In Progress
Aaron Bell. “Transnational Conservatives and the Development of ARENA.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman.
Borislav Chernev. “’The Future Depends on Brest-Litovsk’: War, Peace, and Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917-1918.” Chair of Committee: Eric Lohr.
Brian D’Haeseleer. “From the Jungles to the Mountains: the American Experience in El Salvador, 1979-1992.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman
Rebecca DeWolf. “Amending Nature: the Equal Rights Amendment and Gendered Citizenship in the United States, 1920-1960.” Chair of Committee Allan Lichtman.
Nicholas Ercole. “Conceiving Arab Nationalism: Culture, Diplomacy, and the Genesis of U.S.-Middle East Relations, 1919-1939.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman
Thomas Hauser. “Disarming Germany: Allied Diplomacy and Arms Control, 1918-1926.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman.Stephanie Jacobe. “Thomas Fortune Ryan: an American Catholic.” Chair of Committee: Alan Kraut.
Alexandra Lohse. “’In Spite of All That:’ War and Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany, 1943-1945.” Chair of Committee: Richard Breitman.
Lorna Loring. “’The Most Useful of All the Fruits:’ Bligh’s Breadfruit Voyages and the Virtue of Economic Botany.” Chair of Committee: April Shelford.
Lisa Maguire. “Colonial Governance in the Mediterranean: French Bureaucratic Practices in the Protectorates and Mandate, 1919-1939.” Chair of Committee: Lisa Leff.
Allen Mikaelian. “’There is Humanity:’ Globalization, Foreign Students, and the Cosmopolitan Clubs in Early 20th Century America.” Chair of Committee: Alan Kraut.
Loren Miller. “Glamourous G.I. Girls: Constructing Servicewomen’s Identities During World War II.” Chair of Committee: Kathy Franz.
Louie Milojevic. “Building Tito-Land: American Foreign Aid and the Yugoslav Fantasy, 1948-1963.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman.
Shannon Mohan. “’The Difference between Advice and Authority:’ Henry Kissinger’s Experience as Consultant to the Kennedy Administration.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman.
Erica Munkwitz. “’Straight Ahead and Over Everything:’ Women and Equestrian Sports in Britain, 1772-1956.” Chair of Committee: Laura Beers.
Matthew Pembleton. “Toiling in the Vineyards: American Security and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968.” Chair of Committee: Peter Kuznick.
Rodney Pool. “’Proud of the Cloud:’ Community and National Identity in an ‘Atomic Town,’ 1945-1964.”
Terumi Rafferty-Osaki. “’Strictly Masculine:’ Reforming and Performing Manhood at Tule Lake, 1942-1946.” Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman.
Holly Scott. “People of this Generation: the Meaning of Youth in the New Left.” Chair of Committee: Peter Kuznick.
Elizabeth Sheptyck . “Regulating Marriage and Migration: American Attitudes towards Correspondence Marriage Among Eastern European Immigrants in New York City, 1900-1916, and Japanese Immigrants in Los Angeles County, 1910-1920.” Chair of Committee: Alan Kraut.
Rob Verbsky. “Selling Aviation: the Meaning of Air Show in America.” Chair of Committee: Alan Kraut.Robert Williams. "Das Freie Wort? Structuring East and West German Political Culture through the Postwar Press, 1945-1955." Chair of Committee: Richard Breitman.
Recently Completed Dissertations
Eric Singer. “Saving City X: Planners, Citizens and the Culture of Civil Defense in Baltimore, 1950-1964.” Chair of Committee: Peter Kuznick.
Adam Fenner. “The Path to Favor: Tiburcio Carías Andino and the United States, 1923-1941. Chair of Committee: Max Paul Friedman.
Garrett, Lynette. “Confederate Nationalism in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia during the American Civil War, 1861-1865.”
Thelen, Sarah. “Give War a Chance: The Nixon Administration and Domestic Support for the Vietnam War, 1969-1973.”
Coeller, Rod, "'Going Native': Radicalized Evangelical Missionaries in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s"
Altenhofel, Jennifer L.,"Keeping House: Irish and Irish American Women in the District of Columbia, 1850-1890"
Cawley, Alexandra, "The Status of Indentured Servants in the Colonial Chesapeake Household and Community: Kent County, Maryland"
Clavin, Matthew, "'Men of Color, to Arms!': Remembering Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War"
Doyle, Debbie Ann, "'The World's Playground': Tourism and Mass Culture in Atlantic City, New Jersey"
Fishman, Aleisa, "June and Ward Were Jews: Gender, the Market, and Jewish Identity in Suburban Nassau County, 1946-1960"
Gaydosh, Brenda, "Seliger Bernhard Lichtenberg: In His Own Sphere"
Gessler, Christina, "Harvest of the Heart: Themes from the Diaries of 19th-Century New England Farm Women"Giese, Michael, "A Federal Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: The Evolution of the National Wildlife Refuge System, 1920-1973"
Greenberg, Joshua, "Advocating 'the Man': Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840"
Gueli, Cynthia, "Boom Town Girls: Women's Wartime Experiences in and Impact on Washington, DC, 1941-1945"
Hackford, Heidi, "'Faking It': The Meaning of Malingering in Middle Class America, 1830-1880"
Henry, Mary Ellen, "Virginia's Poorhouses, 1870-1930: Refuge from Want?"
Hindley, Meredith, "Allied Relief to Nazi-Occupied Territories during the Second World War, 1939-1945"
Intondi, Vincent, "From Harlem to Hiroshima: The African American Response to the Atomic Bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Kagan, Robert, "Inherit the World: An Interpretative History of American Foreign Policy, 1607-1865"Kramer, Alisa, "William H. Parker and the LAPD: The Politics of Law Enforcement in Los Angeles,1950-1966"
Nelson, Katharine, "The Temperance Positions: Developing Concepts of Addiction"
Onkst, David, "The Triumph and Decline of the ‘Squares’: Grumman Aerospace Engineers and Production Workers in the Apollo Era, 1957-1973"
Paehler, Katrin, "Espionage, Ideology, and Personal Politics: The Making and Unmaking of a Nazi Foreign Intelligence Service"
Rush, Anne Spry, "West Indians and Britishness, 1900-1970"
Schmitz, John, "Enemies Among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War"
Stewart, Elizabeth, "Who Shall Decides When Doctors Disagree?: Hoaxes and American Men of Science in the Nineteenth Century"
Unti, Bernard, "'Humane Society': A History of Organized Concern for Animals in the United States before the Second World War"