| Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chairs |
| Betts, Mellissa | Africa | Namibia’s No Man’s Land: Race, Space and Identity in the History of Windhoek Coloureds Under South African Rule, 1915-1990) | Edward A. Alpers |
| Biswas, Paromita | United States | Colonial Displacements: Nationalist Longing and Identity Among Early Indian Intellectuals in the United States | Michael Salmon |
| Chasin, Stephanie | Europe (Jewish) | Citizens of Empire: Jews in the Service of the British Empire, 1906-1940 | David Myers |
| Contreras, Carlos | Latin America | Bankruptcy to NAFTA: Mexico’s Foreign Policy Opens to the World, 1982-1994 | James Wilkie |
| Dabars, William | Europe | Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity: Rhetoric and Context in the American Research University | David Sabean |
| Easterly, Michael | United States | Your Job is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885-1920 | Naomi Lamoreaux |
| Hollis, Corey. | Europe | The Social Navigations of Sir Robert Dudley 1574-1649 | Muriel McClendon |
| Joy, Natalie | United States | Hydra’s Head: Fighting Slavery and Indian Removal in Antebellum American | Ellen DuBois |
| Lewis, Mark | Europe | International Legal Movements Against War Crimes, Terrorism, and Genocide, 1919-1948 | Ivan Berend |
| Li, Fangchun | China | Class, Power and the Contradictions of Chinese Revolutionary Modernity: Interpreting Land Reform in Northern China 1946-48 | Phillip Huang & Kathryn Bernhardt |
| Maestrejuan, Andrea | Europe | Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology During the Kaiserreich 1877-1914 | David Sabean |
| Murillo, Dana Velasco | Latin America | Urban Indians in a Silver City, Zacatecas, Mexico 1546-1806 | Kevin Terraciano |
| Polanichka, Dana | Medieval | Precious Stones, Living Temples: Sacred Space in Carolingian Churches, 751-833 C.E. | Patrick Geary |
| Richardson, K.C. | Religion | Early Christian Care for the Poor: An Alternative Subsistence Strategy Under Roman Imperial Rule | Ron Mellor & Dr. Scott Bartchy |
| Schreier, Jesse | United States | Different Shades of Freedom: Indians, African Americans, and Race in the Choctaw Nation, 1800-1907 | Stephen Aron |
| Stansbury, Jeffrey | United States | Organized Workers and the Making of Los Angeles, 1890-1915) | Janice Reiff |
| Stein, Joshua | United States | The Right to Violence: Assault Prosecution in New York, 1760-1840 | Ruth Bloch |
| Ward, Walter | Ancient | From Provincia Arabia to Palaestina Tertia: The Impact of Geography, Economy, and Religion on the Sedentary and Nomadic Communities in the Later Roman Province of the Third Palestine | Ron Mellor & Claudia Rapp |
| Weldemichael , Awet | Africa/South East Asia | The Eritrean and East Timorese Liberation Movements. Toward a Comparative Study of Movements: Toward a Comparative Study of the Grand Strategies | Geoffrey Robinson & Edward A. Alpers |
| Williams, Jakobi | United States | Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago: A Case Study of Fred Hampton, the Illinois Black Panther Party and the Origin of the Rainbow Coalition | Brenda Stevenson |
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