Quarter Complet

Student

Faculty

Title of Dissertation

Chair

Fall l992

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 l993

Peter Neushul

Badash

Science, Technology, and the Arsenal of Democracy Production

Research and Development During World War II

Spring l993

Heather Tanner

Hollister

Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Political Role of the

Comital Family of Boulogne in northern France and England

(879-ll59)

Fall l993

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 l994

Joseph Cotter

Rock

Before the Green Revolution: Mexican Agricultural Policy,

l920-l949

Spring l994

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 l994

Janet Pope

Hollister

The Aristocratic Patronage of the English Monastic Reform,

946-l0l6

Fall l994

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 l995

NONE

Spring l995

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 l995

Douglas Lumsden

Russell

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

of the Opening of the Seven Seals

Winter l996

Rick Cahill

Friesen

Faith and Power in Sixteenth Century Europe: Young Philipp of

Hesse and the Reformation

Spring l996

Elizabeth Digeser

Drake

Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman Res Publica

Fall l996

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 l997

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 l997

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 l997

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 l998

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 l998

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 l998

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 l999

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 l999

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 l999

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

Winter 2001

none

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

Summer 2002

Jim Emmons

Drake

The Limits of Late Antiquity: St. Aed mac Bricc and the Irish in Late

Antiquity

Peter McDermott

McGee

Sir Henry Vane, Jr: The Formation of a Puritan Conscience

Dan Shao

Fogel

Ethnicity in Empire and Nation: Manchus, Manzhouguo,

and Manchuria, l9ll-l952

Fall 2002

Sarah Case

DeHart

Renogotiating Race and Respectability in the Classroom: Women an

and Education in the New South

Tim Hagen

McGee

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and the English Press: News, Foreig

Policy and Popular Opinion in Early Stuart England

Kimber Quinney

Logevall

The United States, Great Britain, and the Dismantling of Italian

Fascism, l943-48

Jose Valente

Dutra

Soldiers and Settlers: The Knights Templar in Portugal, 1128-1319

Winter 2003

none

Spring 2003

Matt Racine

Dutra

"A Most Opulent Iliad": The Portuguese Occupation of Southern

Morocco (l505-l542): The Fortunes of a Frontier Society

Edward Wilson

Friesen

Coercion and Dissent: Political Policy Against Religious

Nonconformists in randenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach and the Holy

Roman Empire, l527-2566

Summer 2003

Jamece Brown

Harris

Expressions of Faith and Spiritual Power in African American

Religious Literature

Alexandra Epstein

Cohen

Linking a State to the World: Female Internationalists, California,

and the Pacific, l9l9-l939

Hattingh, Alistair

Rock

Cuyo and Goliath. The Province of San Juan and The Argentine Federal

Government, l930-l943

Heitschmidt, Traci

Marcuse

The Quest for Uranium: Environmental and Political Effects of Soviet

Mining Policy In East Germany, l945-l967

Helffrich, Tryntje

Sonnino

"The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman:" Faith, Politics,

and the Thirty Years War

Keaney, Heather

Humphreys

Recollections of Regicide: Uthman ibn 'Affan in Mamluk Memory

Miller, Andrew

Farmer

Carpe Ecclesiam: Households, Identity, and Violent Communication

('Church' and 'Crown' Under King Edward I)

Fall 2003

Carlander, Jay

Harris

Discipline and Profit: Slavery and Labor in Antebellum Southern

Econmic Thought and Ideology

Howes, Rachel

Humphreys

Mu'ayyad fil-Din al-Shirazi and the Fatimid Dawa in the Age of

al-Mustansir

Winter 2004

Baranski, John

Furner

Making Public Housing in San Francisco: Liberalism, Social

Prejudice, and social Activism, l906-l976

Bromber, Robert

Dutra

English Abandonados and Afortunados: Class and Spanish Justice

the Atlantic world, l568-l576

Kelly, Jason

z

Guerrini

Polite Sociability and Levantine Archeology in the British

Enlightenment: The Society of Dilettanti, l732-l786

Zulueta, Ben

Badash

"Brains at a Bargain": Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, American

Science, and the Cold War of the Classrooms

Spring 2004

Nenzi, Laura

Fogel

The Culture of Travel in Edo Period Japan

Whitesides, Greg

Badash

Genes, Minds and Selves: American Science, Religion and the

Industry of Faith and Reason

Summer 2004

Ashenmiiller, Josh

Furner

The National Environmental Policy Act and the Green Decade,

1969-1981

Bernikho, Rhimou

Gallagher

Saints, Sufis, and Sultans: the Zawiya of Wazzan, a Moroccan Sufi

Order, l792-l892

Esselstrom, Erik

Fogel

GAI KEI: The Japanese Consular Police in Northeast Asia, l880-l945

See, Jennifer

Logevall

The Interregnum: Great Power Relations Between World War and

Cold War, l945-l947

Fall 2004

Emerson, Mark

Dutra

Messianic Expectation and Collective Myth Formation: Prophecy,

Society and Imagination in Early Modern Portugual

Hall, David

DeHart

Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959

Hendrickson, Mark

Furner

Labor Knowledge and the Building of Modern Industrial Relations,

1918-1929

Polanah, Paulo

Dutra

Exceptionalism and the Imperial Mystique: National and Colonial

Discourse, and the Forging of a Portuguese Imperial Identity,

1928-1945

Winter 2005

Kim, Monte

Bergstrom

The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Making of Place and Commun

