Graduate Student Biographies
*Listed Alpha-Order, Last name first.
Brown, Kevin C
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education:M.A. in History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007; B.A. in History and Economics, Bucknell University, 2006.
Dissertation Topic: “The Nature of Lumber: Work, Culture, and Environment in Minnesota and Louisiana, 1865-1940.”
Interest Area: American environmental, labor, and African-American history.
Conference Papers: - “‘Civil Rights Includes Not Only the Negro but Every American’: The State, Civil Rights, and the Pittsburgh Federation of
Teachers Strike of 1968,” Labor and Working Class History Association, Chicago, Il., May 2009;
- "'Where is the Public Servants Entrance?': Oral History, Memory and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers strike of 1968" Oral History Association annual meeting, October 2008.
Awards: Harold W. Miller Prize, Bucknell University Honors Program,
2006; Barbara Wertheimer Prize, New York Labor History Association, 2006.
Advisor: Joe W. Trotter, Jr.
Contact: kcbrown@andrew.cmu.edu
Burke, Laurence
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (1997) The George Washington University, Museum Studies; BS (1991) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Science and Technology Studies.
Interest Area: History of Technology; Social and Technological History of the US Military
Dissertation Title: “What To Do With the Airplane? Determining the Role of the Airplane in the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, 1908-1930.” My dissertation looks at the creation of roles for new technology by examining how the different branches of the U.S. Military determined the “best way” to use the newly invented airplane.
Advisor: David A. Hounshell
Publications, Conference Papers: "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," "The Enola Gay Controversy," and "National Space Program," Encyclopedia of War and American Society, Peter Karsten, ed., SAGE Publications (2005).
"Growing Their Own: The US Navy's Naval Apprentice System 1875-1905," presented at the 2005 conference (Charleston, SC) of the Society for Military History.
Contact: lburke@andrew.cmu.edu
Campet, Fidel Makoto
Status: Ph.D. student
Education: MA (2005) University of New Orleans, History; BA (2000) Southeastern Louisiana University, History & French.
Interest Area: US History, 19 & 20th century
Research Interests: African-American; Labor; Urban
Contact: fcampet@andrew.cmu.edu
Clemente, Deirdre
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (2004) Fashion Institute of Technology, Museum Studies; BA (1996) The Johns Hopkins University, Writing Seminars
Interest Area: My research deals with the interface between clothing trends and social change.
Dissertation Title: “From Snobs to Slobs: Collegiate Culture and the Transformation of the American Wardrobe, 1900-1960. My dissertation studies the dissemination of casual clothing styles and argues that the college campus was the locus for fundamental changes in the country's sartorial standards.”
Publications: Peer-Reviewed Articles:
"Caps, Canes, and Coonskins: Princeton and the Evolution of Collegiate Clothing," Journal of American Culture, Winter 2008;
"Made in Miami: The Development of the Sportswear Industry in South Florida, 1900-1960," Journal of Social History, September 2007;
"Striking Ensembles: The Importance of Clothing on the Picket Line," Labor Studies Journal, Winter 2005.
Book Chapters: "Making the Princeton Man: Collegiate Clothing and Campus Culture, 1900-1920," Display: The Spaces and Places of Fashion, forthcoming Routledge, Fall 2008;
"Dressed for Defiance: Clothing and Public Demonstrations," The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, forthcoming ME Sharpe Spring 2008.
Grants/Awards:
Best Graduate Student Paper, Journal of American Culture, 2007;
Dissertation Grant, Schlesinger Library at Harvard University (Summer 2007);
Research Grant, Friends of Princeton Library (Summer 2006);
Research Grant, Miami Design Preservation League (Winter 2005);
Costume Society in America, Adele Filene Travel Grant (2004)
Advisor: Scott Sandage
Contact: www.deirdreclemente.com
Dasgupta, Rajeshwari
Status: Ph.D. Student
David, Maroon A.
Status: 2nd Year PhD. Student
Education: M.A. in History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009; M.A. in History and Museum Studies, Duquesne University, 2008; B.A. in History, California University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
Interest Area: U.S. cultural history, identity, and property.
Current Research: The path to landownership for actual settlers in the 19th century United States. By studying land distribution legislation in conjunction with the social and cultural nuances of obtaining land, I hope to address the centrality of land and landownership in individual and national identity.
Advisor: Scott Sandage
Contact: mdavid@andrew.cmu.edu
Gao, Yan
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: MA (2003) Wuhan University, History; BA (2000) Wuhan University, History
Interest Area: Chinese environmental history, Qing history (17th century-early 20th century)
Research Interests: Water control in China, especially water resources management and conflicts; origins and development of environmental consciousness in China; state-society relationship.
Advisor: Donald Sutton
Contact: ygao1@andrew.cmu.edu
Hagan, Carrie
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: BA (2002) University of California, Santa Cruz, History of the Americas and Women's Studies
Interest Area: 20th century U.S. cultural history, specifically, sexuality
youth, and wartime
Research Interests: My research looks at the broad changes in sexuality and youth cultures during wartime. Past projects have included examining the domestic venereal disease control project in the U.S. from 1942-1945 through the use of quarantine centers that involuntarily detained young women for treatment, as well as the popular representation of the threat of promiscuity during the war. Other research interests include the development of youth cultures in the mid-twentieth century, with an emphasis on musical subcultural movements, delinquency and the performances of gender, class and racial identities.
Advisor: Steven Schlossman
Contact: csh@andrew.cmu.edu
Hutchings, Robert
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: MA in History, North Dakota State University, 2008; B.A. in Political Science, Beloit College, 2002.
Interest Area: American economic, environmental, and agricultural history; Transnational history.
Research Interests: am looking at the growers, marketers, shippers, sellers, and consumers of Florida oranges. I am particularly interested in how they interacted before and after the introduction of California oranges to traditionally Florida-only marketplaces, and again after the extreme success of frozen concentrated orange juice in the 1950s.
Conference Papers: - Agricultural History Society, Reno, NV. June 19-21, 2008. “Golden sunshine: Family farms, the environment, and growing citrus along the Indian River.”
- Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Little Rock, AR. June 18-20. Panel Organizer, “Juicers, Boosters, and Barons: Innovation and Empire in the American Citrus Belt.” Paper Title: “From Oranges to Orange Juice: Re-Commoditization in the Indian River Region, 1945-1965.”
Books Reviewed: - Hamilton, Alissa. Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Agricultural History (forthcoming).
Advisor: John Soluri
Contact: rmhutchi@andrew.cmu.edu
Kittner, Ruth
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.A. History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002; M.A. History, Duquesne University, 1995; M.A. Mass Communications, University of Denver, 1978; B.A. History, Allegheny College, 1975.
Interest Area: German History, 18th and 19th century; History, identity and memory.
Dissertation Title: Becoming Buff and Blue: Urban Identity Transformation at the End of the Holy Roman Empire, the Case of Überlingen, 1789-1820.
In this project I am studying the ways in which a small urban culture preserved or jettisoned elements of popular practice when the city lost its status as an imperial city and was annexed by the Duchy of Baden in 1802. During this time the city was occupied by nearly every army that participated in the wars against France (1792-1802), and in 1802 occupied by the army of the Duke of Baden.
Advisor: Donna Harsch
Grants: GuSH, April 2005, GuSH, August 2002, History Department, 2002 and 2005.
Contact: kittner@andrew.cmu.edu
Klanderud, Jessica
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (2005) Carnegie Mellon, American History; BA (2001) Western Michigan University, History Education, Social Science
Dissertation Title: "Street Wisdom: African American Cultural and Community Transformations on the Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1918-1970." In this dissertation I will study how African Americans used the street, how those uses changed over time, and what role street space played in community formation within African American neighborhoods.
Advisor: Joe W. Trotter
Conference Papers: 2005 American Historical Association Conference Paper "Challenges presented Teaching Students to Understand Change over Time"
Contact: jklanderud@cmu.edu
Liu, Jiacheng
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A. in history and journalism in Wuhan University, 2006; M.A. in history in Xiamen University, 2009
Interest Area: Chinese social and cultural history; Opera and ritual in late imperial period and contemporary context.
Advisor: Donald Sutton
Contact: jiachen1@andrew.cmu.edu
Masich, Andrew E
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A. double major: (History and Anthropology) 1977, University of Arizona, Tucson, M.A. (History/Museum Administration) 1984, University of Arizona, Tucson;
Interest Area: 19th century U.S.; power, dominance, and the clash of cultures in the Southwest during the American Civil War.
After serving as a history museum director in Arizona and Colorado, Andy moved to Pittsburgh in 1998 with his wife, Debbie, and their three children (Matt, Molly and Max) to serve as Pres/CEO of the Smithsonian affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center.
Selected Publications:
• Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL, with David F. Halaas and Dan Rooney, DaCapo Press (2007). A New York Times Bestseller.
• Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-65, University of Oklahoma Press (2006). Winner 2006 Southwest Book of the Year (Tucson-Pima County Public Library), 2006 Southwest Book of the Year (Border Regional Library Association).
• Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent: Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man, with David F. Halaas, DaCapo Press (2004). Winner 2005 Colorado Book of the Year Award.
• Cheyenne Dog Soldiers; A Ledger Book History of Coups and Combat, with David Halaas et al, University Press of Colorado (1997). Choice Academic Book of the Year Award 1997.
Writing Awards:
• Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, Dixmont (Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters) (2004)
• Golden Quill Award, On Q: A Pilot’s Story (2004)
• Matrix Award (Association for Woman in Communications), Dixmont (2004)
• Emmy Award for History Documentaries: Donora Smog Disaster (2005), Stone Soldiers (2007) WQED
Advisor: Joe W. Trotter
Contact: amasich@andrew.cmu.edu
Links: Heinz History Center | Watch Andy's You Tube video!
McMahon, Cian
Status: Ph.D. Candidate (A.B.D.)
Education: MA (2002) University College Dublin, C20th Irish History; BA (2000) University of Manitoba, History
Fields of Interest: Modern Ireland; United States; Migration; Race; Religion; Nationalism; Irish Foreign Affairs
Dissertation Title: “Did the Irish ‘Become White’? Race and Migration in Ireland, Australia, and the United States, 1842-1877”
Cian McMahon is a PhD candidate (A.B.D.) in Irish and U.S. Social and Cultural History. His dissertation examines how racial identity was experienced and expressed by Irish people at home and abroad in the mid-nineteenth century. By analyzing change over space and time, the study challenges the current scholarly consensus that Irish self-perceptions were dominated by “whiteness”.
Advisor: David W. Miller
Reading Committee: Scott A. Sandage, Richard Maddox
Selected Publications:
“Ireland and the Birth of the Irish-American Press, 1842-61,” American Periodicals: A
Journal of History and Criticism, vol. 19, no. 1 (2009).
“Irish Free State Newspapers and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935-6,” Irish Historical
Studies, vol. 36, no. 143 (May 2009).
“Struggling against oppression’s detestable forms: R.R. Madden and Irish anti-slavery,
1833 – 1846”, History Ireland, vol. 15, no. 3 (2007).
Awards/Fellowships:
“Goldman Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching” (Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009).
“Patricia Klingenstein Research Fellowship” (New-York Historical Society, 2007/2008).
“Hibernian Research Grant” (Center for the Study of American Catholicism, 2007).
“GuSH Grant” (Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate Student Association, 2007).
“Susan Householder Van Horn Scholarship” (Carnegie Mellon University, Division of University Advancement, 2007).
“Paul & Anna Kokor Award” (St. Andrew’s College, University of Manitoba, 1998).
“Peter Taraskis Memorial Award” (St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, 1998).
Select Presentations:
(Respondent) “National Identities, Transnational Debates”, Boundaries and Alliances Graduate Student Conference, University of Pittsburgh/C.M.U. (April 2007).
