George L. Mosse Teaching Fellowships in European History

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Former students of George Mosse who wish to honor their teacher in a way that acknowledged his commitment to teaching, and his extraordinary ability to inspire his students established the George L. Mosse Teaching Fellowship in 1992. Contributions to the teaching fellowship fund by former students, other alumni, colleagues, and friends underwrite one teaching fellowship per semester. The Teaching Fellowship allows an advanced PhD student under the supervision of the doctoral advisor to develop and teach an undergraduate course, and to gain valuable teaching skills. The Mosse Teaching Fellow is considered a part of the Department of History faculty and has full responsibility for teaching an undergraduate class. The fellowship recipient creates the syllabus, selects the textbooks, has an office, maintains office hours, and is listed as the instructor of the course in the timetable. The fellowship comes at an important juncture, as the final year is often the most difficult for a doctoral student to finance. Funding assists the student to complete his or her dissertation in European history, and gain important teaching experience. The Graduate Fellowship Committee of the Department of History chooses Mosse Fellows, with consideration given to the applicant’s academic record and prior performance as a teaching assistant.

Outstanding graduate students can be inspiring teachers as they are still in the process of learning and sharing knowledge. Being younger in age, their enthusiasm is especially valued by the undergraduate students.

Teaching Fellowships in European History 1996-2009

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• Semester II, 1995-96
  Susan Dinan, Received Ph.D. December 1996
  Course Title: “Women in Europe 1500-1830"
  Current Position: William Patterson University

• Semester II, 1997-98
  Susan Boettcher, Received Ph.D. May 1998
  Course Title: “The City & Urban Life in Early Modern Europe”
  Current Position: University of Texas-Austin

• Semester II, 1999-2000
  Daniel Kowalsky, Received Ph.D. May 2001
  Course Title: “Revolution and Civil War in Twentieth-Century Europe”
  Current Position: Queen’s University-Belfast

• Semester I, 2001-02
  Erik Jensen, Received Ph.D. August 2003
  Course Title: “Weimar Germany: Society, Politics and Modernity in
  Europe’s ‘Roaring Twenties’”
  Current Position: Miami University

• Semester II, 2001-02
  Alison Schulz, Received Ph.D. May 2003
  Course Title: “Revolutionary Britain: Civil War and Commonwealth”

• Semester I, 2002-03
  Eric Carlsson, Received Ph.D. December 2006
  Course Title: “Religion and the European Enlightenment, 1650-1800"
  Current Position: UW-Whitewater

• Semester II, 2002-03
  Robert Zens, Received Ph.D. December 2004
  Course Title: “From Empire to Nation-State: History of the Balkans”
  Current Position: Le Moyne College
  

• Semester I, 2003-04
  Eric Ehrenreich, Received Ph.D. August 2004
  Course Title: “History of European Racism”
  Current Position: Attorney with the F.C.C. in Washington D.C.
  

• Semester II, 2003-04
  Catherine Plum, Received Ph.D. August 2005
  Course Title: “East German Society & Culture, 1949-1989"
  Current Position: Western New England College
  

• Semester I, 2004-05
  Eric Zuelow, Received Ph.D. December 2004
  Course Title: “The History of Modern Travel”
  Current Position: West Liberty State College
  

• Semester II, 2004-05
  Scott Moranda, Received Ph.D. May 2005
  Course Title: “Society and Environment: An Environmental History of the
  European World”
  Current Position: SUNY Cortland
  

• Semester II, 2004-05
  Ana Schaposchnik, Received Ph.D. August 2007
  Course Title: "Jewish History in Iberia and Latin America, 1492-Present"
  Current Position: De Paul University
  

• Gil Ribak, Received Ph.D. August 2007
  Course Title: "Jewish - Gentile Relations in Urban America, 1830-1970"
  

• Semester I, 2005-06
  Denise Kawasaki Received Ph.D. May 2008
  Course Title: "Medieval Thought from St. Augustine to Fifteenth Century
  Conciliarsm"
  

• Semester II, 2005-06
  Robert Lewis, Received Ph.D. May 2007
  Course Title: "The European City and the Transformation of Visual
  Culture, 1850-Present”
  Current Position: Grinnell College
  

• Semester II, 2006-07
  Sharon Elise Cline, Received Ph.D. December, 2008
  Course Title: “Nationalism and Sexuality in 19th and 20th Century Europe”
  

• Semester I, 2007-08
  William Meier, ABD
  Course Title: “The European Underworld, 1800-2000: A Social and Cultural
  History

• Semester II, 2007-08
  Hunter Martin, ABD
  Course Title: “French Intellectuals in the 20th Century: Ideology and Identity”

• Semester I, 2008-09
  Holly Grout, Received Ph.D. December, 2008
  Course Title: “European Consumer Society, 1700-Present”

• Semester II, 2008-2009
  Eric Platt, ABD
  Course Title: “The Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer”
  Ethan Katz, ABD
  Course Title: “Jews and Muslims in the Mediterranean, 1800-present”.
  Gregory Shealy, ABD
  Course Title: “Germany in the Long 19th Century”

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