2016-2017 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles
| Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chairs |
| Beaudoen, Lee Andre | Near East | Mirrors of The World: Alexander Romances And The Fifteenth Century Ottoman Sultanate | Michael Morony |
| Brown, Erin Leith | United States | Urban Ambitions In An Agricultural Economy: Town-Building On The Great Plains, 1870-1929 | Janice Reiff |
| Cheung, Roanna Yuk-Heng | China | Embodying Modernity: Humor, Gender Politics, And Popular Culture In Republican Guangzhou | Andrea Goldman |
| Dayal, Subah | South Asia | Landscapes of Conquest: Patrons And Narratives In The Seventeenth-Century Deccan C. 1636 – 1687 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
| Foulk, Emi Joanne | Japan | The Jeweled Broom And The Dust of The World: Keichu, Motoori Norinaga, And Kokugaku In Early Modern Japan | Herman Ooms |
| Garcia, Ricardo Medina | Latin America | Nahuatl-Language Petitions And Letters From Northwestern New Spain, 1580-1694 | Kevin Terraciano |
| Herr, Joshua C | China | Fraught Collaboration: Diplomacy, Intermediaries, And Governance At The China-Vietnam Border, Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries | Richard Von Glahn |
| Holt, Randall Joseph | Europe | Reasoning With Savages: The Anthropological Imagination of The Scottish Enlightenment | Peter Reill |
| Karaman, Emine Rezzan | Near East | Gendered Derivatives of Identity Formation In Ottoman Kurdistan In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries | James Gelvin |
| Lustig, Jason B | Europe (Jewish) | “A Time To Gather”: A History of Jewish Archives In The Twentieth Century | David Myers |
| Shafir, Nir | Near East | The Road From Damascus: Circulation And The Redefinition of Islam In The Ottoman Empire, 1620-1720 | Nile Green & Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
| Takla, Nefertiti Mary | Near East | Murder In Alexandria: The Gender, Sexual And Class Politics of Criminality In Egypt, 1914 – 1921 | Nancy Gallagher & Nile Green |
| Wicks, Nilce Parreira | Latin America | Pathways To Freedom; Slavery And Emancipation In Nineteenth-Century Ouro Preto, Brazil | William Summerhill |
| Zhang, Meng | China | Timber Trade Along The Yangzi River: Market, Institutions, And Environment, 1750-1911 | R. Bin Wong |
