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2009


Dissertator: GOLDSTEIN, Adina S.
February 2009
Dissertation title: "The Temptation of Saints in Latin Narrative: England, France, and the Low Countries, 1100-1230"

Dissertator: Johnston, J. Angus
February 2009
Dissertation title: "The United States National Student Association: Democracy, Activism, and the Idea of the Student, 1947-1978"

Dissertator: MEI, Leyla
February 2009
Dissertation title: "The Color of cancer: Disease and the Measure of Race in the United States from the 1920s to the 1990s"

Dissertator: MONDELLI, Victoria L.
February 2009
Dissertation title: "Female Learning in Early Modern Europe: Advocates and Institutions"
Renaissance Studies Certificate

Dissertator: WALTZER, Lucas S.
February 2009
Dissertation title: "An Uneasy Idealism: The Reconstruction of American Adolescence from World War II to the War on Poverty"


2008


Dissertator:
WISNIEWSKI, Theodore
February 2008
Dissertation title: "Experimenting with Power: Liberal Psychologists and the Challenge of Social Reform: 1945-1975"

Dissertator: ALIANO, David
May 2008
Dissertation title: "Identity in Transatlantic Play: Il Duce's National Project in Argentina"

Dissertator: BROWN, Dorothy M.
May 2008
Dissertation title: "New York City Museums and Cultural Leadership, 1917-1940"

Dissertator: CROWDER, Susannah
May 2008
Dissertation title: "Performance Culture in Medieval Metz, c. 200-1200"
Medieval Studies Certificate

Dissertator: LEPREE, James Francis
May 2008
Dissertation title: "Sources of Spirituality and the CaroligianExegetical Tradition"

Dissertator: MELLIS, Delia C.
May 2008
Dissertation title: "'The Monsters We Defy': Washington, D.C. in the Summer of 1919"

Dissertator:
PITZULO, Carrie
May 2008
Dissertation title: "Bachelors and Bunnies: Playboy Magazine and Modern Heterosexuality, 1953-1973"

Dissertator: BARTOS, Sebastian
September 2008
Dissertation title: "Negotiations of Power in a Medieval Society: Ecclesiastical Authority and Secular Rulershipin Little Poland, 1177-1320"

Dissertator: GOLLAND, David Hamilton
September 2008
Dissertation title: "Constructing Affirmative Action: Federal Contract Compliance and the Building Construction Trades, 1956-1973"

Dissertator: PARRY, Seth
September 2008
Dissertation title: "Fifty Years of Failed Plans: Venice, Humanism, and the Turks, 1453-1503"
Renaissance Studies Certificate

Dissertator: SWIHART, Ryan T.A.
September 2008
Dissertation title: "An Ornament and a Promise: Discourses on Culture in Nineteenth-Century America"

2007


Dissertator:
ADAMS, William M. (BA., 1979, University of California, Los Angeles; Mphil, 2002, CUNY Graduate Center)
Dissertation title: "Mussolini and Intellectuals in the Republic of Salo, 1943-1945"

Dissertator: ASHER, Florence W. (B.A.,1965, Vanderbilt University MLS, 1967, George Peabody College M.A., 1986 New York University)
Dissertation title:"Money Talk: Women and Wealth in New York’s Gilded Age"

Dissertator: CHMIELEWSKI, Laura M. (BA, 1988, Saint Joseph’s University, MA, 1992 Fordham University)
Dissertation title:"The Spice of Popery: Euroamericans and Interfaith Conflict with Coexistence on the Maine Frontier, 1688-1727"

Dissertator: FEIN, Gene F. (BA, 1990, Fordham University, MA.1994, Fordham University)
Dissertation title:"For Christ and Country: The Christian Front in New York City, 1938-1951"

Dissertator: JOHN, Steven S. (BA, 1977, University of Chicago, MA, 1998, National University of Mexico)
Dissertation title:"Permanent Revolution on the Altiplano: Bolivian Trotskyism, 1938-2006"

Dissertator: JOHNSON, Jr., Robert J. (BA, 1980 Niagara University; JD, 1984 New York Law School
Dissertation title:"Trial by Fire: Abraham Lincoln and the Law"

Dissertator: LEVY, Teresita (BA, 1992, Rollins College, MS, 1995, Long Island University)
Dissertation title:"En La Vega: The Social and Economic Impact of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940"

Dissertator: MCPARTLAND, Scott D. (BA, 1974, St. John’s University)
Dissertation title:"Almost Edison: How William Sawyer and Others Lost the Race for Electricity"

Dissertator: NARDI, Patricia M. (BA, 1978, Fordham University, MA, 1980, Marquette University)
Dissertation: "Mothers at Home: Their Role in Child-Rearing and Instruction in Early Modern Europe"

Dissertator: QUINTANA, Alejandro, (BA, 1993, Autonomous University of the State of Puebla Mexico
M.A., 2005, Hunter College)
Dissertation: "The President that Never Was: Meximino Avila Camacho and the Taming of Caudillismo in Early Post-Revolutionary Mexico"

Dissertator: SHIMSKY, Maryjane, (BA 1982,Yale University, JD, 1985, New York University, Mphil, 1998,CUNY Graduate Center)
Dissertation: "Hesitating Relations Between Two Worlds: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Robert H. Jackson"

Dissertator: JOSEPH SRAMEK, (B.A., 1998, SUNY-Binghamton, MPhil, 2002, CUNY Graduate Center)
Dissertation: "A Moral Empire: Anxieties about Masculinity and Colonial Governance in Company India, ca. 1780-185"

Dissertator: VAN NORT, Richard, (BA, 1986, City College, Mphil, 1996, CUNY Graduate Center)
Dissertation: "The Battle of Adrianople and the Military Doctrine of Vegetiua"

Dissertator: VAN OPPEN DE RUITER, Branko F. (DIPL, 1993, Leiden University Netherlands
MA, 1998, Rutgers University)
Dissertation: "The Religious Identification of Ptolemaic Queens with Aphrodita, Demater, Hathor"

Dissertator: WILLIAMS, Christolyn A. (BA, 1988, College of New Rochelle. MA, 1992, New York University)
Dissertation title:"Labor Organization, Political Leadership, and Gender Exclusion in Antigua and Barbuda, 1917-1970"

2006


Dissertator:
EPSTEIN, JONATHAN A. (BA, Columbia University; MA, Columbia University)
Dissertation title: “Between France and Germany:  The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940”

Dissertator: FRANZ, PATRICIA (BA, Vassar College)
Dissertation title: “The Horseman as a Work of Art: Construction of Elite Identities in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700”

Dissertator: HALLETT, HILARY-ANNE (BFA, NYU; MPhil, Grad. Center, CUNY)
Dissertation title: “In Motion Picture Land:  A cultural History About the Making of Early Hollywood”

Dissertator: KRAMER, Jacob (BA, 1993, Columbia University; MA, 1998, Columbia University
Dissertation title:"The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance, 1900-1924"

Dissertator: LANG, CAROL (BA, College of Staten Island; MED, City College; MAD, City College)
Dissertation title: “The Radicalization of the British Working Class 1910-1926 and the Impact of the Russian Revolution”

Dissertator: PENROSE, WALTER (BS, California State Univ: Long Beach, MPhil, Grad. Center, CUNY) Dissertation title: “Bold with Bow and Arrow:  Amazons and the Ethnic Gendering of Martial Powers in Ancient Greek and Asian Cultures”

Dissertator: SOLOVYOVA, SOPHIA (BA, Hunter College; MPhil, Grad. Center, CUNY)
Dissertation title: “The National Monarchy and It’s Brokers:  A Study of Advisers to Nicholas ll”

Dissertator: WISHNOFF, DANIEL A. (BA, UCLA-Berkeley ; MA, Hunter College; MPhil, Grad. Center, CUNY)
Dissertation title:  “The Tolerance Point:  Integration, The Forest Hills Controversy and the Fall of the Public Housing in New York, 1945-1975”

