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Edith Ambrose
(Ph.D. 1998) is an Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University. Her area of concentration is history of the American South. You can contact her at eambrose@xula.edu


Guilluame Aubert
(Ph.D. 2002) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. His areas of concentration are Colonial American and North Atlantic history.

Ellen Blue 
(Ph.D. 2002) has received tenure and a named chair at Phillips Theological Seminary, where she is Mouzon Biggs, Jr. Associate Professor of the History of Christianity & United Methodist Studies.  Her book, Attentive to God:  Thinking Theologically in Ministry, co-authored with Charles Wood, has just been published.  She will spend her sabbatical year, 2008-09, in New Orleans researching a project entitled, "In Case of Katrina:  Reinventing the United Methodist Church in Post-Katrina Louisiana."  You can contact her at ellen.blue@ptstulsa.edu

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harles D. Chamberlain (Ph.D.1999) published Victory at Home: Manpower and Peace in the American South during World War II. His areas of concentration are 20th Century U.S. History, U.S. Labor and Race Relations, U.S. Culture and Music, Louisiana History and Latin American History. Forthcoming in 2004 is "World War II and the American South". Professor Chamberlain is currently working at the Louisiana State Museum as a Museum Historian.  He can be contacted at cchamberlain@crt.state.la.us.

William Connell (Ph.D. 2003) is a visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University, Department of History in Winston Salem, NC.  His area of concentration is Latin America and Early Modern Europe.
Bill has accepted a tenure track position with Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Dissertation: "Emerging Ladino Spaces in the Parcialidades of Mexico City: Race, Identity and Indigenous Self-Government, 1564-1700."


Emily Clark (Ph.D 1998) is an assistant professor at Tulane University, Department of History, New Orleans, LA. Emily's area of concentration is early America. Her book Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines an the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 is forthcoming (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press).
eclark@tulane.edu

Timothy Dowling (Ph.D 1999) is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. His area of concentration is Modern European History. 
Dissertation: Building Socialism: Stalinstadt/Eisenhuttenstadt as a Model for (Socialist) Life in the GDR.

Lisa Edwards (Ph.D 2002) is a visiting assistant professor at Valparaiso University, Department of History in Valparaiso, Indiana. Her area of concentration is Latin American and European History.
Dissertation: "In Science and Virtue: The education of Latin American Clergy, 1858-1967."


Lee A. Farrow (Ph.D. 1998) is assistant professor of History at Auburn University Montgomery.  She has published The Russian Collection: A Guide to Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Holdings in the Special Collections Division of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. The fifty-page booklet (available from Tulane's Special Collections) details the library's Romanoff and Soviet rare book holdings as well as the division's collection of Soviet World War II posters. You can contact her at lfarrow@mail.aum.edu
Dissertation: "Inheritance, Status and Security: Noble Live in 18th Century Russia."

Lee and her husband Ben are also the new parents of a baby boy, Benjamin VI.

Elna Green, (Ph.D. Tulane). Allen Morris Associate Professor of Florida History and the New South; Author, Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question (1997); Editor, Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South 1830-1930 (1999).

Michelle Haberland
(Ph.D 2001) is assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University and lives with her husband in Savannah.  University of Florida Press recently published her essay, "After the Wives Went to Work: Organizing Women in the Southern Apparel Industry" in Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph edited by Bruce Clayton and John Salmond.  Her manuscript, "Striking Beauties: Garment Workers in the United States South, 1937-198," is under contract and should appear in 2005. You can contact her at mah@GeorgiaSouthern.edu

Dissertation: Women's Work: "The Apparel Industry in the United States South, 1937-1980."

Patricia Greenwood Harrison
(Ph.D. 1994) author of Connecting Links:" The British and American Suffrage Movements, 1900-1914,"   publisher  Greenwood Press.  Harrison provides a history and comparison of the two movements to give the reader context and a background against which to study the international suffrage campaign.  This study isolates and examines the various connecting links ranging from personal relationships to the emphasis on a common cause.  In addition to the prominent figures of the day, Harrison includes information about lesser-known suffragists whose names and actions have been largely lost to history.

Stanley M. Hordes (Ph.D., 1980) is an Adjunct Research Professor at the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.  His book, To the End of the Earth:  A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico was published by Columbia University Press in July of 2005. 

Derek Kerr (Ph. D. 1983) retired Special Collections Librarian, University of British Columbia Main Library; his dissertation was published by Garland.  Publishing in 1993 as “Petty Felony, Slave Defiance, and Frontier Villainy: Crime And Criminal Justice in Spanish Louisiana, 1770-1803”; his area of concentration was Latin American history, particularly post-independence El Salvador; presently resides in San Francisco, CA. (cowboyderry@earthlink.net)

Douglas Keberlein, (Ph.D. 2001) is assistant professor of History at Dominican University, River Forest, IL.  His area of concentration is Latin American History and U.S. History. You can contact him at keberle@dom.edu

Dissertation: "Los hijos predilectos de la nacion: Guatemalan Military Professionalization and the Escuela Politecnica, 1873-1954."

