Dissertations in Progress

Degree status First Name Last Name Thesis subject
ABD Nicole Denise Anderson African Cinema and Social Change in Sahelian Societies 1950-1980.
ABD Jin-Woo Bak “From Conglomeration to Hierarchy: The Transition of Rural Village Organization and Local Government From the 14th to the 16th Centuries Korea”
ABD Anita Bravo Commercial Legitimacy and the Corporation in Colonial Mexico City:  The Market on the Plaza Mayor, 1692-1824.
ABD Amanda Brian Bonds of Empire:  Growing Children in the Kaiserreich, 1871-1918.
ABD Grace Chan The Papal Patronage of Apocalyptic and Evangelical Spirituality in the High Middle Ages
ABD Valery Cholakov “Love of Nature, Love of Country.  Attitudes to Nature and Nature Protection in Bulgaria, 1839-1942”
ABD Nathan Clarke “Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea:  The Industrialization of Chimbote, Peru, 1940-2000.
ABD Will Cooley Class, Status, and Race in Chatham and Avalon Park:  The Middle Class on Chicago’s Southside, 1945-1983.
ABD Sharyl Corrado Sakhalin Island in the Russian Imperial Imagination, 1854-1920
ABD Ion Costinescu Romanians into Peasants:  Dimitrie Gusti and the Invention of Romanian National Culture, 1880-1956.
ABD Alex d’Erizans “The Strangeness of Home: Geman Search for Identity Admidst Trauma and Catastrophe in Hannover, 1945-47”
ABD Randall  Dills River Stories:  Currents of Culture, Environment, and Society on the Neva:  St. Petersburg, Russia, 1762-1861.
ABD Nicanor Dominguez “Mestizo Rebels Against the Kings in the Colonial Andes: The 1660:s Laicacota Rebellion (Puno, Peru)”
ABD Paul Droubie Playing the Nation:  Tokyo Olympics and the Reinvention of Japan’s National Identity
ABD Yongtao Du Local Roots, Translocal Pratice, and Paradoxical Identity:  Huizhov Merchants of Late Imperial China, 1500-1800.
ABD Jennifer Edwards “Communal Bodies:  Identity, Space and Gender in Worshipping the Saints of Medieval Poitiers”
ABD Ruth L. Fairbanks “Pregnant Workers: Women’s Jobs, Their bodies, Welfare & Equality from 1940-1995”
ABD Eileen Ford The Politics of Motherhood:  A Cultural History of Mexico, 1934-1960
ABD Erica Fraser Masculinities in the Motherland:  Gender and Political Culture in the Soviet Union during the Early Cold War, 1945-1964.
ABD Matthew Gambino A History of St. Elizabeths’ Hospital in Washington D.C.
ABD Irina Gigova “Writing the Nation:  The Politics of Intellectual Identity in Bulgaria, 1939-1953”
ABD Jennifer Guiliano “Native Americans on the Field:  Sports Mascots and the Consolidation of an American Empire, 1920-2005”
ABD Stephen Hageman “As Citizens, Homeowners, and Taxpayers:  Chicago’s White Ethnic Working Class Neighborhoods and Rachial Integration; 1955-1970”
ABD David Hageman “Deindustrialization and the Urban Landscape:  Race, Space, and Memory in Back of the Yards 1950-1980”
ABD Erma Hammons Propaganda for theWall?  TheCold War and East German Cinema 1949-1965
ABD Jason Hansen Race over Nation:  The Development of Transnational Aryan Identity
ABD Lane Harris Communication Matrix:  State-Making and Nation-Building in Modern Chinese Postal Services, 1896-1949
ABD Lauren Heckler The East India Company Army, 1740-1820.
ABD Sandra Lee Henderson U.S. Women’s Pan-American Activism
ABD Brian Hoffman “Making Private Parts Public:  The History of the American Nudist Movement, 1929-1963.
ABD Deborah Hughes Bringing the Empire Home:  Promoting Science in Late Imperial Britain.
ABD Abdulai Iddrisu “Contesting Islam”
ABD Brian Ingrassia “A Department of the Modern University: Discipline, Manliness, and Football in American Colleges, 1869-1929”
ABD George Israel Neo-Confucian Ethics, Ethnicity, and Violence:  The Campaigns of Wang Yang Ming in Southern China, 1516-1528.
ABD Matthew Jennings “This Country is Worth the Trouble of Going to War to Keep It:  Colonization, Communities, and Conflict int he Era of the Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars”
ABD Wudu Kassu “Church, Nation and State:  The Making of Modern Ethiopia, 1926-1991”
ABD Danielle Kinsey “Domestic Luxury:  Imperial Culture, Diamond Consumption and the Crown Jewels in Victorian Britain 1830-1897”
ABD Michelle Kleehammer Geographies of Health and Nation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture
ABD Jason Charles Kozlowski “Will Globalization Play in Peoria?  De-Industrialization, Nationalism, and Race, 1948-1998.
ABD Gregory Kveberg Moscow By Night:  A History of Culture, Music,and Identity in the Soviet Union and Russia, 1980-2003.
ABD Jeffrey Kyong-McClain Reaching the Borderlands:  Christian Mission, The Chinese Nation and Scientific Research in Republican Era Chengdu
ABD Thomas Mackaman The Rise and Fall of the New Unionism
ABD Stacy McDermott A Legal Conduit of Community Power?:  Grand and Petit Jury Service in Antebellum Illinois
ABD William Morris “Heroin in the City:  Drug Scenes in 1970’s Western Europe”
ABD James Nelligan “Reimagining Anthrax:  Constructing the Threat and Science of Biological Warfare at Fort Dietrick, 1943-1969”
ABD Scott  Neumann “Eisenhower and the Isolationists”
ABD Bryan Nicholson Crucibles of American Nationalism:  Organized Youth Politics in the United States, 1935-2005.
ABD Matthew  Norman “Revolution In The Republican Imagination: American  Poopular Perceptions of the 1848-49 Revolutions in Europe”
ABD Michael Pedrotty “Pilgrams and Privateers: Maritime Operations of the Crusades”
ABD Kate Meehan Pedrotty Marketing a Socialist Country:  Tourism and Yugoslav Identity, 1945-1989.
ABD Karen Elizabeth Phoenix Conducting School on our Ways:  The YWCA Americanization at Home and Abroad, 1885-1939.

