Completed Dissertations

2020-Present

2023-2024

Broadus, Victoria
Latin American History
“Vissungo: The Afro-Descended Culture of Miners and Maroons in Brazil’s Diamond District, 1850s-2020s“
Advisor: Bryan McCann

Mensah, Tracey
African History
“‘Shopping for All Pocket’: A Business History of Indians in Ghana, 1890–1980“
Advisor: Meredith McKittrick

Nanavati, Abhishek
East & Central Asian History
“Co-Producing ‘American Dreams’: Dependents Housing, Hydroponic Farming, and the Militarization of Everyday Life in Occupied Japan, Okinawa, and South Korea, 1945-1950“
Advisor: Jordan Sand

2022-2023

Akgül, Önder
Middle East & North African History
“Ecology, the Accumulation of Capital, and Dispossession in Late Ottoman Western Anatolia“
Advisor: Mustafa Aksakal

Chan, Paula
Russia & Eastern European History
“Eyes on the Ground: Soviet Investigations of the Nazi Occupation“
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Grams, Benan
Middle East & North African History
“Damascus in the Time of Cholera: The Impact of Communicable Diseases on the Transformation of an Ottoman Provincial Capital 1840-1920“
Advisor: Mustafa Aksakal

La Lime, Matthew
African History
“Land, Informality, and Security: A Material History of West Africa’s Futa Jallon Massif (1650-2019)“
Advisor: Meredith McKittrick

Norweg, Emily
United States History
“Mass(achusetts) Incarceration and Higher Education: the Deep Origins and Contested History of College Behind Bars in the Bay State“
Advisor: Marcia Chatelain

Steir, Kate
Transregional History
“Provisions of Power: Food and Scarcity in Jamaica 1730-1790“
Advisor: Alison Games

2021-2022

Christensen, Robert
Latin American History
“Worlds in Conflict: Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Challenges, and the ‘Conquista del Desierto’ in the Making of Argentina, 1870-1900”
Advisor: Erick Langer

De Vries, Jennifer
European History
“‘In the Manner of the Beguines’: Regulating Beguine Life in the Low Countries, 1200-1600”
Advisor: Amy Leonard

Dingman, Jacob
East & Central Asian History
“‘The Unknown Country’: Tibet in the Western Imagination, 1850 – 1950”
Advisor: James Millward

Hudson, Chelsea
East & Central Asian history
“‘To Absent Us from Humanity’: Ainu and Population Counts under Russian and Japanese Administration”
Advisor: Jordan Sand

Loyd, Thomas
Russian and Eastern European History
“Black in the USSR: African Students, Soviet Empire, and the Politics of Global Education during the Cold War”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Proctor, Dylan
Environmental History
“Multidisciplinary Approaches to Infectious Disease History in Twentieth-Century Africa”
Advisor: Timothy Newfield

Tarasov, Stanislav
Russian and Eastern European History
“Noble Feelings of Dissent: Russian Emotional Culture and the Decembrist Revolt of 1825”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Torres, James
Latin American History
“Trade in a Changing World: Gold, Silver, and Commodity Flows in the Northern Andes, 1780-1840”
Advisor: Erick Langer

Thacker, Molly
United States History
“‘Are We Not Children Too?’: Race, Media, and the Formative History of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
Advisor: Katherine Benton-Cohen

Young, Cory
United States History
“For Life or Otherwise: Abolition and Slavery in South Central Pennsylvania, 1780-1847”
Advisor: Adam Rothman

2020-2021

Barraza Mendoza, Elsa
United States History
“Catholic Slaveholders, Enslaved People, and the Making of Georgetown University, 1792-1862”
Advisor: Adam Rothman

DeLorenzo, Christopher
Latin American History
“Coca Substitution and Community Response in the Yungas of La Paz, Bolivia, 1920-1988”
Advisor: Erick Langer

Eames, Anthony
Transregional History
“Public Diplomacy For the Nuclear Age: Anglo American Grand Strategy in the Late Cold War”
Advisor: Kathryn Olesko & David Painter

Feldman, Benjamin
United States History
“Liberation from the Affluent Society: The Political Thought of the Third World in Post‐War America”
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Gornostaev, Andrey
Russia and Eastern European History
“Peasants ‘on the Run’: State Control, Fugitives, Social and Geographic Mobility in Imperial Russia, 1649-1796”
Advisor: James Collins

Holekamp, Abigail
Russian and Eastern European History
“Citizens and Comrades: Entangled Revolutions and the Production of Knowledge between Russia and France, 1905-1936”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Johnson, Matthew
Environmental History
“Temples of Modern Pharaohs: Environmental Impacts of Dams and Dictatorship in Brazil”
Advisor: John McNeill

Kang, Sukhwan
European History
“Between Peaceful Coexistence and Ongoing Conflict: Religious Tolerance and the Protestant Minority in Seventeenth-Century France”
Advisor: James Collins

Kaymakci, Said
European History
“The Constitutional Limits of Military Reform: Ottoman Political Writing During the Times of Revolutionary Change, 1592-1807”
Advisor: Gabor Agoston

McQueeney, Kevin
United States History
“The City that Care Forgot: Apartheid Health Care, Racial Health Disparity, and Black Health Activism in New Orleans, 1718-2018”
Advisor: Marcia Chatelain

McRae, Douglas
Latin American History
“From Fluvial City To Hydro-Metropolis: Water, Sanitation, and Metropolitan Environment In São Paulo, Brazil (1850-1975)”
Advisor: Bryan McCann

O’Neal, Jennifer
United States History
“Beyond the Trail of Broken Treaties: The International Native American Rights Movement, 1975‐1980”
Advisor: David Painter

Patel, Trishula
African History
“Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia, 1890-1980”
Advisor: Meredith McKittrick

Perry, Jackson
Environmental History
“The Gospel of the Gum: Eucalyptus Enthusiasm and the Modern Mediterranean, ca. 1848-1900”
Advisor: John McNeill

Schwertner, Hillar
Latin American History
“Tijuandiego: Water, Capitalism and Urbanization in the Californias, 1848-1982”
Advisor: John Tutino

Singh, Amarjot
Transregional History
“The Shadows of Command: Military Command in Ancient Sparta and Athens”
Advisor: Alexander Sens & Jordan Sand

2010-2020

2019-2020

Belokowsky, Simon
Russian & Eastern European History
“‘Youth Is to Live in the City!’: Rural Out-Migration in the Black Earth Region under Khrushchev and Brezhnev”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Cano, Daniel
Latin American History
“Frontiers of Education: The Making of the ‘Literate Indian’ in the Mission Schools of Chile and Bolivia, 1880-1950”
Advisor: Erick Langer

Famularo, Julia
East & Central Asian History
“‘Fighting the Enemy with Fists and Daggers:’ The Chinese Communist Party’s Counterterrorism Policy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under Xi Jinping, 2012-2019”
Advisor: James Millward

Foley, Thomas
United States History
“An ‘Odious Aristocracy:’ Energy, Politics, and the Roots of Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania”
Advisor: David Painter

Frazier, Chad
United States History
“From Subjects to Citizens: The University of Puerto Rico and the Citizenship Revolution in the Greater United States, 1898-1935”
Advisor: Katherine Benton-Cohen

Hock, Stefan
Middle East & North African History
“Policing War and Sexuality in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1908-1938”
Advisor: Mustafa Aksakal

Goffman, Laura
Middle East & North African History
“Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and Society in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Kondoyanidi, Anita
Russian & Eastern European History
“The Prophet Disillusioned: Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolutions”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Macartney, Alexander
European History
“War in the Postwar: Japan and West Germany Protest the Vietnam War and the Global Strategy of Imperialism”
Advisor: Anna von der Goltz

Ryzhkovskyi, Volodymyr
Russian & Eastern European History
“Soviet Occidentalism: Medieval Studies and the Restructuring of Imperial Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Russia”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Scallen, Patrick
Latin American History
“‘The Bombs That Drop in El Salvador Explode in Mount Pleasant:’ From Cold War Conflagration to Immigrant Struggles in Washington, DC, 1970-1995”
Advisor: John Tutino & Joseph McCartin

2018-2019

Al-Saif, Bader
Middle East & North African History
“Reform Islam? The Renewal of Islamic Thought and Praxis in Modern and Contemporary Arabian Peninsula”
Advisor: Yvonne Haddad

Berry, Chelsea
Transregional History
“Poisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trials in the Contested Atlantic, 1680-1850”
Advisor: Alison Games

Brew, Greg
US History
“Mandarins, Paladins, and Pahlavis: The International Energy System, the United States, and the Dual Integration of Oil in Iran, 1925-1964”
Advisor: David Painter

Cornwell, Graham H.
Middle East & North African History
“Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Sugar in Morocco, 1850-1960”
Advisor: Osama Abi-Mershed

Dannies, Kate
Middle East & North African History
“Breadwinner Soldiers: Gender, Welfare, and Sovereignty in the Ottoman First World War”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Horn, Oliver
US History
“From Model to Menace: U.S. Foreign Aid, Development, and Drugs in Cold War Colombia, 1956-1978”
Advisor: David Painter

Kates, Adrienne
Latin American History
“The Persistence of Maya Autonomy: Global Capitalism, Tropical Environments, and the Limits of the Mexican State, 1880-1950”
Advisor: John Tutino

Mellor, Robynne
Environmental History
“The Cold War Underground: An Environmental History of Uranium Mining in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, 1945-1991”
Advisor: John McNeill

Porta, Earnest
Middle East & North African History
“Morocco in the Early Atlantic World, 1415-1603”
Advisor: Osama Abi-Mershed

Raykhlina, Yelizaveta
Russian & Eastern European History
“Russian Literary Marketplace: Periodicals, Social Identity, and Publishing for the Middle Stratum in Imperial Russia, 1825-1865”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Shi, Yue
East & Central Asian History
“The Seven Rivers: Empire and Economy in the Russo-Qing Central Asian Frontier, 1860s-1910s“
Advisor: James Millward

2017-2018

Abbott, Elena
Transregional History
“Beacons of Liberty: Free-Soil Havens and the American Slavery Debate, 1813-1863”
Advisor: Adam Rothman

Denning, Meredith
Environmental History
“Connections and Consensus: Changing Goals for Transnational Water Management on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, 1900-1972”
Advisor: John McNeill

Hull, Catherine
US History
“The Machine has a Soul: American Sympathizers with Italian Fascism”
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Husain, Faisal
Environmental History
“Flows of Power: The Tigris-Euphrates Basin Under Ottoman Rule, 1534-1831”
Advisor: John McNeill

Kaplan, Isabelle
Russian & Eastern European History
“The Art of Nation-Building: National Culture and Soviet Politics in Stalin-Era Azerbaijan and Other Minority Republics”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Maurer, John
US History
“An Era of Negotiation: SALT in the Nixon Administration, 1969-1972“
Advisor: David Painter

Mevissen, Robert
European History
“Constructing the Danube Monarchy: Habsburg State-Building in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Advisor: James Shedel

Reger, Jeffrey
Middle East & North African History
“Planting Palestine: The Political Economy of Olive Culture in the 20th Century Galilee and West Bank”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Smith, Jordan
Transregional History
“The Invention of Rum“
Advisor: Alison Games

Taylor, Stephanie
US History
“‘I Have the Eagle:’ Citizenship and Labor in the Progressive Era, 1890-1925”
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

Walter, Alissa
Middle East & North African History
“The Ba’ath Party in Baghdad: State-Society Relations Through Wars, Sanctions and Authoritarian Rule, 1950-2003”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Yeaw, Katrina
Middle East & North African History
“Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

2016-2017

Amelicheva, Mariya
Russian History
“The Russian Residency in Constantinople, 1700-1774: Russian-Ottoman Diplomatic Encounters“
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Benton, James
US History
“Fraying Fabric: Textile Labor, Trade Politics, and Deindustrialization, 1933-1974”
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

Biasetto, Bruno
Latin American History
“The Poisoned Chalice: Oil and Macroeconomics in Brazil (1967-2003)”
Advisor: Bryan McCann

Calisir, M. Fatih
European History
“A ‘Virtuous’ Grand Vizier: Politics and Patronage in the Ottoman Empire during the Grand Vizierate of Fazil Ahmed Pasha (1661-1676)””
Advisor: Gabor Agoston

Davies Lenoble, Geraldine
Latin American History
“Filling the Desert: The Indigenous Confederacies of the Pampas and Northern Patagonia, 1840-1879”
Advisor: Erick Langer

El Achi, Soha
European History
“Children and Slave Emancipation in French Algeria and Tunisia, 1846-1892”
Advisor: Osama Abi-Mershed

Gettig, Eric
Transregional History
“Oil and Revolution in Cuba: Development, Nationalism, and the U.S. Energy Empire, 1902-1961”
Advisor: David Painter

Gungorurler, Selim
European History
“Diplomacy and Political Relations Between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639-1822”
Advisor: Gabor Agoston

Megowan, Erina
Russian & Eastern European History
“For Fatherland, For Culture: State, Intelligentsia and Evacuated Culture in Russia’s Regions, 1941-1945”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

Mullins, Sylvia
European History
“Myroblytes: Miraculous Oil in Medieval Europe”
Advisor: James Collins

Pitts, Graham
Transregional History
“Fallow Fields: Famine and the Making of Lebanon, 1914-1948”
Advisor: John McNeill

Polczynski, Michael
Russian and Eastern European History
“The Wild Fields: Power and Space in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman Frontier”
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski & Gabor Agoston

Rabah, Makram
Middle East and North African History
“Conflict on Mount Lebanon: Collective Memory and the War of the Mountain”
Advisor: Osama Abi-Mershed

Shen, Yubin
East and Central Asian History
“Malaria and Global Networks of Tropical Medicine in Modern China, 1919-1950”
Advisor: Carol A. Benedict

Sicotte, Jonathan
Russian and Eastern European History
“Baku: Violence, Identity and Oil”
Advisor: Michael David-Fox

2015-2016

Danforth, Nicholas
Modern European History
“Memory, Modernity, and the Remaking of Republican Turkey: 1945-1960”
Advisor: Mustafa Aksakal

Dixon, Patrick
US History
“The Hamlet Factory Fire and the Political Economy of Poultry in the Twentieth Century“
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

England, Christopher
US History
“Land and Liberty: Henry George, the Single Tax Movement, and the Origins of the 20th Century Liberalism“
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Gardner, Zackary
US History
“Uniforming the Rugged: Gender, Identity, and the American Administrative State during the Progressive Era, 1898-1917“
Advisor: Katherine Benton-Cohen

Gratien, Christopher
Middle East & North African History
“The Mountains Are Ours: Ecology and Settlement in Late Ottoman and early Republican Cilicia, 1856-1956“
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Gregory, Eugene John
East & Central Asian History
“Desertion and the Militarization of Qing Legal Culture“
Advisor: James Millward

Hammond, Kelly
East & Central Asian History
“The Conundrum of Collaboration: Japanese Involvement with Muslims in North China, 1931-1945“
Advisor: James Millward

Johnson, Glen
Russia & Eastern European History
“The Reflection of Byzantine ‘Political Hesychasm’ In The Literature of The Second South Slavic Influence”
Advisor: David Goldfrank

McCarron, Barry
US International History
“The Global Irish and Chinese: Migration, Exclusion, and Foreign Relations Among Empires, 1784-1904“
Advisor: Carol A. Benedict

Ngo, Lan, S.J.
East & Southeast Asian History
“Nguyen-Catholic History (1770s-1890s) and the Gestation of Vietnamese Catholic National Identity“
Advisor: Sandra Horvath-Peterson

Pimenov, Alexei
Russia & Eastern European History
Dissertation Title: “German Romantic Nationalism and Indian Cultural Tradition”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Roe, Alan
Russian & Eastern European History
“Into Soviet Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, & the Formation of Soviet National Parks, 1950s-1990s“
Advisor: John McNeill

Veloz, Larisa
Latin American History
“’Even the Women Are Leaving’ Gendered Migrations between Mexico and the United States: Revolutionary Diasporas, Depression-Era Depatriations, and Wartime Bracero Controls, 1900-1950”
Advisor: John Tutino

Wen, Shuang
Transregional History
“Mediated Imaginations: Chinese-Arab Connections in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries“
Advisor: John Voll

Williams, Elizabeth
Middle East & North African History
“Cultivating Empires: Environment, Expertise, and Scientific Agriculture in Late Ottoman and French Mandate Syria”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

2014-2015

Adler, Paul
US History
“Planetary Citizens: U.S. NGOs and the Politics of International Development, 1965-1993“
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Kueh, Joshua Eng Sin
Transregional History
“The Manila Chinese: Community, Trade and Empire, 1570-1770“
Advisor: Carol A. Benedict

Packard, Nathan R.
US History
“The Marine Corps ‘Long March’: Modernizing the Nation’s Expeditionary Forces in the Aftermath of Vietnam, 1970-1991“
Advisor: David Painter

Perez Montesinos, Fernando
Latin American History
“Poised to Break Liberalism, Land Reform, and Communities in the Purépecha Highlands of Michoacán, Mexico, 1868-1913“
Advisor: John Tutino

Perrier, Aurelie E.
Middle East & North African History
“Intimate Matters: Negotiating Sex, Gender, and the Home in Colonial Algeria, 1830-1914“
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Stewart Mauldin, Erin
US Environmental History
“Unredeemed Land: The U.S. Civil War, Changing Land Use Practices, and the Environmental Limitations of Agriculture in the South, 1840-1880“
Advisor: John McNeill

Taylor, Brian M.
US History
“‘To Make a Union What It Ought to Be’: African Americans, Military Service, and the Drive to Make Black Civil War Service Count“
Advisor: Chandra Manning

2013-2014

Bowlus, John V.
US History
“Connecting Midstream: The Politics and Economics of Oil Transportation in the Middle East“
Advisor: David Painter

Doucette, Siobhan
Russia & Eastern European History
“Mightier than the Sword: Polish Independent Publishing, 1976-1989”
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski

Fernandez, Rodolfo
Latin American History
“Revolution and the Industrial City: Violence and Capitalism in Monterrey, Mexico, 1890 to 1920“
Advisor: John Tutino

Gooding, Frederick W. Jr.
US History
“American Dream Deferred: Black Federal Workers in Washington, D.C., 1941-1981“
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Hill, Michael R.
Transregional History
“Temperateness, Temperance, and the Tropics: Climate and Morality in the English Atlantic World, 1553-1705“
Advisor: Alison Games

Hower, Jessica S.
Transregional History
“Tudor Imperialism: Exploration, Expansion, and Experimentation in the Sixteenth-Century British Atlantic World“
Advisor: Alison Games

Hower, Joseph E.
US History
“Jerry Wurf, the Rise of AFSCME, and the Fate of Labor Liberalism, 1947-1981“
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

İşçi, Onur
Middle East & North African History
“Russophobic Neutrality: Turkish Diplomacy, 1936-1945“
Advisor: Mustafa Aksakal

Puente Valdivia, Javier
Latin American History
“Closer Apart: Indigenous and Peasant Communities and the State in Capitalist Peru, 1700-1990“
Advisor: Erick Langer

Wiley, Christopher J.
Modern European History
“Textbook Diplomacy: East German Student Exchange and the GDR’s Bid for Global Legitimacy, 1951-1990“
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald

Williams, Andrea Elizabeth
Middle East & North African Environmental History
“Planting Politics: Pastoralists and French Environmental Administration in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean“
Advisor: John McNeill and Gabor Agoston

Yoder, April R.
Latin American History
“Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic, 1955-1978“
Advisor: Bryan McCann

2012-2013

Corcoran, John M.
Russia & Eastern European History
“Power in the Provinces: The Evolution of Local Government Practices in Imperial Russia, 1825-1917”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Francis-Fallon, Benjamin
US History
“Minority Reports: The Emergence of Pan-Hispanic Politics, 1945-1980”
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Harrison, Jennifer Pish
US History
“Teacher Unionism and Civil Rights in Boston, 1963-1981”
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

Hazelton, Andrew J.
US History
“Open-Shop Fields: The Bracero Program and Farmworker Unionism, 1942-1964”
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

Kern, Darcy A.
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“The Political Kingdom: Parliamentary Institutions and Languages of Legitimacy in England and Castile, 1450-1520”
Advisor: Jo Ann Moran-Cruz

Krache Morris, Evelyn F.
US History
“Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Chemicals in South Vietnam”
Advisor: David Painter

Landry, Marc D.
Modern European Environmental History
“Europe’s Battery: The Making of the Alpine Energy Landscape, 1870-1955”
Advisor: John McNeill

Lurie, Guy
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Citizenship in Later Medieval France, C. 1370- C. 1480”
Advisor: James Collins

Scarborough, Daniel L.
Russia & Eastern European History
“The White Priest at Work: Orthodox Pastoral Activism and Social Reconstruction in Late Imperial Russia”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Toprani, Anand
US History
“Oil and Grand Strategy: Great Britain and Germany, 1918-1941”
Advisor: David Painter

2011-2012

Apel, Thomas A.
US History
“Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Yellow Fever and Common-Sense Natural Philosophy in the Early American Republic, 1793-1805“
Advisor: Adam Rothman

Connell, Tula A.
US History
“Frank Zeidler and the Conservative Challenge to Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee“
Advisor: Joseph A. McCartin

Coral Garcia, Emilio M.
Latin American History
“The Mexico City Middle Class, 1940-70: Between Tradition, the State, and the United States“
Advisor: John Tutino

Guenther, Rita S.
Russia & Eastern European History
“One Local Vote at a Time: Electoral Practices of Kazan Province, 1766-1916“
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Gurkan, Emrah S.
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Espionage in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman Habsburg Rivalry”
Advisor: Ágoston, Gábor

Higuchi, Toshihiro
US History
“Radioactive Fallout, the Politics of Risk, and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis, 1954–1963“
Advisor: David Painter

Hofmeister, Björn
Modern European History
“Between Monarchy and Dictatorship: Radical Nationalism and Social Mobilization of the Pan-German League, 1914-39“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Johnston, Shona
Transregional History
“Papists in a Protestant World: The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century“
Advisor: Alison Games

Maureira, Hugo A.
Latin American History
“Los Culpables de La Miseria:’ Poverty and Public Health during the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Chile, 1918-1920”
Advisor: Erick Langer

McKenna, Catherine J.
Russia & Eastern European History
“The Curious Evolution of the Liberum Veto: Republican Theory and Practice in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1639-1705”
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski

Murphy, Curtis G.
Russia & Eastern European History
“Progress without Consent: Enlightened Centralism vis-a-vis Local Self-Government in the Towns of East Central Europe and Russia, 1764-1840”
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski

Noorlander, Danny L.
Transregional History
“Serving God and Mammon: The Reformed Church and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World, 1621-1674“
Advisor: Alison Games

Wang, Tao
US History
“Isolating the Enemy: US-PRC Relations, 1953-1956”
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

Yousef, Hoda A.
Middle East & North African History
“Contested Knowledge: The Politics of Literacy in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century“
Advisor: Judith Tucker

2010-2011

Al-Arian, Abdullah A.
Middle East & North African History
“Heeding the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Egypt, 1970-1981“
Advisor: John Voll

Bowman, Matthew B.
US History
“The Urban Pulpit: Evangelicals and the City in New York, 1880-1930“
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Campion, Corey J.
Modern European History
“Negotiating Difference: French and American Cultural Occupation Policies and German Expectations, 1945-1949″
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Engelke, Peter O.
Modern European History
“Green City Origins: Democratic Resistance to the Auto-oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1990“
Advisor: Roger Chickering and John McNeill

Gummer, S. Chase
Modern European History
“The Politics of Sympathy: German Turcophilism and the Ottoman Empire in the Age of the Mass Media, 1871-1914“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Robarts, Andrew R.
Russia & Eastern European History
“A Plague on Both Houses?: Population Movements and the Spread of Disease across the Ottoman-Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1768-1830s“
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Rotramel, Seth A.
Modern European History
“International Health, European Reconciliation, and German Foreign Policy after the First World War, 1919-1927“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Vallve, Frederic
Latin American History
“The Impact of the Rubber Boom on the Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Lowlands, 1850-1920“
Advisor: Erick Langer

