Department of History

[1998-2000]                  [2001-2004]                          [2005-2010]

2012

Apel, Thomas
Advisor: Rothman, Adam
"Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds"

Connell, Tula
Advisor: McCartin, Joseph A.
"A Partnership of Citizens: Frank Zeidler and the Politics of Good Government, 1948-60"

Coral, Emilio
Advisor: Tutino, John
"The Mexico City Middle Class, 1940-70: Between Tradition, the State, and the United States"

Corcoran, John
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
"Power in the Provinces: The Evolution of Local Government Practices in Imperial Russia, 1825-1917"

Engelke, Peter
Advisor: Chickering, Roger & McNeill, John
“Green City Origins: Democratic Resistance to the Auto-Oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1990”

Guenther, Rita
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
"One Vote at a Time: Russian Imperial Elections in Kazan Province"
Gurkan, Emrah
Advisor: Ágoston, Gábor
“Espionage in the 16th Century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman Habsburg Rivalry”

Higuchi, Toshihiro
Advisor: Painter, David
"Radioactive Nuclear Fallout, the Politics of Risk, and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis, 1945–63"

Hofmeister, Bjoern
Advisor: Chickering, Roger
"Between Monarchy and Dictatorship: Radical Nationalism and Political Mobilization of the Pan-German League, 1914-39"

Krache-Morris, Evelyn
Advisor:  Painter, David and Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf
"Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Chemicals in Vietnam"

Maureira, Hugo
Advisor: Langer, Erick
"Living Long Enough to Be Heard: The Role of Public Hygiene in the Political Mobilization of the Poor Urban Working Class in Late Nineteenth and Early 20th-Century Chile"

McKenna, Catherine
Advisor: Kaminski, Andrzej
"Dissent and the Enlightened Commonwealth: The Discourse about Toleration in Saxon-Era Poland, 1717-64"

Murphy, Curtis
Advisor: Kaminski, Andrzej
"Progress without Consent: Enlightened Centralism vis-à-vis Local Self-Government in the Towns of East Central Europe and Russia, 1764-1830"

Scarborough, Daniel
Advisor: Evtuhov, Catherine
"The White Priest at Work: The Russian Orthodox Pastor in Late Imperial Russia"

Wang, Tao
Advisor: Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf
"Isolating the Enemy: Sino-American Relations, 1953-55"

Yousef, Hoda
Advisor: Tucker, Judith
"The Politics of Literacies in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century"
 

2011

Al-Arian, Abdullah
"Heeding the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Egypt (1970-1981)"

Bowman, Matthew
"The Urban Pulpit: Evangelicals and the City in New York, 1880-1930"

Campion, Corey
"Living with the Enemy: A Comparison of French and American Cultural Occupation Policies in Germany, 1945-55"

Coral, Emilio
"The Mexico CIty Middle Class, 1940-1970: Between Tradition, the State, and the United States"

Engelke, Peter O.
"Green City Origins: Democratic Resistance to the Auto-oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1990"

Gummer, Stephen Chase
"Imperial Dreams and Relifious Fury: Germany and Violence in the Ottoman Balkans in the Age of Nationalism, 1875-1914"

Higuchi, Toshihiro
"Radioactive Fallout, the Politics of Risk, and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis, 1954-1963"

Johnston, Shona
"Papists in a Protestant World: The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century"

Noorlander, Danny L.
"Serving God and Mammon: The Reformed Church and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World, 1621-1674" 

Robarts, Andrew R.
"A Plague on Both Houses?: Population Movements and the Spread of Disease across the Ottoman-Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1768-1830s"

Rotramel, Seth
"The Politics of the International Cooperation against Epidemic Diseases: Germany and France after the First World War"

Vallve, Frederick
"The Impact of the Rubber Boom on the Bolivian Lowlands" 

2010

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"

Mamedov, Mikail
"Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Consciousness, 1801-1864"

Wilkinson, Xenia
"Rubber Soldiers, US Allies: The Amazon Rubber Boom of World War II"

2009

Fedyashin, Anton
"Auchtotonous and Practical Liberals: Vestnik Evropy and Modernization in Late Imperial Russia"

Fulwider, Benjamin
"Driving the nation: road transportation and the postrevolutionary Mexican state, 1925-1960"

Granados, Luis
"Cosmopolitan Indians and Mesoamerican barrios in Bourbon Mexico City: tribute, community, family and work in 1800"

Morrison, Chris
"A world of empires: United States rule in the Philippines, 1898-1913"

Otovo, Okezi
"To form a strong and populous nation: race, motherhood, and the state in republican Brazil"

Palmer, Aaron
"All matters and things shall center there": a study of elite political power in South Carolina, 1763-1776"

Rosu, Felicia
"Contractual majesty: electoral politics in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1571-1586"

Sexton, Mary
"The wages of principle and power: Cyrus R. Vance and the making of foreign policy in the Carter administration"

Shlala, Elizabeth
"Mediterranean migration, cosmopolitanism, and the law: a history of the Italian community of nineteenth-century Alexandria, Egypt"

Skibinski , Stephen
"The Geographic Origins of the West Yorkshire Entry-Level Clergy, 1480-1500: A Computer-Based, Integrated Applications approach to Quantitative Historical Method"

2008

2007

2006

Zickafoose, Virginia Paige
"Virtuous Crown, Virtuous Respublica: The Henrician Constitutional Declaration of Poland-Lithuania Interregnum, 1572-1574" 

2005

Andreassi, Anthony
"Women of Compassion: the Public Ministries and Private Lives of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, 1869-1946"
 
ARI-CHACHAKI, Waskar T.
"Race and Subaltern Nationalism: The AMP Activist-Intellectuals in Bolivia, 1921-1964"
 
BELLI, Mériam
"Remembrance of Nasserian Things Past: An Approach to Egyptian History through the Memory of the 1967 War"
 
BROOKE, George Mercer III
"Sir Robert Thompson and the Failure of American Policy and Strategy in Vietnam"
 
DE BRUYN KOPS, Henriette
"Liquid silver: the wine and brandy trade between Rotterdam and Nantes in the first half of the seventeenth century"
 
DU QUENOY, Paul
"Revolt and the Russian Stage: Performing Arts Culture in the Revolution of 1905"
 
FOLEY, Sean
"Shaykh Khalid and the Naqshbandiyyah: A Muslim Social Movement in the Modern World"
 
JOSEPH, Sabrina
"Tenant Status and Sharecropping Laws in Islamic Hanafi Thought, 17th and 18th Century Syria"
 
MARTIN, Kevin
"Evoking the 'New Syrian': Discourses of Bourgeois Modernity in 1950s Damascus"
 
NORMAN, York
"Islamization in central Bosnia, 1463-1600"
 
ROULAND, Michael
"Music and the Making of the Kazak Nation, 1920-1936"
 
SHEARER, Valerie
"'A Good Deed is Never Forgotten': The Culture of Giving in Seventeenth-Century France and Québec"

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2004

BYRNE, Daniel (BA Notre Dame)
"Adrift on a Sea of Sand: The Search for United States Foreign Policy Toward the Decolonization of Algeria, 1942-1962"

CLASS, James (BA Grand Valley State)
"The Myth of Salvation: Russian Messianism in the Literature of the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815"

COVENTRY, Michael T. (BA Goshen College)
"'God, Country, Home and Mother': Soldierly Identities in Great War America"

DRUMMOND, Elizabeth A. (BS, MA Georgetown); Asst. prof., Southern Mississippi
"Protecting Poznania: Germans, Poles, and the Conflict Over National Identity, 1886-1914"

GOLDYN, Bartholomew (BA Brown, MA London)
"Cities for a New Poland: Urban Planning and State Control in the Building of Gdynia and Nowa Huta"

HILL, Brendan L. (BA Hawaii-Manoa); Asst. dean, SFS, Georgetown
"Puritans in the Public Sphere: The Societies for Reformation of Manners and the Continuity of Calvinism in Early Eighteenth Century England"

IVEY, Linda L. (BA Trinity College)
"Poetic Industrialism: Ethnicity, Environment and Commercial Horticulture in California's Pajaro Valley, from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression"

LINFORD, Rebecca (BA Utah State, MA California, Los Angeles)
"The Women of the Quarter Sessions: An Examination of the Quarter Session Rolls of 16th- and 17th-century Lancaster and Wiltshire Counties and Their References to Women Involved in Crime"

