Ph.D.'s Awarded & Placement Roster

1997      1998       1999      2000      2001      2002      2003     2004       2005

Degrees Awarded December, 1999

Kenneth Brown
No Straight Line: Strategies for Economic Development, Black Churches, and the Hartford Avenue Memorial Baptist Church Example
Chaired by Earl Lewis & Andrew Achenbaum

David Freund
Making it Home: Race, Development, and the Politics of Place in Suburban Detroit, 1940-1967
Chaired by Terrance McDonald & Robin Kelley

Michael Murdock
The Politics of Exclusion: Revolutionary Centralization, National Identity and Christianity in China During the Nationalist Revolution, 1923-1927
Chaired by Ernest Young

Degrees Awarded August, 1999

Isaac Land
Domesticating the Maritime: Culture, Masculinity, and Empire in Britain, 1770-1820
Chaired by Kali Israel

Assistant Professor-18th/19th Central Europe (tenure track)
History Department
Texas A&M University, Commerce
2000

Danke Li
Culture, Political Movement, and Revolution: The Formation of the Chinese Communist Movement in the Chongqing Region, 1890-1926
Chaired by Ernest Young

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
John Jay College of Criminal Juster, CUNY
1999

Kay Ofman
The Practice of Social Welfare: A Case Study in Dallas, Texas, 1890-1929
Chaired by Carol Karlsen

Christine Ogilvie
The Development of the AIPCA: Crossing Religious and Political Boundaries
Chaired by Frederick Cooper

W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz
Atlantic Revolutions: Slavery and Freedom in Newport, Rhode Island and Halifax, Nova Soctia in the Era of the American Revolution
Chaired by Susan Juster

Warren Rosenblum
Punishment, Welfare, & The Policing of Asocials: Visions of Social Order in Modern Germany
Chaired by Kathleen Canning & Geoffrey Eley

Assistant Professor-German History (tenure track)
Department of History, Politics & Law
Webster University
2000

Cesar Sola-Garcia
Slave Emancipation and Colonialism: The British Missionary and Military Campaigns and African Societies
in Northern Malawi, 1875-1900
Chaired by Frederick Cooper Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Department of History
University of Puerto Rico

Benigna Zimba
Overseas Trade, Regional Politics, and Gender Roles: Southern Mozambique, ca. 1720 to ca. 1830
Chaired by Frederick Cooper

Degrees Awarded May, 1999

Michael Charney
Where Jambudipa and Islamdom Converged: Religious Change and the Emergence of Buddhist Communalism in Early Modern Arakan (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Chaired by Victor Lieberman

Assistant Professor of South East Asian History
Department of History
School of Oriental and African Studies, London
2001

Mary Coomes
From Pooyi to the New Almaden Mercury Mine: Cinnabar, Economics, and Culture in California to 1920
Chaired by Susan Johnson & Maria Montoya

Jamie Hart
African Americans, Health, and the Reproductive Freedom Movement in Detroit, 1918-1945
Chaired by Elsa Barkley Brown & Earl Lewis

Thomas Lloyd Jones
Labor and Politics: The Detroit Municipal Election of 1937
Chaired by Sidney Fine

V. Hugo Lane
State Culture and National Identity in a Multi-Ethnic Context: Lemberg 1772-1914
Chaired by Raymond Grew

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Polytechnic University
1999

Blair Newcomb
Collective Authority and the Individual in the Rehabilitation of Jeanne D'Arc, 1450-1456
Chaired by Thomas Green & Diane Hughes

Visiting Assistant Professor
History Department
Mills College
2001

Jon Parmenter
At the Wood's Edge: Iroquois Foreign Relations, 1727-1768
Chaired by Susan Juster and John Shy

One year Visiting Assistant Professor-U.S. and Native American History
History Department
St. Lawrence University
1999

Katherine Pence
From Rations to Fashions: The Gendered Politics of East and West German Consumption, 1945-1961
Chaired by Kathleen Canning & Geoffrey Eley

Gregory Vitarbo
The Power, Strength, and Future of Russia: Aviation Culture & the Russian Imperial Officer Corps, 1908-1914
Chaired by William Rosenberg