Graduate Programs: Graduate Placement - History and Religious Studies Penn State

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Graduation Date	Name	Advisor	Dissertation Title	Type of Position	Employer
Summer 2010	Wesley, Timothy	Blair	The Politics of Faith: Religious Authority and Politics During the American Civil War	Fixed term	Penn State University
Summer 2010	Isham, Matthew	Neely	Breaking Over the Boundaries of the Party: The Role of Party Newspapers in Democratic Factionalism in the Antebellum North, 1845-1852	Fixed term	Penn State University
Spring 2010	Schwaller, Robert	Restall	From Conquest to Casta: The Evolution of Mexico's Socio Racial Hierarchy	Fixed term	UNC-Charlotte
Spring 2010	Orr, Timothy	Reardon	Calling Urban Men to Arms: Northern Cities Mobilize to Fight the Civil War	Tenure track	Old Dominion University
Spring 2010	Lunt, David	Mark Munn	Athletes, Heroes, and the Quest for Immortality in Ancient Greece	Fixed Term	University of Southern Utah
Spring 2010	Christensen, Mark	Restall	Spelling out Salvation: Nahuatl and Maya Ecclesiastical Texts and the Construction of Diverse Religious Discourses	Tenure Track	Assumption College
Fall 2009	Spinney, Russell	Eghigian	A History of Terror: The Image of Fear across the Third Reich and GDR	Fixed Term	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Fall 2009	Ray, Utsa	Sinha	The Culture of Food in Colonial Bengal
Summer 2009	Visconti, John	Hsia	The Secrets of Health: Views on Healing from the Everyday Level to the Printing Presses in Early Modern Venice, 1500-1700
Spring 2009	Murry, Gregory	Hsia		Tenure Track	Mount St. Mary's College
Spring 2008	Krivonosov, Alexander	Pencak	Where East Meets West: A Landscape of Familiar Strangers. Missionary Alaska, 1794-1898.	Fixed Term	Penn State University
Fall 2007	Adams, Matthew	Redford	The Early Dynastic Through Old Kingdom Stratification at Tell Er-Rub'a, Mendes	Fixed Term	Bucknell College
Fall 2007	Logemann, Jan	Cross	Shaping Affluent Societies: Divergent Paths to a Mass Consumer Society in West Germany and the United States during Postwar Boom Era	Post Doc	German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Fall 2007	Reese, Christine	Roeber	"For God and King": Henry Burton, John Bastwick, William Prynne and the Politics of Memory	Fixed Term	Penn State University
Summer 2007	Beougher, David	Hudson	Brian Boru: King, High-King, and Emperor of the Irish	Perrmanent	U.S. Military Academy
Spring 2007	Lawrence, Sarah	Ginzberg/ Mittelstadt	On Their Own Terms: African Americans and Birth Control in the Rural South, 1900-1942	Permanent	Vermont Academy
Spring 2007	Hicks, Daniel	Pencak	True Born Columbians: The Promises and Perils of National Identity for American Seafarers of the Early Republican Period	Fixed Term	DC Area
Spring 2007	Flynn, Tyler	Cross	Calvinism and Public Life: A Case Study of Western Pennsylvania, 1900-1955	Tenure Track	Eastern University
Fall 2006	Younger, Karen	Ginsberg	"Africa Stretches Forth Her Hand Unto You": Female Colonization Supporters in the Antebellum United States	Administration / Fixed Term	Penn State University
Fall 2006	Smith, David	Blair	On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870	Permanent	Booz Allen Hamilton
Summer 2006	Faber, Robert	Rose, A	After Progress: Defining American Political and Cultural Maturity in the 1940's and 1950's	Fixed Term	Bradley University
Summer 2006	David, Jonathan	Munn	Building Kleos: Objects, Inquiry, and Memory in Herodotus' Early Logoi	Tenure Track	Gettysburg College
Spring 2006	Lumpkins, Charles	Woodruff	African-Americans in East St. Louis, IL 1900-45	Fixed Term	Penn State University
Spring 2006	Byars, Jana	Ruggiero / Restall	Concubinage in Late Renaissance Venice	Tenure Track	Iowa State University
Fall 2005	Cline, Rangar	Harvey	Ancient Angels Hellenic Angel Veration and Christian Rejection	Tenure Track	University of Oklahoma
Summer 2005	Yood, Charles	Pencak	Argonne Nathional Laboratory and the Emergence of Computer and Computational Science, 1946-1992
Summer 2005	Smith, Michael	Neely, M	The Enemy Within: Corruption and Political Culture in the Civil War North	Tenure Track	McNeese State University
Summer 2005	Gannon, Barbara	Neely, M	Colored Comrades: African Americans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the Construction of Interracial Veteranhood	Tenure Track	University of Central Florida
Summer 2005	Frederick, Jason	Restall	Landscape of Conflict: Community and Discontent in Colonial Papantla, 1750–1800	Tenure Track	Lawrence University
Summer 2004	Lair, Meredith	Woodruff	"Beauty, Bullets, and Ice Cream": Re-imagining Daily Life in the 'Nam	Tenure Track	George Mason Univ.
