Name |
Advisor(s) |
Doctoral thesis |
Date of PhD |
Initial post-graduate position |
Subsequent position |
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Leonardo Moreno | Marcus Rediker | The Rise and Fall of Cartagena de Indias: Maritime Economies, Labor, and Crisis in a Caribbean Port City (1578-1700) | 2022 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
Matthew Plishka | Lara Putnam & Molly Warsh | Cycles of Crisis and Adaptation: A Multispecies Political Ecology of Late-Colonial Jamaica, 1870-1960 | 2022 |
Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University |
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Jacob Pomerantz | Molly Warsh | Building the Bridge: Labor and Colonial Governance in Seventeenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados | 2021 | Field examiner, National Relations Labor Board | ||
Aura Jirau-Arroyo | Lara Putnam | Our University: Nation, Diversity, and Student Protest in the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, 1952-1981 | 2021 | Teaching Postdoctoral fellow, Albion College | Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University | |
Artan Hoxha | Gregor Thum | Sugarland: Socialism and teh Transformation of the Albanian Countryside | 2020 | Researcher, Institute of History, Tirana, Albania | ||
Yevan Terrien | Marcus Rediker | Exiles and Fugitives: Labor, Mobility, and Power in French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1769 | 2020 | Visiting Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | ||
Johnathan White | Lara Putnam and Laurence Glasco | It Was All a Dream...Pittsburgh's Musicians Local 471: Collective Memory and Alternate Truths | 2020 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State Greater Allegheny | ||
Jose Andres Fernandez | Lara Putnam | Jamaica in the age of Development: Petitions, Small Farming, and Agricultural Planning, 1895-1972 | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Costa Rica | ||
Bethany Wade | Lara Putnam/Reid Andrews | Enlightened Burial: Death and Science in the Spanish Caribbean, 1800-1870 | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University | Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University | |
Adam Brode | Gregor Thum | Pride of Place. Interethnic Relations and Urban Spaces in Riga, 1918-1939 | 2019 | Data Analyst and German-language Specialist, Financial Compliance Industry | ||
Alexandra Mountain | Rob Ruck |
Rough Ice: The Education and Labor of Young Male Ice Hockey Players in Canada, the United States, and Sweden, 1950-1980 |
2019 | Allan H. Selig Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin | ||
Marcy Ladson |
Edward Muller |
We Didn’t Start the Fire: Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania Before the Marcellus Boom |
2019 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
Jesse Olsavsky |
Niklas Frykman/ Marcus Rediker |
"Fire and sword will affect more good:" Runaways, vigilance committees and the rise of revolutionary abolitionism, 1835-1860" |
2019 |
Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu Province, China |
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Dan Holland | Edward Muller | Communities of Resistance: How ordinary people developed creative responses to marginalization in Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980-2010 |
2019 | Part-time Instructor, University of Pittsburgh | ||
Mirelle Luecke | Holger Hoock/ Marcus Rediker |
Topsail Alley: Labor Networks and Social Conflict on the New York Waterfront in the Age of Revolution |
2019 |
Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut |
Supervisory Curator, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum | |
Christopher Eirkson | Ruth Mostern/ Evelyn Rawski |
Ideas of Empire in Early Ming China: The Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Chinese Imperial Visions, 1368-1500 | 2018 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College | Academic Advisor, George Washington University | |
Bennett Sherry | Diego Holstein/ Pat Manning | Crossing Lines: How Transnational Advocacy & Refugee Migration Shaped the UNHCR in Turkey, 1960–1988 | 2018 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
Jack Bouchard | Marcus Rediker | Towards Terra Nova: The North Atlantic Fisheries and the Atlantic World, 1490-1600 | 2018 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick | |
Stephanie Makin | Gregor Thum |
The Catholic Conundrum: The Role of the German and American Catholic Communities in Creating the Cold War World, 1945-1955 |
2018 | ORISE Fellow, Europe-Mediterranean Directorate within the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Washington, DC | ||
Nyri Bakkalian | William Chase | The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan | 2017 | Staff, Qualitative Data Analysis Program, University of Pittsburgh | ||
Jonathan Sherry | William Chase | Stalinism on Trial: Spanish Republican Legality, the Soviet Union, and the Performance of Justice in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 2017 | Visiting Professor, University of Miami | Assistant Professor, Averett University | |
Kelly Urban | Reid Andrews/ Alejandro de la Fuente | The Sick Republic: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Politics in Cuba, 1925-1965 | 2017 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama | |
Francisco Flórez-Bolívar | Reid Andrews | En sus propios términos: Negros y mulatos y sus luchas por la igualdad en Colombia, 1885-1947 | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Cartagena (Colombia) | ||
Katherine Parker | Seymour Drescher/ Holger Hoock | Contentious Waters: The Creation of Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain, 1669-1768 | 2016 | Hakluyt Society Research Fellowship | Research Officer, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. | |
Christopher Myers | Seymour Drescher |
Steering The Seas of Reform: Education, Empirical Science, And Royal Naval Medicine, 1815-1860 |
2016 | Processing Brokerage Clerk, Vanguard | ||
John Galante | Reid Andrews |
Distant Loyalties: World War I and the Italian South Atlantic |
2016 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
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Titas Chakroborty | Marcus Rediker |
