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  Nicholas Anastasakos  
 
2001

 

Erik Anderson

A.M., History, Brown University (2004)

B.A., History and Political Science, Grinnell College(2001)

Major Field: North American Environmental History (Karl Jacoby)

Second Field: American Cultural History 1877-(Elliot Gorn)

Third Field: African Environmental History( Nancy Jacobs)

2003

 

Morgan Arenson

BA History Harvard University (2006)

Primary field: Intellectual and Cultural History
of Modern Europe

Secondary field: Modern France

2007

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Farid Azfar

A.M., History, Brown (2003)

MA. Geography and Geographic Information Systems, USC (2002)

B.A. International Relations, Tufts University (1998)

Major Field: Early Modern Britain (Tim Harris)

Second Field: Intellectual and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe (Phil Benedict)

Third Field: Ottoman History (Cemal Kafadar)

Dissertation: Disordered bodies and bodies-politic in British Enlightenment culture, 1690-1740

2002

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  Joseph Jon Barron BA, Duquesne University   2005
  Christopher Barthel     2004

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Caroline Boswell

A.M., History, Brown University (2001)

B.A., History, University of Wisconsin (1999)

Major Field: Early Modern England (Tim Harris)

Second Field: Early Modern Europe Politics and Culture (P. Benedict)

Third Field: History of Science, Witchcraft, and Print in Early Modern Europe (Tara Nummedal)

Dissertation: Seditious Words and Scandalous Pamphlets: Tracing Public Opinion in England, 1646-64

2000

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Samuel Brenner

A.M., Political Science, Brown University (2003)

A.M., History, Brown University (2001)

B.A., History and Philosophy, University of Michigan (2000)

Major Field: Modern US History (James Patterson)

Second Field: US Foreign Policy (Charles Neu)

Third Field: US-Soviet/Russian Relations (Abbott Gleason)

Dissertation: Shouting at the Rain: The Growth and Development of Right-Wing Anti-Communist Organizations in the Era of Modern American Conservatism, 1950-1980

2000

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Christopher Brick

A.M., History, Brown University (2004)

B.A., History and International Affairs, The George Washington University (2002)

Major Field: Modern US History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: Modern US Cultural History (Elliott Gorn)

Third Field: Transnational Labor (Seth Rockman)

2003

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Emily Brimsek BA, Carleton College, 2006

AM, Brown University, 2007
Research Interests:
Early Modern Britain
Early Modern Europe
Modern Britain
Crime and Criminology
Rise of the Middle Class
2006

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William Brucher A.M., History, Brown University (2007)

B.A., History, Bates College (2002)
Major, Modern U.S. History (Elliott Gorn)

Second, Transnational Labor History (Seth Rockman)

Third, Modern Latin America (James Green)
2006

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Douglas R. Burgess Jr. A.M., History, Brown University (2004)

LLM, International Criminal Law, University of British Columbia (2003)

J.D., Cornell University (2002)

B.A. First Class Hons, Mcgill University (1999)

Major Field: Early Modern British (Tim Harris)

Second Field: Colonial America (Seth Rockman)

Third Field:  20th Century Atrocity and Response (Omer Bartov)

Dissertation: Gentlemen of Fortune: Piracy and Colonial Governance in the Atlantic Colonies, 1670-1715

2003

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Melissa Burling A.B., Medieval Studies and History, Smith College (1988)   2004

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  Chunhyung Cho     2004

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Lara Couturier

A.M. History, Brown University (2004)

M.Ed., Harvard University (1999)

B.S., University of Richmond (1993)

Major Field: Modern US History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: African American History (Jim Campbell)

Third Field: Modern Japanese History (Kerry Smith)

Dissertation: A history of the debates over who goes to college and
how it gets paid for in the United States.

2001

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Thomas Connaught Devaney AM, History, Brown (2006)

MA, Social Sciences, University of Chicago (2004)

MAT, Boston College (2000)

BA, History, Trinity College (1998)
Major, Medieval Europe (Remensnyder)

Second, Medieval Art & Architecture (Bonde)

Third, Early Modern Europe (Nummedal)
2005
  Eric Doescher     2004
  Stephen Downey     2004

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Matt Dunne

A.M. History, Brown University (2003)

B.A., History and English, Stonehill College (2002)

Major Field: Modern US Foreign Policy

Second Field: Modern US Urban, Social, and Cultural

Third Field: Modern Britain

2002

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Natalina Earls A.M. History, Brown University (2003)

B.A. History, California State University Long Beach

Major Field:  US Gender and Women's History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: US Cultural and Social History (Elliott Gorn)

Third Field:  Modern European Gender and Women's History (Carolyn Dean)

