Dissertations in Progress
Baden, Steven
“Old Wine in New Skins: the ‘Romanist’ Controversy among the Bishops of Both the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Church of England, 1830–52″
Bertz, Ned
“Everyday Encounters: Nationalism, Race, and the Indian Diaspora in Tanzania 1940-2000″
Bionaz, Robert E.
“Streetcar City: Community, Monopoly, and the Struggle to Shape Cleveland, 1880–1920
Successfully defended September 19, 2001!
Bosch, Gerald
“The Wages of Sin: Sweetness, Slavery, and Economic Growth”
Breitzer, Susan
“Class, Ethnicity, and Community: The Jewish Working Class of Chicago, 1886-1928″
Byrom, Bradley A.
“The Search for a ‘Cure’: Disability in Progressive America”
Christianson, Karen
“Female Leadership and Male ‘Obligation of Reverent Subjection’: The Growth of the Order of Fontevraud in Twelfth-Century France”
Conlon, Kevin
“The Parlements and a Case of Imposture: The Trial of Pierre Mege and Social Order in France, 1699-1712″
Cook, Richard
“Wang Mingdao and the Protestant Fundamentalist Subculture in Republican China”
Custer, Paul
“Letters Never Sent: Gender and Labor in the Early English Cotton Industry, c. 1770-1830″
Successfully defended April 16, 2002!
Ellen, Peter
“Iron Pliers and Glass Cables: Workers, Technology, and Unions of the Telecommunication Industry in Northern California, 1965-90″
Fogg, Shannon L.
“Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers: Daily Life, Shortages, and Personal Interactions in Vichy France”
Fry, John
“The Midwestern Farm Press, Country Life Reform, and Rural Change, 1895-1920″
Successfully defended March 11, 2002!
Gayoso, Andrea
“Introduction, Appropriation, and Diffusion of Scotism in Spain, 1310-50″
Gilbert, David
“Resisting Reformation: Catholics and the Mexican Reforma, 1855-1867″
Godley, Nathan
“‘Almost-finished Frenchmen’: the Jews of Algeria and the Question of French National Identity, 1830-1962″
Grau, Scott
“Chicago, Free Labor, and the Politics of Opportunity, 1830-60″
Gregg, John
“‘New Wine in Old Wine Skins’: Orthodox Quakers, Indians, and the Promise of Peaceful Mediation on the Southern Plains Frontier, 1865-79″
Hansmeier, Martin Eric
“The Russian Orthodox Church, 1985-95″
Harkey, Lisa
“The Lady as Lord: Gender and Property in Medieval Languedoc”
Kimble, Lionel
“Combating the City of Neighborhoods: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Chicago, 1940-1955″
Kimble, Sara L.
“Justice Redressed: Women, Citizenship, and the Social Uses of the Law in Modern France, 1890-1939″
Successfully defended May 06, 2002!
Kobayashi, Junko
“Bitter-Sweet Home: History of Japanese Language Japanese American Literature, 1939-1969″
Kreitlow, Bert S.
“Maize and Modernization: Ecology and Political Culture in the Sierra Norte De Puebla, 1930-83″
Successfully defended May 15, 2002!
Ledtje, Ellen M.
“Close Pursuit: Reciprocal Pursuit Agreements Negotiated Between the United States and Mexico, 1882-96″
McKay, David
“The Philosophical Politician: Leadership and Culture in the Early Republic”
Successfully defended April 05, 2002!
McMahon, David
“The Making of Ethnic Iowa: Public History and Memory, 1920-96″
Milosch, Mark
“Postwar Bavaria Postmodernizes: Culture, Society, Industry, and the Politics of Christian Democracy, 1946–88″
Moon, Christopher N.
“Supra-national Dreams and National Compromise: the Creation of the European University Institute and the Process of European Integration”
Successfully defended May 24, 2002!
Obermiller, David
“Bittersweet Victory: the Okinawan Reversion Movement and the Emergence of an Okinawa Ethnic Nationalism, 1945-72″
Paik, Jong
“Text, Action, and Representation in the French Revolution”
Panikkar-polsani, Ragini
“Health of the Urban Poor: a Case Study of Health Politics of the Resettlement Colonies of Delhi”
Imsande, Jennifer
“That American Word, Protection: Dependence, Duty, and Civic Ideals in Iowa, 1862–1898″
Pulju, Rebecca
“The Public and the Private: French Women’s Aspirations and the Politics of Everyday Life, 1944-1958″
Qin, Yu-cheng
“The Chinese Six Companies and the Late Qing Policy Toward the Exclusion, 1848-1911″
Successfully defended March 28, 2002!
Reid, Patricia
“Living in a Diasporic Community: Becoming African American in Annapolis, Maryland, 1790-1860″
Smith, Corey
“The Plural Complexion of an Antebellum City, Cincinnati, 1830–55″
Spohnholz, Jesse
“Exile and the Politics of Toleration: Dutch Calvinist Refugees on the Lower Rhine, 1550-1620″
Thomas, William
“The United States Justice Department and Dissent During the First World War”
Successfully defended May 13, 2002!
Weston, Clifford
“Kinfolk and Communities Keeping in Touch: 20th-century African American Migration from Holmes County, Mississippi, to Waterloo, Iowa”
Williams-Searle, Bridgett
“Resolving the Revolution: Dependency and the Problem of Inequality in Early Indiana, 1795-1835″
Williams-Searle, John
“Broken Brotherhood: Disability, Manliness, and Safety on the Rails, 1886-1916″