Summer 2004	Higgins, Padhraig	Beaver	Practicing Patriotism: The Irish Volunteers and Popular Political Culture, 1778–85	Tenured	Mercer County Community College
Summer 2004	Davis, Jennifer	Landes	Men of Taste: Gender and Authority in the French Culinary Trades, 1730-1830	Tenure Track	University of Oklahoma
Spring 2004	Goodfellow, Sarah	Schiebinger	Western Europe and America, 1850-1930
Spring 2004	Mitchell-Cook, Amy	Pencak	When God, the Devil, and a Friendly Cannibal Met at Sea: A Study of Early American Shipwrecks	Tenure Track	University of West Florida
Fall 2003	Harvey, John	Silverman	The Common Adventure of Mankind: Academic Internationalism and Western Historical Practice from Versailles to Potsdam	Tenured	Concord University
Fall 2003	Berkey, Jonathan	Blair	War in the Borderland: The Civilians’ Civil War in Virginia’s Lower Shenandoah Valley	Tenured	St. Cloud State University
Summer 2003	Sandow, Robert	Blair	Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Mountains of Pennsylvania	Tenured	Lock Haven University
Summer 2003	Fallwell, Lynn	Proctor	Nazism Delivered: The Ethos and Legacy of Midwifery in the 20th-Century Germany	Tenure Track	Texas Tech University
Spring 2003	Wood, Randy	Beaver	English Protestantism in Maritime Context: Merchants, Planters, and Preachers, c. 1560-1660	Tenured	Lee University
Summer 2002	Slap, Andrew	Neely, M.	Transforming Politics: The Liberal Republican Movement and the End of Civil War Era Political Culture	Tenured	East Tennessee State University
Spring 2002	Osowski, Edward	Restall	Saints of the Republic: Nahua Religious Obligations in Central Mexico, 1692-1810	Multi-year Fixed Term	John Abott College
Fall 2001	Wilson, Timothy	White	A Story Untold: The Imperial Russian Air Force 1909-1917	Permanent/ Government	Senior Analyst, GAO
Fall 2001	Bohannon, Keith	Neely	The Northeast Georgia Mountains during the Secession Crisis and Civil War	Tenure Track	University of West Georgia
Summer 2001	Keller, Christian	Neely	Germans in Civil War Era Pennsylvania: Ethnic Identity and the Problem of Americanization	Associate Professor	US Army Command & General Staff College at Fort Belvoir
Spring 2001	Cope, Joseph	Beaver	Ireland Must Be Looked After: Problems of Survival and Relief during the 1641 Irish Rebellion	Tenure Track	SUNY-Geneseo
Spring 2001	Rutherford, Phillip	Silverman	Race, Space, and the Polish Question: Nazi Deportation Policy in Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1941	Tenure Track	Marshall University
Spring 2000	Howe, Timothy	Munn	Man and Beast in the Ancient Greek World: Animal Husbandry and Elite Status	Tenure Track	St. Olaf College
Fall 1999	Weaver, Karol	Schiebinger	Disease in the Torrid Zone: Malady and Medicine in 18th-Century Saint Domingue	Tenure Track	Susquehanna University
Fall1999	Glenwright, Fredrick	Ameringer	Eisenhower, Ultra and the National Redoubt	Permanent	East Lycoming (PA) School District
Summer 1999	Rogers, Shannon	Hudson	New Wine in Old Bottles: Making Popular History in 19th Century Britain	Stockbroker	Edward Jones
Summer 1999	Lucas, Joseph	Roeber	Conquering the Passions: Indians, Europeans and the Idea of Cultural Change in Early American Social Thought, 1580-1830	Director	The Historical Society- Boston University
Summer 1999	Finnan, Joseph	Jenkins	The Irish Leader: John Redmond In The Period of Home Rule, War, and Rebellion, 1912-1918	Fixed Term	SUNY-Oswego
Summer 1999	Chua, Frank	Cross	Culture of Consumption: The Emergence of the Global Market Culture in Singapore, 1960-1990	Tenured	Mansfield University
Spring 1999	Yu, Pen-Li	Duiker	Li In Pursuit of a One-China Policy: Nationalist Chinese Diplomacy, 1945-55	Permanent	Embassy of Taiwan
Spring 1999	DeJong, Greta	Woodruff	deJong Greta A Different Day: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Transformation of Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970	Tenured	University of Nevada - Reno
Fall 1998	Reames-Zimmerman, Jeanne	Borza	Hephaistion Amyntoros: Eminence Grise at the Court of Alexander the Great	Tenured	University of Nebraska - Omaha
Fall 1998	Olsen, Patrice	Ameringer	Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940	Tenured	Illinois State University
Fall 1998	Hall, Darlene	Hudson	The Navy of James IV of Scotland	Tenured	Lake Erie College
Summer 1998	Valante, Mary	Hudson	Urbanization and Economy in Viking-Age Ireland	Tenured	Appalachian State University
Fall 1997	Confer, Clarissa	Gallagher	Turmoil in Indian Territory: The Civil War Experience of the Five Nations	Fixed Term	California University of Pennsylvania
Summer 1997	Hsiang-Wang Liu	Duiker	The Fall and Rise of the Nationalist Chinese: The Chinese Civil War from Huaihai to the Taiwan Strait, 1948-1950	Fixed Term	Kutztown University
Summer 1997	Holden, Charles	Woodruff	In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatism in the Post-Civil War South	Tenured	St. Mary's College of Maryland
Spring 1997	Colin, Christine	Spielvogel	Der Meister and Der Fáhrer: A Critical Reappraisal of the Thought of Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler	Tenure Track	Mercyhurst College
Fall 1996	Carmichael, Peter	Gallagher	The Last Generation: Sons of Virginia Slaveholders and the Creation of a Southern Identity, 1850-1865	Director	Gettysburg College
Summer 1996	Ghosh, Ishita	White	British Elites and the Twilight of Empire, 1957-1964
Spring 1996	Gabriel, Michael	Reardon	Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of An American Hero	Tenured	Kutztown University
Fall 1995	Redles, David	Spielvogel	Nazi Apocalypticism as a Response to Rapid and Radical Change	Tenure Track	Cuyahoga Community College

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