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History Dissertations

As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

Dissertations from 2015 2015

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 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

The New Star of 1572 and the Ascendancy of the Mathematical over the Causal Epistemology of Natural Philosophy, Douglas William Godley

The Double-Edged Sword: Smallpox Vaccination And The Politics Of Public Health In Cuba, Stephanie Haydee Gonzalez

"The Last Of The Great Bohemians": Film Poetry, Myth, And Sexuality In Greenwich Village And The Atlantic, 1930-1975, Thomas Winfield Hafer

Reorienting American Liberal Judaism for the Twentieth Century: Stephen S. Wise and the Early Years of the Jewish Institute of Religion, Shirley Idelson

Pittsburgh's Response to Deindustrialization: Renaissance, Renewal and Recovery, 1946-1999, Mariel P. Isaacson

The "Feminized" City: New York and Suffrage, 1870–1917, Lauren C. Santangelo

'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence, David Sclar

Reviving Enlightenment in the Age of Nationalism: The Historical and Political Thought of Hans Kohn in America, Brian Matthew Smollett

A Cross-boundary People: The Commercial Activities, Social Networks, and Travel Writings of Japanese and Taiwanese Sekimin in the Shantou Treaty Port (1895-1937), Lin-Yi Tseng

Dissertations from 2013 2013

The 'Silent Arrival': The Second Wave of the Great Migration and Its Affects on Black New York, 1940-1950, Carla J. Dubose-Simons

Refugees and Resistance: International Activism for Grassroots Democracy and Human Rights in New York, Miami, and Haiti, 1957 to 1994, Carl Lindskoog

Eating Soviet: Food and Culture in the USSR, 1917–1991, Anton Masterovoy

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Skin and Redemption: Theology in Silent Films, 1902 to 1927, Susan Craig

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Eduardo Chibás: The Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics, Ilan Ehrlich

Dissertations from 2004 2004

Anarchism and the Politics of Homosexuality, Terence S. Kissack

Dissertations from 1992 1992

Richard Nixon's Position on Communist China, 1949-1960: The Evolution of a Pacific Strategy, Glenn Michael Speer

Dissertations from 1990 1990

Class Culture and Generational Change: Immigrant Families in Two Connecticut Industrial Cities During the 1930s, Ivan Greenberg

Dissertations from 1987 1987

A Muted Cry: White Opposition to the Japanese Exclusion Movement, 1911–1924, Bruce A. Abrams

Dissertations from 1974 1974

Placemen's Progress: The Governors of Provincial New York, 1717–1753, Neil Ovadia