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Christopher Barthel
 
Ania Borejsza-Wysocka
 
Adam Boss
Fields of Interest: Medieval and early modern Europe; religious history, particularly heresy, the Crusades, and the Inquisition; cross-cultural interaction; French society during the Hundred Years War
Academic Biography: B.A., History, Colby College 2008
A.M., History, Brown University 2009
Conference Presentations: "Daily Life in Orléans at the Time of the English Siege," 44th International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI (Spring 2009).
Field Exams: Medieval Europe (Amy Remensnyder)
Early modern Europe (Tara Nummedal)
Missions, empire, and cross-cultural interaction (Jorge Flores)
 
Emily Anne Brimsek
Fields of Interest: Early modern empires; crime; state-sponsored violence; torture; the rise of the middle class; policing and punishment
Academic Biography: B.A., History, Carleton College 2006
A.M., History, Brown University 2007
Conference Presentations: "Honor, Property and the Middle Class in Eighteenth-Century Scotland," NECBS, Fall 2008
Field Exams: Major field: Early Modern Britain (Tim Harris)
Minor fields: Early Modern European Empires (Jorge Flores); Modern Britain (Deborah Cohen)
 
Bryan Brinkman
 
Stephen Chambers
Academic Biography: PhD, Brown University, 2013 (expected)
MA, Brown University, 2007
BA, The University of Chicago, 2002
Conference Presentations: “’Neither Justice Nor Mercy’: Public and Private Executions in Rhode Island, 1832 – 1833,” Tension Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Brown University, April 2009.

“Silent Historians and Militant Engineers: Reading the Present in Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past,” New England American Studies Conference, Yale University, September 2008.
Publications: Scholarly Publications

“When the Drumbeat Changes,” The Journal of Rethinking
History, forthcoming.

"Industrialization," The Encyclopedia of the Early Republic, forthcoming.

“’Neither Justice Nor Mercy’: Public and Private Executions in Rhode Island,
1832 – 1833,” The New England Quarterly, September 2009.

"Graduate School with Children, Parts I, II, and III" The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007 - 2008.

Commercial Book Publications

"Jane and the Raven King," Sourcebooks, Inc., forthcoming.

"Hope's War," Tor Books, 2002.

"Hope's End," Tor Books, 2001.
Awards: Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Brown University, 2008 – 2010.

Research Assistantship, Professor Seth Rockman, Brown University, Summer 2008.

Roger Williams Fellowship, Brown University, 2007 – 2008.

Graduate with honors, for undergraduate thesis, “The Greatest City of the World:
Early-Modern London, Amsterdam, and Paris,” The University of Chicago, 2002.
Field Exams: Major Field: Early America (Professor Rockman)

Minor Fields: The Atlantic World (Professor Cope), Early Modern Empires (Professor Flores)
Dissertation: "The American State of Cuba: The Monroe Doctrine and the Business of Cuba"
 
Lara Couturier
Fields of Interest: Modern US History, African American History, History of Higher Education, Modern Japanese History
Academic Biography: Brown University, MA in History, 2004
Harvard Graduate School of Education, MEd, 1999
University of Richmond, 1993
Conference Presentations: National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions 35th Annual Conference on historical policy implications for “New Models of Public Advocacy for Public Higher Education” (New York, NY, 04/08).
Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education on Virginia’s 2005 Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act (Madison, WI, 10/06).
National Conference of State Legislatures 2006 Annual Conference on the changing relationship between states and their public institutions (Nashville, TN, 08/06).
Purdue University Cabinet Retreat on the changing relationship between states and their public institutions (Warsaw, IN, 06/06).
Association for the Study of Higher Education on “Entrepreneurs, Consumers and Cultural Resistance: The Changing Terrain of Higher Education” (Philadelphia, PA, 11/05).
Retreat of the Massachusetts State Colleges’ Council of Presidents on the trends changing higher education (Concord, MA, 1/05).
Nebraska Board of Regents on the new relationships between the state and public higher education (Omaha, NE, 6/04).
Universities Challenged Conference of the Financial Times on globalization and competition in higher education (London, 12/03).
Association for the Study of Higher Education on “Globalization with a Conscience: The Implications of Privatization in Higher Education” (Portland, OR, 11/03).
National Conference of the National Education Association on “Hawking Public Good in the Higher Education Market” (Austin, TX, 3/02).
Closing Plenary of the American Association of Higher Education National Conference on outcomes of focus groups with legislators and presidents about the new competition (Chicago, IL, 3/02).
Publications: Couturier, Lara K. “Balancing Autonomy and Accountability in Higher Education.” In Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth. Eds. Richard Kazis, Joel Vargas, and Nancy Hoffman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2004.
Couturier, Lara K. “Balancing State Control with Society’s Needs.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 June 2003: B20.
Couturier, Lara K. Checks and Balances at Work: The Restructuring of Virginia's Public Higher Education System. San Jose, CA: National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, June 2006.
Couturier, Lara K. "Extraordinary Circumstances: Dismissal of Tenured Faculty for Financial Exigency and Program Discontinuance." In Policies on Faculty Appointment. Ed. Cathy A. Trower. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, 2000.
Couturier, Lara K. “The Unspoken is Being Undone: The Market’s Impact on Higher Education’s Public Purposes.” New Directions for Higher Education, Spring 2005.
Eckel, Peter, Lara K. Couturier and Dao T. Luu. “US Privatization, Accountability, and Market-Based State Policy.” International Higher Education (Fall 2005): 12-14.
Newman, Frank and Lara K. Couturier. "Rhetoric, Reality and the Risks." American Academic, 1.1, June 2004.
Newman, Frank and Lara K. Couturier. “The New Competitive Arena: Market Forces Invade the Academy.” Change 33.5 (September/October 2001): 10-17.
Newman, Frank, Lara K. Couturier and Jamie Scurry. “Higher Education Isn’t Meeting the Public’s Needs.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 October 2004: B6.
Newman, Frank, Lara K. Couturier and Jamie Scurry. The Future of Higher Education: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, October 2004.
Awards: ASHE/Lumina Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-2009
Field Exams: Modern US, African American, Modern Japan
Dissertation: Accessing Opportunity: A History of the Debates over Access to College, 1940-2008
 
Terah Crews
Academic Biography: B.A. History and Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008)
 
Tom Devaney
Publications: “Competing Spectacles in the Venetian Festa delle Marie,” Viator 39:1 (Spring, 2008): 107-25.

“Like an Ember Buried in Ashes: The Byzantine-Venetian Conflict of 1119-1126,” in Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict, ed. Thomas F. Madden, James Naus, and Vincent Ryan (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming)

“Representing the medieval festivals of Jaén: Old and New Approaches,” in Representing the Past: Archaeology through Image & Text, ed. Stephen Houston and Sheila Bonde (Oakville, CT: David Brown Book Co, forthcoming)
Awards: Research Grant (2008): Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture & United States Universities

Summer Pre-dissertation Fellowship (2008): Council for European Studies, Columbia University

Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Research Grant (2008): Medieval Academy of America
Field Exams: Medieval Social and Cultural History (Remensnyder)
Medieval Archaeology and Architecture (Bonde)
Early Modern European History (Nummedal)
Dissertation: “Public Ritual and the Frontier Experience in Castile and the Latin East, 1085-1492”
 
Sean Dinces
 
Brian Druchniak
 
Natalina Earls
 
Sara Fingal
Fields of Interest: U.S. history post-1945, environmental history, California history, coastal history, Mexico/U.S. borderlands, Baja California history, and public space.
Field Exams: Primary Field: Modern U.S. history with Robert Self
Second Field: Environmental history with Karl Jacoby
Third Field: Mexico and Central American Borderlands history with Evelyn Hu-Dehart
 
Jon Gentry
 
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Sonja Glaab
 
Emma Goldsmith
 
Sandra Haley
 
Eunsun Han
 
Wanda Henry
 
Benjamin Holtzman
 
Kevin Hoskins
 
Alexander M. Kunst
 
Jooyoung Lee
 
Alexis Liesman
Fields of Interest: Modern European history, specifically post-WWII Germany through reunification (1945-1990)
Academic Biography: BA Art History WHEATON COLLEGE (MA), 2007
Awards: Friends of Art Prize: Best honors thesis "German Artistic Identity: Selected works by Katharina Fritsch, Andreas Gursky and Anselm Kiefer" (2007)
 
Daniel Loss
Academic Biography: Brown University
Ph.D., History - expected 2013
A.M., History - 2008

University of Cambridge
M.Phil., Modern European History - 2005
Thesis: British Attitudes towards France in the Early Months of the First World War

Swarthmore College
B.A., History and Linguistics - 2004
High Honors
Field Exams: Major field: Modern Britain (with Deborah Cohen)
Minor fields: Modern Europe (with Maud Mandel) and Colonial South Asia (with Vazira Zamindar)
Dissertation: The Afterlife of Christianity in Postwar England
 
Amy Bliss Marshall
Fields of Interest: AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
20th Century Japan

OTHER TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
17th-19th Century Japan – Social & Cultural History
Late 19th and early 20th Century China – Social & Cultural History
Academic Biography: TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistantship
Fall 2006 and Fall 2008: The Pacific War: Japan 1937-45 (with Professor Kerry Smith)
Spring 2007: Introduction to East Asian Civilization: Japan (with Professor Kerry Smith)
Spring 2009: Samurai and Merchants, Prostitutes and Priests: A Social History of Japanese Culture (with Professor James McClain)

LANGUAGE TRAINING
Stanford's Inter-University Center, Yokohama
Certificate, Advanced Japanese Language, 2007 – 2008
Conference Presentations: Invited Lecture
13 June 2008
Imperialism ＆ Rural Japan: A Decade of Advertising in Ie no hikari
帝国主義と日本農村：『家の光』の広告に於ける十年間
Yokohama City University, Yamada Shunji's “Media History in Japan” seminar

Conference Presentations
Expressions of Patriotism in Early Shōwa Pop Culture
昭和初期の大衆文化に於ける愛国表現
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Graduation Happyōkai.
Yokohama, Japan, 2 June 2008.
Awards: ~U.S. J. William Fulbright Fellow 2009-10, Japan-United States Educational Commission [Fulbright Japan]

~Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program 2009-10 (declined grant for alternate funding)

~J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board administered US Department of Education Group Projects Abroad (US DoE/GPA) Scholarship 2007-08

~Gilman International Scholar 2004-05

~Association of Teachers of Japanese Bridging Scholar 2004-05

~JASSO/AIEJ Scholar 2004-05 (awarded by the Japanese Ministry of Education)

~UW Merit-Based Award, 2004-05
Field Exams: Modern Japan - Kerry Smith
Modern China - Mark Swislocki
Japan to the Meiji (A Teaching Field) - James McClain
Dissertation: People, Power & Popular Media in Interwar Japan
(Advised by Professor Kerry Smith)
 
Paige Meltzer
 
Michele J. Mericle
Fields of Interest: Modern Latin America (James Green)
Colonial Latin America (R. Douglass Cope)
Modern Europe (Mary Gluck)
Academic Biography: M.A., Latin American History, University of Arizona, 2003
M.A., History, Brown University, 2008
M.L.I.S., University of Rhode Island, 2009
Conference Presentations: La Autoviuda: The Trial of "Miss Mexico," Phi Alpha Theta symposium,
University of Arizona, Spring 1999.
Awards: Graduate fellowship, Brown University, 2007-present.
Confucius Institute travel grant to China, University of Rhode Island,
Summer 2007
Graduate fellowship, Northeastern University, 2002-2003.
Hewlett travel grant, University of Arizona, for Master's thesis research in
Mexico City, Fall 1999.
Graduate fellowship, University of Arizona, 1998-1999.
Field Exams: Modern Latin America
Colonial Latin America
Modern Europe
Dissertation: Performing the New Woman in Mexico City, 1880-1920: Theater, Gender,and
Public Ritual during the Porfiriato
 
Mo Moulton
 
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Daphna Oren-Magidor
Fields of Interest: Early Modern England, Early Modern Europe, Gender History,
Social and Cultural History, History of Medicine.
Academic Biography: B.A, Tel Aviv University, 2005.
A.M, Brown University, 2007.
Conference Presentations: " "Conceiving the Ideal Marriage": Guides to Conception and Ideals of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century England", NECBS, October 2009

"Gendering the queen: gendered identities in the life of Henrietta-Maria of England",
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, UIUC, March 2009
Awards: Mellon-CLIR Fellow, 2009-2010
Field Exams: Early Modern Britain (with Tim Harris)
Early Modern Europe (with Moshe Sluhovsky)
History of Science and Medicine (with Tara Nummedal)
Dissertation: "Make me a fruitfull vine": dealing with infertility in Early Modern England (working title) - advised by Tim Harris.
My dissertation focuses on fertility problems and the ways in which early modern couples in England dealt with them in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will examine the treatment of infertility and the changes it underwent throughout the seventeenth century. However, I will not merely discuss infertility as a medical phenomenon which sheds light on the rise of modern medicine. In a society in which legitimate procreation was one of the primary reasons for marriage, failing to conceive or to carry pregnancies to full term was a crisis. My study will therefore focus on the social, cultural and, in particular, gendered dynamics surrounding this crisis, in order to draw broader conclusions about early modern English society.
 
Laura Perille
 
Michael Pierpoint
 
Dan Polifka
Academic Biography: B.A., Middlebury College, History, 2006
 
Oded Rabinovitch
 
Sayema Rawof
Fields of Interest: Medieval and early modern Mediterranean, religious history (especially conversion and evangelization), Reconquista and Spanish colonialism, early colonial Latin America.
Academic Biography: M.A., Queen's University (Kingston) 2009
B.A., University of Toronto 2008
 
John Rosenberg
 
Lindsay Schakenbach
 
Stacie Taranto
 
William P Tatum III
Fields of Interest: Early Modern Britain, Colonial America, Early Modern Europe, War and Society, Borderlands, Social Control
Academic Biography: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Dissertation Committee: Prof. Tim Harris, Prof. Gordon Wood, and Prof. Gregory
Urwin (Temple University)

Fields: Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Europe, Colonial America

Expected Date of Completion: August 2009

M.A., History, May 2004

College of William and Mary in Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia

B.A., History, Anthropology Minor, Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2003
Senior Honors Thesis: Deserted!: Opportunism and Desertion in the British
Army, 1763-1783, accepted with Highest Honors.

Thesis Committee: Prof. James McCord, Prof. Philip Daileader, and Prof. Norman Barka

University of Exeter, Exeter, England

Junior Year Abroad Program, 2001-2002, courses in history and archaeology,
supervised by Prof. Jeremy Black
Conference Presentations: “Military Authority and Social Control in the Eighteenth-Century British
Atlantic.” North East Conference on British Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2008

“Leggings, Trousers, and Roundabouts: British Campaign Uniforms in North America, 1775-1783.”
Invited lecture at the National Army Museum given to a general audience, Chelsea, England, March 2007.

