Dissertations

Dissertations: Completed and in Progress

Dissertations Completed
Dissertations in Progress

Since the inauguration of the PhD program in transatlantic history, 20 students have finished their doctoral dissertations in this program.

PhD Student	Dissertation title	Advisor	Date of completion
Timothy G. Grammer	Wellington and Lee: Anglo-American Images of the Victorian Hero	Stanley H. Palmer	2003
Timothy L. Sullivan	The Evolution of a Counterculture: Pirates of the Caribbean	David Buisseret	2003
James D. Wortham	Sharing the Water: A History of the Acequias of Northern New Mexico , 1598-2002	David Buisseret	2003
Paulette Hasier	French Mapping of Illinois County , 1650-1750: A Cartobibliography	Dennis Reinhartz	2004
Jennifer Hudson-Allen	Discovering Lillie Langtry: Aestheticism and the Development of a Transatlantic Market in Beauty, 1880-1927	Elizabeth A. Cawthon	2005
Thomas Hill-Aiello	Dallas , Cotton, and the Transatlantic Economy	Robert B. Fairbanks	2005
Alistair Maeer	The Cartography of Commerce: The Thames School of Nautical Cartography and England ’s Seventeenth-Century Overseas Expansion	David Buisseret	2005
Emanuel Mbah	Land/Boundary Conflict in Africa: The Case of Former British Colonial Bamenda, Present-Day North-West Province of the Republic of Cameroon ca. 1916-1996	Alusine Jalloh	2005
Robert Ansiaux	The Transatlantic Empire of Leopold I That Never Was	Dennis Reinhartz	2006
Stephen Butler	Away o’er the Waves: The Transatlantic Life and Literature of Captain Mayne Reid	Stanley H. Palmer	2006
Cynthia Chambers	Cannibalism in a Cultural Context: Cartographic Imaging and Iconography of New World Indigenous Peoples during the Age of Discovery	Dennis Reinhartz	2006
Jerome Randall Barnes	The Interpretation of the New World in sixteenth-century Venetian Maps, Images, and Travel Literature	David Buisseret	2007
Jeffrey Stone	The Use of Maps in Early Cold War news periodicals, 1945-1955	Richard Francaviglia	2007
Charles Brazell	Reluctant Restorationist: Thomas Campbell’s Trial and its Role in His Legacy	Stanley H. Palmer	2007
Paul James Moore	Kiowa Changes: The Impact of Transatlantic Influences	Kenneth Philp	2007
Robert Sherwood	The Cartography of Alexander von Humboldt: Images of the Enlightenment in America	Richard Francaviglia	2008
Diane DeWaters	The World war II Conferences in Washington D.C. and Quebec City : Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill	Joyce S. Goldberg	2008
Liam Iwig-O’Byrne	How Methodists Were Made: The Arminian Magazine and Spiritual Transformation in the Transatlantic World, 1778-1803	Stanley H. Palmer	2008
Zachary Wingerd	Symbol of Conquest, Alliance , and hegemony: The Image of the Cross in Colonial Mexico	Douglas W. Richmond	2008
Benjamin Mark Allen	“Naked and Alone in a Strange New World: Early Modern Captivity in Ibero-American Consciousness”	Douglas W. Richmond	2008

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Dissertations in Progress

Currently (fall 2008), 27 students are enrolled in the transatlantic program. 9 are taking classes to prepare for their comprehensive exam, 9 are currently working on their dissertations prospectus, and 9 students are working on their doctoral dissertations.

PhD Student	Dissertation title	advisor
Monica Drake	The Dieppe School of Cartography	Stanley Palmer
Andrea Haga	Maritime Rivalry and Conflict in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	Steven Reinhardt
Harold Harris	Race and Cricket in the British Caribbean : The Emergence of National Consciousness	Alusine Jalloh
Julie Holcomb	The Anglo-American Antislavery Movement	Sam W. Haynes
Todd Holzaepfel	British Influence in the American and Canadian West	Stanley H. Palmer
Wendell Hunnicut	Executioners: A Transatlantic Perspective	Steven G. Reinhardt
Dennis Spillman	Thaddeus Kosciuszko: Eighteenth-Century Vitruvian Man	Dennis Reinhartz
Melissa Canady Wargo	The Bordes-Binford Debate: Transatlantic Archaeological Traditions	Steven G. Reinhardt
David Watry	Transatlantic Diplomacy: The Anglo-American Alliance and Conservative Ideology, 1951-1955	Joyce S. Goldberg

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