PhD Dissertations in History - Duke University - 2002 - 2008
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."