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Alumni News Mike Allen (Ph.D., 2005) is the co-author of the recently published A Patriot's History Reader: Essential Documents for Every American (Sentenial/Penguin). The book is a companion to A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror. Allen is a Professor of History at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Kveta Benes (Ph.D., 2001) was recently appointed as the Clark G. and Elizabeth H. Diamond Associate Professor of History at The College of William and Mary in Virginia. David Biggs (Ph.D., 2004) won the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History awarded for his first monograph Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta. Fred Brown (Ph.D., 2010) a historian with the National Park Service, recently authored The Center of the World, the Edge of the World: A History of Lava Beds National Monument for the agency's history program. Bradley Davis (Ph.D., 2008) joined the faculty of Eastern Connecticut State University as an Assistant Professor in East Asian History in autumn 2012. Helen Divjak (M.A., 2004) received the Willard Jue Memorial Award for Outstanding Staff from the Association of King County Historical Organizations in 2011. Divjak serves as manager of Programs and Community Engagement at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry where she also produces the award-winning "MOHAI Minutes" mini-documentary series. Elizabeth R. Escobedo (Ph.D., 2004), an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, is the author of From Coverall to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Homefront (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). Trevor Griffey (Ph.D., 2011) won the 2012 W. Turrentine Jackson Award given by the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, to the author of the most outstanding dissertation on any aspect of the history of the American West in the twentieth century. Griffey's dissertation, supervised by James Gregory, is entitled "Black Power's Labor Politics: The United Construction Workers Association and the Title VII Law in the 1970s." James Gustafson (Ph.D., 2010) joined the faculty of Indiana State University in autumn 2012 as an Assistant Professor. history matters Jason Hawke (Ph.D., 2000) is the author of Writing Authority: Elite Competition and Written Law in Early Greece (Northern Illinois University Press, 2011). Hawke is an Assistant Professor at Roanoke College in Virginia. Mahlon Mayer (Ph.D., 2008) is the author of Remembering China from Taiwan: Divided Families and Bittersweet Reunions after the Chinese Civil War (Hong Kong University Press, 2012). Adi Ignatius, editor of the Harvard Business Review, described the book as "a great accomplishment! It's a brilliant topic, imaginatively structured, and beautifully written." Zinon Papakonstantinou (Ph.D., 2003) joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago as an Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient History in August 2012. Juned Shaikh (Ph.D., 2011) joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa-Cruz as an Assistant Professor. Susan N. Smith (Ph.D., 2005) received the 2012 Mary Zirin Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies. The award recognizes the achievements of an outstanding independent scholar. Dr. Smith's research examines museum practices in the provincial Russian city of Vladimir across the 1917 divide. C. Michele Thompson (Ph.D., 1998) is the co-editor of Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making (Cambridge Scholarly Publications, 2012). Thompson is an Associate Professor in History at Southern Connecticut State University. Joseph Wycoff (Ph.D., 2009) was recently appointed Director of the newly created Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at Iona College. Wycoff's responsibilities include the collection and analysis of factual and verifiable data on the College and the development and implementation of assessment plans and tools to improve decision-making throughout the institution. Cong Ellen Zhang (Ph.D., 2003) is the author of Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China, recently published by the University of Hawai'i Press. She is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Virginia. If you are alumni of the Department of History undergraduate or graduate programs, we want to hear from you. Please send updates to histmain@uw.edu Department of History PAGE 11

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