The Graduate Program
Dissertations-in-Progress
Students begin research for the dissertation after they receive their M.Phil. degree, which is earned after successful completion of required course work, language exams, and an oral qualifying exam that covers three subjects in the student’s major field of study and one in their minor field. Students typically reach this stage during their third year of graduate study, although some do not complete these tasks until the fourth year.
More information may be found at the American Historical Association page for the department.
2023-24 Department of History Dissertations-in-Progress
Dissertator, Last name | Dissertator, First Name | Dissertation Title | Field | Cohort Year | Advisor (last, first name) |
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Agustin Mendez | Josias | United States | 2020 | Jacoby, Karl | |
Akcaguner | Yasemin | Celestial Bodies: Astral Science, Medicine and the Lifecycle in the Ottoman Empire (1757-1839). | Middle East | 2018 | Sen, Tunc |
Almukhtar | Amnah | Imagined Futures: Political and Social Thought in Iraq, 1906-1930. | Middle East | 2016 | Elshakry, Marwa |
Assayag | Elya | Embroidering Histories: Women’s day-to-day experience in French Colonial Morocco (1912-1956) | Modern Europe | 2019 | Saada, Emmanuelle |
Banis | Dillon | The Roots of Modern Sugar: Sugar Beets, Globalization, and Geopolitics in Germany’s Transformation of Sugar Production and Consumption, c. 1870-1920. | Modern Europe | 2019 | Tooze, Adam |
Bilalutdinov | Azat | Diplomats for the Empire: Tsarist Consulates and the Russian-Ottoman Encounter in the Balkans 1856-1914. | Modern Europe | 2018 | Evtuhov, Catherine |
Blatchford | Barrie | America’s Acclimatization Exchange: Animal Acclimatization, Settler-Colonialism, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1840-1975. | United States | 2017 | Jacoby, Karl |
Bostock | Sahar | Grounding Colonization: Ottoman, British, and Zionist Development in the Desert of Southern Palestine, 1830-1950. | Middle East | 2018 | Khalidi, Rashid and Elshakry, Marwa |
Branscum | Elizabeth | “That Sicknesse of Nine Months”: Health, Pregnancy, and Medical Advice Literature in Early Modern England (1500-1750) | Early Modern | 2019 | Robcis, Camille and Smith, Pamela |
Brown | Evan | Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965 | United States | 2019 | Guridy, Frank |
Buckley | James | Political Knowledge and Scholarly Time in Early Modern France. | Early Modern Europe | 2017 | Coleman, Charly |
Burke | Julia | Abortion in 19th Century Britain | Modern Europe | 2020 | Pedersen, Susan |
Castro | Shakti | Agenda of Survival: Puerto Ricans, Public Health, and the Politics of Harm Reduction, 1970-2000 | United States | 2019 | Roberts, Samuel |
Chattopadhyay | Sohini | The unclaimed and the pauper corpse as an urban problem: Calcutta and Bombay City, 1896-c. 1960. | South Asia | 2016 | Rao, Anupama |
Cohen | Jessica | A Better Life for Us All: Citizen Perspectives on Family Planning in Ghana, 1957-1994. | Africa | 2019 | George, Abosede |
Colpa | Luz | Looking for Love: Affect, Marriage and Immigration between France and Senegal, 1939-1980. | Africa | 2017 | Saada, Emmanuelle |
Coon | Ella | Control Data: American Power and the Rise of the Global Assembly Line, 1962-1982. | United States | 2019 | Tooze, Adam |
Corban | Robert | Bitter Harvest: The Weaponization of Agriculture in Mussolini’s New Order, 1925-1945. | Modern Europe | 2015 | de Grazia, Victoria |
DeVaan | Juliana | Scenes of Experimentation: A Cultural History of New York at the End of the 20th | United States | 2020 | Blake, Casey |
DeVinney | Joslyn | Natural Knowledge and Connected Histories of Science: Mysore, France, and Britain in the Eighteenth Century. | Internal and Global | 2016 | Ahmed, Manan |
Dubler | Roslyn | Sex, Social Policy, and the Welfare State in Britain and West Germany, 1975-1998 | Modern Europe | 2016 | Pedersen, Susan |
Dwyer | Claire | Medieval Europe | 2020 | Kosto, Adam | |
Ellenbogen | Yakov | Disability in Ashkenazic Society, 1200-1500 | Jewish | 2018 | Carlebach, Elisheva and Kosto Adam |
Faulkner | Amanda | Insiders and Outsiders: Individuals and Community in the Dutch World, 1609-1715 | Early Modern Europe | 2018 | Smith, Pamela |
Fofana | Idriss | The Labor Questions: Law, Institutions, and the Regulation of Chinese and West African International Labor Migration, 1600-1900 | Internal and Global | 2014 | Zelin, Madeleine |
Frith | Eric | Political Economy in Mexico, 1760-1857. | Latin America | 2008 | Piccato, Pablo |
Gioia | Michael | Modern Europe | 2019 | Coleman, Charly | |
Giovanopoulou | Afroditi | Recasting Global Law: Pragmatism in the History of the Postwar Order (1939-1957). | Internal and Global | 2017 | Mazower, Mark |
Goetz | Jennifer | The Fall and Rise of Soviet Photograph, 1945-63 | Modern Europe | 2017 | Evtuhov, Catherine |
Gorton | Alice | Household Nation: Catholicism, Nationalism and the Family in Britain and the Empire, 1851-1936 | Modern Europe | 2018 | Pedersen, Susan |
Greene | Victoria | Gendered Warfare in the Polis Landscape: The experiences of Women in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) | Ancient | 2019 | Ma, John |
Greenland | Sally | East Asia | 2020 | Hymes, Robert | |
Guadarrama Dominguez | Luis | Transportation, Real Estate, and the Politics of Urban Development in Mexico City, 1860-1980 | Latin America | 2017 | Piccato, Pablo |
Hardin | Amanda | Whose Wilderness? Racial Access and Activism in the American Outdoors | United States | 2018 | Jacoby, Karl |
Hawk | Emily | American Concert Dance at Midcentury: Processes and Products of Embodied Thought, 1964-1976 | United States | 2017 | Blake, Casey |
Houwink ten Cate | Lotte | The Darker Side of Intimacy: Familial Violence in Western Europe, 1970-1997. | Modern Europe | 2015 | Mazower, Mark |
Hynes | Mairead | Activist Histories of Women's War Mobilization in Twentieth-Century Japan and the Untied States | East Asia | 2019 | Pflugelder, Gregory |
Katz | Mariana | The Labor of the State: The Politics of Unfree Work in Nineteenth-Century Paraguay | Latin America | 2018 | Milanich, Nara |
Khalifa | Nada | After the Fact: Social Investigation Literature, Constitutionalism and the Politics of Evidence in Egypt and Bilad al-Sham, 1908-1923. | Middle East | 2016 | Khalidi, Rashid |
Ko | Nancy | Absorbent Empire: Oceanscapes of Finance Capitalism in the Global Mediterranean, 1840-1949 | Middle East | 2019 | Elshakry, Marwa and Khalidi, Rashid |
Le | Adrienne | The Vietnamese Buddhist Anti-War Movement, 1960-75. | International and Global | 2018 | Nguyen, Lien-Hang |
Lebovich | Andrew | The Search for the Straight Path: Islamic Reform and Regional Change in Algeria, Senegal, and Mali in the Twentieth Century. | Africa | 2013 | Mann, Gregory |
Lees | Lynton | Democracy's Children: Education, Citizenship, and the Totalitarian Challenge to Britain and Its Empire, 1933-50 | Modern Europe | 2017 | Pedersen, Susan |
Lerer | David | Managing and Mobilizing the Public Financial Sector in Western Europe, 1881-1945. | Modern Europe | 2016 | Tooze, Adam |
Liss | Caitlin | Making Creoles: Childhood and Child-rearing in New Spain, 1521-1810 | Latin America | 2019 | Pizzigoni, Caterina |
Malcolm | Rochelle | Modern Europe | 2020 | Pedersen, Susan | |
Mantilla Suarez | Rosa | Latin America | 2021 | Piccato, Pablo | |
Marantzidou | Charis | Making Russians Abroad: Education, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Anti-Bolshevism,1920-1948 | Modern Europe | 2019 | Evtuhov, Catherine and Mazower, Mark |
Masood | Kamini | South Asia | 2021 | Ahmed, Manan | |
McIntosh | Whitney | Anti-State, Anti-War, and Anti-Politics: Modern Libertarian Intellectual Culture, 1965-2000. | United States | 2018 | Blake, Casey |
Nadel | James | Jewish Speculation: Russian Jews and Financial Investment in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1917. | Modern Europe | 2018 | Stanislawski, Michael and Evtuhov Catherine |
Niu | Samuel | United States | 2020 | McCurry, Stephanie | |
Ogletree | Madison | A Peculiar Freedom: Law, Free People of Color, and the Making of the Old South 1760-1860 | United States | 2019 | McCurry, Stephanie |
Oh | Seokju | Uneven Development and the 'American Century,' 1921-1960 | United States | 2020 | Stephanson, Anders |
Osipova | Zinaida | Soviet Nitrogen: An International History of Dzerzhinsk's Chemical Industry | Modern Europe | 2020 | Evtuhov, Catherine |
