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).

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).

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).