Ph.D.'s Awarded & Placement Roster

1997      1998       1999      2000      2001      2002      2003     2004       2005

Degrees Awarded May, 2002

Rama S. Mantena
Vernacular Futures: Orientalism, History, and Language in Colonial South India
Chaired by Nicholas Dirk & Thomas Trautmann

Visiting Assistant Professor
History Department/South Asian History
Smith College
September, 2002

John R. McKiernan
Fevered Measures: Race, Contagious Disease and Community Formation on the
Texas Mexico Border, 1880-1923
Chaired by Martin Pernick & George Sanchez

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department/Latino History
University of South Florida, Tampa
September, 2001

Kerry R. Ward
The Bounds of Bondage: Forced Migration from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope During
the Dutch East India Company Era, c. 1652-175
Chaired by David Cohen & Victor Lieberman

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Department of History/Global History
Rice University
September, 2001

Degrees Awarded August, 2002

Barbara Berglund
Ordering the Disorderly City: Culture, Power, and Nation-Making in San Francisco, 1846-1906
Chaired by Maria Montoya

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
University of South Florida, Tampa
August 2003

Richard S. Kim
Korean Immigrant (Trans)Nationalism: Diaspora, Ethnicity, and State-Making, 1903-1945
Chaired by Richard Candida Smith

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Asian American Studies
University of California, Davis
September 2002

Dmitri N. Starostine
...In Die Festivitatis: Calendar, Liturgy, and Ritual Structuring of Time and Space in the Middle Ages
Chaired by Diane O. Hughes & Paolo Squatriti

Jeffrey K. Wilson
Nature and Nation: The "German Forest" as a National Symbol, 1871-1914
Chaired by Kathleen Canning and Geoff Eley

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
University of New Orleans
September 2002

Degrees Awarded December, 2002

Robert S. Cox
Without Crucible or Scalpel: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism.
Chaired by Susan Juster and Regina Morantz-Sanchez

Todd R. Ettelson
The Nazi "New Man:" Embodying Masculinity and Regulating Sexuality in the SA and SS, 1930 - 1939
Chaired by Kathleen Canning and Geoff Eley

David M. Fitzsimons
Toward a New World Order: Thomas Paine and the Ideology of Early American Foreign Relations
Chaired by Susan Juster and Brad Perkins

Joseph J. Gonzalez
"The Cause of Civilization:" The United States Experience with Nation-Building in Cuba, 1898 - 1909
Chaired by Matthew Connelly and Brad Perkins

Frank A. Guridy
Racial Knowledge in Cuba: The Production of a Social Fact, 1912 - 1944
Chaired by Rebecca Scott

Edward C. Mathieu
Protestant Home Towns. Religion and the Middle Class in Thuringia, 1871 - 1914
Chaired by Kathleen Canning and Geoff Eley

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Department of History
Beloit College
August 2003