(Presenter) “The Fusion of So Many Races’: Young Ireland, Migration, and Race in the Atlantic
World, 1842-1855”, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World, “The Irish in the Atlantic World Conference”, Charleston, South Carolina (27 February – 2 March 2007).
(Presenter) “‘An Apprenticeship to the Cause of General Freedom’: Richard Robert Madden, Irish nationalism, and Atlantic anti-slavery, 1833-1842” (C.M.U. Department of History Annual Graduate Student Forum, April 2005).
Book Reviews:
Nini Rodgers, Ireland, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery, 1612-1865 (2006) in Foilsiú: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 6 (2007).
Teaching Experience:
Instructor, “Immigration and Identity in American History, 1607 – Present,” Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Summer 2009, Fall 2009).
Writing Tutor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (2008-2009).
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (2003-2008).
Tutor, Department of Modern History, University College Dublin, Ireland (2001-2002).
Professional Experience:
Research Assistant, Public History Inc., Winnipeg, Canada, 2001.
Contact: cianm@andrew.cmu.edu
Mock, Michelle
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (2005) Carnegie Mellon University; BA (2003) Bloomsburg University
Interest Area: My dissertation analyzes the continual tension and interaction between technology and culture in the early twentieth century. This approach reveals that the cooking technologies market was multi-dimensional and interactive, and that it produced significance and values as well as toasters and refrigerators. It further allows me to explain how the kitchen became the most technologically saturated room in the early twentieth-century American home and a cultural space imbued with strong values, traditions, and nostalgia.
Grants/Awards/Fellowships: 2008: John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History Research Grant: Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
2007, 2008: GuSH grants: Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate Student Association
Advisor: Scott A. Sandage
Contact: mking1@andrew.cmu.edu
Morgan, Jason
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (2003) Carnegie Mellon University, History; BA (2002) University of North Carolina, Greensboro, History
Interest Area: European history; radical politics; political violence
Research Interests: I am interested in political violence, state responses to political violence, the construction of “terrorism,” and the complex relationships between practitioners of political violence and the communities they claim to represent. My dissertation research will be on Northern Ireland.
Contact: jtmorgan@andrew.cmu.edu
Moxley, Shera
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Naqvi, Kaaz
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A. in History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009; B.A. in History and Economics, New York University, 2008
Interest Area: 20th Century African American History, Sport, Radicalism, Urban
Advisor: Joe W. Trotter, Jr.
Contact: snaqvi@andrew.cmu.edu
Oppenheimer, Rachel
Status: Ph.D student
Education: M.A. in history Carnegie Mellon University 2008, B.A. in history and Music Kenyon College 2005
Interest Area: Northern Ireland and Political Violence and resistance, historical memory
Research Interests: My current research focuses on the civil rights movment in Northern Ireland as it relates to broader social movements of the late 1960s. I intend to focus my dissertation on some aspect of the prison experiences of Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
Advisor: David W. Miller
Contact: roppenhe@andrew.cmu.edu
Pryor, Russell
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: Columbus State University 2007, B.A. in History
Interest Area: Labor, Race, Social Movements, and the American South
Contact: jrpryor@andrew.cmu.edu
Robertson, John
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (1999) Carnegie Mellon University, History; AB (1986) University of Chicago, History.
Interest Area: Ph.D. Oral Fields: Modern Chinese History, Family History and Historical Demography, 19th Century American Social History, World History
Dissertation Title: Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Opportunity?: Civil War reenlistment and the Right to Rise
Advisor: Scott Sandage
Publications, Grants and Awards: "Re-enlistment Pattern of civil War Soldiers," Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 32, Number 1, Summer 2001, pp. 15-35
Contact: jgr@andrew.cmu.edu
Robick, Brian
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (1998) Columbia University, History; BA (1997) Carnegie Mellon University, Social History; BFA (1997) Carnegie Mellon University, Music Theory and Composition
Dissertation Title: Blight: An Examination of the Development of a Contested Concept in Pittsburgh and Hamilton, 1945 – 1990
Interest Area: US & Canadian Urban, Social, and Planning History, twentieth century
Research Interests: My research examines the rhetoric deployed in public debates about urban redevelopment, renewal, and anti-vice campaigns in industrial cities in the Americas. I also explore the interactions between planning bodies and urban communities that form with or without propinquity, including African-American, Latino/a, Asian-American, and GLBT communities.
Conference Papers: Society for American City and Regional Planning History. “Urban Blight and Community Reaction to the Gateway Center Redevelopment Project, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1946-1950,” Portland, Maine, October, 27, 2007.
Grants: Travel Grant, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, 2007
Awards:
Ludwig Schaefer Award in Social History, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1997-1998
Best Paper, Graduate Session, Phi Alpha Theta Western Pennsylvania Regional Conference, 2004
Student Research Prize, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, 2007
Advisor: Joel Tarr
Contact: br24@andrew.cmu.edu
Roszman, Jay
Status: Ph.D. student
Education: M.A. (2007) Queen’s University Belfast, Irish Studies; B.A. (2006) Gettysburg College, History & Political Science.
Interest area: Modern Irish history (late 18th-20th century); European history; Nationalisms; Religion; Politicization and agrarian violence
Advisor: David W. Miller
Contact: jroszman@andrew.cmu.edu
Seibert, Lisa
Status: Ph.D. student
Education: MA (2008) Carnegie Mellon University, History; M.Edu (2005) Lutheran University of Applied Sciences (Nuremberg, Germany), Adult
Education; BA in History and Asian Studies Certificate (1999) University of Pittsburgh.
Interest area: Modern Germany, gender relations, and religion
Advisor: Donna Harsch
Contact: llseiber@andrew.cmu.edu
Simpson, Andrew
Status: Ph.D. student
Education: MA (History) American University, Washington, DC 2006; BA (History and Conflict Studies) DePauw University 2002
Interest area: 20th Century U.S. History with a focus in urban history and public health.
Contact: atsimpso@andrew.cmu.edu
Strellec-Simpson, Christina
Status: Ph.D. student
Education: MA (2008) Carnegie Mellon University, History; Ed.M. (2004) Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching and Curriculum; B.S. (2003) Carnegie Mellon University, Anthropology & History with a minor in Minority Studies.
Interest area: Late 19th and 20th century African American and U.S. education history.
Advisor: Joe W. Trotter
Contact: css2@andrew.cmu.edu
Struthers, David
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (2003) Carnegie Mellon University, History; BA (2001) University of California, Riverside, History major, Marxist studies minor.
Dissertation Title: The World in a City: Transnational and Inter-Racial Organizing in Los Angeles, 1900-1930
Interest Areas: Labor, Immigration, Race, Urban History, Transnational Social Movements, Social Theory
Research Interests: The process of constructing and maintaining alliances in the expanding multi-ethnic and multi-racial metropolis of early twentieth century Los Angeles is the subject of my research. Considerable evidence exists of international and inter-racial solidarities within Los Angeles’s working class. My dissertation argues that these two lines of solidarity fused and comprised a crucial component of working class identity in Los Angeles.
Advisor: Joe W. Trotter, Jr.
Website: www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dstruthe/
Contact: dstruthe@andrew.cmu.edu
Suditu, Oana
Status: Ph.D. Student
Dissertation Title: “Collective Farm and Peasant Household Economy in the Stalinist 1930s.”
Advisor: Wendy Goldman
Vinsel, Lee Jared
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: BA (2003) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interest Area: History of Technology
Research Interests: While at CMU, I will be working with the Climate Decision Making Center on a study of how environmental uncertainties shape and limit our ability to make policy decisions. Particularly, I will be examining the history of energy technologies and why specific technologies come to dominate in their given era.
Advisor: David A. Hounshell
Contact: lvinsel@andrew.cmu.edu
Watson, Willie
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A. in History at SUNY Brockport 2009, A.A.S. in Paralegal Studies at Bryant & Stratton College 2006
Interest Area: U.S. history from 1877, African American history, 20th century U.S. social movements, and 19th and 20th century U.S. sports history
Contact: williew@andrew.cmu.edu
Weigel, John
Status: Ph.D. Student
Education: Albion College 1986, B.A. in History and German; University of Michigan 1989 J.D.; Penn State 1994, M.A. in European history since 1500
Interest Area(s): Germany since 1945; development policy
Publications: “‘Americans Shall Rule America!’ The Know Nothing Party in Cumberland County,” Cumberland County History, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 1998, pp. 3-18.
“Free Soil: The Birth of the Republican Party in Cumberland County,” Cumberland County History, Vol. 17, No. 1, Summer 2000, pp. 36-57.
“The Democratic Alternative to Free Soil, 1847-1860,” Cumberland County History, Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 2000, pp. 103-18.
Contact: jweigel@andrew.cmu.edu
Williams, Germaine
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: MA (2002) Carnegie Mellon University, Social and Cultural History; MAM (2001) Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Arts Management; BA (1995) Morehouse College, History
Interest Areas: African American Urban History; Arts and Cultural Policy; Civil Society; History and Memory
Dissertation Title: “(Re)Culturing the City: Race, Urban Development, and Arts Policy in Chicago, 1943-2009.”
The dissertation investigates the development of Chicago's nonprofit cultural sector since World War II. Concerned with the complexities of race, class, and the politics of urban renewal, it takes the activism of African Americans in the nonprofit cultural sector as an opportunity to raise critical questions about arts policymaking, the use of arts initiatives to define "community," and the social impact of nonprofit arts programs on urban communities.
Advisors: Joe Trotter and Judith Schachter
Contact: germaine@andrew.cmu.edu
Zimmerman, Patrick
Status: Ph.D. Candidate
Education: B.A. Biology (2003 University of Pennsylvania), B.A. European History (2003 University of Pennsylvania), M.A. Social and Cultural History (2006 Carnegie Mellon University)
Dissertation Title: “Faer Asturies: Linguistic Politics and the Frustrated Construction of Asturian Nationalism, 1974-1999.”
Research Interests: 20th-Century Spain, Asturias, regional nationalist and separatist movements; the Spanish Transition from dictatorship to democracy; cultural politics and the politics of language; tourism; the mass media and politics; the role of sport in local or national identity formation (particularly soccer); the construction of Europe and the European Union.
Publications:
• “Reflexiones sobre nacionalismo e historia viva: Nota sobre un proyecto en marcha sobre la historia de un nacionalismo frustrado.” Erada: Revista d'Historia Contemporánea d'Asturies, no 3., Seronda 2009.
• “Review de Conceyu Bable nes Fueyes Informatives y Conceyu Bable n'Asturias Semanal.” Erada: Revista d'Historia Contemporánea d'Asturies, no 2. Seronda 2008.
Conference Papers:
• Llabor en Tienda: Tendencies nueves na llingüística asturiana, Oviedo, Spain. October 4, 2008. “Nacionalismu domesticáu: l’asturianismu dende la Transición”
• Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Fort Worth, TX. April 3-6, 2008. “The Conceyu Bable, Asturian Regionalism, and Language Politics during the Spanish Transition, 1974-1985”
• Boundaries and Alliances in the Americas and Beyond, Pittsburgh, PA. April 14, 2007. “'The Cradle of Spain?' The Conceyu Bable, Asturian Nationalism, and Language Politics during the Spanish Transition, 1974-1985.”
• Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Forum, Pittsburgh, PA. January 17, 2008. “Nationalism and Language Politics during the Spanish Transition: Asturias, 1974-1985.”
Grants:
• Research grant, CMU History Dept., January-May 2009.
• Dissertation grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, 2008.
• GuSH grant, 2008
• Research grant, CMU History Dept., 2006.
Awards: B.A. cum laude (2003 Pennsylvania)
Teaching Experience:
• Instructor, “Violence and Politics in Postwar Western Europe” Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2009).
• Teaching Assistant, “20th Century China through Film”, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Spring 2008).
• Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to World History”, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (2006-2007).
Advisor: Richard Maddox
Reading Committee: Reading Committee: Paul Eiss, Donna Harsch
Contact: pkzimmer@cmu.edu