Margaret Keenan (Ph.D. 2000) is project coordinator at The Center for the Study of Ethics and Public Affairs, Murphy Institute, Tulane University.  You can contact her at mkeenan@tulane.edu


David Klingman (M.A.)

Bill C. Malone (Ph.D. 1965) known for his ground-breaking cultural studies of southern folk and country music, discussed "Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work,"  March 2000 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Malone, retired professor emeritus in the Tulane University history department, holds a joint visiting faculty appointment at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and in the American Studies curriculum at UNC for the spring 2000 semester.

Michael McDermott (M.A. 2003)

Joel Miller (M.A. 2004) Captain of Armor, U.S Army.  Joel will be an instructor in the Department of History at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.  His area of concentration is U.S. History.

James Moses (Ph.D. !997) is now a visiting assistant professor at Arkansas Tech University. His article "The Political Ambition of William O. Douglas and the 1944 Democratic Vice-Presidential Nomination: A Reinterpretation" will be in the Winter 2000 issue of The Historian.   James will present a paper in the Spring at Lyons College, on "The Scopes Trial at 75."

He and his wife Anna, now a graduate student at Arkansas tech, studying Educational Psychology, have two children: Kate aged 7 and Douglas aged 4.  James' email is james.moses@mail.atu.edu.

Michael Polushin (Ph.D 1999) is an assistant professor of History at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS.  He has published "Exploring the Sources of World Civilizations" (McGraw-Hill Primus Custom Publishing.  You can contact him at mpolush@cox.net

Michael  and Wendy Kasinec edited the Expanding Empires: Cultural Interaction and Exchange from Ancient to Early Modern Times

William Ramsey (Ph.D. 1998) is an assistant professor of History at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.  His areas of concentration are Colonial North America, Native American History, Frontier/Borderland, and Slavery.  You can contact him at wramsey@uidaho.edu


Christoph Rosenmueller (Ph.D. 2003) is a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York.  Christoph as accepted a tenure track position at Middle Tennessee State College in Murfreeboro, TN.  His area of concentration is Latin American History. You can contact him at crosenmuller@yahoo.com
Dissertation: "Clients, Conflicts and the Court: The Viceroyalty of the X Duke of Albuquerque in Mexico, 1702-1710."

Judith K. Schafer (Ph.D. 1985) presented "The Murder of a Lewd and Abandoned Woman: State v. Abraham Parker" March 1999 at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association.

David Simonelli  (Ph.D 2001) has accepted the tenure track position of Assistant Professor of History at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. His area of concentration is Modern British History.  You can contact him at dsimonelli@ysu.edu
Dissertation: "Meet the New Boss/Same as the Old Boss': British Rock Music and the Rhetoric of Class, 1963-1970."

Mark Souther (Ph.D. 2002) has accepted the position as Assistant Professor of History at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning August 2003. His areas of concentration are 20th-Century U.S., Urban Social and Cultural History, and Public History.

Dee R. Mitchell Spears, (ABD Latin American History) is currently living in Prague, Czech Republic.  Dee, and her business partner Sam Spears, have recently opened Phoenix International Education Systems. Dee moved to Prague in early 2000 after four years in Granada, Nicaragua researching her dissertation.  She can be reached at mitchell.d@iol.cz.

The 6th Congress on Central American History honored Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. [Tulane M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1972] at its meeting in Panama July 22-27 with a special session dedicated to his contributions to Central American historiography. The ceremony was held at the Museum of the Interoceanic Canal in Panama City on Wednesday evening, July 24. Dr. Woodward’s Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871 (University of Georgia Press, 1993) has just appeared in a Spanish edition published by Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies of South Westport, Vermont, and Antigua, Guatemala. His Central America, A Nation Divided (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 1999) will soon appear in a Spanish edition published by the University Press of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Dr. Woodward is the Neville G. Penrose Professor of Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.  Among his more recent publications are Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend (University of Alabama Press, 2001), and a forthcoming article,"  Spanish Commercial Policy in Louisiana, 1763-1803," in Louisiana History
 

Kim Wargo (M.A. 1993) in U.S History. She is currently ABD as of 1995 with concentrations in southern history and women's histor.  Kim is Head of the Upper School at the Louise S. McGehee School in New Orleans for the past five years.
kimw@mcgehee.k12.la.us

Kim is married to Mark cortez (math teacher at McGehee) and they have a beautiful daughter, Ida, who is eight years old and is a student at McGehee.
 


Donald Wright  (Ph.D. 2001) is an assistant professor of History at Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His area of concentration the Russian Empire.  You can contact him at Wrightd1@leavenworth.army.mil
Dissertation: The Cultivation of Patriotism and the Militarization of Citizenship in Late Imperial Russia, 1906-1914
 



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