Postdoctoral Scholars

2007-2009 Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Volker Janssen



Born and raised near Frankfurt, Germany, Volker Janssen received his B.A. from the University of Hamburg and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.  The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was "Convict Labor, Civic Welfare: Rehabilitation in California's Prisons, 1941-1971."  His article, "From the Inside Out: Therapeutic Penology, Labor, and Citizenship in the Context of Postwar Liberalism," in the history of science journal Osiris, is forthcoming.

Professor Janssen specializes in the social, economic, and institutional history of California and also teaches courses in U.S. Economic History, and the History of Technology in California.

Professor Janssen is a member of Germany's advanced studies foundation "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" and a 1999/2000 Fulbright Scholar.  Before he taught at UCSD, he worked as a radio reporter in Hamburg and as a news editor in New York City.  Prior to that, he worked as an engineering project administrator in Belize and London.

2005-07 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Jared Farmer

Jared Farmer earned his B.A. in history from Utah State University, his M.A. in history from the University of Montana, and his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University.  He specializes in the environmental history of the U.S. West.  Farmer is the author of Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country (1999).

In May 2007, Farmer accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in history at Stony Brook University, a member of the State University of New York.  A top-100 research university, Stony Brook is especially well known for its programs in the sciences.  Farmer's history position is affiliated with a new center, the Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research (CIDER).  This initiative was undertaken to bring together the many faculty at the university from diverse disciplines, housed in many departments, to create synergistic collaborations that could address large, complex environmental issues.

 

 Jeffrey Kosiorek

Jeffrey Kosiorek received his B.A. in American Culture and History at the University of Michigan.  In the spring of 2006 he completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of Southern California.  He is currently revising his manuscript, "Revolutionary Commemoration, Liberty, and Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century America," for publication.