Current and Completed Dissertations in Gender History

Current Dissertation Titles

Re-visioning Dad: Representations of the Father in Contemporary Female Solo Performance
(Judy Bauerlein, Advisor: Catherine Cole, Dramatic Art)

Advertising Masculinity and Marketing Manliness: Male Consumerism in Britain, 1880-1940
(Justin Bengry, Advisor: Erika Rappaport, History)

Sicilian Counterpoint: Power and Pluralism in Norman Sicily
(Joshua Birk, Advisor: Carol Lansing, History)

Forgotten in History: Non-elite Palestinian Women, 1920-1948
(Elizabeth Brownson, Advisor: Nancy Gallagher, History)

Renegotiating Race and Respectability in the Classroom: Women and Education in the New South
(Sarah Case, Advisor: Jane De Hart, History)

Armed and Dangerous? Britain's Home Guard in Myth and Memory
(Matthew DeFraga, History)

Jewish Households in Renaissance Perugia
(Karen Frank, Advisor: Carol Lansing, History)

In the Utah Vanguard: Amy Brown Lyman as Progressive Mormon Activist, Welfare State Builder, and Modern Woman in Dual-Career Family
(David Hall, Advisor: Jane De Hart, History)

Meanings of Maternity for Japanese Women on Hawai‘i's Sugar Plantations, 1919-1945
(Sharleen Nakamoto Levine, Advisor: Paul Spickard, History)

Coitus Perfectus: Defining Heterosexuality in the mid-20th Century United States
(Carolyn Lewis, Advisor: Leila Rupp, History)

Bodies and Souls: Constructing Jewish Women on the Twentieth-Century American Stage
(Jan Lewis, Advisor: Catherine Cole, Dramatic Art)

Transgender Performance: Sex, Gender and American Theatre
(Jessica O'Keefe, Advisor: Catherine Cole, Dramatic Art)

Truly this is Patriotism: African-American Women Explore American Identity in Turn of the Century Europe, 1880-1910
(Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Advisor: Jane De Hart, History)

Comic Book Masculinities: America's Superheroes During the Cold War
(James Sherman, Advisor: Lisa Jacobson, History)

'The heart of a man and of a lion': Northern French Noblewomen as Medieval Military Commanders
(Katrin Sjursen, Advisor: Sharon Farmer, History)

Now She is Mary, Now She is Martha: the Beguines of Paris in Medieval Society and Clerical Imagination
(Tanya Stabler, Advisor: Sharon Farmer, History)

Hollywood Religion: Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and American Culture
(Matthew Sutton, Advisor: Jane De Hart, History)

Boosters, Consumers, Lobbyists, and Voters : Women, Labor, and Political Culture in California, 1910-1930
(Danielle Swiontek, History)

Infidelitatis errorem: Marriage Disputes in Late Medieval Lucca
(Corinne Wieben, Advisor: Carol Lansing, History)

The Making of Bella Abzug's Legal Activism and Feminist Political Leadership
(Leandra Zarnow, Advisor: Jane DeHart, History)

Recently Completed Dissertation Titles

Woman as Heretic: Gender and Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bologna
(Susan Snyder, 2002, Advisor: Carol Lansing, History)

Gender and Colonialism in Palestine, 1800-1948: Encounters among English, Arab, and Jewish Women
(Nancy Stockdale, 2000, Advisor: Nancy Gallagher, History)