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PhD's
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Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations
PhD Recipients, 2007-08
Deanna Gillespie, "They Walk, Talk, and Act Like New People: Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957-1970"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Ryan Pederson, "Atavistic Culture: Chivalry and Noble Violence in France, 1560-1660"
Dissertation supervisor: H. G. Brown
Ute Ritz-Deutsch, "Alberto Vojtech Fric, the German Diaspora, and Indian Protection in Southern Brazil, 1900-1920: A Transatlantic Etho-Historical Case Study"
Dissertation supervisor: J. Quataert
Melyssa Wrisley, "Fashioning a New Femininity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Discourse of Women's Dress, 1875-1930"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Chin-Shan Wu, "'Song-Scholar-Officials' Perception of Clerks"
Dissertation supervisor: J. Chaffee
PhD Recipients, 2006-07
Marion E. Horan, "Trafficking in Danger: Working-Class Women and Narratives of Sexual Danger in English and United States Anti-Prostitution Campaigns, 1875-1914"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Dublin
Hoi Sik Jang, "Japanese Imperial Ideology, Shifting War Aims and Domestic Propaganda During the Pacific War of 1941-45"
Dissertation supervisor: F. Fan
Shannon King, "Home to Harlem: Community and Working-Class Politics in Harlem, 1916-1928"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Patterson
Denise M. Lynn, "Women on the March: Gender and Anti-Fascism in American Communism, 1935-1939"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Peter Morse, "Wobbly Identities: Race, Gender, and Radical Industrial Unionists in the United States, 1900-1920"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Kara Lynn Ritzheimer, "Protecting Youth from 'Trash': Anti-Schund Campaigns in Baden, 1900-1933"
Dissertation supervisor: J. Quataert
Mehmet M. Sunar, "Cauldron of Dissent: A Study of the Janissary Corps, 1807-1826"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
PhD Recipients, 2005-06
Erden Attila Aytekin, "Land, Rural Classes, and Law: Agrarian Conflict and State Regulation in the Ottoman Empire, 1830s-1860s"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
Sarah Boyle, "Creating a Union of the Union: The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Creation of a Politicized Female Reform Culture, 1880-1892"
Dissertation supervisor: K. Sklar
Gregory Geddes, "Literature and Labor: Harvey Swados and th 20th Century American Left"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Linda Janke, "Prisoners of War: Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Women's Incarceration During World War I"
Dissertation supervisor: K. Sklar
Michele Materese, "The Nurse and the Community: Lillian Wald -- A Social Activist, 1893-1913"
Dissertation supervisor: K. Sklar
Nalan Turna, "The Everyday Life of Estanbul and Its Artisans, 1808-1839"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
PhD
Recipients, 2004-05
Elif
Aksit,
"Regulating
Girls' Education: Paradoxes of Modernity and Nationalism in the Late Ottoman
Empire and the Early Turkish Republic"
Dissertation
supervisor: D. Quataert
Suronda
Gonzalez,
"Immigrants'
Protective League of Chicago, and the New American Citizenship, 1908-1924"
Dissertation
supervisor: K. Sklar
Yavuz
Karakisla,
"Women
and Work in the Ottoman Empire: Society for the Employment of Ottoman
Muslim Women (1916-1923)"
Dissertation
supervisor: D. Quataert
Halle
Lewis,
"Cripples
are not the Dependents One is Led to Think: Work and Disability in Industrializing
Cleveland, 1861-1916"
Dissertation
supervisor: K. Sklar
Laura
Murphy,
"The
Worker's Right to a Decent Livelihood: Catholic Social Thought and Activism
and the U.S. Minimum Wage, 1879-1938"
Dissertation
supervisor: K. Sklar
Jennifer
Pierce,
"Discourses
of the Dispossessed: Saint-Domingue Colonists on Race, Revolution and
Empire, 1789-1825"
Dissertation
supervisor: H. Brown
Glenn
B. Ramsey,
"Erotic Friendship, Gender, Inversion, and Human Rights in the German
Movement for Homosexual Reform, 1897-1933"
Dissertation Advisor: J. Quataert
PhD
Recipients, 2003-04
Lyn
Blanchfield,
"Tears that Tell: The Ritualistic Uses of Weeping by Participants
of Late Medieval Florentine Sermons"
Dissertation Advisor: R. Trexler
Katharine
Dawson, "Coal,
Community, and Collective Action in Mckinley County, New Mexico: 1900-1935"
Dissertation Advisor: M. Dubofsky
Michelle
Kuhl, "Modern
Martyrs: "African American Responses to Lynching, 1885-1940"
Dissertation Advisor: K. Sklar
Jan
Norris, "Anglo-Saxon
Religious Women Who Went to the Continent: A Study Group"
Dissertation Advisor: B. Effros
Ken
Orosz, "Religious
Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon,
1885-1939"
Dissertation Advisor: J. Quataert
D'mitri
Palmateer, "Along
the Intinerant Frontier: Mobility, Class, and Social Reform, Portland,
Oregon, 1890-1920"
Dissertation Advisor: M. Dubofsky
Ivette
Rivera-Giusti,
"Gender, Labor and Working Class Activism in the Tobacco Industry
in Puerto Rico,1898-1924"
Dissertation Advisor: T. Patterson
Daniel
Wright, "'The
First Causes to Our Sex': The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum
Northeast, 1834-1848"
Dissertation Advisor: K. Sklar
PhD
Recipients, 2002-03
Holly
Blake, "'Dependency
Is Not Charming': Marie Howland on Women, Class, and Community, 1836-1921"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
Risa
Faussette, "Race,
Migration, and Port City Radicalism: New York's Black Longshoremen and
the Politics of Maritime Protest"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Patterson
Kevin
Kreiner, "The
Age of the Supermen: Democracy, Fascism, and the Mass Media, 1914-1915"
Dissertation supervisor: W.W. Wagar
Jose
Torre, "The
Political Economy of Sentiment: Money and Emotions in the Early Republic"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Robert
Zajkowski, "The
Legend of St. Edmund Martyr: A Study in Monastic Mentality, Hagiography,
and Ideology"
Dissertation supervisor: R. Oggins
PhD
Recipients, 2001-02
Malek Abisaab, "A History of Women Tobacco
Workers: Labor, Community and Social Transformation in Lebanon, 1895-1997"
Dissertation
supervisor: D. Quataert
Virginia
Cole, "Royal
Almsgiving in Medieval England: A Study in the Ritual and Administrative
Construction of Kingship"
Dissertation supervisor:
R. Oggins
Virginia
Holmes, "'The
Inviolability of Human Life': Pacifism and the Jews in Weimar Germany"
Dissertation supervisor:
L. Sussman
Susan
Lewis, "Women
in the Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurship, Business Patterns & Family
Values in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York"
Dissertation supervisor:
T. Dublin
Claire
Parham, "A
Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative History of Cornwall, Ontario and Massena,
New York, 1785-2001"
Dissertation supervisor:
M. Dubofsky
Barbara
Reeves-Ellington,
"'That Our Daughters May Be As Corner Stones': American Missionaries,
Bulgarian Nationalists, and the Politics of Gender, 1832-1872"
Dissertation supervisor:
K. K. Sklar
Connie
Shemo, "An
Army of Women: The Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu,"
1873-1937"
Dissertation supervisor:
K. K. Sklar
Mahnaz
Yousefdadeh,
"National Festival of Dante (1863-1865): Regional Traditions, Modern
Associations and the Rise of Italian Society"
Dissertation supervisor:
R. Trexler
PhD
Recipients, 2000-01
Linnea
Burwood,
"Alexander Berkman: Russian-American
Anarchist"
Dissertation supervisor: W.W. Wagar
Jennifer
Evans,
"Reconstruction sites : sexuality,
citizenship, and the limits of national belonging in divided Berlin, 1944-58"
Dissertation supervisor: J. Quataert
Cengiz Kirli,
"The Struggle Over Space: Coffeehouses of
Ottoman, Istanbul, 1780-1845"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
Jennifer
Langdon-Teclaw, "Caught
in the Crossfire: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism and the Politics of Americanism
in the Hollywood Career of Adrian Scott"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
Joyce
Matthews,
"The Ottoman Inheritance Inventory
as an Exercise in Conceptual Reclamation, c. 1600-1675"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
John McGuire,
"A Catalyst for Reform: The Women's
Joint Legislative Conference (WJLC) and Its Fight for Labor Legislation
in New York State, 1918-1933"
Dissertation supervisor: K. Sklar
John Olszowka,
"From Shop Floor to Flight: Work and Labor
in the Aircraft Industry, 1908-1946"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Dublin
Nadir
Ozbek,
"The Politics of Welfare: Philanthropy,
Voluntarism and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1914."
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
Karen Pastorello,
"A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz
Hillman and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Dublin
Linda Shoemaker,
"Charity and Justice: Gender and the
Mission of Social Work--Social Work Education in Boston, New York, and
Chicago, 1898-1930"
Dissertation supervisor: K. Sklar
Meltem
Toksoz, "The
Cukurova: From Nomadic Life to Commercial Agriculture, 1800-1908"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
PhD
Recipients, 1999-2000
Melissa Doak,
"She Will Never Get Well While Doing Anything
Unnatural": Women's Sexual Deviance and Institutional Psychiatry in New
York City, 1890-1920
Dissertation supervisor: T. Dublin
Jan Doolittle,
"Organized Women Under Attack": The Women's
Joint Congressional Committee and Its Legislative Campaigns for Mothers
and Children, 1920-1930"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Douglas Feeney,
"The Battle on the Benches: The Wagner Act
and the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, 1935-1942"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Francis K. Janecek, "The Social and
Institutional Origins and Development of the Soviet Officer Corps in the
1930s and 1940s"
Dissertation supervisor: A. Donnelly
Jin
Hee Kim, "Labor Law and Labor Policy in New
York State, 1920-1930s."
