PhD Graduates

PhDs in History, 1990-Present

Name	Dissertation Title	Major Advisor	Graduation Year	Current Position
Mark Abate	“Roger Bacon and the Rage of Antichrist: The Apocalypse of a Thirteenth Century Natural Philosopher”	Professor Clifford Backman	May 2000	Associate Professor of History, Westfield State University.
Peter Alegi	“Keep Your Eye on the Ball: A Social History of Soccer in South Africa, 1910-1976”	Professor Diana Wylie	May 2000	Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
Mitchell Allen	“The Anglo-Hanoverian Connection in the Foreign Policy of George II	Professor John Gagliardo	May 2000
Jennifer Alpert	“Medicine and Politics in the Life of Henry I. Bowditch, M.D., 1808-1892″	Professor Thomas Glick	May 2004
Angel Amy-Moreno	“The Spanish Treatment of Miruscis as a Model for the Treatment of Native Americans”	Professor Thomas Glick	May 1999	Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Roxbury Community College
David Atkinson	“The Burdens of Whiteness: Asian Immigration Restriction and White Supremacy in the British Empire and the United States, 1897-1924″	Professor William Keylor	May 2010	Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University
Devon H. Atchison	“Shades of Change: Suntanning and the Twentieth Century American Dream”	Professor Bruce Schulman	January 2007	Assistant Professor, Grossmont College
Belete Bizuneh	“An Agrarian Polity and Its Pastoral Periphery: State, Society and Pastoralism in the Borana Borderlands (Southern Ethiopia), 1897-1991″	Professor James McCann	May 2008	Assistant Professor of History and Cultural Heritage, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
Andrew R. Black	“The Whig in Swallow Barn: The Political and Literary Culture of John Pendleton Kennedy”	Professor Nina Silber	January 2010
Leonid Blickstein	“The Challenge of Otherness: Self, Values, and Modernity in Russian Philosophical Thought, 1900-1917″	Professor Anna Geifman	January 2003
Victor Bondi	“The Origins of the Theory of Totalitarianism: Essays in Interpretation”	Professor Richard Fox	January 1993
Zbysek Brezina	“The Czechoslovak Democrat: The Life, Writing and Politics of Hubert Ripka from 1918 to 1945″	Professor Anna Geifman	May 2008	Assistant Professor of History, Eastern University
Kathyrn Brownell	“The Entertainment Estate: Hollywood in American Politics, 1932-1972″	Professor Bruce Schulman	May 2011	Lecturer, History Department, Boston University
Kyri Claflin	“Culture, Politics, and Modernization in Paris Provisioning, 1880-1920″	Professor William Keylor	May 2006	Lecturer, Metropolitan College, Boston University
R. Samuel Deese	“Ecology and the Gospel of Progress: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the American Century”	Professor Charles Capper	May 2007	Lecturer, Writing Program, Boston University
John Dempsey	“Bonizo of Sutri: Life and Work”	Professor Clifford Backman	May 2006	Assistant Professor of History, Westfield State University
Jean Dunlavy	“A Band of Sisters: Vietnam Veterans’ Organization for Rights and Recognition, 1965-1995″	Professor Bruce Schulman	January 2009
Brenda Gardenour	“Medicine and Miracle: The Reception of Theory-Rich Medicine in the Hagiography of the Latin West, 13th and 14th Centuries”	Professor Deeana Klepper	January 2008	Assistant Professor of History, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Erik Gilbert	“The Dhow Trade: Wooden Ships and the East African Economy, 1860-1964″	Professor James McCann	January 1997	Associate Professor of History, Arkansas State University
Melissa Graboyes	“Surveying the ‘Pathological Museum’: A History of Medical Research in East Africa, 1940-1965″	Professor James McCann	May 2010	Visiting Assistant Professor of History and African Studies, University of Oregon
Elizabeth Hazard	“Cold War Crucible: United States Foreign Policy and the Conflict in Romania, 1943-1952″	Professor David Mayers	January 1995
Heather Hoag	“Designing the Delta: A History of Water and Development in the Lower Rufiji River Basin, Tanzania, 1945-1985″	Professor James McCann	January 2003	Associate Professor of History, University of San Francisco
Stacy Holden	“Maintaining a Moroccan Medina: Commercial and Technological Innovations at the Workplace of Millers and Butchers in Fez, 1878-1937″	Professor Diana Wylie	May 2005	Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University
Kirk Hoppe	“Lords of the Fly: Environmental Images and Social Engineering in British East African Sleeping Sickness Control, 1903-1963″	Professor James McCann	May 1997	Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sanders Huguenin	“The Curious History of the Prinkipo Idea: The Big Four and Bolshevism at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919″	Professor William Keylor	May 1996	Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor; Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, Wise
Katherine Jewell	“As Dead as Dixie: The Southern States Industrial Council and the End of the New South, 1933-1954″	Professor Louis Ferleger	May 2010	Assistant Professor of History, Fitchburg State University
