New Faculty Searches 2007-2008

Recently Completed Faculty Searches 2006-2007

The History Department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University is delighted to announce the successful conclusion of its searches in Late Antiquity/Early Medieval, Middle East, and 19th Century American History. Three new faculty members will be joining the department in fall 2007 and we extend a warm welcome to them all!
 

Late Antiquity/Early Medieval History:  Albrecht Diem completed his PhD. degree under the direction of Professor Mayke de Jong at the University of Utrecht (September 2000). The dissertation is entitled, Keusch und Rein: Eine Untersuchung zu den Ursprüngen des frühmittelalterlichen Klosterwesens und seinen Quellen (Chaste and Immaculate: A Study of the Origins of Early-Medieval Monastic Life and Its Sources). In October of 2003, Diem completed another study as a post-doctoral fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, Canada: The Regula cuiusdam ad virgines: A Critical Edition and Two Studies of the Authorship of the Rule and Its Relationship to the Rule for Nuns of Caesarius of Arles. This study continues Diem’s interest in the formation of monastic regulations in its social and historical contexts.

In 2005 Diem published a careful reworking of his dissertation as a massive book (465 pages) entitled Das monastische Experiment: Die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens (LIT Verlag: Münster) [The Monastic Experiment: The Role of Chastity in the Establishment of Western Monastic Life]. In this meticulously researched book, Diem discusses the conceptions of chastity and securing chastity in late antique texts, monastic rules in Gallic and Frankish realms, and the role of chastity in Gallic and Merovingian Church Councils and in hagiographical texts. He is clearly a master of the ancillary disciplines required for the professional historical study of this topic: textual criticism, philology, and paleography. He will be a great asset to our graduate students who are working in his field in helping them master these requisite skills.
 

Middle East:  Amy Aisen Elouafi completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has received a Fulbright Fellowship, support from the American Institute for Maghreb Studies, and was nominated by the history department for the Chancellors Dissertation Fellowship. She was a Sultan Fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at Berkeley. She has worked as an instructor in Middle East and European history at Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and also taught elementary and middle school in France.

Ms. Elouafi's research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, particularly on women, gender and the family in Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her dissertation is entitled "Being Ottoman: Family and the Politics of Modernity in the Province of Tunisia." She is currently working on a project that examines the interaction of Orientalism with discourses of race.

19th Century American History: Carol Faulkner is the author of Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and the NHPRC editing fellow on the Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (University of Illinois Press, 2002). She is currently writing a biography of Mott, tentatively titled Prophet of Liberalism: A Biography of Lucretia Mott, which is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She has received fellowships from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, and the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Until Spring 2007, she was associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo, where she won the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004. Her teaching and research interests include 19th century U.S. history, social reform, race, gender, and sexuality.