ABD

 Melissa Rohde Contesting Native American Labor, Politics, & Identities through Tourism, 1880-1940
ABD Karen Rodriguez'g Civilizing Nature, Cultivating Identity: Colonial Landscapes and the Making of the Modern British Self 1860-1931.
ABD Michael Rosenow “Casualties in the U.S.’s Industrial Army:  Death and Dying Among Workers, 1877-1918”
ABD Reid Rozen “Hapsburg Foreign Policy and the European Balance of Power, 1720-1733”
ABD Melissa Salrin French Catholic Feminism, 1900-1940
ABD Robert Sanchez “The Assimilation and Marginalization of Afro-Peruvians, 1854-1940”
ABD Sean Scanlon “Mass Media: Modernity And The Americanization Of The Catholic Church 1890-1940”
ABD Cristofer Scarboro Ordering Hegemony:  The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Project
ABD Thilo Schimmel Alienation and Sovereignty:  Rationalization and the Formation of Male Socialist Worker Identities in the German Democratic Republic (1952-1992)
ABD Rebecca Schreiber  (formerly McNulty) “Education for Empire:  Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education”
ABD Michael J. Sherfy “Narrating Black Hawk:  Constructing and Reconstructing a Native American Historical Subject, 1832-2002”
ABD Anthony Joseph Sigismondi “Embracing Whiteness:  The Racial Transformation of Italian Americans in Chicago, 1930-1980”
ABD Aisha Sobh The Social Reproduction of Arab American Muslims 1958-Present.
ABD Gregory Stroud “Into the Present: A Cultural History of Time and Memory in Urban Russia, 1913-1923”
ABD Mary Stuart “The Public Library Movement in Russia, 1890-1928”
ABD Dmitry Tartakovsky Dniester Jews Between Russians, Romanians & Soviets 1881-1939:  Negotiations with Competing Modernities.
ABD Jason Tebbe Rituals of Memory:  The Creation of the Family in Germany, 1878-1914
ABD Christine Varga-Harris “Constructing Normalcy after Stalin:  Home, Citizenship, and Socialism in Leningrad, 1953-1964”
ABD James Warren Empire & Anxiety:  Anthority, Revolution and the Politics of Masculnity in Imperial Britain, 1828-1868.
ABD Joy Williams-Black Organizing for Change:  A gendered Analysis of Social Agitation, Protest Participation and Group Formation in Kenya:  1922-1963.
ABD Mihaela Wood/Gainusa National Heroes on the International Stage:  Gynmastics, the Olympics, and Romanian Nationalism, 1964-1996.
ABD James Wrzosek Triage, German Military Medicine, and the Racial State in World War II.
ABD Kerry Wynn “Embodied Interactions: Eastern Oklahoma as Colonial Context, 1880-1940”
ABD Brian Yates Invisible Actors:  The Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia (1888-1913)
ABD Karen Yuen Imagining John Chinaman:  Constructions of Chineseness & Imperial Politics in Southeast Asia, 1880-1940.