Jeffrey Brideau (2012-2013 Dissertation Writing Fellow) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Bond Rather Than A Barrier? Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway," at the University of Maryland in May 2014. He now holds a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Water Resources, at the United States Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. He will also be teaching in the STS program at Virginia Tech for spring 2015.