The Ph.D Program:
Modern European History
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The PhD program in Modern European
History at Emory offers an intensive, well-structured and competitive graduate
program in modern Europe taught by a distinguished and committed group
of scholars.
We pride ourselves on the high level of
faculty-student contact and on the intellectual, interpersonal, and financial
resources we provide our graduate students. |
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The program offers expertise in the national
histories of every major, continental- European power: France (Judith
Miller,
Kathryn Amdur), Germany (Astrid
M. Eckert, Brian
Vick), Italy (Walter Adamson),
and Russia (Matthew
Payne). In addition, we are supported by James
Melton,
a leading scholar of the Germanic world in the eighteenth century. In the
field of modern Germany, then, we are clearly one of the premier programs
in the United States.
Professor Miller has recruited an excellent
cadre of PhD students studying eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
France and welcomes new applicants. Likewise, Professor Vick, newly arrived
from the University of Colorado, is eager to consider applicants who wish
to focus on the nineteenth-century generally and the Germanic world in particular.
All of our other modern Europeanists research the twentieth century, and
we therefore strongly encourage applications from students interested in
this field. We are especially strong in the histories of modernism and modernity
(Adamson, Amdur, Miller, Vick), intellectual history (Adamson, Eckert, Vick),
nationalism (Adamson, Vick), memory (Amdur, Eckert, Miller), labor (Amdur,
Payne), and the Cold War (Eckert, Harbutt, Payne).
Faculty |
Title |
Field |
Major Publications |
Current
Research |
Walter Adamson |
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor |
Intellectual , Italy |
Embattled Avant-gardes:
Modernism’s Resistance
to Commodity Culture in Europe (2007)
Avant-garde Florence: From Modernism
to Fascism (1993)
Marx and the Disillusionment of Marxism (1985)
Hegemony and Revolution: Antonio Gramsci’s Political
and Cultural Theory (1980) |
Religious politics and secular religion
in fascist Italy; Marinetti’s futurism in the 1930s; modernity
and secularization. |
Kathryn
E. Amdur |
Associate Professor |
Social , France |
Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions
and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I (1986) |
French trade unionism and industrial
transformation from the 1930s to the 1950s |
Astrid
M. Eckert |
Assistant Professor |
Political, Germany |
Fight for the Files: The Western
Allies and the Return of Captured German Archives after World War
II (2004)
(ed.) The Holocaust and West German Historians: A Debate (2004)
Institutions of Public Memory: The Legacies of German and
American Politicians (2007) |
‘West Germany and the Iron Curtain’ |
Judith
A. Miller |
Associate Professor |
Social and Cultural, France |
Mastering the Market: The State and
the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (1998)
(ed.) Taking Liberties: Problems of New Order from the French
Revolution to Napoleon (2003) |
‘Revolutionary
Silences: France after the Terror, 1795-1815’ (working title) |
Matthew
J. Payne |
Associate Professor |
Social , Russia and Soviet Union |
Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib
and Building Socialism (2001) |
‘Soviet
Steppe: Modernization and Genocide in Kazakhstan, 1916 to 1941’ (working title) |
Brian
Vick |
Assistant Professor |
Cultural, Intellectual and Political,
Germany |
Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt
Parliamentarians and National Identity (2002) |
The Congress of Vienna and post-Napoleonic
political culture; 19th century German legal reform movements,
gender, historicism, and national identity |
One distinctive
aspect of our program is that it offers not only rigorous training in
these fields, but also presents abundant opportunities to interact with
colleagues researching adjacent periods, places and disciplines. We are
an outward-looking program that encourages our students to work with
- a complementary roster of early modern Europeanists specializing
in Britain (Philippe
Rosenberg), Italy (Sharon
Strocchia) and the German-speaking lands (James
Melton)
- six historians working on areas of the former British Empire:
South Africa (Clifton
Crais and Pamela
Scully), West Africa (Kristin
Mann and Edna
Bay in the ILA) and South Asia (Gyanendra
Pandey and Ruby
Lal)
- twentieth-century American historians (Patrick
Allitt, Fraser
