Dissertations

Name Dissertations in Progress
 Angela Austin  

Dissertation Title: "'Capitalism, Colonial Expansion, and Child Servitude in the British Atlantic 1618-1776”

Advisor: Stephanie Cole

Erhard Van Deventer   

Dissertation Title: “The Creation and Destruction of Zulu and Comanche Power During the 19th Century.”

Advisor: Sam Haynes

 William Kingren  

Dissertation Title: “Playing American: The Sousa Band and the Transatlantic Origins of the Stars and Stripes, 1892-1920”

Advisor: Kenyon Zimmer

Sebastian Fuentes

Dissertation Title: "'Your Reactions to Photos…Sought': Gay Male Consumerism and Identity Construction in the Pre-Stonewall Era"

Advisor: Stephanie Cole

Lisa Gabbert

Dissertation Title: “Weaving Empire: The Role of Wool, the Subjected, the Enslaved, and the Convicted in Building the British Empire”

Advisor: Christopher Morris

Charles Grand

Dissertation Title: “Contours of Liberation: Language, Empire, and Pan-Africanism in the Western Hemisphere, 1900-1955”

Advisor: David LaFevor

Kevin Moskowitz

Dissertation Title: "Detroit Muscle: Automobile Manufacturing and the Middle West, 1913-1959"

Advisor: Scott W. Palmer

 Alexandra Rains  

Dissertation Title: “Purity of Body, Purity of Food, Purity of Race: Examining Disability, Ethnicity, and Empire Through the Lens of Scrofula”

Advisor: Sarah Rose

Paul Ruiz-Requena   

Dissertation Title: “La Prensa y El Gran Pueblo Mexicano: The Spanish-Language Press of South Texas, 1900-1930”

Advisor: David LaFevor

 Ashley Umphenour  

Dissertation Title: "Female Virtue in the Male Gaze: Representations of Female Breasts and Faces in English Portraiture and Satirical Prints, 1660-1830"

Advisor: Stephanie Cole