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Completed Dissertations



    Quarter Complet

    Student

    Faculty

    Title of Dissertation

    Chair

    Fall 1992

    Robert Babcock

    Hollister

    Rule and Society in South-West Wales, l079-ll97

    Claire Bachmuth

    Gollin

    Two Worlds: Romantic Medievalism of Victorian Artists

    Lois Huneycutt

    Hollister

    Another Esther in our Times: Matilda II and the Formation

    of a Queenly Ideal in Anglo-Norman England

    Kazuto Oshio

    Kelley

    Urban Water Diplomacy: A Policy History of the

    Metropolitan Water Supply in the Twentieth Century

    Southern California

    Winter 1993

    Peter Neushul

    Badash

    Science, Technology, and the Arsenal of Democracy Production

    Research and Development During World War II

    Spring 1993

    Heather Tanner

    Hollister

    Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Political Role of the

    Comital Family of Boulogne in northern France and England

    (879-ll59)

    Fall 1993

    Penny Adair

    Hollister

    Countess Clemence and Her Role in the Comital Family and in

    Flanders, l092-ll33

    Niels Bjerre-Poulse

    Kelley

    Organizing the American Right, l945-l964

    Judith Ishkanian

    Harris

    Religion and Honor at Chapel Hill: The College Odyssey of William

    Sydney Mullins, l840-l842

    Melissa McDonald

    Cohen

    Labor Pains: Sex Discrimination and the Implementation

    of Title VII, l964-l980

    Robert Mueller

    McGee

    Service to the Sovereign: A Prosopographical Study of the Royal

    Household, Court and Privy Council of Elizabeth I of England

    through an Examination of the Careers of Sir Francis Knollys, Sir

    James Croft and Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford

    Mitchell Roth

    Oglesby

    The Western Cholera Trail: Studies in the Urban Response to

    Epidemic Disease in the Trans-Mississippi West, l848-l850

    Janet Ryder

    Russell

    Miracles and Mentality: The Medieval Experience

    Mary Suydam

    Hollister

    Hadewijch of Antwerp and the Mengeldichten

    Winter 1994

    Joseph Cotter

    Rock

    Before the Green Revolution: Mexican Agricultural Policy,

    l920-l949

    Spring 1994

    Cara Anzilotti

    Cohen

    In the Affairs of the World: Women and Plantation Ownership in the

    Eighteenth Century South Carolina Lowcountry

    Rosanne Barker

    Cohen

    Small Town Progressivism: Pearl Chase and Female Activism in

    Santa Barbara, l909-l929

    Karen Mead

    Rock

    Oligarchs, Doctors and Nuns: Public Health and Beneficence in

    Buenos Aires, l880-l7l4

    Stacey Robertson

    Cohen

    Parker Pillsbury, Antislavery Apostle: Gender and Religion in

    Nineteenth-Century U.S. Radicalism

    Summer 1994

    Janet Pope

    Hollister

    The Aristocratic Patronage of the English Monastic Reform,

    946-l0l6

    Fall 1994

    Jennifer Strand

    Harris

    Maximum Freedom and the Limits of Community: Isla Vista,

    California, l925-l974

    ZuoYue Wang

    Badash

    American Science and theCold War: The Rise of the U.S. President

    Science Advisory Committee

    Winter 1995

    NONE

    Spring 1995

    Miriam Davis

    Hollister

    The Medieval English Urban Environment: Learned Views and

    Popular Practices

    Jeffrey Garcilazo

    Garcia

    Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States,

    l87l-l930

    Tomas Salinas

    Garcia

    Pearl Chase, John Collier, and Indian Reform Through the New Dea

    Native American Affairs in California and the West, l880-l937

    Fall 1995

    Douglas Lumsden

    Russell

    "And Then the End Will Come": Early Latin Christian Interpretations

    of the Opening of the Seven Seals

    Winter 1996

    Rick Cahill

    Friesen

    Faith and Power in Sixteenth Century Europe: Young Philipp of

    Hesse and the Reformation

    Spring 1996

    Elizabeth Digeser

    Drake

    Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman Res Publica

    Fall 1996

    Viviana Marsano

    Gollin

    "Those Who Wish for Peace Must Prepare For War:" The Ulster

    Volunteer Force and the Home Rule Crisis of l9l2-l9l4

    Michaela Reaves

    Oglesby

    The Farmer's Revolt: Arms and Fraternity in California,

    1870-l880

    Shigeru Sugiyama

    Logevall

    Reluctant Neighbors: U.S.-Mexican Relations and the Failure of

    Cardenista Reforms, l934-l949

    Winter 1997

    Gabriel Gutierrez

    Vargas

    Bell Towers, Crucifixes, and Canones Violentos: State and Identity

    Formation in Preindustrial California

    Fernando Rocchi

    Rock

    Building a Nation, Building a Market: Industrial Growth and the

    Domestic Economy in Turn of the Century Argentina

    Spring 1997

    Rick Barton

    Hollister

    Power and Lordship in Maine, c. 890-lll0

    Rob Helmerichs

    Hollister

    Law, Language, and Politics in the Norman and Anglo-Norman World

    Summer 1997

    Keith Zahniser

    Graham

    Popular Religion and Reform in Progressive Era Pittsburgh

    Fall 1997

    Erik Ching

    Rock

    From Clientelism to Militarism: The State, Politics and

    Authoritarianism in El Salvador, ca. l840-l940

    Victor Geraci

    Graham

    Grapegrowing to Vintibusiness: A History of the Santa Barbara,

    California, Regional Wine Industry, l965-l995

    Winter 1998

    David Espinosa

    Rock/Cline

    Jesuit Higher Education in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: The

    Iberoamerican University (l943-l97l)

    Spring 1998

    Robert Bauman

    Kalman

    Race, Class and Political Power: The Implementation of the War

    on Poverty in Los Angeles

    Valery Garrett

    Graham

    The Final Frontier: A History of Assisted Suicide in the United

    States, l938-l99l

    Walter Grunden

    Roberts

    Science Under the Rising Sun: Weapons Development and the

    Organization of Science in World War II Japan

    Christine McCann

    Russell

    Spiritual Mentoring in late Antique and Early Medieval Europe

    Lynne Stark

    Badash

    The Gaia Hypothesis and the Re-Animation of Nature

    Summer 1998

    Debbie McBride

    Russell

    Benevolent Letters: Ecclesiastical Epistles to Nobles in the Early

    20th Century

    Ron Morgan

    Cline

    Saints, Biographers and Creole Identity Formation in Colonial

    Spanish America

    Alicia Rodriquez

    Harris

    Urban Populism: Challenges to Democratic Control in Dallas,

    Texas: l887-l900

    Brett Schmoll

    Bergstrom

    Gendered Death in Public Life

    Fall 1998

    Jim Burns

    Collins

    Cinema and Empire in Colonial Zimbabwe

    Thomas Cardoza

    Talbott

    Duty to the Nation, Devotion to the Regiment: Cantinieres of the

    French Army, l792-l906

    Gerald Carpenter

    Sonnino

    The Fortune of Angelicque Favre

    David Schmidt

    McGee

    "Till Christ Jesus Be Exalted": Quaker Political Pamphlets During

    the Restoration of the Rump Parliament

    Winter 1999

    Hubert Dubrulle

    Talbott

    "A War of Wonders": The Battle in Britain Over Americanization

    and the American Civil War

    Chris Erickson

    Cohen

    Conservative Women and Patriotic Maternalism: The Beginnings of

    Gendered Conservative Tradition in the l920s and l930s.

    Betty Koed

    Graham

    The Politics of Reform: Policymakers and the Immigration Act

    of l965

    Fiona Stoertz

    Farmer

    Adolescence in Medieval Culture: The High Medieval Transformatio

    Spring 1999

    Bradley Brown

    Talbott

    Kingship and the French Revolution of l830: The Meaning of Royal

    Authority in Popular Political Culture and Orleanism

    Monica Orozco

    Cline

    Protestant Missionaires, Mexican Liberals, Nationalism and the

    Issue of Cultural Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples

    Scopas Poggo

    Collins

    War and Conflict in the Southern Sudan, l955-l972

    Fall 1999

    Kevin Chambers

    Rock

    Rural Transformation Under General Stroessner

    Gaston Espinosa

    Garcia

    Borderland Religion: Los Angeles and the Origins of the Latino

    Pentecostal Movement in the US, Mexico, and Puerto Rico,

    l900-l945

    Deborah Gerish

    Farmer

    Shaping the Crown on Gold: Constructions of Royal Identity in the

    First Kingdom of Jerusalem, l099-ll87

    Robert Jenks

    Graham

    Governing in the Absence of Government: The Birth and

    Development of the United States Industrial Standards System

    Maureen McEnroe

    McGee/

    The Crimson Thread of Kinship: The Pacific Submarine Cable,

    Rappaport

    l877-l902. A Study in British Imperial Communication

    Kathryn Statler

    Logevall

    From the French to the Americans: Intra-Alliance Politics, Cold

    War Concerns, and the Cultural Conflict in Vietnam, l950-l960

    Winter 2000

    Chris Ziegler-

    Brownlee

    "Americanization: The California Plan": The Commission of

    McPherson

    Immigration and Housing of California and Public Policy,

    l9l3-l923

    Spring 2000

    Alan Manatt

    Friesen

    Luther Legalized: Imperial Politics and the Reformation,

    1521-1526

    Stephanie Gustafs

    McGee

    "A Presse Full of Pamphlets:" The Printing of News in London,

    l640-l642

    Peng-Fu Neo

    Chen

    A Study of the "Auxiliary Texts of the Book of Changes"

    Laura Wertheimer

    Farmer

    The Ecclesiastical Construction of Illegitimacy in the Middle Ages

    Summer 2000

    Michael Adamson

    Brownlee

    Inventing U.S. Foreign Aid From Private of Public Funding of

    Economic Development, l9l9-l94l

    Doug Dodd

    Graham

    Preserving Multiple Use Management: The U.S. Forest Service,

    the National Park Service and the Struggle for Idaho's Sawtooth

    Mountain Country, l9ll-l972

    Fall 2000

    Andy Johns

    Logevall

    The Loyal Opposition: The Republican Party and the Domestic

    Politics of the Vietnam War, l960-l969

     

    Nancy L. Stockdale

    Nancy Gallagher

    Gender and Colonialism in Palestine 1800-1948: Encounters Among English, Arab and Jewish Women

     

    Spring 2001

    Jacob Hamblin

    Badash

    Oceanography and International Cooperation During the Early Cold

    War

    Ken Osgood

    Logevall

    Total Cold War: US Propaganda in the 'Free World,' l953-l960

    Summer 2001

    Bev Schwartzberg

    Cohen

    Grass Widows, Barbarians, and Bigamists: Fluid Marriage in

    Late Ninettenth-Century America

    Dennis Ventry

    Brownlee

    The Treatment of Marriage Under the Federal Income Tax,

    19l3-2000

    Fall 2001

    Justin Stephens

    Drake

    Ecclesiastical and Imperial Authority in the Writings of John

    Chrysostom: A Reinterpretation of His Political Philosophy

    Winter 2002

    Rick Fogarty

    Talbott

    Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army,

    1914-l9l8

    Spring 2002

    Stephen Cory

    Humphreys

    Chosen by God to Rule: The Caliphate and Political Legitimacy in

    Early Modern Morocco

    Susan Snyder

    Lansing

    Woman as Heretic: Gender and Lay Religion in Late Medieval

    Bologna