Dissertation Topic: Gender and race in the perpetuation of the white slavery scare

2002

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Nicole Eaton A.M., History, Brown University (2005)

M.A., Gender/Cultural Studies, Simmons College (2004)

B.A, Art History,
Brandeis University (2001)

Major Field:  US Gender and Women's History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: U.S. Social & Cultural (Robert Self)

Dissertation: "Women's History and Women's Rights: Gender and Collective Memory in American Feminism, 1848-1998"

2004

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Heather Ellis M.A., History, Brown University (2007)

B.A., History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University (2005)
Major Field: Modern Germany History (Omer Bartov) 2006

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Lauren Faulkner

A.M., History, Brown University (2004)

M.A., History, Simon Fraser University, Canada (2003)

B.A., History and the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Canada (2001)

Major Field:  Modern German History (Omer Bartov)

Second Field: Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History (Carolyn Dean)

Third Field:  Modern Middle Eastern History (Engin Akarli)

2003
  Sara Fingal B.A., History and Environmental Studies, Scripps College (2005) Primary field: Modern U.S. History

Second field: Environmental History

Third field: Modern Latin America
2006
  Katherine Flynn     2004

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Jessica Foley A.M. History, Brown University (2005)

B.A., History and Finance, College of William and Mary (2001)

Major Field: US Women and Gender (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: US History post-1877 (Elliot Gorn)

Third Field: Public History and Historical Memory (Steven Lubar)

Dissertation: untitled; studies the relationship between girl's organizations and feminism in America, 1945-1970.
2004
  Michael Furman     2004

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Sonja Glaab M.A. & B.A., History, Political Science, Communication Studies, University of Mainz, Germany (2003)

"Dissertation Topic": The role of the media in the conflict between social-revolutionary terrorism and the Federal Republic of Germany

"Brown Graduate Fields": Modern German History (Omer Bartov)

Comparative European History (Deborah Cohen)

Media and Terrorism (Gabriel Weimann)

2007

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Elisa Rachel Gollub A.M. History, Brown University (2001)

Major Field: Modern Russia

Second Field: Early Modern Russia

Third Field: European Cultural & Intellectual History

2000

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Jonathan Hagel

BA, History, Lehigh University, 1998

MA, American Studies, Lehigh Univ, 2000

AM, History, Brown, 2001

My Major Field was US Intellectual and Cultural History with Mari Jo
Buhle

Second field was Modern US History with James Patterson

Third was Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History with Mary
Gluck

Dissertation: "In Our Hearts and Minds": the Psychology of Prejudice
and American Racial Liberalism, 1935-1970

2000
  Aaron Hermann     2004

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Stephen Higa A.M., History, Brown University (2005)

B.A., History, UC Berkeley (2003)

Major Field: Medieval Europe (Remensnyder)

Second: Celtic/Germanic Studies (Russom)

2004
  Kevin Hoskins     2004

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Eileen Jacxsens

AM, History, Brown University (2004)

MA, Medieval Studies, Catholic University of America

BA, University of Richmond

Major Field: Medieval Europe

Second Field: Roman Empire

Third Field: Monasticism and Asceticism in the Eastern Empire

2003

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Sheyda Jahanbani

A.M., History, Brown University (2001)

B.S.F.S., International Politics, The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (1999)

Major Field: Modern U.S. History (James Patterson)

Second Field: African-American History (James Campbell)

Third Field: Modern Mexico and Central America (R. Cope)

Dissertation: “A Different Kind of People:” Developing the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1930-1980

2000

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Chase Cryn Johannsen AM, University of Chicago

AB, University of Kansas

Major Field: European History

2005

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Christopher L. Jones

A.M., History, Brown University (2003)

B.A., Amherst College (1999) 

Major Field: 19th Century U.S. History (Michael Vorenberg)

Second Field: African-American History (James Campbell)

Third Field: Modern British History (D. Cohen)

2002
  Lauren Jones     2004

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James Kabala

A.M., History, Brown University (2003)


B.A., History, Providence College (2002)

Major Field: Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early Republic US (Gordon Wood)

Second Field: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century U.S. (Michael Vorenberg)

Third Field: Early Modern Britain (Tim Harris)

Dissertation: A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844

2002

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  Christopher Lamberti BA, American Studies, Miami University (1998)

AM, History, Brown University (2007)
Major Field: Modern U.S. History 2006
  Amanda Lawrence     2004
  Jooyoung Lee     2003
  Seung-June Lee     2002
  Benjamin James Leff BA, Brown University   2005

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Shih-Chieh Lo

(Roger Lo)

AM., History, Brown University (2005)

