Recent Graduates

2006-2007 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles

BRIMMER, Brandi (US) “All Her Rights and Privileges: African American Civil War Widows and the Politics of Widows' Pensions”, Chairs – Prof. Naomi Lamoreaux and Prof. Laura Edwards (Duke)

DAUVERD, Celine (EU) “Symbiotic Mediterranean Empire: The Genoese Trade Diaspora in Spanish Naples, 1460-1640”, Chair – Prof. Geoffrey Symcox

FIRPO, Christina (SEA) “’The Durability of the Empire:’ Race, Empire and ‘Abandoned’ Children in Colonial Vietnam 1870-1956,” Chair - Geoffrey Robinson and Thu Huong Nguyen-Vo

EYAL, Hillel (LA) “Colonizing the Colonizer: Spanish Immigrants and Creoles in Late Colonial Mexico City”, Chair – Prof. José Moya

FAGAN, Patricia (ME) - "Pope Adrian IV, the Clear-Eyed Chief Executive, and His Papacy (1154-1159)", Chair – Prof. Teo Ruiz

GALINDO, Alfonso J. (LA) "Why is Mexico Unstable? Corporativism and Rent-Seeking since 1929", Chair - Prof. James Wilkie

GERARDO, Mehera (US) “Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in WWII Los Angeles”, Chair – Prof. Ellen DuBois

HENRY, Todd (JA) - "Keijo: Japanese and Korean Constructions of Colonial Seoul and the History of its Lived Spaces, 1910-37", Chair – Prof. Miriam Silverberg

HOPPER, Matthew (AF) “The African Presence in Arabia: Slavery, the World Economy, and the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia, 1840-1940”, Chair – Prof. Edward A. Alpers

HSU, Danny (CH) “Impeachments and Administrative Litigation in Qing and Republican Law”, Chairs – Prof. Kathryn Bernhardt, Prof. Philip Huang

KAFKA, Linus (US) “Cosmopolitan Connections: Henry Adams, His Circle, and the Global Gilded Age”, Chair – Prof. Thomas Hines

KENT, Max (EU) “The British Enlightenment and the Sprit of the Industrial Revolution: The Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce: 1754-1815”, Chair – Prof. Ivan Berend

LOPEZ-DENIS, Adrian (LA) “Disease and Society in Colonial Cuba, 1790-1840”, Chair- Prof. José Moya

MARTOS, Sofia (LA) “The Balancing Act: Ethnicity, Commerce, and Politics Among Syrian and Lebanese Immigrants in Argentina, 1890-1955”, Chair – Prof. Jose Moya

PANGBURN, Kris (EU) “Personal Immortalities: German Perspectives on Life after Death, 1770-1820”, Chair - Prof. Peter Reill

POBLETE-CROSS, JoAnna (US) “Intra-Colonial Lives: Puerto Rican and Filipino sugar plantation labor recruits to Hawai’i, 1900 to 1940”, Chair – Prof. Henry Yu

RICE, Melinda (EU) “A Fool and His Money: Culture and Financial Choice during the John Law Affair of 1720”, Chair – Prof. Kate Norberg

ROLSTON, Arthur (US) “Constituting Capitalism: Constitutional Revision in Kentucky and Ohio from the Jacksonian Age to the Progressive Era”, Chairs – Prof. Naomi Lamoreaux and Prof. Stephen Aron

STERNFELD, Joshua (EU) “Jazz Echoes: The Cultural and Sociopolitical Reception of Jazz in Weimar and Nazi Berlin, 1925-1945”, Chair – Prof. Debora Silverman

SUH, So Young (SC) “Korean Medicine between the Local and the Universal: 1600-1945”, Chairs – Prof. Norton Wise and Prof. Charlotte Furth (USC)

TODOROV, Boris (ME) “The Bulgarians between the Two Romes: The Discourse of Power in Medieval Bulgaria”, Chair – Prof. Patrick Geary

UHLMANN, Jennifer (US) “The Communist Civil Rights Movement: Legal Activism in the United States, 1919-1946”, Chair – Prof. Ellen DuBois

VIEIRA-MARTINEZ, Carolyn (AF) “Building Kimbundu: Historical Language Communities Reconsidered in Central Africa, c.1500-1750”, Co-Chairs: Prof. Edward A. Alpers and Prof. Christopher Ehret

2005-2006 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles

Alagona, Peter (Science) Endangered Species, Politics and the History of Conservation Biology; Chair: Jessica Wang

Anooshahr, Ali (NE) The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam; Chair: Michael Morony

Benitez, Juan (United States) A Social History of the Mexico-United States Border: How Tourism, Demographic Shifts and Economic Integration Shaped the Image and Identity of Tijuana Baja, California, Since World War II; Co-Chairs: Jose Moya & James Wilkie

Bond, Robert (NE) Office of the Ottoman Court Historian of Vak’aniivij, 1714-1922: An Institutional and Prosoprographic Study; Chair: Stanford Shaw

Bottoms, Donald (United States) An Aristocracy of Color:  Race and Reconstruction in Post-Gold Rush California; Chair: Stephen Aron

Breiteneicher, Jessica (US), The First Casualties: American Nation-Building in South Vietnam, 1955-1965; Co-chairs: Jessica Wang & Geoffrey Robinson

Britton, Glenn (US) “Improving” the Middle Landscape: Conservation and Social Change in Rural Southern Michigan, 1890-1940; Chair: Stephen Aron

Campbell, Marne (United States) Race and Revival:  A Social History of African-American Migration to Los Angeles, 1870-1920; Chair: Brenda Stevenson

Chappell, L. Stephen (Ancient) Romanization in Dacia; Chair:  Ronald Mellor

Elkind, Jessica (US) The First Casualties:  American Nation-Building in South Vietnam, 1955-1965; Co-Chairs:  Jessica Wang & Geoffrey Robinson

