The Department of History is pleased to present students who have received their PhD in history in recent years:
Mark Abate
Dissertation title: "Roger Bacon and the Rage of Antichrist: The Apocalypse of a Thirteenth Century Natural Philosopher." Major advisor: Professor Clifford Backman. Graduated May 2000. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Westfield State College.
Peter Alegi
Dissertation title: "Keep Your Eye on the Ball: A Social History of Soccer in South Africa, 1910-1976." Major advisor: Professor Diana Wylie. Graduated May 2000. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University.
Mitchell Allen
Dissertation title: "The Anglo-Hanoverian Connection in the Foreign Policy of George II." Major advisor: Professor John Gagliardo. Graduated May 2000.
Jennifer Alpert
Dissertation title: "Medicine and Politics in the Life of Henry I. Bowditch, M.D., 1808-1892." Major advisor: Professor Thomas Glick. Graduated May 2004.
Angel Amy Moreno
Dissertation title: "The Spanish Treatment of Moriscos as a Model for the Treatment of Native Americans." Major advisor: Professor Thomas Glick. Graduated May 1999.
Devon H. Atchison
Dissertation title: "Shades of Change: Suntanning and the Twentieth Century American Dream." Major advisor: Professo Bruce Schulman. Graduated January 2007. Current position: Instructor, Grossmont College
Leonid Blickstein
Dissertation title: "The Challenge of Otherness: Self, Values, and Modernity in Russian Philosophical Thought, 1900-1917." Major advisor: Professor Anna Geifman. Graduated January 2003.
Kyri Claflin
Dissertation title: "Culture, Politics, and Modernization in Paris Provisioning, 1880-1920." Major advisor: Professor William Keylor. Graduated May 2006.
R. Samuel Deese
Dissertation title: "Ecology and the Gospel of Progress: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the American Century." Major advisor: Professor Charles Capper. Graduated May 2007.
John Dempsey
Dissertation title: "Bonizo of Sutri: Life and Work." Major advisor: Professor Clifford Backman. Graduated May 2006. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Westfield State College.
Ramona Garcia
Dissertation title: "'We Shall This Day Light Such a Candle': The Marian Burnings and the Anti-Catholic Tradition in English Writing." Major advisor: Professor Emeritus Sidney Burrell. Graduated January 1999.
Maryalice Guilford
Dissertation title: "Rainfed Farmers and Rural Development Policy in Cape Verde, 1950-1992." Major advisor: Professor Sara Berry (now of Johns Hopkins University). Graduated January 1999.
Stacy Helmbrecht-Wilson
Dissertation title: "'Went a Shopping': Elite and Middling Women as Consumers in Massachusetts, 1790-1830." Major advisor: Professor Alan Taylor (now of the University of California, Davis). Graduated January 1999.
Heather Hoag
Dissertation title: "Designing the Delta: A History of Water and Development in the Lower Rufiji River Basin, Tanzania, 1945-1985." Major advisor: Professor James McCann. Graduated January 2003. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, University of San Francisco.
Stacy Holden
Dissertation title: "Maintaining a Moroccan Medina: Commercial and Technological Innovations at the Workplace of Millers and Butchers in Fez, 1878-1937." Major advisor: Professor Diana Wylie. Graduated May 2005. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University.
Amy Kittelstrom
Dissertation title: "The Religion of Democracy: William James and Practical Idealism in Evolutionary America, 1870-1910." Major advisor: Professor Charles Capper. Graduated May 2004. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Sonoma State University.
Christina Kopp
Dissertation title: "'A School of New Men': Composing an American Identity in the Early Twentieth Century." Major advisor: Professor Bruce Schulman. Graduated May 2006.
Virginia Laffey
Dissertation title: "The Invisible Regiment: The Wives, Mothers and Girlfriends of Soldiers in Vietnam." Major advisor: Professor Bruce Schulman. Graduated January 2006.
William Leeman
Dissertation title: "The Long Road to Annapolis: The Naval Academy Debate and Emerging Nationalism in the United States, 1775-1845." Major advisor: Professor Nina Silber. Graduated January 2006.
Melissa Lurio
Dissertation title: "An Educated Bishop in an Age of Reform: Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, 1096-1123." Major advisor: Professor Clifford Backman. Graduated January 2004.
Robert Munson
Dissertation title: "The Landscape of German Colonialism: Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru, c. 1890-1916." Major advisor: Professor James McCann. Graduated May 2005.
April Najjaj
Dissertation title: "The Alhambra in Comparative Perspective: Towards a Definition of Palace-Cities." Major advisor: Professor Thomas Glick. Graduated May 2005. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Greensboro College.
Melissane Parm
Dissertation title: "A Freedom to Suit Themselves: Negotiating Mashpee Indian Political Identity on Cape Cod, 1746-1834." Major advisor: Professor Jill Lepore. Graduated May 2003 Current position: Assistant Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Sarah Phillips
Dissertation title: "Acres Fit and Unfit: Conservation and Rural Rehabilitation in the New Deal Era." Major advisor: Professor Bruce Schulman. Graduated January 2004. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University.
Madia Thomson
Dissertation title: "Modernization, Slavery, and the Transformation of Social Hierarchy in Southwestern Morocco, 1912-56." Major advisor: Professor Diana Wylie. Graduated May 2005.
Bryan Thrift
Dissertation title: "Jesse Helms, the New Right, and American Freedom." Major advisor: Professor Bruce Schulman. Graduated January 2005. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Tougaloo College.
Tumelo Tsikoane
Dissertation title: "A History of Public Health Policy in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1900-1980." Major advisor: Professor James McCann. Graduated January 1998.
Benjamin Varat
Disseratation title: "A Clash of Kings: de Gaulle, Kennedy and the Battle for Western Europe, 1958-1963." Major advisor: Professor William Keylor. Graduated January 2006. Current position: Assistant Professor of Social Science, College of General Studies, Boston University.
Timothy Walker
Dissertation title: "Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Popular Healing in Portugal During the Enlightenment Era." Major advisor: Professor Barbara Diefendorf. Graduated January 2001. Current position: Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Gerald Ward
Dissertation title: "Restoring the Shattered World: The Apocalyptic Mercantilism of Samuel Purchas and the Revelatiopn of World Trade." Major advisor: Professor Thomas Glick. Graduated May 2003.
Midori Yoshii
Dissertation title: "Reducing the American Burden: Kennedy's Policy Toward Northeast Asia." Major advisor: Professor David Mayers. Graduated May 2003. Current position: Assistant Professor of International Studies, Albion College.
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