Postdoctoral Fellows, 2011-12
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Michael D. Block USC Dornsife College Distinguished Teaching Fellow |
| Office: SOS 165 Phone: (213) 740-5349 Email: blockm@usc.edu Ph.D. History, USC (2011)Dissertation: “New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California” (Advisors: William F. Deverell and Peter C. Mancall) Michael is a historian of Early America, the Early American Republic, and the Antebellum United States, focusing on American trade with China and on how the pursuit of that trade drew Americans into the Pacific Basin and specifically to California. His courses at USC include HIST 300 (Approaches to History), HIST 348 (The Dynamics of American Capitalism), and HIST 349 (Colonial North America). Michael is currently working on revising his dissertation into a book manuscript. |
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Bradford Bouley |
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Ph.D. History (Stanford University, 2012). Dissertation: Dissecting the Holy Body: Between Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Europe Brad is a historian of early modern Europe who focuses on religious and scientific developments. Currently he is working on turning his dissertation into a book and completing articles about the finances of the Roman Inquisition and cannibalism in early modern Italy. |
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Adrian Finucane |
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Office: SOS 153 Ph.D. History, Harvard University (2011) Dissertation: ““The South Sea Company and Anglo-Spanish Connections, 1713-1739” (Advisor: Joyce Chaplin) Adrian is a historian of the British and Spanish empires, focusing on the social and cultural histories of the diverse peoples that interacted within the eighteenth-century Americas. More broadly, her teaching interests include contact and colonization, race and gender in early European colonies, maritime communities, and beliefs about witchcraft in early America. Her courses at USC include HIST 300 (Approaches to History) and HIST 440 (The Early Modern World). |
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Lindsay O'Neill, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Lecturer |
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Office: SOS 153 |
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Ph.D. History, Yale University (2008) |
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My work centers upon the way that networks formed through letter writing helped bind together an increasing vast British world during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. During this period it became both easier to send a letter, as the postal system expanded, and more necessary, as the British settled across the globe. Understanding how the British used their letters illuminates how they thought about their society and how they navigated their changing geographic and communicative worlds. Beyond letters, I am also interested in how news flowed and how the British thought about and used the information that surround them. My second project seeks to understand how the British navigated this new world of news. |
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Keith Woodhouse |
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Office: SOS 165 |
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Keith Woodhouse studies American environmental history, focusing on the ideas and politics of environmentalism in the twentieth-century United States. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Keith's book project, A Subversive Nature: Radical Environmentalism in the Late-Twentieth-Century United States, examines the basic ethical commitments of the radical environmental movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, and where those commitments accorded with or departed from mainstream American liberal democratic ideas. |




