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Dissertations by Recent Graduates

2009

  • BENDER, TOVAH “Negotiating Marriage: Artisan Women in Fifteenth-century Florentine Society.”
  • BREKKE, LUKE “Popular piety during the Scottish Enlightenment, c. 1720-1785.”
  • LIU, LISONG “Green Card, Transnationalism and Chinese Migration across the Pacific, 1978-2001.”
  • MAUNUEL, JEFFREY “Developing Resources: Networks, Knowledge, and Memory on the Post-Industrial Iron Range.”
  • MORERA, LUIS “Receiving the King: The Politics and Economy of Royal Ceremonies in Late Medieval Spain.”
  • NIANG, YU (“TONY”) “Regional State Building: Railways and Cities in Northeast China 1898-1931.”
  • SHINOZUKA, JEANNIE “A “Contagious and Poisonous Yellow” Peril: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health, 1890s-1945.”

2008

  • ALOISIO,MARK ANTHONY  "Economy, Society, and Institutions in Late Medieval Sicily: Sciacca and its Hinterland in the Fifteenth "Century."
  • ARNOLD,BRIE A SWENSON  "Competition for the Virgin Soil of Kansas": Gendered and Sexualized Discourse about the Kansas Crisis in Northen Popular Print and Political Culture, 1854-1860."
  • BENSON,KONI  “Life Beyond the House(Wife): “Unattached” Women in the African Township of Bulawayo, 1945-1965.”
  • BLEE,LISA MARIE  "Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice in the South Puget Sound."
  • BLINCOE,MARK E  "Angevin Society and the Early Crusades, 1095-1145."
  • BURNS,ANDREA ALISON  "Show Me My Soul!": The Evolution of the Black Museum Movement in Postwar America."
  • CLEVELAND,TODD C  "Rock Solid: African Laborers on the Diamond Mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), 1917-1975."
  • DHULIPAL,A,VENKAT  "Rallying Around the Qaum: The Muslims of the United Provinces and the Movement for Pakistan, 1935-1947."
  • FANG,QIN  "Creating Local Landscape: Tidal Bores and Seawalls at Haining (1720s-1830s)."
  • HALL, PATRICIA KELLY “Privileged Moves: Migration, Race, and Veteran Status in Post-WWII America.”
  • ILLUZZI,JENNIFER GRANA  "The Bastards of Humanity". State Authorities' Interactions with Gypsy Populations in Germany and Italy, 1861-1914"
  • MAEGI,BERNARD J  "Dangerous Persons, Delayed Pilgrims: Baltic Displaced Persons and the Making of Cold War America, 1945-1952."
  • MCINNESHIN, MICHAEL “The Landscape History of the Lowe Pangani Basin 1848-1916.”
  • MISHRA,PRITIPUSPA AMARNATH  "Divided Loyalties: Citizenship, Regional Identity and Nationalism in Eastern India (1866-1931)."
  • MUNOCHEVEYI.MUNYARADZI BRYN  "It was Difficult in Zimbabwe": A History of Imprisonment, Detention, and Confinement during Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle, 1960- 1980'."
  • MYERS,POLLY M  "Shop Traditions: Constructing and Maintaining the Boeing Family at the Boeing Company."
  • NORRGARD,CHANTAL M  "Seasons of Change: Treaty Rights, Labor, and the Historical Memory of Work Among Lake Superior Ojibwe, 1870-1942."
  • PHELPS,NICOLE M  "Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the New Liberal Order: US-Habsburg Relations and the Transformation of International Politics, 1880-1924."
  • SHERMAN,HEIDE M  "Barbarians Come to Market: The Emporia of Western Eurasia from 500 BC to AD 1000."
  • SIZER,MICHAEL ALAN  "Making Revolution Medieval: Revolt and Political Culture in Late Medieval Paris."
  • STAHL,JASON MICHAEL  "Selling Conservatism: Think Tanks, Conservative Ideology, and the Undermining of Liberalism, 1945-Present."
  • URBAN, ANDREW “An Intimate World: Race, Migration, and Chinese and Irish Domestic Servants in the late-19th Century United States.”
  • VOVCHENKO,DENNIS  "Containing Balkan Nationalism: Imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians (1856-1912)."

