RECENT RECIPIENTS OF THE DOCTORATE IN HISTORY FROM VANDERBILT

 

Patrick Jackson - PhD December 2012
Dissertation Title "Lost: American Evangelicals in the Public Sqaure, 1925-1955"
Interim Director of Writing, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College, PA

William Bishop - PhD August 2012
Dissertation Title "Diplomacy in Black and White: America’s Contribution to the Search for Zimbabwean Independence, 1965-1980 "
Administrative Assistant to the Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt University

 

 

Cheryl A. Hudson - PhD December 2011
Dissertation Title "Making Modern Citizens: Political Culture in Chicago, 1890-1930"
Tutorial Fellow (American Studies), University of Sussex, England

 

Crystal A. deGregory – PhD May 2011
Dissertation Title “Raising a Nonviolent Army: Four Nashville Black Colleges and the Century-Long Struggle for Civil Rights, 1830s-1930s”

 

Christina Dickerson Cousin – PhD May 2011
“Diplomats, Soldiers, and Slaveholders: The Coulon de Villiers Family in New France, 1700-1763”
Adjunct Professor in Humanities, Cumberland County College, Vineland, New Jersey

 

Rachel Donaldson – PhD May 2011
Dissertation Title “Music for the People: The Folk Music Revival and American Identity, 1930-1970”
Lecturer, Program in American Studies, Vanderbilt University

 

David C. LaFevor - May 2011
Dissertation: “Forging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s – 1930s”
Assistant Professor, Berry College

 

Michael Boden – December 2010
Dissertation: “The First Red Clausewitz: Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth-Century Socialist Military Thought”
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Retired
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY

 

Natalie Inman – December 2010
Dissertation: “Networks in Negotiation: The Role of Family and Kinship in Intercultural Diplomacy on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier, 1680-1849”
Assistant Professor, Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN

 

 

Kurt Johnson – December 2010
Dissertation: “The Re-enchanted Body in fin de siècle German Culture”
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Berlin Program for Advanced European and German Studies

 

Pablo Gomez – August 2010
Dissertation: “Bodies of Encounter: Health, Illness and Death in the Early Modern African-Spanish Caribbean”
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison (tenure-track)

 

 

Larry Rivers – August 2010
Dissertation: “‘Our God is Marching On’: James Hudson and the Theological Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement”
Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia (tenure-track)

 

Selena Sanderfer – August 2010
Dissertation: “For Land and Liberty: Black Territorial Separatism in the South, 1776-1904”
Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University (tenure-track)

 

Mary Sanderson – May 2010
Dissertation: “ ‘Our Own Catholic Countrymen’: Religion, Loyalism, and Subjecthood in Britain and its Empire, 1775-1829”
Adjunct Professor, Wright State University in Fairborn, OH

 

David Wheat – August 2009
Dissertation: “The Afro-Portuguese Maritime World and the Foundations of Spanish Caribbean Society, 1570-1640”
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University (tenure-track)

Michael Crane – May 2009
Dissertation: “Slavery on the Edge of Freedom: The Lower Ohio River Valley in the Antebellum and Civil War Era”
Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.

Robert Hutton – May 2009
Dissertation: “‘Bloody Breathitt’: Power and Violence in the Mountain South”
Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville