Our History Department Alumni information can be found on four separate pages - Alumni News, Alumni History Major Volunteer Career Consultants, and Volunteer Graduate School Consultants and Assistance, (we have also built a Graduate School Index), and History Department Alumni pages (this page - for inspiration!). These pages are designed to be planning and networking tools for our current History majors to contact and/or to simply be inspired by History alumni. History Alumni Volunteers are available for advice, assistance, and encouragement to help you to plan your career and/or apply to graduate programs. Alumni, please send us your news and websites, and tell me if you want to be included on one or the other Volunteer pages, or both. - Thanks, Nikki, nlambert@carleton.edu

PLEASE ALSO SEE: Carleton Alumni Gateway Index
Very easy-to-search database maintained by the Alumni Affairs office - contains many additional History Alums and History Department Friends!

Adler, Antony. Class of 2006. I submitted my comps to an essay contest held by a historical society and it won: http://www.sochistdisc.org/essay-contest.htm. I'll probably be going to Chicago in November to present my paper at their annual meeting.

Berg, Ellen. Class of 1996.
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, U.S. history, 2004. Dissertation: "Citizens in the Republic of Childhood: Immigrants and the American Kindergarten, 1880-1920."

Bhagavan, Manu. Class of 1992.
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Assistant Professor of Modern South Asia in the Department of History at Hunter College, the City University of New York (CUNY), New York City. Teaching Fields: Modern South Asian history, Asian American history, Modern World history, Educational history. Research Interests: Princely States, Resistance studies, Education, Colonialism and Post-coloniality.

Boe, Jonathan E. Class of 1965, deceased 11/08/1999.
California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA. Was Professor of History.
Author of: American Business: The Response to the Soviet Union, 1933-1947 (Foreign Economic Policy of the United States. Co-editor, Brandywine Press, The American Journey: United States History Through Letters and Diaries, Volume I (to 1877) and Volume II (since 1865); Writing Women's Lives: American Women's History through Letters and Diaries.

Brimsek, Emily. Class of 2006, was awarded a North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay prize for her paper "Honor, Property Crime and the Middle Class in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh." The essay was a version of her history comps paper from winter '06. She began the PhD program at Brown in September 2006.

Brinkman, Kyle. Class of 1993.

Capehart, Jonathan. Class of 1990
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Political journalist. Joined the Washington Post editorial board in 2007. Prior to joining The Post, he was a member of the New York Daily News’ editorial board from 1993 to 2000. He then became National Affairs Columnist for Bloomberg News from 2000 to 2001, and left to work as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his successful campaign for Mayor of New York City. He returned to the Daily News as deputy editor of the editorial page from 2002 to 2005. Also a popular television news commentator, moderator, and interviewer.

Chambers, Sarah. Class of 1985
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University of Minnesota, Associate Professor of Latin American History.
Author of From Subjects to Citizens : Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru 1780-1854.
Her research analyzes on the transition from colonialism to independent republics, with a particular focus on gender.

Christofferson, Michael. Class of 1988.
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Ph.D. Columbia. Associate Professor of History, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Research focuses on French intellectual politics after World War II, notably the relationship between intellectuals and communism. See also: French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s, Berghahn Books, 2006.

Cohen, Michael David. Class of 2002. (History / Mathematics)
I'm working on a Ph.D. at Harvard in American history, with emphases on the history of education, the nineteenth century, and women's/gender history. I would be happy to talk with Carleton students or alumni who are thinking about history graduate programs.

Costello, Humphrey. Class of 1987.
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Political Economist for the Mississippi Health Policy Research Center, Social Science Research Center (SSRC), Mississippi State University. He conducts research on health insurance and health services.

Curtis, James C., Class of 1959
Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware, where he also served as Director of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. Author, The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837-1841 (1970) and Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication (1976) and co-editor, with Lewis L. Gould, of The Black Experience in America: Selected Essays (1970), Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered by Temple University Press (1989), and the author of numerous reviews in major national journals, including The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, The Journal of Southern History, The Winterthur Portfolio, American Quarterly and Reviews in American History. Also see: Making Sense of History

Dale, Stephen F. Class of 1963.
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Islamic historian who specializes in and teaches courses on the history of the eastern Islamic world, specifically India, Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia. He took his undergraduate degree from Carleton College and both of his graduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and previously taught at the Universities of Chicago and Minnesota. He has conducted research on one of the oldest Muslim communities in the Indian subcontinent, the Mappilas of Malabar or Kerala in southwestern India, and on Indian merchants who conducted trade in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the early modern era. He is currently at work on a biography of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, the founder, in 1526, of the Mughal (Mughul) empire of India; a project that involves research in most of the areas of Professor Dale's interests. His most recent publication dealing with Babur's life was an article in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies entitled, "Poetry and Autobiography in the Babur-nama."

Davis, Janet. Class of 1986.
Home Page: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/faculty/profiles/Davis/Janet%20M./
University of Texas (American Studies Department).
Associate professor of American Studies and History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently serving as chair of the Department of American Studies. She is the author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top (2002). She has edited the papers of Tiny Kline, a turn-of-the-century Hungarian Jewish immigrant who danced at burlesque shows, hung by her teeth at the circus, and was Disneyland's first Tinker Bell at age 70. Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline will be published with the University of Illinois Press in August 2008. Davis is currently researching and writing a social and cultural history of the American animal welfare movement from 1866-1930, paying special attention to the place of evangelical Christians and radical humanists in the movement, at home and abroad. Davis teaches courses relating to popular culture, 19th and 20th-c. U.S. cultural and social history, women's studies, modern South Asia, and social movements.

Davis, Jennifer. Class of 1996.
University of Oklahoma – Norman. Assistant Professor of European history. I completed a Ph.D at Penn State in 2004, and am revising my dissertation manuscript “Men of Taste: Gender and Authority in the French Culinary Trades, 1730-1830” for publication. I teach courses on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Nationalism and Ethnic Violence in Modern Europe, and women’s and gender history.

Dichtl, John. Executive director of the National Council on Public History (NCPH). I also recommend the NCPH website for career info. It's at www.ncph.org. Another great site is the Public History Resource Center at: http://www.publichistory.org/

Eisenberg, Ellen. Class of 1985. American Studies major.
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Willamette University, Chair, Department of History. Interests: Jewish community and ethnic relations in the American West. Author, Jews of the American Far West: The Evolution of a Regional Community, co-authored with Ava Kahn and Bill Toll, (forthcoming, University of Washington Press, 2008) and To Be the First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and the Problem of Japanese Removal (forthcoming, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (Utopianism and Communitarianism), 1995. And parent of an incoming Carleton freshman, class of 2012!

Fett, Sharla. Class of 1983.
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History Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. Author of Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations; Awards & Distinctions: Winner of the 2003 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association, the 2003 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, the 2003 Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, and the co-winner of the 2003 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians.

French, Katherine (Kit). Class of 1984.
Associate Professor of Medieval History, SUNY, New Paltz. Interests: Medieval England, women's history, and social history. I've written: /People of the Parish: Community Life in a Medieval English Diocese /(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); /The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion after the Black Death/ (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008-forthcoming in Dec.) and with Allyson Poska /Women and Gender in the Western Past/, 2 vol. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

Gilbert, James B. Class of 1961.
Home Page: http://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/gilbert.html
Author of nine monographs. Co-editor of three other books and co-author of a text in American history. His most recent works are Men In the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s; Explorations of American Culture and Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science. His Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias in the 1890s was chosen by the N.Y. Times as one of its "Notable Books of 1991." A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s was the Oxford University Press entry for the Pulitzer Prize.

Glade, Erin. Class of 1998
I completed the 2-year MA program in Middle Eastern Studies at University of Chicago in 2004, and am now in the History PhD program at University of Chicago, working toward a dissertation in Modern Middle Eastern History (Sept., 2007).

Gradick Murphy, Sarah. Class of 2002.
I completed the Master's in Elementary Education/Initial Licensure program at the University
of MN. I taught kindergarten for one year in Orono, MN, and have been teaching Grade 3 at Oak Grove Elementary in the Bloomington, MN public schools for the past three years. I would be happy to talk with current Carls or alums who are interested in getting into elementary education.

Hansen, Peter H. Class of 1984
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Associate Professor, Humanities and Arts, Director of International Studies. Interests: Modern European, British (esp. 19th and 20th centuries) history, international studies, global history, the history of mountaineering, nationalism, imperialism, sport, documentary films, postcolonial studies, cultural studies. IQP Advising Interests include the impact of new technologies, impact of technical change on jobs and business history, history of technology, technological transfer, appropriate technology, international comparisons, science and society studies, foreign policy, economics in mature countries and developing countries, introducing new teaching materials.

Hardgrove, Anne. Class of 1989.
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, San Antonio, received a B.A. from Carleton College and Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Specialties: Interdisciplinary focus, with a geographical concentration on South Asia, in particular India.

Hawkins, Timothy. Class of 1990
Jose de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, Just published by The University of Alabama Press, Visit http://www.uapress.ua.edu/, Department of History, Indiana State University.

Herder, Michelle, Class of 1997
PhD, medieval history, Yale. Went from Carleton to the PhD program at Yale, now teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Finished Ph.D. in 2003 with a dissertation on "The Monastery of St. Daniel and the Community of Girona, 1020-1370."

Hevly, Bruce. Class of 1982
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Professor, History Department, University of Washington-Seattle and historian of science. PhD, Johns Hopkins. Selected Bibliography: Expending the Spectrum: Sun and Earth at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Forthcoming; The Atomic West: Papers Presented at the University of Washington, September 1992. Editor, with John Findlay. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Forthcoming; "The Heroic Science of Glacier Motion." Osiris 11 (1996): 66-86; "Stanford's Supervoltage X-Ray Tube." Osiris 9 (1994): 85-100; Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. Editor, with Peter Galison. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Hirtle, Peter B. Class of 1974.
Technology Strategist and Intellectual Property Officer, Cornell University Library, 215 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853. He is also the Bibliographer for American and General European History. From 2002-2003, he served as President of the Society of American Archivists and continues to remain active in archival activities. From 2005-2007 he was a member of the Copyright Office's Section 108 Study Group.

Hoff, Derek. Class of 1994.
Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Currently revising his manuscript "Are We Too Many? The Population Debate and Policymaking in the Twentieth-Century United States." Specializes in modern American political, economic, and environmental history.

Hunt, Lynn. Class of 1967.
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UCLA, Professor and Eugen Weber Chair, Modern European History.
Early modern Europe, France, late modern Europe since 1789. She was recently elected to the American Philosophical Society, the country's oldest learned society founded by Benjamin Franklin and friends over 250 years ago. Author of Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984); and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992), The New Cultural History (1989); with Joyce Appleby and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (1994); with Jacques Revel, Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995); and with Victoria Bonnell, Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999). Recently published, Inventing Human Rights (2007).

Huyck, Heather. Class of 1973.
Home Page at the College of William and Mary
PhD American History and MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota. She has been a public historian since first working for the National Park Service as a Junior Historian (park interpreter) in 1971 at George Washington's Birthplace in Virginia. Since then she has worked for the National Park Service as a researcher, interpreter, resource manager, strategic planner, manager and historian. She has dealt with everything from the Furnishing Plan for Herbert Hoover's school to Dutch Elm disease on the National Mall to developing a set of measurable outcomes for cultural resources. Including her American Historical Association Congressional Fellowship, she spent 8 1/2 years working for the House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands. There she did the professional staff work for 81 enacted laws, including the Abandoned Shipwreck Act, the establishment of Natchez National Historical Park, the 1992 amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act and the Commemorative Works Act. She has been an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer for 10 years and has spoken and written about public history and women's history. She has visited 294 (of 388) national park units. Currently she is researching the management history of Green Springs National Historic Landmark District and is finishing the NPS Colonial Sites website. She has taught Introduction to Public History, Women's History/Women's Sites, American Memory/American History, and America's National Parks/America's Past.

Hyry, Tom. Class of 1993.
Head Archivist for Arrangement and Description, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520.

Iverson, Peter. Class of 1967.
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Arizona State University, Regents' Professor of History.
Became president of the Western History Association in October 2004. Also named Arizona State University Graduate College outstanding mentor of doctoral students. Interests: American Indian history and the history of the American West, especially late 19th century to present. Diné: A History of the Navajos and "For Our Navajo People": Diné Letters, Speeches, and Petitions, 1900-1960, 2002, University of New Mexico Press. Diné Letters has been selected by the History Book Club and has won several awards. Other recent publications include: Major Problems in American Indian History (with Albert Hurtado), 2001, Riders of the West: Portraits From Indian Rodeo (with Linda MacCannell, photographer), 1999.

Jamar, Steve. Class of 1975.
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JD, Hamline University School of Law, LLM in International and Comparative Law, Georgetown University Law Center.

Johnson, Benjamin H. Class of 1994.
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MA and PhD at Yale 2000. (Assistant Professor) His work focuses on the interactions between race, class, and political ideologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly on the Texas-Mexico border. His teaching and publications range in fields as diverse as political history, environmental history, borderlands and Mexican American history. He is author of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (Yale, 2003) and co-editor of Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement (Routledge, 2003). (e-mail: bjohnson@smu.edu)

Johnson Lorenz-Meyer, Elizabeth. Class of 1992.
University of Minnesota Ph.D., 2006. M.A., History, University of Kansas, 1998. Nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. history with an emphasis on immigration and gender history.

Keller, Shoshana. Class of 1986.
Home Page: http://academics.hamilton.edu/history/skeller/shkeller.html
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. Associate Professor of History.
Interests: Russia and Central Asia. I teach Russian history and an assortment of courses on various parts of Eurasia, including the modern Middle East and Central Asia. I recently published an article in Slavic Review on education and the narrative of history in Uzbekistan, called “Story, Time and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum,” [Slavic Review Vol. 66, No. 2(Summer 2007): 257–277]. I am currently working on creating an internet-based "teaching resource tool" on Central Asian histories, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. One of the other 3 principle investigators for this project is Adeeb Khalid.

Kettenring, Brian. Class of 1994.
Southern Regional Director, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

Klein, Michelle, see Morgan, Michelle.

Kim, Matthew. Class of 1999.
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After majoring in history (with a concentration in educational studies) at Carleton, I briefly pursued a career in investment banking through the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Career Program (SEO) and worked as an analyst intern at Bank of America in New York City. However, during this time, I sensed God's call to full-time pastoral ministry and teaching. So, I went on to complete a Master of Divinity (MDiv 2002) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, MA. I then pursued a Master of Theology (MTh 2003) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. 2006) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in theology and ethics. Upon my return from Scotland in December 2005, I taught for a semester at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary as an adjunct professor, and I am currently the senior pastor of Logos Central Chapel in Denver, Colorado. In June 2007, my dissertation was published as Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans: Towards a Possible Selves Contextual Homiletic (New York: Peter Lang). In January 2008, I will return to Gordon-Conwell to teach a one-week intensive course as the Sams Visiting Professor of Preaching on the topic of "Preaching in the Asian-American Context." Although I am not directly working in the field of history, my work as a pastor involves much historical exploration.

Ladner, Andrew, Class of 2007.
I recently started work in online advertising with Google in Ann Arbor, MI. As a Carleton alum and History major, I really think the job is a perfect fit for Carleton students in general and history majors in particular. Feel free to email me with any questions. I am available as a resource person for any students interested in advertising, Google, or both!

Lebsock, Suzanne. Class of 1971.
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Professor at Rutgers University, history of American women, both black and white.

LaFleur, Robert. Class of 1981.
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Professor of History and Anthropology, Beloit College.

Lekan, Tom. Class of 1989.
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University of South Carolina. Teaches undergraduate surveys of European civilization and modern Germany, as well as specialized undergraduate courses and seminars on environmental history, the urban experience in modern Europe, and Nazi social history. He also leads graduate seminars in environmental history, European history, and dissertation prospectus writing. His first book, Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2004), explores the relationship between nature conservation, landscape planning, and national identity in the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and National Socialist periods of German history. He has also recently completed a volume of essays (co-edited with Thomas Zeller) entitled Germany’s Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

Leslie, Stuart W. Class of 1975.
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Professor of History of Technology, Johns Hopkins University.

Lewis, Robert W. Class of 1998, rwittlewis@gmail.com
Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College History Department, Grinnell, Iowa. Modern Europe, 2007. Fulbright Scholar 2003-04, in France. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. Dissertation: "The Society of the Stadium: Urban Modernity, Sports Spectatorship and Mass Politics in France, 1893-1975."

Maddux, Melanie. Class of 1998.
Consulting Associate, McKinsey & Company, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Markwyn, Abby. Class of 1995.
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Assistant Professor of History, Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. PhD, UW Madison, "Constructing an 'epitome of civilization': Local Politics and Visions of Progressive Era America at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition." 2006. At Carroll she teaches surveys of American history, women's history, western history, and Latin American history.

McGowan, Abigail. Class of 1993.
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Assistant Professor. University of Vermont. Asian History, South Asia, South Asian women's history.

McWethy, Loren. Class of 2004.
Willing to discuss information on internships/educational & overseas programs in the DC area. I would be willing to be a point of contact for current Latin American History majors. I would be happy to help out the History Department in this way. Please refer people my way.

Meneghel MacDonald, Meg. Class of 1982.
Communications Specialist, University of Washington.

McCrossen, Alexis. Class of 1989.
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Southern Methodist University, Associate Professor of History Specialist in American social and cultural history, with interests in religion, cities, and leisure. Her book "Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday" was published by Cornell University Press (2000) and she is now finishing a book for the University of Chicago Press titled "Marking Modern Times: Americans and Their Timepieces, 1850-1930" which has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Hagley Library and Museum.

Morgan, Michelle (Klein). PhD, American history, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007. My dissertation is entitled "A Model of Womanhood or Manhood: City Teachers in the Far West, 1890-1930." My research and teaching interests include education, labor, gender, and the West. I am now teaching at UW-Whitewater and serving as the Academic Director for "Building Informed Citizens," a professional education program for teachers in the Madison Metropolitan School District. The program is funded by a Teaching American History grant from the Department of Education. I would love to be added to the Carleton history department contact list and I would be happy to talk with other students interested in pursuing graduate school.

Mullin, Ted. Class of 2006. Deceased 09/03/2006.
The Carleton community is deeply saddened by the loss of senior Ted Mullin, who died on Sunday, September 3, 2006, in his home town of Winnetka, Illinois. Ted entered Carleton with the Class of 2006, and had been battling synovial sarcoma since the summer of 2004. Despite his illness, he was on track to graduate in spring of 2007. Ted was deeply committed to his life at Carleton, as a history major and member of the men’s swim team. He was intense, generous, kind-hearted, a strong leader, had a deep sense of team spirit, and had an especially strong commitment to learning, analyzing, and understanding the depth and meaning of everything he learned. Ted co-captained two 'Relay for Life' teams while at Carleton, an event raising funds to support cancer research sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Ted's On-line remembrances: http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/edward_mullin/ Memorials can be sent to the Ted Mullin Memorial Fund, c/o History Department, Carleton College, One North College Street, Northfield, MN 55057, and to the Ted Mullin Cancer Research Fund, C/O University of Chicago Medical Center Development, 1170 East 58th Street Second Floor, Chicago IL 60637.

Myers, Dave. Class of 2000.
Middle School Teacher at da Vinci Arts Middle School in Portland, OR. Teaches Reading, Writing, and Social Studies to 6, 7, and 8th graders.

Oldstone-Moore, Christopher. Class of 1984.
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University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1992. with specialization in modern Britain, France and the U.S. He has published works on English Nonconformity, including his first book, Hugh Price Hughes: Founder of a New Methodism, Conscience of a New Nonconformity (University of Wales Press, 1999). Currently, the focus of his research is gender and masculinity.

Pasley, Jeffrey. Class of 1986.
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Missouri State University, Department of History.

Peiss, Kathy. Class of 1975.
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The Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at Penn. Her teaching interests include the history of American women, gender, and sexuality, consumer culture in historical perspective, and modern American cultural history. See home page for extensive bibliography.

Polasky, Janet. Class of 1973.
Home page: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/peiss.shtml
Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of New Hampshire, Professor of History, early and modern Europe. Author of the Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde: Between Reform and Revolution, 1995, and Revolution in Brussels, 1787-1793. Fields of Research: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country: Reforming Urban Labor in Brussels and London; Revolution Without Borders: "Le Cri Universel" of the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World.

Priest, Ty. Class of 1986.
Independent historian in Houston, Texas. Author of: Global Gambits: Big Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese, 2003, Praeger Publishers.

Ramaswamy, Aparna. Class of 1997 (IR and Poli Sci major, South Asian History concentrator) Artistic Director/Choreographer/Principal Dancer, has performed Bharatanatyam in the Twin Cities from a very young age, and has been studying under the guidance of Ms. Alarmel Valli, the world's leading exponent of the Pandanallur style of Bharatanatyam, since the age of eight. At the age of twelve, she was the first of Ms. Valli's students to perform an arangetram (two-hour debut recital) in India. Aparna has performed at prestigious venues nationally and internationally, both as a soloist and as Principal Dancer of Ragamala. She has been awarded several honors, including a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dancers, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreography, a Bush Fellowship for Choreography, an Arts and Religion in the Twin Cities grant, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, two Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grants, an Artist Exploration Fund Grant from Arts International (New York), the Lakshmi Vishwanathan Endowment Prize from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Chennai, India), and the Sage Award for Best Dancer (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Aparna's work is supported by the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project, the Japan Foundation, and has been commissioned by Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). http://www.ragamala.net/

Randolph, John. Class of 1989.
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Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I specialize in the history of the early Russian Empire. At Illinois, I offer a number of different courses in Russian history, as well as seminars on research methods and intellectual history. Author of: The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, Cornell University Press, Spring, 2007.

Adam Reilly. Class of 1994. Staff writer, cover city, state and national politics for the Boston Phoenix, a weekly newspaper that’s the Massachusetts equivalent of City Pages. Master’s, Harvard Divinity
School.

Josh Rising (MD, MPH) Class of 1997. I am currently a pediatrician in New Haven, CT. Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University; Board of Directors National Physicians Alliance, http://www.npalliance.org.

Ringrose, Daniel. Class of 1988
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Minot State University, North Dakota. Associate professor of History.
Interests include modern France and Germany, gender history, professionalization, elites, and problems in labor history.

Robertson, Claire. Class of 1966.
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The Ohio State University. Professor of History and Women's Studies. Interests: African and Third World women, socioeconomic change, women and slavery in Africa and the Americas, Third World education and development, feminist theory and methodology, issues of representation of African women, colonialism and women, and marketing systems. Author or editor of six books and over forty articles dealing with women, class/gender relations, and slavery in Africa. Dr. Robertson is winner of the African Studies Association's 1985 Herskovits Book Award. In 1987-88, she held a Fulbright Fellowship to study Kenyan market women and the development of Nairobi area trade. Current research: reconstructing the history of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.