Dissertation supervisor: M.
Dubofsky
Stephanie
Oxendale, "'What
Should They Know of England Who Only England Know?' Ideas of Englishness,
Empire and Organized Women's Emigrations, 1902-1927"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
PhD
Recipients, 1998-99
Yuksel Duman,
"Notables, textiles and copper in Ottoman
Tokat, 1750-1840"
Dissertation supervisor: D. Quataert
Carol Faulkner,
"The Hard Heart of the Nation: Gender, Race,
and Dependency in the Freedmen's Aid Movement, 1862-1876"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Michael A. McHugh,
"Directing the Dream : Brook, Reinhardt, Barker"
Dissertation supervisor: B. McConville
Samuel W. White,
"Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana,
1919-1955"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
PhD
Recipients, 1997-98
Taylor F.
Hollander, "Power, Politics,
and Principles: The Canadian State and Collective Bargaining, 1935-1948"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
PhD
Recipients, 1996-97
Amy Butler,
"The Search for Women's Equality: Alice Paul
and Ethel Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921-1923"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Penelope Harper,
"Investigating the Working Woman: Middle Class
Americans and the Debate over Women's Wage Work, 1820-1920"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Dublin
Vivien Rose,
"Homesteading as Social Protest: Gender and
Continuity in the Back-to-the-Land Movement in the United States, 1890-1980"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
PhD
Recipients, 1995-96
Tracey Boisseau,
"The African Adventures of May French-Sheldon:
A Critical Cultural Study of an Imperial Feminist"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
Krista O'Donnell,
"The Colonial Woman Question: Gender, National
Identity, and Empire in the German Colonial Female Emigration Program,
1896-1914"
Dissertation supervisor: J. Quataert
PhD
Recipients, 1994-95
Kathleen Babbitt,
"Producers and Consumers: Women of the Countryside
and Cooperative Extension Service Home Economists, New York State, 1870-1935"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Kimberly Schmidt,
"Transforming Tradition: The Effects of Religion
on Economic Mennonite Women's Work, 1930-1990"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Mildred Semple,
"New York Fashion: The Tobe Coburn School,
1937-1967"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
Sandra Spingarn,
"Trade Unionism Among the Jewish Workers in
the Fur Manufacturing Industry in New York City: 1912-1929"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Mark Zaltman,
"Social Conflict in Late 19th Century Rogers
Park and West Ridge"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
PhD
Recipients, 1993-1994
Timothy Houlihan,
"The New York City Building Trades, 1890-1910"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Victor DiSanto,
"The Streetcar Workers of Albany, 1900-1921,
The Union Era"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Michael Groth,
"Forging Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley:
The End of Slavery and the Formation of a Free African-American Community
in Dutchess County, NY, 1770-1850"
Dissertation supervisor: T. Dublin
Gladys
Jimenez-Munoz, "A
Storm Dressed in Skirts: Ambivalence in the Debate on Women's Suffrage
in Puerto Rico, 1927-1929"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
PhD
Recipients, 1992-93
Kailai Huang,
"Myth or Reality: American Business Opinion
and the China Market, 1949-1980"
Dissertation supervisor: R. Dalfiume
Joelle Koster,
"The People of Curial Avignon. A Critical
Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Lists of Matriculation of the
Congraternity of Notre Dame La Majour"
Dissertation supervisor: R. Trexler
Steven Luckert,
"Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, and Jacobins:
Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies, and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century
Germany"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Shefftz
Kenneth Millen,
"From Liberal to Socialist Internationalism:
Konnie Zilliacus and the League of Nations, 1894-1939"
Dissertation supervisor: C. Forcey
Patrick O'Neil,
"Winston S. Churchill's Philosophy of Empire
-- The Mind of the Imperialist"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Shefftz
Michael Pierson,
"'Free Hearts and Free Homes': Representations
of Family in the American Antislavery Movement"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
Robyn Rosen,
"Federal Responsibility or Governmental Tyranny:
The Reproductive Reform Impulse and the Welfare State, 1917-1940"
Dissertation supervisor: K. K. Sklar
Patricia Smith,
"Martydrom, Murder and Magic: Child Saints
and Their Cults in Medieval Europe"
Dissertation supervisor: R. Oggins
Paul Street,
"Working the Yards: Workers, Managers, and
Militants in Chicago's Meatpacking Industry, 1900-1943"
Dissertation supervisor: M. Dubofsky
Andrea Tyndall,
"The Personal Becomes Political: Arthur Koestler,
1940-1950"
Dissertation supervisor: W. W. Wagar
Patricia West, "The Historic House Museum Movement in America: Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House as a Case Study"
Dissertation supervisor: S. Elbert
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