Dissertations In Progress - As of Summer, 2007


Dissertator:   Bruner, Karen
Advisor:          Wiecek, William

Dissertation title: "A Crime Against the Nations: Steven Nelson, The Supreme Court and the Anti-Communist Crusade"


Dissertator:   Cope, Rachel
Advisor:          Thompson, Margaret S.

Dissertation title: "The Presence of Women in the Revival Movements of the Second
Great Awakening"


Dissertator:   Deacon, David W.
Advisor:          Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth

Dissertation title: "Paper Towns: Industrialization and Sense of Place in Northern
New England, 1868-1919"


Dissertator:   Franco, Bradley R.
Advisor:          Romano, Dennis

Dissertation title: "Church and Family Politics: The Bishopric of Siena Under the
Malavolti, 1282-1370"


Dissertator:   Kuracina, William F.
Advisor:          Sen, Sudipta; Basu, Subho
 

Dissertation title: "Toward a Congress Raj: Indians Nationalism and The Pursuit of a
Potential Nation-State"


Dissertator:   Logel, John Scott
Advisor:          Thompson, Margaret S.
 

Dissertation title: "Engineers of the Empire City: West Point and the Development of
New York City, 1817-98"


Dissertator:   Lovell, Madelyn
Advisor:          Thompson, Margaret S.
 

Dissertation title: “Into the Veteran Community: The Grassroots Movement of the Vietnam War, Inc.”


Dissertator:   Mankus, Mary K.
Advisor:          Bennett, David H.
 

Dissertation title: “Nazi War Criminals, 1948-76”


Dissertator:   Mitra, Samarpita
Advisor:          Sen, Sudipta; Basu, Subho

Dissertation title: "Literary Radicalism: Aesthetics, Politics, and Anti-Colonial
Struggle, Bengal, 1908-39"


Dissertator:   Orihel, Michelle
Advisor:          Sharp, James Roger
 

Dissertation title: "Citizen-Readers: Democratic-Republican Society and The Reading
Revolution in the Early Republic"


Dissertator:   Robertson, Seth D.
Advisor:          Romano, Dennis
 

Dissertation title: "Between Europe and the Turks: Venice's Self-Presentation and
the Fashioning of Identities"


Dissertator:   Roy-Chaudhury, Shrimoy
Advisor:          Sen, Sudipta; Basu, Subho
 

Dissertation title: "The Emergency of an Indigenous Medical Profession in Bengal,
1857-1947"


Dissertator:   Shankar, Subramanian
Advisor:          Sen, Sudipta; Basu, Subho

Dissertation title: "Paper Sovereign and People Power: A History of Indian
Constitution, 1930-1950"


Dissertator:   Smith, Matthew J.
Advisor:          Bennett, David H.

Dissertation title: "Dialogue of Empire: The Redevelopment of an American Imperial
Strategic Culture in the Philippines, 1918-1935"


Dissertator:   VerWiebe, Richard C.
Advisor:          Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth

Dissertation title: "The Public Image of Martin Luther King, Jr."


Dissertator:   Williamson, Shannon A.
Advisor:          Pennington, Kenneth (In-House Advisor to be Named)

Dissertation title: “How Can I Avoid the Inheritance Tax? The Socio-Legal Evolution of European Testamentary Practice, 1200-1450”

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Dissertator:   Yi, Qiufang
Advisor:          Kutcher, Norman A.

Dissertation title: 
"Fengshui Culture and Local Society in Late Imperial China"