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Recent Academic Appointments
Job Placements
Start date Autumn 2011 unless otherwise noted.
Nikolay Antov (Summer 2011)
Committee: Cornell Fleischer, A. Holly Shissler, Michael Khodarkovsky
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK
Pablo Ben (Spring 2009)
Committee: Dain Borges and George Chauncey (co-chairs), José Moya, Ramón Gutiérrez
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, San Diego State University.
Venus Bivar (Summer 2010)
Committee: Leora Auslander (chair), Michael Geyer, Paul Cheney
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, Washington University in St. Louis (start 2012)
Nancy Buenger (Autumn 2009)
Committee: William Novak (Chair), Dain Borges, Kathleen Neils Conzen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Legal Studies Program, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin Madison
Thomas Dodman (Summer 2011)
Committee: Jan Goldstein (chair), William Sewell, Leora Auslander, Moishe Postone
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Christopher Dudley (Spring 2010)
Committee: Steven Pincus (chair), Edward Cook, Adrian Johns
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
Jessica Graham (Summer 2010)
Committee: Thomas Holt and Dain Borges (co-chairs), Kesha Fikes, Gail Bederman
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, University of California at San Diego (Fall 2012)
Patti Kameya (Spring 2006)
Committee: Tetsuo Najita (chair), James Ketelaar, Norma Field, Susan Burns
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota
Suzy Kim (Summer 2005)
Committee: Bruce Cumings (chair), William Sewell, Friedrich Katz, Kyong-hee Choi
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), East Asian Studies, Rutgers. (Autumn 2010)
Meredith Oda (Autumn 2010)
Committee: Mae Ngai (chair), Kathleen Conzen, Thomas Holt
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, University of Nevada, Reno.
Michael Raley (Autumn 2007)
Committee: Constantin Fasolt (chair), Tamar Herzog, Richard Helmholz, John Van Engen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Medieval History, Alma College
Scott Relyea (Autumn 2010)
Committee: Prasenjit Duara (chair), James Hevia, Matthew Kapstein, Bruce Cumings
Assistant Professor of Chinese History (tenure-track), Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
Susan Gaunt Stearns (Summer 2011)
Committee: Kathleen Conzen (chair), Amy Dru Stanley, Christine Stansell
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
H. Lyman Stebbins (Autumn 2009)
Committee: Emmet Larkin, John Woods, A. Holly Shissler
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
Katherine Turk (Spring 2011)
Committee: Amy Dru Stanley (chair), Christine Stansell, James Sparrow
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, University of Texas at Dallas
Heather Welland (Spring 2011)
Committee: Steven Pincus (chair), Ralph Austen, Jacob Levy, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Assistant Professor of British History (tenure-track), History, Wake Forest University
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood (Summer 2011)
Committee: Thomas C. Holt (chair), Julie Saville, Catherine Brekus, Tara Zahra
Visiting Lecturer in Modern American History, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Julia Young (Summer 2009)
Committee: Emilio Kouri (chair), Mae Ngai, Dain Borges.
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), History, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Winners
Joachim Haeberlen (Summer 2011)
Committee: Leora Auslander and Michael Geyer (co-chairs), William Sewell, Moishe Postone, Hartmut Kaelble.
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Research Group "The History of Emotions", in Berlin, Germany. Financed by a DAAD Returnee Fellowship from August - December 2011
Patrick Iber (Spring 2011)
Committee: Mauricio Tenorio, Emilio Kouri, Dain Borges, Bruce Cumings
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University (2011-2013)
Samuel Lebovic (Summer 2011)
Committee: Amy Dru Stanley and James Sparrow (co-chairs), Adam Green, Michael Geyer
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University
Mark Loeffler (anticipated Autumn 2011)
Committee: Moishe Postone (chair), Michael Geyer, Jan Goldstein
Harper/Schmidt Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago
Aaron Shkuda (Spring 2010)
Committee: Kathleen Conzen (chair), James Sparrow, Neil Harris
ACLS New Faculty Fellow, 2011-2013, History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Katherine Turk (Spring 2011)
Committee: Amy Dru Stanley (chair), Christine Stansell, James Sparrow
Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Law, Society and Culture at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University (2011-2012)
Colin Wilder (Summer 2010)
Committee: Constantin Fasolt (chair), Michael Geyer, William Sewell
Solmsen Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities
at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (2011-2012)
Alexia Yates (Autumn 2010)
Committee: Leora Auslander (chair), Jan Goldstein, Katherine Taylor
Prize Fellowship in Economics, History, and Politics, Harvard University
2010
Job Placements
Christopher Dudley (Spring 2010)
Committee: Steven Pincus, Edward Cook, Adrian Johns
Visiting Instructor, History Department, Northeastern Illinois University
Side Emre (Autumn 2009)
Committee: Cornell Fleischer, Robert Dankoff, Holly Shissler
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of History, Texas A&M
Alison Lefkovitz (Summer 2010)
Committee: George Chauncey and Amy Dru Stanley (co-chairs), James Sparrow, Christine Stansell
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Arissa Oh (Spring 2008)
Committee: Mae Ngai, Thomas Holt, Leora Auslander
Assistant Professor (tenure track), History Department, Boston College
Postdoctoral Fellowship Winners
Venus Bivar (Summer 2010)
Committee: Leora Auslander, Michael Geyer, Paul Cheney
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale (2010-2012)
Nancy Buenger (Autumn 2009)
Committee: William Novak, Dain Borges, Kathleen Conzen
Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison
Grace Chae (Autumn 2010)
Committee: Bruce Cumings, Prasenjit Duara, James Sparrow
Korean Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, affiliation Wellesley College
Sarah Osten (Summer 2010)
Committee: Emilio Kouri (chair), Dain Borges, John Womack
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Mexican Studies, Northewestern University (2010-2012)
Colin Wilder (Summer 2010)
Committee: Constantin Fasolt, Michael Geyer, William Sewell
Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Political Theory Project, Brown University.