Pan | Jay | The Political Economy of Mexican Developmentalism: State, Businesses, and Labor, 1946-1982 | Latin America | 2019 | Piccato, Pablo |
Partyga | Karolina | What’s Enough? Material Waste and Industrial States in Central Europe, 1949-90 | International and Global | 2019 | Mazurek, Malgorzata and Mazower, Mark |
Plowright | Isobel | Labor, Land, and the State: The First International in America, 1864-1876 | United States | 2017 | McCurry, Stephanie |
Quijano | Carolyn | Spectacle, Disorder, and the Foreigner in the Medieval Italian City-States, 1200-1475 | Medieval | 2016 | Senocak, Neslihan |
Raine | Barnaby | Lost Horizon: Visions of Ending Capitalism and Britain’s Twentieth Century. | Modern Europe | 2016 | Tooze, Adam |
Ramos | Lucas Rene | A Far More Severe Law: Italian Queer Activists and the Catholic Nation in an Age of Western Sexual Revolution (1958-2000) | Modern Europe | 2019 | De Grazia, Victoria |
Randal Kleiser | Grant | An Empire of Free Ports: Trade, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750-1781. | International and Global | 2017 | Brown, Christopher |
Rivadeneira | Stephanie | A Journal towards the Sacred: Nahua Pilgrimages in Colonial New Spain | Latin America | 2017 | Pizzigoni, Caterina |
Robin | Marie | Managing Sex Overseas in the French Army: Bordel Militaire de Campagne (Mobile Field Brotherls), Sexual Violence and Decolonization in Vietnam and Algeria (c. 1940 - 1960s) | Modern Europe | 2020 | Nguyen, Lien-Hang and Saada, Emmanuelle |
Ryuk | Sohee | Weaving 'Oriental Carpets' into the Soviet Union: Handicraft and Folk Art at Intersections of Nations, Commodity, and Labor, 1928-82 | Modern Europe | 2017 | Evtuhov, Catherine |
Sadleir | William | Portrait of a Magistrate Court: Legal Culture in the Georgian Countryside. | Modern Europe | 2019 | Evtuhov, Catherine |
Santer | Janina | Middle East | 2021 | Elshakry, Marwa | |
Sbitan | Jamil | Intimate Crises: Prostitution, Sexual Science, and Queer History in Egypt, 1834-2001. | Middle East | 2018 | Khalidi, Rashid |
Shah | Rohan | A world to Win: Contested Visions of Globalization During the 1970s US Economic Crisis. | International and Global | 2017 | Stephanson, Anders |
Sharp | Lucy | A history of au-pairs in twentieth-century Britain | Modern Europe | 2019 | Pedersen, Susan |
Shepard | Nikita | A History of Public Bathrooms in the United States. | United States | 2018 | Chauncey, George |
Sifar | Ifadha | International and Global History | 2021 | Ahmed, Manan | |
Solis | Gabriel | Of Maquilas and Miracles: Taiwan, the U.S. – Mexico Border and the Making of the Global Factory. | International and Global History | 2018 | Guridy, Frank |
Spooner | Amelia | Formally Free: Regulating Labor After Slavery in the French Empire, 1848–1914 | Modern Europe | 2017 | Saada, Emmanuelle |
Stadler | Lelia | Navigating Divorce Across the Rio de la Plata: Jews Family and the Rise of the Argentine Immigration Nation (1888-1968) | Jewish and Latin America | 2019 | Kobrin, Rebecca and Piccato, Pablo |
Steinman | Charles | Medieval Europe | 2020 | Kosto, Adam | |
Sundar | Anusha | South Asia | 2021 | Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita | |
Tomasson | Julia | Proof, Certainty, and the Authority of Mathematics across Europe and the Islamicate World (1400-1700 CE) | Early Modern | 2019 | Jones, Matt |
Ullman | Reut | The Battle for the Soul of Russia: the culture of science and the politics of theology in Enlightened Russia | Early Modern and Imperial Russia/History of Science | 2017 | Smith, Pamela and Evtuhov, Catherine |
Villegas | Jordan | The View From Chapultepec: Texas Mexican Girlhood and Pocha Poltics 1928-1946 | United States | 2020 | Jacoby, Karl |
Wang | Danping | The Chinese War on Cancer: Cancer Research, Prevention and Treatment, 1950s-1990s. | East Asia | 2017 | Lean, Eugenia |
Wilkinson | Conor | A Social History of Plant and Insect Use in Africa's Great Lakes Region: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century | Africa | 2017 | Stephens, Rhiannon |
Yan | Laura | Port Lives: Migrant Workers and the Makings of Singapore and Dubai, 1938-1979 | International and Global | 2015 | Nguyen, Lien-Hang and Ahmed, Manan |