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Though my training has firmly established me in the field and literature of U.S. history, I have benefited immeasurably by participating in other degree programs that not only have taken me outside my current discipline, but also across international borders.

    Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, 2003-08

    Dissertation: “America Adjusted: Conformity, Boredom, and the Modern Self, c. 1920-1980”
    Committee: Jackson Lears (Chair), Ann Fabian, Alison Isenberg, Casey Blake (Columbia University)
    Additional Course Conveners/Professors: Paul Clemens, Beryl Satter, Mia Bay, Rudy Bell

    Major Field: U.S. History
    Minor Field: Modern European Cultural History

    Awards/Honors:
    Enk Award Travel Research Grant, Graduate School-New Brunswick (GS-NB), 2007
    Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, GS-NB, 2006
    Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, GS-NB, 2005
    Four-year funding package (fellowships and one GA-ship), GS-NB, 2003-08

    Princeton-Rutgers Exchange Program, 2003-04

    American Religious History, Department of Religion, Princeton University
    Course Conveners/Professors: Leigh Schmidt, Al Raboteau

    M.A., Cultural History, U of Manchester, 2002-03

    Thesis: “The 1904-05 Welsh Revival: Modernization, Technologies, and Techniques of the Self"
    Advisors: Bertrand Taithe and Max Jones
    Additional Course Conveners/Professors: Maiken Umbach, Terry Eagleton, Graham Ward

    Awards/Honors:
    Graduated with Distinction
    Faculty of Arts Bursary, 2002
    School of History and Classics Bursary, 2002

    M.A., Theological Studies, A.G.T.S, 1995-97

    Capstone Seminar Paper: “‘This is Our Story’: Collective Memories, Self-Identities, and Historiography in Early Pentecostalism”
    Course Conveners/Professors: Gary B. McGee, Ben Aker, Roger Cotton, James Hernando, James Railey Jr.

    Awards/Honors:
    Graduated summa cum laude
    Kappa Delta Chi Honor Society, 1997
    Stanley M. Horton Award for Outstanding Seminar Paper, 1997
    Outstanding Achievement Student of the Year, 1997

    B.A., History, University of Michigan, 1990-95

    Honors Thesis: “Over the Horizon: Pentecostalism, Evangelicalism, and American Culture at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century”
    Advisor Richard Cándida-Smith

    Awards/Honors:
    Graduated High Honors in History

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Edward J.K. Gitre

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

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Ph.D.  in  History  from  Rutgers University    9/2003 - 8/2008 more

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA  9/2008 - Present more

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