Recent Ph.D.s and Placements
This page lists recent Ph.D.s awarded and placement information.
Ph.D.s Awarded
2012
Sarah Miglio
"Civilizing the World": Progressive Religion and Politics from Chicago to the Middle East, 1890-1925”
Sheila Nowinski
“Peasants into Farmers: The Jeunesse agricole catholique and the Modernization of Rural France, 1930-1960”
Heath Carter
“Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago”
Lourdes Hurtado
"Unido a la Historia por Fecunda y Viril Tradicion": Race, Gender and the Military in Cold War Peru (1961-1980)”
2011
Danielle DuBois Gottwig
“Before the Culture Wars: Conservative Protestants and the Family, 1920-1980”
Christopher Osborne
“Written into the West: Print-Visions and the Revolutionary Inheritance in Early National America’s ‘Western Country”
2010
Michael Lee
"American Revelations: Biblical Interpretation and Criticism In America, Circa 1700-1860"
Nicholas Miller
"The Religious Roots of the First Amendment: Dissenting Protestantism And the Seperation of Church and State"
Suzanne Orr
"Caging the Red Menace: "Russian Immigration and Anti-Radicalism during the First Red Scare in Chicago, 1917-1921"
2009
Martin Beisswenger
"Inventing" Eurasia: The Life and Ideas of Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895 - 1968)"
Sean Brennan
“The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg 1945-1949"
Grant Brodrecht
"Our Country:' Northern Evangelicals and the Nation in the Civil War and its Aftermath"
Benjamin FItzpatrick
"Negroes for Sale": The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky"
Gavin Foster
"The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War"
Micaela Larkin
"Labor's Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions and Entreprenerial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917-1972"
Matthew Salafia
"Searching for Slavery: Slavery and Freedom in the Ohio River Valley Borderland, 1787-1850"
David Swartz
"Left Behind" The Evangelical Left and the Limits of Evangelical Politics"
Tammy Van Dyken
"In the Sweet Bye and Bye"
2008
Angel Cortes
"Student Idealist and the Spector of Natural Science, 1870 - 1910"
Steve Schroeder
"Reconcilliation in Occupied Germany, 1944 - 1954"
Ben Secunda
"In the Shadow of the Eagle's Wings: The effects of removal on the unremoved Potawatomi"
2007
Sarah Davis-Secord
“Sicily and the Medieval Mediterranean: Communication Networks and Inter-regional Exchange”
Michael DeGruccio
“Unmade: Manhood and Self-Making in the American Civil War”
Timothy Gloege
“Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Creation of Corporate Fundamentalism, 1880-1930”
Andrew Orr
"La Grande Muette': Gender, Race, and Anti-Republicanism in the French Army, 1918-1934"
Justin Poche
"Religion, Race and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938-1970"
2006
Jonathan Couser
“Mixing the Chalice: the Formation of Christian Identity in Early Medieval Bavaria”
Jonathan DenHartog
“Patriotism and Piety: The Religious Dimension of Federalist Political Culture”
Matthew Grow
“Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Reform”
Tomasz Rzeznik
“Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Philadelphia, 1880-1950”
2005
Margaret Abruzzo
"Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate"
Darren Dochuk
"From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Southernization of Southern California, 1939-1969"
Laura Dull
"Writing Legitimacy: Gender and Conduct in the Book of the Knight of the Tower"
Kristin Kobes DuMez
"The Forgotten Woman's Bible: Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, Madeline Southard, and the Construction of a Woman-Centered Protestantism in America, 1870-1930"
Patrick Gillen
"The Intellectual Origins and Original Understanding of the Religious Liberty Provisions"
Tiffany Grade
"Warfare, the Royal Image, and National Identity: Succession and Propaganda During the Hundred Years War, 1337-1422"
Angela Gugliotta
"Hell with the Lid Taken Off: A Cultural History of Air Pollution - Pittsburgh"
Claudrena Harold
"The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942"
Frederick Jordan
"Between Heaven and Harvard: Protestantism and the American Boarding School Experience, 1778-1940"
Jonathan Lyon
"Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, CA. 1100-1204"
Patrick Mason
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence Against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865-1910"
Mark McCarthy
"Religious Conflict and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Orthodoxy and the Protestant Challenge, 1812-1905"
Owen Phelan
"The Formation of Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians"
John Turner
"Selling Jesus to Modern America: Campus Crusade For Christ, Evangelical Culture, and Conservative Politics"
Peter Wallace
"'The Bond of Union': The Old School Presbyterian Church and the American Nation"
Samy Zaka
"Education and Civilization in the French Third Republic: The University of Saint-Joseph, 1875-1914"
Directed by Thomas Kselman
Placements
2012
Heath Carter, Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University (IN)
Martina Cucchiara, Assistant Professor, Bluffton University (OH)
Melinda Grimsley-Smith, Coordinator of International Scholarships, Western Kentucky University
Amber Handy, Assistant Professor, Mississippi University for Women
Lourdes Hurtado, Assistant Professor, Franklin College (IN)
Stephen Molvarec (ABD), Jesuit Novitiate
Sheila Nowinski, Assistant Professor, Siena Heights University (MI)
Glen Ryland (ABD), Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University (Canada)
Charles Strauss, Assistant Professor, Mount St. Mary’s University (MD)
2011
Danielle DuBois, Archivist, National Archives
Andrea Turpin, Assistant Professor, Baylor University (TX)
2010
Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor, Andrews University (MI)
2009
Martin Beisswenger, Moscow State University
Sean Brennan, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton (PA)
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Professor, FL Community College-Jacksonville
Gavin Foster, Assistant Professor, Concordia University (CN)
Michael Lee, Assistant Professor, Eastern University (PA)
2008
Grant Brodrecht, Director, The Geneva School (FL)
Angel Cortes, Assistant Professor, Holy Cross College (IN)
Steven Schroeder, Assistant Professor, University of Fraser Valley (CN)
William Secunda, University of Michigan
David Swartz, Assistant Professor, Asbury University (KY)
2007
Sarah Davis-Secord, Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Arlington
Michael DeGruccio, Assistant Professor, St. Peter’s College (NJ)
Andrew Orr, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University (TX)
Justin Poche, Assistant Professor, College of Holy Cross (MA)
2006
Jonathan Den Hartog, Assistant Professor, Northwestern College (MN)
Matthew Grow, Assistant Professor, University of Southern Indiana
Tomasz Rzeznik, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University (NJ)
John Turner, Assistant Professor, University of Southern Alabama
Samy Zaka, Assistant Professor, Rock Valley College (IL)
2005
Margaret Abruzzo, Associate Profesor, University of Alabama
Darren Dochuk, Associate Professor, Purdue University (IN)
Laura Dull, Associate Professor, Delta College (MI)
Kristin DuMez, Associate Professor, Calvin College (MI)
Jonathan Lyon, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Patrick Mason, Associate Professor, Claremont Graduate University (CA)
2004
Richard Bademan, Director, MacLaurin Institute (MN)
Claudrena Harold, Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Frederick Jordan, Dep’t Chair, Woodberry Forest School (VA)
Mark McCarthy, Dep’t Chair, Montreat College (NC)
Marcus Meuwese, Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg (CN)