Graduate Alumni Directory | Department of History

Name	Advisor(s)	Doctoral thesis	Date of PhD	Initial post-graduate position	Subsequent position
Leonardo Moreno	Marcus Rediker	The Rise and Fall of Cartagena de Indias: Maritime Economies, Labor, and Crisis in a Caribbean Port City (1578-1700)	2022	Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Matthew Plishka	Lara Putnam & Molly Warsh	Cycles of Crisis and Adaptation: A Multispecies Political Ecology of Late-Colonial Jamaica, 1870-1960	2022	Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Jacob Pomerantz	Molly Warsh	Building the Bridge: Labor and Colonial Governance in Seventeenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados	2021	Field examiner, National Relations Labor Board
Aura Jirau-Arroyo	Lara Putnam	Our University: Nation, Diversity, and Student Protest in the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, 1952-1981	2021	Teaching Postdoctoral fellow, Albion College	Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
Artan Hoxha	Gregor Thum	Sugarland: Socialism and teh Transformation of the Albanian Countryside	2020	Researcher, Institute of History, Tirana, Albania
Yevan Terrien	Marcus Rediker	Exiles and Fugitives: Labor, Mobility, and Power in French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1769	2020	Visiting Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Johnathan White	Lara Putnam and Laurence Glasco	It Was All a Dream...Pittsburgh's Musicians Local 471: Collective Memory and Alternate Truths	2020	Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State Greater Allegheny
Jose Andres Fernandez	Lara Putnam	Jamaica in the age of Development: Petitions, Small Farming, and Agricultural Planning, 1895-1972	2020	Assistant Professor, University of Costa Rica
Bethany Wade	Lara Putnam/Reid Andrews	Enlightened Burial: Death and Science in the Spanish Caribbean, 1800-1870	2020	Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University	Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University
Adam Brode	Gregor Thum	Pride of Place. Interethnic Relations and Urban Spaces in Riga, 1918-1939	2019	Data Analyst and German-language Specialist, Financial Compliance Industry
Alexandra Mountain	Rob Ruck	Rough Ice: The Education and Labor of Young Male Ice Hockey Players in Canada, the United States, and Sweden, 1950-1980	2019	Allan H. Selig Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin
Marcy Ladson	Edward Muller	We Didn’t Start the Fire: Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania Before the Marcellus Boom	2019	Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Jesse Olsavsky	Niklas Frykman/ Marcus Rediker	"Fire and sword will affect more good:" Runaways, vigilance committees and the rise of revolutionary abolitionism, 1835-1860"	2019	Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu Province, China
Dan Holland	Edward Muller	Communities of Resistance: How ordinary people developed creative responses to marginalization in Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980-2010	2019	Part-time Instructor, University of Pittsburgh
Mirelle Luecke	Holger Hoock/ Marcus Rediker	Topsail Alley: Labor Networks and Social Conflict on the New York Waterfront in the Age of Revolution	2019	Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut	Supervisory Curator, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Christopher Eirkson	Ruth Mostern/ Evelyn Rawski	Ideas of Empire in Early Ming China: The Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Chinese Imperial Visions, 1368-1500	2018	Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College	Academic Advisor, George Washington University
Bennett Sherry	Diego Holstein/ Pat Manning	Crossing Lines: How Transnational Advocacy & Refugee Migration Shaped the UNHCR in Turkey, 1960–1988	2018	Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Jack Bouchard	Marcus Rediker	Towards Terra Nova: The North Atlantic Fisheries and the Atlantic World, 1490-1600	2018	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC	Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Stephanie Makin	Gregor Thum	The Catholic Conundrum: The Role of the German and American Catholic Communities in Creating the Cold War World, 1945-1955	2018	ORISE Fellow, Europe-Mediterranean Directorate within the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Washington, DC
Nyri Bakkalian	William Chase	The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan	2017	Staff, Qualitative Data Analysis Program, University of Pittsburgh
Jonathan Sherry	William Chase	Stalinism on Trial: Spanish Republican Legality, the Soviet Union, and the Performance of Justice in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939	2017	Visiting Professor, University of Miami	Assistant Professor, Averett University
Kelly Urban	Reid Andrews/ Alejandro de la Fuente	The Sick Republic: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Politics in Cuba, 1925-1965	2017	Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh	Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama
Francisco Flórez-Bolívar	Reid Andrews	En sus propios términos: Negros y mulatos y sus luchas por la igualdad en Colombia, 1885-1947	2016	Assistant Professor, University of Cartagena (Colombia)
Katherine Parker	Seymour Drescher/ Holger Hoock	Contentious Waters: The Creation of Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain, 1669-1768	2016	Hakluyt Society Research Fellowship	Research Officer, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.
Christopher Myers	Seymour Drescher	Steering The Seas of Reform: Education, Empirical Science, And Royal Naval Medicine, 1815-1860	2016	Processing Brokerage Clerk, Vanguard
John Galante	Reid Andrews	Distant Loyalties: World War I and the Italian South Atlantic	2016	Assistant Teaching Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Titas Chakroborty	Marcus Rediker	Work and Society in the East India Company Settlements in Bengal, 1650-1757	2016	Post-doctoral Fellowship of Historical Studies, University of Texas-Austin	Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Shanghai
Jesse Horst	Reid Andrews/ Alejandro de la Fuente	Sleeping on the Ashes: Slum Clearance in Havana in an Age of Revolution 1930-65	2016	Resident Director, Sarah Lawrence College in Havana (Cuba)
Oana Adelina Stefan	William Chase	Vacationing in the Cold War: Foreign Tourists to Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970s	2016	Post-doctoral Fellow, Central European University in Budapest	Research Associate, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Anthony Comegna	Van Beck Hall	The Dupes of Hope Forever:" The Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Movement, 1820s-1870s	2016	Assistant Editor for Intellectual History, Libertarianism.org and The Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.	Academics Programs Design Manager, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
Andrew Behrendt	Irina Livezeanu	Travelers of an Empire that Was: Tourism, Movie-Going, and the Formation of Post-Imperial Identities in Austria and Hungary, 1918-1944	2016	Undergraduate advisor, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Pittsburgh	Assistant Teaching Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Steven Pitt	Marcus Rediker	City upon the Atlantic Tides: Merchants, Pirates, and the Seafaring Community of Boston	2015	Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University	Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University
Madalina Veres	Pinar Emiraliogliu & Patrick Manning	Constructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment	2015	Junior Fellow, Central European University's Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, Hungary	Postdoc, American Philosophical Society; currently Director of Corporate a& Foundation Relations, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia
Ahmet Izmirlioglu	Pat Manning	Clashes of Imperial Authority: Commercial Tribunals in the Ottoman Provinces and Istanbul, 1847-1880.	2015	Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, Department of History	Lecturer, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Victoria Harms	Gregor Thum	Destined or Doomed? Hungarian Dissidents and their Western Friends, 1973–1998	2015	Post-doctoral Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany	DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins
Katharine Phelps Walsh	Bruce Venarde/ JenWaldron	Parturition and Print in Seventeenth-Century London	2014	Adjunct Professor, Wright State University	Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Shaev	William Chase	Estrangement and Reconciliation: French Socialists, German Social Democrats, and the Origins of European Integration, 1948-1957	2014	Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden	Professor, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Suset Laboy Perez	Alejandro de la Fuente	Minor Problems: Juvenile Delinquents and the Construction of a Puerto Rican Subject, from 1880-1938	2014	Public Relations/ Creative Consultant
Samantha Lomb	William Chase	Speaking Out: Popular Dimensions of Stalinist Authoritarianism: the Discussion and Implementation of the 1936 Constitution	2014	Lecturer, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia	Assistant Professor, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia
James Hommes	Evelyn Rawski	Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and ‘Foreign Hero	2014	Teacher, Trinity Christian School, Pittsburgh, PA
Lars Peterson	Reid Andrews	In the Shadow of Batlle: Workers, State Officials, and the Creation of the Welfare State in Uruguay, 1900-1920	2014	Assistant Director for Development, Brother’s Brother Foundation
Nicole Bourbonnais	Lara Putnam	Out of the Boudoir and into the Banana Walk: Birth Control Campaigns and Reproductive Politics in the West Indies, 1930-1970	2013	Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Alejandra Boza	Lara Putnam	Negotiating Indigenous Autonomy: Politics, Land, and Religion in Tierradentro (Colombia), 1905-1950	2013	Assistant Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica
Julien Comte	Lara Putnam	Syphilis and Sex: Transatlantic Medicine and Public Health in Argentina and the United States, 1880-1940	2013	Academic Advisor, University of Pittsburgh	Bilingual Technical Product Analyst, HCL America (onsite at Google Pittsburgh)
Laura Grantmyre	Maurine Greenwald	Conflicting Visions of Urban Renewal: Visual Representations of Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1943-1968	2013	Adjunct Instructor, Point Park University	Instructor of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Mary's School, Raleigh, NC
Natalie Kimball	Reid Andrews	An Open Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-2010	2013	Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University	Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Kavin Paulraj	Lara Putnam	Jamaica Brasileira: The Politics of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil	2013	Musician
Alyssa Ribeiro	Edward Muller	The Battle for Harmony: Intergroup Relations Between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1950s to 1980s	2013	Lecturer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Assistant Professor, Allegheny College
Oliver Bateman	Peter Karsten	Law, Society, and Judicial Politics: State Supreme Courts and the Pursuit of Educational Equity	2012	Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington	Independent journalist
Mathew Casey	Alejandro de la Fuente	From Haiti to Cuba and Back: Haitians' Experiences of Migration, Labor, and Return, 1900-1940	2012	Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
Roland Clark	Irina Livezeanu	European Fascists and Local Activists: Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael	2012	Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University	Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
Jacob Pollock	Pinar Emiralioglu	The Geographicall Compass: History, Authority and Utility in the English Voyage Account, 1660–1730	2012	Senior Historian, Office of Treaty Settlements in Wellington, New Zealand
Oscar de la Torre Cueva	Reid Andrews	Freedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-1950	2011	Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma	Assistant, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Niklas Frykman	Marcus Rediker	The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic Revolution	2010	Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College	Assistant Professor, University of Pittburgh
Kenyon Zimmer	Richard Oestreicher	The Whole World is Our Country: Immigration and Anarchism in the United States, 1885-1940	2010	Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Sharika Crawford	Reid Andrews	Under the Colombian Flag: Nation-Building on San Andres and Providence Islands, 1887-1930	2009	Assistant, Associate Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Tracey Jaffee	Reid Andrews	In the Footsteps of Cristo Obrero: Chile's Young Catholic Workers Movement in the Shantytown, Factory, and Family, 1946-1973	2009	Lecturer, University of Dayton
Eric Kimball	Marcus Rediker	An Essential Link in a Vast Chain: New England and the West Indies, 1700-1775	2009	Assistant Professor, Utah State University	Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
Katherine Sorrels	Gregor Thum & Jonathan Scott	Austrian Jews and the Idea of Europe: Reformulating Multi-nationalism as a Response to the Disintegration of the Harbsburg Empire, 1880-1939	2009	Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati (2009), Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati (2018)
Tania Boster	Jonathan Scott	Better to be Alone than in Ill Company: Jeremy Collier the Younger: Life and Works, 1650-1726	2008	Program Coordinator at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Director, Student Leadership Programs; Assistant Director, the Bonner Center for Service & Learning; Oberlin College & Conservatory
Clayton Brown	Evelyn Rawski	Making the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology	2008	Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN	Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University
William Conrad	Van Beck Hall	Development in Extractive Communities: Ridgway and St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 1850-1914	2008	Executive Director, Stackpole-Hall Foundation, St. Marys, PA
Craig Marin	Marcus Rediker	Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1793-1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City	2008	University of Rhode Island, Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence, RI	Instructor, Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Mass.
Ellen Walsh	Alejandro de la Fuente	Advancing the Kingdom: Missionaries and Americanization in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s	2008	Assistant Professor, Gannon University, Erie, PA	Assistant Professor, Governors State University in Illinois
David Gerlach	Irina Livezeanu	For Nation and Gain: Economy, Ethnicity and Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-1948	2007	Assistant, Associate Professor of History, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Joanne O'Connell	Edward Muller	Understanding Stephen Collins Foster, His World and Music	2007
Christopher Magra	Marcus Rediker	The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution	2006	Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, CA	Associate Professor, University of Tennessee
Curtis Miner	Edward Muller	Level Playing Fields: The Democratization of Amateur Sport in Pennsylvania	2006	Senior Curator, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Tina Phillips	Evelyn Rawski	Building the Nation through Women’s Health: Biomedical Midwifery in the Early 20th Century China	2006	Assistant, Associate Professor, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
Steven Schroeder	Van Beck Hall	The Elementary School of the Army: The Pennsylvania National Guard, 1877- 1917	2006	Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa.
