Dissertations in Progress
Alphabetical List: of Dissertators:
Dissertations by Field:
[Early Modern Europe] [East and Central Asia] [Latin America] [Middle East and North Africa] [Modern Europe] [Russia and Eastern Europe] [Transregional] [United States]Dissertators A-E
Al-Arian, Abdullah"Heeding the Call: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1970-1981"
Advisor: Voll, John
Bowman, Matthew Burton
"Practicing Christianity: Evangelicals in NYC, 1880-1940"
Advisor, Kazin, Michael
Brandow-Faller, Megan
"An Art of Their Own: Reinventing Frauenkunst in the Female Academies and Artist Leagues of Late-Imperial and First Republic Austria, 1900-1930"
Advisor: Shedel, James P.
Campion Corey
"Living with the Enemy: A Comparison of French and American Occupation Policies in Germany, 1945-1955"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
Connel, Tula
"A Parternship of Citizens: Frank Zeidler and the Politics of Good Government, 1948-1960
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Coral, Emilio
"The Mexican Middle-Class between Tradition, Modernity, and State Patronage, 1940-1970"
Advisor: Tutino, John
Corcoran, John
"Power in the Provinces: The Evolution of Local Government Practices in Imperial Russia, 1825-1917"
Advisor: Evtihov, Catherine
Engelke, Petter
"Resisting the Automobile: Popular Opposition to the Auto-oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1985"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger and McNeill, John
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Dissertators F-J
Francis-Fallon, Benjamin"Minority Reports: The Rise of the Hispanic and the Making of Multicultural America, 1960-1980"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Fulwider, Benjamin
"Driving the Nation: Roadbuilding and the Construction of a Highway Transportation Network in Mexico, 1930-1960"
Advisor: Tutino, John
Gooding, Frederick
"Chocolate, Cheese, and Cherry Blossoms: Black Federal Workers in Washington, DC, 1940-1980"
Advisor: Kazin, Michael
Guenther, Rita
"Lived Liberalism: Local Expressions of Political Beliefs in Russia, 1860-1914"
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
Gummer, Steven Chase
"Imperial Dreams and Religious Fury: Germany and Violence in the Ottoman Balkans in the Age of Nationalism, 1875-1914"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
Gurkan, Emrah
"Dissertation title: Information and Politics: The Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean World, 1494-1593"
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
Harrison, Jennifer Pish
"The Boston Teachers Union and the Desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, 1963-1981"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Hofmeister, Bjoern
"Between Monarchy and Dictatorship: Radical Nationalism and Political Mobilisation of the Pan-German League, 1914-1939 "
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
Hower, Joseph
"Jerry Wurf, the Rise of AFSCME, and the Fate of American Liberalism, 1947-1981"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Johnston, Shona
"Papists in a Protestant World" The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century"
Advisor: Games, Alison
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Dissertators K-O
Comparative Political Legitimacies: Representative Institutions and Political Conflict in England and Castile, 1450-1520
Advisor: Moran-Cruz, Jo Ann
Kondoyanidi, Anita
"Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution: Literature, Politics, and Society"
Advisor: Stites, Richard
Krache-Morris, Evelyn
"Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Chemicals in Viet Nam"
Advisor: Painter, David
McKenna, Catherine
"Dissent and the Enlightened Commonwealth: The Discourse about Toleration in Saxon-era Poland, 1717-1764"
Advisor: Kaminski, Andrzej
Mamedov, Mikail
"Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Conscious, 1801-64"
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
Morosini-Domminick, Mirjana
"A Tormented Land: The Italian Exodus from Istria after World War II"
Advisor: Roshwald, Aviel
Morrison, Christopher
"Embracing a World of Empires: The American-Philippine Colonial State and Its Interactions with the Empires of Other Nations, 1898-1920"
Advisor: Tucker, Nancy
Murphy, Curtis
"Progress and its Discontents: The Modernization of Public and Private Cities in Poland-Lithuania and the Russian Empire, 1764-1830"
Advisor: Kaminski, Andrzej
Nakhoul, Marguerite
"Constructing Palestinian Masculinity in the National Context, 1948-87"
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
Noorlander, Danny
"Serving God and Mammon: The Reformed Church in the Dutch Atlantic, 1585-1675"
Advisor: Games, Alison
Dissertators P-T
"Justice in the Colonial South Carolinian Low Country on the Eve of the American Revolution, 1763-76"
Advisor: Games, Alison
Perrier, Aurelie
"Family Matters: Negotiating Sex, Gender and the Home in Colonial Algeria, 1830-1914"
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
Petrides, Christina
Russian Military medicine and War in Russia, 1914-1921
Advisor: Stites, Richard
Powers, Kevin
