Completed Dissertations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“

Brüggemann, Julia
“Through the Prism of Prostitution: State and Society in Hamburg, 1800-1914“

Burch, Susan
“Biding the Time: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II“

Cline, Ruth Harwood
“The Congregation of Tiron in the Twelfth Century: Foundation and Expansion“

Dale, Melissa S.
“With the Cut of a Knife: A Social History of Eunuchs During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and Republican Periods (1912-1949)“

Davis, Rebekah
“Development as a Tool of Diplomacy: The Domestic Models for U.S. Policy in the Jordan River Valley, 1939-1956“

Heineman, Paul
“In Defense of an Anachronism: The Cossack Question on the Don, 1861-1914“

Khalafallah, Haifaa
“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.
“Orthodoxy Versus Autocracy: The Orthodox Church and Clerical Political Dissent in Late Imperial Russia, 1905-1914“

Pujals, Sandra
“When Giants Walked the Earth: The Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles of the Soviet Union, 1921-1935“

Reifowitz, Ian
“Civic Nationalism in a Multiethnic Society: Conceptions of a Supraethnic Austrian Identity, 1848-1918“

Ritenour, Perry
“Chinese Banking and Foreign Trade (1949-1979) with a Focus on Guangdong“

Taylor, Karen
“Cher espoir de la nation sainte: The Maison Royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr“

Wiggers, Richard
“Creating International Humanitarian Law [IHL]: World War II, the Allied Occupations, and the Treaties that Followed“

Arpaia, Paul
“Luigi Federzoni and the Italian Nationalist Association: From a Cultural Conception of Italy to a Neo-Conservative Political Program“

Foehr, Sherry
“Modernization for the Honor of the Estate: Die Deutsche Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft, 1884-1914“

Healy, Róisín
“The Jesuit as Enemy: Anti-Jesuitism and the Protestant Bourgeoisie of Imperial Germany, 1890-1917“

Kawamura, S.J., Shinzo
“Making Christian Lay Communities During the ‘Christian Century’ in Japan — A Case Study of Takata District in Bungo“

Ke, Yan
“Scholars and Communications Network: Social and Intellectual Change in 17th-Century North China“

Jain, Asha
“Kumarapala Chaulukya (r. 1143-74) of Gujarat, India: A Convert to Jainism in Historical Perspective“

Vladimirov, Katya
“The World Of Imperial Provincial Bureaucracy, Russian Poland 1870-1904“

Powers, Daniel
“All Roads Lead to Rome: French and German Christian Democrats, the Nation-State and the Reconstruction of Europe, 1945-1950“

Qualls, Karl
“Raised From Ruins: Restoring Popular Allegiance Through City Planning in Sevastopol, 1944-1953“

Slater, Joseph
“Down By Law: Public Sector Unions and the State in America, World War I to World War II“

Veidlinger, Jeffrey
“Soviet Politics on the Yiddish Stage: Moscow’s State Yiddish Theater, 1919-1949“

Carpenter, Kim
“‘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
“Theodore White and the Remaking of Political Journalism“
 
Goedde, Celia J.
“The Artisan’s Approach to Modernity: The Political Culture of the German Artisans in Vienna and Augsburg“
 
Long, Loretta M.
“A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Reformation: The Life of Selina Campbell“
 
Pendzich, Barbara
“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
“Restoration and Conquest: The Taiwanese Elite under Nationalist Chinese Rule, 1945-1950“

Russell, Mona Lisa
“Creating the New Woman: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity in Egypt, 1863-1922“

Scholz, Norbert
“Foreign Education and Indigenous Reaction in Late Ottoman Lebanon: Students & Teachers of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut“
 
Tamari, Stephen
“Teaching and Learning in 18th-Century Damascus: Localism and Ottomanism in an Early Modern Arab Society“
 
Zehren, Maria
“The Dangling Scissors: Marriage, Family, and Work Among Italian Immigrant Women in the Clothing Industry in Baltimore, 1890-1920“