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Ph.D. Careers and Accomplishments
Please send news of new jobs, awards, fellowships, publications, and admissions to other graduate programs to Laurie O'Neill at lponeill@uncg.edu. We will include your news on this page and in the fall department newsletter. Thanks!
Academic Career News
Jennifer Bratyanski, Ph.D. 2012: Instructor, Queens University of Charlotte, Hayworth College
Tiffany Butler Quaye, Ph.D. 2012: Instructor, North Carolina A&T University
James Findley, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG
Christine Flood, Ph.D. student: Program Associate and Lecturer, Ashby Residential College, UNCG
Marjorie Foy, Ph.D. student: Adjunct Professor of History at St. Augustine's College
Sarah Gates, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG
Christopher Graham, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG, Guilford Technical Community College, and Elon University
Kevin Greene, Ph.D. 2011: Lecturer, UNCG
Karen Hawkins, Ph.D. student: Teacher, Wake County Public Schools
John Kaiser, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG
Angela Robbins Marritt, Ph.D. 2011: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer, UNCG
Paige Meszaros, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG
Alyce Miller, Ph.D. student: Assistant Professor, John Tyler Community College
Todd Miller, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG
Joseph Moore, Ph.D. 2011: Assistant Professor, Gardner-Webb University
Eric Oakley, Ph.D. student: TIP Summer Studies Instructor, Duke University
Keri Petersen, Ph.D. student: Assistant Professor, Bennett College
Eugene Piasecki, Ph.D. student: Historian at U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fayetteville, NC
Richard Shelton, Ph.D. student: History Instructor, Surry Community College
Cory Joe Stewart, Ph.D. 2010: Social Sciences Division Chair, Surry Community College
Susan Thomas, Ph.D. 2011: Lecturer, UNCG
Natasha Thompson, Ph.D. student: Lecturer, UNCG
Jess Usher, Ph.D. student: Instructor, Winston Salem State University
Awards and Honors
For UNCG History Department awards and honors, click here.
Jennifer Bratyanski, Ph.D. student: 2010-2011 Outstanding Faculty Member at Queens University of Charlotte, Hayworth College
James Findley, PhD student: winner of the Humanities section of the UNCG Graduate School Research Expo., 2012; UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2010
Christine Flood, Ph.D. student: 3rd-place Student Essay Contest, North Carolina Museum of History, 2011
Marjorie Foy, Ph.D. student: Semi-Finalist for Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2006; Scholar-Athlete Graduate Fellowship, LifeScan of Johnson & Johnson, 2007-2009; Schlesinger Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University, 2009-2010
John Kaiser, PhD student: UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2009; Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, 2012
Brian Lee, Ph.D. student: Kennedy Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, 2008
Ian Michie, PhD student: UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2011
Dennis Todd Miller, Ph.D. student: Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Summer 2012.
Joseph Moore, Ph.D. 2011: Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame 2009; Visiting Research Associate, Queens University Belfast 2010; John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African American Documentation Travel Grant (Duke University), 2010; John Higham Travel Grant (OAH/IEHS) 2011; UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2009
Steven Peach, PhD student: 1st place, UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2012
Susan Thomas, Ph.D. 2011: UNCG 2012 Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Donna Ward, PhD student: 2nd place, UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2012. (Link to Project)
Publications
Karen Hawkins, Ph.D. student, “Rising Phoenix-Like: The African American Struggle and Mobilization for Political Rights in New Bern, North Carolina, 1968-1977,” North Carolina Historical Review, October 2008; book review published in Journal of Children and Poverty, March 2012
Brian Lee, Ph.D. student, "We Will Move: The Kennedy Administration and Restoring Public Education to Prince Edward County, Virginia" in Terence Hicks and Abul Pitre, eds., The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Reflections and Accounts (Lanham, Maryland, 2010).
Eric Oakley, Ph.D. student, Book reviews published in Ethnohistory, Spring 2011, and The Journal for the History of Discoveries, 42:1 September 2010
Steven Peach, Ph.D. student, “Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine” in Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, forthcoming 2013); Book reviews published in Ethnohistory, Spring 2012 and Essays in History, Summer 2012.
Richard Shelton, Ph.D. student, “The Revolutions of 1989,” Social Science Journal, Winston-Salem State University, #5, Second Series, Spring 2007; “Stoneman’s Raid: The Culmination of Civil War in Western North Carolina,” Social Science Journal, Winston-Salem State University, #2, Second Series, Spring 2004. Book reviews published in Southern Historian, Spring 2009, and Southern Historian, Spring 2005
Therese Strohmer, Ph.D. student, Book review published on H-Net, February 2011
Jess Usher, Ph.D. student, “'The Golfers': African American Golfers of the North Carolina Piedmont and the Struggle for Access,"North Carolina Historical Review, April, 2010; book reviews published in the North Carolina Historical Review, January, 2011 and October 2011
Donna Patricia Ward, Ph.D. student, "City Profile: Detroit, MI 1896-1929," in Richardson Dilworth, ed. Cities in American Political History (CQ Press, 2011).
Monica Ward, Ph.D. student, Book Review published in Ethnohistory, Winter 2011