NICHOLS-BUSCH, Tracy (BA Vassar College)
"A Class on Wheels: Avtodor and the Automobilization of the Soviet Union 1927-1935"

SCHUTTS, Jeff Richard (BA Boston, MA Georgetown)
"Coca-Colonization, 'Refreshing Americanization', or Nazi Volksgetrank"

ZEJMIS, Jakub (BS Georgetown, MA Notre Dame); vis. asst. prof., McDaniel College
"Belarus: Religion, Language and the Struggle for National Identity in a Soviet-Polish Borderland, 1921-1939"

2003

Abi-Mershed, Osama (BA American University of Beirut, MBA, MA George Washington); asst. prof., Georgetown
"Domination by Consent: The Bureaux Arabes and Public Instruction in Colonial Algeria, 1831-1870"

BELMONTE, Monica (BA Tufts, MA King's College, MA Toronto)
"Reining in Revolution: the U.S. Response to British Decolonization in Nigeria in an Era of Civil Rights, 1953-1960"

BREWER, M. Jonah (BA San Francisco State, MA Georgetown)
"Gold, Franincense, and Myrhh: French Consuls and Commercial Diplomacy in the Ottoman Levant, 1660-1699"

CAFFREY, Patrick Joseph (BA, MA Seton Hall, MA Yale); asst. prof., Washington & Jefferson College
"The Forests of Northeast China, 1600-1960: Environment, Politics, and Society"

DAVENPORT, Lisa (AB Harvard, MA Howard) "Jazz, Race, and American Cultural Exchange: An International Study of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1956-1972"

DeLONG-BAS, Natana (BA Middlebury, MAAS Georgetown)
"Muhammed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab: An Intellectual Autobiography"

DORSEY, Jennifer H. (BA Emory, MA Boston College); asst. prof., Arizona State-West
"Free People of Color in Rural Maryland, 1783-1832"

LUDES, James (BA Providence College, MA Georgetown)
"A Consistency of Purpose: Political Warfare and the National Security Strategy of the Eisenhower Administration"

SEMERDJIAN, Elyse (BA Albion College, MA Michigan); asst. prof., Whitman College
"Off the Straight Path: Gender, Public Morality, and Legal Administration in Ottoman Aleppo, Syria"

ZALAR, Jeffrey T. (BA Marquette)
"Knowledge and Nationalism in Imperial Germany: A Cultural History of the Association of Saint Charles Borromeo, 1890-1914"

2002

ABUGIDEIRI, Hibba (BA Maryland, MA Georgetown); Asst. prof., Villanova University
"Egyptian Women and the Science Question: Gender in the Making of Colonized Medicine, 1893-1929"
 
CAPLAN, Gregory (AB Georgia, MA Georgetown)
"Wicked Sons, German Heroes: Jewish Soldiers, Veterans and Memories of World War I"
 
DUGGAN, Michael (BA Maryland, MA Georgetown, MSLS Catholic University of America); Libarary Assistant, US Supreme Court and adj. prof., Liberal Studies, Georgetown
"Chauncey Wright and Forward-Looking Empiricism, a History of Ideas"
 
HAMILTON, Joanna (BA, MA SUNY, Albany)
"The Merchants of Vannes: 1670-1730"
 
HOERLE, Scott (BA Trinity College)
"Hans Friedrich Blunck: Poetry, Politics, and Propoganda"
 
JANIK, Elizabeth Koch (BA College of William and Mary, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., James Madison
"Music in Cold War Berlin: German Tradition and Allied Occupation, 1945-1951"
 
LAW, Randall (BA Amherst College, MA Yale); asst. prof., Birmingham-Southern College
"Humanity's Workshops: Progressive Education in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1856-1927"
 
MCGILLIVRAY, Gillian (BA Dalhousie, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., Brock
"Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Power, and Politics in Cuba, 1868-1948"
 
MCGINN, John (BS United States Military Academy at West Point, MA, MS Georgetown); Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
"Balancing Defense and Détente in NATO: Harmel Framework and the 1968 Crisis in Czechoslovakia"
 
SAMPSELL, Kate (BA Western Maryland College, JD Baltimore); asst. prof., Bilkent
"'To Grab a Hunk of Lightning': An Intellectual History of American Depression-Era Photography"
 
