Alexander Auerbach, Ph. D. 2001, joined the history department of the University of Northern British Columbia as an assistant professor in 2009. His book, Race, Law, and “The Chinese Puzzle” in Imperial Britain came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.  Among his publications, he has an article, “‘The Law Has No Feeling for Poor Folks Like Us!’: Everyday Responses to Legal Compulsion in England’s Working-Class Communities, 1871-1904,” which will appear in the December 2011 volume of the  Journal of Social History. In the spring of 2011, he is doing six months of research in London with a Fulbright-King’s College London Scholar Award. Along with his other honors and publications, he is the Co-Winner of the 2010 Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholar Writing Competition, sponsored by the Columbia Law School.

Jim Tuten, Ph.D. 2003, was on sabbatical in Fall 2010. His first book, Time and Tide (South Carolina Press) came out in 2010. He’s now working on a biography of E. W. Gantt, who was the highest ranking Confederate officer to change sides during the Civil War. He is an Associate Professor of History at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA.

Darryl Dee, Ph.D. 2004, is an associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. His book Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV’s France:  Franche-Comte and Absolute Monarchy appeared in 2009.

Tom Czerwinski, B.A. 2003, lives in Austin, Texas. Two years ago he received his MPA from the University of Texas.  He works with Deloitte Consulting as a strategy/management consultant.  His work has taken him to New York for the restructuring of an oil and gas company and to Mexico City on a cost reduction project for a Latin American food and beverage company. He also did some work for the State of Louisiana assisting with Hurricane and Rita recovery.  He writes that he is “on the road about four days a week, and loving it.”

Belle Stoddard Tuten, M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1997, the W. Newton and Hazel A. Long Professor of History at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA, is on sabbatical in the Spring of 2011.  She has one article currently in review and is currently working on monastic concepts of cleanliness as reflected in monastic literature and architecture.

Bradford Smith, Ph.D. 1992, Oglethorpe University Professor of History, has started his fourth term as division chair. He completed his term as Recording Secretary for the Society for Reformation Research, where he had the good fortune to serve with the current President, fellow Emory alum Mack Holt.

His recent paper presentations include, “Was there a Theology of Confessionalization?” at SCSC in Montreal in October;  and “Staging the Thirty Years’ War:  Jesuit Drama and the Politics of the Catholic League” at the AMCRS conference in Tempe, AZ in February.  He has a book chapter “Crossing the Boundaries of the Civic, the Natural, and the Supernatural in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe,” in the next volume in the series Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Brepols). In October 2010, he took four undergraduates, including two of his honors students, to present papers at an undergraduate conference sponsored by the ACMRS.

Garrett McAinsh, Ph.D. 1974, is retiring this year from teaching European history at Hendrix College, where he has been ever since leaving Emory in 1970.  He will continue to give lectures on the history of various European cities on cruise ships, which he has been doing since 2005.  Last summer, they visited St. Petersburg on one of their cruises.

Jonathan Mercantini, Ph.D. 2000, is an assistant professor at Kean University.  His monograph, Who Shall Rule at Home: the Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776, was published in 2007 by the University of South Carolina Press.  His current work includes a history of the Stamp Act Crisis and an investigation of South Carolina’s role at the Constitutional Convention, and writing and editing projects with the John Kean papers at Liberty Hall. The university recently acquired the Liberty Hall Museum.  His research in the John Kean papers in the Museum is being featured in the marketing and promotional campaign for the university.

Anne Chirhart, Ph.D. 1997, is currently associate professor of history at Indiana State University.  Her publications include her first book, Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South from University of Georgia Press in 2005.  UGA Press then requested that she co-edit a two-volume collection of essays on Georgia Women for their series, Southern Women: Their Lives and Times.  The first volume, which she co-edited with Betty Wood from Cambridge, called Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume I, was published by UGA Press in 2009 and includes 16 essays about 18 Georgia women from the colonial era to World War I.  Volume II, for which she has a contract, includes 18 essays about 18 Georgia women from World War I through the 1960s. Her co-editor, Kathleen Clark, and she plan to submit the collection to UGA Press in June 2011.  She is writing an essay on Lugenia Burns Hope for this volume in addition to the usual tasks of editing each essay, writing the Introduction, compiling the bibliography, and doing the index.  Each volume also includes essays from other Emory graduates including Stacey Horstmann Gatti, Kent Leslie, Steve Goodson, and Rosemary Magee (current V.P. for Emory University).  These volumes are intended for an academic and general audience.  Currently, she also is beginning to work on a biography of Mary McLeod Bethune, foremost African American leader of the first half of the twentieth century.  She has done lots of committee work for major historical associations including chairing several award committees.  She has also done her share of committee work at ISU and is currently the faculty advisor for the ISU NAACP chapter.

Dwain C. Pruitt, Ph.D. 2005, recently returned to the classroom as an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Gwinnett College. Prior to his new appointment, Pruitt served in a variety of capacities in the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State University, most notably as Assistant Dean for Administration. His most recent publications are:  “Speaking to the Children in Their Own Language: Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book,” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature (November 2010); “African Communities in France,” in Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani (ed.), The African Diaspora: Historical Analysis, Poetic Verses, and Pedagogy (2010), 115-145; “Adding Color to a Four-Color World: Recent Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity in the Comics,” History: Review of New Books (Winter 2009). Pruitt is simultaneously conducting two research tracks. First, deriving from his dissertation research, is a continuing inquiry into racial policing in eighteenth-century France by researching the implementation of the 1777 Police des Noirs in several French Atlantic ports. His academic year research is in global comics culture, allowing him to explore his lifelong passion for sequential art and graphic storytelling. On a related note, Pruitt recently accomplished two long-time, comics-related dreams: meeting Stan Lee and traveling to Japan.