M.A. History, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan, (2000)

B.A., History, National Chung-Cheng University, Chai-yi, Taiwan, (1997)

Major Field: Modern Chinese History (Richard Davis & Mark Swislocki)

Second Field: Modern Japanese History (Kerry Smith)

Third Field: Pre-Modern British History (Tim Harris)

Dissertation: Popular Politics and Religious Mobilization in Southeastern China (1860s-1930s)

2003

 

Danny Loss

BA (History, Linguistics) at Swarthmore College (2004)

MPhil (History) at University of Cambridge (2005)

Modern Britain (w/ Deborah Cohen)

2007

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Suzanne Magaziner

M.A. History, Brown University (2002)

M.B.A. Harvard Business School (1978)

J.D. Harvard Law School (1978)
 

B.A. Political Science and French, Wellesley College (1974)

  2000
  Anna Manchin     2000

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Amy Bliss Marshall BA, East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison May 2005

MA, History, Brown University May 2006
Major Field: Modern Japan (Kerry Smith)

Second Field: Pre-Modern Japan (Jim McClain)

Third Field: Modern China (Mark Swislocki)

2005
  Kelly Mayberry     2001
  Julia Marmet McCombs  

BA, Bowdoin College

  2005
  Hsin-I Mei     2003

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Paige Meltzer

A.M. History, Brown University (2004)

A.M. History, Binghamton University (2000)

B.A. History and German, Hamilton College (1998)

Major Field: US Women’s History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: 20th Century Social and Cultural History (Elliott Gorn)

Third Field: Modern European Women’s History (Carolyn Dean)

Dissertation title: "Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United States, 1945-1960"

2003

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James Meyer A.M. History, Brown University (2002)

M.A., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University (2001)

B.A., English Literature, McGill University, (1991)

Major Field: Modern Middle East (E. Akarli)

Second Field: Russian and Soviet History Since 1861 (A. Gleason)

Third Field: European Intellectual and Cultural History

Dissertation: Turkic Worlds: Culture Wars and Collective Identity in Russia and the Ottoman Empire, 1890-1914

MA Thesis (Princeton University): "Memory and Political Symbolism in Post-September 12 Turkey: A History of the May 27th Debate".

2001
  Tshombe Miles     2001
  Michael Patrick Mott MA, San Francisco State University

BA, the University of California at Berkeley
 

Major Field: United States

2005

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Laura Moulton

M.A. in History, Brown University, 2005

S.B. in History (Minor in French), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001

Fields:

Modern Britain (Deborah Cohen)

Modern France (Maud Mandel)

Postcolonial Theory (Vazira Zamindar)

Dissertation: The Social and Cultural Legacies of the Anglo-Irish War in England, 1916-39
2004

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Caitlin R. Murphy

A.M. History, Brown University (2005)

B.A. History, Boston College (2000)

Major Field:   Modern US History   (Robert Self)

Second Field:  African American History (Jim Campbell)

Third Field:    Modern Latin America (Jim Green)

2004

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Coree Newman A.M. ,History, Brown University (2004)

B.A., History, Smith College (1998)

Major Field: Medieval Europe (Amy Remensnyder)

Second Field: Colonial Latin America (Douglas Cope)

Third Field: Medieval Art History (Sheila Bonde)

2000
  Alasdair Noble      

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  Daphna Oren-Magidor B.A, History, Tel Aviv University (2005) Major field: Early Modern Britain 2006

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Alexander Poole A.M., History, Brown University (2003)

B.A., History, Williams College (2000) 

Major Field: US Cultural and Intellectual (Elliot Gorn)

Second Field: Frontier and Western US (Karl Jacoby)

Third Field: Russia 1860- Present (Abbott Gleason)

Dissertation:  Alternative Wests (US)

2002

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Oded Rabinovitch A.M., History, Brown University (2005)

M.A., Early Modern European History, Tel-Aviv University (2004)

Major Field: Early Modern Europe (Tara Nummedal)

Second Field: History of Science (Joan Richards)

Third Field: Medieval Europe (Amy Remensnyder)

Dissertation: Social Lives and Intellectual Identities in Seventeenth-Century Paris

2004
  Marisela Ramos     2001
  Kelly Ricciardi     2002

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Mark Robbins

A.M., History, Brown University (2004)

B.A. History, University of Michigan  (2003)

Major Field: American Labor History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: Early American History (Gordon Wood)

Third Field:: Southern African History (Nancy Jacobs)

Dissertation: "Awakening the 'Forgotten Folk': Middle Class Consumer Activism in Post-World War I America."

