Department of
History Newsletter
7 June 2011 Final
Edition Number Five
We welcome our incoming Ph.D. candidates
for fall 2011
Africa
Samuel Daly
(Columbia College-C.U.)
Early Modern Europe
Abram Kaplan
(Harvard College)
Sean O’Neil
(Truman State University)
International & Global
John
Chen
(Harvard
College)
Chien
Wen Kung
(Dartmouth
College)
Ulug
Zuzuoglu
(Bogazici
University)
Medieval
Hannah Elmer
(Barnard College)
Middle East
Shehab Ismail
(Pennsylvania State University)
Adrien Zakar
(Institute of International Studies)
Arthur Zarate
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Modern Western Europe
Harun
Bulina
(University
of Michigan)
Alana
Hein
(Reed
College)
Victor
Petrov
(Oxford
University)
Suzana
Vuljevic
(University
of Michigan)
South Asia
Nishant Batsha
(Columbia College-C.U.)
Rahul Sarwate
(University of Mumbai)
Dominic Vendell
(Carleton College)
United States
George
Aumoithe
(Bowdoin
College)
Manuel
Bautista Gonzalez
(Universidad
Nacional de Mexico)
Mary
Freeman
(William
College)
George
Halvorson
(Lewis
& Clark College)
Allison
Powers
(University
of California-Berkeley)
Jason
Resnikoff
(Columbia
University-C.U.)
Congratulations to all those who successfully
defended their dissertations in 2010-11!
Sergei Antonov. Law and the Culture of debt in Moscow on the eve
of the Great Reforms.
Kellie Carter Jackson. Force and Freedom: Black abolitionists
and the politics of violence, 1850-1861.
Benjamin Coates. Transatlantic advocates: American international
law and U.S. foreign relations, 1898-1919. Distinction.
Martin Fromm. Producing history through Wenshi Ziliao: Personal Memory, post-Mao ideology, and migration to
Manchuria.
Julie Golia. Advising America: Advice columns and the modern
American newspaper, 1895-1955. Distinction.
Jonathan Gribetz. Defining neighbors: Religion, race, and the
early ‘Zionist-Arab’ encounter.
Nicole Hemmer. Messengers of the right: Media and the modern
conservative movement.
April Holm. A kingdom divided: Border evangelicals in the
Civil War era, 1837-1894.
James O’Connor. Armies, navies and economies in the Greek world
in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Distinction.
Valerie Paley. Founders and funders: Culture, trusteeship, and
institutional expansion in New York City, 1840-1940.
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Corresponding republics: Epistolary and
patriot organizing in the Atlantic revolutions, ca. 1760-1793.
Anatoly Pinsky. The individual Stalin:
Fedor Abramov, Russian intellectuals, and the revitalization of Soviet
socialism, 1953-1962.
Amit Prakash. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, citizenship
and North African migrants in Paris, 1925-1975.
Edward Reno. The authoritative text: Raymond of Penyafort’s
editing of the decretals of Gregory IX, 1234.
Robert Savage. Where subjects were citizens: The emergence if a
republican language and polity in colonial American law court culture,
1750-1776.
Sagi Schaefer. Ironing the Curtain: Border and boundary
formation in Cold War rural Germany.
Jennifer Tappan. A healthy child comes from a healthy mother:
Mwanammugimu and nutritional science in Uganda, 1935-1973.
Taco Terpstra. Trade in the Roman Empire: A study of the
institutional framework.
Rachel Van. Free trade and family values: Free trade and the
development of American capitalism in the nineteenth century.
Matthew Vaz. Jackpot mentality: The growth of government
lotteries and the suppression of illegal numbers gambling in Rio de Janeiro and
New York City.
Kareen Williams. The evolution of political violence in Jamaica,
1940-1980.
Maria Zazueta. Milk against poverty: Nutrition and the politics
of consumption in twentieth-century Mexico.
We are delighted to announce the winners of
fellowships and positions for the coming year!
2011 Shawn Fellows
to present on their research at the Symposium on New Directions
in History
Hannah Barker
Justin Jackson
Nathan Pilkington
Eileen Ryan
Simon Taylor
2011-12
Doris G. Quinn Fellows
Jessica Adler
Michael Heil
2011-12 Whiting Fellows:
Constanza Castro
Nicholas Osborne
Core Preceptorship
Ana Antic
James Chappel
Jun Cho Hee
Alexander Kaye
Thomas Meaney
Nathan
Pilkington
Core Lecturers
Alheli Diaz
Megan Doherty
Robert Neer
Robert Thomas
External Fellowship Awards,
Jobs, & Babies
Seth Anziska was awarded a GSAS-CU
International Travel Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year and the Irene C.
