Dissertations Completed

Robert Babcock
Rule and Society in South-West Wales, l079-ll97 Claire Bachmuth
Two Worlds: Romantic Medievalism of Victorian Artists Lois Huneycutt
Another Esther in our Times: Matilda II and the Formation of a Queenly Ideal in Anglo-Norman England Kazuto Oshio
Urban Water Diplomacy: A Policy History of the Metropolitan Water Supply in the Twentieth Century Southern California Peter Neushul
Science, Technology, and the Arsenal of Democracy Production Research and Development During World War II Heather Tanner
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Political Role of the Comital Family of Boulogne in northern France and England (879-ll59) Penny Adair
Countess Clemence and Her Role in the Comital Family and in Flanders, l092-ll33 Niels Bjerre-Poulse
Organizing the American Right, l945-l964 Judith Ishkanian
Religion and Honor at Chapel Hill: The College Odyssey of William Sydney Mullins, l840-l842 Melissa McDonald
Labor Pains: Sex Discrimination and the Implementation of Title VII, l964-l980 Robert Mueller
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 Mitchell Roth
The Western Cholera Trail: Studies in the Urban Response to Epidemic Disease in the Trans-Mississippi West, l848-l850 Janet Ryder
Miracles and Mentality: The Medieval Experience Mary Suydam
Hadewijch of Antwerp and the Mengeldichten Joseph Cotter
Before the Green Revolution: Mexican Agricultural Policy, l920-l949 Cara Anzilotti
In the Affairs of the World: Women and Plantation Ownership in the Eighteenth Century South Carolina Lowcountry Rosanne Barker
Small Town Progressivism: Pearl Chase and Female Activism in Santa Barbara, l909-l929 Karen Mead
Oligarchs, Doctors and Nuns: Public Health and Beneficence in Buenos Aires, l880-l7l4 Stacey Robertson
Parker Pillsbury, Antislavery Apostle: Gender and Religion in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Radicalism Janet Pope
The Aristocratic Patronage of the English Monastic Reform, 946-l0l6 Jennifer Strand
Maximum Freedom and the Limits of Community: Isla Vista, California, l925-l974 ZuoYue Wang
American Science and theCold War: The Rise of the U.S. President Science Advisory Committee Miriam Davis
The Medieval English Urban Environment: Learned Views and Popular Practices Jeffrey Garcilazo
Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, l87l-l930 Mason, John Alan
"Mobilizing the Left: The Moldovan Internationalist Countermovement and the Origins of the Moldovan Civil War” Advisor: Adrienne Edgar Nader, Nadia
"The Memory of the Mihna in a Haunted Time: Dogmatic Theology, Neo-Mu'tazilism and Islamic Legal Reform"Advisor: Stephen Humphreys Seto, Brandon
“Filling the Spiritual Vacuum: Douglas MacArthur, American Christianity and the Occupation of Japan” Advisor: Paul Spickard Wahlstrom, Todd
"The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration Across the Borderlands after the US Civil War" Advisor: John Majewski Weiss, Jessica
“Convent as Classroom: The Education of Women in Renaissance Italy” Advisor: Carol Lansing Archambeau, Nicole
"Healing Emotional Distress in a Time of Plague and War: Witnesses to the Canonization of Delphine de Puimichel (l363)" Advisor: Sharon Farmer Bengry, Justin
"The Pink Pound: Commerce and Homosexuality in Britain, l900-l967" Advisor: Erika Rappaport Farzaneh, Mateo
"Shi'ite Clerical Authority and Modern Politics: Mulla Muhammad Kazim Khurasani of Najaf and His Support of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of l906-l9ll" Advisor: Nancy Gallagher/Stephen Humphreys Fournier, Eric
"Victor of Vita and the Vandal 'Persecution:' Interpreting Exile in Late Antiquity” Advisor: Harold Drake/Elizabeth Digeser Leandra Zarnow
"'A Very Simple Sense of Justice:' Bella Abzug, Jewish Radicalism and the Legal Left from the Popular Front to the Cold War" Graduate Advisor: Eileen Boris (and Jane DeHart, emeritus) Marx-Wolf, Heidi
"Platonists and High Priests: Daemonology, Ritual and Social Order in the Third Century C.E." Advisor: Harold Drake/Elizabeth Digeser Mukerjee, Anil
"Financing an Empire in the South Atlantic: The Fiscal Administration of Colonial Brazil, 1609-1703" Advisor: Francis Dutra Murillo, Bianca
"Market Relations: Retailing, Distribution, and the Politics of Consumption in Ghana, 1930-1970s” Advisor: Stephan Miescher O'Tool, Mark
"Caring for the Blind in Medieval Paris: Life at the Quinz-vingts, 1250-1430" Advisor: Sharon Farmer Proulx, Michael
"Speculum Episcopis: History, Hagiography, and Episcopal Competition in the Works of Sulpicius Severus and Paulinus of Milan" Advisor: Harold Drake Shanks, Mark
"Very Civil Wars: Reenactors, Academics, and the Performance of the Past" Advisor: Ann Plane Tomas Salinas
Pearl Chase, John Collier, and Indian Reform Through the New Dea Native American Affairs in California and the West, l880-l937 Douglas Lumsden
"And Then the End Will Come": Early Latin Christian Interpretations of the Opening of the Seven Seals Rick Cahill
Faith and Power in Sixteenth Century Europe: Young Philipp of Hesse and the Reformation Elizabeth Digeser
Lactantius, Constantine and the Roman Res Publica Viviana Marsano
"Those Who Wish for Peace Must Prepare For War:" The Ulster Volunteer Force and the Home Rule Crisis of l9l2-l9l4 Michaela Reaves
The Farmer's Revolt: Arms and Fraternity in California, 1870-l880 Shigeru Sugiyama
Reluctant Neighbors: U.S.-Mexican Relations and the Failure of Cardenista Reforms, l934-l949 Gabriel Gutierrez
Bell Towers, Crucifixes, and Canones Violentos: State and Identity Formation in Preindustrial California Fernando Rocchi
Building a Nation, Building a Market: Industrial Growth and the Domestic Economy in Turn of the Century Argentina Rick Barton
Power and Lordship in Maine, c. 890-lll0 Rob Helmerichs
Law, Language, and Politics in the Norman and Anglo-Norman World Keith Zahniser
Popular Religion and Reform in Progressive Era Pittsburgh Erik Ching
From Clientelism to Militarism: The State, Politics and Authoritarianism in El Salvador, ca. l840-l940 Victor Geraci
Grapegrowing to Vintibusiness: A History of the Santa Barbara, California, Regional Wine Industry, l965-l995 David Espinosa
Jesuit Higher Education in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: The Iberoamerican University (l943-l97l) Robert Bauman
Race, Class and Political Power: The Implementation of the War on Poverty in Los Angeles Valery Garrett
The Final Frontier: A History of Assisted Suicide in the United States, l938-l99l Walter Grunden
Science Under the Rising Sun: Weapons Development and the Organization of Science in World War II Japan Christine McCann
Spiritual Mentoring in late Antique and Early Medieval Europe Lynne Stark
The Gaia Hypothesis and the Re-Animation of Nature Debbie McBride
Benevolent Letters: Ecclesiastical Epistles to Nobles in the Early 20th Century Ron Morgan
Saints, Biographers and Creole Identity Formation in Colonial Spanish America Alicia Rodriquez
Urban Populism: Challenges to Democratic Control in Dallas, Texas: l887-l900 Brett Schmoll
Gendered Death in Public Life Jim Burns
Cinema and Empire in Colonial Zimbabwe Thomas Cardoza
Duty to the Nation, Devotion to the Regiment: Cantinieres of the French Army, l792-l906 Gerald Carpenter
The Fortune of Angelicque Favre David Schmidt
"Till Christ Jesus Be Exalted": Quaker Political Pamphlets During the Restoration of the Rump Parliament Hubert Dubrulle
"A War of Wonders": The Battle in Britain Over Americanization and the American Civil War Chris Erickson
Conservative Women and Patriotic Maternalism: The Beginnings of Gendered Conservative Tradition in the l920s and l930s. Betty Koed
The Politics of Reform: Policymakers and the Immigration Act of l965 Fiona Stoertz
Adolescence in Medieval Culture: The High Medieval Transformatio Bradley Brown
Kingship and the French Revolution of l830: The Meaning of Royal Authority in Popular Political Culture and Orleanism Monica Orozco
Protestant Missionaires, Mexican Liberals, Nationalism and the Issue of Cultural Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples Scopas Poggo
War and Conflict in the Southern Sudan, l955-l972 Kevin Chambers
Rural Transformation Under General Stroessner Gaston Espinosa
Borderland Religion: Los Angeles and the Origins of the Latino Pentecostal Movement in the US, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, l900-l945 Deborah Gerish
Shaping the Crown on Gold: Constructions of Royal Identity in the First Kingdom of Jerusalem, l099-ll87 Robert Jenks
Governing in the Absence of Government: The Birth and Development of the United States Industrial Standards System Kathryn Statler
From the French to the Americans: Intra-Alliance Politics, Cold War Concerns, and the Cultural Conflict in Vietnam, l950-l960 Chris Ziegler-McPherson
"Americanization: The California Plan": The Commission of Immigration and Housing of California and Public Policy, l9l3-l923 Alan Manatt
Luther Legalized: Imperial Politics and the Reformation, 1521-1526 Stephanie Gustafs
"A Presse Full of Pamphlets:" The Printing of News in London, l640-l642 Peng-Fu Neo
A Study of the "Auxiliary Texts of the Book of Changes" Laura Wertheimer
The Ecclesiastical Construction of Illegitimacy in the Middle Ages Michael Adamson
Inventing U.S. Foreign Aid From Private of Public Funding of Economic Development, l9l9-l94l Doug Dodd
Preserving Multiple Use Management: The U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service and the Struggle for Idaho's Sawtooth Mountain Country, l9ll-l972 Andy Johns
The Loyal Opposition: The Republican Party and the DomesticPolitics of the Vietnam War, l960-l969 Jacob Hamblin
Oceanography and International Cooperation During the Early Cold War Ken Osgood
Total Cold War: US Propaganda in the 'Free World,' l953-l960 Bev Schwartzberg
Grass Widows, Barbarians, and Bigamists: Fluid Marriage in Late Ninettenth-Century America Dennis Ventry
The Treatment of Marriage Under the Federal Income Tax, 19l3-2000 Justin Stephens
Ecclesiastical and Imperial Authority in the Writings of John Chrysostom: A Reinterpretation of His Political Philosophy Rick Fogarty
Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-l9l8 Stephen Cory
Chosen by God to Rule: The Caliphate and Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Morocco Susan Snyder
Woman as Heretic: Gender and Lay Religion in Late Medieva Bologna Jim Emmons
The Limits of Late Antiquity: St. Aed mac Bricc and the Irish in Late Antiquity Peter McDermott
Sir Henry Vane, Jr: The Formation of a Puritan Conscience Dan Shao
Ethnicity in Empire and Nation: Manchus, Manzhouguo, and Manchuria, l9ll-l952 Sarah Case
Renogotiating Race and Respectability in the Classroom: Women an and Education in the New South Tim Hagen
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and the English Press: News, Foreig Policy and Popular Opinion in Early Stuart England Jose Valente
Soldiers and Settlers: The Knights Templar in Portugal, 1128-1319 Matt Racine
"A Most Opulent Iliad": The Portuguese Occupation of Southern Morocco (l505-l542): The Fortunes of a Frontier Society Edward Wilson
Coercion and Dissent: Political Policy Against Religious Nonconformists in randenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach and the Holy Roman Empire, l527-2566 Jamece Brown
Expressions of Faith and Spiritual Power in African American Religious Literature Alexandra Epstein
Linking a State to the World: Female Internationalists, California, and the Pacific, l9l9-l939 Hattingh, Alistair
Cuyo and Goliath. The Province of San Juan and The Argentine Federal Government, l930-l943 Heitschmidt, Traci
The Quest for Uranium: Environmental and Political Effects of Soviet Mining Policy In East Germany, l945-l967 Helffrich, Tryntje
"The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman:" Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War Keaney, Heather
Recollections of Regicide: Uthman ibn 'Affan in Mamluk Memory Carlander, Jay
Discipline and Profit: Slavery and Labor in Antebellum Southern Econmic Thought and Ideology Howes, Rachel
Mu'ayyad fil-Din al-Shirazi and the Fatimid Dawa in the Age of al-Mustansir Baranski, John
Making Public Housing in San Francisco: Liberalism, Social Prejudice, and social Activism, l906-l976 Bromber, Robert
English Abandonados and Afortunados: Class and Spanish Justice the Atlantic world, l568-l576 Kelly, Jason
