Recent PhD recipients
Recent Recipients of The Doctorate in History from Vanderbilt
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Anthony C. Siracusa - PhD August 2017Dissertation title: "A More Durable Weapon: Religion and Nonviolence in the Black Freedom Struggle, 1918-1960" Engaged Learning Specialist, Collaborate for Community Engagement, Colorado College |
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Kelly O'Reilly - PhD August 2017Dissertation title: "Of the Poor, By the Poor, or For the Poor": Community Health Centers and the War on Poverty" Student at Yale Law School, J.D. expected in 2020 |
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Lance Ingwersen - PhD August 2017Dissertation title: "Mexico City in the Age of Theater, 1830-1901" Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University, 2017-18 |
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Ashish Koul - PhD August 2017Dissertation title: "Making New Muslim Arains: Reform, Law and Politics in Colonial Punjab, 1890's-1940s" Singh Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, 2017-18. |
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Sonja Ostrow - PhD August 2017Dissertation title: "Polling after Fascism: Opinion Research, Mass Society, and Democratic Fragility in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1960" Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities, the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) |
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Lu Sun - PhD May 2017Dissertation title: "Prisoners, Saboteurs, and Diplomats: An International History of the Diplomacy of Captivity During and Following the Korean War" Assistant Professor of History, Bryant University's China campus; Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China |
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Alex Jacobs - PhD December 2016Dissertation title: ""After the Enlightenment: Progress, Tradition, and the Foundations of Democracy in Modern American Thought" Administrative Assistant to the Vanderbilt History Seminar |
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Jason Bates - PhD December 2016Dissertation title: "An Opium-Consuming Nation: Race, Government Power, and the American Penal State, 1870-1930" |
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Kara Schultz - PhD December 2016Dissertation title: "An African South Atlantic: La Plata, Brazil, and Angola, 1580-1680" ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Humanties |
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Tizoc Chavez - PhD August 2016Dissertation title: "Presidential Parley: Personal Diplomacy and the Modern Presidency" Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University |
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Jenifer Dodd - PhD August 2016Dissertation title: "'Compulsive Rapism': Psychiatric Approaches to Sexual Violence in the 1980s" Mellon Fellow at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky |
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Michell Chresfield - PhD August 2016Dissertation 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 |
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Paula Gajewski - PhD May 2016Dissertation title: "The New York Stock Exchange and the Transformation of Retirement in America" |
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Jessica Burch - PhD August 2015Dissertation 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 |
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Miriam Martin Erickson - PhD August 2015Dissertation 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 |
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Amy Gant Tan - PhD August 2015Dissertation Title "Richard Bernard and His Publics: A Puritan Minister as Author" Research Assistant Professor of History; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (2016-2017) |
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Jonathan Hansen - PhD May 2015Dissertation Title "Development at the Margins: Missionaries, the State, and the Transformation of Marsabit, Kenya in the Twentieth Century" |
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Nicolette Kostiw - PhD May 2015Dissertation 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 |
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Matthew Owen - PhD December 2014Dissertation Title "For the Progress of Man: The TVA, Electric Power, and the Environment,1939-1969"' Research Associate, Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations |
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Ansley Quiros - PhD December 2014Dissertation 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 |
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Courtney Campbell - PhD August 2014Dissertation 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). |
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Jeremy DeWaal - PhD August 2014Dissertation 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. |
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Frances Kolb - PhD August 2014Dissertation Title "Contesting Borderlands: Policy and Practice in Spanish Louisiana, 1765-1800." Instructor in the History Department at Western Kentucky University, 2016-2017. |
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Angela Sutton - PhD August 2014Dissertation 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) |
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Erin Woodruff Stone - PhD May 2014Dissertation 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 |
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Adam Richard Wilsman - PhD May 2014Dissertation 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 |
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Nicholas Villanueva - PhD December 2013Dissertation 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. |
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Caree Banton - PhD August 2013Dissertation 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 |
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Stephen Kennedy Harrison - PhD August 2013Dissertation Title "Communism and Christianity: Missionaries and The Communist Seizure of Power In China" Lecturer at Wenzhou-Kean University, 2014-2015. |
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Joanna Mazurska - PhD August 2013Dissertation Title "Making Sense of Czeslaw Milosz: A Poet's Formative Dialogue with his Transnational Audiences" |
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Kevin Vanzant - PhD August 2013Dissertation 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 |
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William Hardin - PhD May 2013Dissertation 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 |
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Erica Hayden - PhD May 2013Dissertation 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 |
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Deanna Matheuszik - PhD May 2013Dissertation 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 |
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Patrick Jackson - PhD December 2012Dissertation 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 |
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William Bishop - PhD August 2012Dissertation 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 |
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Cheryl A. Hudson - PhD December 2011Dissertation Title "Making Modern Citizens: Political Culture in Chicago, 1890-1930" Lecturer in American History at the University of Liverpool, England |
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Crystal A. deGregory – PhD May 2011Dissertation Title “Raising a Nonviolent Army: Four Nashville Black Colleges and the Century-Long Struggle for Civil Rights, 1830s-1930s |
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Christina Dickerson Cousin – PhD May 2011“Diplomats, Soldiers, and Slaveholders: The Coulon de Villiers Family in New France, 1700-1763” Visiting Professor of History at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT |
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Rachel Donaldson – PhD May 2011Dissertation Title “Music for the People: The Folk Music Revival and American Identity, 1930-1970” Assistant Professor in Public History, tenure track, College of Charleston |
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David C. LaFevor - May 2011Dissertation: “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 |
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Michael Boden – December 2010Dissertation: “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 |
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Natalie Inman – December 2010Dissertation: “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 |
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Kurt Johnson – December 2010Dissertation: “The Re-enchanted Body in fin de siècle German Culture" Term Instructor - History, University of Alaska, Anchorage |
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Pablo Gomez – August 2010Dissertation: “Bodies of Encounter: Health, Illness and Death in the Early Modern African-Spanish Caribbean” Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Larry Rivers – August 2010Dissertation: “‘Our God is Marching On’: James Hudson and the Theological Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement” Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of West Georgia |
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Selena Sanderfer – August 2010Dissertation: “For Land and Liberty: Black Territorial Separatism in the South, 1776-1904” Assistant Professor, tenure track, Western Kentucky University |
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Mary Sanderson – May 2010Dissertation: “ ‘Our Own Catholic Countrymen’: Religion, Loyalism, and Subjecthood in Britain and its Empire, 1775-1829” Lecturer, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH |
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David Wheat – August 2009Dissertation: “The Afro-Portuguese Maritime World and the Foundations of Spanish Caribbean Society, 1570-1640” Associate Professor (tenured), Michigan State University |
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Michael Crane – May 2009Dissertation: “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. |
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Robert Hutton – May 2009Dissertation: “‘Bloody Breathitt’: Power and Violence in the Mountain South” Senior Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |