Placements
2007
Sarah Davis-Secord (Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Michael De Gruccio (Ph.D. 2007) received a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame
Timothy Gloege (Ph.D. 2007) received a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame.
Bonnie Mak is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign.
Patrick Mason is an Assistant Professor of History at The American University in Cairo.
Anthony Mora (Ph.D. 2002) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
Andrew Orr (Ph.D. 2007) received a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame
Justin Poche` (Ph.D. 2007) received a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University.
Thomas Rzeznik (Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University.
2006
Margaret Abruzzo is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama. Dissertation: "Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate," directed by James Turner (2006).
Jonathan Den Hartog is an Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern College. Dissertation: "Patriotism and Piety:" Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture," directed by George Marsden (2006).
Nahyan Fancy is an Instructor of History at DePauw University. Dissertation: "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine,
Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288)," directed by Philip Sloan and Ahmad Dallal, Georgetown University (2006).
Matthew Grow received a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Dissertation: "Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Reform," directed by George Marsden (2006).
Patrick Mason is Coordinator of the Program on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, and an instructor at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Dissertation: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence Against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865-1910," directed by R. Scott Appleby (2006).
Owen Phelan is an Assistant Professor of Church History at Mount Saint Mary's University and Seminary. Dissertation: "The Formation of a Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians," directed by Thomas Noble (2006).
Tomasz Rzeznik is an Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University. Dissertation: "Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Philadelphia, 1880-1950," directed by John T. McGreevy (2006).
Steven Schroeder, University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV), British Columbia, Canada. Dissertation: " Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1952," directed by Doris Bergen (2006).
John Turner is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Alabama. Dissertation: "Selling Jesus to Modern America: Campus Crusade for Christ, Evangelical Culture, and Conservative Politics," directed by George Marsden (2006).
Tamara Van Dyken is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hope College. Dissertation: "Singing the Gospel: Evangelical Hymnody, Popular Religion, and American Culture, 1870-1940," directed by George Marsden (2006).
2005
Mioara Deac received a Post-Doctor Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Dissertation: "Mirror of the World or Submerged Unconscious? Hallucinations and the Victorians (1853-1901)," directed by Christopher Hamlin (2005).
Darren Dochuk is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dissertation: "From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Southernization of Southern California, 1939-1969," directed by George Marsden (2005).
Laura Dull is an Instructor at Delta College in University Center, Michigan. Dissertation: "Writing Legitimacy: Gender and Conduct in the Book of the Knight of the Tower," directed by Kathleen Biddick (2005).
Kristin Kobes DuMez is an Assistant Professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dissertation: "The Forgotten Woman's Bible: Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, Madeline Southard, and the Construction of a Woman-Centered Protestantism in America, 1870-1930," directed by George Marsden (2005).
Claudrena Harold is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dissertation: "The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942," directed by Richard Pierce (2005).
Jonathan Lyon is an Assistant Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Dissertation: "Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, CA. 1100-1204," directed by John Van Engen (2005).
Mark McCarthy is an Assistant Professor at Montreat College in Montreat, North Carolina. Dissertation: "Religious Conflict and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Orthodoxy and the Protestant Challenge, 1812-1905," directed by Gary Hamburg (2005).
Peter Wallace is a Pastor at Michiana Covenant Church in Granger, Indiana. Dissertation: "'The Bond of Union': The Old School Presbyterian Church and the American Nation," directed by James Turner (2005).
Frederick Jordan is an Instructor at Woodberry Forest School in Woodberry Forest, Virginia. Dissertation: "Between Heaven and Harvard: Protestantism and the American Boarding School Experience, 1778-1940," directed by George Marsden (2005).
2004
Richard Bryan Bademan received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. He is now an Assistant Professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Dissertation: "Church Questions, American Answers: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Protestant Challenges to Religious Subjectivity," directed by George Marsden (2004).
Darin Hayton is an Assistant Professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Dissertation: "Astrology in Early Sixteenth-Century Vienna," directed by Howard Louthan (2004).
Michael Kamen is an Academic Advisor at the University of Michigan. Dissertation: "The Science of the Bible in Nineteenth-Century America: From 'Common Sense' to Controversy, 1820-1900," directed by James Turner (2004).
David Mengel is an Assistant Professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Dissertation: "Bones, Stones, and Brothels: Religion and Topography in Prague under Emperor Charles IV (1346-78)," directed by John Van Engen (2004).
Mark Meuwese is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. Dissertation: "A Comparative Study of Intercultural Mediators in Dutch Brazil and New Netherland, 1600-1664," directed by Walter Nugent (2004).
Robin Vose is an Assistant Professor in Medieval history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Dissertation: "Converting the Faithful: Dominican Mission in the Medieval Crown of Aragon," directed by Olivia Remie Constable (2004).
2003
Jeffrey Dennis is an Assistant Professor at Morehead State University in Kentucky. Dissertation: "American Revolutionaries and Native Americans: The South Carolina Experience," directed by Gregory Dowd (2003).
Troy Feay is an Assistant Professor at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. Dissertation: "Mission to Moralize: Slaves, Africans, and Missionaries in the French Colonies, 1815-1852," directed by Thomas Kselman (2003).
James McCartin is an Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University. Dissertation: "The Love of Things Unseen': Catholic Prayer and the Moral Imagination in the Twentieth-Century United States," directed by John McGreevy (2003).
Kurt Peterson is an Assistant Professor at North Park University in Chicago. Dissertation: "Constructing the Covenant: The Evangelical Covenant Church and Twentieth-Century American Religious Culture, 1920-1970," directed by George Marsden (2003).
2002
David Bachrach is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire. Dissertation: "Priests at War and Soldiers at Prayer: A History of Military Religion from the Concilium Germanicum (742) to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)," directed by John Van Engen (2002).
Christine Caldwell is an Assistant Professor at St. Louis University in Missouri. Dissertation: "Doctors of Souls: Inquisitions and the Dominican Order, 1231-1331," directed by John Van Engen (2002).
Daniel Hobbins is an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Dissertation: "Beyond the Schools: New Writings and the Social Imagination of Jean Gerson," directed by John Van Engen (2002).
Mark Jantzen is an Assistant Professor at Bethel College in Kansas. Dissertation: "At Home in Germany? The Mennonites of the Vistula Delta and The Constitution of a German National Identity, 1772-1880," directed by Doris Bergen (2002).
Sophie Lachapelle is an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. Dissertation: "A World Outside of Science: French Attitudes Toward Mediumistic Phenomena, 1853-1931," directed by Michael Crowe and Thomas Kselman (2002).
James Mixson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama. Dissertation: "Professed Proprietors: Religion, Property and the Origins of the Observant Movement," directed by John Van Engen (2002).
Anthony Mora is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Dissertation: "Meslillaros and Gringo Mexicans: Race and the (Re)construction of Mexican Identity in 19th Century," directed by Gail Bederman (2002).
2001
Thomas Bergler has been appointed to a tenure-track position in the Department of Educational Ministries at Huntington College in Huntington, Indiana. Dissertation: "Winning America: Christian Youth Groups and the Middle-Class Culture of Crisis, 1930-1965," directed by George Marsden (2001).
Nicole Gothelf is the Director at the Novato History Museum in Novato, California. Dissertation: "Persecution, Identity, and Politics: The English Protestant Martyr Narrative and Oppositional Politics in Early New England and Pennsylvania," directed by Gregory Dowd (2001).
Thomas Kidd is an Assistant Professor at Baylor University in Texas. Dissertation: "From Puritan to Evangelical: Changing Culture In New England, 1689-1740," directed by George Marsden (2001).
Rachel Koopmans is an Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Europe in the History Department at York University, Toronto. Dissertation: "Dispute, Control and the Individual Voice: The Making of Miracles at Christ Church, Canterbury, 1080-1220," directed by John Van Engen (2001).
Anita Specht is an Assistant Professor at Kansas Wesleyan University in Kansas. Dissertation: "Community and Care: "The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ and Their Hospitals, 1868-1930," directed by Jay Dolan (2001).
William Svelmoe is an Assistant Professor at St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana. Dissertation: "A New Vision for Missions: William Cameron Townsend in Guatamala and Mexico, 1917-1945," directed by George Marsden (2001).
2000
Joseph Creech is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. Dissertation: "Righteous Indignation: Religion and Populism in North Caroline, 1886-1906," directed by Walter Nugent (2000).
Carolyn Edwards is a teacher at Winward High School in California. Dissertation: "Noblewomen of Prayer: The Imperial Convents of Regensburg, 1000-1250," directed by John Van Engen (2000).
John Haas is an Assistant Professor at Bethel College in South Bend, Indiana. Dissertation: "Making Morality Modern: Social Science, Culture Criticism and Sexual Ethics in America," directed by J. Philip Gleason (2000).
Jane Hannon is a Teacher at Fordham Preparatory School in New York City. Dissertation: "Saints and Patriots: Catholicism in the Bronx, 1920-1940," directed by R. Scott Appleby (2000).
Jeanne Petit is an Assistant Professor teaching U.S. history at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Dissertation: "Building Citizens: Women, Men and the Immigration Restriction Debates, 1890-1929," directed by Gail Bederman (2000).
Jonathan Reyes is an Assistant Professor at Christendom College in Virginia. Dissertation: "Christopher Dawson and the Renewal of Christian Culture," directed by James Turner (2000).
Paul Savage is a teacher at Judge Memorial High School in Utah. Dissertation: "History, Exempla, and Caritas in the Exordium Magnum," directed by John Van Engen (2000).
Barbra Wall is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Purdue University’s College of Nursing in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dissertation: "Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Nuns, Nursing, and Hospital Development in the West and Midwest, 1865-1915," directed by Christopher Hamlin (2000).
1999
Jay Case is an Associate Professor of History at Malone College in Ohio. Dissertation: "Conversion, Civilization and Cultures in the Evangelical Missionary Mind, 1814-1906," directed by George Marsden (1999).
Lezlie Knox is an Assistant Professor at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Dissertation: "The True Daughters of Francis and Clare: the Formation of the Order of Saint Clare in Late Medieval Italy," directed by John Van Engen (1999).
1998
Thomas Luongo is a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and an Associate Professor of History at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dissertation: "The Politics of Marginality: Catherine of Siena in the War of Eight Saints (1374-1378)," directed by John Van Engen (1998).
Steven Nolt is an Assistant Professor at Goshen College in Indiana. Dissertation: "German Faith, American Faithful: Religion and Ethnicity in the Early American Republic," directed by George Marsden (1998).
1997
Steven Brady is an Academic Advisor in First Year of Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Dissertation: "The United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Detente, 1953-1958," directed by Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, CSC (1997).
James Carrol is an Associate Professor of History at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Dissertation: "Americanization or Indoctrination: Catholic Indian Boarding Schools, 1874-1926," directed by Walter Nugent (1997).
Dorothy Pratt is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of History, University of South Carolina. Dissertation: "A Study in Cultural Persistence: the Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841-1945," directed by Walter Nugent (1997).
Lisa Wolverton is an Assistant Professor, teaching Medieval history at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Dissertation: “In Manu Sancti Wenceslai: Power in the Czech Lands, 1004-1198,” directed by John Van Engen (1997).
Michael Clinton is an Assistant Professor of history, tenure-track, at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.
Matthew Cullinan is the Assistant Provost at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is the Associate Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame
Harold Siegel is an Assistant Professor at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Dissertation: "Educating Lothar. Patronage and Intellectual Culture in the Carolingian Middle Kingdom," directed by Patrick Geary and Michael Lapidge.
Nathan Yoder is an Assistant Professor of Church History and Director of Master of Arts in Religion at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. Dissertation: "Mennonite Fundamentalism: Shaping an Identity for an American Context."