Department of History

Ph.D.s Completed, July 2005 - May 2006

BELLI, Mériam (Licence, Maîtrise, INALCO, Paris); Lecturer, MIT
“Remembrance of Nasserian Things Past: An Approach to the Social and Cultural History of the Nineteen-Fifties and Nineteen-Sixties in Egypt”

DU QUENOY, Paul Glenn (B.A., M.A., George Washington University); Asst. Prof., American University in Cairo
“Harlequin’s Leap: Performing Arts Culture and the Revolution of 1905 in Saint Petersburg”

FOLEY, Sean Ezra (B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Georgetown University); Asst. Prof., Middle Tennessee State University
“Shaykh Khalid and the Naqshbandiyyah-Khaldiyyah, 1776-2005”

JOSEPH, Sabrina E. (B.A., New College of the University of South Florida; M.A., Georgetown University); Asst. Prof., Shippensburg University
“The Islamic Law on Tenancy and Sharecropping in Late Sixteenth through Early Nineteenth Century Syria”

KHACHATURIAN, Lisa (B.A., University of Rochester)
“Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial Russia: The Periodical Press and the Formation of a Modern Eastern Armenian Identity”

MARTIN, Kevin W. (B.A., The University of Houston; M.A., Georgetown University); Asst. Prof., University of Memphis
“Enter the Future!: Exemplars of Bourgeois Modernity in Post-WWII Syria”

MERROW, Alexander (B.A., Denison University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Georgetown University); Visiting Asst. Prof., Franklin & Marshall College
“Clio’s Nuncios: The Catholic Historical Discipline in Imperial Germany, 1876-1901”

NEGROPONTE, Diana V. (J.D., American University; B.Sc. London School of Economics & Political Science, U.K.); United States Institute of Peace
“Conflict Resolution at the End of the Cold War: The Role of Mediators in Negotiating a Settlement of El Salvador’s Civil War, 1989-1992”

NORMAN, York Allan (B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Indiana University; M.A. Bilkent University); Asst. Prof., University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
“An Islamic City? Sarajevo’s Islamization and Economic Development, 1461-1604”

ROEDELL, C. Andrew (B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Duquesne University)
“The Beasts that Perish: The Problem of Evil and the Contemplation of the Animal Kingdom in English Thought, c. 1660-1839”

SHEARER, Valerie J. (B.S.S., M.A., Ohio University)
“A Good Deed is Never Forgotten: Crédit and Mutual Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France”

VRTIS, George H. (B.S., Marquette University; M.A., Northwestern University); Asst. Prof., Carleton College
“The Front Range of the Rocky Mountains: An Environmental History, 1700-1900”

ZICKAFOOSE, Virginia (B.A., New School for Social Research); Professorial Lecturer, Georgetown University
“Virtuous Crown, Virtuous Respublica”

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