“Deconstructing the Deserter: New Perspectives on British Military Culture,
1763-83,” North East Conference on British Studies, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 2005
Publications: Review of Gordon E. Bannerman, Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century
Britain (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008), in The Scribblerian and the Kit-Kats, Summer
2009

“Challenging the New Military History: The Case of Eighteenth-Century British Army
Studies,” History Compass, 5/1 (2007): 249-261.

Fort Pocahontas: Results from the 2001 Field Season. College of William and Mary
Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR), Williamsburg, Virginia, 2001. WMCAR Archaeological Site Report Series.
Awards: Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Brown University, Fall 2008

Research Assistantship, Brown University, Summer 2008

Brown University Research Traveling Fellowship, Brown University, 2006-2007

Brown University Matching Research Grant for the Price Visiting Research
Fellowship, Brown University, Summer 2006

Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of
Michigan, Summer 2006

Summer Support Scholarships, Brown University, Summer 2004, Summer 2005,
Summer 2006

Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2003-2004

Summer Archaeological Field School Fellowship, University of
Virginia/Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Summer 2000
Field Exams: Early Modern Britain
Colonial America
Early Modern Europe
Dissertation: "A Proper Submission: British Military Justice and Society, 1715-1784."
Examines how the tension between the conflicting ideas of social groups within military and civilian circles affected the development and operation of the British Military Justice System.
Dissertation Committee: Prof. Tim Harris, Prof. Gordon Wood, and Prof. Gregory
Urwin (Temple University)
 
Julia Timpe
 
Adam Webster
 
Stephen Kazik Wicken
Fields of Interest: Modern and contemporary France; modern Europe; modern international and world history; imperialism and colonialism; national identity; social and cultural history; everyday life and alltagsgeschichte; social and cultural history of warfare.
Academic Biography: Brown University
Ph.D., History, 2006 - current (expected 2012).
A.M., History, 2007.

Yale University
M.A., International Relations, 2006.
Concentrations: Modern European and World History; Genocide Studies.
Research thesis: ‘Between Colonialism and Collaboration: Race, Citizenship and Occupation in France, 1940-1944’.

University of Cambridge
B.A. (Hons), Social and Political Sciences (Politics).
Final Essays: 'The Bombing of Civilians in American Foreign Policy, 1942-1975’ (received 1*st).
Conference Presentations: ‘The Holocaust’s Colonial Origins: An Historiographical Exploration’, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Biennial Convention, 2006.
Publications: ‘Views of the Holocaust in Arab Media and Public Discourse’, Yale Journal of International Affairs 1, no. 2 (Winter/Spring 2006), 103-115.
Awards: Bourse Chateaubriand, Service culturel de l'Ambassade de France aux Etats Unis, 2009-10.
Research Assistantship, Professor Maud Mandel, 2009-10.
Chancellor Stephen Robert Fellowship, Brown University, 2006.
Fox International Fellowship, Yale University to Institut d’Études de Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), 2006-7 (declined).
Yale Center for International and Area Studies Research Grant, Yale University, Summer 2005.
Mellon Fellowship, University of Cambridge to Yale University, 2004-6.
Honorary Scholarship, Clare College, University of Cambridge, 2003.
Field Exams: War, Culture and Society (Omer Bartov); Modern and Contemporary French History (Maud Mandel); Comparative Modern European History (Deborah Cohen).
Dissertation: 'Rejoining France: Occupation, Liberation and Identity on the French Atlantic Coast, 1944-1946.'

While the rest of France was liberated from German occupation in 1944, the French civilian inhabitants of the villages and towns in and around the Atlantic communes of Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle and Royan remained under the harshest conditions of occupation until May 1945. My dissertation brings the experience of these Atlantic pockets into the scholarly discussion of France's war, using source collections from communal, diocesan and departmental archives, as well as private collections and those of local institutions, to explore how these communities negotiated daily life in France's 'Wild West', trapped between their occupiers and the Allied troops and French fighters come to liberate them. These communities provide a critical lens through which to view the relationship between local, regional and national identities in modern France.
 
Theresa Williams
 

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