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We are delighted to welcome Kurt Piehler, the new director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, to the FSU history department. Dr. Piehler is a specialist in twentieth century American history, and has published widely. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers, where he was founding director (1994-1998) of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II. He comes to us from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Andy Bruno (Ph.D. University of Illinois, 2011) will be joining the Department of History at FSU as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2011-12 before becoming an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University. The postdoc is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF ARC 0922651) and under the supervision of Prof. Ronald E. Doel. Bruno's research focuses on Soviet environmental history. He has published several articles and book chapters, including one in the International Review of Social History