2003

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Gabriel Rosenberg

A.M., History

Brown University (2004)

B.A., History

Grinnell College (2003)

Major Field:  American Gender and Sexuality (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: American Legal and Constitutional (Michael Vorenberg)

Third Field: 20th century European Intellectual (Carolyn Dean)

Dissertation: "Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots of the Modern Rural, 1914-1948."

2003

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Erica J. Ryan

A.M. History, Brown University (2002)

B.A. History concentration, Sarah Lawrence College (1998)

Major Field: 20th Century US Cultural and Intellectual History (Mari Jo Buhle)

Second Field: 19th Century US Cultural History (Elliott Gorn)

Third Field: Modern European History of Gender and Sexuality (Carolyn Dean)

Dissertation: “Red War on the Family:” Sex, Gender and Americanism in 1920s

2001

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  Shiri Beth Sandler  

BA, Cornell University

  2005
  Samantha Schoeller     2004
  Derek Seidman M.A., History, Brown University (2005)

B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles (2002)
Major Field: Modern U.S. History (Robert Self)

Second Field: American Labor History (Paul Buhle)

Third Field: Modern Middle East History (Engin Akarli)

Dissertation: The GI Revolt, U.S. Military, and American Society in the
Vietnam Era, 1966-1973.

2004
  John Francis Sheehan BA, James Madison University   2005
  Justin Stuart Solonick BA, University of Connecticut   2005
  Megan Streicher     2004.5

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Stacie Taranto A.M., History, Brown University (2005)

A.B., History,
Duke University (2001)
Major Field: Modern U.S. History (Robert Self)

Second Field: U.S. Women (Mari Jo Buhle)

Third Field: Modern Middle East (Engin Akarli)

Debating Family Values: Women, Grassroots Politics, and the New Right, 1970-1992
2004

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William P. Tatum III

A. M., History, Brown University (2004)

B.A., History and Anthropology, College of William and Mary in Virginia (2003)

Major Field: Early Modern Britain (Tim Harris)

Second Field: Colonial America (Gordon Wood)

Third Field: Early Modern Europe (Tara Nummedal)

2003

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Evelyn Thibault

A.M. History, Brown University (2005)

B.A., History, Mount Holyoke College (2003)

Major Field:  Medieval History (Amy Remensnyder)

Second Field: Early Modern Europe (Tara Nummedal)

2004
  Julia Timpe Humboldt University, Berlin (History, German Literature, European Ethnology)

Major Field: Modern German history (Omer Bartov)

2006

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Elizabeth Treat

A.M. History, Brown University, 2004

B.A. History, Carleton College, 2003

Major Field: Early Modern British History (Tim Harris)

Second Field: Early Modern European History (Tara Nummedal)

Third Field: Women in the Ottoman Empire (Engin Akarli)

2003

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Hongjie Wang

A.M. History, Brown University (2004)

A.M. Philosophy, Renmin University of China (2001)

 

Major Field: Medieval China

Second Field: Modern China

Third Field:  Pre-Modern Japan

Dissertation: The Making of a Centralized Periphery: Sichuan in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period China (907-979)

 
2002
  Adam Webster   Fields:

Modern German History: 1870-Present (Bartov)

Modern European Cultural History: 1870-1970 (Gluck)

Modern Britain, 1760-1970 (Cohen)

Dissertation: Schwarzenberg and the Structuring of Defeat in the German Borderland
2004
  Jason C. White B.A. History, James Madison University, 1997

M.Litt. St. Andrews University, 1999

A.M. History, Brown University, 2002
Fields:

Early Modern Britain (Tim Harris)

Reformation Europe (Philip Benedict)

Early Modern European Cultural and Intellectual (Tara Nummedal)

Dissertation: "'Warriors Best are Bred Within my Land': British Radicalism, the Thirty Years War, and the Origins of the British Problem, 1618-1642"
2001
  Stephen Wicken A.M., History, Brown University (2007)

M.A., International Relations (History and Genocide Studies), Yale University (2006)

B.A. (Hons), Politics, University of Cambridge
Major Field: War, Culture and Society (Omer Bartov)

Second Field: Modern France (Maud Mandel)

Third Field: Comparative Modern European History (Deborah Cohen)
2006

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Jennifer R. Wilz

A.M. History, Brown University (2003)

B.A., German and Women’s Studies, Carleton College (1997)

Major Field: Modern Germany (Omer Bartov)

Second Field: Modern Britain (Deborah A. Cohen)

Third Field: European Cultural History: Urban History (Mary Gluck)

Dissertation: Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin 1870-1990, a neighborhood on the fringe of Germany
2002
  Katherine Worley     2001

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  Yonghong Zhao     2004