Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chairs |
Akavia, Naamah | Science | Subjectivity in Motion: Movement Between Psyche and Soma in the Work of Hermann Rorschach | M. Norton Wise |
Carter, Tracey Lynn | Africa | The Historical Role of Griots in Gambian Politics | Edward Alpers & Andrew Apter |
Conedera, Sam Zeno | Medieval | Ecclesiastical Chivalry: The Military-Religious Life in Leon-Castile, 1150-1330 | Teofilo Ruiz |
Cowan, Benjamin | Latin America | The Secret History of Subversion: Sex, Modernity, and the Brazilian National Security State | L. Robin Derby |
Davis, Ann Marie Lynn | Japan | 'The Prostitute' in Modern Japan (1850-1912) | Sharon Traweek |
Eason, David Anthony | Japan | The Culture of Disputes in Early Modern Japan, 1550-1700 | Herman Ooms |
Friedman, Toba Malka | Europe | 'At the Block All Hero He Appear'd:' Noble Execution and Redemption in Tudor England | Muriel McClendon |
Gonzalez, Joan Gabriela | Europe | Opera as Propaganda: The Trajan-Napoleon Parallel in Le Triomphe de Trajan | Susan McClary & Kathryn Norberg |
Guillory, Sean Christopher | Europe | We Shall Refashion Life on Earth! The Political Culture of the Young Communist League,1918-1928 | J. Arch Getty |
Mokhberi, Susan Marie | Europe | France and Persia in the Age of Absolutism | Kathryn Norberg |
Nichols-Geerdes, Sasha | United States | Ancient Systems of Trade: Organizing Commerce in the Colonial North | Naomi Lamoreaux |
Palinic, Bo Kristin | Europe | Otto Preminger's Laura, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Angel Face: An Obsession with Freudian Psychology | Peter Baldwin & Allyson Field |
Perez, Erika | United States | Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality and Marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885. | Stephen Aron |
Prasad, Ritika | South Asia | Tracking Modernity: The Experience of Railways in Colonial India, 1853-1947 | Vinay Lal |
Rodriguez, Victor Jose | United States | The Practical Man: John Dewey, The Idea of America, and the Making of the Modern Mexican, 1898-1934 | L. Robin Derby & Jessica Wang |
Schoolman, Edward McCormick | Ancient | Civic Transformation of the Mediterranean City: Ravenna and Antioch, 300-800 CE | Claudia Rapp |
Sharma, Patrick Allan | United States | The Road to Structural Adjustment: Changing Norms of Development at Robert McNamara's World Bank, 1968-1981 | Ellen Dubois |
Silverman, Aaron | United States | A Dark Spectre: The Haitian Revolution and American Politics | Brenda Stevenson |
Takeuchi, Michiko | Japan | Pan-Pan Girls and GIs: The Japan-U.S. Military Prostitution System in Occupied Japan (1945-1952) | Sharon Traweek |
Tortorici, Zeb Joseph | Latin America | Contra Natura: Sin, Crime and Unnatural Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800 | Kevin Terraciano |
Turkyilmaz, Zeynep | Near East | Anxieties of Conversion: Missionaries, State and Heterodox Communities in the Late Ottoman Empire | James Gelvin |
Villella, Peter Buckingham | Latin America | The True Heirs to Anahuac: Native Nobles, Creole Patriots and the 'Natural Lords' of Colonial Mexico | Kevin Terraciano |
2009-2010 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles