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Dissertations in Progress

A Great Honor to the Womanhood: The Local and National Activism of Irene McCoy Gaines, 1940-1958. Theresa Pfister

Sahagun's Forest: A Study of Meso-American Dance in a Colonial Context. Chalice Wilkerson

The Patient: Hospitals, Hospitalization, and a Political Economy of Sympathy in Chicago, 1870-1930. Hiroshi Maeda

Construction of Heterosexual Masculinities in the 1960s and 1970s United States. Joseph Lapsley

Part of the Loaf: African American Workers in Chicago During the 1920's. Gareth Canaan

Age at Marriage in Mexico - 1520 to 2000 From Early Modern Roots to Contemporary Transformation. Stephen Alderson

Who Rules?: Democracy and Revolution in Anglo-American History. Ted Aranda

A Denunciation in the Lyon Region, 1940-1953. Benn E. Williams

Gendered Boundaries and Race Leadership: Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) and the New Deal. Gloria Y. Williams

Sisters in the Struggle: Older Women's Activism for Peace and Social Justice in Chicago, 1960-1975. Amy Schneidhorst

Constructing Sanity: A Social and Architectural History of Zurich's Burghoelzli Asylum, 1850-1900. Nicole Butz

An Alternative Society: Russian Old Believer Women of Leksa Monastery, 1714-1855. Dolores Davison Peterson

Muslims and Politics in Accra, Ghana: 1954-1966. Misbahudeen Ahmed-Rufai

Bordeaux, Imperial Merchants and the Strategies of Trade during the French Wars, 1793-1815. Bruce Nye

Migrants Work: The Politics of Migration and Decline in Chicago, 1935-1965. Jeff Helgesen

A Greater Sacrifice: Northern Black Families and Their Civil War Experiences. James Mendez

Safe Harbor: Chicago's Waterfront and the Political Economy of the Built Environment, 1877-1916. Joshua Salzmann

Resisting the Tide The North American Committee, the United Front, and the Politics of Aiding the Spanish Republic, 1936-1940. Eric Smith

Cold War Anti-Communism and the Domestic Opposition to N. Khrushchev's 1959 Visit to America. Aaron Berkowitz

"No Right to Be Idle: Work, Citizenship, and the Invention of Disability, 1850-1930. Sarah F. Rose

Joining the Union: Land, Race, and Sovereignty in the Illinois Country, 1763-1824. John Reda

Red-Baiting Public Women: Gender, Loyalty, and Postwar Politics. Elizabeth Collins

The Boundaries of the State: The Chicago Police Department and the Pinkertons, 1837-1895. Samuel Mitrani

Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Cultural Revolution in Latin America. Matthew Rothwell

A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform: Vulgrinus of Vendome, 1000-1065. Diane Adams

The Formation of the CUC in Guatemala: a Popular Movement in its Historical Context William Malone

I Play for the King: Ghanaian Musicians and the state in the 20th Century. Peter Jones

Roads to Exemption: Labor and the Antitrust Movement in the United States and Canada, 1872-1920. Daniel Harper

A New South Unborn: Experiments in Italian Agricultural Colonization, 1884-1926. Lauren H. Braun

Beyond the Strike Kitchen: Working-Class Housewives, Women.'s Labor Union Auxiliaries, and Political Citizenship in Post World War II America. Emily E. LaBarbera Twarog

Conflict in Mind: Catholicism and the Modern Anglo World, 1830-1871. Allison O. Malcom

Redeeming Yorktown: Revolutionary Memory and the Politics of Commemoration in Tidewater Virginia, 1824-1907. Sarah Goldberg

Wasted Opportunities: Deindustrialization, Environmental Politics, and Community in Southeast Chicago, 1970-1992. Christopher Wonderlich

PhDs Awarded 1972-2006

PhD Awarded 2006

PhD Awarded 2004

Carla Burnett, "Are We Slaves or Free Men?: Labor, Race, Garveyism, and the 1920 Panama Canal Strike" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: Bruce Calder

Gwen Hoerr Jordan, "Creating A Women's Legal Culture: Women Lawyers in Illinois, 1855-1939" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: Eric Arnesen

Marek Suszko, "The Zielona Gora Region, 1945-1956. A Communist Dumping Ground" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: John Kulczycki

Leonid T. Trofimov, "The Soviet Media at the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: Jonathan Daly

Adrian S. Capehart, "The Migration of Africans to the United States since 1960: Contexts, Responses, and Communities" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Karl E. Wood, "Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in Germany" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Levy

Nancy L. Turpin, "The Blue Ticket: Local Response to State Nationalism at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition" (2004)
Dissertation Advisor: David Jordan

PhD Awarded 2003

Justin P. Coffey, "Spiro Agnew and the Suburbanization of American Politics, 1918-1968" (2003)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Fried

Ralph Ashby, "Napoleon and the Defenders of France" (2003)
Dissertation Advisor: David Jordan

Robert P. Arnoldt, "After the War: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Vietnam Veteran in American Society" (2003)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

Pamela L. Baker, "The National Road and the Promise of Improvement, 1802-1850" (2003)
Dissertation Advisor: Daniel Scott Smith

Eva Becsei Kilborn, "Going Against the Grain: Francis Peyton Rous (1876-1970) and the Search for the Cancer Virus" (2003)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

PhD Awarded 2002

Ana Maria Kapelusz-Poppi, "Provincial Intellectuals from Michoacan and the Professionalization of the
Post-Revolutionary Mexican State" (2002)
Dissertation Advisor: Mary Kay Vaughan

Steven McNeel, "Behold the Temple of Janus Shut in this Western World: Colonel Henri Bouquet Frontier Office, 1756-1765" (2002)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Edward J.Behrend-Martinez, "'She Wanted To Be Her Own Maste': Women’s Suits Against Impotent and Abusive
Husbands in a Spanish Church Court 1650-1750" (2002)
Dissertation Advisor: Renato Barahona

Lawrence Eldridge,"Chronicles of a Two-Front War: The African-American Press and the Vietnam War" (2002)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

Larry Lee Baker, Jr., "Politics, Privilege, and Political Culture: Dijon During the French Revolution" (2002)
Dissertation Advisor: David Jordan

Barbara L. Dobschuetz, "Fundamentalism and American Urban Culture: Community and Religious Identity in Dwight L. Moody’s Chicago, 1864-1914" (2002)
Dissertation Advisors: Leo Schelbert & Rima Schultz

Paul B. Siegel, "Uptown Chicago: The Origins and Emergence of a Movement Against Displacement,
1947-1972" (2002)
Dissertation Advisor: Eric Arnesen

PhD Awarded 2001

Anthony R. Maravillas, “Nixon in the Fifties” (2001)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Fried

Jason C. Digman, “Which Way to the Promised Land? Changing Patterns in Southern Migration, 1865-1920" (2001)
”Dissertation Advisor: Eirc Arnesen

Stanley Rose, “Urbanization in Seventeenth-Century Ghana” (2001)
Dissertation Advisor: James Searing

Sean J. Labat, “Creating Consensus: Chicago and United States Foreign Relations During The Early Cold War,
1945-1950” (2001)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

Christopher J. Young, "Contests of Opinion: The Public Sphere in Post-Revolutionary America" (2001)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard John

PhD Awarded 2000

Raymond M. Brod, “Maps as Weapons in the Conquest of Old American Northwest 1608 to 1829" (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Gerald Danzer

John C. Kinney, “Alcoholic Inebriety: A Study of Its Perceived Nature, Causation, and Treatment in America,
1857-1914" (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Perry Duis

John Menet, “Aviation and the American Imagination During World War II” (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Perry Duis

John Abbott, “Peasants in the Rural Public: The Bavarian Bauernbund, 1893-1933” (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Levy

Maria Teresa Fernandez-Aceves, “The Political Mobilization of Women in Revolutionary Guadalajara, 1910-1940” (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Mary Kae Vaughan

Frederic M. Kopp, “Rocking the Federal Republic: Rebellious Youth and Music in West Germany, 1945-1990" (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Levy

Cadence A. Wynter, “Jamaican Labor Migration to Cuba, 1885-1930 in the Caribbean Context” (2000)
Dissertation Advisor: Bruce Calder

PhD Awarded 1999

Salvador Camacho, “The Modernization of Education and Science in Mexico 1982-1995: The Case of Aguascalientes"
(1999)
Dissertation Advisor: Mary Kae Vaughan

Ben A. Harshman, “Toward A Commercial Society” (1999)
Dissertation Advisor: James Sack

Wendy Plotkin, “Deeds of Mistrust: Race, Housing, and Restrictive Convenants in Chicago, 1900-1953” (1999)
Dissertation Advisor: Perry Duis

Arthur Christian Repp, “In Search of an Orthodox Way: The Development of Biblical Studies in Late Imperial Russia”
(1999)
Dissertation Advisor: James Cracraft

Stephen A. Brown, “When Middle-Class Ambition Met Southern Honor: A Cultural History of the Leo Frank Case” (1999)
Dissertation Advisor: Burton Bledstein

Brian Moran, “Prison Reform in the United States Navy and the Dominican Republic: The Military Occupation and
Prisons, 1900-1930” (1999)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

John L. Glover, “The Hope in this World and the Next: Maam Cerno and the Settlement of Darou Mousty, 1912-1947”
(1999)
Dissertation Advisor: James Searing

PhD Awarded 1998

Nichalos S. Ceh, "United States-Yugoslav Relations During the Early Cold War, l945-l957" (1998)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

Thomas H. Cornman, "Securing a Faithful Ministry: Struggles of Ethnicity and Religious Epistemology in Colonial
American Presbyterianism" (1998)
Dissertation Advisors: A. G. Roeber/L. Schelbert

Tadeusz Debski, "A Battlefield of Ideas: Nazi Concentration Camps and Their Polish Prisoners" (1998)
Dissertation Advisors: Richard Levy/John Kulczycki

James Kollros, "Creating a Steel Workers Union in the Calumet Region, 1933 to 1945" (1998)
Dissertation Advisor: P. d'A. Jones

Virgil Krapauskas, "Lithuanian Historiography: A Search for National Identity from Daukanta to 1904" (1998)
Dissertation Advisor: John Kulczycki

John Morello, "Candidates, Consumers and Closers: Albert Lasker, Advertising and Politics: 1900-1920" (1998)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Jensen

Jacqueline H. Wolf, "Discarding Nature's Plan: A Social History of Infant Feeding in Chicago, 1892-1938" (1998)
Dissertation Advisor: Perry Duis

PhD Awarded 1997

Paul A. Buelow, "The Dispensary Comes to Chicago: Health Care and the Poor Before 1920" (1997)
Dissertation Advisor: Perry Duis

Robin Carre, "The Decline of the Imperial Republic: Colonial Discourse and the Crisis of Liberalism in Interwar France"
(1997)
Dissertation Advisor: William Hoisington

L. Mara Dodge, "Her Life has Been an Improper One: Women, Crime and Prisons in Illinois, 1935-1933" (1997)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert/Margeret Strobel

Thomas K. Murphy, "The Evolving Image of America in Europe: 1780-1850" (1997)
Dissertation Advisor: Stanley Mellon/David Jordan

Margaret Power, "Right Wing Women and Chilean Politics: 1964-1973" (1997)
Dissertation Advisor: Mary Kae Vaughan

Pamela Smith-Irowa, "Great Things are to be Expected: A Look at European Ideas on Indigenous Medicine in Benin,
Nigeria" (1997) Dissertation Advisor: James Searing

Phyllis L. Soybel, "The Necessary Relationship: The Development of Anglo-American Cooperation in Naval Intelligence,
1939-1943" (1997)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

William B. Whisenhunt, "Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Development of Law in Russia, 1826-1833" (1997)
Dissertation Advisor: James Cracraft

PhD Awarded 1996

George S. Pabis, "Restraining the Muddy Waters: Engineers and Mississippi River Flood Control, 1846-1881" (1996)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard John

Septimus Paul, "Anglo-American Cooperation and the Development
of the British Atomic Bomb, 1941-52" (1996)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Padma I. Rangaswamy, "The Imperatives of Choice and Change: Post-1965 Immigrants from India in Metropolitan
Chicago" (1996)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Gregory L. Schneider, "The Other Sixties: The Young Americans for Freedom and the Politics of Conservatism" (1996)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Fried

Richard A. Stacewicz, "Winter Soldiers" An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War" (1996)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Messer

Mary Todd, "Not in God's Lifetime": The Question of the Ordination of Women in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod"
(1996)
Dissertation Advisor: A. Gregg Roeber

PhD Awarded 1995

Maladho Siddy Balde, "The History of Fuuta-Jallon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century According to the Griots and the Elders" (1995)
Dissertation Advisor: Lansine Kaba/ James Searing

Michael Doorley, "The Friends of Irish Freedom: A Study of an Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism" (1995)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

PhD Awarded 1994

David R. M. Beck, "Siege and Survival: Menominee Responses To An Encroaching World" (1994)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Karen Friedman, "German/Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution 1941-1944" (1994)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Levy

Joy M. Kammerling, "Andreas Osiander and the Jews of Nuremberg: A Reformation Pastor and Jewish Toleration in
Sixteenth-Century Germany" (1994)
Dissertation Advisor: George Huppert

Andre Partykevich, "My Prayer Went Unanswered": Oleksander Lototsky and Ukrainian Autocephaly, 1917-1939" (1994)
Dissertation Advisor: James Cracraft

Thomas S. Price, “Palmettos and Property: Historical Memory and Political Culture in Early National South Carolina”
(1994)
Dissertation Advisor: Michael Perman

David Vervaet, "From Assimilation to Independence: The Evolue(e) Novelists and the Recovery of Alerian Identity,
1939-1962" (1994)
Dissertation Advisor: William Hoisington

PhD Awarded 1993

Cynthia K. Kosso, "Public Policy and Agricultural Practices: An Archaeological and Literary Study of Late Roman and
Greece" (1993)
Dissertation Advisor: J. Davis (Classics)

Louis B. Kuppenheimer,
"Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability: An Interpretive Profile" (1993)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Neal R. McCrillis, "The Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage: Popular Conservatism, 1918-1929" (1993)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Michaela Tomaschewsky, "Malwida von Meysenbug and the Cult of Humanism" (1993)
Dissertation Advisor: Marion Miller

PhD Awarded 1992

Eugene Beiriger, "Churchill in the Ministry of Munitions: An Experiment in Government Industrial Policy" (1992)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Edward Berggren, "Under the Sign of Enlightenment: Varieties of Reading Rousseau's Pedagogical Texts" (1992)
Dissertation Advisor: David Jordan

Clinton E. Stockwell, "A Better Class of People: Protestants in the Shaping of Early Chicago, 1833-1873" (1992)
Dissertation Advisor: Melvin Holli

PhD Awarded 1991

Shirley Burton, "Obscenity in Victorian Chicago: Prosecution in the Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois,
1873-1913" (1991)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Thekla Caldwell, "Women, Men and Revival: Gender in the Third Awakening.”(1991)
Dissertation Advisor: Daniel Scott Smith

PhD Awarded 1990

Andrew A. Wiest, "The Dominance of the Flanders Coast in British Strategic Planning in World War I" (1989)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Jared Clark, “Industry, Society and Policies in the Ruhr: National Liberalism in Dartmund, 1848-1913" (1990)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Levy

David Goodlett, "Proletarians on the Merry-Go-Round: The Yugoslav Press and Official Policy on Workers Emigration,
1963-1973" (1990)
Dissertation Advisor: Edward Thaden

Steven McNeel, "Behold the Temple of Janus Shut in this Western World: Colonel Henri Bouquet Frontier Office,
1756-1765" (1990) Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Claiborne Skinner, "The Sinews of Empire: The Voyageurs and the Carrying Trade of the Pays d'en Haut, 1681-1754"
(1990)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

PhD Awarded 1989

Douglas Bukowski, "According to Image: William Hale Thompson and tile Politics of Chicago, 1915-1931" (1989)
Dissertation Advisor: Melvin Holli

Andrew R. Sarvis, "The Krefeld Silk Entrepreneurs: A Study in Bourgeois Solidarity" (1989)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Levy

PhD Awarded 1988

James E. Jennings, "Aeginetan Trade 650-457 B.C.: A Re-Examination" (1988)
Dissertation Advisor: R. Legon

PhD Awarded 1987

Donald J. McKay, "Soviet Jewish Emigration to Chicago, 1970-1980" (1987)
Dissertation Advisor: Edward Thaden

James C. Mott, "Change and Continuity in American Voting Behavior, 1948-1952" (1987)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Jensen

Gersham Nelson, "The Origin and Development of the Jamaican Peasants and Working Class, 1838-1979" (1987)
Dissertation Advisor: Bruce Calder

Gary K. Pranger, "Philip Schoff (1819-1893): Portrait of an Immigrant Theologian" (1987)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Wayne P. Schaefer, "Education in Morocco to Libya, 1925-1945" (1987)
Dissertation Advisor: William Hoisington

Marian J. Rubchak, "A Wellspring of Ukrainian National Consciousness: The Formation of the Lviv
StavropgyriaBrotherhood, 1585-1632" (1987)
Dissertation Advisor: James Cracraft

PhD Awarded 1986

Janine C. Hartman, "The Politics of Decadence: The Social and Political Ideas of Sade, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Flaubert, 1789-1871" (1986)
Dissertation Advisor: Stanley Mellon

Robert N. Narty, "From Slave to Servical: Labor in the Plantation Economy of Sao Teme and Principe" (1986)
Dissertation Advisor: I.Sundiata

Rita M. Rhodes, "Women and the Family in Post-Famine Ireland: Status and Opportunity in a Patriarchal Society"
(1986)
Dissertation Advisor: Marion Miller/Leo Schelbert

PhD Awarded 1985

Milan Andrejevich, "The Cultural Evolution of Bosnia-Hercegovina Conflict and Development during Kallay Era, 1882 --1903" (1985)
Dissertation Advisor: Edward Thaden

Thomas C. Hendrix, "'The Love of Liberty': A Study of the Religious Factor in the 19th Century Settlement of
Afro/Americans in Liberia" (1985)
Dissertation Advisor: I.Sundiata

Mark A. Lause, "Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815" (1985)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Joseph Takougang, "Victoria: An African Township Under British Administration, 1916-1961" (1985)
Dissertation Advisor: I.Sundiata

PhD Awarded 1984

Christian D. Nokkentved, "Danes, Denmark and Racine 1837-1924: A Study of Danish and Overseas Migration" (1984)
Dissertation Advisor: Marion Miller/Leo Scelbert

Gwendolyn Robinson, "Class, Race, and Gender: A Transcultural Theoretical and Sociohistorical Analysis of Cosmetic
Institutions and Practices to 1920" (1984)
Dissertation Advisor: Peter Jones

PhD Awarded 1983

Donald H. Parkerson, "The People of Mid-Nineteenth Century New York: Family, Community and Migration" (1983)
Dissertation Advisor: Bruce Calder

N. Sue Weiler, "The Aged, the Family and the Problems of a Maturing Industrial Society: New York, 1900-1930" (1983)
Dissertation Advisor: Daniel Scott Smith

PhD Awarded 1982

Stanley Gallas, "Lord Lyons and the Civil War, 1859-1864: A British Perspective" (1982)
Dissertation Advisor: Millman

Kurt E. Leichtle, "Edward Coles. An Agrarian on the Frontier" (1982)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

PhD Awarded 1981

Frances M. Feinerman, "Population and Prosperity: Messance and Expilly Challenge the Physiocrats, 1757-1770" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: David Jordan

William R. Biles, "Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago: Big City Boss in Depression and War" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Melivin Holli

Mansour Hasan Mansour, "The Spread and the Domination of the Maliki School of Law in North and West Africa
Eight-Fourteenth Century" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Hess

Aderemi Samuel Olumuyiwa Fatoke, "British Colonial Administration of Somaliland Protectorate, 1920-1960" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Hess

Dominic C. Pacyga, "Villages of Packinghouses and Steel Mills: The Polish Worker on Chicago's South Side, 1880 to
1921" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Elizabeth A. Payne-Moore, "'Life and Labor': Margaret Drier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Burton Bledstein

Leslie Vincent Tischauser, "The Burden of Ethnicity: The German Question in Chicago, 1914-1941" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Melvin Holli

Michael R. Trochim, "Retreat from Reform: The Fall of the Brazilian Empire, 1888-1889" (1981)
Dissertation Advisor: Bruce Calder

PhD Awarded 1980

Norman R. Eder, "National Health Insurance, Social Politics and Medical Practices in Britian, 1913-1939" (1980)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Barbara Kehoe, "The British Press and Nazi Germany" (1980)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Peter J. O'Malley, "Mayor Martin H. Kennelly of Chicago: A Political Biography" (1980)
Dissertation Advisor: Melvin Holli