"Freedom from Want: An Environmental History of Depression and War Era America"
Advisor: Kazin, Michael and McNeill, John
Robarts, Andrew
"Merchants, Migrants and Microbes: The Ottoman Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1774-1830s"
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
Rotramel, Seth
"The Politics of the International Cooperation Against Epidemic Diseases: Germany and France after the First World War"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
Sakul, Kahraman
“An Ottoman Global Moment: War of Second Coalition Against Napoleon”
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
Scarborough, Daniel
"The White Priest at Work: The Russian Orthodox Pastor in Late Imperial Russia"
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
Skibinski, Stephen
"The Geographic Origins of the West Yorkshire Entry-Level Clergy, 1480-1500"
Advisor: Moran Cruz, Jo Ann Hoeppner
Szczepaniak, Tracy
"The History of the Dhahran Airbase: Security Assistance and the Making of American Foreign Policy with Saudi Arabia, 1946-1996"
Advisor: Painter, David
Dissertators V-Z
"Health, Healing and Gender in Atlantic New Spain, 1700-1820"
Advisor: Tutino, John
Vallve, Frederic
"The Impact of the Rubber Boom on the Bolivian Lowlands, 1850-1920"
Advisor: Langer, Erick
Villagomez, Marisabel
"Coca Nation: Political Organization of Coca Farmers of Bolivia, 1900-1930"
Advisor: Langer, Erick
Wang, Tao
"Isolating the Enemy: Sino-American Relations, 1953-1955"
Advisor: Tucker, Nancy
Wiley, Christopher
"Textbook Diplomacy: East German Student Exchange and the DDR's Quest for Global Legitimacy, 1951-89"
Advisor: Roshwald, Aviel
Wilkinson, Xenia
"Rubber Soldiers, U.S. Allies: The Amazon Rubber Boom of World War II"
Advisor: Langer, Erick
Williams, Andrea Wigand
"Nomads, Ecology, and the State on the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Frontier"
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
Yousef, Hoda
"The Politics Of Literacies in Egypt at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
Zakarija, Anna
"The Interaction Between the Majority Protestant and the Minority Catholic Communities in Colonial Maryland, 1715-65"
Advisor: Curran, R. Emmett
Early Modern Europe
Gurkan, Emrah
"Dissertation title: Information and Politics: The Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean World, 1494-1593"
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
Kern, Darcy
Comparative Political Legitimacies: Representative Institutions and Political Conflict in England and Castile, 1450-1520
Advisor: Moran Cruz, Jo Ann Hoeppner
McKenna, Catherine
"Dissent and the Enlightened Commonwealth: The Discourse about Toleration in Saxon-era Poland, 1717-1764"
Advisor: Kaminski, Andrzej
Sakul, Kahraman
“An Ottoman Global Moment: War of Second Coalition Against Napoleon”
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
Skibinski, Stephen
"The Geographic Origins of the West Yorkshire Entry-Level Clergy, 1480-1500"
Advisor: Moran CruzJo Ann Hoeppner
Williams, Andrea Wigand
"Nomads, Ecology, and the State on the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Frontier"
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
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East and Central Asia
Lin, Catherine Kai-Pin
"Nationalism versus International Politics: Taiwan's Foreign Relations since the 1970s"
Advisor: Benedict, Carol
Ma, Haiyun
"'New Teachings' and New Territories: Religion, Population, and Administration in Qing Gansu, 1700-1800"
Advisor: Millward, James
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Latin America
Coral, Emilio
"The Mexican Middle-Class between Tradition, Modernity, and State Patronage, 1940-1970"
Advisor: Tutino, John
Fulwider, Benjamin
"Driving the Nation: Roadbuilding and the Construction of a Highway Transportation Network in Mexico, 1930-1960"
Advisor: Tutino, John
Vallejo, Veronica
"Health, Healing and Gender in Atlantic New Spain, 1700-1820"
Advisor: John Tutino
Vallve, Frederic
"The Impact of the Rubber Boom on the Bolivian Lowlands, 1850-1920"
Advisor: Langer, Erick
Villagomez, Marisabel
"Coca Nation: Political Organization of Coca Farmers of Bolivia, 1900-1930"
Advisor: Langer, Erick
Wilkinson, Xenia
"Rubber Soldiers, U.S. Allies: The Amazon Rubber Boom of World War II"
Advisor: Langer, Erick
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Middle East and North Africa
Al-Arian, Abdullah
Heeding the Call: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1970-1981
Advisor: Voll, John
Perrier, Aurelie
"Family Matters: Negotiating Sex, Gender and the Home in Colonial Algeria, 1830-1914"
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
Nakhoul, Marguerite
"Constructing Palestinian Masculinity in the National Context, 1948-87"
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
Yousef, Hoda
"The Politics Of Literacies in Egypt at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
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Modern Europe
Brandow-Faller, Megan
"An Art of Their Own: Reinventing Frauenkunst in the Female Academies and Artist Leagues of Late-Imperial and First Republic Austria, 1900-1930"
Advisor: Shedel, James P.
