Recent Graduates

June 2009

Lauren Elizabeth Brandt (A.B. Harvard College, A.M. Harvard University)
Dissertation: “Social Intercession”: The Religious Nature of Public Activism among American Women Reformers in Boston, 1892 to 1930

Michael Alvar DeBaca (B.A. Stanford University)
Dissertation: Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s

Zoe Trodd (A.M. Harvard University, B.A. Cambridge University)
Dissertation: The Reusable Past: Abolitionist Aesthetics in the Protest Literature of the Long Civil Rights Movement

2008

Erin Royston Battat (A.M. Harvard University, B.A. Georgetown University)
Dissertation: "' Ain't Got No Home' : Race and American Narratives in the Depression Era."

Marti Jaye Frank (B.A. Georgetown University)
Dissertation:  "Carrying the Mill: Steam, Waterpower and New England Textile Mills in the 19th Century."

Scott Gelber (A.M. Harvard University, B.A. Columbia University)
Dissertation:  "Academic Populism: The People's Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1880-1905."

Hua Hsu (B.A. University of California, Berkeley)
Dissertation:"Pacific Crossings: China, the United States, and the Transpacific Imagination."

November 2007

Talaya Adrienne Delaney (M.F.A. New York University, A.M. Harvard University, A.B. Harvard University)
Dissertation: "Performing History: History and Politics in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Naomi Wallace, and Charles Mee"

Peter Becker (A. M. Harvard University, M.A. University of Hamburg, B.A. University of Hamburg)
Dissertation:  "The Perpetrators' Past: Consciousness and Conscience in the Historical Novel"

June 2007

Diana Irene Williams (A.M. Harvard University, M.A. University of California, Berkeley, A.B. Harvard University)
Dissertation: "'They Call it Marriage': The Interracial Louisiana Family and the Making of American Legitimacy"
Assistant Professor of History, Wellesley College

Dagmawi Woubshet (A.M. Harvard, B.A. Duke University)
Dissertation: "Figurations of Catastrophe: The Poetics and Politics of AIDS Loss"
Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University

March 2007

Elizabeth Blair Clark (A.M. Harvard University, A.B.  Harvard University)
Dissertation: "The Inward Fire: A History of Cruelty in Marriage in the Northeastern United States, 1800-1860"

Salamishah Margaret Tillet (A.M. Harvard University, M.A.T. Brown University, B.A. University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation:  "Peculiar Memories: Slavery and the American Cultural Imagination"
Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

November 2006

Kevin Matthew Burke (J.D. Harvard Law School, A.M. Harvard University, A.B. Harvard University)
Dissertation: "The Nervous American"
Senior Policy Researcher/Writer, Office of Public Affairs, Columbia University

Suleiman Yusuf Osman (B.A. Yale University)
Dissertation: "The Birth of Postmodern New York: Gentrification, Postindustrialization, and Race in South Brooklyn, 1950-1980"
Assistant Professor of History, George Washington University

June 2006

Mark Gillies Hanna (A.M. Harvard University, B.A. Yale University)
Dissertation: "The Pirate Nest: The Impact of Piracy on Newport, Rhode Island and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1670-1730"
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Sara Lynn Schwebel (A.M. Harvard University, B.A. Yale University)
Dissertation: "History, Memory, and Myth: Children's Literature and Classroom Conceptions of the Past"
Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina

Laura Isabel Serna (M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School, B.A. University of California, Berkeley)
Dissertation: "‘We’re Going Yankee’: American Films, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema 1917-1935"
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University