Alumni
Our first doctorate was earned in 1970 by Father William Lichliter, S.J. In the thirty-six years that followed, we have awarded one hundred and seven Ph.Ds. Most of our graduates teach in universities. Others have chosen careers in politics, government, law, diplomacy, journalism, administration, business, social work, and public affairs.
JOHNSON ADEFILA (1975) teaches in the History, Philosophy and Religion Department at Bennett College, Greensboro NC. His dissertation is "Slave Religion in the Antebellum South: A Study of the Role of Africanisms in the Black Responses to Christianity."
ALEXIS ANTRACOLI (2006) is assistant professor of History at St. Francis University, Hollidaysburg PA. Her dissertation is "Mighty in the Scriptures: The Bible in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1776".
RAYMOND ARSENAULT (1981) is professor of history at the University of South Florida, Tampa FL. His books include The Wild Ass of the Ozarks (Temple, 1984); and St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1880-1950 (Florida, 1999).
LINDA AUWERS (1973) has taught at Brown and Temple Universities and is now Senior VP, General Counsel and Secretary of ABM Industries in Houston TX. Her dissertation is "Family, Friends, and Neighbors: Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Windsor, Connecticut."
CHARLES BLANK (1972) teaches history in the middle school at Friends Seminary in New York. His dissertation is "The Waning of Radicalism: Massachusetts Republicans and Reconstruction Issues in the Early 1870s."
NICHOLAS BLOOM (1999) is teaching at New York Institute of Technology. His books are Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream (Ohio State University Press, 2001); Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse and the Businessman's Utopia (Ohio State University Press, 2004) and Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (University of PA, 2008).
CYNTHIA BROWN (1992) is assistant professor in the School of Education at Lesley University, Cambridge MA. Her dissertation is "Leading Women: Female Leadership in American Women's Higher Education, 1880-1940."
DAVID BRUDNOY (1971) was a prominent journalist, television commentator, and radio talk-show host in Boston. He published The Conservative Alternative (Winston, 1973) and Life Is Not a Rehearsal (Faber and Faber, 1998).
MARY BULARZIK (1982). Her dissertation is "Sex, Crime and Justice: Women in the Criminal Justice System of Massachusetts, 1900-1950."
EDWARD BYERS (1983) is a political consultant working with Patrick Cadell. He has published The Nation of Nantucket (Northeastern, 1986).
CHARLES CHEAPE (1976) is professor of history at Loyola College, Baltimore MD. His books include Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, 1880-1912 (Harvard, 1980); Family Firm to Modern Multinational: Norton Company, a New England Enterprise (Harvard, 1985); and Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors (Johns Hopkins, 1995).
DANIEL COHEN (1988) is associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland OH. He has published Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860 (Oxford, 1993); and The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic (U-Mass Press, 1997). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his project, "Rebecca Reed and the Burning of the Charlestown Convent: Gender, Class, and Sectarian Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America."
ROBERT COHEN (1976) taught at the University of Haifa until his death in 1992. His books include The Jewish Nation in Surinam: Historical Essays (S. Emmering, 1982) and Jews in Another Environment: Surinam in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century (E.J. Brill, 1991).
DANA COMI (2003) teaches at Newton Country Day School, Newton MA. Her dissertation is "In the Shade of Solitude: the Mind of New England Women, 1630-1805."
JAMES CONNOLLY (1995) is associate professor of history at Ball State University, Muncie IN. He has published The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism (Harvard, 1999).
NANCY COTT (1974) is professor of history and Director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge MA. Her books include Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women (Dutton, 1972); The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (Yale, 1978); A Heritage of Her Own: Families, Work & Feminism in America (Simon & Schuster, 1980); The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale, 1987); A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters (Yale, 1991); History of Women in the United States (K.G. Saur, 1994) and Public Vows: A History of Marriage & the Nation (Harvard, 2000).
DONALD CROSBY S. J. (1973) taught at Santa Clara University, and is now at St. Patrick's Seminary and University in CA. He has published God, Church and Flag: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the Catholic Church, 1950-1957 (North Carolina, 1978) and Battlefield Chaplains: Catholic Priests in World War II (Kansas, 1994).
JACK DAVIS (1994) is associate professor of history at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL. His books are Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 (Louisiana State, 2001) and Wide Brim: Early Poems & Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Florida, forthcoming).
SARAH DELVECCHIO (1996) teaches at the Thacher School in Ojai CA. Her dissertation is "Bodily Saints: The New England Puritan's Obsession with the Body."
