Dissertations from 2024
Questionable Intelligence: Secrecy and Espionage in Richard Nixon’s Life, Maayan Brodsky
Turf War: Interstate Banking and Industry Consolidation, 1965–1998, Erin Cully
Dissertations from 2023
Neo-Nazi Postmodern: Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual Neue Rechte, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989, Esther E. Adaire
“Bending the Law” – Weimar Judiciary and the Political Bias Paradox of the Legal System, Irit Bloch
Publishing the Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper and its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman
The Archival Impulse: English Family Record Keeping and Archives, ca. 1450–1700, Maura Kenny
Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815, Cody E. Nager
Staging Nature: Performing Environmental Crises in War, Housing, and Labor, 1935–1990, Erik Barrett Wallenberg
Dissertations from 2022
Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989, Lukasz Chelminski
Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution, Davide Giuseppe Colasanto
A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612), Julian Gonzalez de Leon Heiblum
Humoring the Third Republic: Le Rire in French Politics and Popular Culture, 1894–1918, Andrew C. Kotick
"Thus Much for Politicks": American Women, Diplomacy, and the Aftermath of the American Revolution, Miriam Liebman
Cultivation, Conflict, and Consumption: Food Systems in Syria, 1920–1946, Sara Pekow
Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War, Jeremy N. Randall
White Blinders: A Study of Race Relations Theory in Britain, 1948–1988, Matthew T. Sherman
The Lost and Forgotten Plants: French Botanical Networks in Provincial and Colonial France (1760–1825), Sophie R. Tunney
"Secession's Moving Foundation": Fugitive Slave Rendition and the Politics of American Slavery, Evan Turiano
“In lucem latine locutionis”: The Hagiography of Aelred of Rievaulx, Chad Turner
Dissertations from 2021
"Rivals and Partners”: The Competition for Control of Judenpolitik in Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–1944), Barbara Lynne Bailin
Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939, Sultana Banulescu
Immigration Lawmaking, 1950–1986: Cold War Politics and Double-Edged Reforms, Benjamin Becker
Dissertations from 2020
Building Baghdad: The Construction of Urban Space in Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger
Slavery and Confederate Military Strategy and Policy, 1860–1865, David M. Campmier
Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, Krystle F. Sweda
Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale
“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955, John C. Winters
Dissertations from 2019
'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865, Scott Ackerman
Runaway: A History of Postwar New York in Four Factories, Andy Battle
"A War Within a War": Policing Gender and Race in New York City During World War II, Emily Brooks
MEN SET ON FIRE. Algernon Sidney & John Adams: Remodeling Anglo-American Republicanism, Deborah B. Charnoff
Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833, Michael Crowder
In Her Own Hands: How Girls and Women Used the Piano to Chart their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, and Shape Music in America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin
Who Owned Waterloo? Wellington’s Veterans and the Battle for Relevance, Luke A. L. Reynolds
Privileges for Being Slaves: Christian Missionaries in the Early Qing Court, Litian Swen
Dissertations from 2018
Buying Time: Consuming Urban Pasts in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Dory Agazarian
Suing for Spanish: Puerto Ricans, Bilingual Voting, and Legal Activism in the 1970s, Ariel Arnau
The Domino Effect: Politics, Policy, and the Consolidation of the Sugar Refining Industry in the United States, 1789–1895, Brendan Cooper
Final Call: Rank-and-File Rebellion in New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer
The Color of Desire: Contradictions of Race, Sex, and Gay Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher B. Ewing
Powerhouse Chihuahua: Electricity, Water, and the State in the Long Mexican Revolution, Jonathan Hill Jr
Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition, Kathryn L. Mahaney
The Brotherhood: Black Officers, Prisoners, and New York’s Crisis in Corrections, 1962–1984, Katherine Logan McBride
Transnational Nationalists: Cosmopolitan Women, Philanthropy, and Italian State-Building, 1850-1890, Diana Moore
Throwing off the "Draggling Dresses": Women and Dress Reform, 1820-1900, Laura J. Ping
The American Whig Party and Slavery, Mitchell Rocklin
Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
The Juridical Communities of Apulia: Communal Identity and Municipal Belonging in the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples, Vincenzo Selleri
Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945, Johnathan Thayer
Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1943–1978, Francesca Vassalle
“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961, Ky N. Woltering
Dissertations from 2017
The Politician and the Professor: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Strains of Modern American Liberalism, Peter-Christian Aigner
Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan, Zachary S. Berman
A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975), Megan Brown
Dictatorship Across Borders: How Brazil Influenced the Chilean Coup d’état of 1973, Mila Burns Nascimento
Land of Women: Basilicata, Emigration, and the Women Who Remained Behind, 1880-1914, Victoria Calabrese
A Necessary Lens: The History of Privacy in the United States 1890-1999, Lawrence Cappello
Liberal Translations: Secular Concepts, Law, and Religion in Colonial Egypt, Jeffrey Culang
"The World of Our Children": Jews, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Place and Race on the Lower East Side, 1963-1993, Barry Goldberg
A Reformers' Union: Land Reform, Labor, and the Evolution of Antislavery Politics, 1790–1860, Sean G. Griffin
When Old Age Changed: Inventing the "Senior State," 1945-1975, Benjamin Hellwege
The Politics of Shorter Hours and Corporate-Centered Society: A History of Work-Time Regulation in the United States and Japan, Keisuke Jinno
Closer Ties: The Dutch Caribbean and the Aftermath of Empire, 1942-2012, Chelsea Schields
Féminisme Oblige: Katharine Susan Anthony and the Birth of Modern Feminist Biography, 1877-1929, Anna C. Simonson
"The Engine of Free Expression": The Political Economy of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States, Nora Slonimsky
Moving Forward: Railways in Puerto Rico, Gricel M. Surillo Luna
Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism in New York City During the Long Sixties, David C. Viola Jr.
The Needed Man: The Evolution, Abandonment, and Resurrection of the Roman Dictatorship, Mark B. Wilson
Dissertations from 2016
This Species of Property: Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Anglo-American Law and Politics, 1619-1783, John N. Blanton
Interstate Alliances of the Fourth-Century BCE Greek World: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Nicholas D. Cross
Engagement and Resistance: African Americans, Saudi Arabia and Islamic Transnationalisms, 1975 to 2000, Jeffrey Diamant
Fallible Justice: The Dilemma of the British in the Gold Coast, 1874-1944, Neal M. Goldman
Conflict and Cooperation: Western Economic Interests in Ottoman Iraq 1894-1914, Jameel N. Haque
The French Revolution in the French-Algerian War (1954-1962): Historical Analogy and the Limits of French Historical Reason, Timothy Scott Johnson
Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island, Tim Keogh
'Something On Women For the Crime Bill': The Construction and Passage of the Violence Against Women Act, 1990-1994, Irene Meisel
Neither a Slave nor a King: The Antislavery Project and the Origins of the American Sectional Crisis, 1820-1848, Joseph T. Murphy
Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions, Participation, and Belonging, The Netherlands and Denmark, 1960s-80s, Andrew D.J. Shield
The Sciences of the Soul: The Emergence of Psy-sciences and the Modern State in Turkey, Kutlughan Soyubol
An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Class Construction in Early National New York City, Alisa J. Wade
Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922, Secil Yilmaz
Dissertations from 2015
Narratives of Interiority: Black Lives in the U.S. Capital, 1919 - 1942, Paula C. Austin
The 1935 Labor Rebellions and the Politics of African-Indian Solidarity in British Guiana, Nicole Burrowes
The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace, Vanessa L. Burrows
Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850, Ping-Ying Chang
Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?, Brian J. Fox
Civilizing Settlers: Catholic Missionaries and the Colonial State in French Algeria, 1830-1914, Kyle Francis
Refugees And Relief: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee And European Jews In Cuba And Shanghai 1938-1943, Zhava Litvac Glaser
"To organize the sovereign people": Political Mobilization in Pennsylvania, 1783-1808, David William Houpt
Protecting the Stranger: The Origins of US Immigration Regulation in Nineteenth-Century New York, Brendan P. O'Malley
Before Addiction: The Medical History of Alcoholism in Nineteenth-Century France, Lauren Saxton
Imperial Priests and Martyrs: Pretexts for State Violence and Religious Change in France, 1848-1871, Benjamin Tyner
Taking the Venereal out of Venereal Disease: The Public Health Campaign Against Syphilis, 1934-1945, Erin Wuebker
Dissertations from 2014
For Love and for Justice: Narratives of Lesbian Activism, Kelly Anderson
For Right and Might: The Militarization of the Cold War and the Remaking of American Democracy, Michael Brenes
The New Deal in Puerto Rico: Public Works, Public Health, and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1935-1955, Geoff G. Burrows
The Fight Over John Q: How Labor Won and Lost the Public in Postwar America, 1947-1959, Rachel Burstein