Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chairs |
Barnett, Teresa | United States | The Nineteenth-Century Relic: A Prehistory of the Historical Artifact | Joan Waugh |
Barnhart, Megan | United States | To Secure the Benefits of Science to the General Welfare: Scientists' Political Activism and the American Public during the Cold War, 1945-1960 | Jessica Wang |
Barzilai-Lumbroso, Ruth | Near East | Turkish Men, Ottoman Women: Popular Turkish Historians and the Writing of Ottoman Women's History | Nikki Keddie & Gabriel Piterberg |
Browne, Errol Tsekani | United States | Anna Julia Cooper and Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition: Race, Gender and Intellectual Tradition: Nation in the Making of a Modern Race Woman, 1892-1925 | Brenda Stevenson |
Casteel, Eric | Science | Entrepot and Backwater: A Cultural History of the Transfer of Medical Knowledge from Leiden to Edinburgh, 1692-1738 | Margaret Jacob |
Choi, Sung | Europe | From Colonial Citizen to Postcolonial Repatriate: Decolonization and the Integration of the French from Algeria, 1962 to the Present | Perry Anderson |
Cini, Carol Frances | United States | Making Women’s Rights Matter: Diverse Activists, California’s Commission on the Status of Woman, and the Legislative and Social Impact of a Movement, 1962-1976 | Ellen DuBois |
Cooper Owens, Deirdre | United States | ’Courageous Negro Servitors’ and Laboring Irish Bodies: An Examination of Antebellum-Era Modern American Gynecology | Brenda Stevenson |
Dees, Robert | Europe | Economics and Politics of Peasant Production in South Germany, 1350-1650 | David Sabean |
Demare, Brian James | China | Turning Bodies and Turning Minds: Land Reform and Chinese Political Culture, 1946-1952 | Philip Huang |
Dixon, John | United States | Cadwallader Colden and the Rise of Public Dissension: Politics, Science, and Print in Pre-Revolutionary New York | Ruth Bloch |
Eissenstat, Howard | Near East | The Limits of Imagination: Debating the Nation and Constructing the State in Early Turkish Nationalism | James Gelvin |
El-Shammaa, Magdy Mounir | Near East | Shadows of Contemporary Lives: Modernity, Culture, and National Identity in Egyptian Filmmaking | James Gelvin |
Gibbs, Jenna Marie | Europe | Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Rights, and Revolution in Transatlantic Theatricality (1760-1830) | Margaret Jacob |
Ginoza, Naomi | Japan | Dissonance to Affinity: An Ideological Analysis of Japanese Cinema in the 1930s | Fred Notehelfer |
Hawkins, Michael Gary | United States | Co-Producing the Postcolonial: U.S.-Philippine Cinematic Relations, 1946-1986 | Michael Salman |
Hui, Alexandra | Science | Hearing Sound as Music: Psychophysical Studies of Sound Sensation and the Music Culture of German, 1860-1910 | Norton Wise |
Lee, Anthony | Africa | The Establishment of the Baha'i Faith ion West Africa: The First Decade, 1952-1962 | Edward A. Alpers |
Le Normand, Brigitte | Europe | Raising the Phoenix: the Wax and Waning of Modernist Urban Planning in Belgrade, 1945-1972 | Prof. Ivan Berend |
Livie, Kyle | United States | Wide Open Spaces: Rural Communities and the Making of Metropolitan California, 1870-1940 | Janice Reiff |
Luddington, Peter | United States | Why the Good War Was Good: Franklin Roosevelt’s New World Order | Richard Weiss |
Maynard, Kelly | Europe | The Enemy Within: Hearing Wagner in Early Third Republican France | Debora Silverman |
Musil, Emily | Africa | La Marianne Noire: How Gender and Race in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World Reshaped the Debate about Human Rights | Edward A. Alpers & Ghislaine Lydon |
Paddison, Joshua Allen | United States | American Heathens: Religion, Race and Reconstruction in California | Stephen Aron |
Padwa, Howard | Europe | Narcotics vs. the Nation: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Use in Britain and France, 1821-1931 | Peter Baldwin |
Ortega, Jose Guadalupe | Latin America | The Cuban Sugar Complex in the Age of Revolution, 1789, 1844 | James Lockhart & Kevin Terraciano |
Ray, Michael S. | Latin America | The Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations: A New Methodology for Evaluating Measurements of Social and Economic Change in Latin American and Other World Regions | James Wilkie |
Rockwell, Nicholas Ryan | Ancient | The Boeotian Army: The Convergence of Warfare, Politics, Society, and Culture in the Classical Age of Greece | David Phillips |
Ryan, Dan | Europe | The Tsar's Faith: Conversion, Commitment, and Contestation in Livland Province, 1845-1870 | Stephen Frank |
Ryan, Joseph | Latin America | "Credit Where Credit is Due: Lending and Borrowing in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1900 | William Summerhill |
Schull, Kent | Near East | Penal Institutions, Nation-state Construction, and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908-1919 | James L. Gelvin |
2007-2008 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles