Dissertations

Dissertation Title: "A Definite and Outstanding Piece of Work": Middle-Class U.S. Women and Interwar Internationalist Movements

Advisor: Delaina Price

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

Advisor: Christopher Morris

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

Advisor: David LaFevor

Dissertation Title: Reconsidering Black Nationalism: Enclavism, Colonization, and Expatriation in the African Americans’ Struggle for Self-Reliance in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Advisor: Kenyon Zimmer 

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

Advisor: Kenyon Zimmer 

Dissertation Title:  Complexity Machines: New Histories of North American Automobile Production, 1900-1950s

Advisor: Scott W. Palmer 

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

Advisor: Sarah Rose 

Dissertation Title: Gaming the Cold War: The Military-Industrial-Education Complex, Video Game Industry, and the Reification of American Cold War Culture

Advisor: Scott W. Palmer

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