PhD Dissertations in History - Duke University - 2002 - 2008
2008-2009
CLARK, J.P. (BS, US Military Academy @ West Point, MA, Duke University) "The Many Faces of Reform: Military Progressivism in the U.S. Army, 1866-1916", Army War College in Carlisle, PA
HARRISON, Alisa (BA, University of British Columbia, MA, University of British Columbia) "Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness"; University of Victoria
HICKS, Marie (BA, Harvard University, MA, Duke University) "Compiling
Inequalities:
Computerization in the British Civil Service and Nationalized
Industries, 1940-1979"
KENNINGTON, Kelly (BA, Tulane University, MA, Duke University) " River of Injustice: St. Louis's Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America", post-doc, Wisconsin
LUKASIK, Sebastian (BA, Simon Fraser University, MA, Simon Fraser University) "Military Service, Combat, and American Identity in the Progressive Era"
ORGILL, Nathan (BA, California State University, Fresno, MA, California State University, Fresno ) ""Three and a Half Men": The Bülow-Hammann System of Public Relations before the First World War"
VELASCO, Alejandro (BA, Boston College, MA, Duke University) "'A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote': The Street Politics of Venezuelan Democracy before Hug Chávez", tenure-track position, NYU
WELSH, Jennifer (BA, University of Richmond, MA, Cornell University) "Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750"
2007-2008
HUSBANDS, Paul - "'The People's President': Letter Writing, the Presidency, and Popular Politics in Late-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth-Century America ."
INRIG, Stephen – “In a Place So Ordinary: North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS, 1981-1997”
JOHNSON, Amy - "Negotiating Slavery From West Africa to Jamaica , 1655-1740"
KUCINSKI, Joanna - "Nature of the Beast: Humans, Animals and Society in England 1660-1714"
LANGER, Jacob - "Corruption and the Counterrevolution: The Rise and Fall of the Black Hundred"
LEE, Rhonda Mawhood - "The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Louisville Fellowship of Reconciliation"
MANTLER, Gordon - "Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies"
YOSHITANI, Gail - "National Power and Military Force: The Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984"
2006-2007
BELL , Gregory – “Logistics of the First Crusade”
LAZAKIS, Anastasia – “Le Coeur d'un bon Citoyen”: The Sentimentalization of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France”
PHIPPS, Catherine –“I mperial Geographies: Remapping Japan 's Ports, Coal, and Empire in Northeast Asia , 1850-1900”
REVILL, Joel – “Taking France to the School of the Sciences: Leon Brunschvicg, Gaston Bachelard, and the French Epistemological Tradition”
RYAN, William – “The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution”
SCHULTZ, Timothy – “Redefining Flight: How the Predecessors of the Modern United States Air Force Transformed the Relationship Between Airmen and Aircraft”
SILVERMOON – “The Imperial College of Tlatelolco and the Emergence of a New Nahua Intellectual Elite in New Spain (1500-1760)”
SIVERTSEN, Karen – “A County Without a Society of our Order: Religion and Community Formation in Dutch Manhattan ”
SMOLYNEC, Gregory – “Multicultural Cold War: Liberal Anti-totalitarianism and National Identity in the United States and Canada , 1935-1971”
WALLACE FUENTES, Myrna Ivonne – “Becoming Magda Portal: Poetry, Gender, and Revolutionary Politics in Lima , Peru 1920-1930”
2005-2006
BREEN, Deborah - “'Empire of Things': Material Culture and the Americanization of Australia , 1850-1890”
CASTLES, Katherine L. - ”Little ‘Tardies': Mental Retardation, Race and Class in American Society, 1945-1965
FRANZIUS, Andrea - “ Soul Call: Music, Race, and the Creation of American Cultural Policy, 1920-1966”
GROB-FITZGIBBON, Benjamin J. - “The Face of Intelligence: The British Security Failure in Ireland, 1912-1921”
KIM, Seon-Min - “Borders and Crossings: Trade, Diplomacy and Ginseng Between Qing Chind and Choson Korea ”
LUO, Xiaoxiang - “From Imperial City to Cosmopolitan Metropolis: Culture, Politics and State in Late Ming Nanjing ”
MOUNTCASTLE, John C. - “The Guerrilla Problem and The Union Army's Punitive Response, 1961-1865”
ROGERS, Thomas D. - “The Deepest Wounds: The Laboring Landscapes of Sugar in Northeastern Brazil ”
RUBIO, Philip F. - ““There's Always Work at the Post Office”: African Americans Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality at the United States Post Office, 1940-1971”
RUPERT, Linda M. - “International Trade and Local Identity Formation in the Colonial Atlantic : Caracao, 1675-1791”
SMITH, Arthur C. - “Coaching and Community During Jim Crow: A History of the Golden Era of the CIAA”
SPECTER, Matthew G. - “Legality and Legitimacy: Jurgen Habermas's Reconstruction of German Political Thought”
2004-2005
Isenhower, James. "Protean Policy: Understanding the Monroe Doctrine's Regular Recurrence within the American Foreign Policy Debate."
Levinson-Wilk, Daniel. "Cliff Dwellers: Modern Service in New York City, 1800-1945"
Miller, Gwenn. "'She Was Handsome,... But Tattooed': Communities of Empire in Russian Alaska, 1720-1820"
Rothenberg, Elizabeth. "'There Is No Friendship in Buying or Selling': The Social Implications of England 's Financial Revolution, 1680-1771"
2003-2004
Bregent-Heald, Dominique: "Reel Borders: Imaging Mexico and Canada During the Classical Hollywood Period, 1929-1960."
Brodsky, Adriana Mariel: "The Boundaries of Identity: Sephardic Jews and the Construction of Ethnic Communities in Argentina ."
Carter, Christopher: "Imperialism and Empiricism: Science and State in the Age of Empire."
Felker, Craig: "Simulation and Sea Power: The United States Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940."
Hamlin, Deborah: "Friend of Freedom: A Bibliography of Albion Winegar Tourgee and Reconstruction in North Carolina ."
Hazirjian, Lisa: "Negotiating Poverty: Economic Insecurity and the Politics of Working-Class Life in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1929-1969."
Lekus, Ian Keith: "Queer and Present Dangers: Homosexuality and American Antiwar Activism during the Vietnam Era."
McIlvenna, Noeleen: "Olivers Day Come Again: North Carolina, 1660-1713."
Searle, Thomas. "Targeting Civilians: When and Why U.S. Military Forces Have Deliberately Killed Enemy Civilians, 1863-1973."
2002-2003
Brown, Vincent: "Slavery and the Spirits of the Dead: Mortuary Politics in Jamaica, 1740-1834."
Faruqui, Munis: "Princes and Power in the Mughal Empire, 1569-1657."
Garfield, Michelle: "The Pen Is Ours To Wield: Black Literary Club Women in 1830's Philadelphia."
Jeffries, Kwame: "Standing up for Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in Lowndes County Alabama."
Kleit, David: "We Wanted the Land: The Cherokee Country in the Era of Removal and Resettlement."
McKinney , Charles: "Our People Began to Press for Greater Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina, 1945-1970."
Murphy, Blair: "A Right to Ride: African American Citizenship, Identity, and the Protest over Jim Crow Transportation."
Pavilack, Joann: "Black Gold in the Red Zone: Social and Political Insurgency in Chilean Coal Mining Communities from the Popular Front to the Advent of the Cold War."
Schloss, Rebecca: "'The distinction between the color white and all others': The Stuggle over White Identity in the French Colony of Martinique, 1802-1848."
Selwood, Jacob: "Making Difference: Aliens, Strangers and Others in Early Modern London, 1580-1680."