VELCAMP, Theresa (BA California Polytechnic State, MA Georgetown, MS London); asst. prof., Sonoma State
"Peddling Identity: Arabs, Conflict, Community and the Mexican Nation in the Twentieth Century"
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2001

CARAFANO, James J. (BS United States Military Academy at West Point, MA Georgetown); Senior Fellow, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation
"'Waltzing into the Cold War': U.S. Army Military Operations in Occupied Austria"
 
HILL, Richard F. (BA, MA Georgia State); adj. prof., Palm Beach Atlantic University
"Pearl Harbor Month: Why the United States Went to War with Germany"
 
JACKSON, Maurice (BA Antioch College, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., Georgetown
"'Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Out Her Hands Unto God': Anthony Benezet and the Atlantic Anti-Slavery Revolution"
 
SKINNER, Barbara J. (BA Yale, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., Adelphi
"The Empress and the Heretics: Catherine II's Challenge to the Uniate Church, 1762-1796"
 
SOCOLOW, Michael J. (BA Columbia); asst. prof., Brandeis
"To Network a Nation: N.B.C., C.B.S., and the Development of National Network Radio in the United States, 1925-1950"
 
TAFFET, Jeffrey A. (BA Franklin and Marshall College, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., US Merchant Marine Academy
"Alliance for What?: U.S. Development Assistance in Chile During the 1960s"
 
WALL, Michael C. (BA Augustana College, Illinois, MSFS Georgetown); prof. lect., Georgetown
"Chinese Reaction to the Portrayal of China and Chinese in American Motion Pictures prior to 1949"
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2000

BRÜGGEMANN, Julia (BA William and Mary, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., DePauw
"Through the Prism of Prostitution: State and Society in Hamburg, 1800-1914"
 
BURCH, Susan (BA Colorado College, MA Georgetown); assoc. prof., Gallaudet
"Biding the Time: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II"
 
CLINE, Ruth Harwood (BA Smith, MA Rutgers)
"The Congregation of Tiron in the Twelfth Century: Foundation and Expansion"
 
DALE, Melissa S. (BA Berkeley, MA Stanford)
"With the Cut of a Knife: A Social History of Eunuchs During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and Republican Periods (1912-1949)"
 
DAVIS, Rebekah (BA San Francisco, MA Georgetown); International Program Specialist, NASA
"Development as a Tool of Diplomacy: The Domestic Models for U.S. Policy in the Jordan River Valley, 1939-1956"
 
HEINEMAN, Paul (BA Notre Dame, MA Georgetown); adj. prof., Towson
"In Defense of an Anachronism: The Cossack Question on the Don, 1861-1914"
 
KHALAFALLAH, Haifaa (BA Bucknell, MA Georgetown)
"Rethinking Islamic Law: Genesis and Evolution in the Islamic Legal Methods and Structures. The Case of a 20th Century 'Alim's Journey into His Legal Traditions. Muhammad Al-Ghazali (1917-1996)"
 
PISIOTIS, Argyrios K. (MA Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., Kent State
"Orthodoxy Versus Autocracy: The Orthodox Church and Clerical Political Dissent in Late Imperial Russia, 1905-1914"
 
PUJALS, Sandra (BA Regis College, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., San Juan
"When Giants Walked the Earth: The Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles of the Soviet Union, 1921-1935"
 
REIFOWITZ, Ian (BA Brown, MA Georgetown); asst. prof., SUNY-Empire State College
"Civic Nationalism in a Multiethnic Society: Conceptions of a Supraethnic Austrian Identity, 1848-1918"
 
RITENOUR, Perry (BA VMI, MA Georgetown); adj. asst. prof., Westmont College
"Chinese Banking and Foreign Trade (1949-1979) with a Focus on Guangdong"
 
TAYLOR, Karen (BA Connecticut, MA Georgetown); History Teacher, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC
"Cher espoir de la nation sainte: The Maison Royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr"
 
WIGGERS, Richard (BA Carleton, MA Ottawa); Senior Policy Advisor, Post-Secondary Affairs Branch, Department of Education, Province of New Brunswick
"Creating International Humanitarian Law [IHL] : World War II, the Allied Occupations, and the Treaties that Followed"
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1999

ARPAIA, Paul (BA Washington & Lee, MA Georgetown); Baruch College, CUNY
"Luigi Federzoni and the Italian Nationalist Association: From a Cultural Conception of Italy to a Neo-Conservative Political Program"
 
FOEHR, Sherry (BA Wesleyan, MA, Georgetown); adj. assoc. prof., University of Maryland University College - Europe
"Modernization for the Honor of the Estate: Die Deutsche Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft, 1884-1914"
 
HEALY, Róisín (BA University College, Dublin, MA, Georgetown); lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway
"The Jesuit as Enemy: Anti-Jesuitism and the Protestant Bourgoisie of Imperial Germany, 1890-1917"
 
KAWAMURA, S.J., Shinzo (BA Kwansei Gakuin, Japan, MA Sophia, Japan)
"Making Christian Lay Communities During the 'Christian Century' in Japan -- A Case Study of Takata District in Bungo"
 
KE, Yan (BA Shanghai International, MA Winthrop College, SC)
"Scholars and Communications Network: Social and Intellectual Change in 17th-Century North China"
 
JAIN, Asha (BA, MA Delhi, India)
"Kumarapala Chaulukya (r. 1143-74) of Gujarat, India: A Convert to Jainism in Historical Perspective"
 
VLADIMIROV, Katya (BA Moscow State Historical Archival Institute, MA George Mason); Asst. prof., Kennesaw
"The World Of Imperial Provincial Bureaucracy, Russian Poland 1870-1904"
 
POWERS, Daniel (BA Williams, MAGES Georgetown); School of Foreign Service, Georgetown
"All Roads Lead to Rome: French and German Christian Democrats, the Nation-State and the Reconstruction of Europe, 1945-1950"
 
QUALLS, Karl (BA Missouri, MA Columbia); asst. prof., Dickinson
"Raised From Ruins: Restoring Popular Allegiance Through City Planning in Sevastopol, 1944-1953"
 
SLATER, Joseph (BA Oberlin, JD Michigan); assoc. prof., University of Toledo College of Law
"Down By Law: Public Sector Unions and the State in America, World War I to World War II"
 
VEIDLINGER, Jeffrey (BA McGill); assoc. prof., Indiana
"Soviet Politics on the Yiddish Stage: Moscow's State Yiddish Theater, 1919-1949"
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1998

CARPENTER, Kim (BA Scranton)
"'Sechs Kreuzer sind genug für ein Bier!' The Munich Beer Riot of 1844: Social Protest and Public Disorder in Mid-19th Century Bavaria"
 
ENRIQUEZ, Jonmikel (BA Georgetown, MA Pennsylvania); asst. prof. and associate dean, Hanover College
"Theodore White and the Remaking of Political Journalism"
 
GOEDDE, Celia J. (BA Berkeley)
"The Artisan's Approach to Modernity: The Political Culture of the German Artisans in Vienna and Augsburg"
 
LONG, Loretta M. (BA, MA Pepperdine); asst. prof., Pepperdine
"A Fellow Soldier in the Course of Reformation: The Life of Selina Campbell"
 
PENDZICH, Barbara (BSFS Georgetown); research associate, Jagellonian University
"The Burghers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the War of 1654-1667: Resiliency and Cohesion in the Face of Muscovite Annexation"
 
PHILLIPS, Steven (BA George Washington); asst. prof., Towson
"Restoration and Conquest: The Taiwanese Elite under Nationalist Chinese Rule, 1945-1950"
 
RUSSELL, Mona Lisa (BA North Carolina State); vis. asst. prof, Framingham State College and lect., MIT OpenCourseWare
"Creating the New Woman: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity in Egypt, 1863-1922"
 
SCHOLZ, Norbert (BA Universität Tübingen, MA Georgetown); researcher, Weber Associates, Sterling, VA
"Foreign Education and Indigenous Reaction in Late Ottoman Lebanon: Students & Teachers of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut"
 
TAMARI, Stephen (BA Earlham College, MA Stanford); Asst. prof., Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
"Teaching and Learning in 18th-Century Damascus: Localism and Ottomanism in an Early Modern Arab Society"
 
ZEHREN, Maria (AB Trinity College)
"The Dangling Scissors: Marriage, Family, and Work Among Italian Immigrant Women in the Clothing Industry in Baltimore, 1890-1920"

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