{"id":1557,"date":"2023-06-13T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=1557"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:41:43","slug":"ph-d-dissertation-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/people\/ph-d-dissertation-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Dissertation Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Scott Wagner\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2026\u20132027<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Van Hunnick Department of History<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\nBrawlers for Liberty: Borderlands Adventurers in a Revolutionary Age<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n 2003-2026 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellows\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n Claire Mieher<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2025\u20132026<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Department of Classics<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\nThe Classical Tradition, Latin Stylistics, and the Language of the Self in Epistolary Collections of Quattrocento Women Humanists<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Rebecca Simpson-Menzies<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2025\u20132026<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Van Hunnick History Department<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\nAgawam to Springfield: Society, Culture, and the Environment in a New England Town<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Kathryn Griffith<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Ph.D. Summer Research Fellow, 2025<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Department of Art History<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\nBetween Money and Medium: Goldwork in Early Modern Italy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Saar Shahar<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Ph.D. Summer Research Fellow, 2025<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Department of English<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\nAmusement without Utility: Representations of the Cook Voyages in 18th-Century Print Culture, 1773-1784<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Daisy Reid<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2024\u20132025<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\nOn Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene<\/em><\/p>\n

Current Position: Mellon Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Lina Nie\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2023-2024 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nVan Hunnick History Department<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Being Transnational: Maritime Exchanges in East Asian Sphere from the Tenth to the Seventeenth Century”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Alejandro Garay Celeita\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2022-2023 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, USC<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title: “Green Cosmologies: Indigenous Peoples and Plants in Early Modern South America”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Fellow, John Carter Brown Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Ekaterina Shubenkina\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, USC<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“Learning to Write in Russia, 1700-1860”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Lydia Sigismondi\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History, USC<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“Cultural Kinfolk: Intercolonial Relations in the Revolutionary British West Indies”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Michael Benitez\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 EMSI Summer Ph.D. Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English, USC<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“Shakespeare’s Archive-in-Action: Queer Futurity in Shakespeare’s Plays”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Instructor, Mt. San Jacinto College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Dina Murokh\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 EMSI Summer Ph.D. Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Art History, USC<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“‘A Sort of Picture Gallery’: The Visual Culture of Antebellum America”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Assistant Director, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Corey Blanchard\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2020-2021 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of History<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“\u2018A Good Mansion House, on Such an Eligible Site\u2019: Material Culture, Commercial Networks, and Society in the Piscataqua, ca. 1700-1780”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Mary-Alice Daniel\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2020-2021 (deferred) EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of English<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“Our Forgotten Caliphate: Rediscovering the Black Mythologies of California”<\/p>\n

Current Position: 2024 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing, Scripps College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Emily R. Anderson\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of Art History<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“The Bespoke Book: Experimental Printing in Early Modern Italy”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Director of Institutional Giving, Craft Contemporary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Harrison Diskin\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of History<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title: “Building the Republic: New York City in an Age of Revolution”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Senior Communications Associate at Luminary Labs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Randall Meissen\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\n2016-2017 EMSI\/VSRI Mellon Sawyer Seminar Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“Early Modern Theological Debates and Natural Science in the Iberian Atlantic (1580-1640)”<\/p>\n

Current Position: University Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry, and Adjunct Faculty, Florida Tech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Steven Minas\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:
\n“The Rhetoric of Cognition: Thinking Moments in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Lecturer, USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Lauren Dodds\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2017-2018 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\n2016 Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Art History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Art”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Scholarly Programs Specialist, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Megan Herrold\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2017 Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Productive Misogyny in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Women, Justice, and Social Order”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Osteopathic Medical Student and Humanities Scholar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Amanda Ruud\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2018 EMSI Summer Tutorial Instructor
\n2016-2017 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Shakespeare’s Speaking Pictures”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Humanities and Literature, Valparaiso University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Karin A. Amundsen\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2016 Summer, 2015 Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Upon Uncertain Hope of Gain: Metallurgy, Mining, and English Colonization in the Americas, 1550-1640”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Academic Program Administrator, Social Sciences, USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Lauren Weindling\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2016 Spring Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Blood is the Argument:” Discourses of Blood, Character, and Affinity in Early Modern Drama”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfred Laurier University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n John W. Fanestil\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2015-2016 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“The Martyrological Origins of the American Revolution”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Writer, pastor, community organizer, Co-founder and Convener of the Friends of Friendship Park, San Diego<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Sean Nelson\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2015 Spring <\/strong>Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Art History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Jerusalem Lost: Crusade, Myth, and Historical Imagination in Grand Ducal Florence”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Academic Director, Syracuse University, Florence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n S. Alexander Smith\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2014-2015\u00a0<\/strong>Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Private Luxuries: Consuming Identity in the English Atlantic, c. 1580-1713”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Nicholas Gliserman\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2013-2014 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n2012 EMSI Summer Tutorial Instructor
\n<\/strong>Department of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Landscapes of War: A Study of Northeast America, 1688-1713”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Director of Technology, Information, and Digital Engagement, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Keith Pluymers\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2013-2014 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n2013 EMSI Summer Tutorial Instructor
\n<\/strong>Department of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Colonizing Land and Landscapes in the Early Modern English Atlantic, c. 1575-c. 1640”<\/p>\n