in California

Widders, Evan

Osborne

Healing Medicine: Medical Reform in the Spanish Enlightenment,

1767-1788

Spring 2005

Rapp, Ann

DeHart

A Marginalized Voice for Racial Justice: Charlotta Bass and

Oppositional Politics, l9l4-l960

Sutton, Matthew

DeHart

Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and Politics

Summer 2005

Sizgorich, Tom

Drake

Monks, Martyrs and Mujahidun: Militant Piety in Late Antiquity

and Early Islam

Swiontek, Danielle

DeHart

With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in

Progressive California

Fall 2005

Burden, David

Cline

La Idea Salvadora: Immigration and Colonization Politics in Mexico,

1821-1857

McLoughlin, Nancy

Farmer

Universitas, Secular-Mendicant Conflict and the Construction of

Learned Male Authority in the Thought of Jean Gerson

Winter 2006

none

Spring 2006

Birk, Joshua

Lansing

Sicilian Counterpoint: Power and Pluralism in Norman Sicily

Pastrano, Jose

Vargas

Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South: State, Race, and the

Politics of Migrant Labor in Texas, 1890-1930

Wright, Christopher

Humphreys

Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam's 'Futuhmisr:' An Analysis of the Text and New

Insights into the Islamic Conquest of Egypt

Summer 2006

Chapman, Jessica

Logevall

Debating the Will of Heaven: South Vietnamese Politics and

Nationalism in Intrnational Perspective, 1953-1956

Malikov, Yuriy

Hasegawa

Formation of a Borderland Culture: Myths and Realities of Cossack-

Kazakh Relations in Northern Kazakhstan in the Eighteenth and

Nineteenth Centuries

Sbardellati, John

Logevall

Hollywood's Cold War: The FBI, Congress, and the Battle over Film

Propaganda

Schuster, David

Furner

Neurasthenic Nation: The Medicalization of Modernity in the

United States, 1869-1920

Torres-Rouff, David

Spickard

Making Los Angeles: Race, Space, and Municipal Power, 1822-1890

Zakariya, Hafiz

Humphreys

Islamic Reform in Colonial Malaya: Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin and

Sayyid Shaykh al-Hadi

Fall 2006

None

Winter 2007

Aono, Toshihiko

Hasegawa

The Twin Crises and the Anglo-American Alliance, l961-l962

Dawson, Sandra

Rappaport

Islands of Leisure: British Holiday Camps in War and Peace

Feinberg, Carol

Furner

The Knowledge Traders: Psychological Experts, Political Intellectuals, and the Rise of the New Right

Spring 2007

Blodgett, Michael

Harold Drake

Attila, Flagellum Dei? Huns and Romans, Conflict and Cooperation in the Late Antique World

Guevarra, Rudy

Zaragosa Vargas

Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, l900-l965

Dormady, Jason

Cline

Not Just a Better Mexico: Intentional Religious Community and the Mexican State, l940-l964

Summer 2007

Boyle, Eric

Michael Osborne

The Boundaries of Medicine: Redefining Therapeutic Orthodoxy in an Age of Reform

Logrono, Maria

Stephen Humphreys/Nancy Gallagher

The Development of Nationailst Identities in French Syria and Lebanon: A Transnational Dialogue with Arab Immigrants to Argentina and Brazil, l9l5-l929

Fall 2007

Werthmuller, Kurt

Stephen Humphreys

An In-Between Space: An Archival and Textual Study of Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt, 1171-1250 C.E.

Smith, Travis

Paul Spickard

Race and the Shifting Economy in California's Northern Interior

Lewis, Carolyn

Lila Rupp

Coitus Perfectus: The Medicalization of Heterosexuality in the Cold War United States

Winter 2008

None

Spring 2008

Pryor, Elizabeth

Patricia Cohen

Jim Crow' Cars, Passport Denials and Atlantic Crossings: African- American Travel, Protest and Citizenship at Home and Abroad, 1827-1865

Brownson, Elizabeth

Nancy Gallagher

Gender, Muslim Family Law, and Contesting Patriarchy in Mandate Palestine, l925-l939

Summer 2008

Staples, Eric

Stephen Humphreys

Intersections: Power, Religion and Technology in Seventeenth- Century Sale-Rabat

Petersen, Anne

Ann Plane

Adobe Days, Lost and Found: Imagining Southern California History in San Juan Capistrano and Santa Barbara, l870-l940

Huffaker, Shauna

Stephen Humphreys

The Lay of the Land: Property, Gender and Household in the Development of al-Darb al-ahmar Neighborhood in Mamiuk Cairo

Fall 2008

Smoley, John

Seizing victory from the Jaws of Deterrence: Preservation and Public Memory of America's Nike Air Defense Missile System

Spring 2009

Morrison, Heidi

Nancy Gallagher

Childhood, Modernity, and Nation-Building in Egypt, l890-l939

Haynes, April

Patricia Cohen

Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice

Bassi, Joseph

Patrick McCray

Creating a Scientific Peak: How Boulder, Colorado Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science, l945-l965

Summer 2009

Munro, John

Nelson Lichtenstein

From Zbaszyn to Manila: The Holocaust Odyssey of Joseph Cysner and the Philippine Rescue of Refugee Jews

Ferry, Michelle

Ann Plane

The Thin Red Line--Native American Culture Bearers, Memory and the Museum

Fall 2009

Aberman, Matthew

Lawrence Badash

DeFraga, Matthew

Erika Rappaport/John Talbott

Petersen, Bethanie

Sharon Farmer

Atassi, Ahmad

Stephen Humphreys

Harris, Bonnie

Harold Marcuse

Kester, Matthew

Paul Spickard

Levine, Sharleen Nakamoto

Paul Spickard

Page, Ingrid

Paul Spickard