2000-2010

2009-2010

Brandow-Faller, Megan
Modern European History
“An Art of Their Own: Reinventing ‘Frauenkunst’ in the Female Academies and Artist Leagues of Late-Imperial and First-Republic Austria, 1900-1930“
Advisor: James Shedel

Fulwider, Benjamin
Latin American History
“Driving the Nation: Road Transportation and the Postrevolutionary Mexican State, 1925-1960“
Advisor: John Tutino

Mamedov, Mikail N.
Russia & Eastern European History
“Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Consciousness, 1801-1864”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Morrison, Christopher A.
US History
“A World of Empires: United States Rule in the Philippines, 1898-1913“
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

Palmer, Aaron J.
US History
“‘All Matters and Things Shall Center There’: A Study of Elite Political Power in South Carolina, 1763-1776“
Advisor: Alison Games

Sakul, Kahraman
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“An Ottoman Global Moment: War of Second Coalition in the Levant“
Advisor: Gabor Agoston

Sexton, Mary D.
US History
“The Wages of Principle and Power: Cyrus R. Vance and the Making of Foreign Policy in the Carter Administration“
Advisor: David Painter

Shlala, Elizabeth
Middle East & North African History
“Mediterranean Migration, Cosmopolitanism, and the Law: the Italian Community of Nineteenth-Century Alexandria, Egypt”

Wilkinson, Xenia V.
Latin Amerian History
“Tapping the Amazon for Victory: Brazil’s ‘Battle for Rubber’ of World War II“
Advisor: Erick Langer

2008-2009

Abul-Magd, Zeinab A.
Middle East & North African History
“Empire and Its Discontents: Modernity and Subaltern Revolt in Upper Egypt, 1700-1920“
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Byrnes, Melissa K.
Modern European History
“French Like Us? Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisian Banlieues, 1945-1975”
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald

Granados, Luis F.
Latin American History
“Cosmopolitan Indians and Mesoamerican Barrios in Bourbon Mexico City: Tribute, Community, Family and Work in 1800”
Advisor: John Tutino

Lauziere, Henri
Middle East & North African History
“The Evolution of the Salafiyya in the Twentieth Century through the Life and Thought of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali“
Advisor: John Ruedy

Otovo, Okezi T.
Latin American History
“To Form a Strong and Populous Nation: Race, Motherhood, and the State in republican Brazil“
Advisor: Bryan McCann

Rosu, Felicia
Russia & Eastern European History
“Contractual Majesty: Electoral Politics in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1571-1586“
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski

Swanson, Ryan
US History
“Jim Crow on Deck: Baseball during America’s Reconstruction”
Advisor: Michael Kazin

Wackerfuss, Andrew T.
Modern European History
“The Stormtrooper Family: How Sexuality, Spirituality, and Community Shaped the Hamburg SA“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Wyrtzen, Jonathan D.
Middle East & North African History
“Constructing Morocco: The Colonial Struggle to Define the Nation, 1912-1956“
Advisor: John Voll

2007-2008

Bulmus, Birsen
Middle East & North African History
“The Plague in the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1838“
Advisor: Kathryn Olesko

Elliott, Robin Gates
Russia & Eastern European History
“Saddling the Cow: The Collectivization of Agriculture in Poland, 1948-1956“
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski

Fedyashin, Anton A.
Russia & Eastern European History
“Auchtotonous and Practical Liberals: Vestnik Evropy and Modernization in Late Imperial Russia”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Lambert, Margo M.
US History
“Francis Daniel Pastorius: An American in Early Pennsylvania, 1683-1719/20“
Advisor: Alison Games

Lin, Catherine Kai-Ping
East & Central Asian History
“Nationalism in International Politics: The Republic of China’s Sports Foreign-Policy-Making and Diplomacy from 1972-1981“
Advisor: Carol A. Benedict

Ma, Haiyun
East & Central Asian History
“New Teachings and New Territories: Religion, Regulation, and Regions in Qing Gansu, 1700-1800“
Advisor: James Millward

Oyen, Meredith
US History
“Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration and U.S.-Chinese Relations, 1940-1965“
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

Sbaiti, Nadya J.
Middle East & North African History
“Lessons in History: Education and the Formation of National Society in Beirut, Lebanon, 1920s-1960s“
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Vann, Martin E.
Modern European History
“Encounters with Modernity: Jews, Music, and Vienna, 1880-1914“
Advisor: James Shedel

2006-2007

Ameskamp, Simone
Modern European History
“On Fire: Cremation in Germany, 1870s-1934“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Carter, Karen E.
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Creating Catholics: Catechism and Primary Education in Early Modern France“
Advisor: James Collins

Gruber, Isaiah J.
Russia & Eastern European History
“The Russian Orthodox Church and the Time of Troubles, 1598-1613“
Advisor: David Goldfrank

Keller, Tait S.
Modern European History
“Eternal Mountains–Eternal Germany: The Alpine Association and the Ideology of Alpinism, 1909-1939“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Scalenghe, Sara
Middle East & North African History
“Being Different: Intersexuality, Blindness, Deafness, and Madness in Ottoman Syria“
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Snyder, Sarah B.
US History
“The Helsinki Process, American Foreign Policy, and the End of the Cold War“
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

Stoneman, Mark R.
Modern European History
“Wilhelm Groener, Officering, and the Schlieffen Plan“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Uchimura, Kazuko
US History
“Miners without Unions: Life and Work in West Virginia’s New River Gorge Mining Towns, 1900-1933“
Advisor: Joseph McCartin

Zickafoose, Virginia Paige
Russia & Eastern European History
“Virtuous Crown, Virtuous Res Publica: The Henrician Constitutional Declaration of Poland-Lithuania Interregnum, 1572-1574“
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminksi

Zimmers, Stefan
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Wisdom, Kingship, and Royal Identity: An Examination of the Discourse on Kinship and Rulership in the Anglo-Saxon Era“
Advisor: Jo Ann Moran Cruz

2005-2006

Belli, Meriam
Middle East & North African History
“Remembrance of Nasserian Things Past: A Window to the History and Memory of the Nasser Years”
Advisors: John Voll and James Collins

Du Quenoy, Paul
Russia & Eastern European History
“Harlequin’s Leap: Performing Arts Culture and the Revolution of 1905 in Saint Petersburg”
Advisor: Richard Stites

Foley, Sean E.
Middle East & North African History
“Shaykh Khalid and the Naqshbandyya-Khalidiyya, 1776-2005”
Advisor: John Voll

Joseph, Sabrina E.
Middle East & North African History
“The Islamic Law on Tenancy and Sharecropping in Late Sixteenth- through Early Nineteenth-Century Syria”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Khachaturian, Lisa
Russia & Eastern European History
“Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial Russia: the Periodical Press and the Formation of a Modern Eastern Armenian Identity”
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Martin, Kevin W.
Middle East & North African History
“Enter the Future! Exemplars of Bourgeois Modernity in Post-World War II Syria”
Advisor: Judith Tucker

Merrow, Alexander C.
Modern European History
“The Catholic Historical Discipline in Imperial Germany, 1876-1901”
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Negroponte, Diana V.
US History
“Conflict Resolution at the End of the Cold War”
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

Norman, York A.
Middle East & North African History
“An Islamic City? Sarajevo’s Islamization and Economic Development, 1461-1604”
Advisor: John Voll

Roedell, Christopher A.
Modern Europe
“The Beasts That Perish: The Problem of Evil and the Contemplation of the Animal Kingdom in English Thought, c. 1660-1839”
Advisor: Kathryn Olesko

Shearer, Valerie J.
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“A Good Deed is Never Forgotten: Credit and Mutual Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France”
Advisor: James Collins

Vrtis, George H.
US Environmental History
“The Front Range of the Rocky Mountains: An Environmental History, 1700-1900”
Advisor: John McNeill

2004-2005

Andreassi, Anthony D.
US History
“‘Begun in Faith and Grit and God!’: The Sisters of the Divine Compassion, 1869-1954“
Advisor: Emmett Curran

Ari-Chachaki, Waskar T.
Latin American History
“Race and Subaltern Nationalism: The AMP Activist-Intellectuals in Bolivia, 1921-1964“
Advisor: Erick Langer

Brooke, George Mercer III
US History
“A Matter of Will: Sir Robert Thompson, Malaya, and the Failure of American Strategy in Vietnam“
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

De Bryun Kops, Henriette (Rahusen)
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Liquid Silver: The Wine and Brandy Trade between Rotterdam and Nantes in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century“
Advisor: James Collins

Rouland, Michael R.
Russian & Eastern European History
“Music and the Making of the Kazak Nation, 1920-1936“
Advisor: Richard Stites

2003-2004

Bryne, Daniel
US History
“Adrift on a Sea of Sand: The Search for United States Foreign Policy Toward the Decolonization of Algeria, 1942-1962“
Advisor: David Painter

Class, James N.
Russia & Eastern European History
“Russian Messianism in the Napoleonic Wars“
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov

Coventry, Michael T.
US History
“‘God, Country, Home and Mother’: Soldiers, Gender, and Nationalism in Great War America“
Advisor: Dorothy Brown

Drummond, Elizabeth A.
Modern European History
“Protecting Poznania: Germans, Poles, and the Conflict Over National Identity, 1886-1914“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Goldyn, Bartholomew H.
Russia & Eastern European History
“Cities for a New Poland: State Planning and Urban Control in the Building of Gdynia and Nowa Huta“
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski

Hill, Brendan L.
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Puritans in the Public Sphere: The Societies for Reformation of Manners and the Continuity of Calvinism in Early Eighteenth Century England“
Advisor: Jo Ann Moran Cruz

Ivey, Linda L.
US Environmental History
“Poetic Industrialism: Ethnicity, Environment and Commercial Horticulture in California’s Pajaro Valley, from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression“
Advisor: John McNeill