Current Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor of History, Illinois State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Ellen Dooley\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2013 Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\n2012 EMSI Summer Tutorial Instructor<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Art History<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“Painting Salvation: Affluence, Art, and Plague in Golden Age Seville”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Social Science Instructional Leader and Teacher, Milken Community Schools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Amanda Weldy Boyd\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2013 Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“His Work, My Words: Performance Anxiety and the Burden of Originality for the Theatrical Biographer\/Historian (1620-1820)”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Adjunct Associate Professor of English, Hope International University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Justin Clark\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2012-2013 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870”<\/p>\n

Current Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Penelope Geng\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2012-2013 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Popular Jurisprudence in Early Modern Literature”<\/p>\n

Current Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor of English, Macalester College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Meghan Davis Mercer\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Summer 2012\u00a0<\/strong>Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n\u201cSlow Reading in Elizabethan England: Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare\u201d<\/p>\n

Current Position: Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Matthew Smith\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Summer 2012\u00a0<\/strong>Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n\u201cGrounds of Belief: The Appearance of Religion in Renaissance Performance\u201d<\/p>\n

Current Position: President, Hildegard College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Jeanne Eller McDougall\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2011-2012 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“‘Fit to be sung in Streets<\/em>‘: the Mobilizing Power of Political Song in Pre-Revolutionary British Colonial America, 1750-1776″<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Jeremy Glatstein\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2011-2012 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of Art History<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“The Watching Night: Print, Power and Jewish Vision in Early Modern Italy”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Professor of Art History, Saddleback College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Laura S. Fauteux\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2010-2011 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“Living Her Narrative: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, Writing Heroines, and the Developing Novel”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Office Manager, Stracker Physical Therapy, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Anne Reid\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2010-2011 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“Medics of the Soul and the Body: Disease, Environment, and Death in Alta California, 1769-1850”<\/p>\n

Current Academic Affiliation: Assistant Professor of History, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Natasha Alvandi\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2010 Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“Exhibition Effects: Seeing and Hearing Working-Class Spectators in the Early Victorian Novel”
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\n Penelope Geng\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Summer 2010 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n<\/em>“Legal Chatter in English Renaissance Drama”<\/p>\n

Current Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor of English, Macalester College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Laurie Fisher\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2009-2010 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of English<\/p>\n

Current Academic Affiliation: Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing, USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Michael Block\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2008-2009 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n\u201cNew England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California\u201d<\/p>\n

Current Position: Lecturer, History, California State University, Dominguez Hills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Rory Lukins\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2008-2009 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“The Ethics of Form: Politics, the Passions, and Genre Formation in the English Renaissance”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Associate Professor (Teaching), USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Alison Tymoczko Jeffries\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2007-2008 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“The Politics of Eros: Writing under the auspices of Ovid’s Cupid in early modern English Literature”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Pasadena City College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Amy Braden\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2006-2007 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“As She Fled: Women and Movement in 16th-Century English Poetry and Drama”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Director of Programs, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Hillary Brown\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2006-2007 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“Eighteenth-century British and French Sculpture”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Lucia Hodgson\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2005-2006 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the New Humanities”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Researcher in History, Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Kevin Laam\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2005-2006 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Borrowed Heaven: Early Modern Devotion and the Art of Happiness”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Oakland University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Kathryn Strong Hansen\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2005-2006 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project title:
\n“Dress and deception: Women’s dress and the eighteenth-century British novel”<\/p>\n

Current Position: Associate Director of Multimodal Communications Programming, Colby College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Alice Villase\u00f1or\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2005-2006 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Women Readers and the Victorian Jane Austen”
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\n<\/em>Current Position: Faculty Development Programs Lead, Buffalo State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Tillman Nechtman\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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2003-2004 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow
\n<\/strong>Department of History<\/p>\n

Project Title:
\n“Nabobs: Defining the Indian empire and the British nation in the late eighteenth century”
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