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Alumni News
Jonathan Harrington, ’86 - Completed a Ph.D. in Political Science (China)
at Loyola University. He is currently teaching at Troy State
University.
Karl Gerth, ’91 – is completing a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese
History at Harvard University. She will soon begin teaching at
the University of South Carolina.
Dan Stevenson, ’98 - has renewed his contract with TEACHING ENGLISH
IN JAPAN for another year. Dan wrote recently to say that he
really enjoys his students.
Allison Wickens, ’94 - who has spent the past several years working in museums
in DC, says that she has been accepted to six grad programs
in history, including the U. of Colorado, her top choice. She
has decided to accept the offer of admission to graduate study
in US Western history at the University of Colorado. Her plan
is to combine graduate study with museum studies, concentrating
upon the US West.
Phil Lyon, ’93 - now a graduate student who is working in the
European Center at the University of Washington. He presented
a paper at the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies
conference on April 22 at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Phil’s paper is titled "Ownership and the Implementation
of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
Also, the latest issue of the Newsletter of the University of
Washington Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center
(Spring 2000) includes a short article by Phil titled "Fourteen
Months in Bosnia.” The biography capsule reports that Philip
Lyon completed his MA in history at the University of Washington
in 1999.
Seth Atkinson, ’93 - left Grinnell for grad school in history and
library science. Seth is currently a researcher for Encarta Encyclopedia
(aka Microsoft). "In some ways,” he writes, "this
job is the next best thing to being in college: lots of intelligent
people with bare feet wearing t-shirts and studying a tremendous
range of subjects. I love it.”
Warren Schultz ‘82 - has contributed what Charles Melville for the
TLS calls an "excellent chapter on the monetary history"
of Mamluk Egypt in volume 2 of the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF EGYPT.
Warren is an Associate Professor of History at De Paul University.
Erin Jordan, ’93 - was offered a position in the history department
at the University of Northern Colorado, which fortunately happened
to be the job she liked the most. Things worked out very well,
and she is looking forward to finishing graduate school.
Craig Martin, ’95 – is still working on his dissertation and
expects to finish in the spring of either 2001 or 2002. He plans
to take a semester off from teaching this spring and devote himself
full-time to writing and research on the commentary traditions
surrounding the fourth book of Aristotle's Meteorologia. He hopes
to show not only how academic discussions utilized this text,
but also its influence in the practical arts such as medicine
and alchemy.
Sue Rupp Zayer, ’83 - received a MA in Russian Studies at Harvard,
worked for a time, and then finished her Ph.D. in modern Russian
history at Stanford, working with Terrence Emmons. For the last
half-dozen years she has been teaching Russian history at Wake
Forest, and she was recently promoted to Associate Professor
with tenure. If you would like to send her a congratulatory note,
you can reach her at: rupp@wfu.edu |