Gregory Wood	Richard Oestreicher	The Problem of the Old Man: Manhood, Class, and Retirement in the U.S. 1910-1950	2006	Penn State University, Erie, Pa.	Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md.
John Donoghue	Marcus Rediker	Racial Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624- 1661	2005	Assistant, Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago, Ill.
Scott Giltner	Van Beck Hall	The Art of Serving is With Them Innate: Hunting, Fishing, and Independence in the Post-Emancipation South, 1865-1920	2005	Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo.
Andrew Haley	Donna Gabaccia	Turning the Tables: American Restaurant Culture and the Rise of the Middle Class, 1880-1920	2005	Assistant, Associate Professor, American Cultural History, University of Southern Mississippi
Scott Hendrix	Van Beck Hall	The Spirit of the Corps: The British Army and the Pre-National Pan-european Military World and the Origins of the American martial culture, 1754-1783	2005	Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio
Betsy Konefal	Reid Andrews	May All Rise Up: Highland Mobilization in Post-1954 Guatemala	2005	Assistant, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary
Susan Corbesero	William Chase	The Anniversaries of the October Revolution, 1918-1927: Politics and Imagery	2004	The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gabriele Gottlieb	Marcus Rediker	Theater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750-1800	2004	Assistant, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Anthony Novosel	William Chase	Nikolai Bukharin: Alternative or Interregnum?	2004	Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Randy Scott Smith	Marcus Rediker	The Liverpool Mercury: The Voice of Middle Class Reform 1811-1820	2004	Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Snow	Edward Muller	Pittsburgh Politics and Social Activism Between 1960 and 1980	2004
Andrew Hall	Richard Smethurst	Japanese-Run Education and the Construction of a ‘Manchurian’ Identity in Manchukuo, 1931-1945	2003	University of Northern Texas, Denton, Texas
Charles Hier	William Chase	Party, Peasants and Power in a Russian District: Winning Peasant Support for Collectivization in Sychevka Raion, 1928-1931	2003	Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh	Assistant Lecturer, University of Akron
Paul Clark	Richard Smethurst	The Kokugo Revolution: Ueda Kazutoshi, Language Reform and Language Education in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)	2002	Assistant, Associate, Professor, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas
David Doellinger	Irina Livezeanu	From Prayers to Protests: The Impact of Religious-based Dissent on the Emergence of Civil Society in Slovakia and the GDR	2002	Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of History, West Oregon University, Monmouth, Ore.
Michael Ervin	Reid Andrews	The Art of the Possible: Agronomists, Agrarian Reform and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, 1908-34	2002	Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash.	Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department
Joan Mohr	Edward Muller	From Immigrant to Civilization: The Czechs of Allegheny City, 1873-1907	2002	Independent Scholar
Jorge Nallim	Reid Andrews	The Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina: 1930-1946	2002	Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College	Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Benjamin Reilly	Seymour Drescher	Interviewing the Opinions: Principle, Practicality, and Politics in the Trail of King Louis XVI	2002	Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Rosalina Rios	Reid Andrews	Making Citizens: Civil Society & Popular Mobilization in Zacatecas, Mexico, 1821-1853	2002	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Jennifer Ford	Edward Muller	Landscape and Material Life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1798-1838	2001	Interpretive Solutions, Inc., West Chester, Pa.
Leslie Hammond	Fritz Ringer	The British Progressive Contribution to the League of Nations Ideal	2001	Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Robert Kirkland	Peter Karsten	Observing Our Hermanos de Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950-1964	2001	Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif.	Commander of Army ROTC at USC; faculty member, Columbia College & USC
Vadim Staklo	William Chase	Harnessing Revolution: The Communist International in Central America, 1928-1935	2001	Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.	Associate Professor, George Mason University; Project Manager, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT