| Name | Field | Dissertation Title | Chair/Co-Chair |
| Baig, Sohaib | South/Southeast Asia | Indian Hanafis in an Ocean of Hadith: Islamic Legal Authority between South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, 16th – 20th Centuries | Nile Green |
| Bingley, Christopher Stephen | China | Philostratus, Perceptions of Foreign Ethnicity, and Severan Cultural Geography | David Phillips |
| Buehler, Scottie | History of Science | Being and Becoming a Midwife in Eighteenth-century France: Geographies of Pedagogical Practices and Objects | Mary Terrall |
| Clever, Iris Isabelle | History of Science | The Lives and Afterlives of Skulls. The Development of Biometric Methods of Measuring Race (1880-1950) | Soraya De Chadarevian |
| Comuzzi, Elizabeth | Medieval | Economic and Demographic Change through Notarial Sources: The Example of Puigcerdà 1260-1360 | Jessica Goldberg and Teofilo Ruiz |
| De Lucia, Lori | Africa | Sicily and the Two Seas: The Cross Currents of Race and Slavery in Early Modern Palermo | Andrew Apter and Ghislaine Lydon |
| Gilhuis, Nicole Danniell | United States | Colonial Ghosts: Mi'kmaq Adoption, Daily Practice & the Alternate Atlantic, 1600-1763 | Carla Pestana and L. Robin Derby |
| Glasgow, Kristen Hillaire | United States | Charlotte Forten: Coming of Age as a Radical Teenage Abolitionist, 1854-1856 | Brenda Stevenson |
| Goux, Hippolyte Albert | History of Science | On the Genealogy of Economic Reason | Theodore Porter |
| Hilliard, Ryan (Christine) | Europe | By Choice or By Circumstance: Singlewomen in Early Modern France | Kathyrn Norberg |
| Kiazolu, Yatta Winnie | United States | All The Women Are Meeting:” The National Council of Negro Women, Emerging Africa, and Transnational Solidarity, 1935-1966 | Brenda Stevenson |
| King, Lindsay Alissa | Jewish | Modes of Masculinity: Entertainment, Politics, and the Jewish Men of Vienna's Press, 1837-1859 | David Myers |
| McBride, Preston | United States | A Lethal Education: Institutionalized Negligence, Epidemiology, and Death in Native American Boarding Schools, 1879-1934 | Benjamin Madley |
| Mccormick, Kelly Midori | Japan | Gendering Cultures of Japanese Photography, 1931-1970 | William Marotti |
| Richardson, Kevin H | Japan | Scientific Wastelands and Toxic Utopias: The New Environmentalism of 1970s Japan | William Marotti |
| Riddell, Citlali Lucia | United States | Californio Local Liberalisms: The Lasting Impact of Mexican Ideologies in California, 1848-1890 | Eric Avila |
| Rosenfeld, Susan Alexandra Corey | Africa | Apparitions of the Atlantic: Mobility, Kinship and Freedom among Afro-Brazilian Emigrants from Bahia to Lagos, 1850-1900 | Andrew Apter |
| Roy, Toulouse- Antonin | Japan | The Camphor Question Is in Reality the Savage Question:’: The Japanese Empire, Indigenous Peoples, and the Making of Capitalist Taiwan, 1895-1915 | Katsuya Hirano |
| Sladeck, Jeremiah John | United States | Padres Descontentos: Spanish Imperial Policy, Franciscan Decline, and the California Mission System, 1784-1803 | Stephen Aron |
| Tajiryan, Sona | Middle East | The Early Modern Global Trade of Diamonds and Gems: An Armenian Family Firm on the Crossroads of Caravan and Maritime Trade (ca. 1670-1730) | Sebouh Aslanian |
| Vivian, Anthony | Ancient | Rotting Ships and Bloodied Water: Destructive Liquids and Thucydides’ Skepticism of Naval Imperialism | David Phillips |
| Woolner, Maia Isabelle | History of Science | Time to Cure: Psychiatry, Psychology, and Speed in Modern France, c.1880s-1930s | Theodore Porter and Laurie Murat |
2019-2020 PhD Awardees & Dissertation Titles