Harbutt and Eric
Goldstein), whose interests in transatlantic topics intertwine
with those of Eckert
- scholars of modern European culture and society working in German
Studies (Peter
Höyng, Caroline
Schaumann), Jewish Studies (Deborah
Lipstadt), Russian and East European Studies, Sociology (Roberto
Franzosi), Film Studies (Karla
Oeler) and the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts (Sander
Gilman, Elizabeth
Goodstein and Angelika
Bammer)
Emory also offers the following excellent resources
to graduate students studying modern European history:
- major research libraries containing approximately 2.9 million
items including extensive microfilm collections of primary sources
in European history
- an array of talks and events every week on aspects of European
culture, politics and society at the Halle Institute and the European
Studies program
- a guaranteed minimum stipend of $15000 a year for five years to
all students accepted into the PhD program
- generous funding for pre-dissertation and dissertation research
abroad
- a departmental professionalization program that prepares students
for landing jobs and publishing their work
- language training in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian,
as well as Hindi and Arabic for those needing these languages for
imperial topics
- training and support in undergraduate teaching through Emory’s
unrivalled TATTO program
Graduation
Year |
PhD Recipient |
Thesis Title |
Current
Position |
1994/1995 |
Gabriella Etmektsoglou |
“Axis Exploitation
of Wartime Greece, 1941-1943” |
Lecturer, La Trobe
University, Melbourne, Australia |
1995/1996 |
Elaine McClarnand |
“Soviet Historians
and the Debates Over the Origins of Stalinism in the USSR, 1985-1991” |
Associate Professor,
West Georgia University 1998/1999 |
1995/1996 |
Jeffrey Reznick |
“Rest, Recovery
and Rehabilitation: Healing and Identity in Great Britain in the
First World War” |
Director, Institute for the Study
of Occupation and Health at the American Occupational Therapy Foundation;
Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for First World War Studies, University
of Birmingham, UK
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1999/2000 |
Theresa Ast |
“Confronting the Holocaust:
American Soldiers Who Liberated the Concentration Camps” |
Assistant Professor,
Reinhardt College |
1999/2000 |
Michael Bennighof |
“Echoes of
Radetsky: Institution Memory and the Austrian Campaign in Italy,
1866” |
Avalanche Press |
1999/2000 |
Yael Fletcher |
“City, Nation
and Empire in Marseilles, 1919- 1939” |
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Sewanee University |
1999/2000 |
Rebecca Wendelken |
“Red Metal
on the Steppes: The Spassky Copper Mines Ltd., 1904-1919” |
Assistant Professor,
Methodist College |
1999/2000 |
Jennifer Wynot |
“Keeping the
Faith: Russian Orthodox Monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939” |
Assistant Professor, Metropolitan
State College |
2000/2001 |
Alexander Auerbach |
“In the Courts and Alleys:
Enforcement of the Laws on Children’s Education and Labor
in London, 1870-1914” |
Assistant Professor,
Virginia Commonwealth College |
2000/2001 |
Kristian Blaich |
“Creating
the Socialist University: Academic Culture and GDR Politics at
Greifswald University, 1945-1961” |
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Oglethorpe University |
2001/2002 |
Allison Belzer |
“Femininity
Under Fire: Women in Italy During the First World War” |
Instructor, Armstrong
Atlantic University |
2002/2003 |
Paul Menair |
“Savages in
the City: British Bohemia and the Ideal of Artistic Squalor, 1840-1870” |
Attorney at Glasowitz & Frankel,
Atlanta, GA |
2003/2004 |
Jennifor Sartori |
“Our Religious
Future: Girls’ Education and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth
Century France” |
Assistant Professor,
Northeastern University |
2005/2006 |
Kevin Bradley |
“The
Development of the London Underground, 1840-1933: The Transformation
of the London Metropolis and the Role of Laissez-Faire in Urban
Growth” |
2005/2006 |
Dwain Pruitt |
“Nantes Noir:
Living Race in the City of Slavers” |
Assistant Professor,
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN |
2005/2006 |
Jonathyne Briggs |
“Anarchie
en France: Hypermodernity and French Popular Music, 1958-1981” |
Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University Northwest |
2007/2008 |
Chad Fulwider |
“The Kaiser’s Most Loyal Subjects? Germany’s Vision of America and German-Americans during World War I” |
Assistant Professor, Centenary College, LA |
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