Postdoctoral Fellows
The postdoctoral fellowship program, directed by Professor Margaret Levi of the US Studies Centre and the University of Washington, brought to Sydney a cohort of the world's emerging scholarly leaders working on the United States in the humanities, social sciences and related professional disciplines.
Fellows completed a major research project as well as engaged with students and scholars in Sydney and around Australia during the fellowship period.
Class of 2012
- Nicole Hemmer
Messengers of the Right: Media and the Modern Conservative Movement - Carrie Hyde
Alienable Rights: Negative Figures of U.S. Citizenship, 1787-1868 - Jean J. Kim
Transnationalizing U.S. History: Medical and Scientific Trans-Pacific Circuits in the Making of U.S. Empire - Marc Palen
The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Anglo-American Relations and the Ideological Origins of American Globalization, 1846-1896 - Rob Rakove
The history of U.S. relations with Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion - Shawn Treier
Ideas, Interests, and the Politics of the US Constitutional Convention
Class of 2011
Six 12-month fellowships were awarded from a field of nearly 200 international applicants:
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Georgiana Banita
Petro-fiction – American literary culture and the global oil crisis - Robert Blakeslee Gilpin
Slavery’s hold on the American imagination - Peter Hatemi
The neuro-biological foundations of political behavior - Maria Ponomarenko
The impact of federalism on the American legal system - Allison Pugh
Women’s commitment and change in a Turbulent Age - Felicity Turner
The gendered political dynamics shaping nineteenth century American national identity
Class of 2010
The Centre received nearly 180 fellowship applications for its inaugural class, and awarded six Fellowships for a 12-month period:
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Jason Casellas
No Latino Left Behind: The Development of Latino Education Policy, 1968 - Mark W. Geiger
Financial Innovation and the Chicago Board of Trade - Willie Gin
Transforming Exclusivist Identities in the USA, Australia and Canada - Sabino Kornrich
Consumerism and Inequality in the 1980s and 90s: the Role of Emulation, Bidding and Lifestyle - Jeremy Pressman
The United States & Arab-Israeli Relations: Force, Diplomacy & Interests - Rebecca Sheehan
American Redemption: Sex, Rock, and Religion, 1968-1983
Class of 2012
Dr Nicole Hemmer
Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney & Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Miami
Nicole Hemmer received her PhD in History from Columbia University in 2010. From 2008-2009, she was a fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and from 2009-2011 sh… more
Assistant Professor Carrie Hyde
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carrie Hyde is an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 2011. Her research on early U.S. literature, politics, and citizenship has been supported by n… more
Assistant Professor Jean J. Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jean Kim received her PhD in History from Cornell University and is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. She has been a fellow at the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at … more
Dr Marc Palen
Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney & Lecturer at Tufts University, Massachusetts
Marc-William Palen received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. During his time at the United States Studies Centre, he revised his book manuscript, The Conspiracy of Free Trade, for publi… more
Dr Rob Rakove
Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert Rakove has worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of history at Colgate University and a Visiting Lecturer at Old Dominion University. He is in the process of completing his first book, Kenne… more
Assistant Professor Shawn Treier
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shawn Treier is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests include the U.S. Constitutional Convention and American Polit… more
Class of 2011
Assistant Professor Georgiana Banita
Postdoctoral Fellow
georgiana.banita@sydney.edu.au
Georgiana Banita is Assistant Professor of Literature and Media Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Konstanz.… more
Dr Robert Blakeslee Gilpin
Postdoctoral Fellow
R. Blakeslee Gilpin received his PhD from Yale University in May, 2009 and spent the next year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Car… more
Associate Professor Peter Hatemi
Research Associate
Pete Hatemi is a research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and Associate Professor of Political Science, Microbiology and Biochemistry at The Pennsylvania State U… more
Dr Maria Ponomarenko
Postdoctoral Fellow
maria.ponomarenko@sydney.edu.au
Maria Ponomarenko completed her PhD in History at Stanford University, where she was a graduate fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. She received her AB and AM in History and Economics from the… more
Assistant Professor Allison Pugh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Allison Pugh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, which she joined in January 2007 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research inte… more
Dr Felicity Turner
Postdoctoral Fellow
Felicity Turner graduated from Duke University with her PhD in May 2010. Her research, which analyzes the handling of infanticide cases within local communities to consider larger questions about gen… more
Class of 2010
Dr Jason Casellas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jason Casellas is Assistant Professor of Government and Associate Director of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. in political science from Loyola Un… more
Dr Mark Geiger
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mark W. Geiger received his B.A. from Carleton College and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. Before starting graduate study in history at the University … more
Dr Willie Gin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Willie Gin received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also a fellow in the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Program. He is primarily interes… more
Sabino Kornrich
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sabino Kornrich received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington. His dissertation research examined household outsourcing - spending on services which replace household labour - and … more
Dr Jeremy Pressman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeremy Pressman is an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Connecticut (United States). He is author of Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics (Cornell … more
Dr Rebecca Sheehan
Lecturer in US History
Phone: +61 2 9036 9208
Rebecca joined the United States Studies Centre as Lecturer in US History in September 2010. Prior to that she was one of the US Studies Centre’s first postdoctoral fellows cohort.… more
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