Work and Society in the East India Company Settlements in Bengal, 1650-1757 |
2016 | Post-doctoral Fellowship of Historical Studies, University of Texas-Austin |
Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Shanghai |
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Jesse Horst |
Reid Andrews/ |
Sleeping on the Ashes: Slum Clearance in Havana in an Age of Revolution 1930-65 |
2016 | Resident Director, Sarah Lawrence College in Havana (Cuba) | ||
Oana Adelina Stefan | William Chase | Vacationing in the Cold War: Foreign Tourists to Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970s | 2016 |
Post-doctoral Fellow, |
Research Associate, European University Institute, Florence, Italy |
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Anthony Comegna |
Van Beck Hall |
The Dupes of Hope Forever:" The Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Movement, 1820s-1870s |
2016 |
Assistant Editor for Intellectual History, |
Academics Programs Design Manager, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University |
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Andrew Behrendt |
Irina Livezeanu |
Travelers of an Empire that Was: Tourism, Movie-Going, and the Formation of Post-Imperial Identities in Austria and Hungary, 1918-1944 |
2016 |
Undergraduate advisor, |
Assistant Teaching Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology |
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Steven Pitt |
Marcus Rediker |
City upon the Atlantic Tides: Merchants, Pirates, and the Seafaring Community of Boston |
2015 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University |
Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University |
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Madalina Veres |
Pinar Emiraliogliu & Patrick Manning |
Constructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment |
2015 |
Junior Fellow, |
Postdoc, American Philosophical Society; currently Director of Corporate a& Foundation Relations, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia |
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Ahmet Izmirlioglu |
Pat Manning |
Clashes of Imperial Authority: Commercial Tribunals in the Ottoman Provinces and Istanbul, 1847-1880. |
2015 |
Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, Department of History
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Lecturer, University of North Carolina Wilmington |
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Victoria Harms |
Gregor Thum |
Destined or Doomed? Hungarian Dissidents and their Western Friends, 1973–1998 |
2015 |
Post-doctoral Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany |
DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins |
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Katharine Phelps Walsh | Bruce Venarde/ JenWaldron |
Parturition and Print in Seventeenth-Century London | 2014 | Adjunct Professor, Wright State University | Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University | |
Brian Shaev |
William Chase |
Estrangement and Reconciliation: French Socialists, German Social Democrats, and the Origins of European Integration, 1948-1957 |
2014 |
Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
Professor, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands |
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Suset Laboy Perez |
Alejandro de la Fuente |
Minor Problems: Juvenile Delinquents and the Construction of a Puerto Rican Subject, from 1880-1938 |
2014 |
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Samantha Lomb |
William Chase |
Speaking Out: Popular Dimensions of Stalinist Authoritarianism: the Discussion and Implementation of the 1936 Constitution |
2014 |
Lecturer, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia |
Assistant Professor, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia |
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James Hommes |
Evelyn Rawski |
Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and ‘Foreign Hero |
2014 | Teacher, Trinity Christian School, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
Lars Peterson |
Reid Andrews |
In the Shadow of Batlle: Workers, State Officials, and the Creation of the Welfare State in Uruguay, 1900-1920 |
2014 |
Assistant Director for Development, Brother’s Brother Foundation |
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Nicole Bourbonnais |
Lara Putnam |
Out of the Boudoir and into the Banana Walk: Birth Control Campaigns and Reproductive Politics in the West Indies, 1930-1970 |
2013 |
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Alejandra Boza |
Lara Putnam |
Negotiating Indigenous Autonomy: Politics, Land, and Religion in Tierradentro (Colombia), 1905-1950 |
2013 |
Assistant Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica |
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Julien Comte |
Lara Putnam |
Syphilis and Sex: Transatlantic Medicine and Public Health in Argentina and the United States, 1880-1940 |
2013 |
Bilingual Technical Product Analyst, HCL America (onsite at Google Pittsburgh) |
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Laura Grantmyre |
Maurine Greenwald |
Conflicting Visions of Urban Renewal: Visual Representations of Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1943-1968 |
2013 |
Adjunct Instructor, Point Park University |
Instructor of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Mary's School, Raleigh, NC |
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Natalie Kimball |
Reid Andrews |
An Open Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-2010 |
2013 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University |
Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
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Kavin Paulraj |
Lara Putnam |
Jamaica Brasileira: The Politics of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil |
2013 |
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Alyssa Ribeiro |
Edward Muller |
The Battle for Harmony: Intergroup Relations Between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1950s to 1980s |
2013 |
Lecturer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
Assistant Professor, Allegheny College
