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Recent Placements

2007

Benjamin Cawthra

Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton

Dissertation: “Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Image of Jazz, 1936-1965”

2008

Mohammad Masad

Assistant Professor, Zayed University, Dubai

Dissertation: “The Medieval Islamic Apocalyptic Tradition: Divination, Prophecy and the End of Time in the 13th Century Eastern Mediterranean”

David Pennington

Assistant Professor, Webster University

Dissertation: “Women in the Market Place: Gender, Commerce, and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns”

2009

Keona Ervin

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri

Dissertation: “A Decent Living Out of Our Work: Black Women’s Labor Activism in St. Louis, 1929-45”

Michael Markus

Assistant Professor, Alabama State University

Dissertation: “Political Passions: Local Parties and National Politics in Leeds, 1832-1867”

David Winder

Associate Professor, Principia College

Dissertation: “The First Ulster Crisis, 1886”

2010

Kevin Butterfield

Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma

Dissertation: “Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic”

Alberto Sahagun

Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University

Dissertation: “The Birth of Liberalism: The Making of Liberal Political Thought in Spain, France, and England, 1808-1823”

Janek Wasserman

Assistant Professor, University of Alabama

Dissertation: “Black Vienna, Red Vienna: The Struggle for Intellectual and Political Hegemony in Interwar Vienna, 1918-1938”

2011

John Aerni-Flessner

Assistant Professor, SUNY Cortland

Dissertation: “‘If We Govern Ourselves, Whose Son Is to Govern Us?’: Youth, Independence and the 1960s in Lesotho”

Amber Aragon-Yoshida

Volkswagen Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, Germany (2011-2012)

Dissertation: "Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932)"

2012

Daniel Scallet

Early America Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Texas at San Antonio

Dissertation: "An Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery"

2013

Rajbir Purewal Hazelwood

Assistant Professor of Modern British History, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Dissertation: "A Diasporic Politics of Belonging: Punjabis in Postwar Britain"

Beverly Tsacoyianis

Assistant Professor of History, University of Memphis

Dissertation: "Making Healthy Minds and Bodies in Syria, 1903 – 1961"

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