2025
Isaac Bershady. “From Beijing to Budapest: How China Transformed Hungarian Market Society, 1979-1995.” Committee: Paul Hanebrink (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Judith Surkis, and Martha Lampland (outside member).
Doris Brossard. "Unattached: Single People and Belonging in Modern America.” Committee: Jennifer Mittelstadt (chair), Johanna Schoen, Rachel Devlin, and Margot Canaday (outside member).
Kiamsha Bynes. “Claiming Space: Black Women, Sport, and the Struggle for Athletic Belonging in the Twentieth Century." Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Brittney Cooper, Judith Surkis, and Susan Cahn (outside member).
Anaïs Faurt. “Neither Safe nor Sound: Child Protection at the End of the French Empire, 1945-1979.” Committee: Judith Surkis (chair), Seth Koven, Melissa Feinberg, Emily Marker (RU-Camden), and Emmanuelle Saada (outside member).
Whitney Fields. “Captive in Promised Land: Black Lives, Confinement, and Incarceration in Nineteenth-Century Urban America.” Committee: Erica Armstrong Dunbar (chair), Deborah Gray White, Leslie Alexander, Donna Murch, and Kali Gross (outside member).
Harold Gabel. “Poland’s Europe: Poland and its “West,” 1960–1979." Committee: Melissa Feinberg (chair), Belinda Davis, Paul Hanebrink, Seth Koven, and Małgorzata Fidelis (outside member).
Adam McNeil. "Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women & the Shadow of Re-Enslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia." Committee: Erica Armstrong Dunbar (chair), Marisa Fuentes, Yesenia Barragan, J.T. Roane, and Tamika Nunley (outside member).
Ariel Mond. “Politics Imprisoned: Political Prisoners and the Making of Democracy, Decolonization, and Human Rights in Postwar France, 1945-1975.” Committee: Judith Surkis (chair), Belinda Davis, Julie Stephens, Emily Marker (RU-Camden) and Emma Kuby (outside member).
Jian Ren. “Dancing at the Periphery: Knowledge and Experiments in China-Latin America Relations, 1949-1989.” Committee: Kathleen López (chair), David Foglesong, Aldo Lauria-Santiago, and Adrian Hearn (outside member).
Nick Sprenger. “The Outrage of Empire: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the British World." Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Judith Surkis, Julie Stephens, and Elizabeth Kolsky (oustide member).
Daniela Valdes. "Clocked and Locked: Race, Gender, Nonconformity, and the Making of the Carceral-Psychiatric State, 1945-2010." Committee: Donna Murch (co-chair), Lilia Fernandez (co-chair), Timothy Stewart-Winter, and Regina Kunzel (outside member).
Brenna Yellin. "'With Heart and Head': Solving the 'Resettlers Problem' in the Soviet Occupation Zone and German Democratic Republic.” Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Jochen Hellbeck, and Donna Harsch (outside member).
2024
Daniel Bottino. "Colonizing the Landscape: Memory, Ritual, and Perceptions of Place in Seventeenth-Century Maine." Committee: Alastair Bellany (chair), Camilla Townsend, Andrew Shankman, and David Silverman (outside member).
Henry Crouse. "Captains and Kings: One Native Family's Journey Through American History." Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Paul Clemens, Jameson Sweet and Amy Schutt (outside member).
Andrea Ditkoff. "‘Healthy Women, Healthy Lives’: The Nurses’ Health Study and American Women’s Health Research, 1960s-2000s." Committee: Johanna Schoen (chair), Barbara Cooper, Jennifer Mittelstadt and Judith Houck (outside member).
Ian Gavigan. "Socialist Stronghold: The Socialist Party, Labor, and the Making of U.S. Politics from the Gilded Age to the New Deal." Committee: Jennifer Mittelstadt (chair), Dorothy Sue Cobble, Jackson Lears and Gabriel Winant (outside member).
Alison Hight. “Instituting Nation and Empire in the Modern British World.” Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Belinda Davis, Julia Stephens, Judith Surkis, and Mark Doyle (outside member).
Joseph Kaplan. "'We at War': The Bureau of Special Services and the Surveillance of New York's Black Left During the Era of the Urban Rebellions." Committee: Donna Murch (chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, Lilia Fernandez, Johanna Fernandez (outside member), and Alfred McCoy (outside member).
Timur Mukhamatulin. “Twisting Femininity. Women’s Gymnastics in the Soviet Union, 1917-1991." Committee: Jochen Hellbeck (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Judith Surkis and Robert Edelman (outside member).
Katie Sinclair. "Frontiers of Sovereignty: An Environmental History of Law, Science, and Profit on the French Kerguelen Islands." Committee: Judith Surkis (chair), James Delbourgo, Johan Mathew, Jack Bouchard, and Debjani Bhattacharyya (outside member).
Hugo Marquez Soljancic. “Women in Discussions about the Limits between God and Nature during the Long Twelfth Century.” Committee: Leah DeVun (chair), Seth Koven, Larry Scanlon, and Dyan Elliott (outside member).
Lisette Varon-Carvajal. "Caring Women: Midwives and Female Healers in New Granada, 1700-1810." Committee: Tatiana Seijas (chair), Camilla Townsend, Yesenia Barragan, and Pablo Gomez (outside member).
2023
Shauni Armstead. “Imagined Solidarities: Black Liberal Internationalism and the National Council of Negro Women’s Journey from Afro-Asian to Pan-African Unity, 1935 to 1975". Committee: Dorothy Sue Cobble (chair), Deborah Gray White, Seth Koven, Chie Ikeya, and Keisha Blain (outside member).
Hannah Groch-Begley. "Mother, Sister, Soldier, Killer: Violent Women and the First World War, 1914-1918." Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Belinda Davis, Judith Surkis and Susan Grayzel.
Sam Hege. "'The Winds of Money': Race, Work, and Water in the Texas Panhandle, 1910-1985." Committee: Toby Jones (chair), Jamie Pietruska, Donna Murch and Andrew Needham (outside member).
Eri Kitada. "Intimately Intertwined: Filipino Women in the U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956." Committee: Chie Ikeya (co-chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt (co-chair), Kornel Chang and Eiichiro Azuma (outside member).
Celso Mendoza. “Painting Colonialism with Words: The Aztecs Recording and Resisting Spanish Rule a Generation after Conquest.” Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Tatiana Seijas, Mark Wasserman and Barbara E. Mundy (outside member).
Carie Rael. "In the Shadow of Disneyland and Conservative Orange County Politics: Latinx Resistance in Anaheim and Santa Ana, 1942-2012.” Committee: Donna Murch (chair), Lilia Fernandez, Jennifer Mittelstadt and Max Felker-Kantor (outside member).
Henry Snow. “Making Revolutions: Labor and Power at the Atlantic Dockside". Committee: James Delbourgo (co-chair), Seth Koven (co-chair), Camilla Townsend and Kevin Dawson (outside member).
Brooke Thomas. "'To Capture a Vision Fair:' Black Sorority Women and the Shift From Respectability Politics to Public Policy, 1935-1975". Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Rachel Devlin, Tiffany Gill, Donna Murch and Kali Gross (outside member).
Emmet Von Stackelberg. “Seeing Through Silver: A Chemical History of Moving Images, 1880–1950." Committee: Jackson Lears (chair), Jamie Pietruska, Paul Israel and Lee Grieveson (outside member).
2022
Yarden Avital. “The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee between Universal Being and Particular Suffering". Committee: Jochen Hellbeck (co-chair), Judith Surkis (co-chair), Yael Zerubavel and Anika Walke (outside member).
Brian Brown. "'With Misery but Honor': Social Class Interaction in the Public Markets of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1870 to 1970". Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Yesenia Barragan, Jennifer Mittelstadt and Patrick McNamara (outside member).
Thomas Cossentino. "'The Ones You Sent': American Veterans and Legacies of the Vietnam War". Committee: David Foglesong (co-chair), Donna Murch (co-chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt and Christian Appy (outside member).
Alexander Petrusek. “Real Existing Ideals: East Germany and The Socialist Imaginary 1945-1991". Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Jochen Hellbeck, Melissa Feinberg, and Andreas Glaeser (outside member).
Jazmin Puicon. “Creating Cali: The Rise of Popular Democracy in the Cauca Valley, Colombia during the 20th Century". Committee: Aldo Lauria-Santiago (chair), Mark Wasserman, Kathleen Lopez, Yesenia Barragan, and Laura Schneider (outside member).
Peter Sorensen. “‘I am a Singer, I Remember the Lords': History in the Sixteenth-Century Aztec Cantares". Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Mark Wasserman, Tatiana Seijas, and Caterina Pizzigoni (outside member).
Brenann Sutter. "Consuming the Centerfold: Sexuality and the Fantasy of the American Good Life". Committee: Rachel Devlin (chair), Joanna Schoen, Kali Gross and Kathy Peiss (outside member).
Meagan Wierda. “To Count and Be Counted: Quantification in the Age of American Slavery". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), James Delbourgo, Jamie Pietruska, Kathleen Brown (outside member).
Joseph Williams. “Black Club Women, the Production of Religious Thought, and the Making of an Intellectual Movement, 1854-1933". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Deborah Gray White, Brittney Cooper, and Martha Jones (outside member).
2021
Beatrice J. Adams. “Standing in the Warmth of Our Own Sun: African Americans who Remained in and Returned to the American South during the Great Migration". Committee: Deborah Gray White (co-chair), Mia Bay (co-chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, Walter Rucker and Paul Ortiz (outside members).
Catherine Babikian. “Creating Welfare, Nursing Empire: Colonial Nursing and the National Health Service". Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Johanna Schoen, Belinda Davis, and Jordanna Bailkin (outside member).
Moyagaye A. Bedward. “'They say that we are from Africa': Race, Slavery, and Haratin Nationalists in 20th Century Colonial Morocco". Committee: Carolyn Brown (chair), Judith Surkis, Barbara Cooper, Eve Troutt-Powell (outside member).
Julia A. Buck. “Making the Resistance French: Bureaucracy, Memory, and Space in Postwar Marseille". Committee: Judith Surkis (chair), Yael Zerubavel, Temma Kaplan, and Henry Rousso (outside member).
Marlene Gaynair. “Islands in the North: (Re)Creating Jamaican Identities and Cultures in Toronto and New York City During the Long Twentieth Century". Committee: Mia Bay (co-chair), Walter Rucker (co-chair), Kathy Lopez, and Barrington Walker (outside member).
Patrick Harris. “Imperial Exiles: Emigration and Counterrevolution in the Colonial Atlantic". Committee: Judith Surkis (co-chair), Seth Koven (co-chair), Jennifer Jones, and Paul Friedland (outside member).
Tracey Johnson. “Carving Out a Space for Themselves: Black Artists in New York City, 1929-1989". Committee: Donna Murch (chair), James Delbourgo, Kali Gross; Nicole Fleetwood, Davarian Baldwin and Susan Cahan (outside members).
William Kelly. “REVOLUCIÓN ES RECONSTRUIR: HOUSING, EVERYDAY LIFE, AND REVOLUTION IN CUBA, 1959-1988". Committee: Kathleen Lopez (chair), Aldo Lauria, Mark Wasserman, Melissa Feinberg, and Michelle Chase (outside member).
Laura Michel. “Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy and Identity in the Early United States". Committee: Camilla Townsend (co-chair), Andrew Shankman (co-chair), James Delbourgo, Seth Koven, and Seth Rockman (outside member).