Polite Sociability and Levantine Archeology in the British Zulueta, Ben
"Brains at a Bargain": Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, American Science, and the Cold War of the Classrooms Nenzi, Laura
The Culture of Travel in Edo Period Japan Whitesides, Greg
Genes, Minds and Selves: American Science, Religion and the Industry of Faith and Reason Ashenmiiller, Josh
The National Environmental Policy Act and the Green Decade, 1969-1981 Bernikho, Rhimou
Saints, Sufis, and Sultans: the Zawiya of Wazzan, a Moroccan Sufi Order, l792-l892 Esselstrom, Erik
GAI KEI: The Japanese Consular Police in Northeast Asia, l880-l945 See, Jennifer
The Interregnum: Great Power Relations Between World War and Cold War, l945-l947 Emerson, Mark
Messianic Expectation and Collective Myth Formation: Prophecy, Society and Imagination in Early Modern Portugual Hall, David
Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959 Hendrickson, Mark
Labor Knowledge and the Building of Modern Industrial Relations, 1918-1929 Polanah, Paulo
Exceptionalism and the Imperial Mystique: National and Colonial Discourse, and the Forging of a Portuguese Imperial Identity, 1928-1945 Kim, Monte
The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Making of Place and Commun in California Widders, Evan
Healing Medicine: Medical Reform in the Spanish Enlightenment, 1767-1788 Rapp, Ann
A Marginalized Voice for Racial Justice: Charlotta Bass and Oppositional Politics, l9l4-l960 Sutton, Matthew
Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and Politics Sizgorich, Tom
Monks, Martyrs and Mujahidun: Militant Piety in Late Antiquity and Early Islam Swiontek, Danielle
With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California Burden, David
La Idea Salvadora: Immigration and Colonization Politics in Mexico, 1821-1857 McLoughlin, Nancy
Universitas, Secular-Mendicant Conflict and the Construction of Learned Male Authority in the Thought of Jean Gerson Birk, Joshua
Sicilian Counterpoint: Power and Pluralism in Norman Sicily Pastrano, Jose
Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South: State, Race, and the Politics of Migrant Labor in Texas, 1890-1930 Wright, Christopher
Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam's 'Futuhmisr:' An Analysis of the Text and New Insights into the Islamic Conquest of Egypt Chapman, Jessica
Debating the Will of Heaven: South Vietnamese Politics and Nationalism in Intrnational Perspective, 1953-1956 Malikov, Yuriy
Formation of a Borderland Culture: Myths and Realities of Cossack- Kazakh Relations in Northern Kazakhstan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Sbardellati, John
Hollywood's Cold War: The FBI, Congress, and the Battle over Film Propaganda Schuster, David
Neurasthenic Nation: The Medicalization of Modernity in the United States, 1869-1920 Torres-Rouff, David
Making Los Angeles: Race, Space, and Municipal Power, 1822-1890 Zakariya, Hafiz
Islamic Reform in Colonial Malaya: Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin and Sayyid Shaykh al-Hadi Aono, Toshihiko
The Twin Crises and the Anglo-American Alliance, l961-l962 Dawson, Sandra
Islands of Leisure: British Holiday Camps in War and Peace Feinberg, Carol
The Knowledge Traders: Psychological Experts, Political Intellectuals, and the Rise of the New Right Blodgett, Michael
Attila, Flagellum Dei? Huns and Romans, Conflict and Cooperation in the Late Antique World Guevarra, Rudy
Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, l900-l965 Dormady, Jason
Not Just a Better Mexico: Intentional Religious Community and the Mexican State, l940-l964 Boyle, Eric
The Boundaries of Medicine: Redefining Therapeutic Orthodoxy in an Age of Reform Logrono, Maria
The Development of Nationailst Identities in French Syria and Lebanon: A Transnational Dialogue with Arab Immigrants to Argentina and Brazil, l9l5-l929 Werthmuller, Kurt
An In-Between Space: An Archival and Textual Study of Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt, 1171-1250 C.E. Aberman, Matthew
DeFraga, Matthew
Petersen, Bethanie
Atassi, Ahmad
Harris, Bonnie
Kester, Matthew
Levine, Sharleen Nakamoto
Page, Ingrid