Dissertations

2011-12 Department of History Dissertation-in-Progress

Dissertator:Adler, Jessica
Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice
Dissertation title:"The Rise of the American Military Medical Complex: Walter Reed General Hospital and U.S. Army Health Care, 1917-21"

Dissertator:Alden, Jenna
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title:"'Behind the Executive Mask': T-groups and the Rise of Corporate Sensitivity Training, 1947-73"

Dissertator:Alexander, Amanda
Advisor: Mann, Gregory
Dissertation title:"Property and Democracy in Transition: Land and the Politics of Redistribution in South Africa"

Dissertator: Anziska, Seth

Advisor: Khalidi, Rashid

Dissertation title: Cold War Revival in the Middle East and the Remaking of American Foreign Policy, 1978-1988

Dissertator:Appel, Jacob
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title:"Experts on Trial: Medical Evidence and Moral Culpability in New York City's Sensational Criminal Prosecutions, 1902-12"

Dissertator: Arena, Carolyn

Advisor: Brown, Christopher

Dissertation title: The Invisible Hands: Indian Labor, Slave Trading, and Mercantilism in the 17th century Caribbean

Dissertator:Asen, Daniel
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title:"Claiming Bodies for Modernity: Forensic Medicine and Dead Bodies in late Qing and Republican Beijing"

Dissertator:Baggett, Gregory
Advisor: Fields, Barbara J.
Dissertation title:"Slavery and Emancipation 10 Miles Square: The District of Columbia before Federal Rule, 1846-71"

Dissertator:Barker, Hannah
Advisor: Kosto, Adam
Dissertation title:"Egyptian and Italian Merchants in the Black Sea Slave Trade, 1260–1453"

Dissertator:Baurkot, Samuel
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title:"Kurt Birrenbach and the Evolution of German Atlanticism, 1945-76"

Dissertator:Berkowitz, Michael
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title:"Time Off: Vacations, Tourism, and the Business of Leisure, 1900-45"

Dissertator:Bertschi, Curtis
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title:"Representing the Automobile: Renault, the State, and the Promotion of Motorization in France, 1945-75"

Dissertator: Borja, Melissa

Advisor: Ngai, Mae

Dissertation title: "To Follow the New Rule or Way": Hmong Refugee Resettlement and Religious Change"

Dissertator:Bsheer, Rosie
Advisor: Khalidi, Rashid
Dissertation title:"Making History: Archives, Museums, and History Textbooks in Saudi Arabia"

Dissertator:Castro, Constanza
Advisor: Piccato, Pablo
Dissertation title:"'As a Citizen of this City': The Popular Political Culture of Urbanization, Bogotá, 1880-1910"

Dissertator:Chamedes, Giuliana
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title:"From Militant Catholicism to the Cold War Consensus: Catholic Action and the Politicization of Religion in Italy, 1929-50"

Dissertator:Chang, Yi-Hsiang
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title:"The Formation of Legal Modernity: China’s Professional Judges in the Period of Judicial Modernization, 1907–49"

Dissertator:Chappel, James
Advisor: Pedersen, Susan
Dissertation title:"The Lure of Orthodoxy: Radical Catholicism in Interwar Europe"

Dissertator:Chatani, Sayaka
Advisor: Armstrong, Charles K.
Dissertation title:"Nation of Youth: The Mobilization of Rural Youth in Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, and Korea, 1915–50"

Dissertator: Cherian, Divya

Advisor: Dirks, Nicholas

Dissertation title: Caste and the Politics of Locality: Statecraft, Religion and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Marwar, c. 1500-1818

Dissertator:Chhabria, Sheetal

Advisor:McKeown, Adam

Dissertation title:Making the Modern Slum & Urbanizing Poverty in Western India, 1870-1918

Dissertator:Cho, Jun Hee
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title:"Court in the Market: Mechelen during the Reign of Charles the Bold, 1467-77"

Dissertator:Coleman, William
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title:"Between Empires: Power in Khams History, 1860-1949"

Dissertator:County, Brandon
Advisor: Mann, Gregory
Dissertation title:"Cheminots into Citizens: Labor, Migration, and Political Imagination along the Dakar-Niger Railroad, 1923–74"

Dissertator:Craig, Christopher
Advisor: Gluck, Carol N.
Dissertation title:"The Middlemen of Modernity: Local Notables and Rural Development, 1890-1930"

Dissertator: Dee-Das, Joanna

Advisor: Foner, Eric

Dissertation title: Staging the African Diaspora: The Aesthetics and Politics of Katherine Dunham

Dissertator:Deimling, George
Advisor: Billows, Richard A.
Dissertation title:"The Empire of Mithridates Eupator: A Study of the Pontic State and Its Resources, 132-62 B.C.E."

Dissertator: del Palacio-Langer, Julia

Advisor: Lomnitz, Claudio

Dissertation title: Oil Expropriation, National Property and Political Culture in Mexico, 1932-1958
 

Dissertator:Dos Santos, George
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title:"'We Understand the Negroes!' Colonial Theory and the Crusading Myth in the Portuguese New State, 1926-74"

Dissertator:Edey-Rhodes, Joanne
Advisor: Wright, Marcia
Dissertation title:"African American Interest in Black South Africa, 1898-1964"

Dissertator:Eichler, Jeremy
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title:"Exile beneath the Palms: Modernism and Music in Southern California, 1933-62"

Dissertator:Etienne-Cummings, Kevin
Advisor: Diouf, Mamadou
Dissertation title:"Claims for Imperial Citizenship in the British Empire, with the Seychelles as a Case Study"

Dissertator:Forcey, Charles
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title:"Liberalism at the Gates of Hell: The Search for a New Public Philosophy after World War II"

Dissertator:Friedman, Michal
Advisor: Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim
Dissertation title:"Recovering 'Jewish Spain': Sephardic Studies in the Spanish Political and Cultural Landscape, 1845-1992"

Dissertator: Gabel, Isabel

Advisor: Moyn, Samuel

Dissertation title: Biological Epistemology and the Emergence of Biopolitical Thinking: Uexkull and Canguilhem in French and German Thought

Dissertator:Geduld, Victoria
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"The Strange Commodity of Cultural Exchange: Martha Graham and Modern Dance as a Cold War Weapon, 1955-79"

Dissertator:Ghosh, Arunabh
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title:"Making It Count: Demography and Statistical Science in the Early People’s Republic of China"

Dissertator:Gubara, Dahlia
Advisor: Bulliet, Richard W.
Dissertation title:"Trajectories of Learning and The Everyday Life of Ideas: Al-Azhar in the 18th Century"

Dissertator:Hadbavny, Lee
Advisor: Kaye, Joel
Dissertation title:"Warriors, Healers, and Pastors: Hospitallers and Templars in England and Northern France, c. 1095-c. 1291"

Dissertator:Hamer, Deborah
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title:"Marriage Policies and Marriage Practices in the Dutch Colonies of the 17th Century"

Dissertator:Harper, Tobias
Advisor: Pedersen, Susan
Dissertation title:"Orders of Merit? The Expansion of the British Honours System since 1917"

Dissertator:Heil, Michael
Advisor: Kosto, Adam
Dissertation title:"Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Italy and Burgundy, c. 715-c. 1050"

Dissertator:Hinton, Elizabeth
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1965-88"

Dissertator:Jachiet, Alain
Advisor: Somerville, Robert
Dissertation title:"Crusading Policy in the Age of Innocent III, 1198-1216"

Dissertator: Jackson, Justin

Advisor: Foner, Eric

Dissertation title: The Work of Empire: Military Labor in the Making of U.S. Expansion, 1890-1934

Dissertator: Jones, Thai

Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth

Dissertation title: Progressives in Power

Dissertator:Kaicker, Abhishek
Advisor: Dirks, Nicholas
Dissertation title:"Urban Politics and Culture in the Late Mughal Empire"

Dissertator:Kaye, Alexander
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title:"The Legal Philosophy of Religious Zionism, 1937–67"

Dissertator: Kim, Hayang

Advisor: Gluck, Carol

Dissertation title: "Making Sense: The Sciences of Mind in Modern Japan, 1870-1930”

Dissertator: Kirshen, Sarah

Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice

Dissertation title: Family Values: Marriage, Statistics and the State, 1839-1909

Dissertator:Klein, Frederick
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title:"Rabbis and Maskilim: The Galician Haskalah as an Alternative Religious Ideology, 1800-65"

Dissertator:Koblenz, Lawrence
Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth T.
Dissertation title:"The Making of Modern Cancer: A Medical, Institutional, and Social History, 1874-1920"

Dissertator: Lambe, Ariel Mae

Advisor: Piccato, Pablo

Dissertation title: “Feverish Hope: Transitional Organizing by the Cuban Left and the Defense of the Spanish Republic, 1929-1939”

Dissertator:Liu, Andrew
Advisor: McKeown, Adam
Dissertation title:"Tea and Labor: The Comodification of Agrarian Labor in South China and Northeast India, 1839–1911"

Dissertator: Low, Christopher

Advisor: Bulliet, Richard

Dissertation title: Pilgrams, Plagues, and Pan-Islam: Anglo-Ottoman Rivalry in the Muslim Holy Land

Dissertator:Lowder, Leon
Advisor: Abrams, Bradley
Dissertation title:"The Socialist Lifestyle: The Bulgarian Middle Class in the Age of Zhivkov, 1956-89"

Dissertator: Lyons, Benjamin

Advisor: Haefeli, Evan

Dissertation title: John Jay and the Law of Nations: In Defense of American Independence, 1760-1795

Dissertator: MacNamara, Lawrence

Advisor: Connelly, Matthew

Dissertation title: Birth Control and the Good Life in America, 1900-1940

Dissertator:Mahla, Martin
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title:"Nationalizing Religion: Religious Zionism in Poland, Germany, and Palestine, 1914–48"

Dissertator:Maksymiuk, Dan
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title:"International Intellectual Cooperation: The Cultural Politics of the League of Nations, 1918-39"

Dissertator:Manasek, Jared
Advisor: Mazower, Mark
Dissertation title:"Empires, States, and the Politics of Refugee Aid, 1875-78: A Balkan Turning Point?"

Dissertator: Mann-Tweel, Tamara

Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth

Dissertation title: Honor Thy Father and Mother: Old Age in a New America, 1945-1965

Dissertator:Mays, Susan
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title:"Rapid Advance: A History of China’s Semiconductor Industry, 1970–2005"

Dissertator:Meghelli, Samir
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"Between New York and Paris: Hip Hop and the Politics of Nation, Culture, and Citizenship since 1968"

Dissertator: Miller, Owen

Advisor: Bulliet, Richard

Dissertation title: Refugees and the Struggle over Land in the Ottoman Adana, Aydin and Ma’muretu’l-aziz, 1857-1915

Dissertator:Monroe, William
Advisor: Somerville, Robert
Dissertation title:"The Trial and Rehabilitation of Pope Formosus"

Dissertator: Murphey, Oliver

Advisor: Brinkley, Alan

Dissertation title: A bond that will permanently endure-the Eisenhower administration, the Bolivian revolution and Latin American leftist nationalism

Dissertator:Murphy, Kevin
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title:"The Legacy of Reform: Progressive Persistence in National Politics, 1919-28"

Dissertator: Neuss, Michael

Advisor: Jones, Matthew

Dissertation title: Balancing Blood, Balancing Books: Medicine, Commerce, and the Royal Court in Seventeenth-Century England

Dissertator: Oda, Yuki

Advisor: Ngai, Mae

Dissertation title: Family Unity in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1921-1976

Dissertator:Offner, Amy
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"Latin American Crossings: Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-80"

Dissertator:O'Mahony-Adams, Pandora
Advisor: Mann, Gregory
Dissertation title:"The African Circle and the African Personality: Egypt and the Emergence of a Continental Politics, 1952–70"

Dissertator: Orejel, Keith

Advisor: Brinkley, Alan

Dissertation title: Constructing the Countryside: Political Economy of Modern Rural America, 1945-2000

Dissertator:Osborne, Nicholas
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"The Little Capitalists: Savings Institutions in U.S. History, 1816-1941"

Dissertator: Pilkington, Nathan

Advisor: Harris, William

Dissertation title: The Development of Carthaginian Imperialism: 480-264 BCE

Dissertator:Popescu, Adina
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title:"The Grain Trade during World War I: Wartime Regulation and the Concentration of Agricultural Capital"

Dissertator:Priyadarshini, Meha
Advisor: McKeown, Adam
Dissertation title:"Mexican Chocolate in Chinese Teacups: Crafting Objects and Tastes in the Early Modern Pacific World"

Dissertator:Raskin, Sarah
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title:"False Oaths: The Silent Alliance between the Church and Heretics in England, 1382-1558"

Dissertator:Robeson, Elizabeth Lynn
Advisor: Fields, Barbara J.
Dissertation title:"Death in the Family: The Lowman Lynchings of 1926"

Dissertator:Rubin, Ariel
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title:"Low-Level Credit Networks in the 16th-Century Netherlands"

Dissertator:Ryan, Eileen
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title:"The Italian Reconquest of Libya and Relations with Sanusiya, 1916-31"

Dissertator: Spooner, Matthew

Advisor: Foner, Eric

Dissertation title: Origins of the Old South: The Reconstruction of Southern Slavery, 1778-1808

Dissertator:Stahl, Dale
Advisor: Khalidi, Rashid
Dissertation title:"The Two Rivers: Water, Development, and Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, 1914–75"

Dissertator: Stevens, Simon

Advisor: Connelly, Matthew

Dissertation title: International Pressure and the End of Apartheid, 1959-1994

Dissertator:Tammi, Jennifer
Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice
Dissertation title:"Minding Our Own Business: Community, Consumers, and Cooperation in the 20th Century"

Dissertator: Taylor, Simon

Advisor: Moyn, Samuel

Dissertation title: The Anxiety of Unreason: The Making of Existential Analysis, 1850-1980

Dissertator:Tezcanli, Merve
Advisor: Philliou, Christine
Dissertation title:"Subjecthood and Citizenship across Borders: Hadhramis Arabs and ‘Asiatic Ottomans’ of Dutch Indonesia"

Dissertator:Tian, Huan
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title:"Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjiang"

Dissertator:Toler, Herbert
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"Religion and Reconstruction in Washington, D.C., 1862-78"

Dissertator:Tvrdy, Linda
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina’s Legal Order, 1863-80"

Dissertator:Umezaki, Toru
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title:"Revolution as the Measure of Mankind: New York in the Age of National Liberation Movements"

Dissertator:von Ostenfeld, Kira
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title:"Official Historiography, Political Legitimacy, and Royal Authority in Spain under Phillip II, 1560-99"

Dissertator:Wachtel, David
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title:"Alexander Marx and the Formation of the Great American Libraries of Judaica: 1903-53"

Dissertator:Webel, Mari
Advisor: Stepan, Nancy Leys
Dissertation title:"Locating the Laboratory: Tropical Medicine, German Imperialism, and Robert Koch_s Sleeping Sickness Research in the Lake Victoria Region, 1898-1914"

Dissertator:Weiner, Benno
Advisor: Tuttle, Gray
Dissertation title:"The Chinese Cultural Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: Fragmentation, Integration, and State Building on the Margins of Maoist China"

Dissertator: Wheatley, Natasha

Advisor: Moyn, Samuel

Dissertation title: Historic Precedents, Historic Rights: Time, Territory, and International Order, 1848-1948

Dissertator: Woodsworth, Michael

Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth

Dissertation title: "The Hidden War: A Reassessment of Antipoverty Programs in New York City, 1950-1980"

Dissertator:Zonis, Nadia
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title:"The Next Rome: Modernity, the 'Economic Miracle' and the Olympic Games, 1955-60"