The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Valerie Deacon, who defended her PhD dissertation in February 2011, has just won a position at New York University as the Elihu Rose Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow in Military History. The position is for one year, and renewable for three years. Dr. Deacon’s dissertation, “The ‘Other’ Resistance: The Extreme-Right in France during the Second World War,” was supervised by Professor Bill Irvine. Congratulations Valerie!!