Linford, Rebecca R.
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“The Women of the Quarter Sessions: A Study of Women’s Involvement in Crime in Lancashire County, 1590-1606“
Advisor: Jo Ann Moran Cruz

Nichols-Busch, Tracy
Russia & Eastern European History
“A Class on Wheels: Avtodor and the Automobilization of the Soviet Union 1927-1935“
Advisor: Richard Stites

Schutts, Jeff Richard
Modern European History
“Coca-Colonization, ‘Refreshing Americanization, or Nazi Volksgetrank’: The History of Coca-Cola in Germany, 1921-1961“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Zejmis, Jakub
Russia & Eastern European History
“Belarus: Religion, Language and the Struggle for National Identity in a Soviet-Polish Borderland, 1921-1939“
Advisor: Richard Stites

2002-2003

Abi-Mershed, Osama
Middle East & North African History
“Domination by Consent: The Bureaux Arabes and Public Instruction in Colonial Algeria, 1831-1870“
Advisor: John Ruedy

Belmonte, Monica L.
US History
“Reining in Revolution: The United States Response to British Decolonization in Nigeria in an Era of Civil Rights, 1953-1960“
Advisor: Nancy B. Tucker

Brewer, M. Jonah
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh: French Consuls and Commercial Diplomacy in the Ottoman Levant, 1660-1699“
Advisor: James Collins

Caffrey, Patrick Joseph
East & Central Asian Environmental History
“The Forests of Northeast China, 1600-1960: Environment, Politics, and Society“
Advisor: Carol A. Benedict

Davenport, Lisa E.
US History
“Jazz, Race, and American Cultural Exchange: An International Study of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1954-1968“
Advisor: David Painter

DeLong-Bas, Natana J.
Middle East & North African History
“Muhammed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab: An Intellectual Biography“
Advisor: John Voll

Dorsey, Jennifer H.
US History
“Free People of Color in Rural Maryland, 1783-1832“
Advisor: Alison Games

Ludes, James M.
Modern European History
“A Consistency of Purpose: Political Warfare and the National Security Strategy of the Eisenhower Administration“
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald

Semerdjian, Elyse
Middle East & North African History
“Off the Straight Path: Gender, Public Morality, and Legal Administration in Ottoman Aleppo, Syria“
Advisor: John Voll

Zalar, Jeffrey T.
Modern European History
“Knowledge and Nationalism in Imperial Germany: A Cultural History of the Association of Saint Charles Borromeo, 1890-1914“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

2001-2002

Abugideiri, Hibba E.
Middle East & North African History
“Egyptian Women and the Science Question: Gender in the Making of Colonized Medicine, 1893-1929“
Advisor: John Voll

Alvaro-Velcamp, Theresa
Latin American History
“Peddling Identity: Arabs, Conflict, Community and the Mexican Nation in the Twentieth Century“
Advisor: John Tutino

Caplan, Gregory A.
“Wicked Sons, German Heroes: Jewish Soldiers, Veterans and Memories of World War I in Germany“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Duggan, Michael F.
US History
“Chauncey Wright and Forward-Looking Empiricism, a History of Ideas“
Advisor: Emmett Curran

Hamilton, Joanna
Early Modern & Late Medieval European History
“The Merchants of Vannes: 1670-1730“
Advisor: James Collins

Hoerle, Scott
Modern European History
“Hans Friedrich Blunck: Poetry, Politics, and Propaganda, 1888-1961“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Janik, Elizabeth Koch
Modern European History
“Music in Cold War Berlin: German Tradition and Allied Occupation, 1945-1951“
Advisor: Roger Chickering

Law, Randall
Russia & Eastern European History
“Humanity’s Workshops: Progressive Education in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1856-1927“
Advisor: Richard Stites

McGillivray, Gillian
Latin American History
“Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Power, and Politics in Cuba, 1868-1948“
Advisor: John Tutino

McGinn, John
US History
“Balancing Defense and Détente in NATO: The Harmel Framework and the 1968 Crisis in Czechoslovakia“
Advisor: David Painter

Sampsell, Catherine M.
U.S. History
“‘To Grab a Hunk of Lightning’: An Intellectual History of American Depression-Era Photography“
Advisor: Emmett Curran

2000-2001

Carafano, James J.
“‘Waltzing into the Cold War’: U.S. Army Military Operations in Occupied Austria“

Hill, Richard F.
“Pearl Harbor Month: Why the United States Went to War with Germany“

Jackson, Maurice
“‘Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Out Her Hands Unto God’: Anthony Benezet and the Atlantic Anti-Slavery Revolution“

Skinner, Barbara J.
“The Empress and the Heretics: Catherine II’s Challenge to the Uniate Church, 1762-1796“

Socolow, Michael J.
“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.
“Alliance for What?: U.S. Development Assistance in Chile During the 1960s“

Wall, Michael C.
“Chinese Reaction to the Portrayal of China and Chinese in American Motion Pictures prior to 1949“

1990-2000