Campion, Corey
"Living with the Enemy: A Comparison of French and American Cultural Occupation Policies in Germany, 1945-1955"
Advisor: Chickerin, Roger
Engelke, Peter
"Resisting the Automobile: Popular Opposition to the Auto-oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1985"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger and McNeill, John
Gummer, Steven Chase
"Imperial Dreams and Religious Fury: Germany and Violence in the Ottoman Balkans in the Age of Nationalism, 1875-1914"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
Hofmeister, Bjoern
"Between Monarchy and Dictatorship: Radical Nationalism and Political Mobilisation of the Pan-German League, 1914-1939 "
Morosini-Domminick, Mirjana
"A Tormented Land: The Italian Exodus from Istria after World War II"
Advisor: Roshwald, Aviel
Rotramel, Seth
"The Politics of the International Cooperation Against Epidemic Diseases: Germany and France after the First World War"
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
Vann, Martin
"Encounter with Modernity: Jewish Musicians in Fin-de-seicle Vienna"
Advisor: Shedel, James
Wiley, Christopher
"Textbook Diplomacy: East German Student Exchange & the DDr's Quest for Global Legitimacy, 1951-1989"
Advisor: Roshwald, Aviel
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Russia and Eastern Europe
Corcoran, John
“Power in the Provinces: The Evolution of Local Government Practices in Imperial Russia, 1825-1917
Advisor: Evtihov, Catherine
Mamedov, Mikail
"Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Conscious, 1801-64"
Advisor: Evtihov, Catherine
Guenther, Rita
"Lived Liberalism: Local Expressions of Political Beliefs in Russia, 1860-1914"
Advisor: Evtihov, Catherine
Kondoyanidi, Anita
"Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution: Literature, Politics, and Society
Advisor: Stites, Richard
Petrides, Christina
Russian Military medicine and War in Russia, 1914-1921
Advisor: Stites, Richard
Robarts, Andrew
"Merchants, Migrants and Microbes: The Ottoman Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1774-1830s"
Advisor: Evtihov, Catherine
Murphy, Curtis
"Progress and its Discontents: The Modernization of Public and Private Cities in Poland-Lithuania and the Russian Empire, 1764-1830"
Advisor: Kaminski, Andrzej
Sakul, Kahraman
"The Russo-Ottoman Alliance of 1799-1806"
Advisor: Agoston, Gabor
Scarborough, Daniel
"The White Priest at Work: The Russian Orthodox Pastor in Late Imperial Russia"
Advisor: Evtihov, Catherine
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Transregional
Johnston, Shona
"Papists in a Protestant World" The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century"
Advisor: Games, Alison
Noorlander, Danny
"Serving God and Mammon: The Reformed Church in the Dutch Atlantic, 1585-1675"
Advisor: Games, Alison
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United States
Bowman, Matthew Burton
"Practicing Christianity: Evangelicals in NYC, 1880-1940"
Advisor: Kazin, Michael
Connell, Tula
"A Partnership of Citizens: Frank Zeidler and the Politics of Good Government, 1948-1960"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Francis-Fallon, Benjaminn
"Minority Reports: The Rise of the Hispanic and the Making of Multicultural America, 1960-1980"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Gooding, Frederick
"Chocolate, Cheese, and Cherry Blossoms: Black Federal Workers in Washington, DC, 1940-1980"
Advisor: Kazin, Michael
Harrison, Jennifer Pish
"The Boston Teachers Union and the Desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, 1963-1981"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Hower, Joseph
"Jerry Wurf, the Rise of AFSCME, and the Fate of American Liberalism, 1947-1981"
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph
Krache-Morris, Evelyn
"Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Chemicals in Viet Nam"
Advisor: Painter, David
Morrison, Christopher
"Embracing a World of Empires: The American-Philippine Colonial State and Its Interactions with the Empires of Other Nations, 1898-1920"
Advisor: Tucker, Nancy
Neiderberger, Judith
"Meddler or Honest Broker? The United States and Civil War in Sudan, 1956-2005"
Advisor: Painter, David
Palmer, Aaron
"Justice in the Colonial South Carolinian Low Country on the Eve of the American Revolution, 1763-76"
Advisor: Alison Games
Powers, Kevin
"Freedom from Want: An Environmental History of Depression and War Era America"
Advisor: Kazin, Michael and McNeill, John
Szczepaniak, Tracy
"The History of the Dhahran Airbase: Security Assistance and the Making of American Foreign Policy with Saudi Arabia, 1946-1996"
Advisor: Painter, David
Wang, Tao
"Isolating the Enemy: Sino-American Relations, 1953-1955"
Advisor: Tucker, Nancy
Zakarija, Anna
"The Interaction Between the Majority Protestant and the Minority Catholic Communities in Colonial Maryland, 1715-65"
Advisor: Curran, R. Emmett
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