Recent Ph.D. Recipients : History Department

Recent Ph.D. Recipients

The Department prides itself on its conscientious and aggressive efforts to place its Ph.D.s in suitable academic employment. The Department has done remarkably well in placing its students. Among the institutions in which Rochester Ph.D.s now teach are the University of Arkansas, Bard College, UCLA, Canisius College, Clarkson University, Colgate University, Columbia University, Concordia College, Hamilton College, Harvard University, Louisiana State University, SUNY Buffalo, CUNY Lehmann College, Northeastern University, Ohio State University, University of Oklahoma (Norman), Rhodes College, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. Lawrence University, and Xavier University, among others. A number of Rochester Ph.D.s are pursuing careers in related professions; they have found employment at such diverse organizations as the New York State Archives, Library of Congress, and Newsday.

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Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva (2006)

Dissertation Title: "Madame Swetchine, 'Mother of the Church': A Case Study of Religion, Identity, and Female Authority in Nineteenth-Century France and Russia"
Adviser: Dorinda Outram

Charles Brotman (2005)

Dissertation Title: "The Power of Sound: Evolutionary Naturalism and Music in Anglo-American Victorian Culture"
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin

Dissertation Title: "Resurrected from the Ruins, Turning to the Past: Historic Preservation in the SBZ/GDR, 1945-1990"
Adviser: Celia Applegate

Dissertation Title: "Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939"
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin

Dissertation Title: "Breaking Down Barriers: Music and the Culture of Reconciliation in West Berlin, 1961-1989"
Adviser: Celia Applegate

Dissertation Title: "Faith, Feminism, and the Politics of Sustained Ambivalence: The Creation of the American Catholic Feminist Movement, 1963-1980"
Adviser: Lynn Gordon

Edward Hodgman (2003)

Dissertation Title: "Détente and the Dissidents: Human Rights in U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1968-1980"
Adviser: Robert Westbrook

Dissertation Title: "Richard Hooker: Defending the Jurisdiction of the English Church"
Adviser: Perez Zagorin

Jonathan Koehler (2005)

Dissertation Title: "'Revolutionizing the Mind': Social Democratic Associational Culture in Late Imperial Vienna"
Adviser: Celia Applegate

Mara V. Kozelsky (2004)

Dissertation Title: "Christianizing Crimes: Church Scholarship, 'Russian Athos,' and Religious Patriotism of the Crimean War"
Adviser: Brenda Meehan

Dissertation Title: "Edmund Burke and American Civilization."
Adviser: Robert Westbrook

Tara McCarthy (2006)

Dissertation Title: "True Women, Trade Unionists, and the Lessons of Tammany Hall: Ethnic Identity, Social Reform, and the Political Culture of Irish Women in America, 1880-1923"
Adviser: Lynn Gordon

Martin R. Mulford (2005)

Dissertation Title: "The Fourth Voice: European Settlers in German East Africa, 1900-1914."
Adviser: Celia Applegate

Dissertation Title: "To The Dark Cells: Prisoner Resistance and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Britain"
Adviser: Stewart Weaver

Gregory S. Parsons (2007)

Dissertation Title: "Popular Conservatism and Political Change in Germany and Great Britain: A Comparative Study, 1918-1924"
Adviser: Celia Applegate

Dissertation Title: "The Gendering of Martyrdom: English Martyrology and the Defense of the Protestant Church"
Adviser: Linda Levy Peck

Ronald F. Satta (2005)

Dissertation Title: "The Sacred Text: Biblical Authority in Nineteenth-Century America."
Adviser: Robert Westbrook

John Summers (2006)

Dissertation Title: "The Life and Mind of C. Wright Mills"
Adviser: Robert Westbrook

Lisa Szefel (2005)

Dissertation Title: "The Creation of an American Poetic Community, 1890-1920."
Adviser: Daniel Borus

Dissertation Title: "Time Inc. and the Intellectuals."
Adviser: Robert Westbrook

History Department

Recent Ph.D. Recipients

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