University of Rochester

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, AdviserDissertation Title and Known Placement
Avitable, Joseph R.
PhD 2009
Adviser: Joseph Inikori
"The Atlantic World Economy and Colonial Connecticut"
Part-time faculty, Quinnipiac University
Bakhmetyeva, Tatyana
PhD 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
Bharadwaj, Vasudha
PhD 2011
Adviser: Stewart Weaver
"Languages of Nationhood : Political Ideologies and the Place of English in 20th Century India"
Visiting Instructor, SUNY Albany
Brotman, Charles
PhD 2005
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
"The Power of Sound: Evolutionary Naturalism and Music in Anglo-American Victorian Culture"
Campbell, Brian
PhD 2005
Adviser: Celia Applegate
"Resurrected from the Ruins, Turning to the Past: Historic Preservation in the SBZ/GDR, 1945-1990"
United States Foreign Service
Casey, Kathleen B.
PhD 2009
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
"Racedressers and Crossdressers: Gender, Race, and Sex on the American Vaudeville Stage, 1895-1925"
Post Doctoral Instructor, UR Writing Program
Dingman, Paul E.
PhD Candidate, ABD 
Adviser: Richard Kaeuper
"The Emotions and Ethics of Chivalric Friendship in England"
Dougherty, Sara M.
Track: PhD 
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
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Eddy, Jacalyn
PhD 2003
Adviser: Joan Shelley Rubin
"Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939"
Lecturer, SUNY Geneseo
Finn, Michelle R.
Track: PhD Spring 2012
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
"A Modern Necessity: Feminism, Popular Culture, and American Womanhood, 1920-1948. Deputy Historian, City of Rochester"
Goodwin, Julia
PhD 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
Henold, Mary
PhD 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
Hodgman, Edward
PhD 2003
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"Détente and the Dissidents: Human Rights in U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1968-1980"
Executive Director, Understanding Government
Huntington, Samuel J.
Track: PhD 
Adviser: Daniel Borus
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Kadercan, Pelin
Track: PhD 
Adviser: Celia Applegate
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Kernan, Dean
PhD 2003
Adviser: Perez Zagorin
"Richard Hooker: Defending the Jurisdiction of the English Church"
Koehler, Jonathan
PhD 2005
Adviser: Celia Applegate
"'Revolutionizing the Mind': Social Democratic Associational Culture in Late Imperial Vienna"
United States Foreign Service
Kozelsky, Mara V.
PhD 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
Learned, Jay D.
Track: PhD 2012
Adviser: Joan Rubin
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Maciag, Drew
PhD 2005
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"Edmund Burke and American Civilization"
Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo
McCarthy, Tara
PhD 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
Morry, Emily C.
Track: PhD 
Adviser: Victoria Wolcott
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Mulford, Martin R.
PhD 2005
Adviser: Celia Applegate
"The Fourth Voice: European Settlers in German East Africa, 1900-1914."
Nakashian, Craig M.
PhD 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
Palmer, Neal
PhD 2005
Adviser: Stewart Weaver
"To The Dark Cells: Prisoner Resistance and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Britain"
Associate Professor of History, Christian Brothers University
Parsons, Gregory S.
PhD 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
Paternaude, Monique D.
Track: PhD 
Adviser: Larry Hudson
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Robins, Jonathan E.
PhD 2010
Adviser: Stewart Weaver, Stanley Engerman
"The Cotton Crisis: Imperialism and Globalization in the Cotton Industry, 1900-18"
Lecturer, Morgan State University
Sanders, Gabrielle S.
PhD 2007
Adviser: Linda Levy Peck
"The Gendering of Martyrdom: English Martyrology and the Defense of the Protestant Church"
Satta, Ronald F.
PhD 2007
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"The Sacred Text: Biblical Authority in Nineteenth-Century America."
Saucier, Jamie C.
PhD Candidate, ABD 
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"Suburbanizing the American Imagination: Cul-de-Sac Culture in Postwar Social Thought"
Saucier, Jeremy K.
PhD 2010
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"Army Advertising and the Politics of Memory and Culture in Post-Vietnam America"
Visting Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure
Simon, Brian D.
Track: PhD 
Adviser: Theodore Brown
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Summers, John
PhD 2006
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"The Life and Mind of C. Wright Mills"
Visiting Scholar, Boisi Center, Boston College
Szefel, Lisa
PhD 2004
Adviser: Daniel Borus
"The Creation of an American Poetic Community, 1890-1920"
Assistant Professor of History, Pacific University
Vanderlan, Robert
PhD 2003
Adviser: Robert Westbrook
"Time Inc. and the Intellectuals"
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University