Society in Germany, 1780-1840
Committee: Kathleen Canning & Geoffrey Eley, Co-Chairs, Laura Downs, Helmut Puff, Margaret Somers (Sociology)

Juan Javier Pescador
The New World Inside a Basque Village: The Qiartzun Valley and its Atlantic Exchanges, 1500-1800
Committee: Diane Hughes, Chair, David Bien, Sueann Caulfield, Ruth Behar (Anthropology)

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
Michigan State University
September 1999

Ellen Poteet
In a Parting Sea: The Apostolic Tracks of Christian Controversy in the Lives of Athanasius, Jerome, and Rufinus, 325 to 411 A.D.
Committee: Sabine MacCormack, Chair, Diane Hughes, John Fine, Jr., Thelma Thomas (History of Art)

Degrees Awarded April, 1998

Linda Househ-Collins
Selling Bread and Freedom: The Aircraft Organizing Drives of the United Automobile Workers in Birmingham, Alabama, 1943-1952
Committee: Earl Lewis, Chair, Richard Candida Smith, Robin Kelley, Al Young

Tracye Matthews
No One Ever Asks What a Man's Role in the Revolution Is: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Black Panther Party, 1966-1971
Committee: Earl Lewis & Robin Kelley, Co-Chairs, Elsa Barkley Brown, Gloria House, Hanes Walton (Political Science)

Eric Rath
Actors of Influence: Discourse and Institutional Growth in the History of Noh Theater
Committee: Hitomi Tonomura, Chair, Chun-Shu Chang, Diane Hughes, Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology)

Assistant Professor-Japanese History (tenure track)
University of Kansas

John Soluri
Landscape and Livelihood: Toward an Agroecological History of Banana Growing in Honduras, 1870-1975
Committee: Rebecca Scott, Chair, Frederick Cooper, Sueann Caulfield, Richard Tucker, Ivette Perfecto (School of Natural Resources)

Assistant Professor (tenure track) History Department
Carnegie Mellon
1999