CONGRATULATIONS to the following Students and Recent Alumni! 

2018

 

Andrew Alger has been awarded a $1000 Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Arman Azimi was awarded $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Alexander Batovski was awarded $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Andrew Battle has been awarded a $25,000 Marilyn J. Gittell Dissertation Fellowship, a $5,000 David Garth Dissertation Award in Public Policy and a $4,000 Research Initiative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies.

Emily Brooks has been awarded a $25,000 Graduate Center Segal Dissertation Fellowship.

Lawrence Cappello (PhD, 2017) has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Alabama’s flagship campus. His first book, None of Your Damn Business: A History of Privacy in the United States, has also been accepted for publication by the University of Chicago Press.

Deborah B. Charnoff has received the Huntington Library-Florida Atlantic University Libraries Joint Fellowship for 2018-2019.

Davide Colasanto was awarded $1,600 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Jeffrey Culang (PhD, 2017) accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with the Institute for Historical Studies at University of Texas at Austin. He also had an article, ” ‘The Shari‘a must go’: Seduction, Moral Injury, and Religious Freedom in Egypt’s Liberal Age”, published in Comparative Studies in Society and History.

Erin Cully has been awarded a $1453 Doctoral Student Research Grant, and $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Davide Colasanto has been awarded a $1000 Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Rafael Davis Portela has been awarded a $1300 Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Madeline DeDe-Panken has been awarded a $15,000 Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship in Women’s History at the New York Historical Society, and $800 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Christopher Ewing (PhD forthcoming, 2018) has accepted a tenure-track offer in History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Krystle Farman has been awarded the $25.000 Paul Naish Dissertation Fellowship, a $4,000 Early Research Initiative Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies, $250  from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund and a $400 Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Todd Fine has been awarded a $550 Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Rachael B. Goldman (PhD, 2011) is currently a Research Associate in the Office of Population Research,  Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University.

Julian Gonzalez De Leon Heiblum was awarded $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Jiwon Han was awarded $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

David Houpt (PhD, 2015) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Kate Kelly was awarded $1,800 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Hratch Kestenian has been awarded a $4,000 Early Research Initiative Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship and a $1000 Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Miriam Liebman has been awarded the $7000 National Society of Colonial Dames Dissertation Fellowship, and a $4,000 Early Research Initiative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies.

Stephanie Makowski has been awarded a $4,000 Early Research Initiative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies.

Stanley Mirvis (Ph.D., 2013) has accepted a tenure-track position as the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University, beginning Fall 2018.

Rafael Davis Portela has been awarded a $4,000 Early Research Initiative Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Public Knowledge.

Jeremy Randall was awarded $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Luke Reynolds has been awarded a $25,000 Florence J. Bloch Dissertation Fellowship, and $825 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Mitchell Rocklin (PhD forthcoming, 2018) has been offered a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Princeton University.

Christopher Rominger (Ph.D. forthcoming, 2018) accepted a tenure-track position at the University of North Florida beginning Fall 2018.

Chelsea Schields (PhD, 2017) has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Andrew DJ Shield (PhD, 2015) will begin as Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University (Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands), with specialties in History of Sexuality and Oral History Methods.

Johnathan Thayer (PhD forthcoming, 2018) accepted a tenure-track offer in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, beginning Fall 2018. He will be Coordinator of the Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials program.

Evan Turiano has been awarded a $750 Doctoral Student Research Grant, and $375 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Alisa Wade (PhD, 2016) accepted an offer as visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of British Columbia.

Erik Wallenberg  has been awarded a $5,000 Graduate Center Dissertation Year Award.

Katrina Wheeler was awarded $2,000 from the Judith Stein Travel and Research Fund.

Secil Yilmaz has been awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr best dissertation in Humanities at the Middle East Studies Associations Annual Meeting of 2017 for “Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922”.

Helena Yoo has been awarded a $500 Colonial Dames of America Fellowship.

2017

 

Megan Brown (PhD, 2017) has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Modern European History at Swarthmore College.

Mila Burns (PhD, 2017) will begin in Fall 2017 as an Assistant Professor in Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College.

Vanessa Burrows (PhD, 2015) has begun a position as an Historian at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Jeffrey Diamant (PhD, 2016) is a Senior Writer/Editor focusing on religion at the Pew Research Center.

John Freeman (PhD, 2012) is an Assistant Professor of History Indian River State College

Ernest Ialongo (PhD, 2009) is now an Associate Professor at Hostos Community College. His book, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and his Politics (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015), came out in paperback in November 2016.

Joshua  Kinlaw (PhD, 2013) has accepted the Assistant Professor History and the Humanities position offered to him by King’s College in lower Manhattan.

Joe Murphy (PhD, 2016) was selected as the 2017-2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.

University of North Carolina Press has informed us that Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era, by David Parsons (PhD, 2013) will be published shortly.

Sara Pursley (PhD, 2012) has begun her position as Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University

Lin-Yi Tseng (PhD, 2014) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taipei.

Laura Santangelo (PhD, 2014) is a faculty member of the Writing Program at Princeton University.

In fall 2017, Chelsea Schields (PhD, 2017) will be Assistant Professor of History at Elizabethtown College (currently Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Goucher College)

David Sclar (PhD, 2015) is Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer with the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University.

The first book by Andrew DJ Shield (PhD, 2015), Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe, will be published this year as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Genders and Sexualities in History series.  He is a Research Fellow at Roskilde University in Denmark

Noah Simmons (PhD, 2012) is a Visiting Instructor at Pratt Institute.

Secil Yilmaz (PhD, 2016) has accepted a tenure track job at Franklin & Marshall College, starting in Fall 2018. She will continue on next year as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University.

For a list of program accomplishments between 2010 – 2016, click here