The Mailman School of Public Health
welcomes Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2009
Matt Kelly
Elisa Gonzalez
Congratulations to all those who successfully defended their dissertations in 2008-09!
Alheli Alvarado-Diaz. Democracy without compromises: political and
intellectual militancy from socialisme ou barbarie to l’espirit
soixante-huitard.
Aparna Balachandran. Christ and the Pariah: Colonialism, Religion
and Outcaste Labor in South India, 1780-1830.
Eduardo Canedo. The Rise of the Deregulation Movement in Modern
America, 1957-1980.
Richard Cervantes Carrier. Attitudes toward the
National Philosopher in the Early Roman Empire (100 b.c. to 313 a.d.).
Li Chen. Law and Sensibility of Empire in the Making of Modern
China, 1750-1900.
Alexander Cummings. Music Piracy and the Value of Sound.
Kelly A. De Luca. Beyond the Sea: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
and English Law, c. 1575-c. 1640. Kelly has taken a position as an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Law and Politics at Algoma University.
Mehmet Dosemeci. Associating Turkey with Europe: Civilization,
Nationalism, and the EEC, 1959-1980.
Nishani Frazier. Harambee Nation: Cleveland CORE, Community
Organization, and the Rise of Black Power.
Erik Jensen. Roman Metalwork in the North.
Ryan Jones. Empire of Extinction: Nature and Natural
History in the Russian North Pacific, 1739-1799.
Martin Kenner. The Rise and Decline of the British Empire:
The City Born in War and Undone by War.
Christopher Medalis. American Cultural Diplomacy, the Fulbright
Program, and U.S.-Hungarian Higher Education Relations in the Twentieth
Century.
Rodney Eugene Montague, Jr. The Tie That Binds: A study of white
farmers in the south Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915.
Lisa Y. Ramos. A Class apart: Mexican Americans, Race, and
Civil Rights in Texas.
Steven A. Schoenig, S.J. The Papacy and
the Use and Understanding of the Pallium from the Carolingians to the Early
Twelfth Century.
James Tejani. San Pedro Bay and the Making of an American
Pacific: Private Enterprise, State Imperatives, and the Industrialization of
Natural Resources, 1846-1917.
Devrim Umit. The American Protestant Missionary Network in
Ottoman Turkey, 1876-1914: Political and Cultural Reflections of the Encounter.
Eric Wakin. From Flintlock to “Tramps’ Terror”: Guns and
Gun Control in Nineteenth-Century New York City.
Megan Kathryn Williams. Dangerous Diplomacy and Dependable Kin:
Transformations in Central European Statecraft, 1526-1540.
Reto Hofmann, “Fascist Filaments: Italy in the Making of the Japanese New Order,
1919-45”
April Holm, “Fractured Pulpits: The Civil War in the Mainstream Evangelical Churches,
1837-1894”
Sagi Schaeffer, “Ironing the Curtain: Border and Identity Construction in Rural Germany,
1945-75”
Abigail Schade, “Water, Space and Time: A Global History of Qanat Irrigation Technologies
in Arid Environments”
Rachel Van, “Free Trade & Family Values: Kinship Networks and the Culture of
Early American Capitalism, 1792-1891”
Doris G. Quinn Foundation
Fellowships:
Gregory Baggett, “Slavery and
Emancipation Ten Miles Square, 1801-1871: A Study of Political Authority before
Federal Rule”
Brandon County, “Cheminots into Citizens:
Labor, Migration and Political Imagination along the Dakar-Niger Railroad,
1923-1974”
Huan Tian, “Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the
Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjian”
Core Preceptorship
Matthew Vaz
Amit Prakash
External Fellowship Awards,
Jobs, & Babies
Jenna Feltey Alden received the Rovensky
Fellowship in American Business History for 2009-2010.
Dissertation
Research in Original Sources for 2009-2010.
Amanda Alexander received a SSRC and
Fulbright-Hays grants to support her dissertation research in South Africa next
year.
Ana
Antic received a DAAD research fellowship, a Harriman
Institute Junior Fellowship and had two articles accepted for publication.
Seth Anziska was awarded a summer
FLAS and elected as an NSEP Boren Fellow.
Jacob Appel’s article, “Physicians are
not Bootleggers: The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement”
was accepted in Bulletin of the History
of Medicine. His stage play, Helen of Sparta, an examination of the Trojan
War from Helen’s point-of view, will open at the Venus Theatre in October.
Matt Augustine received the Northeast
Asia History Fellowship at Stanford University for the coming academic year.
Hannah Barker received a summer FLAS
award to study Arabic in Cairo.
Alison
Bateman-House has an article appearing in Public Health Reports.
Melissa
Borja welcomed a daughter, Beata Maria
Borja-Westin, on October 25, 2008.
Sarah Bridger received a Moody grant
from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library Foundation for 2009-2010, and a dissertation
fellowship from NYU’s Center for the United States and the cold war for fall
2009.
Rosie Bsheer, received an International
Traveling Fellowship for 2009-2010.
James Chappel was awarded a SSRC-IDRF
scholarship for 2009-10.
Sheetal M. Chhabria was awarded a SSRC-IDRF
scholarship for 2009-10.
Bu
Yun Chen was awarded a SSRC-IDRF scholarship for 2009-10.
