Dissertation Defenses & Placement Roster, 2005

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Upcoming Dissertation Defenses

Degrees Awarded May 2005

D. Grace Davie
Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: The Everyday Life of Social Science Expertise in the Twentieth Century
Chaired by David W. Cohen and Frederick Cooper

Assistant Professor
African History
Queens College-CUNY
September 2005

Vukile Khumalo
Epistolary Networks and the Politics of Cultural Productions in KwaZulu/Natal, 1860-1910
Chaired by David W. Cohen and Frederick Cooper

Lecturer (tenure track)
History Department
University of KwaZulu-Natal
September 2004

Michelle Craig MacDonald
From Cultivation to Cup: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy, 1765-1805
Chaired by David Hancock

Harvard-Newcomb Postdoctoral Fellowship
Harvard Business School
July 2005-June 2006

J. Alexander Navarro
Our Southern Brethren: National Identity and Pan-Americanism in Early U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1810-1830
Chaired by Maria Montoya

Kristen Dombkowski Nawrotzki
The Anglo-American Kindergarten Movements and Early Education in England and the USA, 1850-1965
Chaired by Maris Vinovskis

Lecturer, American Cultural Studies
Department of English
School of Education
Heidelberg, Germany
April 2003

Tara Zahra
Your Child Belongs to the Nation: Nationalization, Germanization, and Democracy in the
Bohemian Lands, 1900-1945
Chaired by Kathleen Canning and Geoff Eley

Junior Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows
Harvard University
September 2005

Degrees Awarded August 2005

Kathleen Lopez
Migrants Between Empires and Nations: The Chinese in Cuba, 1874-1959
Chaired by Rebecca J. Scott

Jacob Melish
Order and the People: Men, Women, and the Courts in Control of Male Public Violence (A Parisian Faubourg Under Louis XIV)
Chaired by Dena Goodman

Kristin Olbertson
Criminally Impolite: Speech Transgressions & Social Order in Massachusetts, 1690-1776
Chaired by Tom Greene and Susan Juster

Alice Ritscherle
Opting out of Utopia: Race and Working-Class Political Culture in Britain during the Age of Decolonization, 1948-1968
Chaired by Sonya Rose

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
SUNY - Stony Brook
September 2005

Peter Shapinsky
Lords of the Sea: Pirates and Maritime Systems of Violence and Exchange in Late Medieval Japan
Chaired by Hitomi Tonomura

Assistant Professor (tenure track)
History Department
University of Illinois, Springfield
September 2005

Degrees to be Awarded December 2005

Marnie Anderson
A Woman's Place: Gender, Politics, and the State in Meiji Japan
Chaired by Leslie Pincus

Lecturer (one-year)
History Department
Smith College
September 2005

Vanessa Noble
Doctors Divided: Gender, Race and Class Anomalies in the Production of Black Medical Doctors in Apartheid
South Africa, 1948 to 1994
Chaired by David W. Cohen

Sean Takats
Corrupting Cooks: Domestic Service and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century France
Chaired by Dena Goodman

Kidada Williams
In the Space of Violence: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Supremacy and Survival after Emancipation
Chaired by Michele Mitchell

Katherine Worboys
Fashioning a New River Bed: The Emergence of the Civilian State, Civil Society, and Individual Public Figures as Political Actors in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, 1984-2004
Chaired by Fernando Coronil

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