Jacqueline Peterson, "The People in Between: Indian-White Marriage and the Genesis of a Metis Society and Culture in the Great Lakes Region, 1680-1830" (1980)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Michael R. Ralston,"Men in the Middle: Republican Politics in Lorraine During the Third French Republic, 1870-1914"
(1980)
Dissertation Advisor: William Hoisington

PhD Awarded 1979

Hugo P. Learning, "Hidden Americans Maroons of Virginia and the Carolinas" (1979)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Barbara Clinchy-Sciacchitano, "The Exile World of Alexander Herzen: A View of Russia and the West" (1979)
Dissertation Advisor: Ed Thaden

Deborah G. White, "Ain't I A Women? Female Slaves in the Antebellum South" (1979)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

PhD Awarded 1978

Kristen E. A. Borg, "Princess Lieven: A New Interpretation of Her Role and Image" (1978)
Dissertation Advisor: Stanley Mellon

Stephen L. Hansen, "Principles, Politics, and Personalities: Voter and Party Identification in Illinois: 1850 to 1876"
(1978)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Arnold R. Hirsch, "Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960" (1978)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Judith-Rae Ross, "Anglo-French Encounters: Images of the English Civil War in France, 1789-1848" (1978)
Dissertation Advisor: Stanley Mellon

PhD Awarded 1977

Rosemary Skinner-Keller, "Abigail Adams and the American Revolution: A Personal History” (1977)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Christine McHugh, "Edward Bellamy and the Populists: The Agrarion Response to Utophia, 1888-1898" (1977)
Dissertation Advisor: Burton Bledstein

Doris Racich, "Planning and Politics: British Reactions to the Economic Depression of the Interwar Years" (1977)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

PhD Awarded 1976

Paul F. Barrett, "Mass Transit, the Automobile, and Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930. " Vols. I and II (1976)
Dissertation Advisor: Melvin Holli

Charles J. Balesi, "From Adversary to Comrade-In-Arms: West Africans and the French MilitaryX 1885-1919" (1976)
Dissertation Advisor: R. Hess

Barbara Kuhn-Campbell, "Prominent women in the Progressive Era: A Study of Life Histories" (1976)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Barbara L. Farr, "The Development and Impact of Right-Wing Politics in Great Britian 1903-1932" (1976)
Dissertation Advisor: Bentley Gilbert

Richard D. Holbrook, "Baron D'Oppede and Cardinal Mazarin: The Politics of Provence from 1641 to 1660" (1976)
Dissertation Advisor: J.Wolf

PhD Awarded 1975

Hasia R. Diner, "In the Almost Promised Land: Jewish Leaders and Blacks, 1915-1935" (1975)
Dissertation Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Blanche G. Hersh, "'The Slavery of Sex' Feminist-Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century America” (1975)
Dissertation Advisor: Robert Remini

Alberto Sbacchi, "Italian Colonialism in Ethiopia, 1936-1940" (1975)
Dissertation Advisor: R. Hess

Ghada Hoshem, "Egypt's Civilizing Mission: Khedive Isma'il's Red Sea Province, 1865-1885" (1975)
Dissertation Advisor: R. Hess

Zdenko Zlatar, "The Anti-Turkish Opposition in Seventeenth-Century Ragusa and Its Prohabsburg Policy in the Morean War." Vols. I and II (1975)
Dissertation Advisor: George Huppert

PhD Awarded 1973

Thomas R. Bullard, "From Businessman to Congressman, the Careers of Martin B. Madden” (1973)
Dissertation Advisor: Melvin Holli

R. David Cudaback, "Victor DeBroglie and the French Constitutional Monarchy--A Liberal Peer and DiplomaticUnder
Louis-Philippe" (1973)
Dissertation Advisor: J. Wolf

Mark W. Friedberger, "Cornbelt and River City: Social Change in a Midwest Community, 1885-1930" (1973)
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Jensen

Dennis H.O'Brien, "Louis XIV's Diplomatic Corps, 1648-1671" (1973)
Dissertation Advisor: J.Wolf

PhD Awarded 1972

Richard B. Bingham, "Louis XIV and the War for Peace: The Genesis of a Peace Offensive 1686-1690." Vols. I and II
(1972)
Dissertation Advisor: J. Wolf