Dissertations in Progress
Alphabetical List: of Dissertators:
[A-E] [F-J] [K-O] [P-T] [U-Z]
Dissertations by Field:
[
Early Modern Europe] [
East and Central Asia] [
Latin America] [
Middle East and North Africa] [
Modern Europe] [
Russia and Eastern Europe] [
Transregional] [
United States]
Dissertators A-E
Abul-Magd, Zeinab
"One Hundred Years of Solitude: Genealogies of Modernity and Underdevelopment in Upper Egypt, 1800s"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Bowman, Matthew Burton
"The Collapse of the Evangelical Consensus: Remaking Christianity in New York City, 1880-1950"
Advisor: Michael Kazin
Bulmus, Birsen
"The Plague in the Ottoman Empire"
Advisor: Kathryn Olesko
Byrnes, Melissa
"French Like Us? Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisien Banlieues, 1945-1975"
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald
Campion, Corey
"Living with the Enemy: A Comparison of French and American Cultural Occupation Policies in Germany, 1945-1955"
Advisor: Roger Chickering
Coral, Emilio
"The Mexican Middle-Class between Tradition, Modernity, and State Patronage, 1940-1970"
Advisor: John Tutino
Elliott, Robin Gates
"Land Reform and Collectivization of Agriculture in Poland, 1944-1956"
Advisor: Andrezj Kaminski
Engelke, Peter
"Resisting the Automobile: Popular Opposition to the Auto-oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1985"
Advisor: Roger Chickering, John McNeill
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Dissertators F-J
Fedyashin, Anton
"Russian Liberal Consciousness in the Cauldron of the Witte Reforms, 1892-1903"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Fulwider, Benjamin
"Driving the Nation: Roadbuilding and the Construction of a Highway Transportation Network in Mexico, 1930-1960"
Advisor: John Tutino
Granados, Luis
"Adobes in Flux, Entrenched Tributes: Explorations on the Barrios of Late Bourbon Mexico City"
Advisor: John Tutino
Guenther, Rita
"Lived Liberalism: Local Expressions of Political Beliefs in Russia, 1860-1914"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Gummer, Steven Chase
"Imperial Dreams and Religious Fury: Germany and Violence in the Ottoman Balkans in the Age of Nationalism, 1875-1914"
Advisor: Roger Chickering
Harrison, Jennifer Pish
"The Boston Teachers Union and the Desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, 1963-1981"
Advisor: Joseph McCartin
Johnston, Shona
"The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century"
Advisor: Alison Games
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Dissertators K-O
Kolodziej, Thomas
"Polish Czar: Wladyslaw Vasa's Expedition to Muscovy, 1617-19"
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski
Krache-Morris, Evelyn
"Simple Tools of Victory: The Kennedy Administration's Use of Chemicals in Viet Nam"
Advisor: David Painter
Lambert, Margo
"The Intellectual Life of an Early American German: Francis Daniel Pastorius"
Advisor: Alison Games
Lauziere, Henri
"Prelude to Islamic Globalization: The Evolution of the Slafiyaa through the Life and Thought of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali (d. 1987)"
Advisor: John Voll
Lin, Catherine Kai-Pin
"Nationalism versus International Politics: Taiwan's Foreign Relations since the 1970s"
Advisor: Carol Benedict
McKenna, Catherine
"Dissent and the Enlightened Commonwealth: The Discourse about Toleration in Saxon-era Poland, 1717-1764"
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski
Mamedov, Mikail
"Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Conscious, 1801-64"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Morosini-Domminick, Mirjana
"A Tormented Land: The Italian Exodus from Istria after World War II"
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald
Morrison, Christopher
"Embracing a World of Empires: The American-Philippine Colonial State and Its Interactions with the Empires of Other Nations, 1898-1920"
Advisor:
Nakhoul, Marguerite
"Constructing Palestinian Masculinity in the National Context, 1948-87"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Neiderberger, Judith
"Meddler or Honest Broker? The United States and Civil War in Sudan, 1956-2005"
Advisor: David Painter
Otovo, Okezi
"Medicine, Maternity, and Modernization: Theories of Progress and Child-Rearing Institutions in Brazil, 1870-1940"
Advisor: Bryan McCann
Oyen, Meredith
"Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration in U.S.-Chinese Relations, 1943-65"
Advisor: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
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Dissertators P-T
Palmer, Aaron
"Justice in the Colonial South Carolinian Low Country on the Eve of the American Revolution, 1763-76"
Advisor: Alison Games
Powers, Kevin
"Freedom from Want: An Environmental History of Depression- and War-Era America"
Advisor: Michael Kazin, John McNeill
Robarts, Andrew
"Migrants and Microbes: Population Movements and the Spread of Disease in the Black Sea Region in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Rosu, Felicia
"How to Be a King in a Republic of Nobles: The Polish Reign of Stefan Bathory, 1576-86"
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski
Sakul, Kahraman
"The Russo-Ottoman Alliance of 1799-1806"
Advisor: Gabor Agoston
Sbaiti, Nadya
"Schooling, Gender, and National Society in Beirut, Lebanon, 1929-66"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Shlala, Elizabeth
"A Mediterranean Encounter: The Italian Community in Modern Alexandria, Egypt, 1802-1952"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Skibinski, Stephen
"The Geographic Origins of the West Yorkshire Entry-Level Clergy, 1480-1500"
Advisor: Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz
Swanson, Ryan
"Jim Crow on Deck: Baseball During America's Reconstruction"
Advisor: Michael Kazin
Szczepaniak, Tracy
"The History of the Dhahran Airbase: Security Assistance and the Making of American Foreign Policy with Saudi Arabia, 1946-1996"
Advisor: David Painter
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Dissertators V-Z
Vallejo, Veronica
"Atlantic Medicine in 18th-Century New Spain"
Advisor: John Tutino
Vallve, Frederic
"The Impact of the Rubber Boom on the Bolivian Lowlands, 1850-1920"
Advisor: Erick Langer
Vann, Martin
"Encounter with Modernity: Jewish Musicians in Fin-de-seicle Vienna"
Advisor: James Shedel
Wackerfuss, Andrew
"Sexuality, Spirituality, and Everyday Life of the Hamburg Stormtroopers"
Advisor: Roger Chickering
Wang, Tao
"Behind Confrontation and Détente: Sino-American Relations, 1953-1958"
Advisor: Nancy Tucker
Wilkinson, Xenia
"Rubber Soldiers and Global Power: The World War II Amazon Rubber Boom"
Advisor: Erick Langer
Williams, Andrea Wigand
"Mount Ararat: Culture, Ideology, and Environment on the Eastern Anatolian Frontier"
Advisor: Gabor Agoston
Wiley, Christopher
"Textbook Diplomacy: East German Student Exchange & the DDr's Quest for Global Legitimacy, 1951-1989"
Advisor:
Wyrtzen, Jonathan
"Contesting, Constructing, and Mobilizing the Nation in Morroco (1930-1956)"
Advisor: John Voll
Zakarija, Anna
"The Interaction Between the Majority Protestant and the Minority Catholic Communities in Colonial Maryland, 1715-65"
Advisor: R. Emmett Curran
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Early Modern Europe
Kolodziej, Thomas
"Polish Czar: Wladyslaw Vasa's Expedition to Muscovy, 1617-19"
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski
McKenna, Catherine
"Dissent and the Enlightened Commonwealth: The Discourse about Toleration in Saxon-era Poland, 1717-1764"
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski
Rosu, Felicia
"How to Be a King in a Republic of Nobles: The Polish Reign of Stefan Bathory, 1576-86"
Advisor: Andrzej Kaminski
Sakul, Kahraman
"The Russo-Ottoman Alliance of 1799-1806"
Advisor: Gabor Agoston
Skibinski, Stephen
"The Geographic Origins of the West Yorkshire Entry-Level Clergy, 1480-1500"
Advisor: Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz
Williams, Andrea Wigand
"Mount Ararat: Culture, Ideology, and Environment on the Eastern Anatolian Frontier"
Advisor: Gabor Agoston
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top]
East and Central Asia
Lin, Catherine Kai-Pin
"Nationalism versus International Politics: Taiwan's Foreign Relations since the 1970s"
Advisor: Carol Benedict
Ma, Haiyun
"'New Teachings' and New Territories: Religion, Population, and Administration in Qing Gansu, 1700-1800"
Advisor: James Millward
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Latin America
Coral, Emilio
"The Mexican Middle-Class between Tradition, Modernity, and State Patronage, 1940-1970"
Advisor: John Tutino
Fulwider, Benjamin
"Driving the Nation: Roadbuilding and the Construction of a Highway Transportation Network in Mexico, 1930-1960"
Advisor: John Tutino
Granados, Luis
"Adobes in Flux, Entrenched Tributes: Explorations on the Barrios of Late Bourbon Mexico City"
Advisor: John Tutino
Otovo, Okezi
"Medicine, Maternity, and Modernization: Theories of Progress and Child-Rearing Institutions in Brazil, 1870-1940"
Advisor: Bryan McCann
Vallejo, Veronica
"Atlantic Medicine in 18th-Century New Spain"
Advisor: John Tutino
Vallve, Frederic
"The Impact of the Rubber Boom on the Bolivian Lowlands, 1850-1920"
Advisor: Erick Langer
Wilkinson, Xenia
"Rubber Soldiers and Global Power: The World War II Amazon Rubber Boom"
Advisor: Erick Langer
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Middle East and North Africa
Abul-Magd, Zeinab
"One Hundred Years of Solitude: Genealogies of Modernity and Underdevelopment in Upper Egypt, 1800s"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Lauziere, Henri
"Prelude to Islamic Globalization: The Evolution of the Slafiyaa through the Life and Thought of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali (d. 1987)"
Advisor: John Voll
Nakhoul, Marguerite
"Constructing Palestinian Masculinity in the National Context, 1948-87"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Sbaiti, Nadya
"Schooling, Gender, and National Society in Beirut, Lebanon, 1929-66"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Shlala, Elizabeth
"A Mediterranean Encounter: The Italian Community in Modern Alexandria, Egypt, 1802-1952"
Advisor: Judith Tucker
Wyrtzen, Jonathan
"Contesting, Constructing, and Mobilizing the Nation in Morroco (1930-1956)"
Advisor: John Voll
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Modern Europe
Bulmus, Birsen
"The Plague in the Ottoman Empire"
Advisor: Kathryn Olesko
Byrnes, Melissa
"French Like Us? Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisien Banlieues, 1945-1975"
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald
Campion, Corey
"Living with the Enemy: A Comparison of French and American Cultural Occupation Policies in Germany, 1945-1955"
Advisor: Roger Chickering
Elliott, Robin Gates
"Land Reform and Collectivization of Agriculture in Poland, 1944-1956"
Advisor: Andrezj Kaminski
Engelke, Peter
"Resisting the Automobile: Popular Opposition to the Auto-oriented City in West Germany, 1960-1985"
Advisor: Roger Chickering, John McNeill
Gummer, Steven Chase
"Imperial Dreams and Religious Fury: Germany and Violence in the Ottoman Balkans in the Age of Nationalism, 1875-1914"
Advisor: Roger Chickering
Morosini-Domminick, Mirjana
"A Tormented Land: The Italian Exodus from Istria after World War II"
Advisor: Aviel Roshwald
Vann, Martin
"Encounter with Modernity: Jewish Musicians in Fin-de-seicle Vienna"
Advisor: James Shedel
Wackerfuss, Andrew
"Sexuality, Spirituality, and Everyday Life of the Hamburg Stormtroopers"
Advisor: Roger Chickering
Wiley, Christopher
"Textbook Diplomacy: East German Student Exchange & the DDr's Quest for Global Legitimacy, 1951-1989"
Advisor:
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Russia and Eastern Europe
Fedyashin, Anton
"Russian Liberal Consciousness in the Cauldron of the Witte Reforms, 1892-1903"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Mamedov, Mikail
"Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Conscious, 1801-64"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Guenther, Rita
"Lived Liberalism: Local Expressions of Political Beliefs in Russia, 1860-1914"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Robarts, Andrew
"Migrants and Microbes: Population Movements and the Spread of Disease in the Black Sea Region in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Sakul, Kahraman
"The Russo-Ottoman Alliance of 1799-1806"
Advisor: Gabor Agoston
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United States
Bowman, Matthew Burton
"The Collapse of the Evangelical Consensus: Remaking Christianity in New York City, 1880-1950"
Advisor: Michael Kazin
Harrison, Jennifer Pish
"The Boston Teachers Union and the Desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, 1963-1981"
Advisor: Joseph McCartin
Johnston, Shona
"The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century"
Advisor: Alison Games
Krache-Morris, Evelyn
"Simple Tools of Victory: The Kennedy Administration's Use of Chemicals in Viet Nam"
Advisor: David Painter
Lambert, Margo
"The Intellectual Life of an Early American German: Francis Daniel Pastorius"
Advisor: Alison Games
Morrison, Christopher
"Embracing a World of Empires: The American-Philippine Colonial State and Its Interactions with the Empires of Other Nations, 1898-1920"
Advisor:
Neiderberger, Judith
"Meddler or Honest Broker? The United States and Civil War in Sudan, 1956-2005"
Advisor: David Painter
Oyen, Meredith
"Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration in U.S.-Chinese Relations, 1943-65"
Advisor: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Palmer, Aaron
"Justice in the Colonial South Carolinian Low Country on the Eve of the American Revolution, 1763-76"
Advisor: Alison Games
Powers, Kevin
"Freedom from Want: An Environmental History of Depression- and War-Era America"
Advisor: Michael Kazin, John McNeill
Swanson, Ryan
"Jim Crow on Deck: Baseball During America's Reconstruction"
Advisor: Michael Kazin
Szczepaniak, Tracy
"The History of the Dhahran Airbase: Security Assistance and the Making of American Foreign Policy with Saudi Arabia, 1946-1996"
Advisor: David Painter
Wang, Tao
"Behind Confrontation and Détente: Sino-American Relations, 1953-1958"
Advisor: Nancy Tucker
Zakarija, Anna
"The Interaction Between the Majority Protestant and the Minority Catholic Communities in Colonial Maryland, 1715-65"
Advisor: R. Emmett Curran
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Updated July 2007