Fromer Fellowship from Columbia’s Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies.
Hannah
Barker has been appointed as the Wollemborg Family Fellow
for travel to Italy during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Yesenia
Barragan has received the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship for 2011-14 and the George E. Haynes Fellowship for 2011-12. She
also received a summer grant from the Institute of Latin American Studies to do
archival research in Colombia.
Melissa
Borja received a research fellowship from the Institute
for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
Sarah
Bridger has accepted a tenure-track position at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Kellie Carter-Jackson was awarded the 2011-12
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship for Research in American History. Her article,
“Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics
of Power and Resistance” will appear in the May 2011 issue of Perspectives on
History: Political History Today. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at
Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Giuliana Chamedes will be teaching
European history at Harvard University as a Lecturer in the university’s
Program for History and Literature.
Benjamin Coates will be a Visiting
Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA for
2011-12.
Joanna Dee was married to Koushik
Das.
Ansley Erickson has accepted a position as
Assistant Professor of History and Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia and
was awarded an NAE/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.in the School of Education
at Syracuse University, with a courtesy appointment in their History
Department.
Jonathan Gribetz has been appointed
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University
beginning fall 2011.
Jay Gundacker has received the ICLS
summer fellowship.
Elizabeth Hinton has been awarded a
Dissertation Writing Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year through the GSAS
Office of Diversity Merit Fellowship Program for Underrepresented Ph.D.
Candidates.
April
Holm has accepted a tenure-track position in the history
department at the University of Mississippi beginning in fall 2011.
Abhishek Kaicker has been appointed a Reid Hall Fellow for the summer
2011.
Hayang Kim was awarded a CU
International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.
Jinyu Liu has received an award
from the Mellon Foundation. She will be a visiting scholar at Peking
University-Beijing.
Daniel Mahla has received the Minerva
Fellowship of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for research in Israel.
Tamara Mann-Tweel will be the dissertation
fellow in “Health, Disease, and Environment in World History” at The Center for
Historical Research at Ohio State University. She also received a Congressional
Research Award from the Dirksen Congressional Center and a Rockefeller Archive
Center Grant.
Susan Mays along with Yao Zhang
were awarded the Vice President for Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant;
the grant funded a professional development conference called “China Scope in
NYC” at CU Teacher’s College.
Owen Miller has been awarded a
summer research award for 2011 through the GSAS Merit Fellowship Program for
Historically Underrepresented Ph.D. Candidates.
Amy Offner has received the H.B.
du Pont research grant from Hagley Library.
Alyssa Park will be an Assistant
Professor in the History department (Korea and East Asia) at the University of
Iowa fall 2011.
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal has accepted a
tenure-track position at the University of Southern California.
Amit Prakash will be a Visiting Assistant
Professor at Bryn Mawr College He and his wife also welcomed a twin boy and
girl this past November.
Meha Priyadarshini was awarded a CU
International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.
Helen Qui gave birth to 7lbs, 3oz
son.
Omar Sarwar was awarded a CI
International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.
Asheesh Siddique will be presenting
papers at the Harvard-Yale Graduate Book History Conference, the Angles 3
Cultural History Conference, and the History of Economics Society Conference
summer 2011. He also received a History of Economics Society Young Scholars
award.
Joseph Skloot was married to Rabbi
Erin Glazer on May 31, 2010 in Richmond, Virginia.
Simon Stevens was awarded a CU
International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.
Etienne Stockland was awarded a Robert W.
Allington Fellowship from the Chemical Heritage Foundation for the summer 2011.
He was also awarded a prize for best paper at the James A. Barnes Club Graduate
Conference at Temple University in March 2011.
Matthew Swagler has been chosen for the
Chateaubriand Fellowship for 2011-12. He also received a SSRC International
Dissertation Research Fellowship for 2011-12.
Moshik Temkin will be an inaugural Big
Think Delphi Fellow. The paperback edition of his book The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial will appear from Yale
in October 2011.
Ezra Tessler will be an International
Fellow in SIPA’s International Fellows Program for the 2011-12 academic year.
Merve Tezcanli has received the ICLS
summer fellowship.
Aline Voldoire has been selected to
receive the fifth Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize in Jewish Studies at Columbia
University for her dissertation “The Transnational Politics of French and
American Jews, 1860-1920.
Natasha Wheatley was awarded a CU
International Travel Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year, a Mellon
Pre-Dissertation Grant for research on the League of Nations, and was married
to Dirk Moses.
Michael Woodsworth has been awarded the
Anti-Discrimination Center Summer Fellowship.