Robinson, Sarah. Class of 1998. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Fulbright scholar beginning 2003-04, in France.

Rosenberg, Clifford. Class of 1991.
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Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, The City College of New York. Social and political history of modern France.

Rubenstein, Jay. Class of 1989.
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Congratulations, Jay! 2007 MacArthur Fellowship Award
Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Historian of the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual worlds of Europe in the Middle Ages, with areas of focus in the eleventh and twelfth centuries in England, France, and the Crusader settlements. He received an M.Phil. at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley, both in medieval history. His research interests combine intellectual, cultural, religious, and military history, with his earliest publications focusing on the cultural impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon society, and his more recent work examining the much more extensive impact of the First Crusade (1096-1099) on the European world. In between he wrote a biography of the French monk Guibert of Nogent, who is most famous for having written the first true autobiography of the Middle Ages and whose other works draw together a variety of intellectual, psychological, theological, and historical ideas and phenomena. For all of these projects he has lived and worked extensively in Europe, particularly in Paris, Rome, Oxford, and London.

Shulman, Steve. Class of 1986.
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Ph.D., University of Michigan. Interim Chair, Department of Political Science,
Associate Professor of Political Science and Frank L. Klingberg Professor of International Relations at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC). He is currently making a total of six trips to the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) to consult on the reform of that institution's political science department through a program sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Also Director of Undergraduate Studies in SIUC's political science department. Winner of a fellowship, January 2005, "Excellence Through Commitment Undergraduate Teaching Enhancement Award.”

Stiles, T.J. Class of 1986.
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Writer and historian, living in San Francisco. His books include Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). He is currently writing a biography of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, 1794-1877. He recently returned to Carleton to present a recent History Department Fall Lefler Lecture. His talk was, "When the War Came North: Finding the Meaning of Jesse James in Northfield."

Sturtz, Linda.Class of 1983.
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Beloit College, Professor.
I was a history major at Carleton College and studied museums and American History in the M.A. program at William & Mary. I completed my Ph.D. in history at Washington University in St. Louis where I taught courses in Women's History and American History before the Civil War. My current projects include completing a manuscript on the history of propertied women in Virginia during the colonial period. I am beginning to work on the history of Jamaica in the eighteenth century.

Suk, Michael. Class of 1990.
Was named one of twelve 2003-04 White House Fellows, the nation's most prestigious program for leadership and public service. Selection is based on a record of remarkable professional achievement early in one's career, evidence of leadership potential, a proven commitment to public service, and the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute successfully at the highest levels of the federal government. After majoring in History at Carleton, Michael went on to simultaneously complete his M.D. at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and a J.D./M.P.H. at Boston University School of Law and School of Health. Director, Trauma Service and Association, Dire Shands Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL.

Swartzbaugh, Laura. Class of 1989. American Studies.
I have been teaching high school History and English at a small selective-admissions public high school in the western suburbs of Chicago, Proviso Math and Science Academy, since 2005.

Telchin, Robert. Class of 1999.
Desk Officer, Southern and East Africa International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. International Trade Specialist for eight Southern and Eastern African countries at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Works closely with American companies attempting to overcome trade and investment barriers in Africa, as well as with African businesses seeking to strengthen their competitiveness and commercial ties with the United States. He’s also an advisor on policy issues affecting U.S.-Africa trade, including the African Growth and Opportunity Act or “AGOA.” Acting Economic and Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi in 2006 and the Acting Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in 2004.

Thorsheim, Peter. Class of 1991.
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Associate Professor of History. Specialist in modern Britain, environmental history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine. Author of Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 (2006).

Tikoff, Valentina. Class of 1987.
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DePaul University, Assistant Professor of history
Early modern Europe, Spain, The Atlantic World, History of Children and the Family, History of Poverty and Social Welfare.

