Students begin research for the dissertation after they receive their M.Phil. degree, which is earned after successful completion of required course work, language exams, and an oral qualifying exam that covers three subjects in the student's major field of study and one in their minor field. Students typically reach this stage during their third year of graduate study, although some do not complete these tasks until the fourth year.
Ideally within six months, but in some cases as much as a year after they receive the M.Phil., students submit a plan of research for the dissertation (the "prospectus") to a four-person faculty committee, which reads the document and meets with the student to suggest strategies for research and the overall design of the project. Once the prospectus has been formally approved by the committee, the student embarks on the final stage of the Ph.D.: the dissertation itself. Typically research, writing, and defense of a dissertation take two to four years.
2009-2010 Dissertation-in Progress
Africa
Student: Edey-Rhodes, Joanne
Advisor: Wright, Marcia
Dissertation title: "African American Interest in Black South Africa, 1898-1964"
Student: Etienne-Cummings, Kevin
Advisor: Diouf, Mamadou
Dissertation title: "Claims for Imperial Citizenship in the British Empire, with the Seychelles as a Case Study."
Student: O'Mahony-Adams, Pandora
Advisor: Mann, Gregory
Dissertation title: The African Circle and the African Personality: Egypt and the Emergence of a Continental Politics, 1952-1970
Student: Tappan, Jennifer
Advisor: Wright, Marcia
Dissertation title: "A Healthy Child Comes from a Healthy Mother: Mwanamugimu and Nutritional Science in Uganda, 1935-73"
Ancient
Student: Deimling, George
Advisor: Billows, Richard
Dissertation title: The Empire of Mithridates Eupator: A Study of the Pontic state and its resources 132-62 B.C.E
Student: O'Connor, Stephen
Advisor: Harris, William V.
Dissertation title: "Armies, Navies, and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C."
Student: Terpstra, Taco
Advisor: Harris, William
Dissertation title: Roman Law and the Roman Economy: An Institutional Economics Perspective
Early Modern Europe
Student: Baurkot, Samuel
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title: "Kurt Birrenbach and the Evolution of German Atlanticism, 1945-76"
Student: Cho, Jun Hee
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title: Court in the Market: Mechelen during the reign of Charles the Bold, 1467-1477
Student: Raskin, Sarah
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title: False Oaths: The Silent Alliance between the Church and Heretics in England, 1382-1558
Student: Rubin, Ariel
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title: Low-level Credit Networks in the Sixteenth Century Netherlands
Student: Schaefer, Sagi
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title: The Boundaries of Rural Identification: The German-German Border and the Transitions of Provincial Society, 1939-1961
Student: von Ostenfeld, Kira
Advisor: Howell, Martha
Dissertation title: Official Historiography, Political Legitimacy, and Royal Authority in Spain under Phillip II, 1560-1599
East Asia
Student: Asen, Daniel
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title: Claiming Bodies for Modernity: Forensic Medicine and Dead Bodies in late Qing and Republican Beijing
Student: Coleman, William
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title: "Between Empires: Power in Khams History, 1860-1949"
Student: Craig, Christopher
Advisor: Gluck, Carol
Dissertation title: The Middlemen of Modernity: Local Notables and Rural Development, 1890-1930
Student: Hofmann, Reto
Advisor: Gluck, Carol
Dissertation title: The Quest for a New Order: Empire and Fascism in Interwar Japan and Italy
Student: Park, Alyssa
Advisor: Armstrong, Charles K.
Dissertation title: "Locating a Korean National Identity in the Borderland: Koreans in Northern Korea and the Russian Far East, 1860-1937"
Student: Tian, Huan
Advisor: Zelin, Madeleine
Dissertation title: Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjiang
Student: Weiner, Benno
Advisor: Tuttle, Gray
Dissertation title: The Chinese Cultural Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: Fragmentation, Integration and State Building on the Margins of Maoist China.
History of Medicine and Public Health
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International and Global History
Student: Schade, Abigail
Advisor: Bulliet, Richard
Dissertation title: "Water, Space, and Time: A Global History of Qanat Irrigation Technologies in Arid Environments, with Evidence from Iran, the Western Desert of Egypt, and the Balearic Islands of Spain"
Student: Webel, Mari
Advisor: Stepan, Nancy
Dissertation title: Locating the Laboratory: Tropical Medicine, German Imperialism, and Robert Koch's Sleeping Sickness Research in the Lake Victoria Region, 1898-1914
Jewish History
Student: Friedman, Michal
Advisor: Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim/ Carlebach, Elisheva
Dissertation title: "Recovering 'Jewish Spain': Sephardic Studies in the Spanish Political and Cultural Landscape, 1845-1992"
Student: Gribetz, Jonathan
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title: Mutual Understanding among Zionists and Arabs in Late Ottoman Palestine.
Student: Horowitz, David
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title: "Social Change and Social Control in the German Jewish Community of Hambrg-Altona-Wandsbek, 1620-1812"
Student: Klein, Frederick
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title: "Rabbis and Maskilim: The Galician Haskalah as an Alternative Religious Ideology, 1800-65"
Student: Levi, Yael
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title: "Rabbi Jacob Halevi Lipschitz and Eastern European Jewry's Orthodox Response to Modernity"
Student: Siegman, Dafna
Advisor: Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim
Dissertation title: "Exegesis, Exile, and Eschatology: Commentaries to the Book of Esther in the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion"
Student: Wachtel, David
Advisor: Stanislawski, Michael F.
Dissertation title: Alexander Marx and the Formation of the Great American Libraries of Judaica: 1903-1953.
Latin America
Student: Basualdo, Victoria
Advisor: Klein, Herbert S.
Dissertation title: "Deindustrialization and Labor: Argentine Industrial Workers and Structural Change, 1976-2001"
Student: Castro, Constanza
Advisor: Piccato, Pablo
Dissertation title: "As a Citizen of this City": The Popular Political Culture of Urbanization, Bogotá 1880-1910
Student: Galvez-Pena, Carlos
Advisor: Piccato, Pablo
Dissertation title: Writing History to Reform the Empire. The Religious Chronicle in Seventeenth-Century Peru
Student: Zazueta, Pilar
Advisor: Piccato, Pablo
Dissertation title: "Better than Water: Milk, Soft Drinks, and the Politics of Food in Mexico, 1947-86"
Medieval Europe
Student: Doyno, Mary
Advisor: Bynum, Caroline
Dissertation title: Lay Saints and the Penitential Movements in Northern Italian Cities, 1200-1400
Student: Hadbavny, Lee
Advisor: Kaye, Joel
Dissertation title: "Warriors, Healers, and Pastors: Hospitallers and Templars in England and Northern France, c. 1095-c. 1291"
Student: Heil, Michael
Advisor: Kosto, Adam
Dissertation title: Clerics, courts, and legal culture in Italy and Burgundy, c. 715-c. 1050
Student: Jachiet, Alain
Advisor: Kosto, Adam
Dissertation title: Crusading Policy in the Age of Innocent III, 1198-1216
Student: Monroe, William
Advisor: Somerville, Robert
Dissertation title: "The Trial and Rehabilitation of Pope Formosus"
Student: Moore, William
Advisor: Kosto, Adam
Dissertation title: "The Use of Religious Language in the Construction of Royal Power: Leon-Castile, 1037-1157"
Middle East
Student: Bsheer, Rosie
Advisor: Khalidi, Rashid
Dissertation title: Making History: Archives, Museums, and History Textbooks in Saudi Arabia
Student: Fiske, George
Advisor: Bulliet, Richard
Dissertation title: "Unraveling the Sultanic Robe: Studies of the 4th-6th Islamic Centuries"
Student: Gubara, Dahlia
Advisor: Bulliet, Richard
Dissertation title: Trajectories of Learning and the Everyday Life of Ideas: Al-Azhar in the 18th C.
Student: Wick, Alexis
Advisor: Bulliet, Richard
Dissertation title: The Ottoman Red Sea and its World, 1770-1869
Modern Europe
Student: Antonov, Sergei
Advisor: Wortman, Richard
Dissertation title: "Law and the Culture of Debt, Credit, and Insolvency in Imperial Russia, 1832-1917"
Student: Baurkot, Samuel
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title: Kurt Birrenbach and the Evolution of German Atlanticism, 1945-1975
Student: Bertschi, Curtis
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title: "Representing the Automobile: Renault, the State, and the Promotion of Motorization in France, 1945-75"
Student: Chamedes, Giuliana
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title: From Militant Catholicism to the Cold War Consensus: Catholic Action and the politicization of religion in Italy, 1929-1950
Student: Chappel, James
Advisor: Pedersen, Susan
Dissertation title: The Lure of Orthodoxy: Radical Catholicism in Interwar Europe
Student: Dos Santos, George
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title: "'We Understand the Negroes!' Colonial Theory and the Crusading Myth in the Portuguese New State, 1926-74"
Student: Eichler, Jeremy
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title: "Exile Beneath the Palms: Modernism and Music in Southern California 1933-1962
Student: Katzman, David
Advisor: Woloch, Isser
Dissertation title: "Transforming Power: The Workforce of Electricite de France in the Face of Changing Technology"
Student: Lowder, Leon
Advisor: Abrams, Bradley
Dissertation title: "The Socialist Lifestyle: The Bulgarian Middle Class in the Age of Zhivkov, 1956-89"
Student: Manasek, Jared
Advisor: Mazower, Mark
Dissertation title: Empires, States, and the Politics of Refugee Aid, 1875-1878. A Balkan Turning Point?
Student: McBurney, Elizabeth
Advisor: Wortman, Richard
Dissertation title: "Astride the Nation: Power and Propaganda in the Portrait Iconography of Catherine II"
Student: Ryan, Eileen
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title: The Italian Reconquest of Libya and Relations with Sanusiya, 1916-1931
Student: Schaefer, Sagi
Advisor: Berghahn, Volker
Dissertation title: The Boundaries of Rural Identification: The German-German Border and the transition of Provincial Society, 1939-1961
Student: Vuletic, Dean
Advisor: Mazower, Mark
Dissertation title: A Star is Born: Cultural Politics, International Relations and Popular Music in Communist Yugoslavia
Student: Zonis, Nadia
Advisor: De Grazia, Victoria
Dissertation title: "The Next Rome: Modernity, the 'Economic Miracle' and the Olympic Games, 1955-60"
South Asia
Student: Chhabria, Sheetal
Advisor: McKeown, Adam
Dissertation title: Making the Modern Slum & Urbanizing Poverty in Western India, 1870-1918
United States
Student: Adler, Jessica
Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice
Dissertation title: The Rise of the American Military Medical Complex: Walter Reed General Hospital and United States Army Health Care, 1917-1921
Student: Alden, Jenna
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: "Behind the Executive Mask": T-groups and the Rise of Corporate Sensitivity Training, 1947-1973
Student: Appel, Jacob
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: "Experts on Trial: Medical Evidence and Moral Culpability in New York City's Sensational Criminal Prosecutions, 1902-12"
Student: Baggett, Gregory
Advisor: Fields, Barbara
Dissertation title: Slavery and Emancipation Ten Miles Square: The District of Columbia before Federal Rule, 1846-1871
Student: Berkowitz, Michael
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: "Time Off: Vacations, Tourism, and the Business of Leisure, 1900-45"
Student: Bridger, Sarah
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991
Student: Carter-Jackson, Kellie
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, 1850-1861
Student: Coates, Benjamin
Advisor: Stephanson, Anders
Dissertation title: Trans-Atlantic Advocates: International Law and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1900-1920
Student: Erickson, Ansley
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: "Schooling the Sunbelt: A Political Economy of Education in Nashville, Tennessee, 1950-2000
Student: Forcey, Charles
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: "Liberalism at the Gates of Hell: The Search for a New Public Philosophy after World War II"
Student: Fullilove, Courtney
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: "The U.S. Patent Office and the Development of Intellectual Property in the 19th Century"
Student: Geduld, Victoria
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: The Strange Commodity of Cultural Exchange: Martha Graham and Modern Dance as a Cold War Weapon, 1955-1979.
Student: Golia, Julie
Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice
Dissertation title: Newspaper Advice Columns and Modern Culture, 1890-1935
Student: Hemmer, Nicole
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: Messengers of the Right: Media and the Modern American Conservative Movement
Student: Hinton, Elizabeth
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1965-1988
Student: Holm, April
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: The Civil War in the Mainstream Evangelical Churches, 1837-1894
Student: Koblenz, Lawrence
Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth T.
Dissertation title: "The Making of Modern Cancer: A Medical, Institutional, and Social History, 1874-1920"
Student: Lieb, Emily
Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice
Dissertation title: "Fort Apache, USA: The Destruction of American Cities, 1968-83"
Student: Meghelli, Samir
Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth
Dissertation title: Between New York and Paris: Hip Hop and the Politics of Nation, Culture, and Citizenship Since 1968
Student: Murphy, Kevin
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: "The Legacy of Reform: Progressive Persistence in National Politics, 1919-28"
Student: Neer, Robert
Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth
Dissertation title: Napalm: A Biography
Student: Offner, Amy
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: Latin American Crossings: Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
Student: Osborne, Nicholas
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: The Little Capitalists: Savings Institutions in United States History, 1816-1941.
Student: Paley, Valerie
Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth
Dissertation title: Philanthropy, Urban Imperialism, and the Emergence of America's Cultural Capital
Student: Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: "Corresponding Republics: Letter-Writing and the Organization of Revolutionary Movements in America, the Netherlands, and France, ca. 1765-1795"
Student: Petrulis, Jason
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: "Marketing the American Way, 1932-48"
Student: Popescu, Adina
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: "The Grain Trade during World War I: Wartime Regulation and the Concentration of Agricultural Capital"
Student: Robeson, Elizabeth Lynn
Advisor: Fields, Barbara
Dissertation title: "Death in the Family: The Lowman Lynchings of 1926"
Student: Savage, Robert
Advisor: Bushman, Richard
Dissertation title: "Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Court Culture: 1630-1776"
Student: Soskis, Benjamin
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: "The Problem of Charity in the American Industrial Age, 1865-1950"
Student: Sullivan, Stephen
Advisor: Jackson, Kenneth T.
Dissertation title: "The Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900"
Student: Thomas, Robert
Advisor: Blake, Casey
Dissertation title: Enlightenment & Authority: The Committee on Social Thought 1942-1968
Student: Toler, Herbert
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: "Religion and Reconstruction in Washington, D.C., 1862-78"
Student: Tvrdy, Linda
Advisor: Foner, Eric
Dissertation title: "Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina's Legal Order, 1863-80"
Student: Umezaki, Toru
Advisor: Brinkley, Alan
Dissertation title: "Revolution as the Measure of Mankind: New York in the Age of National Liberation Movements"
Student: Van, Rachel
Advisor: Kessler-Harris, Alice
Dissertation title: Free Trade & Family Values: Kinship Networks and the Development of American Capitalism in the 19th century
Student: Vaz, Matthew
Advisor: Stephenson, Anders
Dissertation title: Jackpot Mentality: The Rise of State Gambling and the Suppression of Popular Lotteries in New York City's Sensational Criminal Prosecutions, 1902-1912
Student: Williams, Kareen
Advisor: Blackmar, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: "The Evolution of Political Violence in Jamaica, 1944-80"
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