Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chairs |
Brimmer, Brandi | United States | All Her Rights and Privileges: African American Civil War Widows and the Politics of Widows' Pensions | Naomi Lamoreaux and Laura Edwards (Duke) |
Dauverd, Celine | Europe | Symbiotic Mediterranean Empire: The Genoese Trade Diaspora in Spanish Naples, 1460-1640 | Geoffrey Symcox |
Firpo, Christina | Southeast Asia | ’The Durability of the Empire:’ Race, Empire and ‘Abandoned’ Children in Colonial Vietnam 1870-1956 | Geoffrey Robinson and Thu Huong Nguyen-Vo |
Eyal, Hillel | Latin America | Colonizing the Colonizer: Spanish Immigrants and Creoles in Late Colonial Mexico City | José Moya |
Fagan, Patricia | Medieval | Pope Adrian IV, the Clear-Eyed Chief Executive, and His Papacy (1154-1159) | Teo Ruiz |
Galindo, Alfonso Jr. | Latin America | Why is Mexico Unstable? Corporativism and Rent-Seeking since 1929 | James Wilkie |
Gerardo, Mehera | United States | Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in WWII Los Angeles | Ellen DuBois |
Henry, Todd | Japan | Keijo: Japanese and Korean Constructions of Colonial Seoul and the History of its Lived Spaces, 1910-37 | Miriam Silverberg |
Hopper, Matthew | Africa | The African Presence in Arabia: Slavery, the World Economy, and the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia, 1840-1940 | Edward A. Alpers |
Hsu, Danny | China | Impeachments and Administrative Litigation in Qing and Republican Law | Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip Huang |
Kafka, Linus | United States | Cosmopolitan Connections: Henry Adams, His Circle, and the Global Gilded Age | Thomas Hines |
Kent, Max | Europe | The British Enlightenment and the Sprit of the Industrial Revolution: The Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce: 1754-1815 | Ivan Berend |
Lopez-Denis, Adrian | Latin America | Disease and Society in Colonial Cuba, 1790-1840 | José Moya |
Martos, Sofia | Latin America | The Balancing Act: Ethnicity, Commerce, and Politics Among Syrian and Lebanese Immigrants in Argentina, 1890-1955 | José Moya |
Pangburn, Kris | Europe | Personal Immortalities: German Perspectives on Life after Death, 1770-1820 | Peter Reill |
Poblete-Cross, JoAnna | United States | Intra-Colonial Lives: Puerto Rican and Filipino sugar plantation labor recruits to Hawai’i, 1900 to 1940 | Henry Yu |
RICE, Melinda | EU | A Fool and His Money: Culture and Financial Choice during the John Law Affair of 1720 | Prof. Kate Norberg |
ROLSTON, Arthur | US | Constituting Capitalism: Constitutional Revision in Kentucky and Ohio from the Jacksonian Age to the Progressive Era | Prof. Naomi Lamoreaux and Prof. Stephen Aron |
STERNFELD, Joshua | EU | Jazz Echoes: The Cultural and Sociopolitical Reception of Jazz in Weimar and Nazi Berlin, 1925-1945 | Prof. Debora Silverman |
SUH, So Young | SC | Korean Medicine between the Local and the Universal: 1600-1945 | Prof. Norton Wise and Prof. Charlotte Furth (USC) |
TODOROV, Boris | ME | The Bulgarians between the Two Romes: The Discourse of Power in Medieval Bulgaria | Prof. Patrick Geary |
UHLMANN, Jennifer | US | The Communist Civil Rights Movement: Legal Activism in the United States, 1919-1946 | Prof. Ellen DuBois |
VIEIRA-MARTINEZ, Carolyn | AF | Building Kimbundu: Historical Language Communities Reconsidered in Central Africa, c.1500-1750 | Prof. Edward A. Alpers and Prof. Christopher Ehret |
2006-2007 PhD Awardees and Dissertation Titles