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PhDs Awarded, 2000-present

2012-2013

  • Stephen Chambers (BA, Chicago; AM, Brown) "The American State of Cuba: The Business of Cuba and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1797-1825"
  • Sonja Glaab (MA, University of Mainz, Germany; AM, Brown) “Covering Crime: Political Violence and the Press in Imperial Germany”
  • Christopher Lamberti (BA, Miami (Ohio); AM, Brown) "Riot Zone: Chicago 1919"
  • Daniel S. Loss (BA, Swarthmore; MPhil, University of Cambridge) "The Afterlife of Christian England, 1944 to the present”
  • Amy B. Marshall (BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; AM, Brown) "Creating Mass Culture in Interwar Japan"
  • Julia Timpe (AM, Brown) "Hitler’s Happy People: Kraft durch Freude’s Everyday Production of Joy in the Third Reich"

2011-2012

  • William C. Brucher (BA, Bates College; AM, Brown University) “On the Edge of the Pacific Rim: Capitalism and Work on the Los Angeles Waterfront”
  • Nicole M. Eaton (BA, Brandeis University; AM, Brown University) “’Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory”
  • Sara C. Fingal (BA, Scripps; AM, Brown University) “Turning the Tide: The Politics of Land and Leisure on the California and Mexican Coastlines in the Age of Environmentalism”
  • Jonathan C. Hagel (BA, Lehigh; MA, Lehigh; AM, Brown University) “In Search of the 'Racist White Psyche': Racism and the Psychology of Prejudice in American Social Thought, 1930-1960"
  • Stephen M. Higa (BA, UC Berkeley; AM, Brown University) "Song and Subjectivity During the Carolingian Reforms, ca.780-ca.850"
  • Kevin A. Hoskins (BA, Boston College; AM, Brown University) “The Wages of Empire: American Labor and Colonialism, 1895-1905”
  • Jooyoung Lee (BA, Seoul National University; AM Brown University) "Making Democracy Korean: American Ideals and South Korean State-Building, 1919-1960"
  • Elizabeth S.Meloy (BA, Bowdoin; MA, Northwestern University;) “Imagining the West of Ireland: Landscape and Memory in the Wake of the Great Famine, 1845-1860”
  • Daphna Oren-Magidor (BA, Tel Aviv University, AM, Brown University) “'Make me a fruitfull vine:' Dealing with Infertility in Early Modern England”
  • Shih-Chieh Su (BA, National Cheng-Kung University; MA, National Tsing-Hua University; AM, Brown University) "Modern Nationalism and the Making of a Professional Historian: the Life and Work of Leopold von Ranke"

2010-2011

  • Christopher Barthel (BA, University of Illinois; AM, Brown University) “Contesting the Russian Borderlands: The German Military Administration of Occupied Lithuania, 1914-1918”
  • Caroline Cortina (BA, North Carolina State University; AM, Brown University) “’To Serve the Race…and Redeem the South”: Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949”
  • Lara Couturier (BS, University of Richmond; AM, Brown University; M.Ed.; Harvard Graduate School of Education) “Accessing Opportunity: The Shifting Debates over College Access, 1945-2010”
  • Thomas Devaney (BA, Trinity College; MAT, Boston College; MA, University of Chicago) “An ‘Amiable Enmity’: Frontier Spectacle and Intercultural Relations in Castile and Cyprus"
  • Elisa Gollub (BA,University of California, Santa Cruz; AM, Brown University) "Many Perestroikas: a Social History of Collective Farm Privatization in Russia"
  • Eileen M. Jacxsens (BA, University of Richmond; MA, Catholic University of America; AM, Brown University) “Learning, Literature, 7 Poetics, and the Formation of Monastic Culture in the Carolingian World”
  • Oded Rabinovitch (MA, Tel-Aviv University, AM Brown University) "Anatomy of a Family of Letters: The Perraults, 1640-1705"
  • Gabriel Rosenberg (BA, Grinnell College; AM, Brown University;) “Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots of the Modern Rural World, 1914-1948”
  • Emily Anne Wicken (BA, Carleton College, AM, Brown University) “Recasting the Criminal: Scenes of Colonial Violence in the West Indies and Ireland, 1790-1800”