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Oliver Bateman |
Peter Karsten |
Law, Society, and Judicial Politics: State Supreme Courts and the Pursuit of Educational Equity |
2012 |
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington |
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Mathew Casey |
Alejandro de la Fuente |
From Haiti to Cuba and Back: Haitians' Experiences of Migration, Labor, and Return, 1900-1940 |
2012 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi |
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Roland Clark |
Irina Livezeanu |
European Fascists and Local Activists: Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael |
2012 |
Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University |
Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK |
|
Jacob Pollock |
Pinar Emiralioglu |
The Geographicall Compass: History, Authority and Utility in the English Voyage Account, 1660–1730 |
2012 |
Senior Historian, Office of Treaty Settlements in Wellington, New Zealand |
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Oscar de la Torre Cueva |
Reid Andrews |
Freedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-1950 |
2011 |
Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma |
Assistant, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
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Niklas Frykman |
Marcus Rediker |
The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic Revolution |
2010 |
Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College |
Assistant Professor, University of Pittburgh |
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Kenyon Zimmer |
Richard Oestreicher |
The Whole World is Our Country: Immigration and Anarchism in the United States, 1885-1940 |
2010 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington |
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Sharika Crawford |
Reid Andrews |
Under the Colombian Flag: Nation-Building on San Andres and Providence Islands, 1887-1930 |
2009 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD |
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Tracey Jaffee |
Reid Andrews |
In the Footsteps of Cristo Obrero: Chile's Young Catholic Workers Movement in the Shantytown, Factory, and Family, 1946-1973 |
2009 |
Lecturer, University of Dayton |
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Eric Kimball |
Marcus Rediker |
An Essential Link in a Vast Chain: New England and the West Indies, 1700-1775 |
2009 |
Assistant Professor, Utah State University |
Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg |
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Katherine Sorrels |
Gregor Thum & Jonathan Scott |
Austrian Jews and the Idea of Europe: Reformulating Multi-nationalism as a Response to the Disintegration of the Harbsburg Empire, 1880-1939 |
2009 |
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati (2009), Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati (2018) |
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Tania Boster |
Jonathan Scott |
Better to be Alone than in Ill Company: Jeremy Collier the Younger: Life and Works, 1650-1726 |
2008 |
Program Coordinator at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
Director, Student Leadership Programs; Assistant Director, the Bonner Center for Service & Learning; Oberlin College & Conservatory |
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Clayton Brown |
Evelyn Rawski |
Making the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology |
2008 |
Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN |
Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University |
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William Conrad |
Van Beck Hall |
Development in Extractive Communities: Ridgway and St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 1850-1914 |
2008 |
Executive Director, Stackpole-Hall Foundation, St. Marys, PA |
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Craig Marin |
Marcus Rediker |
Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1793-1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City |
2008 |
University of Rhode Island, Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence, RI |
Instructor, Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Mass. |
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Ellen Walsh |
Alejandro de la Fuente |
Advancing the Kingdom: Missionaries and Americanization in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s |
2008 |
Assistant Professor, Gannon University, Erie, PA |
Assistant Professor, Governors State University in Illinois |
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David Gerlach |
Irina Livezeanu |
For Nation and Gain: Economy, Ethnicity and Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-1948 |
2007 |
Assistant, Associate Professor of History, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ |
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Joanne O'Connell |
Edward Muller |
Understanding Stephen Collins Foster, His World and Music |
2007 |
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Christopher Magra |
Marcus Rediker |
The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution |
2006 |
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, CA |
Associate Professor, University of Tennessee |
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Curtis Miner |
Edward Muller |
Level Playing Fields: The Democratization of Amateur Sport in Pennsylvania |
2006 |
Senior Curator, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA |
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Tina Phillips |
Evelyn Rawski |
Building the Nation through Women’s Health: Biomedical Midwifery in the Early 20th Century China |
2006 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA |
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Steven Schroeder |
Van Beck Hall |
The Elementary School of the Army: The Pennsylvania National Guard, 1877- 1917 |
2006 |
Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa. |
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Gregory Wood |
Richard Oestreicher |
The Problem of the Old Man: Manhood, Class, and Retirement in the U.S. 1910-1950 |
2006 |
Penn State University, Erie, Pa. |
Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md. |
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John Donoghue |
Marcus Rediker |
Racial Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624- 1661 |
2005 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago, Ill. |
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Scott Giltner |
Van Beck Hall |
The Art of Serving is With Them Innate: Hunting, Fishing, and Independence in the Post-Emancipation South, 1865-1920 |
2005 |
Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo. |
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Andrew Haley |
Donna Gabaccia |
Turning the Tables: American Restaurant Culture and the Rise of the Middle Class, 1880-1920 |
2005 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, American Cultural History, University of Southern Mississippi |
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Scott Hendrix |
Van Beck Hall |
The Spirit of the Corps: The British Army and the Pre-National Pan-european Military World and the Origins of the American martial culture, 1754-1783 |
2005 |
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio |
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Betsy Konefal |
Reid Andrews |
May All Rise Up: Highland Mobilization in Post-1954 Guatemala |
2005 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary |
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Susan Corbesero |
William Chase |
The Anniversaries of the October Revolution, 1918-1927: Politics and Imagery |
2004 |
The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
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Gabriele Gottlieb |
Marcus Rediker |
Theater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750-1800 |
2004 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University, Michigan |
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Anthony Novosel |
William Chase |
Nikolai Bukharin: Alternative or Interregnum?
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2004 |
Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh |
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Randy Scott Smith |
Marcus Rediker |
The Liverpool Mercury: The Voice of Middle Class Reform 1811-1820 |
2004 |
Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh |
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Michael Snow |
Edward Muller |
Pittsburgh Politics and Social Activism Between 1960 and 1980 |
2004 |
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Andrew Hall |
Richard Smethurst |
Japanese-Run Education and the Construction of a ‘Manchurian’ Identity in Manchukuo, 1931-1945 |
2003 |
University of Northern Texas, Denton, Texas |
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Charles Hier |
William Chase |
Party, Peasants and Power in a Russian District: Winning Peasant Support for Collectivization in Sychevka Raion, 1928-1931 |
2003 |
Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh |
Assistant Lecturer, University of Akron |
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Paul Clark |
Richard Smethurst |
The Kokugo Revolution: Ueda Kazutoshi, Language Reform and Language Education in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
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2002 |
Assistant, Associate, Professor, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas |
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David Doellinger |
Irina Livezeanu |
From Prayers to Protests: The Impact of Religious-based Dissent on the Emergence of Civil Society in Slovakia and the GDR |
2002 |
Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of History, |
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Michael Ervin |
Reid Andrews |
The Art of the Possible: Agronomists, Agrarian Reform and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, 1908-34 |
2002 |
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash. |
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department |
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Joan Mohr |
Edward Muller |
From Immigrant to Civilization: The Czechs of Allegheny City, 1873-1907 |
2002 |
Independent Scholar |
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Jorge Nallim |
Reid Andrews |
The Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina: 1930-1946 |
2002 |
Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College |
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada |
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Benjamin Reilly |
Seymour Drescher |
Interviewing the Opinions: Principle, Practicality, and Politics in the Trail of King Louis XVI
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2002 |
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar, United Arab Emirates |
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Rosalina Rios |
Reid Andrews |
Making Citizens: Civil Society & Popular Mobilization in Zacatecas, Mexico, 1821-1853 |
2002 |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico |
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Jennifer Ford |
Edward Muller |
Landscape and Material Life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1798-1838
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2001 |
Interpretive Solutions, Inc., West Chester, Pa. |
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Leslie Hammond |
Fritz Ringer |
The British Progressive Contribution to the League of Nations Ideal |
2001 |
Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh |
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Robert Kirkland |
Peter Karsten |
Observing Our Hermanos de Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950-1964
|
2001 |
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif. |
Commander of Army ROTC at USC; faculty member, Columbia College & USC |
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Vadim Staklo |
William Chase |
Harnessing Revolution: The Communist International in Central America, 1928-1935
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2001 |
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. |
Associate Professor, George Mason University; Project Manager, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT |