Ph.D. in History

Department of History’s List of Doctoral Degree Recipients &
Initial and Present Positions

Aiqun Hu
Social Insurance in Twentieth-Century China: A Global Historical Perspective

Christopher Harris, 2007
The Road Less Traveled by: Rural Northern New England in Global Perspective, 1815-1960

Tiffany Trimmer, 2006
Solving Migration "Problems": Trans-Atlantc and Trans-Indian Ocean Approaches, 1890-1930

Initially Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State
12/2006 University, beginning 9/06
Stacy Tweedy, 2005
Staging the Nation, Engaging the World: The Making of a Prism Place in the African Diaspora, Sophiatown in Twentieth Century South African Politics and Popular Thought
Initially funded with a Mellon Research Award (2004-05): Presently Enrolled in Law School
George Dehner, 2004
Comparing National and International Responses to Pandemic Disease: Examining National and International Responses to the Swine Flu of 1976
Initially and Presently an Assistant Professor of History, Wichita State University
Whitney Howarth, 2004
Mission to Modernity: Formation of Hindu Political Party in Late Nineteenth Century Mysore
Initially Instructor of History, Suffolk University (2003-2004); Presently Assistant Professor of History, Plymouth State University, New Hampshire
Jeremey Neill, 2004
Popular Masculinity and Anglophone Society at the Turn of the Century: Gender, Popular Culture and the Frontiers f Imperialism, 1880-1918
Initially and Presently Assistant Professor of History, Menlo College, California
Bin Yang, 2004
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of the Yunnan (Second Century BC - Twentieth Century CE)
Initially Visiting Assistant Professor at College of William and Mary; Presently Assistant Professor, Singapore National University
Steven Corvi, 2003
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien: Portrait of a Victorian Soldier in Modern War 1899-1915
Initially and presently an Independent Historian and published scholar on 19th and 20th Century British Military History
Deborah Smith Johnston, 2003 Initially and Presently World History Teacher, Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts; recent finalist for a teaching position at Columbia University
George Reklaitis, 2003
A Common Hatred: Lithuanian Nationalism During the Triple Occupation, 1939-1953
Initially Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Salem State College (2003-2004); Presently Instructor of History, Brookdale Community College, New Jersey; Cold War Lithuania: National Armed Resistance and Soviet Counterinsurgency, The Carl Beck Papers, July 2007
Yinghong Cheng, 2001
Creating the New Man -- Communist Experiments In China and Cuba: A World History Perspective
Initially a Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Salem State College 2001-2002; Presently an Assistant Professor of History, Delaware State University
Eric Martin, 2001
Anti-colonial Worldviews: an Intellectual World History of the Twentieth Century
Initially Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Salem State College (2001-2002); Presently Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho
Jeffrey Sommers, 2001
The Entropy of Order: Democracy and Governability in the Age of Liberalism
Initially Assistant Professor of History, North Georgia College (2001-2003); Presently Assistant Professor of History at Raritan Valley Community College
Pamela Brooks, 2000
Boycotts Buses and Passes: Black Womens Resistance in Montgomery Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa from Colonization to 1960
Initially Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College (tenure track); Presently Associate Professor of History, Oberlin College (tenured)
David Kalivas, 2000
A World History Overview: Owen Lattimore, a life lived in interesting times, 1900-1950
Initially and Presently Professor of History, Middlesex Community College (tenured)
Sarah Swedberg, 1999
Blurred Boundaries: "Identity" in Massachusetts in the Early Republic Through Letters of the Cranch Family
Initially Assistant Professor of History Mesa State University (1999-2005); Presently Associate Professor of History, Mesa State University (tenured)