Marika Platter. “'Escaping Gotham: Working People and the Struggle over Urban Nature, 1800-1900". Committee: Ann Fabian (co-chair), Neil Maher (co-chair), Jamie Pietruska and Michael Rawson (outside member).
Dustin Stalnaker. “The Long Shadow of Fascism: German Resistance through the Spanish Civil War and its Legacy in West Germany, 1933-1989". Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Jochen Hellbeck, Temma Kaplan, Seth Koven and Geoff Eley (outside member).
Pamela Nicole Walker. “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Black and White Mothers Used the Box Project and the Postal System to Fight Hunger and Feed the Mississippi Freedom Movement". Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, Mia Bay, and Annelise Orleck (outside member).
Caitlin Reed Wiesner. “Controlling Rape: Black Women, the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence, and the State, 1974-1994". Committee: Johanna Schoen (chair), Donna Murch, Rachel Devlin, and Lisa Levenstein (outside member).
Kevin C. Young. “Subjects, Slaves, and Rebels: The Invisible Indio in Cuba, 1750-1895". Committee: Aldo Lauria Santiago (chair), Kathy Lopez, Camilla Townsend, Mark Wasserman and Sinclair Thomson (outside member).
2020
Dale Booth. “Fluid Economies, Fluid Identities: Women, Water, and Work, 1750-1914”. Committee: Leah DeVun (co-chair), Seth Koven (co-chair), Belinda Davis and Deborah Valenze (outside member).
Jessica Criales. "Women of Our Nation: Gender, Race, and Christian Indian Identity in the United States and Mexico, 1753-1867". Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Paul Clemens, Mark Wasserman, Peter Silver, and Mónica Díaz (outside member).
Hannah Frydman. "Classified Commerce: Gender, Labor, and Print Capitalism in Paris, 1881-1940”. Committee: Judith Surkis (chair), Seth Koven, Bonnie Smith, and Dominique Kalifa (outside member).
Tara Malanga. "'Earth is No One’s Home': Nahuatl Perceptions of Illness, Death, and Dying in the Early Colonial Period, 1520-1650". Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Mark Wasserman, Paul Clemens, Peter Silver, Stephanie Wood (outside member).
Taylor M. Moore. "Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Egypt (1875-1950)". Committee: Toby Jones (co-chair), Seth Koven (co-chair), James Delbourgo, Tuna Artun, and Marwa Elshakry (outside member).
Paul Sampson. “Ventilating the Empire: Environmental Machines in the British Atlantic World 1700-1850”. Committee: James Delbourgo (chair), Jamie Pietruska, Alastair Bellany, Lynn Festa (outside member) and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (outside member).
Ryan Tate. "Coal Frontier: Corporate Power and the Making of the Powder River Basin, 1965-1985". Committee: Dorothy Sue Cobble (chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, Toby Jones, and Andrew Needham (outside member).
Danielle Willard-Kyle. “Living in Liminal Spaces: Jewish Refugees in Italian Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1951”. Committee: Belinda Davis (co-chair), Yael Zerubavel (co-chair), Paul Hanebrink and Ruth Ben-Ghiat (outside member).
Amy Zanoni. “Poor Health: Retrenchment and Resistance in Chicago's Public Hospital, 1950s-1990s”. Committee: Dorothy Sue Cobble (chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, Johanna Schoen, Lilia Fernandez, and Beatrix Hoffman (outside member).
2019
Jesse Bayker. "Before Transsexuality: Transgender Lives and Practices in Nineteenth-century America”. Committee: Johanna Schoen (chair), Leah DeVun, Ann Fabian, and Margot Canaday (outside member).
Zachary Bennett. "Flowing Power: Rivers, Energy, and the Remaking of Colonial New England". Committee: James Delbourgo (chair), Toby Jones, Camilla Townsend, and Daniel Richter (outside member).
Christopher Blakley. "Inhuman Empire: Slavery and Nonhuman Animals in the British Atlantic World”. Committee: James Delbourgo (chair), Marisa Fuentes, Toby Jones, Neil Maher and Marcy Norton (outside member).
Satyasikha Chakraborty. ‘The "Faithful" Ayah in Colonial Households: Gender, Caste and Race of South Asian Domestic Labors’. Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Bonnie Smith, Chie Ikeya, Julie Stephens and Samita Sen (outside member).
Christina Chiknas. "TheThe Saturnalian State: Carnival and the Survival of the Volk, 1890-1939". Committee: Paul Hanebrink (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Seth Koven and Paul Steege (outside member).
Lillian A. Dudkiewicz-Clayman. “Life of the Party: Unions and the Making of the Moderate Republican Party in Nassau County, New York”. Committee: Dorothy Sue Cobble (chair), David Greenberg, Jennifer Mittelstadt and Joshua Freeman (outside member).
Kaisha Esty. "A Crusade Against the Despoiler of Virtue: Black Women, Sexual Purity, and the Gendered Politics of the Negro Problem, 1839-1920". Committee: Deborah Gray White (co-chair), Mia Bay (co-chair), Beryl Satter, Brittney Cooper, and Wanda Hendricks (outside member).
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders. "Confronting the Rebel Yell: How African Americans Created and Contested Civil War Memory, 1865-1965". Committee: Mia Bay (Chair), Deborah Gray White, Jackson Lears and Melissa Cooper (outside member).
Michael A. Lenhart. "Gamesmanship and Sportsmanship in the Rise of American Football: From Play to Performance to Entertainment, 1869-1970”. Committee: David Greenberg (chair), James Livingston, Jamie Pietruska and Craig Harline (outside member).
Melissa Reynolds. “‘Gentyll reader ye shall understande’: Practical Books and the Making of an English Reading Public, 1400–1600”. Committee: Alastair Bellany (chair), Jim Masschaele, Rudy Bell, Leah DeVun and Ann Blair (outside member).
Charles Riggs. "The Inward Moment: Paul Tillich, Psychoanalysis, and Liberal Christianity in American Thought, 1945-1965". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, David Greenberg, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (outside member).
Kyle Williams. "Between Public Good and Private Profit: A History of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Twentieth Century". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, David Greenberg, Richard John (outside member).
2018
Julia C. Bowes. "Invading the Home: Children, State Power, and the Gendered Origins of Modern Conservatism, 1865-1933”. Committee: Jennifer Mittelstadt (co-chair), Ann Fabian (co-chair), Nancy Hewitt, Sara Dubow (outside member).
Danielle F. Bradley. “In Via, In Camera, In Capella: Professionalization and the Construction of an Administrative Ideal in England, c. 1150-1450”. Committee: James Masschaele (chair), Samantha Kelly, Paola Tartakoff, Larry Scanlon (outside member).
Hilary Buxton. "Disabled Empire: Race, Rehabilitation, and the Politics of Healing Non-white Colonial Soldiers, 1914-1940". Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Temma Kaplan, Julie Livingston, Projit Mukharji (outside member).
Miya C. Carey. "'That charm of all girlhood': Black Girlhood and Girls in Washington, D.C., 1930-1965". Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Mia Bay, Rachel Devlin, Michele Mitchel (outside member).
Travis Jeffres. “We Nahuas Went Everywhere in That Land: The Mexican Indian Diaspora in the Greater Southwest, 1540-1680”. Committee: Camilla Townsend (chair), Paul Clemens, Lilia Fernández, and Leslie S. Offutt (outside member).
Julia Katz. "'From Coolies to Colonials: Chinese Migrants in Hawai'I”. Committee: Kornel Chang (chair), Matt Matsuda, Kathleen Lopez, and Noelani Arista (outside member).
Raechel Lutz. "Crude Conservation: Nature, Pollution and Technology at Standard Oil's New Jersey Refineries, 1870-2000". Committee: Ann Fabian (co-chair), Neil Maher (co-chair), Toby Jones, Karen Merrill (outside member).
Lytton McDonnell. “Ecstatic Anthems: Music and the Persistence of Enchantment in Modern America”. Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Virginia Yans, David Suisman (outside member).
Lance C. Thurner. “The Making and Taking of "Indian Medicine": Race, Empire, and Bioprospecting in Colonial Mexico”. Committee: Camilla Townsend (co-chair), Mark Wasserman (co-chair), James Delbourgo, Ann Fabian, Marcy Norton (outside member).
Dara Walker. “Black Power, Education, and Youth Politics in Detroit, 1966-1973”. Committee: Deborah Gray White (co-chair), Donna Murch (co-chair), Rachel Devlin, Heather Ann Thompson (outside member).
Jennifer Wilson. "Reading Ambiguous Bodies: Confessional Politics and Epistemological Anxiety in Early Modern England, c. 1580-1660”. Committee: Alastair Bellany (chair), Phyllis Mack, Julie Livingston, Peter Lake (outside member).
Jasmin Young. “Strapped: A Historical Analysis of Black Women and Armed Resistance, 1959-1979". Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Temma Kaplan, Mia Bay, Jeanne Theoharis (outside member).
2017
Kendra Boyd. "Freedom Enterprise: The Great Migration and Black Entrepreneurship in Detroit”. Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Deborah Gray White, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Robert E. Weems (outside member).
Courtney Doucette. "Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Create the New Soviet Person”. Committee: Jochen Hellbeck (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Bonnie Smith, Kevin Platt (outside member).
Alissa Klots. The Kitchen Maid That Will Rule the State: Domestic Service and The Soviet Revolutionary Project, 1917-1941”. Committee: Jochen Hellbeck (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Belinda Davis, Yuri Slezkine (outside member).
Yvette Florio Lane. "Good Business: Charity, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of Watercress and Flower Girls' Mission, London 1866-1914”. Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Bonnie Smith, Jochen Hellbeck, Deborah Cohen (outside member).
Rebecca Lubot. "The Passage of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Nuclear Anxiety and Presidential Continuity”. Committee: David Greenberg (chair), Richard McCormick, T.J. Jackson Lears, Paul Clemens, Ross Baker (outside member).
Patrick McGrath. "Catholics Incorporated: Class, Power, and the Politics of Assimilation in Nineteenth Century America”. Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Paul Hanebrink, James Fisher (outside member).
Kenneth Moss. "Suppressing the Fourth Estate: The Relationship between the Mexican Government and the Media, 1900-1940”. Committee: Mark Wasserman (chair), Camilla Townsend, Kathy Lopez, Ben Fallaw (outside member).
Kristin Canzano Pinyan. "Changing Understandings of Gentility: Status, Gender, and Social Opportunity in England, c. 1400-1530”. Committee: James Masschaele (chair), Samantha Kelly, Alastair Bellany, Rudy Bell, Maryanne Kowaleski (outside member).
David Reid. "Salt in the Wound: The Colorado River Salinity Crisis, the Cold War, and the Mexican State, 1961-1974”. Committee: Mark Wasserman (chair), Temma Kaplan, Toby Jones, John Coatsworth (outside member).
2016
Sara Black. "Psychotropic Society: The Medical and Cultural History of Drugs in France, 1840-1920”. Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Seth Koven, Judith Surkis, Phil Nord (outside member).
Mark Bray. "The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain, 1893-1909". Committee: Temma Kaplan (chair), Melissa Feinberg, Jochen Hellbeck, Pamela Radcliff (outside member).
Scott Bruton. "The American Dream in Indian Country: Housing, Property, and Assimilation on the Navajo Reservation and Beyond”. Committee: T.J. Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Paul Israel, Matthew Matsuda, David Listokin (outside member).
Earl [Judge] Glock. "The Search for a Balanced Economy: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Bank Bailouts, 1916-1939". Committee: Jennifer Mittelstadt (chair), David Greenberg, T.J. Jackson Lears, Eugene White (outside member).
Melissa Horne. "To Blaze the Trail: Black Student Activism in the Early Twentieth Century". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Ann Fabian, Minkah Makalani, Alison Isenberg (outside member).
Kate Imy. "Spiritual Soldiers and the Politics of Difference in the British Indian Army". Committee: Seth Koven (co-chair), Bonnie Smith (co-chair), Indrani Chatterjee, Joy Dixon (outside member)..
Katharine Lee. "'The Young women here enjoy a liberty': Philadelphia Women and the Public Sphere, 1760s-1840s". Committee: Paul Clemens (chair), Nancy Hewitt (co-chair), Ann Fabian, Carol Faulkner (outside member).
Jennifer [Pettit] Mcdonough. "A Better Home for Everybody: Homemaking and Liberal Individualism in 1920s America". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Dorothy Sue Cobble, Andy Urban, David Brody (outside member).
Benjamin Resnick-Day. "Debating the 'Inevitable': Cherokees, Senecas, and the Rhetoric of Removal, 1827-1847”. Committee: Peter Silver (chair), Ann Fabian, Camilla Townsend, Matthew Dennis (outside member).
2015
Robert Daiutolo. ""George Croghan: The Life of a Conqueror". Committee: Jan Lewis (chair), Paul Clemens, Peter Silver, James Merrell (outside member).
Raymond Dansereau. "Servasanto da Faenza: Preaching and Penance in the Work of a Thirteenth-Century Franciscain". Committee: Samantha Kelly (chair), James Masschaele, Paola Tartakoff, John Coakley (outside member).
Mark Duggan. "Souls of the Beheaded: Contested Martyrdom in England, 1649-1665". Committee: Alastair Bellany (chair), Peter Silver, Phyllis Mack, Gary De Krey (outside member).
Elisabeth Eittreim. “The Teachers’ Dilemma: Gender, Empire, and Education, 1879-1918”. Committee: Nancy Hewitt (co-chair), Benjamin Justice (co-chair), Camilla Townsend, Judith Gerson (outside member).
Molly Giblin. "Entangled Empires: The French in China". Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Seth Koven, Matthew Matsuda, Roger Des Forges (outside member).
Nigel Gillah. "Buccio di Ranallo and His Followers: Chroniclers of L'Aquila, 1254-1529". Committee: Samantha Kelly (chair), James Masschaele, Rudolf Bell, Alessandro Vettori (outside member).
Christopher Mitchell. "The Transformation of Gay Life from the Closet to Liberation, 1948-1980: New York City's Gay Markets as a Study in Late Capitalism”. Committee: James Livingston (chair), Alison Isenberg, T.J. Jackson Lears, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin Mumford (outside member).
Nova Robinson. "Sisters or Men": Syrian and Lebanese Women's Transnational Campaigns for Arab Independence and Women's Rights, 1910-1949". Committee: Bonnie Smith (co-chair), Toby Jones (co-chair), Temma Kaplan, Beth Baron (outside member).
Kristoffer Shields. "Culture on Trial: Law, Morality, the Performance Trial in the Shadow of World War I". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), David Greenberg, Paul Israel, Hendrik Hartog (outside member).
Adam Wolkoff. "Possession and Power: The Legal Culture of Tenancy in the United States, 1800-1920". Committee: Ann Fabian (chair), Mia Bay, Beryl Satter, Hendrik Hartog (outside member)
2014
John L. Adams. "'Time For A Showdown': The Partnership of Daisy and L.C. Bates, and the Politics of Gender, Protest and Marriage”. Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Steven Lawson, Keith Wailoo, Barbara Ransby (outside member).
Mekala Audain. "Mexican Canaan: Fugitive Slaves and Free Blacks on the American Frontier, 1804-1867". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Aldo Lauria, Mark Wasserman, Evelyn Hu-Dehart (outside member).
Marsha Barrett. "Nelson Rockefeller, Racial Politics, and the Undoing of Moderate Republicanism". Committee: David Greenberg (chair), Deborah Gray White, Donna Murch, Alison Isenberg , Ira Katznelson (outside member).
Christopher Bischof. "Making Good: British Elementary Teachers and the Social Landscape, 1846-1902". Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Bonnie Smith, Michael Adas, Ellen Ross (outside member).
Robin Chapdelaine. "A History of Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900s-1930s”.Committee: Temma Kaplan (co-chair), Carolyn Brown (co-chair), Seth Koven, Judith Byfield (outside member).
Alix Genter Buchsbaum. "Risking Everything for that Touch: Butch-Femme Lesbian Culture in New York City from World War II to Women's Liberation”. Nancy Hewitt (chair), Donna Murch, Whitney Strub, Leisa Meyer (outside member).
Alejandro Gomezdelmoral. "Buying into Change: Consumer Culture and the Department Store in the Transformation(s) of Spain, 1939-1982”. Committee: Temma Kaplan (chair), Seth Koven, Jochen Hellbeck, Aurora G. Morcillo (outside member).
Michael Hill. "Ethnicity and Cultural Change in a Medieval Eurasian Border Region: Wales, C. 1100-1350". Committee: James Masschaele (chair), Michael Adas, Rudy Bell, Peter Golden, Samantha Kelly, Peter Larson (outside member).
Arika Easley-Houser. "The Indian Image in the Black Mind: Native Americans in Antebellum African American Public Culture". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Camilla Townsend, Deborah Gray White, Ann Fabian, Tiya Miles (outside member).
Leigh-Anne Francis. "Bad Girls: Race, Crime, and Punishment in New York State, 1893-1916". Committee: Nancy Hewitt (chair), Jennifer Mittelstadt, Deborah Gray White, Alison Parker (outside member).
Michele Rotunda. "Drunkenness is No Excuse for Crime" - Alcohol, Murder and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America". Committee: Susan Schrepfer (chair), Gerald Grob, Ann Fabian, Sarah Tracy (outside member).