Amy Kittelstrom	“The Religion of Democracy: William James and Practical Idealism in Evolutionary America, 1870-1910″	Professor Charles Capper	May 2004	Assistant Professor of History, Sonoma State University
Christina Kopp	“‘A School of New Men’: Composing an American Identity in the Early Twentieth Century”	Professor Bruce Schulman	May 2006
Virginia Laffey	“The Invisible Regiment: The Wives, Mothers and Girlfriends of Soldiers in Vietnam”	Professor Bruce Schulman	January 2006	Faculty, University of Rhode Island
Pamela Laird	“The Business of Progress: The Transformation of American Advertising, 1870-1920″	Professor Joseph Boskin	May 1992	Professor of History, University of Colorado, Denver
François Lalonde	“Diverging Visions of Leadership in the Atlantic Alliance, 1957-1963″	Professor William Keylor	January 2011	Instructor, History and Classical Studies, McGill University
Ronald Lamothe	“Slaves of Fortune: Sudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896-1898″	Professor James McCann	May 2010
Yusufu Lawi	“Local Environmental Perceptions and te Political Economy of Natural Resource Use in Iraqw’ar Da/aw, Northern Tanzania, 1900-1980s”	Professor James McCann	January 2000	Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dar es Salaam
William Leeman	“The Long Road to Annapolis: The Naval Academy Debate and Emerging Nationalism in the United States, 1775-1845″	Professor Nina Silber	January 2006	Assistant Professor of History, US Military Academy
Melissa Lurio	“An Educated Bishop in an Age of Reform: Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, 1096-1123″	Professor Clifford Backman	January 2004
William McCarthy	“The Economic Impact of Shipwreck During the Age of Discovery”	Professor Thomas Glick	January 1991	Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
John McGrath	“France in America, 1555-1565: A Reevaluation of the Evidence”	Professor Barbara Diefendorf	May 1991	Associate Professor of Social Science, College of General Studies, Boston University
Robyn Metcalfe	“Smithfield on the Move: Cattle, Commerce, and the City, 1800-1855”	Professor Louis Ferleger	January 2010	Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Robert Munson	“The Landscape of German Colonialism: Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru, c. 1890-1916″	Professor James McCann	May 2005	Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force intelligence, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
April Najjaj	“The Alhambra in Comparative Perspective: Towards a Definition of Palace-Cities”	Professor Thomas Glick	May 2005	Associate Professor of History, Mount Olive College
Melissane Parm	“A Freedom to Suit Themselves: Negotiating Mashpee Indian Political Identity on Cape Cod, 1746-1834″	Professor Jill Lepore	May 2003	Current position: Assistant Professor of History, St. Lawrence University
Sarah Phillips	“Acres Fit and Unfit: Conservation and Rural Rehabilitation in the New Deal Era”	Professor Bruce Schulman	January 2004	Associate Professor of History, Boston University
Jonathan Reynolds	“Zamanin Siyasa (the Time of Politics): Islam and Political Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria, 1950-1966″	Professor James McCann	May 1995	Professor of History, Northern Kentucky University
Madia Thomson	“Modernization, Slavery, and the Transformation of Social Hierarchy in Southwestern Morocco, 1912-56″	Professor Diana Wylie	May 2005
Bryan Thrift	“Jesse Helms, the New Right, and American Freedom”	Professor Bruce Schulman	January 2005	Assistant Professor of History, Tougaloo College
Tumelo Tsikoane	“A History of Public Health Policy in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1900-1980″	Professor James McCann	January 1998	Senior Lecturer. Department of Development Studies, National University of Lesotho
David Van Meter	“The Empire of the Year 6000: Eschatology and the Sanctification of Carolingian Politics”	Professor Richard Landes	May 1997	Financial Advisor, Van Meter & Van Meter, LLC, Little Falls, NY
Benjamin Varat	“A Clash of Kings: de Gaulle, Kennedy and the Battle for Western Europe, 1958-1963″	Professor William Keylor	January 2006	Assistant Professor of Social Science, College of General Studies, Boston University
Timothy Walker	“Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Popular Healing in Portugal During the Enlightenment Era”	Professor Barbara Diefendorf	January 2001	Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Gerald Ward	“Restoring the Shattered World: The Apocalyptic Mercantilism of Samuel Purchas and the Revelatiopn of World Trade”	Professor Thomas Glick	May 2003
Midori Yoshii	“Reducing the American Burden: Kennedy’s Policy Toward Northeast Asia”	Professor David Mayers	May 2003	Associate Professor of International Studies, Albion College
Tekalign Wolde-Mariam	A City and Its Hinterlands: The Political Economy of Land Tenure, Agriculture and Food Supply for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1887-1974″	Professor James McCann	January 1995	Academic Vice President, Associate Professor of History, Addis Ababa University