CURRENT
 

Darron Darby
ABD

Robert Ortiz
ABD

Scott Shubitz
Studying for Comps

Pearl Seafield
Studying for Comps

Mandy Clark
Taking Classes

Tess Koncick
Taking Classes

Benjamin Harper
Taking Classes

PhD RECIPIENTS

Chris Versen, PhD History, 2006
Assistant Professor
Bloomsburg University
Dissertation: Optimistic Liberals: Herbert Spencer, the Brooklyn Ethical Association, and the Integration of Moral Philosophy and Evolution in the Victorian Trans-Atlantic Community.

Paul Berk, PhD History, 2005
Faculty
Maclay School, Tallahassee, FL
Dissertation: Changing the System: The Impact of Progressive Reforms in Florida’s Schools Under Superintendent William N. Sheats.

Matt McCook, History, 2005
Associate Professor of History
Oklahoma Christian University
 Dissertation: Aliens in the World: Sectarians, Secularism and the Second Great Awakening

Glen Harris, PhD History, 2003
Associate Professor of History,
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Dissertation: Intellectual Struggles Between Blacks and Jews From the 1940s through the 1960s: A Prelude to the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Conflict.

Jeff Golden, PhD Humanities, 2003
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Lee University
Dissertation: Creationism in the American Context: An Intellectual History for a Cultural War.

Greg Thompson, PhD Humanities, 2002
Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of English and Humanities
Rogers State University
Dissertation: Aimee Semple McPherson: Therapeutic Responses to the Culture of Abundance.

Madeleine Carr, PhD History 2002
Dissertation: Jookin':  Work, Class, and Culture in the Making of the Florida Jook Joint."

 

Rick Buitron, PhD History 2002
Adjunct Assistant Professor
San Antonio College
Dissertation: San Antonio: The Intellectual Odyssey of Mexican American Identity.
Book: The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000 (Routledge, 2004)

Anthony George, PhD Humanities 2000
Assistant Professor
New England Institute of Art
Dissertation: Charles S. Peirce's Development of Semiotics from Logic and Pragmatism to a Concept of God.
 

Steve Parr, PhD History 2000
Dissertation: The Forgotten Radicals: The New Left in the Deep South.
Steve Parr, a wonderful person and good scholar, died early of colon cancer in 2005. His dissertation was used heavily in Stanley Marshall, The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University (Sentry Press, 2006).
 

Sean McMahon, PhD History 1996
Associate Professor, Lake City Community College, Florida.
mcmahons@lakecitycc.edu
Dissertation: Sentinel of Social Control: An Intellectual Biography of Edward Alsworth Ross.
Book: Social Control and Public Intellect: The Legacy of Edward A. Ross (Rutgers: Transaction Press, 1999).
Article: "Ross's Social Control and the Founding of American Sociology," American Sociologist, 29:3.

David Proctor, PhD History 1994
Assistant Professor of History, Tallahassee Community College.
proctord@tcc.fl.edu
Dissertation: Submerging Ancient Differences and Securing Western Virtues: German Rearmament, 1950-55.