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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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Name, Year, Adviser Dissertation Title and Known Placement as of 2011
Joseph R. Avitable
Ph.D. 2009
Adviser: Joseph Inikori		 "The Atlantic World Economy and Colonial Connecticut"
Part-time faculty, Quinnipiac University
Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva
Ph.D. 2006
Adviser: Dorinda Outram 		"Madame Swetchine, 'Mother of the Church': A Case Study of Religion, Identity, and Female Authority in Nineteenth-Century France and Russia"
Associate Director, UR College Writing Program

Vasudha Bharadwaj
Ph.D. 2011
Adviser: Stewart Weaver

Languages of Nationhood : Political Ideologies and the Place of English in 20th Century India
Visiting Instructor, SUNY Albany
Charles Brotman
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin		 "The Power of Sound: Evolutionary Naturalism and Music in Anglo-American Victorian Culture"
Brian Campbell
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Celia Applegate		 "Resurrected from the Ruins, Turning to the Past: Historic Preservation in the SBZ/GDR, 1945-1990"
United States Foreign Service
Kathleen B. Casey
Ph.D. 2009
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott		 "Racedressers and Crossdressers: Gender, Race, and Sex on the American Vaudeville Stage, 1895-1925"
Post Doctoral Instructor, UR Writing Program
Jacalyn Eddy
Ph.D. 2003
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin		 "Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939"
Lecturer, SUNY Geneseo
Julia Goodwin
Ph.D. 2007
Adviser: Celia Applegate		 "Breaking Down Barriers: Music and the Culture of Reconciliation in West Berlin, 1961-1989"
Adjunct Instructor, Music and History, Oregon State University
Mary Henold
Ph.D. 2003
Adviser: Lynn Gordon		 "Faith, Feminism, and the Politics of Sustained Ambivalence: The Creation of the American Catholic Feminist Movement, 1963-1980"
Associate Professor Roanoke College
Edward Hodgman
Ph.D. 2003
Adviser: Robert Westbrook		 "Détente and the Dissidents: Human Rights in U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1968-1980"
Executive Director, Understanding Government
Dean Kernan
Ph.D. 2003
Adviser: Perez Zagorin		 "Richard Hooker: Defending the Jurisdiction of the English Church"
Jonathan Koehler
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Celia Applegate		 "'Revolutionizing the Mind': Social Democratic Associational Culture in Late Imperial Vienna"
United States Foreign Service
Mara V. Kozelsky
Ph.D. 2004
Adviser: Brenda Meehan		 "Christianizing Crimes: Church Scholarship, 'Russian Athos,' and Religious Patriotism of the Crimean War"
Assistant Professor of History, University of South Alabama
Drew Maciag
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Robert Westbrook		 "Edmund Burke and American Civilization"
Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo
Tara McCarthy
Ph.D. 2006
Adviser: Lynn Gordon		 "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"
Assistant Professor of History, Central Michigan University
Martin R. Mulford
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Celia Applegate		 "The Fourth Voice: European Settlers in German East Africa, 1900-1914."
Craig M. Nakashian
Ph.D. 2009
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper		 "'A new kind of monster...part-monk, part-knight': The Paradox of Clerical Militarism in the Middle Ages"
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University - Texarkana
Neal Palmer
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Stewart Weaver		 "To The Dark Cells: Prisoner Resistance and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Britain"
Associate Professor of History, Christian Brothers University
Gregory S. Parsons
Ph.D. 2007
Adviser: Celia Applegate		 "Popular Conservatism and Political Change in Germany and Great Britain: A Comparative Study, 1918-1924"
Assistant Professor of History, SUNY Oswego
Jonathan E. Robins
Ph.D. 2010
Adviser: Stewart Weaver & Stanley Engerman  		"The Cotton Crisis: Imperialism and Globalization in the Cotton Industry, 1900-18"
Lecturer, Morgan State University
Gabrielle S. Sanders
Ph.D. 2007
Adviser: Linda Levy Peck		 "The Gendering of Martyrdom: English Martyrology and the Defense of the Protestant Church"
Ronald F. Satta
Ph.D. 2005
Adviser: Robert Westbrook		 "The Sacred Text: Biblical Authority in Nineteenth-Century America."
Jeremy K. Saucier
Ph.D. 2010
Adviser: Robert Westbrook		 "Army Advertising and the Politics of Memory and Culture in Post-Vietnam America"
Visting Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure
John Summers
Ph.D. 2006
Adviser: Robert Westbrook		 "The Life and Mind of C. Wright Mills"
Visiting Scholar, Boisi Center, Boston College
Lisa Szefel
Ph.D. 2004
Adviser: Daniel Borus		 "The Creation of an American Poetic Community, 1890-1920"
Assistant Professor of History, Pacific University
Robert Vanderlan
Ph.D. 2003
Adviser: Robert Westbrook		 "Time Inc. and the Intellectuals"
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University