Troyansky, David. Class of 1976.
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Professor and Chair, Department of History, Brooklyn College, New York. See home page for extensive bibliography.

Urban-Mead, Wendy. Class of 1984.
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M.A., University at Albany; Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest include African history, with emphasis on southern Africa; European imperialism; history of Christianity in Africa; religion and gender.

Van Slyke, Lyman. Class of 1951
Stanford University. Department of History. Professor Emeritus.
Specialty: History of China.

von Glahn, Robert. Class of 2003
M.A. Ed., Teachers College, Columbia University; current a History Teacher, The Potomac School, McLean, Va.

Walden, Judy. Class of 1986
University of the Ozarks, History department. Since Spring of 2000, Judy has offered a History and Film series using mainstream films to show students that history can be fun and to encourage historical discussion and analysis outside the classroom. Research interest: public housing in Dublin, Ireland.

Waters, Anne B. Class of 1982
"The Status of Women in South Asia." In: Education About Asia Vol. 2, No. 2, 1997.

Webster, Adam. Class of 2000
I gave up the world of public relations and am now back in graduate school. I am in my 4th year at Brown University in the History Department, working on my dissertation research and aiming to finish up this PhD in the next few years. At the moment (10-01-2007), I am writing from Tübingen, Germany, in Baden-Wurttemberg, where I am on a DAAD fellowship at the local university. Specializes in German history since 1870, additional fields of interest are Germany since 1870, European cultural history since 1870 and British history since 1760. My dissertation itself deals with Germany´s experience in 1945 itself, a long-talked-about-but-irregularly-closely-studied thing.

Wiebe, Robert. Class of 1951. Deceased 12/10/2000
Author of The Search for Order, 1877-1920, passed away December 10, 2000, in Evanston, Illinois, New York Times, 12/26/00. The Search for Order was a landmark book for synthesizing the history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, deemed a crucial period over which significant changes in political, social, and economic culture occurred, with urbanization and the spread of urban networks at the core. See also the set of papers on the H-SHGAPE WWW site associated with a 1997 American Historical Association panel on The Search for Order with comments by Robin Muncy, Leon Fink, and Martin Sklar, at the H-Net Site. Professor Wiebe retired from Northwestern University in 1997, and had been a member of the Department of History since 1960. He wrote Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement.

Willeford, Brook. Class of 2002
Has been working in the game industry for several years now, first at WizKids, Inc as a game designer and now at Sandlot Games Corporation as a writer and level designer. He's also worked as a freelance writer, creating fiction for the Mage Knight and MechWarrior websites as well as contributing to a for-charity book of role playing game systems and adventures. He's always happy to speak with other Carls about getting into either the tabletop or video game industry.

Wold, Samuel. Class of 2000
PhD program, University of Otago, New Zealand (Education: History); Qualifying degree from Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, USA; B.A. in History from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA. Samuel will examine how the educational system (primarily upper grade schools) has taught indigenous history and peoples. This will be a comparative study between New Zealand, Australia and the United States. He will explore the changes textbooks have made and the actual methods schools/teachers utilize to teach the histories of these peoples. Specific attention will focus on the experience of Indigenous peoples though their schooling years. Emphasis will also be placed on national and local policy looking at how that has impacted what is taught within schools. The research will include literature review, school observations and interviews. Samuel has also been High School History teacher at Northfield Senior High School, Northfield, MN for the last several years.

Wolff, Derek. Class of 1992.
Although I was an Art History major at Carleton, I have recently completed my Ph.d. in History at the University of Chicago. I specialize in Asian history, specifically Japanese history. My dissertation was entitled "Notes from the Periphery: Satsuma Identities in Early Modern and Modern Japan." Postdoctoral fellowship, Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. I'd be happy to serve as a resource for current Carleton students or alumni who are engaged in or who are considering Asian Studies or Japanese Studies.