Dissertator: WITCHEL, LAWRENCE H. (MDIV, New York Theological Seminar, MPhil, Grad. Center, CUNY) 
Dissertation title: “English Protestant Casuistry:  With Special Emphasis on Conscience and Oath-Taking”

Dissertator: WOESSNER, MARTIN V. (B.A., University of San Francisco)
Dissertation title: “Being Here: Heideggar in America”

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2005


Dissertator:
Alexander, Benjamin

Dissertation title: “The Changing Face of Ethnic Identity and Diasporic Nationalism, 1915-55”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Gallo, Marcia
Dissertation title: “The Daughters of Biliti and the Roots of Lesbian and Women’s Liberation, 1955-70”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Gitman, Esther
Dissertation title: “Rescue and Survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), 1941-45”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Hayes, Anne H.
Dissertation title: “Rich Coast: Female Prostitution in the Port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 1880-1930”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Herrle-Fanning, Jeannette E.
Dissertation title: “Of Forceps and Polios: 18th-Century British Midwifery Publications and the Construction of Professional Identity”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Lynch, Timothy
Dissertation title: “Erin's Hope: The Fenian Brotherhood of New York City, 1858-86”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Quirke, Carol
Dissertation title: “Camera Work: News, Photography, and American’s Working Class, 1919-50”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Saltzman, Steven H.

Dissertation title: “The Middle Class and Debt Financing of Municipal Trading: A Case Study in 19th-Century Birmingham”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Spear, Michael S.
Dissertation title: “A Crisis in Urban Liberalism: The New York City Municipal Unions and the 1970s Fiscal Crisis”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Towers, Iris
Dissertation title: “When the Bough Breaks: Dependent Children in Westchester County, New York, 1880-1914”
Dissertation completed, 2005

Dissertator: Xu, Yibao
Dissertation title: “Concepts of Infinity in Chinese Mathematics: A History of Ancient Times to the Present”
Dissertation completed, 2005

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2004


Dissertator:
Bencivenni, Marcella

Department: Grad. Center, CUNY
Dissertation title: “Italian American Radical Culture in New York City, 1890-1940”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Brady, Dorothea L.
Dissertation title: “The Foreign Correspondence as Moral Observers: Harold Williams and the Russian Revolution”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: De, Ariel
Dissertation title: “International Understanding and World Peace: The American Council of Learned Society, 1919-57”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Doyle, David D.
Dissertation title: “The Dandy and the Aesthetic: Middle-Class Gay Male Subcultures in Turn-of-the-Century America”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Elias, Megan J.
Dissertation title: “Stir It Up: Home Economics in Higher Education, 1900-45”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Feeley, Kathleen A.
Dissertation title: “Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: The Rise of the Celebrity Gossip Industry in 20th-Century America, 1910-50”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Giardina, Carol A.
Dissertation title: “The Making of the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953-70”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Kissack, Terence S.
Dissertation title: “Anarchism and the Politics of Homosexuality, 1895-1969”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Mazza, Edmund J.
Dissertation title: “The Theology of Sin and Repentance and the Origins of Dominican Mission”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Melnyk, Les A.
Dissertation title: “A True National Guard: Development of the National Guard and Its Influence on Defense Legislation, 1915-33”
Dissertation completed, 2004

Dissertator: Roczniak, Wladyslaw
Dissertation title: “Preserving the Poor: Pre-Modern Polish Hospitals, 12th to 18th Century”
Dissertation completed, 2004

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2003


Dissertator:
Gac, Scott E.

Dissertation title: “The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America”
Dissertation completed, 2003

Dissertator: Lobel, Cindy R.
Dissertation title: “Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in New York City, 1790-1870”
Dissertation completed, 2003

Dissertator: Miller, Julie E.
Dissertation title: “Gotham’s Waifs: Foundlings in 19th-Century New York”
Dissertation completed, 2003

Dissertator: Papas, Phillip
Dissertation title: “That Ever Loyal Island: Loyalism and the Coming of the American Revolution on Staten Island, New York”
Dissertation completed, 2003

Dissertator: Young, Robert M.
Dissertation title: “They Too Fought the Japanese”
Dissertation completed, 2003

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