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RECENTLY HIRED FACULTY
2010 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - All Faculty
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Professor Schor teaches ancient Mediterranean history with particular interests in the Roman Empire and Roman-era religious communities. Professor Schor regularly teaches the first half of the Western Civilization survey, as wells as courses on ancient Greece, the Roman world, late antiquity (from the later Roman Empire to the rise of Islam), ancient social and economic history, and the development of ancient religious communities, including the Christian church. His publications include Theodoret’s People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria (2011) and “Conversion by the Numbers: Benefits and Pitfalls of Quantitative Modeling in the Study of Early Christian Growth” (in the Journal of Religious History, 2009), along with several other articles.
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Emily K. Brock specializes in the history of the field sciences, environmental history, and the history of the North American West. Her current research is on the interactions of forest science, the lumber industry and environmental politics in post-logging landscapes in the twentieth century Pacific Northwest. She holds a doctorate from Princeton University in history and history of science as well as a master's degree in ecology from the University of Oregon. In 2004-2006 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, a visiting scholar in the Stanford history department in 2006-2007, and was the 2008 Sterling Senior Research Fellow in Pacific Northwest History. Before arriving at USC, Professor Brock taught at Georgia State University.
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Matt D. Childs earned his PhD from the University of Texas in 2001. His primary research and teaching interests are Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic history with a particular emphasis on the importance of understanding the historical legacies of slavery and racism in shaping the modern world. He is the author of The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery (2006), which was a finalist for the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize given by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance and Abolition, and has co-edited with Toyin Falola The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (2005). During the 2008-2009 academic year he will be on research leave at the University of Texas at Austin as a Donald Harrington Fellow. Before joining the History Department at USC, Childs taught at Florida State University from 2001-2008.
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The photo shows a windswept Allison Marsh in England standing 180 feet above the River Tees, atop the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge. The site visit was part of USC's England Field School in the summer of 2008. Allison is a public historian with interests in the history of technology and the history of tourism. Before coming to USC, Allison was the Winton M. Blount Research Chair at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. She curated several exhibits including ‘Out of the Mails’ and ‘Disaster: Response and Recovery’. She holds BS and BA degrees in Engineering and History from Swarthmore College and a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Johns Hopins University.
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Saskia Coenen Snyder received BA and MA degrees from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a PhD in 2008 from the University of Michigan. Her research employs comparative and multi-disciplinary approaches to European Jewish history. By crossing the conceptual boundaries of history, architecture, and urban studies, she explores the dynamic relationship between synagogue building and Jewish identity in Amsterdam, London, and Berlin in the second half of the nineteenth century. Professor Coenen Snyder was named the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellow for 2006-7 and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research fellow for 2006.
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David J. Snyder earned a PhD in 2006 from Southern Illinois University. A specialist in the Cold War, Dr. Snyder’s research examines the role of “public diplomacy” in projecting American power within international cultural and political space. In addition to understanding a crucial dimension of modern U.S. foreign policy, the focus on “public diplomacy” reveals the linkage between U.S. foreign relations and domestic American culture. A former Fulbright fellow, Dr. Snyder’s first book is a multi-archival case study of these themes and will be published as The Dutch Encounter with the American Century: Clientelism and Modernization in the Netherlands, 1945-1958 by Brill in 2009.
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Gabi Kuenzli received a BA from Macalester College (1993), an MA from Indiana University (1995) and completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin in 2005. Her work focuses on modern Latin America and, in particular, Bolivia. She explores the relationship between, race, ethnicity, citizenship, and the formation of the nation state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Bolivia. She has a particular interest in indigenous population mobilization movements. In spring, 2008, she worked in Bolivia under the auspices of a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Before coming to USC Professor Kuenzli taught at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Kent Germany holds a joint appointment in History and African American Studies and teaches recent U.S. History, documentary history (including oral history and digital history), and 20th Century African American Studies. His research focuses on the American South, urban history, social policy, and post-World War II U.S. politics, with a particular emphasis on issues of race, poverty, civil rights, and citizenship. Germany is also a co-founder and co-editor of www.whitehousetapes.org and a former host of ‘For The Record’, a PBS interview program on politics and history. He received his PhD from Tulane University and before coming to USC was at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
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Joe November’s work focuses on the history of the life sciences and medicine, history of computing, and modern American history. He is particularly interested in how developments in information technology and the life sciences have shaped one another. His forthcoming book, Digitizing Life: The Introduction of Computers to Biology and Medicine, explores the intellectual and institutional dimensions of the computerization of biology and medicine. The book surveys not only the changes computers brought to the study of life, but also the changes the life sciences brought to the development of computing. He earned a PhD from Princeton in 2006 and in 2007-2008 was a DeWitt Stetten Jr. Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology sponsored by the National Institute of Health (NIH) Center for Information Technology.
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Dorothy Pratt received her BA at Vanderbilt University and her PhD in US history and the history of the American West from the University of Notre Dame. Her first book, Shipshewana: An Indiana Amish Community was published by Indiana University Press and her new project continues to study insider/outsider groups through a study of the Mississippi Constitutional Conventions of 1890.
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