
Upcoming Defenses
Final Public Oral Exam: Halee Robinson
“They Taken Him Away From Us”: Race, Punishment, and the Intimate Histories of the Texas Prison System, 1865–1912
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Final Public Oral Exam: Nikianna Dinenis
Teachers in Their Holy Households: Laywomen's Religious Reading and the Practice of Authority in the Holy Roman Empire, 1400–1600
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Past Defenses
Final Public Oral Exam: Brian Rogers
City of Commuters: Work and Mobility in Tokyo, 1868–1973
May 2, 2025, 10:00 am
East Asia
Final Public Oral Exam: Elena Maria Telles Ryan
Legal Lineage: Families and the Transformation of Belonging in the Southwestern Great Lakes
May 1, 2025, 2:00 pm
Early North America
U.S. 19th Century
Final Public Oral Exam: Rebecca Giblon
Blue Mondays No More? A Comparative Analysis of Washing Machine Adoption in 20th-Century Canada, the United States, and Britain
May 1, 2025, 10:00 am
Economic
Final Public Oral Exam: Cynthia Houng
The Art of Judgment and the Judgment of Art: From the Mercantile Evaluation of Goods to the Connoisseurship of Art, 1300–1800
Apr 29, 2025, 1:00 pm
Early Modern Europe
Final Public Oral Exam: Austin Bradley Schwartz
Newsman: Edward R. Murrow and the Invention of Truth
Apr 29, 2025, 10:00 am
U.S. 20th Century
Final Public Oral Exam: Shelby Lohr
George Bourne’s Identity: Immediatism, Anti-Catholicism, and Radical Reform in Antebellum America
Apr 28, 2025, 1:00 pm
U.S. 19th Century
Final Public Oral Exam: Vincent Femia
Magnificent Distances: The Rise and Fall of the Capital City of Science, 1862–1920
Jan 24, 2025, 1:00 pm
History of Science
Final Public Oral Exam: Ksenia S. Ryzhova
State and Economy in Medieval Sicily: Long-Distance Trade in the Fatimid Mediterranean and Its Aftermath, 909 – c. 1150
Jan 24, 2025, 1:00 pm
History of Science
Final Public Oral Exam: Alexander Jin
Heathen Intimacy: Chinese Migrants and Criminal Sexualities in Turn of the Century California
Nov 14, 2024, 3:00 pm
U.S. 20th Century
Women/Gender/Sexuality
Final Public Oral Exam: Haris Durrani
A Satellite for All: Law, Technology, and Empire in the Global Cold War, 1959–1973
Nov 14, 2024, 1:00 pm
History of Science
Legal/Constitutional
Final Public Oral Exam: Valerie Piro
Becoming Poor: Situations of Poverty in the Early Medieval West
Nov 13, 2024, 3:00 pm
Medieval
Final Public Oral Exam: Casey Eilbert
Conceptualizing the 'Iron Cage': Bureaucracy in Modern America
Sep 13, 2024, 1:00 pm
U.S. 20th Century
Final Public Oral Exam: Manav Kapur
Bounding Nations, Making Citizens: Partition, Property and Belonging in Postcolonial South Asia
Sep 6, 2024, 2:00 pm
South Asia/India/Post Colonial
Final Public Oral Exam: Lillian Datchev
The Origins of Antiquarian Scholarship, 1204–1453
Aug 30, 2024, 10:00 am
Early Modern Europe
Final Public Oral Exam: Jonathan Raspe
Constructing Soviet Nations: Industrialization and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan and Belarus, 1940–1990
Aug 30, 2024, 10:00 am
Russia/Eurasia/Eastern Europe
Final Public Oral Exam: Jack Guenther
Shaping an Interconnected World: Hamburg, Germany, and the Transformation of Interdependence, 1880 – 1974
Aug 29, 2024, 2:00 pm
Economic
Modern Europe
World/Global/Transnational
Final Public Oral Exam: Jin-Woo Choi
The Cold Standard: The Great Winter of 1709 in European Context
Aug 29, 2024, 10:00 am
Early Modern Europe
Environmental
History of Science
Final Public Oral Exam: Matthew Dowd
Forgotten Catholic Pasts, Unwritten Catholic Futures: French Catholics and the Challenge of Nineteenth-Century Modernity, 1830–1870
Aug 14, 2024, 10:00 am
Modern Europe
World/Global/Transnational
Final Public Oral Exam: Rachel A. Gerber
Borderlands Empire: Contested Space, Cooperative Governance, and the Formation of Medieval Germany from the Tenth Through the Twelfth Centuries
Jul 26, 2024, 10:00 am
Medieval
Final Public Oral Exam: BJ Lillis
A Valley Between Worlds: Slavery, Dispossession, and the Creation of a Settler Colonial Society in the Hudson Valley, 1674–1766
Jul 24, 2024, 10:00 am
Early North America