BRIAN DONAHUE (1995) is associate professor of American Environmental Studies and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University, Waltham MA. He has published Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Yale, 1999) and The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale 2004).
DANIEL DUPRE (1991) is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC. He has published Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama 1800-1840 (Louisiana State, 1997).
CAROL ELY (1999) is a museum educator and exhibit developer in Kentucky. Her dissertation is "Domestic Economies: Household Textile Manufacture & the Family in Massachusetts 1620-1830."
MICHAEL FEIN (2003) is visiting assistant professor in the History and Society divisions at Babson College, Wellesley MA. His dissertation is "Public Works: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956".
MARJORIE FELD (2002) is an assistant professor at Babson College, Wellesley MA. Her dissertation is "Lillian D. Wald and Mutuality in 20th-Century America."
ELLEN FITZPATRICK (1981) is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, Durham NH. She has published Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (Oxford, 1990); edited Muckraking: Three Landmark Articles (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1994) and Reinventing History's Memory: Writing America's Past 1880-1980 (Harvard 2002).
RUTH FRIEDMAN (1992) taught at Lawrence College, Appleton WI. Her dissertation is "Governing the Land: An Environmental History of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1660-1861."
RICHARD FRUSHER (1974). His dissertation is "The Conscience of the City: Providence, Politics, and the Providence Human Relations Commission, 1963-1968."
ALLON GAL (1976) teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His books include Socialist-Zionism: Theory and Issues in Contemporary Jewish Nationalism (Transaction, 1973); Brandeis of Boston (Harvard, 1980); and co-edited Beyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel (Hebrew Union, 2000).
J. MATTHEW GALLMAN (1986) is professor of history at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL. He has published Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (Cambridge, 1990); The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Ivan Dee, 1994) and Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool and the Irish Famine Migration 1845-1855 (Univ. North Carolina Press, 2000).
WENDY GAMBER (1990) is associate professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington IN. She has published The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (Illinois, 1997) and Houses, Not Homes: Boarding Houses in 19th Century America (forthcoming). She served as Associate Editor of the Journal of American History from 1997-2000.
MARTHA GARDNER (2002) teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Her dissertation is "Midwife, Doctor or Doctress? The New England Female Medical College and Women's Place in 19th Century Medicine and Society."
ROBERT GLENNON (1981) is Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson AZ. He has published He Shall Not Pass This Way Again (Pittsburgh, 1991) and Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002).
RICHARD GODBEER (1989) is professor of history at University of Miami, Coral Gables FL. His books are The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (Cambridge, 1992); and The Sexual Revolution in Early America (Johns Hopkins 2002).
DAVID GOULD (1977) is Vice President of the United Hospital Fund.in New York. His dissertation is "Policy and Pedagogues: School Reform and Teacher Professionalization in Massachusetts, 1840-1920."
MICHAEL GROSSBERG (1979) is editor of the American Historical Review and professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington.IN. He has published Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (North Carolina, 1988); and A Judgment for Solomon: The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America (Cambridge, 1996).
MATTHEW HALE (2002) is an assistant professor of history at Goucher College, Baltimore MD. His dissertation is "Neither Britons Nor Frenchmen: The French Revolution and American National Identity."
THEODORE HAMMETT (1976) is a principal associate at Abt Associates, Cambridge MA. His dissertation is "Revolutionary Ideology in Its Social Context: Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 1725-1785."
TONA HANGEN (1999) was a lecturer at Brandeis University, Waltham MA. Her book is Redeeming the Dial: Religion and Popular Culture in America (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002).
HENDRIK HARTOG (1981) is professor of history at Princeton University, Princeton NJ. He has published Law in the American Revolution and the Revolution in the Law (New York, 1981); Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870 (North Carolina, 1983); and Man and Wife in America: A History (Harvard, 2000).
DALLETT HEMPHILL (1988) is professor of history at Ursinus College, Collegeville PA. Her book is Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 (Oxford, 1999).
ELLEN HERMAN (1993) is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon, Eugene OR. She has published The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts (California, 1995).
JAMES HORTON (1973) is the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Civilization at George Washington University, Washington DC. His books include Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community (Smithsonian Press, 1993); co-authored In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community & Protest Among Northern Free Blacks 1700-1860 (Oxford, 1997); Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America (Rutgers, 2001); and Slavery & the Making of America (Oxford 2005).
FREDERICK HOXIE (1977) is the Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana IL. He has published A Final Promise (Nebraska, 1984); Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America 1805-1935 (Cambridge, 1995) and A Final Promise: Campaign to Assimilate the Indians 1880-1920 (Nebraska Press, 2001).
JOHN D. IBSON (1976) is professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton CA. He has published Will the World Break Your Heart? Dimensions and Consequences of Irish-American Assimilation (Garland, 1990).
BENJAMIN IRVIN (2004) is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona, Tucson AZ. His dissertation is "Representative Men: Personal and National Identity in the Continental Congress".
JILLIAN (MARY ANN) JIMENEZ (1980) is professor in the Department of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach CA. She has published Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane (New England, 1987).
DOUGLAS JONES (1975) has taught at Tufts and Brandeis Universities. He also earned a J.D. degree from Harvard University, and practices in the firm of Cherwin, Glickman & Theise, LLP, Boston. He has published Village and Seaport (New England, 1981).
JEFFREY KAHANA (2003) teaches at Mount St. Mary College in New York. His dissertation is "Regulating Labor: Tradition and Change in American Law, 1790-1850".
NICOLETTA KARAM (2005). Her dissertation is "Modernism and the Manhattan Renaissance Arab American Literature"
BRIAN KELLY (1998) is a Senior Lecturer in History at Queen's University Belfast, Ireland. His Race, Class and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921 (Illinois, 2001) won a number of prizes, including the Southern Historical Association's H.L. Mitchell Award for a distinguished book in southern labor history, and its Frances Butler Simkins Prize for the best first book by an author in Southern history. He is Director of the After Slavery Research Project, a transatlantic collaboration involving Ireland and UK-based scholars working with the WEB DuBois Institute at Harvard University and the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina.
MARY BETH KLEE (1990) is an educational consultant, who founded Crossroads Academy, an independent K-8 day school in New Hampshire, serving as Head of School from 1991-1996. She is co-editor with John Cribb and John Holdren of the middle and high school texts: The Human Odyssey, Pre-History Through the Middle Ages (2004); The Human Odyssey, Our Modern World, 1350-1914 (2005), and The Human Odyssey, From Modern Times to the Contemporary Era (2007), and is the author of Core Virtues: A Literature Based Program in Character Education (2000, 2003).
EDWARD KOPF (1974) taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA. He is now a management consultant and mediator at Business Mediation Associates, Arlington VA. His dissertation is "The Intimate City: A Study of Urban Social Order: Chelsea, Massachusetts."
ALLAN KULIKOFF (1976) is Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens GA. His books are Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (North Carolina, 1986); The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (Virginia, 1992), and From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (North Carolina, 2000). He has won the Dunning Prize and the Simkins Prize.
JEREMY KUZMAROV (2006) has a lecturer position at Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA. His dissertation is "The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs"
MARY BETH LADOW (1995) has taught American history at Brandeis University. Her book is Life and Death on a North American Borderland (Routledge, 2001).
JAMES LAZEROW (1982) is associate professor of history at Wheelock College, Boston MA. His book is Religion and Working Class in Antebellum America (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995).
JESSICA LEPLER (2008) is a visiting assistant professor at Case Western Reserve College. Her dissertaition is "1837: Anatomy of a Panic".
WILLIAM LICHLITER S.J. (1970) works for the Atomic Energy Commission in Vienna. His dissertation is "Political Reflection of an Age: The New York Graphic Weeklies During the 1880s."
MOLLY McCARTHY (2004) is a visiting lecturer at Standord University. Her dissertation is "A Page, A Day; A History of the Daily Diary in America".
SARAH McMAHON (1981) is associate professor of history at Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME. Her dissertation is "A Comfortable Subsistence: A History of Diet in New England, 1630-1850."
HARVEY MEYERSON (1997) is with the Congressional Research Service. His book is Natures Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite (Kansas, 2001).
EBEN MILLER (2004) is assistant professor at Southern Maine Community College, South Portland ME. His dissertation is "Born Along the Color Line; A Generation Within the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Struggle".
TAMARA MILLER (1994) is editor of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation is "Seeking to Strengthen the Ties of Friendship: Women and Community in Southeastern Ohio, 1788-1850."
HOLLY MITCHELL (2007). Her dissertation is "Power of Thirds: Widows and Property in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1680-1840".
HILARY MOSS (2004) is assistant professor at Amherst College, Amherst MA. Her dissertation is "Opportunity and Opposition; The African American Struggle for Education in New Haven, Baltimore, and Boston, 1825-1855".
DARRA MULDERRY (2007) teaches at Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Her dissertation is "All that Human Goodness Entails: An Intellectual History of U.S. Catholic Nuns, 1930-1980"
JUNE NAMIAS (1988) has retired from the history department at the University of Alaska, Anchorage AK. She has published White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier (North Carolina, 1993).
JOHN NAVIN (1996) is associate dean of Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts and assistant professor of history at Coastal Carolina University, Conway SC. His dissertation is "Plymouth Plantation: The Search for Community on the New England Frontier."
WILLIAM NOVAK (1991) is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, Chicago IL. He has published The Peoples Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (North Carolina, 1996), which was awarded the 1997 Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book on the history of American law and society.
BARBARA OBERLANDER (1974) is the Honors Program Coordinator at Sante Fe Community College in Florida. Her dissertation is "American Immigration Restriction as a Problem in American Foreign Relations, 1882-1906."
JASON OPAL (2004) is assistant professor at Colby College, Waterville ME. His dissertation is "An Aspiring Democracy; Power and Place in New England, 1780-1820".
DAVID OSHINSKY (1971) is professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin TX. His books include Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement (Missouri, 1976); A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (Free Press, 1983); Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (Simon and Schuster, 1997); Polio: An American Story (Oxford 2005). He was the winner of the Robert Kennedy Prize, 1997, for the year's most distinguished contribution to human rights.
DAVID PALMER (1989) is a senior lecturer in American Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide Australia. His book is Organizing the Shipyards (Cornell, 1998).
THOMAS R. PEGRAM (1988) is professor of history at Loyola College Baltimore MD. He has published Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois 1870-1922 (Illinois, 1992); and Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America 1800-1933 (Ivan Dee, 1998).
LOUIS PICCARELLO (1990) worked in San Francisco until his death in 1996. His dissertation is "Poverty, the Poor, and Public Welfare in Massachusetts: A Comparative History of Four Towns, 1643-1855."
ANN PLANE (1994) is associate professor of history at University of California, Santa Barbara CA. Her book is Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England (Cornell, 2000).
ELIZABETH PLECK (1973) has a joint appointment as professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana IL. Her works include Black Migration and Poverty in Boston, 1865-1900 (Academic, 1979); Domestic Tyranny: The Making of Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present (Oxford, 1987); Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture & Family Rituals (Harvard, 2000); and The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (University of California Press, 2003).
JENNY PULSIPHER (1999) is assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, Provo UT. Her book is Subjects Unto the Same King: Indians, English and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (Univ. Pennsylvania Press 2005).
CLIFFORD PUTNEY (1995) is a lecturer in history at Bentley College, Waltham MA. His book is Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 (Harvard, 2001).
JUDITH RANLETT (1974) is professor emerita, SUNY, Potsdam. Her dissertation is "Sorority and Community: Women's Answer to a Changing Massachusetts, 1865-1895."
RICHARD RATH (2001) is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.HI. His book is How Early America Sounded (Cornell 2003).
JENNIFER RATNER-ROSENHAGEN (2003) is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison WI. Her dissertation is "Neither Rock Nor Refuge; American Encounters with Nietzsche and the Search for Foundations".
MARK RENNELLA (2001) works as a business researcher at BSG Concours. His book is The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2008.
GREGORY RENOFF (2004) is assistant professor of history at Drury University, Springfield MO. His dissertation is "A Riot of Ecstasy; The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820-1930".
PAUL RINGEL (2005) is assistant professor of history at High Point University, High Point NC. His dissertation is "Conceiving Childhood: Juveniles, Magazines and the Acculturation of American Children, 1823-1918".
WINIFRED ROTHENBERG (1984) is an associate professor in the economics department at Tufts University, Medford MA. Her books are From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 (Chicago, 1992); and The Economic History of New England (Harvard, 2000).
ELLEN ROTHMAN (1980) is associate director of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Her book is Hands and Hearts (Basic, 1984).
ANTHONY ROTUNDO (1982) teaches at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover MA, where he has served as chair of the history department. He is author of American Manhood (Basic, 1993).
BARTHOLOMEW SCHIAVO (1976) is Academic Vice President at Franklin University, Columbus OH. His dissertation is "The Dissenter Connection: English Dissenters and Massachusetts Political Culture, 1630-1774."
ERIC SCHLERETH (2007) His dissertation is "Age of Infidelity: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early National United States".
JANET SCHULTE (1993) is Dean at Lesley University, Cambridge MA. Her dissertation is "Summer Homes: A History of Family Summer Vacation Communities in Northern New England 1880-1940."
DAVID SICILIA (1991) is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park MD and associate editor of Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History. He is author and co-author of The Entrepreneurs (1996); Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company (1990); The Engine That Could: Seventy-Five Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company (1997); The Greenspan Effect: Words that Move the World's Markets (2000); and Selling Power: The Rise of Modern Marketing and Public Relations at Boston Edison (forthcoming).
LINDSAY SILVER (2007) is a lecturer at Harvard University. Her dissertation is "The Nation's Neighborhood: The People, Power and Politics of Capitol Hill Since the Civil War".
CARL SIRACUSA (1973) has taught at Rutgers University, Newark NJ. His book is A Mechanical People: Perceptions of the Industrial Order in Massachusetts, 1815-1880 (Wesleyan 1979).
MITCHELL SNAY (1984) is professor and chair of the history department at Denison University, Granville OH. He has published Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (Cambridge, 1993); and is co-editor, with John R. McKivigan, Of Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery (Georgia, 1998).
HOLLY SNYDER (2001) is at Brown University, Providence RI. Her dissertation is "A Sense of Place: Jews, Identity, and Social Status in Colonial British America, 1654-1831".
THEODORE STEINBERG (1989) has taught at Stevens Institute and Rutgers University, and is now professor of history and law at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH. His book, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (Cambridge, 1991), won the Sturbridge Prize in social history and the Hurst Prize in legal history. He has also published Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature (California, 1995); Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (Oxford University Press, 2000); and Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford University Press, 2002).
CHRISTOPHER STERBA (2000) has a book Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War (Oxford 2003).
EMILY STRAUS (2007) is an assistant professor at SUNY Verdonia NY. Her dissertation is "The Making of the American School Crisis: Compton, California and the Death of the Suburban Dream"
ALAN TAYLOR (1985) is professor of history at University of California, Davis CA. His books are Liberty Men and Great Proprietors:The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (North Carolina, 1990); William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Knopf, 1995) which won a Pulitzer Prize; American Colonies (Viking/Penguin 2001) and Writing Early American History (Univ. of Pennsylvania 2005).
EUGENE TOBIN (1972) was president of Hamilton College, Clinton NY. He is now a program officer at the Andrew Mellon Foundation. He has published The Age of Urban Reform: New Perspectives on the Progressive Era (Associated Faculty Press, 1977); and Organize or Perish: America's Independent Progressives, 1913-1933 (Greenwood, 1986).
BRYN UPTON (2003) is an assistant professor at McDaniel College, Westminster MD. His dissertation is "Black Sisyphus; Boston Schools and the Black Community, 1790-2000".
ALISON VANNAH (1999) teaches at Arlington High School, Arlington MA. Her dissertation is "Crotchets of Division: Ipswich in New England, 1633-1679."
MURIELLE VAUTRIN (1997). Her dissertation is "From the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Lincoln Center: The History of Government Involvement in New York's Cultural Institutions 1870-1965."
WILLIAM WALKER (2007) is a lecturer at Amherst Colllege. His dissertation is "A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian, Folklife, and the Making of the Modern Museum".
CHRISTIAN WARREN (1997) is an Academy Historian at the New York Academy of Medicine. His dissertation, "The Silenced Epidemic: A Social History of Lead Poisoning in the United States Since 1900," won the American Society for Environmental History's Rachel Carson Prize, 1997-98, and is now a book, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning (Johns Hopkins, 2000).
STEPHEN WHITFIELD (1971) is Max Richter professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, Waltham MA. His many books are Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism (Columbia, 1974); Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism (Temple, 1980); A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight MacDonald (Shoe String Press, 1984); A Death in the Delta: A Story of Emmett Till (Free Press, 1988); American Space, Jewish Time (Shoe String Press, 1988); The Culture of the Cold War (Johns Hopkins, 1990); and In Search of American Jewish Culture (University Press of New England, 1999).
WAYNE WILLIS (1977) is professor of history at Empire State University, Saratoga Springs NY. His dissertation is "A Fanfare for the Common Man: Nationalism and Democracy in the Arts of the American 1930s."
JEFFREY WILTSE (2003) is an assistant professor of history at the University of Montana, Missoula MT. His dissertation is "Contested Waters: A History of Swimming Pools in America".
DUNCAN YAGGY (1974) is Chief Planning Officer for the Duke University Health System, Durham NC, and adjunct professor of public management at the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy. He has edited Financing Healthcare: Competition versus Regulation (Harper Information, 1982) and Health Care for the Poor and Elderly: Meeting the Challenge (Duke, 1984).
SHOMER ZWELLING (1979) works on the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Team. He is also a licensed clinical social worker in private practice. His dissertation is "State of Mind: A Sense of Fragmentation and the Search for Freedom and Wholeness in the Political, Religious and Literary Culture of Massachusetts, 1846-1860."