Johanna Rickman, Ph. D. 2004, is an Assistant Professor of History at Gainesville State College.  She published Love, Lust and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility with Ashgate in 2008.   In 2010, she taught in a study abroad program in Germany at Linz am Rhein.

Howard Louthan, B.A./M.A. 1986, professor of history at the University of Florida, was awarded the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History (Honorable Mention) for Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation (Cambridge, 2009) as an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history.  His new edited volume, Diversity and Dissenting: Negotiating Difference in Central Europe, will be appearing this spring with Berghahn Press.

Polly. J. Price, B.A./M.A. 1986, joined the Emory Law School faculty in 1995 and is Professor of Law and an Associated Faculty member of the Department of History. She recently published Judge Richard S. Arnold: A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench (Prometheus Books 2009). In 2007-2008, she held a senior fellowship at Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.  She also held the Frances Hare Visiting Professor of Tort Law at the University of Alabama in 2006.

Laura Kim, B.A. 2007, worked after graduation for the Sonoma County Economic Development Board coordinating a green business certification program. Since then, she has moved back home to Miami to help her parents with their business. She is also working for EcoWorks International, an NGO dedicated to rural development in Haiti. EcoWorks is planning to build an egg farm in Ganthier (a county about 30 miles east of Port-au-Prince), which will serves as the economic engine of the community. The profits from the egg farm will be re-invested in the community and help finance EcoWorks education & literacy programs and infrastructure improvements. Right now they are in the process of raising the money they need to start the egg farm. Among other activities, they have been involved in an event called “Art for a Cause,” which coincided with Art Basel Miami.

 

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.