2009-2010

  • Erik Anderson (BA, Grinnell College; AM, Brown University) “Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America”
  • Jessica L. Foley (BA, College of William and Mary; AM, Brown University) “’Meeting the Needs of Today’s Girl’: Youth Organizations and the Making of a Modern Girlhood, 1945-1980”
  • Shih Chieh Lo (BA, National ChungCheng University; MA, National Tsing Hua  University; AM, Brown University) “The Order of Local Things: Popular Politics and Religion in Wenzhou, 1840-1940”
  • Paige L. Meltzer (BA, Hamilton College; MA, Binghamton University; AM, Brown University) "Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women’s Activism in the United States, 1945-1960"
  • Mo Moulton (BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; AM, Brown University) "Private Irelands: The Legacies of the Anglo-Irish War in Interwar England"
  • Erica Jean Ryan (BA, Sarah Lawrence College; AM, Brown University) "’Red War on the Family’: Sex, Gender, and Americanism, 1919-1929"
  • Derek Seidman (BA, UCLA; MA, Brown University) “The Unquiet Americans: GI Dissent during the Vietnam War”
  • Stacie Taranto (BA, Duke University; AM, Brown University;) “Defending ‘Family Values’: Women’s Grassroots Politics and the Republican Right, 1970-1980”

2008-2009

  • Farid Azfar (BA, Tufts University; MA, University of Southern California; AM, Brown) “Disordered Bodies and Bodies-Politic in British Enlightenment Culture, 1720-1740”
  • Samuel L. Brenner (University of Michigan; AM, Brown; JD, University of Michigan Law School) “Shouting at the Rain: The Voices and Ideas of Right-Wing Anti-Communist Americanists in the Era of Modern American Conservatism, 1950-1974”
  • Douglas R. Burgess (BA, McGill University; JD, Cornell University; AM, Brown) “The Politics of Piracy: A Challenge to English Law and Policy in the Atlantic Colonies, 1660-1730”
  • Lauren N. Faulkner (BA, Simon Fraser University; MA, Simon Fraser University; AM, Brown) “Negotiating the Cross and the Swastika: Catholic Priests and Seminarians as German Soldiers, 1935-1945”
  • Sheyda Jahanbani (BA, Georgetown University; AM, Brown) “’A Different  Kind of People’: The Poor at Home and Abroad, 1935-1980”
  • Christopher L. Jones (BA, Amherst College; AM, Brown) “Deserting Dixie: A History of Emigres, Exiles, & Dissenters from the American South, 1866-1925”
  • Marisela Ramos (BA, Brown; AM, Brown; AM, University of Connecticut) “Black Mexico: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race and Nation”
  • Mark W. Robbins (BA, University of Michigan; AM, Brown) “Awakening the ‘Forgotten Folk’: Middle Class Consumer Activism in Post-World War I America”
  • Ling Shiao (BA, Hefei United College; MA, Pennsylvania State University; AM, Brown) “Printing, Reading, and Revolution: Kaiming Press and the Cultural Transformation of Republican China”

2007-2008

  • Caroline S. Boswell (BA, UW-Madison; AM, Brown) “Plotting Popular Disaffection in Interregnum England”
  • Kelly R. Colvin (BA, Bowdoin College; AM, Brown) “Engendering Frenchness: Gender and French Identity during the Long Liberation”
  • Matthew W. Dunne (BA, Stonehill College; AM, Brown) “A Cold War State of Mind: Cultural Constructions of Brainwashing in the 1950s”
  • Thomas P. Jundt (BA, Nebraska; MA, Nebraska; AM, Brown) “The Origins of the Environmental Movement”
  • James S. Kabala (BA, Providence College; AM, Brown) “A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early Republic, 1787-1846”
  • Anna B. Manchin (BA, Mount Holyoke;  AM, Brown) “Fables of Modernity: Entertainment Films and the Social Imaginary in Interwar Hungary”
  • Tshombe Miles (BA, City College NY; MA, City College NY) “The Fight Against Slavery and Racism in Ceará 1839-1884”
  • Coree A. Newman (BA, Smith College; AM, Brown) “God’s Other Angels: The Role of Helpful and Penitent Demons in Medieval Exempla Literature”
  • Andrew J. Romig (BA, Iowa; MA, Iowa; AM, Brown) “Love in the Material World: Caritas and the Changing Face of Lay Discipleship, 8th – 10th c.”
  • Hongjie Wang (BA, Renmin University; MA, Renmin University; AM, Brown) “Sharing the Mandate: The Former Shu Regime of Wang Jian in the Late Tang and Early Five Dynasties, 891-925”
  • Jason C. White (BA, James Madison; M Litt, St. Andrews; AM, Brown) “Your Grievances are Ours: Militant Pan-Protestantism, the Thirty Years’ War, and the Origins of the British Problem, 1618-1641"
  • Jennifer R. Wilz (BA, Carleton College; AM Brown) “Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin 1870-Present: a neighborhood on the fringe of Germany”
  • Katherine Worley (BA, North Carolina; AM Brown) “’Reason Sways Them’: Masculinity and Political Authority in the English Civil War”

2006-2007

  • Richard Canedo (BA, College of the Holy Cross; AM, Brown), "Entertaining America: Vaudeville and the Middle Ground of American Culture, 1865-1920"
  • John Davies (BA, Dartmouth College; AM, Brown), "The Russian Technical Society and the Reconstruction of Entrepreneurial Culture in Late Imperial Russia "
  • James Meyer (BA, McGill University; AM, Princeton, Brown), "Turkic Worlds: Community Representation and Collective Identity in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1870-1914"

2005-2006

  • Ilyana Karthas, (BA, Barnard College, Columbia; AM, Oxford, Brown), "Nation, Modernism, Gender, and the Cultural Politics of Ballet"
  • Steven Seegel
    (BA, History and English, Canisius College; AM, Brown), "Blueprinting Modernity: Nation-State Cartography and Intellectual Ordering in Russia's European Empire, Ukraine, and Former Poland-Lithuania, 1795-1917"
  • Sarah Yeh, (BA, Harvard; AM, Brown), "In an Enemy's Country: British Culture, Identity, and Allegiance in Ireland and the Caribbean, 1688-1763"

2004-2005

  • Robert Fleegler, (BA, Swarthmore; AM, Brown), "A Nation of Immigrants: The Rise of "Contributionism" in the United States, 1924-1965 Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Southaven Campus
  • Shiho Imai, (BA, Sophia; AM, Tufts, Brown), "Creating the Nisei Market: Japanese American Consumer Culture in Honolulu, 1920-1941 Assistant Professor, SUNY, Potsdam
  • Matthew Kadane, (BA, Southern Methodist University; AM, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research; AM, Brown), "The Watchful Clothier: The Diary of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant-Capitalist""
  • Glenn W. LaFantasie, (BA, Providence College; AM, University of Rhode Island), "William C. Oates: A Biography"
  • Keren R. McGinity, (BA, Rutgers; ALM, Harvard; AM, Brown), "Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America"
  • Emily D. O'Brien, (BA, University of Toronto; AM, Brown), "The Anatomy of an Apology: The War Against Conciliarism and the Politicization of Papal Authority in the Commentarii of Pope Pius II, 1458-1464"
  • Alexandru I. Vari, (BA, Babes-Bolyai University; AM, Brown), "Commercialized Modernities: A History of City Marketing and Urban Tourism Promotion in Paris and Budapest from the Nineteenth-Century to the Interwar Period"
  • Daniel Williams, (BA, Case Western Reserve; AM, Brown), "From the Pews to the Polls: The Formation of a Southern Christian Right "
    Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia
  • Leigh Yetter, (BA, Dalhousie University; AM, Brown), "Attitudes to Crime, Criminality, and the Law in Print in England, c. 1580-c.1700"

2003-2004

  • Brian Bockelman, (BA, Dartmouth; AM, Brown), "Prophets of the Arrabal: Remaking Argentine Culture in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930"
  • Andrew J. Huebner, (BA, Northwestern; AM, Brown), "The Embattled Americans: A Cultural History of Soldiers and Veterans, 1941-1982"
  • Matthew T. Sneider, (BA, University of Colorado; AM, Brown), "Charity and Property -- The Patrimonies of Bolognese Hospitals"
  • Francesca Trivellato, (BA, CaFoscari University, Venice, Italy; AM, Brown), "Trading Diasporas and Trading Networks in the Early Modern Period: A Sepharadic Partnership of Livorno in the Mediterranean, Europe, and Portuguese India (ca.1700-1750)
  • James P. Woodard, (BA, University of North Carolina; AM, Brown), "A Place in Politics: Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt"


2002-2003

  • Patricia J. Cowan, (BA, University of New Hampshire; AM, Duke), "Zhang Dongsun (1886-1973): Philosopher, Social Democrat and Pioneer in the Acculturation of Western Thought in China "
  • Christopher B. Frazer, (BA, University of Calgary; AM, University of Calgary), "Imagining Bandits: Cultural Struggle in Mexico, from Independence to the Revolution" Partnership of Livorno in the Mediterranean, Europe, and Portuguese India (ca.1700-1750)
  • Lisa Else Hartmann-Ting , (BA, Trinity; AM, Brown), "Called to Service: The National Catholic School of Social Service and the Development of Catholic Social Work, 1910-1947 "
  • Shelley D. Hawks, (BA, Dartmouth; AM, Harvard, AM, Brown), "'Painting by Candlelight' during the Cultural Revolution: Defending Autonomy and Expertise under Maoist Rule (1949-1976) "
  • Tia E. Malkin, (BA, California, Berkeley; AM, Brown), "Citizens or Workers? the Politics of Education in Northeast Brazil, 1959-1964"
  • Joshua M. Marshall, (BA, Princeton; AM, Brown), "Settling Down: Labor, Violence and Land Exchange in the Anglo-Indian Settlement Society of 17th Century New England, 1630-1692"
  • Alan Petigny, (BA, University of South Florida; AM, Brown), "The Permissive Turn and the Challenge to Bourgeois Values: Psychology, Secularization, and Sex in the United States, 1940-1965"
  • Norman H. Rothschild, (BA, Harvard; AM, Brown), "The Reconciliation of Opposites: Language, Ritual & Constituent Groups in the Authority of Wu Zhao, China's Only Female Emperor"


2001-2002

  • Friederike Baer-Wallis, (BA, Boston College; AM, Brown), "Joining the Nation: Germans in the Early American Republic"
  • Charles Beatty, (BA, Hunter-CUNY; AM, Brown), "Rebels and Conquerors: African Slaves, Spanish Authority, and the Domination of Esmeraldas, 1563-1621 "
  • Liam M. Brockey, (BA, Notre Dame; AM, Brown), "The Harvest of the Vine: The Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in China, 1579-1710"
  • Penelope Brownell, (BA, Washington; AM, Boston College; AM, Brown), "The Women's Committees of the First World War: Women in Government, 1917-1919"
  • Nathaniel Frank, (BA, Northwestern; AM, Brown), "Producing Men: Work, Manhood, and Capitalism in the Early American Republic"
  • Andrew Gentes, (BA, Keene State; AM, California-Riverside; AM, Brown), "Roads to Oblivion: Siberian Exile and the Stsruggle Between State and Society in Russia, 1593-1917 "
  • Kurt Graham, (BA, MA, Brigham Young; AM, Brown), "The Nationalizing Influence of the Lower Federal Courts: Rhode Island, 1790-1812 "
  • David Hamlin, (BA, Yale; AM, Brown), "Work at Play: Toys and the Toy Industry in Germany, 1880-1914 "
  • Benjamin F. Klein, (BA, California-Santa Cruz; AM, Brown), "'The Splendor of this Solemnity': Royal Ceremony and Celebration in Late Stuart England, 1660-1714 "
  • James T. Sparrow, (BA, Pennsylvania; AM, Brown), "Fighting Over the American Soldier: Moran Economy & National Citizenship in World War II"
  • Joshua Zeitz, (BA, Swarthmore; AM, Brown), "'White Ethnic New York': Jews and Catholics in Post-War Gotham, 1945-1970"


2000-2001

  • Andrew F. Bell, (BA, California-Santa Barbara; MA, Oregon; AM, Brown), "Anglophilia. The Hamburg Bourgeoisie and the Importation of English Middle Class Culture in the Wilhelmine Era"
  • Margaret B. Crosby, (BA, Auburn; AM, Brown), "The German Civil Code and the Transformation of German Society: the politics of gender inequality, 1814-1900"
  • Cheng-Hua Fang, (BA, MA, National Taiwan; AM, Brown), "Power Structures and Cultural Identities in Imperial China: Civil and Military Power from Late Tang to Early Song Dynasties (A.D. 875-1063)"
  • Sarah L. Leonard. (BA, California-Santa Cruz; AM, Brown), "The Cultural Politics of 'Immoral Writings': Readers, Peddlers and Police in Germany, 1820-1890"
  • Zachary R. Morgan, (BA, Hunter; AM, Brown), "Legacy of the Lash: Blacks and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy, 1860-1910"