Kara Schlichting. "'Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires': Shaping New York's Periphery, 1840-1940". Committee: Alison Isenberg (chair), Ann Fabian, Neil Maher, Paul Clemens, Elizabeth Blackmar (outside member).
Felicia Thomas. “Entangled with the Yoke of Bondage: Black Women in Massachusetts, 1700-1783”. Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Camilla Townsend, Clement Price, Jennifer Morgan, Annette Gordon-Reed (outside member).
Arnout Van der Meer. "Ambivalent Hegemony: Culture and Power in Colonial Java, 1808-1927”. Committee: Michael Adas (chair), Bonnie Smith, Matt Matsuda, Eric Tagliacozzo (outside member).
AnnaLinden Weller. "Imagining Pre-Modern Imperialism: the letters of Byzantine imperial agents outside the metropole”. Committee: Tia Kolbaba (chair), Stephen Reinert, Peter Golden, Samantha Kelly, Margaret Mullett (outside member).
Adam Zalma. "Staten Island in the Harbor Metropolis: The Making of a Region and the Disappearance of an Island, 1790-1858". Committee: Alison Isenberg (chair), Ann Fabian, T. J. Jackson Lears, Clifton Hood (outside member).
2013
Stephen Allen. “Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism, 1946-1982”. Committee: Mark Wasserman (chair), Camilla Townsend, Bonnie Smith, William Beezley (outside member).
Elizabeth Churchich. “Children of the Revocation: The Reeducation of French Protestants after 1685”. Committee: Jennifer Jones (chair), Phyllis Mack, Jacob Soll, Jonathan Dewald (outside member).
Annalise Kinkel Devries. "In Ma'adi, Near Cairo: Locating Global History in British-Occupied Egypt, 1878-1962". Committee: Seth Koven (chair), Toby Jones, Bonnie Smith, David Cannadine (outside member).
Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego. “That Our Government May Stand”: African American Politics in the Postbellum South, 1865-1913". Committee: Mia Bay co-(chair), Ann Fabian (co-chair), David Greenberg, T.J. Jackson Lears, Eric Foner (outside member).
Matthew Friedman. “Signal to Noise: Music and the Eclipse of Modernism”. Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Alison Isenberg, Nancy Rao (outside member).
Bridget Gurtler. “Synthetic Conception: Artificial Insemination and the Transformation of Reproduction and family in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America”. Committee: Keith Wailoo (chair), Julie Livingston, Margaret Marsh, Paul Israel, Rayna Rapp (outside member).
Adrienne Harrison. "His Mind Was Great and Powerful:” George Washington’s Reading and the American Self". Committee: Paul Clemens (chair), Ann Fabian, Jan Lewis, Theodore Crackel (outside member).
Mathew Roth. "Magic Bean: The Quests That Brought Soy into American Farming, Diet, and Culture". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Keith Wailoo, Steven Stoll (outside member).
Martina Saltamacchia. "The Cathedral of Milan and its Fabulous Donor". Committee: Rudolph Bell (chair), James Masschaele, Samantha Kelly, Todd Marder (outside member)
Ji-Hye Shin. "Insanity on the Move: The "Alien Insane" in Modern America, 1882-1930". Committee: Virginia Yans (chair), Keith Wailoo, Alison Isenberg, Catherine Lee (outside member).
Laura Ann Twagira. “Women and Gender at the Office du Niger (Mali): Technology, Environment, and Food ca. 1900 - 1985”. Committee: Barbara Cooper (chair), Bonnie Smith, Julie Livingston, Gregory Mann (outside member).
Dora Vargha. "Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: Governing Polio in Cold War Hungary 1952-1963". Committee: Paul Hanebrink (chair) Bonnie Smith, Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Joanna Regulska (outside member).
Shannen Dee Williams. “Black Nuns and the Struggle to Des.egregate Catholic America after World War I”. Committee: Deborah Gray White (co-chair), Nancy Hewitt (co-chair), Donna Murch, Rhonda Y. Williams (outside member).
Tal Zalmanovich. “Sharing a Laugh: Sitcoms and the Production of Post-Imperial Britain, 1945-1980”. Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Seth Koven, Temma Kaplan, Peter Bailey (outside member).
2012
Melissa Cooper. “’They Made Gullah’: Modernist Primitivists and the Discovery and Creation of Sapelo Island, Georgia’s Gullah Community, 1915-1991”. Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Ann Fabian, Peter Silver, Vincent Brown (outside member).
Andrea Estepa. “Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and the Transformation of Women’s Activist Identities in the U.S., 1961-1980". Committee: Nancy Hewitt (chair), Steven Lawson, Lora (Dee) Garrison, Susan Carrol (outside member), Linda Gorden (outside member).
Dina Fainberg. "Notes from the Rotten West, Reports, from the Backward East: Soviet and American Foreign Committee Correspondents in the Cold War, 1945-1985". Committee: Jochen Hellbeck (co-chair), David Fogelsong (co-chair), Ziva Galili, T.J. Jackson Lears, David Greenberg, Susan Reid (outside member).
Terrance Golway. “Machine Made: Irish America, Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern New York Politics”. Committee: John Chambers (chair), David Greenberg, James Goodman, Mark Lender (outside member).
Dennis Halpin. "Reforming Charm City: Grassroots Activism, Politics, and the Making of Modern Baltimore, 1877-1920". Committee: Alison Isenberg (chair), Ann Fabian, Nancy Hewett, Donna Murch, Mary Ryan (outside member).
Christopher Hayes. "The Heart of the City: Civil Rights, Resistance and Police Reform in New York City, 1945-1966". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Beryl Satter, Donna Murch, Brian Purnell (outside member).
Vanessa Holden. “Reexamining a Community: African American Women and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831”. Committee: Deborah Gray White (co-chair), Suzanne Lebsock (co-chair), Camilla Townsend, Dylan Penningroth (outside member).
Stephanie Jones-Rogers. “Nobody Couldn’t Sell’ Em But Her’: Slaveowning Women, Mastery, and the Gendered Politics in of the Antebellum Slave Market”. Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Nancy Hewitt, Mia Bay,Thavolia Glymph (outside member).
Melanie Kiechle. "The Air We Breathe": Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air". Committee: Ann Fabian (chair), Alison Isenberg , Jan Lewis, Keith Wailoo, Martin Melosi (outside member).
Anita Kurimay. “Sex in the "Pearl of the Danube": The History of Queer Life, Love, and Its Regulation in Budapest, 1873-1941. Committee: Belinda Davis (co-chair), Paul Hanebrink (co-chair), Melissa Feinberg, Seth Koven, Dagmar Herzog (outside member).
Allison Miller. "Boyhood for Girls: American Tomboys and the Transformation of Eroticism, 1900-1940”. Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Nancy Hewitt, Seth Koven, Susan Cahn (outside member).
Nicholas Molnar. “The Fluidity of Race: Racialization of the American Mestizos in the Philippines and the United States, 1900-1955". Committee: Virginia Yans (chair), John Chambers, Matthew Matsuda, Allan Isaac (outside member).
Sanjog Rupakheti. "Leviathan or Paper Tiger: State Making in the Himalayas, 1740-1900". Committee: Sumit Guha (chair), Indrani Chatterjee, Michael Adas, David Ludden (outside member).
Megan Schenkelberg. "Headlong he runs into Circe's snares: Representation and the Restoration Royal Mistress". Committee: Alastair Bellany (chair), Phyllis Mack, Jennifer Jones, Rachel Weil (outside member).
Rebecca Tuuri. “Building Bridges of Understanding: The Activism of Wednesdays in Mississippi". Committee: Nancy Hewitt (chair), Deborah Gray White (co-chair), Steven Lawson, John Ditmer (outside member).
Daniel Weeks. "Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664: A Comparative Network Analysis". Committee: Paul Clemens (chair), Toby Jones, Camilla Townsend, Jan Lewis, Sara Gronim (outside member).
2011
Kris Alexanderson. "Fluid Mobility: Global Maritime Networks and the Dutch Empire, 1918-1942". Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Michael Adas, Matthew Matsuda, Frances Gouda (outside member).
Andrew Buchanan. “Washington’s Mediterranean Strategy: Strategic, Political and Ideological Aspects of America’s Intervention in the Mediterranean, 1940-44”. Committee: Michael Adas (chair), David Foglesong, Warren Kimball, Susan Carruthers, Mark Stoler (outside membet).
Kate Burlingham. “In the Image of God": A Global History of the North American Congregational Mission Movement in Angola, 1879-1975”. Committee: Michael Adas co-(chair), Temma Kaplan (co-chair), David Foglesong, Paul Clemens, Mahmood Mandari (outside member).
Hugh Glen Cagle. “Dead Reckonings: Disease and the Natural Sciences in Portuguese Asia and the Atlantic, 1450-1650”. Committee: Michael Adas (chair), Christopher Brown, Herman Bennett , Gail Triner, Elizabeth Kouznesof (outside member).
Andrew Daily. "Staying French: Martiniquans and Guadeloupes between Empire and Independence, 1946-1973". Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Joan Scott, Matthew Matsuda, Renee Larrier (outside member).
Patricia Hampson Egret. “Envisioning Progressive Communities: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Liberalism Berkeley, California and Montclair, New Jersey, 1920-1970”. Committee: Alison Isenberg (chair), Donna Murch, Nancy Hewitt, Andrew Weiss (outside member).
Darcie Fontaine. "Decolonizing Christianity: Grassroots Ecumenism in France and Algeria, 1940-1965". Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Barbara Cooper, Paul Hanebrink, Richard Soriano (outside member).
Carmen Khair Gitre. "Performing Modernity: Theater and Political Culture in Egypt, 1869-1923”. Committee: Michael Adas (chair), Bonnie Smith, Indrani Chatterjee , Eve Powell (outside member).
Jessica Anderson Hughes. "Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel". Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Bonnie Smith, Paul Hanebrink, Atina Grossman (outside member).
Kay Lewis. "Curse Upon the Nation: Ideas About Race, Freedom, and Extermination in Antebellum America". Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Mia Bay, Nancy Hewitt, Walter Johnson (outside member).
Carla MacDougall. "Cold War Capital: Contested Urbanity in West Berlin, 1963-1989". Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Temma Kaplan, Andrew Lees, Geoffrey Eley (outside member).
Joseph Price Moore III. "Native Americans in Colonial New England and the Modern World-System". Committee: Allen Howard (chair), Camilla Townsend, Paul Clemens, Matthew Hannah (outside member).
Rochisha Narayan. "Caste, Family and Politics in Northern India during the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”. Committee: Indrani Chatterjee (chair), Temma Kaplan, Sumit Guha, Geraldine Forbes (outside member).
Stacey Patton. "Why Black Children Can't Grow Up: The Construction of Racial Childhood in America, 1880-1954". Committee: Virginia Yans (chair), Clement Price, T.J. Jackson Lears, David Levering Lewis (outside member).
Karen Routledge. “In These Latitudes: American and Inuit Stories of Survival, 1850-1922”. Committee: Susan Schrepfer (co-chair), T.J. Jackson Lears (co-chair),Paul Clemens, Ann Fabian, Christopher Trott (outside member).
Chris Robert Stacey. “American Boredom: The Origins of a Way of Life, 1885-1950”. Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Matthew Matsuda, Stephen Brier (outside member).
Alex Warner. "Where Angels Fear to Tread:” Feminism, Sex and the Problem of SM, 1969-1993". Committee: Nancy Hewitt (chair), Dorothy Sue Cobble, Alison Isenberg, Elizabeth Grosz (outside member).
2010
John Dizgun. "Land without Memories: Jewish Tragedy and the Boundaries of Pluralism and Citizenship in Argentina”. Committee: Samuel Baily (chair), Mark Wasserman, Yael Zerubavel, David Keeling (outside member).
Pamela Epstein. "Selling Love: The Commercialization of Intimacy in America, 1860s-1900s". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Alison Isenberg, Beth Bailey (outside member).
Krystal Frazier. "From the Reunions of Reconstruction to the Reconstruction of Reunions: Extended and Adoptive Kin Traditions among Late-Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century African Americans". Committee: Mia Bay (chair), Ann Fabian, Deborah Gray White, Steven Lawson, Kimberley Phillips (outside member).
Kathleen Elva Lyon. "The Darling Strangers and English Appetites: Technology transfer and European Cultural Barriers in the Early Modern Atlantic World". Committee: Paul Israel (chair), Alastair Bellany, James Delbourgo, Els Kloek (outside member).
William Phalen. "But They Did Not Build This House: The Attitude of Evangelical Protestantism towards Immigration to the United States, 1800-1924". Committee: James Livingston (chair), John Chambers, James Reed, James T. Fisher (outside member).
Peter Polak-Springer. "Making Recoveries" The Cultural Politics of Territorial Appropriation in an Industrial Polish-German, Borderland, 1922-1971”. Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Jochen Hellbeck, Paul Hanebrink, Eagle Glassheim (outside member).
Rachel Schnepper. "Jonas Cast Up at London: The Experience of New World Churches in Revolutionary England". Committee: Alastair Bellany (chair), Paul Clemens, Phyllis Mack, Ann Hughes (Keele University).
2009
Kelly Enright. "Maximum of Wilderness": Naturalists and the Image of the Jungle in American Culture”. Committee: Ann Fabian (chair), T.J. Jackson Lears, Paul Clemens, Nigel Rotfels (outside member).
Nichola Harris. "Lapidaries as Texts of Popular Healing in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, 1000-1700". Committee: Rudolph Bell (chair), Jennifer Jones, Phyllis Mack, Erik Thunø (outside member).
Sara Rzeszutek Haviland. "Love and Activism: James and Esther Cooper Jackson and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States, 1914-1968”. Committee: Steven Lawson (chair), Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, Robert Korstad (outside member).
Kelena Reid Maxwell. "Birth behind the Veil: African-American Midwives and Mothers in the Rural South, 1921-1962". Committee: Deborah Gray White (chair), Keith Wailoo, Phyllis Mack, Evelyn Higginbotham (outside member).
Emily Westkaemper. "Martha Washington Goes Shopping: Mass Culture's Gendering of History, 1910-1950". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (co-chair), Nancy Hewitt (co-chair), Bonnie Smith, Jennifer Scanlon (outside member).
2008
Lindsay Braun. "The Cadastre and the Colony: Surveying, Territory, and Legibility in the Creation of South Africa, c. 1860-1913". Committee: Michael Adas (chair), Allen Howard, John Gillis, Graham Burnett (outside member).
Michael E. Dobe. "A Long, Slow Tutelage in Western Ways of Work: Industrial Education and the Containment of Nationalism in Anglo-Iranian and Aramco, 1923-1963". Committee: Paul Israel (chair), David Foglesong, Phillip Scranton, Robert Vitalis (outside member).
Sandra Mendiola Garcia. "Street Vendors, Marketers, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla, Mexico”. Committee: Mark Wasserman (chair), Temma Kaplan, Gail Triner, Jeffrey Pilcher (outside member).
Edward Gitre. "America Adjusted: Conformity, Boredom, and the Modern Self, c. 1920-1980". Committee: T.J. Jackson Lears (chair), Ann Fabian, Alison Isenberg, Casey Blake (outside member).
Ulrich Groetsch. "From Polyhistory to Subversion: The Philological Foundations of Hermann Samuel Reimarus's (1694-1768)”. Committee: Martin Mulsow (chair), Karl Morrison, Donald Kelley, Phyllis Mack, Anthony Grafton (outside member).
Abigail Sara Lewis. "The Barrier Breaking Love of God": The Multiracial Activism of the Young Women's Christian Association, 1940s to 1970s”. Committee: Steve Lawson (chair), Nancy Hewitt, Deborah Gray White, Susan Schrepfer, Gary Okioro (outside member).
Justin Lorts. "Black Laughter/Black Protest: Civil Rights, Respectability, and the Cultural Politics of African-American Comedy, 1934-1968". Committee: Ann Fabian (chair), David Levering Lewis, Steven Lawson, Waldo Martin (outside member).
Laurie Marhoefer. "Among Abnormals: The Queer Sexual Politics of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933". Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Temma Kaplan, Seth Koven, Joan Scott, Dagmir Herzog (outside member).
Jennifer A. Miller. Postwar Negotiations: The First Generation of Turkish "Guess Workers" in West Germany, 1961-1973”. Committee: Belinda Davis (chair), Bonnie Smith, Temma Kaplan, Jochen Hellbeck, Jenny B. White (outside member).
Robert E. Nelson. "American Antigone: Women, Education, Nation, 1800-1870". Committee: James Livingston (chair), Nancy Hewitt , Ann Fabian, Andrew Giarelli (outside member).
Michael Shapira. "The War Inside: Child Psychoanalysis and Remaking the Self in Britain, 1930-1960". Committee: Bonnie Smith (chair), Joan Scott, John Gillis, Susan Pedersen (outside member).
Emily Zuckerman. "Beyond Dispute: EEOC v. Sears and the Politics of Gender, Class, and Affirmative Action, 1968-1986". Committee: Steven Lawson (chair), Nancy Hewitt, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Norma Basch (outside member).