Emon, Anver (NE) The Natural Law Tradition in Islam; Chair:  Robert I. Burns

Garcia, David G.(US), The Evolution of a Critical Race Theater: Culture Clash and Chicana/o Performance Art 1965-2004, Chair: Juan Gomez-Quinones

Gifford, Laura (United States) The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism; Chair: Jessica Wang

Graham, Wade (United States) Braided Waters: Environment, Economy and Community in Molokai, Hawaii; Chair: Steve Aron

Kim, Susan Chongmi (United States) The Life of John Rogers: Sectarian Leadership in New London, 1674-1721; Chair: Joyce Appleby

Lambert, Kevin (SC) Mind Over Matter: Language, Mathematics, and Electromagnetism in Nineteenth Century Britain; Chair: Norton Wise

Lebovic, Nitzan (EU) The Politicalization of ‘Lebensphilosophie’ From Ludwig Klages to National Socialism, 1870-1933; Co-Chairs: Saul Friedlander & David Myers

McDonough, Scott (NE) Power by Negotiation: Institutional Reform in the Fifth Century Sasanian Empire; Co-Chairs: Claudia Rapp & Michael Morony

Mcvety, Amanda (United States) U.S. Development Policy and the Point Four Program;  Chair:  Jessica Wang

Memarzadeh, Maher (Latin America) Medical Practitioners in Early Colonial Mexico; Co-Chairs: Kevin Terraciano & Michael Morony

Mineo, Claudia (EU) Power, Law and Memory:  The Struggle Over Municipal Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Castile; Chair:  Teo Ruiz 

Nelson, William (EU) The Weapon of Time:  Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year I.; Chair:  Lynn Hunt 

Numark, Mitch (South Asia) Translating Religion in British India:  Missionaries and the Politics of Religious Knowledge in Colonial Bombay and British India; Chair: Vinay Lal

Park, Peter (EU) The Exclusion of Asia from the Formation of a Modern Canon of Philosophy: Debates in German Philosophy, 1790-1830; Chair: Peter Reill

Raia, Courtenay (EU) Intersecting Science, Empire and the Super Natural in the Victorian Fin de Siecle; Chair: Theodore Porter

Strub, Whitney (United States) Perversion for Profit:  The Politics of Obscenity and Pornography in the Postwar United States; Chair:  Ruth Bloch 

Suh, So (Science) From Tngui to Hanui:  Inventing the Tradition of Korean Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea; Co-Chairs:  M. Norton Wise

Theisen, Joseph (Latin America) Strategic Struggle for World Oil:  Standard Oil of New Jersey and Hidden Elitelore in Mexico's Expropration; Chair:  James Wilkie

Tran, Lisa (CH) Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law, 1912-1953; Co-Chairs: Philip Huang & Kathryn Bernhardt

Trenchard-Smith, Margaret (Ancient Byzantine) Categories and Modes of Unreason in Early Medieval Byzantium; Chair:  Claudia Rapp

2004-2005 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles

Goldfarb, Elizabeth Bisbee (AN) Transformation Through Imitation: Biblical Figures as Moral Exempla in the Post-Classical World; Chair: Claudia Rapp

Graham, Stacey (ME) The Dissemination of North African Christian and Intellectual Culture in Late Antiquity; Co-Chairs Claudia Rapp & Richard Rouse

Guzman, Kristen (US) Art in the Heart of East L.A.: A History of Self Help Graphics and Art, Inc., 1972-2002; Chair: Juan Gomez-Quinones

Halloran, Fiona (US) The Power of the Pencil: Thomas Nast and American Political Art; Chair: Joan Waugh

Hu, Minghui (SC) Cosmopolitan Confucianism and the Mathematical Way, 1720-1840; Co-Chairs: Ben Elman & Theodore Porter

Jaaska, Arne (ME) Raetia and Alamania: The Mixed Cultural World of a Former Roman Province in the Early Middle Ages; Chair: Patrick Geary

Milton, Gregory (ME): Commerce, Crisis and Society in a Medieval Village: Santa Coloma de Queralt, 1294-1313; Chair: Teofilo Ruiz

Monty, Christopher (RU) Moscow is Far Away: Stalin’s Party Inspectors and the Politics of Personnel During the New Economic Policy, 1921-1928; Chair: Arch Getty

Ostergren, Gail (US) Angels and Saints: Making and Promoting Place in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1890-1932; Chair: Janice Reiff

Rosenthal, Nicholas (US) Re-Imagining “Indian Country”: American Indians and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area; Chair: Melissa Meyer

Rusk, Bruce (CH) The Rogue Classicist: Feng Fang (1493-1566) and His Forgeries; Chair: Ben Elman

Scourtis, Constantina (BYZ) Failure of Reconciliation: The Byzantine Experience at the Council of Ferrara-1438-39; Chair: Barisa Krekic

Shulman, Elena (RU) Pacifying a Marvelous Land: Gender and Settlement in the Soviet Far East, 1937-1940; Chair: Arch Getty

Vanderbilt, Gregory (US) “The Kingdom of God is Like a Mustard Seed”: Evangelizing Modernity Between the U.S. and Japan, 1905-1948; Co- Chairs: Joyce Appleby & Fred Notehelfer

Zhang, Jiayan (CH) Environmental Change, Economic Growth, and Peasant Behavior: Agrarian History of the Jiaghan Plain, 1644-1949; Co-Chairs: Philip Huang & Kathryn Bernhardt

Zwick, Tamara (EU) Correspondence Between Public and Private: German Women, Kinship and Class in 19th-Century Hamburg; Chair: David Sabean