| Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chairs |
| Anderson, Samuel Dejohn | Africa | Domesticating The Medersa: Franco-Muslim Education And Colonial Rule In Northwest Africa, 1850-1960 | Ghislaine Lydon |
| Baumgarten, Max David | United States | Searching For A Stake: The Scope of Jewish Politics In Los Angeles From Watts To Rodney King, 1965-1992 | Janice Reiff |
| Civitello, Linda Ann | United States | Baking Powder Wars | Mary Yeager |
| Dufendach, Rebecca Ann | Latin America | Nahua And Spanish Concepts of Health And Disease In Colonial Mexico, 1519-1615 | Kevin Terraciano |
| Feng, Jia | World | The Emperor'S Coffer: The Qing Imperial Fiscal Separation Between Privy Purse And State Treasury (1644-1912) | Robert Brenner & James Tong |
| Flomen, Max | United States | Cruel Embrace: War And Slavery In The Texas Borderlands, 1700-1840 | Stephen Aron |
| Hounshell, Eric Tapken | Europe | A Feel For The Data: Paul F. Lazarsfeld And The Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research | David Sabean |
| Koehler, Rhiannon Maria | United States | Visible Ink: Indigenous Editorial Cartoons And The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, 1964-1998 | Robin Kelley & Peter Nabokov |
| Kovalesky, Brian Robert | United States | Contested Campuses: Politics, Race, And The Battles Over Public Education In The Greater Los Angeles Area, 1949-1972 | Janice Reiff |
| Mercado, Juan Pablo | United States | Judy Baca, Sparc And A Chicana Mural Movement: Reconstructing U.S. History Through Public Art | Juan Gomez-Quinones |
| Momdjian, Maran | Near East | The Levantine Merchant Consuls of Aleppo; The Commercial Elites 1750- 1850 | Sebouh Aslanian |
| Rahtz, Joshua Charles | Europe | The Politics of Order: Ordo-Liberalism From The Inter-War Period Through The Long 1970S | Robert Brenner |
| Renton, Kathryn Elizabeth | Europe | A Social And Environmental History of The Horse In Spain And Spanish America, 1492-1600 | Margaret Jacob & Teofilo Ruiz |
| Serrano, Fernando | Latin America | Indigenous Mine Workers In The Guanajuato-Michoacán Region: Labor, Migration, And Ethnic Identity In Colonial Mexico, 1550-1800 | Kevin Terraciano |
| Silver, Christopher Benno | Europe (Jewish) | Jews, Music-Making, And The Twentieth Century Maghrib | Sarah Stein |
| Solt, Susan | United States | The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life | Brenda Stevenson |
| Staiano-Daniels, Lucia Eileen | Europe | The War People:The Daily Life of Common Soldiers, 1618-1654 | David Sabean |
| Weismeyer, Michael Brett | Science | Science Education In Early California Colleges, 1850-1880 | Theodore Porter |
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