Jun Hee Cho received the Council on
Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation
Research in Original Sources, 2009-2010, and a CU Travel Grant.
Benjamin Coates was awarded a
Jenning-Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship from the United States
Institute of Peace for 2009-2010.
Brandon County won a GPPN summer fellowship
for study at Sciences Po.
Christopher Craig received the Japan
Foundation Fellowship for 2009-2010.
Alex Cummings received an ACLS/Mellon
Doctoral Recipients Fellowship and Consortium for Faculty Diversity post-doc
Fellowship in the media studies program at Vassar College.
Courtney Fullilove has received a tenure
track assistant professorship at Wesleyan.
Kelly Deluca will be an assistant
professor in the department of Law and Politics at Algoma University in Sault
Ste. Marie Ontario, Canada beginning July 1.
Megan Doherty received the Reid Hall
Fellow for Summer 2009, the Mellon Fellowship from the Institute for Historical
Research, London, and the
Harry
Ransom Center Research Fellow, Austin TX.
Ansley Erickson received an Eisenhower
fellowship.
Victoria Phillips Geduld received a Fellowship
at the Library of Congress.
Julie Golia received an AAUW
dissertation fellowship for 2009-2010.
Jonathan Gribetz will be the Maurice
Amado Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced
Judaic Studies. He has also been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation
Fellowship, the Schusterman Israel Studies Scholarship, and the Foundation for
Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship. He also welcomed twins at the end of
April.
David H. Horowitz has been awarded a
dissertation write-up fellowship from the Targum Shelishi Foundation.
Justin Jackson was an adjunct
instructor for US history course at the Harry von Arsdale Labor Studies Center
at Epire State College in Manhattan in spring 2009. On November 15, 2008 he and
his wife Sarah welcomed a baby boy Samuel Costain Jackson.
Junko Kato took a position at
Nihon University, Japan.
Ariel Mae Lambe received a Javits
Fellowship for the second year.
Michael Christopher Low received a Foreign
Language and Areas studies fellowship in Turkish for 2009-2010.
Tamara Mann received the K. Patricia
Cross Future Leaders Award from The Association of American Colleges and
University for 2009, the Stephen Weinrib Fellow for American Jewish Studies at
Columbia University and a Teagle Scholarship from the Teagle Collegium for
Psychological Science and Student Learning at Columbia University.
Susan Mays has received a research
position in China at the National Integrated Circuit Design Base Center in
Wuxi, and she welcomed a new son in 2008.
Alyssa Park received a Korea
Foundation post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard.
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal received the
Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship at the McNeil Center for
Early American Studies at Penn and will be a GSAS summer teaching scholar for
his course “The Art of Revolution, ca. 1765-95.”
Jason Petrulis has a post-doc position
as a visiting fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elizabeth Pillsbury received an ACLS/Mellon post-doc
for 2009-2010.
Amit Prakash welcomed a son, Kiron
into the world on New Year’s Eve 2008. He is also sound designer for the
Project Y Theatre Company, and most recently designed “FUBAR” at the 59E59 St.
Theater.
Thom Rath has a position as a visiting
fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Maryland
for Spring 2009.
Russell Rickford will be an assistant
professor in history at Dartmouth.
Ariel Rubin received a Fulbright
Fellowship.
Eileen Ryan was awarded the Rome Prize
from the American Academy in Rome for 2009- 2010.
Abigail Schade also received a
Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science one-month dissertation
research fellowship.
Steve Schoenig has accepted a
tenure-track position at Saint Louis University.
Jennifer Tammi accepted a one-year
position at Fieldston.
Jennifer Tappan will begin a
tenure-track position at Portland State University starting Fall of 2009.
Simon Taylor received a SSRC-DPDF
summer grant.
James Tejani has accepted a tenure-track
position at Cal State San Luis Obispo.
Moshik Temkin’s book The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
is out in from Yale University Press. He began a tenure-track professorship in
the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. On October 17, 2008 his son Noam
was born.
Ezra Tessler received a John F.
Kennedy Library Foundation Research Grant.
Nick
Turse is a 2009 recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship,
the Ridenhour Prize and an A. Jack Aronson Prize.
Theresa Ventura has delayed her Mellon
ACLS post-doc for a year and taken a tenure-track job at Wake Forest.
Sarah
Vogel has taken up a position as program officer for the
Johnson Family Foundation.
Dean
Vuletic was awarded a visiting fellowship from the
Institute for Contemporary History in Prague. He was also awarded a Harriman
Institute Junior Fellowship.
Mari Webel received
an ISERP fellowship.
Benno Weiner
received the V.K. Wellington Koo Fellowship and a Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race grant. He welcomed a second daughter in February.
Stephen Wertheim has received a Javits
fellowship.
Alexis Wick received an assistant
professorship in history at the American University of Beirut, beginning
January 2010.
Timothy R. White has accepted a tenure-track position at New Jersey City University.
Megan Williams
has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Groningen in the
Netherlands.
Minna Wu was awarded a
Henry-Luce-ACLS dissertation fellowship in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology
and Early History for 2009-2010.
Timothy Yang was awarded a SSRC-IDRF
fellowship and Japan Foundation fellowship.
Carlos Zuniga-Nieto has received a FLAS to
study French at Harvard University.
