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Final Public Oral Exam: Liane Hewitt
Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918-1957
Nov 9, 2023, 1:00 pm
Modern Europe
World/Global/Transnational
Final Public Oral Exam: Gabrielle Girard
Modeling Democracy: The Global History of an Argentine Human Rights Experiment, 1983-2000
Oct 31, 2023, 10:00 am
Latin America and Caribbean
Final Public Oral Exam: Megan Armknecht
Diplomatic Households and the Foundations of U.S. Diplomacy, 1789–1870
Sep 29, 2023, 1:00 pm
U.S. 19th Century
Women/Gender/Sexuality
World/Global/Transnational
Final Public Oral Exam: Robert Yee
The Rise of Expert Opinion: The Bank of England and Interwar Economic Governance, 1914–1940
Sep 12, 2023, 10:00 am
Final Public Oral Exam: Jeremy Schneider
Reawakening the Ammonites: A History of the Lost World, 1500-1900
Sep 11, 2023, 1:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Saumyashree Ghosh
Beyond Sovereignty: Governance and Islam in India's Southern Littoral, circa 1700-1900
Sep 8, 2023, 1:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Daniel Ewert
Punitive Paperwork: Fingerprinting and Criminal Background Checks in Modern America
Sep 8, 2023, 12:30 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Min Tae Cha
Constitutional Religion: Presbyterianism between the British and American Empires
Aug 30, 2023, 2:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Benjamin Lindquist
Conversational Computing: Speech Synthesis from Assistive Technology to Artificial Intelligence, 1930–1980
Aug 29, 2023, 1:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Niharika Yadav
Languages of Socialism: Caste and Democracy in Postcolonial India, 1930–1960
Aug 25, 2023, 1:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Richard Spiegel
Attention and Society: The Politics of Consciousness in Central Europe, 1720–1890
Aug 24, 2023, 3:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Noelle Bodick
A Prison, a Castle, a Web, a Flower: American Experiments in Family Life
Aug 18, 2023, 1:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Jenne O'Brien
Making the Manifold: Bernhard Riemann's Habilitation Lecture, Mathematics, and German Universities
Aug 10, 2023, 1:30 pm
History of Science
Final Public Oral Exam: William Theiss
Village and State in the Central European Churchbook, 1548–1945
Aug 3, 2023, 11:00 am
Early Modern Europe
Final Public Oral Exam: Michael McGovern
Justice in Numbers: Statistics and the Transformation of Civil Rights in Modern America
Jul 26, 2023, 3:00 pm
History of Science
Final Public Oral Exam: Blake Grindon
The Death of Jane McCrea: Sovereignty and Violence in the Northeastern Borderlands of the American Revolution
Jul 24, 2023, 1:00 pm
Colonial/Revolutionary/Early National America
Final Public Oral Exam: Taylor C. Zajicek
Black Sea, Cold War: An Environmental History of the Black Sea Region, 1930-2005
Jun 29, 2023, 11:00 am
Environmental
Mediterranean/Ottoman/Middle East
Russia/Eurasia/Eastern Europe
Final Public Oral Exam: Aaron Stamper
Reconfigured and Remade: A Sensory History of Islamic Granada's Reformation As a Civitas Christiana, 1474-1614
May 11, 2023, 2:00 pm
Early Modern Europe
Mediterranean/Ottoman/Middle East
Final Public Oral Exam: Shelby Sinclair
Gason Konn Bouke, Men Pa Fanm: Black Women Workers and the United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
May 5, 2023, 1:00 pm
Women/Gender/Sexuality
Final Public Oral Exam: Robert Zeinstra
Bush War: An Environmental History of Zimbabwe's Liberation
May 2, 2023, 9:00 am
Africa
Environmental