DISSERTATIONS, COMPLETED AND IN-PROGRESS


DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
Number of dissertations in progress listed for your Program:

Aberman, Matthew
"The Challenges to SETI: Exobiology, the Anthropic Principle, and the Popularization of Speculative Science during the Cold War"
Advisor: Lawrence Badash

Algoso, Teresa
“Policing Bodies: Hermaphroditism and Gender in Modern Japan, 1870-2000” Advisor: Sabine Fruhstuck

Archambeau, Nicole
“Medicine, Miracle and Magic: Healing in 14th Century France”
Advisor: Sharon Farmer

Atassi, Ahmad
“Power Structure in the Early Muslim Community at Medina”
Advisor: Stephen Humphreys

Bassi, Joseph
“How Space Became a Science: the Temporal and Spacial Construction of a Scientific Discipline”
Advisor: Patrick McCray

Bengry, Justin
“The Invisible Man: Ungendering Consumption in Inter-war Britain”
Advisor: Erika Rappaport

Blodgett, Michael
“Atila the Roman: Identity and Security Along the Roman Frontier”
Advisor: Harold Drake

Bloom, Ibukun
“Receiving the Stranger: a Study of Community, Identity, Power, and the Individual in the Ancient Greek East”
Advisor: Harold Drake

Boyle, Eric
"Beyond Technology and Magic Bullets: Redefining Modern American Medicine"
Advisor: Michael Osborne

Brownson, Elizabeth
“Gender Class and Islamic Law in Palestine, l920-l948”
Advisor: Nancy Gallagher

Burnette, Donald
“American Lysenko: Impact and Legacy of Frederic E. Clements”
Advisor: Michael Osborne

Caldwell, Amy
"Religious Dissent in the Urban Political Sphere: The Swiss Brethren in Reformation Zurich"
Advisor: Abraham Friesen

Campo, Joe
“Remembering Rommel: The Construction of the Legacy of the Desert Fox”
Advisor: Harold Marcuse

Christian, Laurence
“ From Protest Movement to Political Party: the l970s Green Movement and its Impact of the German Greens”
Advisor: Harold Marcuse

DeFraga, Matthew
"A Nation on Display: National Identity in British and South African Military Museums, 1880-2000"
Advisor: Erika Rappaport/John Talbott

Delgadillo, Charles
“Forged of Battle: The Reform Alliance in Peace and War, 1919-41”
Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

Devoy, Maeve
"From Watergate to the Ethnics in Government Act: Contested Visions of Presidential Autonomy, 1973-78"
Advisor: Laura Kalman

Dewell, Christopher
“The Beijing Police Academy and Japanese Roads to Reform in Modern China”
Advisor: Joshua Fogel

Fabros, Alex
"Citizenship Denied: The Filipino American Civil Rights Movement, 1924-46"
Advisor: Zaragosa Vargas

Farzaneh, Mateo
“Shaiism and Modernity in Late l9th Century Iran and Iraq”
Advisor: Nancy Gallagher/Stephen Humphreys

Ferry, Michelle
“The Thin Red Line: Culture Bearers and the Museum”
Advisor: Ann Plane

Fournier, Eric
“Use and Abuse of the Secular Arm: The Exile of Bishops in Late Antiquity, 300-600 AD”
Advisor: Harold Drake/Elizabeth Digeser

Frank, Karen
“Late Medieval Jewish Families in Perugia: A Study on the Meaning of Family and its Role in Italian Jewish Identity”
Advisor: Carol Lansing

Fujii, George
“Financial Policy in the North Atlantic Triangle, l944-l948”
Advisor: Salim Yaqub

Gill, Andrea
“Race, Place and Housing: Desegregation Policy in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City”
Advisor: Alice O’Connor

Gilman, Roberta
“Re-visioning Winslow, Arizona: Experiments in the Historical Study of Place Employing a Variety of Personal and Modal Perspectives”
Advisor: Randolph Bergstom

Guevarra, Rudy
"Mexipino: Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-65"
Advisor: Zaragosa Vargas

Harris, Bonnie
"From Poland to the Philippines: The Holocaust Odyssey of Joseph Cysner"
Advisor: Harold Marcuse

Hayden-Smith, Rose
“Sowing the Seeds of Victory: National Gardening Programs During World War I”
Advisor: Randolph Bergstrom

Haynes, April
"Of Considerable Medical and Moral Importance: Sex and the Body in the Popular Health Movement, 1820-73"
Advisor: Patricia Cohen

Hernandez, Hugo
“Migration in the River Plate”
Advisor: David Rock

Hirsch, Paul
“No Real Security: US Nonproliferation Policy, l960-l968”
Advisor: Salim Yaqub

Hoffman, Joshua
“The University, the Street, and the State: ‘Being Egyptian’ in Nasser’s Egypt”
Advisor: Stephen Humphreys/Nancy Gallagher

Huffaker, Shauna
"The Darb al-Ahmar: Social Networks, Identity, and Space in Mamluk Cairo, 1250-1517"
Advisor: Stephen Humphreys

Jensen, Jill
“Labor Internationalism: Two Post-War Settlements”
Advisor: Mary Furner

Kester, Matthew
“Sacred Ground: Place and Public Memory in Hawaii”
Advisor: Paul Spickard

Lamoree, Elizabeth
"Agribusiness Against the State”
Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

Lemmond, Jon
"Popular Concepts of Masculinity in Early Modern German Street Literature"
Advisor: Abraham Friesen/SearsMcGee

Levine, Sharleen Nakamoto
"Americanizing Japanese Women and Families on Hawaii's Sugar Plantations, 1885-1941"
Advisor: Paul Spickard

Lewis, Carolyn
“Coitus Perfectus: The Medicalization of Heterosexuality in the Cold War”
Advisor: Lila Rupp

Logrono, Maria
"Book Industry in Syria, 1920-57: Cultural and Socioeconomic Aspects"
Advisor: Stephen Humphreys/Nancy Gallagher

Ludolph, Patrick
“’The Grand Ly-Censer:’ Gilbert Mabbott and the London Press”
Advisor: Sears McGee

Lyons, John
"Merchants, Borderland Owners, and the Formation of the Uruguayan State"
Advisor: David Rock

Marx-Wolf, Heidi
“Demonology, Possession and Insanity: Changing Constructions of Personal Crisis in the Late Antique Mediterrean World”
Advisor: Harold Drake/Elizabeth Digeser

McFall, Janet
"Representation of Parliament: The Creation and Evolution of a National Myth"
Advisor: Sears McGee

Meekins, Jill
"'A Fashionable London Physician': The Medical Practice of Sir Hans Sloane, 1685-1720"
Advisor: Anita Guerrini

Moger, Travis
"Wolfgang Koenigstein and the Reformation in Frankfurt am Main, 1520-48"
Advisor: Abraham Friesen/Sears McGee

Morrison, Heidi
“The Development of the Concept of Childhood in Modern Egyptian History”
Advisor: Nancy Gallagher

Mukerjee, Anil
"The Fiscal Administration of Colonial Brazil: The Provedor-mor da Fazenda in the 17th Century"
Advisor: Francis Dutra

Munro, John
“Antifascism, Modernity, and the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, l935-l994”
Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

Murillo, Bianca
“The Politics of Domestic Consumption in 20th Century Ghana”
Advisor: Stephan Miescher

O’Tool, Mark
"Caring for the Blind in Medieval Paris: Life at the Quinz-vingts, 1250-1500"
Advisor: Sharon Farmer

Page, Ingrid
“Mixed Race Rebels: The Regalia of Race and National Identity in the US, l865-l935”
Advisor: Paul Spickard

Petersen, Anne
"The Preservation of Spanish Colonial Historic Sites in Southern California, 1880-1980"
Advisor: Ann Plane

Petersen, Bethanie
“Searching for Apostolic Origins: Bernard Gui Rewrites the History of Southern France”
Advisor: Sharon Farmer

Proulx, Michael
"Speculum Episcopis: Competing Images of the 'Good Bishop' in Ambrose of Milan and Martin of Tours"
Advisor: Harold Drake

Pryor, Elizabeth
"'Truly This Is Patriotism': African American Women Travelers Explore American Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Europe"
Advisor: Patricia Cohen

Quimby, Peter
"The California Gold Rush in the Context of Jacksonian Economic Thought"
Advisor: Patricia Cohen

Reeves, David
“Popular Resistance to Soviet Power in Azerbaijan”
Advisor: Adrienne Edgar

Sargent, Leslie
“’Shared’ Culture Transformed: the South Caucasus Under Russian Rule, l800-l920”
Advisor: Adrienne Edgar

Sciarcon,Jonathan
“The Integration of Arab Jews into Israel, l948-l967”
Advisor: Nancy Gallagher

Shanks, Mark
"Reenactors, Academics, and Historical Interpretations: Very Civil Wars"
Advisor: Ann Plane

Shermer, Elizabeth
“Creating the Sunbelt: The Political and Economic Transformation of Modern America”
Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

Simoes De Carvalho, Paul
"Amazon Days: The Life and Works of the Portuguese Historian, Joao Lucio de Azevedo (1835-1933)"
Advisor: Francis Dutra

Sjursen, Kathryn
"'The Heart of a Lion and of a Man': French Noblewomen in Medieval Warfare"
Advisor: Sharon Farmer

Smith, Kevin
“Ecological Conquest: the Death of the Aztec Lake System and the Drying up of Indigenous Space”
Advisor: Sarah Cline

Smith, Steve
“The Persians and the British: First Impressions and First Interactions, l600-l639”
Advisor: Sears McGee

Smith, Travis
”Confluent Communities, Contested Community: Race Relations in Butte County, California, 1840s-90s"
Advisor: Paul Spickard

Smoley, John
"Seizing Victory from the Jaws of Deterrence: the Place of American's Nike air Defense Missile Program in the Past and Present"
Advisor:

Stabler, Tanya
"Now She is Married, Now She is Martha: The Beguines of Medieval Paris"
Advisor: Sharon Farmer

Staples, Eric
"The Needle and the Nail: Medieval Shipbuilding in the Islamic World"
Advisor: Stephen Humphreys

Swanson, Jon Krister
“The MLBPA: The Rise of a Union in the Regan Era”
Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

Vallance, Monique
“D. Louisa de Gusmao: A Powerful Matriarch”
Advisor: Francis Dutra

Werthmuller, Kurt
"Christian Community of Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt"
Advisor: Stephen Humphreys

Wieben, Corinne
“Infidelitatis Errorem: Marriage Disputes and the Courts in Late Medieval Lucca”
Advisor: Carol Lansing

Wolf, Richard
“The War Era Bracero Program in Santa Barbara”
Advisor: Mario Garcia

Wood, Warren
"Fatherhood in San Francisco: l850-l9l5"
Advisor: Patricia Cohen


 



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