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Emily K. Brock
Assistant Professor
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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
Associate Professor
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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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Emil Kerenji
Assistant Professor |
Emil Kerenji, whose work focuses on Jewish and modern European history, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2008. Before arriving at the University of South Carolina he was a Raul Hilberg Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Focusing on the history of Yugoslavia and the modern Balkans, Professor Kerenji’s work aims to situate modern Eastern European and Jewish history more firmly within the larger framework of European history, and engage in wider debates about memory, identity, nationalism, and representations of the past.
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Allison Marsh
Assistant Professor |
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
Assistant Professor |
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
Lecturer |
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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E. Gabrielle Kuenzli
Assistant Professor |
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
Assistant Professor |
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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Joseph A. November
Assistant Professor
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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
Research Associate Professor |
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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Christine Caldwell Ames
Assistant Professor |
Christine Ames received a BA from Brown University (1991), MA from the Yale University Divinity School (1995), and her PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She works on medieval European history with a particular interest in the history of religion. Her research has been published in The American Historical Review and her book Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages will be published by the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Before coming to USC, Professor Ames taught at Saint Louis University.
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Elena A. Osokina
Associate Professor |
Elena Osokina arrived at USC after teaching at Missouri State University and Oberlin College. Professor Osokina was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies in 2000-2001 and won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship for 2005-2006. She obtained a BA and two PhD degrees from Moscow State University and has published extensively in English, Russian, and French on Russian economic history and modern consumer studies.
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Don H. Doyle
McCausland Professor |
Don Doyle arrived at USC after a distinguished career at Vanderbilt University. He is the McCausland Professor of History and his teaching and research focus on the American South along with nationalism in the Americas and Europe. During a stint as a Fulbright professor in Italy he became increasingly interested in the comparative secessionist movements and has organized a series of Conferences on ‘Secession as an International Phenomenon.’ With colleagues in Latin America and Europe Professor Doyle founded the Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas (ARENA) which sponsors conferences and publications throughout the hemisphere.
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Ann Johnson
Assistant Professor |
Ann Johnson received her PhD in the history of science from Princeton University and comes to USC from Fordham University. She splits her time between the departments of history and philosophy at USC. Her research focus is engineering studies. She has a book forthcoming with Duke University Press titled Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge, which details the development of antilock braking systems for automobiles as a case study to examine the way engineers, largely in the private sector, produce both knowledge and artifacts. Her next project looks at the way nineteenth century American engineers mathematized nature and how their views of landscapes played a role in the construction of larger American identities. She also works from time to time on the history of nanotechnology, particularly looking at the role of computation in producing new understandings of the molecular world.
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Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Assistant Professor |
Lauren Sklaroff received a BA from Wellesley College and completed her PhD in US history at the University of Virginia in 2003. Her research builds on her interest in the relationship between culture and the construction of racial identity. She has published articles in The Journal of American History and the American Quarterly. Her book The Politics of Cultural Exchange: Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era is in press at the University of North Carolina Press. Before her arrival at USC, Professor Sklaroff was awarded a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship at the National Musuem of American History in 2000-2002 and a J.N.G. Finley Post-Doctoral Fellowship at George Mason University in 2003-2004.
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Marjorie J. Spruill
Professor |
Before arriving at USC Marjorie J. Spruill had been at Vanderbilt University and earlier at the University of Southern Mississippi.. Professor Spruill’s areas of specialty are US women’s and gender history and the history of the American South. In her research, she has always been especially interested in the intersection of ideas about gender and politics. She is currently writing a book on the rise of the modern women’s rights movements in the late 1960s and 1970s, the mobilization of social conservatives as the “Pro-Family Movement” in reaction to the women’s movement, and the conflicts between these two movements which contributed to the polarization of American political culture. Professor Spruill received a BA from the University of North Carolina and her PhD from the University of Virginia. In 2006-2007 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
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