2007

  • BERGBURIN,NIKKIL  "A Regency of Women: Female Plantation Management in the Old South."
  • FREEMAN,CHRISTOPHER LANGDON  "The Figure of a Hero: Reading Metaphor in the "New History" of the Twelfth Century."
  • HALFOND,GREGORY ISAAC  "The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils: 511-768."
  • LEECH,DONALD JOHN  "Community of Town and Country: Social Class and Property in the Borough of Coventry, 1350-1525."
  • LIPPMAN,ERICH DOUGLAS  "Secularism and its Discontents: Religion and Modernity through the Eyes of Maxim Gorky and Vasily Rozanov."
  • LUCAS,CASSANDRA LYNN  "Rape, Race, and Redemption: A Northern Translation of the Southern Script in the 1920 Duluth Lynching."
  • OSBORNE, TROY D  "Saints into Citizens: Mennonite Discipline, Social Control, and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age."
  • ROBERTSON,ANDREA D  "Enemies Incarnate: Religion, Sex, Violence and Contests for Power in New England, 1636-1638."
  • ROBERTS,EVAN WARWICH  "Her Real Sphere? Married Women's Labor Force Participation in the United States, 1860-1940."

2006

  • ARNOLD,ELLEN F  "Environment and the Shaping of Monastic Identity: Stavelot- Malmedy and the Medieval Ardennes."
  • EDEN,JASON E  "Negotiating a New Religious World: English Missionaries and American Indians in Colonial Southeastern Massachusetts."
  • GEJRLE,JULES P  "Municipal Anti-Socialism and the Growth of the Anti-Socialist Critique in Britain, 1873-1914."
  • GRAHAM,SUSAN H  "Call Me a Female Politician, I Glory in the Name!": Women Dorrites and Rhode Island's 1842 Suffrage Crisis."
  • HE,QI-LIANG  "News about Killing, News that Killed: Media Culture and Identities in the 1920s China."
  • JARVIS,BRAD D  "Preserving the Brothertown Nation of Indians: Exploring Relationships Amongst Land, Sovereignty, and Identity, 1740-1840."
  • LEKGOATHI,SEKIBAKIBA P  "Ethnicity and Identity: Struggle and Contestation in the Making of the Northern Transvaal Ndebele, ca. 1860-2005."
  • LORENZ-MEYER,ELIZABETH A  "Gender, Ethnicity and Space: Jews in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1900-1930."
  • MILLER,MATTHEW LEE  "American Philanthropy among Russians: The Work of the YMCA, 1900-1940."
  • PERRY,DAVID M  "Mirabilia in mari veniendo:" Venice, Stolen Relics, and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade."
  • RAGNOW,MARGUERITE  "The Worldly Cares of Abbess Richildis: Power, Property, and Female Religious in 11th-Century Anjou."
  • RYAN VAN ZEE,MARYNEL  "Between Essence and Expertise: German Women Economists, 1890-1933, and the Shifting Ground of Social Reform."
  • SABATINA,THOMAS JOSEPH   "A Nation Made of Steel: The Remaking of the White Republic in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, 1915-1942."
  • STAPLES,KATHRYN JEAN  "Daughters of London: Inheritance Practice in the Late Middle Ages."

2005

  • CHADYA,JOYCE MARGARET  "The Untold Story: War, Flight and Internal Displacement of Rural Women to Harare During the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle, 1974-1980."
  • DANIELSSON,SARAH K  "The Intellectual Unmasked: Sven Hedin's Political Life from Pan-Germanism to National Socialism."
  • FITCH, CATHERINE A "Transitions to Marriage in the United States, 1850-2000."
  • GOOD,ANNA M "Primitive Man and the Enlightened Observer: Peter Kolb Among the Khoikhoi."
  • MARTIN,THOMAS P  "English Humanism and the Problem of Ireland During the Reign of Elizabeth."
  • MCLNNESHINE,SEULKY  "Remapping Southern Experiences: African Americans and the Forging of Race, Class, and Southern Identities, 1877-1898."
  • NORTON,DAVID ANDREW  "Women in the City: Women as Economic and Legal Actors in Valladolid, Spain: 1580-1620."
  • RYAN,MICHAELA  "That the Truth May Be Known: Prophecy and Society in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon."
  • THOMAS,KATHLEEN M  "Their Habits were Startling": The Perceptions, Strategies, and Erasing of a Mixed-Heritage Family in the Old Northwest."

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  • 'Best Dissertation' Arts and Humanities

    Congratulations to Nicole Phelps for winning this year's 'Best Dissertation" Award in the Arts and Humanities for her dissertation, "Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the New Liberal Order: US-Habsburg Relations and the Transformation of International Politics, 1880-1924."

    Nicole will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a special certificate. She will also be honored during a luncheon and ceremony at the Campus Club in early June.

     May 14th, 2008

  • 2007-08 Fulbright Scholarships

    Tovah Bender (Italy), Aeleah Soine (Germany), and Elizabeth Swedo (Iceland) were awarded Fulbright scholarships to support their dissertation research abroad during this academic year. Congratulations!

    To read more, visit the Graduate School Announcement.

     January 25th, 2008

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