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Recent PhD recipients

Recent Recipients of The Doctorate in History from Vanderbilt

	Alex Jacobs - PhD December 2016 Dissertation title: "After the Enlightenment: Progress, Tradition, and the Foundations of Democracy in Modern American Thought" Administrative Assistant to the Vanderbilt History Seminar Lecturer, Department of History; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
	Jason Bates - PhD December 2016 Dissertation title: "An Opium-Consuming Nation: Race, Government Power, and the American Penal State, 1870-1930"
	Kara Schultz - PhD December 2016 Dissertation title: "An African South Atlantic: La Plata, Brazil, and Angola, 1580-1680" ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Humanties Lecturer, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
	Tizoc Chavez - PhD August 2016 Dissertation title: "Presidential Parley: Personal Diplomacy and the Modern Presidency" Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
	Jenifer Dodd - PhD August 2016 Dissertation title: "'Compulsive Rapism': Psychiatric Approaches to Sexual Violence in the 1980s" Mellon Fellow at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky
	Michell Chresfield - PhD August 2016 Dissertation title: "Problem and Promise: 'Scientific Experts and the Mixed-Blood',1870-1970" Kenneth P. Dietrich Post-doctoral Fellow on Power and Inequality at the University of Pittsburgh
	Paula Gajewski - PhD May 2016 Dissertation title: "The New York Stock Exchange and the Transformation of Retirement in America"
	Jessica Burch - PhD August 2015 Dissertation Title: "Soap and Hope": Direct Sales and the Culture of Work and Capitalism in Postwar America. Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History, Harvard Business School
	Miriam Martin Erickson - PhD August 2015 Dissertation Title "The Black Auxiliary Troops of King Carlos IV: African Diaspora in the Entangled Spanish Atlantic World, 1791-1818". Pre-Major Academic Advisor for College of Arts & Science; Lecturer in History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
	Amy Gant Tan - PhD August 2015 Dissertation Title "Richard Bernard and His Publics: A Puritan Minister as Author" Research Assistant Professor of History; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (2016-2017)
	Jonathan Hansen - PhD May 2015 Dissertation Title "Development at the Margins: Missionaries, the State, and the Transformation of Marsabit, Kenya in the Twentieth Century"
	Nicolette Kostiw - PhD May 2015 Dissertation Title "Child and Citizen" The Tutelage of Minors, Slavery, and Transition in Rio de Janeiro, 1871-1900". Assistant Director, Center for Latin American Studies,Vanderbilt University
	Matthew Owen - PhD December 2014 Dissertation Title "For the Progress of Man: The TVA, Electric Power, and the Environment,1939-1969"' Research Associate, Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
	Ansley Quiros - PhD December 2014 Dissertation Title "'The Devil and Jesus in Americus, Georgia': Lived Theology in the Civil Rights Movement in Americus, GA, 1942-1978." Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of North Alabama
	Courtney Campbell - PhD August 2014 Dissertation Title "The Brazilian Northeast, Inside Out: Region, Nation, and Globalization (1926-1968)." Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in U.S.) of Latin American History at the University of Birmingham, England (effective Fall 2016).
	Jeremy DeWaal - PhD August 2014 Dissertation Title "Redemptive Geographies: The Turn to Local Heimat in Early Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965." Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advanced Center for German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
	Frances Kolb - PhD August 2014 Dissertation Title "Contesting Borderlands: Policy and Practice in Spanish Louisiana, 1765-1800." Instructor in the History Department at Western Kentucky University, 2016-2017.
	Angela Sutton - PhD August 2014 Dissertation Title "Mercantile Culture of the Gold Coast Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, 1621-1720." Lecturer in History; Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University (2016-2017)
	Erin Woodruff Stone - PhD May 2014 Dissertation Title "Indian Harvest: The Rise of the Indigenous Slave Trade and Diaspora from Espanola to the Circum-Caribbean, 1492-1542" Assistant Professor of Latin American History, tenure track, University of West Florida
	Adam Richard Wilsman - PhD May 2014 Dissertation Title "Our Enemy's Enemy: Human Rights and the U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1977-1992" Upper School History Teacher, Harpeth Hall, Nashville, Tennessee
	Nicholas Villanueva - PhD December 2013 Dissertation Title "No Place of Refuge: Mexicans, Anglos, and Violence in the Texas Borderland, 1900-1920". Director of Critical Sports Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder.
	Caree Banton - PhD August 2013 Dissertation Title " 'More Auspicious Shores": Post-Emancipation Barbadian Emigrants in Pursuit of Freedom, Citizenship, and Nationhood in Liberia, 1834-1912" Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
	Stephen Kennedy Harrison - PhD August 2013 Dissertation Title "Communism and Christianity: Missionaries and The Communist Seizure of Power In China" Lecturer at Wenzhou-Kean University, 2014-2015.
	Joanna Mazurska - PhD August 2013 Dissertation Title "Making Sense of Czeslaw Milosz: A Poet's Formative Dialogue with his Transnational Audiences"
	Kevin Vanzant - PhD August 2013 Dissertation Title " 'We Sweat and Toil": Self-Interest, Labor, and the Power of "The People" in Early America Politics, 1607-1692". Visiting Professor, Tennessee State University and Visiting Scholar in History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN through the Mellon Partners Postdoctoral Fellowship
	William Hardin - PhD May 2013 Dissertation Title "Litigating the Lash: Quaker Emancipator Robert Pleasants, the Law of Slavery and the Meaning of Manumission in Revolutionary and Early National Virginia” Upper School History Teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville TN
	Erica Hayden - PhD May 2013 Dissertation Title "Plunged into a Vortex of Iniquity”: Female Criminality and Punishment in Pennsylvania, 1820-1860” Assistant Professor in History, tenure track, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN
	Deanna Matheuszik - PhD May 2013 Dissertation Title "The Angel Paradox: Elizabeth Fry and the Role of Gender and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain” Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern European History, University of Mississippi, 2014-15
	Patrick Jackson - PhD December 2012 Dissertation Title "Lost: American Evangelicals in the Public Square, 1925-1955" Nationally Competitive Fellowship Advisor, and Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at Allegheny College, PA
	William Bishop - PhD August 2012 Dissertation Title "Diplomacy in Black and White: America’s Contribution to the Search for Zimbabwean Independence, 1965-1980 " Upper Division History Teacher, Casady School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
	Cheryl A. Hudson - PhD December 2011 Dissertation Title "Making Modern Citizens: Political Culture in Chicago, 1890-1930" Lecturer in American History at the University of Liverpool, England
	Crystal A. deGregory – PhD May 2011 Dissertation Title “Raising a Nonviolent Army: Four Nashville Black Colleges and the Century-Long Struggle for Civil Rights, 1830s-1930s
	Christina Dickerson Cousin – PhD May 2011 “Diplomats, Soldiers, and Slaveholders: The Coulon de Villiers Family in New France, 1700-1763” Adjunct Professor in Humanities, Cumberland County College, Vineland, New Jersey
	Rachel Donaldson – PhD May 2011 Dissertation Title “Music for the People: The Folk Music Revival and American Identity, 1930-1970” Assistant Professor in Public History, tenure track, College of Charleston
	David C. LaFevor - May 2011 Dissertation: “Forging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s – 1930s” Assistant Professor of Latin American History and Digital Humanities, tenure track, University of Texas, Arlington
	Michael Boden – December 2010 Dissertation: “The First Red Clausewitz: Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth-Century Socialist Military Thought” Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Retired. Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
	Natalie Inman – December 2010 Dissertation: “Networks in Negotiation: The Role of Family and Kinship in Intercultural Diplomacy on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier, 1680-1849” Assistant Professor, Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN
	Kurt Johnson – December 2010 Dissertation: “The Re-enchanted Body in fin de siècle German Culture" Term Instructor - History, University of Alaska, Anchorage
	Pablo Gomez – August 2010 Dissertation: “Bodies of Encounter: Health, Illness and Death in the Early Modern African-Spanish Caribbean” Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	Larry Rivers – August 2010 Dissertation: “‘Our God is Marching On’: James Hudson and the Theological Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement” Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of West Georgia
	Selena Sanderfer – August 2010 Dissertation: “For Land and Liberty: Black Territorial Separatism in the South, 1776-1904” Assistant Professor, tenure track, Western Kentucky University
	Mary Sanderson – May 2010 Dissertation: “ ‘Our Own Catholic Countrymen’: Religion, Loyalism, and Subjecthood in Britain and its Empire, 1775-1829” Lecturer, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
	David Wheat – August 2009 Dissertation: “The Afro-Portuguese Maritime World and the Foundations of Spanish Caribbean Society, 1570-1640” Associate Professor (tenured), Michigan State University
	Michael Crane – May 2009 Dissertation: “Slavery on the Edge of Freedom: The Lower Ohio River Valley in the Antebellum and Civil War Era” Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.
	Robert Hutton – May 2009 Dissertation: “‘Bloody Breathitt’: Power and Violence in the Mountain South” Senior Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville