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Magnificent Distances: The Rise and Fall of the Capital City of Science, 1862–1920

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State and Economy in Medieval Sicily: Long-Distance Trade in the Fatimid Mediterranean and Its Aftermath, 909 – c. 1150

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The Cold Standard: The Great Winter of 1709 in European Context

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The Origins of Antiquarian Scholarship, 1204–1453

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Shaping an Artisanal Future: Decolonization, Development and the Handloom Weavers of Madras, 1904 – 64

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Forgotten Catholic Pasts, Unwritten Catholic Futures: French Catholics and the Challenge of Nineteenth-Century Modernity, 1830–1870

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A Satellite for All: Law, Technology, and Empire in the Global Cold War, 1959–1973

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Conceptualizing The 'Iron Cage': Bureaucracy in Modern America

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Borderlands Empire: Contested Space, Cooperative Governance, and the Formation of Medieval Germany from the Tenth Through the Twelfth Centuries

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Militarizing Civil Rights: The Institutionalization of Equal Opportunity in the U.S. Armed Forces, 1966–1976

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Shaping an Interconnected World: Hamburg, Germany, and the Transformation of Interdependence, 1880 – 1974

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Heathen Intimacy: Chinese Migrants and Criminal Sexualities in Turn of the Century California

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Bounding Nations, Making Citizens: Partition, Property and Belonging in Postcolonial South Asia

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Biopolitical Socialism: Antibiosis, Scientific Capital, and China’s Cold War Rationality, 1949–1990

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A Valley Between Worlds: Slavery, Dispossession, and the Creation of a Settler Colonial Society in the Hudson Valley, 1674–1766

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Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Post-Industrial Campaign for American Competitiveness

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"Imperializing Pluralism: Legal Reform, Language Rights, and Shifting Pluralities in Imperial Russia's Baltic Provinces, 1860–1917"

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Becoming Poor: Situations of Poverty in the Early Medieval West

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Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America

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Constructing Soviet Nations: Industrialization and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan and Belarus, 1940–1990

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Communicating Sovereignty: A History of the Mvskoke Language and Communication Networks, 1715–1880

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"Patrimony in Miniature: French Childhood, Culture, and Media in the Shadow of Depopulation, 1900-1940"

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National Fabric, Socialist Tapestry: Classical Literature and the Weaving of the National Character in the Soviet Borderlands, 1934–1991

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"Hawaiian Common Law: Adoption, Legal Change, and Cultural Difference, 1840-1940"

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Diplomatic Households and the Foundations of U.S. Diplomacy, 1789–1870

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"A Prison, a Castle, a Web, a Flower: American Experiments in Family Life"

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"Dead Center: The New Democrats and the Transformation of Liberalism"

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"Constitutional Religion: Presbyterianism between the British and American Empires"

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"Science at the Nineteenth-Century École Des Beaux-Arts"

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Punitive Paperwork: Fingerprinting and Criminal Background Checks in Modern America

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"Precision and Pragmatism: Antonio Agustín's (1517-1586) Philology, Antiquarianism, and Counter-Reformation"

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Beyond Sovereignty: Governance and Islam in India's Southern Littoral, circa 1700–1900

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Modeling Democracy: The Global History of an Argentine Human Rights Experiment, 1983–2000

Dissertation Title:
Making a Modern "Ancient Capital": City Wall Preservation and Urban Renewal in Twentieth-Century Xi'an, China

Dissertation Title:
"Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918-1957"

Dissertation Title:
"Once Enslaved: Formerly Enslaved People and Antislavery Politics in Nineteenth-Century America"

Dissertation Title:
"Conversational Computing: Speech Synthesis from Assistive Technology to Artificial Intelligence, 1930–1980"

Dissertation Title:
"Justice in Numbers: Statistics and the Transformation of Civil Rights in Modern America"

Dissertation Title:
"Making the Manifold: Bernhard Riemann's Habilitation Lecture, Mathematics, and German Universities"

Dissertation Title:
"Crazy Standards: The World Health Organization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Remaking of Psychiatry"

Dissertation Title:
Reawakening the Ammonites: A History of the Lost World, 1500-1900

Dissertation Title:
"Gason Konn Bouke, Men Pa Fanm: Black Women Workers and the United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934"

Dissertation Title:
"Attention and Society: The Politics of Consciousness in Central Europe, 1720-1890"

Dissertation Title:
"Reconfigured and Remade: A Sensory History of Islamic Granada's Reformation As a Civitas Christiana, 1474-1614"

Dissertation Title:
"Sweet Deception: A History of the Health Politics of Saccharin in the United States"

Dissertation Title:
"Village and State in the Central European Churchbook, 1548–1945"

Dissertation Title:
"Languages of Socialism: Caste and Democracy in Postcolonial India, 1930–1960"

Dissertation Title:
The Rise of Expert Opinion: The Bank of England and Interwar Economic Governance, 1914–1940

Dissertation Title:
"Black Sea, Cold War: An Environmental History of the Black Sea Region, 1930-2005"

Dissertation Title: "Bush War: An Environmental History of Zimbabwe's Liberation"

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"“The Tottering House of the World”: The Ruralization of the Miaphysite Church in the Works of John of Ephesus (c. 507–88 C.E.)"

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"Administering Morals in the French Enlightenment: Education, Sexuality, and Authority at the Parisian Collège, 1645-1763"

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"Baghdad on the Orontes: Between Greek and Arabic Intellectual Worlds in Eleventh-Century Antioch"

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"Revolutionary Succession: Families, Inheritance Law, and the Social Sciences in France, 1789-1815"

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"'The Great National Work': James Otto Lewis, Thomas McKenney, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and the Visual Politics of American Empire, 1789-1871"

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"Collective Trauma and Divine Providence in Christian Late Antiquity"

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"A Sociocultural History of Violence in Twelfth-Century Byzantium"

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"Between the Palace and the Square: Political Thought and Mass Struggle in the League Against Imperialism, 1927-1937"

Dissertation Title:

"Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium"

Dissertation Title:
"Branches of Memory: Colonialism and the Making of the Historical Imagination in Namibia and Tanzania, 1914-1969"

Dissertation Title:

"Information Transmission and the Byzantine State: Geography, Logistics, and Geopolitics, 600-1200"

Dissertation Title:
"The Other Chemists' War: The Uses, Dual Uses, and Abuses of Chemical Weapons in World War II"

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"I Once Was Lost: Between Christian and Muslim in the Crown of Aragon, 1225-1330"

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"The Amerindian Antilles, 1492-1800"

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"Beastly Encounters: Animals in Early Modern Europe"

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""I [Suffer] Unfortunately from Intellectual Hunger": The Geistkreis, Desire for Knowledge, and the Transformation of Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century"

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"Becoming Democrats: Identity, Representation, and the Modern Democratic Coalition"

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"Building Fences, Guarding Grain: Balancing Autonomy and Authority in Late Medieval Normandy and Kent"

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"Selling Simians: Decolonization, Science, and ‘The Human’ In South Asia (1925-1984)"

Dissertation Title:
"The "Currency of the Cell": Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900 – 1970"

Dissertation Title:
"Slow Tampering: A History of Solitary Confinement"

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"Mediating Islands: Ambon Across the Ages"

Dissertation Title:

"Remapping America: The Interstate Highway System and Infrastructural Governance in the Postwar United States"

Dissertation Title:

"The Lives of the Mind: Scientific Concept and Everyday Experience from Psychophysics to Psychoanalysis"

Dissertation Title:

"Bricks and Mortar Boards: University-Building in the Settlement Empire, 1840-1920"

Dissertation Title:

"The Matter of Sanctity: Material Devotion of Beguines and Beguin Heretics in Southern France, 1200–1300"

Dissertation Title:

"'That Rose from the Sea to Astound Us': Aquatic Biology, Neurons, and the Transformation of Neurobiology, 1891-1952"

Dissertation Title:

"A Linguistic Archipelago: The Spread of European French in the Eighteenth Century"

Dissertation Title:

"Shepherding a Church in Crisis: Religious Life, Governance, and Knowledge in Early Modern Italy"

Dissertation Title:

"Mobility and Markets: Postal Transport over the Colonial Andes, 1590-1820"

Dissertation Title:

"The Post-Communist Divergence: The Transformation of Economic Governance in Russia and Poland, c. 1965-2000"

Dissertation Title:

"The Demographic State: Population, Global Biopolitics, And Decolonization In South Asia, 1947-71"

Dissertation Title:

"'The Law That We Feel Living Within Us': German Jurists and the Search for 'Life' in Modern Legal Science, 1900-1946"

Dissertation Title:

"A King’s Treasury Could Not Compare: Making Clocks Tick in Fourteenth-Century Europe"

Dissertation Title:

"Cupiditate Ducti: Corruption in The Carolingian World"

Dissertation Title:

"Islamic Reform on the Margins of Colonialism: Political Economy, Social History, and Intellectual Life at the Zaytuna Mosque-University"

Dissertation Title:

"Statism and Anarchy: The Politics of Subversion in Spain, Italy, and the Soviet Union"

Dissertation Title:

"Reunified Through Radio: Media, Technology, and Politics in Modern China 1923-1958"

Dissertation Title:

"Challenging Received Wisdom: The People of the Book and the Creation of an Islamic Tradition"

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"Peasants, Merchants, and Caliphs: Capital and Empire in Fatimid Egypt"

Dissertation Title:

"Martin Crusius (1526-1607) and the Discovery of Ottoman Greece"

Dissertation Title:

"States of Sacred Surveillance: Administration and Governance of Waqf in the Evolution of State Power and Capacity in Syria, 1920-1960"

Dissertation Title:
"Writing the Rules of Reason: Notations in Mathematical Logic, 1847–1937"

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"Resounding Voices: Native Americans and Sound Media, 1890–1970"

Dissertation Title:

"Schooling Suburbia: The Politics of School Finance in Postwar Long Island"

Dissertation Title:

"Yuppies: Young Urban Professionals and The Making of Postindustrial New York"

Dissertation Title:
"From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbial Culture Techniques and Chemical Orders of Nature, 1875 – 1946"

Dissertation Title:

"The Scramble for the World: Competition and Cooperation Between the Imperial Powers"

Dissertation Title:

"Base Towns: Everyday Life in and Around the Garrisons of Postwar Japan, 1945-1954"

Dissertation Title:

"Conversion of the Landscape: Environment and Religious Politics in an Early Modern Ottoman Town"

Dissertation Title:

"The Right-Wing Popular Front: The Far Right and the American Conservative Movement from the New Deal to the 1960s"

Dissertation Title:

"Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth-Century Tropics"

Dissertation Title:

"Ungovernable Winds: The Weather Sciences in South Asia, 1864-1945"

Dissertation Title:

"Writing the Thesaurus of Latinity: A Study in the History of Philological Practice"

Dissertation Title:

"Ocean Fever: Water, Trade, and the Terraqueous Pacific Northwest"

Dissertation Title:

"Airborne Colony: Culture and Politics of Aviation in India, 1910-1939"

Dissertation Title:

"The Enemies of Isolation: Rural Healthcare on the Frontiers of Empire, 1880-1920"

Dissertation Title:

"Reshaping Nations: Population Politics and Sovietization in the Polish-Soviet Borderlands, 1944-1948"

Dissertation Title:

""Art, Trade, and Mystery": African-American Artisans in Nineteenth-Century South Carolina"

Dissertation Title:

"A Campus for Mexico: Knowledge and Power in UNAM's University City"

Dissertation Title:

"'The Age of Associated Effort': Communitarian Reform at Topolobampo, Mexico, 1872-1896"

Dissertation Title:

"Willing Freedom: An American Family and the 19th-Century Landscape of Race"

Dissertation Title:

"Every Available Penny: Expectations, Education and Development in Postcolonial West Africa"

Dissertation Title:

"Ships of States: Global Shipping, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the Business of American Government, 1870-1930"

Dissertation Title:

"A Source of Pride, a Vision of Progress: The Homer G. Phillips Hospital of St. Louis, MO (1937-1979)"

Dissertation Title:

"A Perilous Port: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India, 1860-1937"

Dissertation Title:

"The Prince and the Priors: Carthusian Monasticism and the Experience of State-Building in Angevin Provence, 1245-1385"

Dissertation Title:

"Work and the American Moral Imagination, 1865-2000"

Dissertation Title:

"Private Capital, Public Credit: Brazil, Argentina, and the Problem of Credibility in International Capital Markets, 1852-1914"

Dissertation Title:

"Schools to Satellites: Enlightening and Entertaining Village India (1908-1974)"

Dissertation Title:

"The City That Worked: Machine Politics and Urban Liberalism in Chicago, 1945-1963"

Dissertation Title:

"Corpses, Cemeteries, Commemoration: Normandy from the Liberation to the 1960s"

Dissertation Title:

"The King Cannot Be Everywhere: Royal Governance and Local Society in the Reign of Louis IX"

Dissertation Title:

"America for Humanity: Law, Liberalism, and Empire in the South Atlantic (1870-1939)"

Dissertation Title:

"Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786"

Dissertation Title:

"Building Little Romes: Christianity, Identity, and Governance in Late Antique Gaul"

Dissertation Title:

"The Lawyers' Code: The Transformation of American Legal Practice, 1828-1938"

Dissertation Title:

"Creating American Land: A Territorial History from the Albany Plan to the U.S. Constitution"

Dissertation Title:

"Between Makassars: Site, Story, and the Transoceanic Afterlives of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar"

Dissertation Title:

"Out of Asia: A Global History of the Scientific Search for the Origins of Humankind, 1800-1965"

Dissertation Title:

"Rhetoric, Polemic, and Narrative: The Social Life of Political Ideas in Duvalier and Early Post-Duvalier Haiti (1957-1987)"

Dissertation Title:

"Congress and the Problem of Legislative Discretion, 1790-1870"

Dissertation Title:

"The Postwar Colombian Congress: Economic Management, Women's Rights, and the Law, 1942-1957"

Dissertation Title:

"The Scientific Storytellers: How Educators, Scientists, and Actors Televised Science"

Dissertation Title:

"Crusading As a Family: A Study of the County of Champagne, 1179 to 1226"

Dissertation Title:

"Boats in a Storm: Law, Politics, and Jurisdiction in Postwar South Asia"

Dissertation Title:

"Seeing the Infant: Audiovisual Technologies and the Mind Sciences of the Child"

Dissertation Title:

"An Uncommon Standard: A Social and Intellectual History of Swahili, 1864-1925"

Dissertation Title:

"Creating the Atlantic Port Town: Surveyors, Networks, and Geographies, 1670-1763"

Outside Adviser(s):

Dissertation Title:

"The Great Armenian Flight: The Celali Revolts and the Rise of Western Armenian Society"

Dissertation Title:

The Arts Are All Her Own: How Women Artists Navigated the Revolutionary Era in Britain and France, ca. 1760-1830"

Dissertation Title:

"Dynasty, Destiny, and Disease in Early Modern European Politics"

Dissertation Title:

"Making Credit Convenient: Credit Cards and the Political Economy of Modern America"

Dissertation Title:

"The Oath of Loyalty and the Post-Carolingian Transformation, c.830-1000"

Dissertation Title:

The Way of the Idle Men: Leisure and Daily Life of Bannermen in Qing Beijing, 1750-1900

Dissertation Title:

"The Emperor's Classroom: Pedagogy and the Promise of Power in the Qing Empire, 1861-1912"

Dissertation Title:

"Plagued Bodies and Spaces: Medicine, Trade, and Death in Ottoman Egypt and Tunisia, 1705-1830 CE"

Dissertation Title:

"A Nation of Veterans: The American Legion and the Politics of Veterans' Citizenship"

Dissertation Title:

"Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy"

Dissertation Title:

"Founding the Federal Reserve: Narrative Institutional History and Central Banking in the United States, 1789-1955"

Dissertation Title:

"The Ascending Republic: Aeronautical Culture in France, 1860-1914"

Dissertation Title:

"Marijuana Policy in Late Twentieth-Century America: The Political Battle for Cultural Legitimacy, 1968-1996"

Outside Adviser(s):

Dissertation Title:

"Saracen Maritime Raids in the Early Medieval Central Mediterranean and Their Impact in the South Italian Terraferma (650-1050)"

Dissertation Title:

"The Word as Lived: The Practice of Orthodoxy in Early Medieval Iberia, c. 500-711"

Dissertation Title:

"The Housing Question in Buenos Aires, 1900-1925. Reformism, Technical Imagination, and Public Opinion in an Expanding Metropolis"

Dissertation Title:

"Gentlemen of the Press: Post-World War II Foreign Policy Reporting from the Washington Community"

Dissertation Title:

"Planned Democracy: Development, Citizenship, and the Practices of Planning in Independent India, c. 1947-1966"

Dissertation Title:

"La Capitale D'Hiver: Tourism, Consumer Capitalism, and Urban Transformation in Nice (1760-1860)"

Dissertation Title:

"Costly Diversity: Transformations, Networks, and Minorities in Byzantium, 976-1118"

Dissertation Title:

"An Awful Gladness: African American Experiences of Infant Death from Slavery to the Great Migration"

Dissertation Title:

"Vernacular Diplomacy in Central Europe: Statesmen and Soldiers Between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1543-1593"

Dissertation Title:

"From Relief to Reconstruction to Development: Defining and Implementing Foreign Aid in Post-War Italy, 1943-1958"

Dissertation Title:

"Socialist Solidarities and Their Afterlives: Histories and Memories of Angolan and Mozambican Migrants in the German Democratic Republic, 1975-2015"

Dissertation Title:

"Garden of the Gods: Colorado Springs and the Fate of the Culture Wars"

Outside Adviser(s):

Dissertation Title:

"The Underground Catholic Church in England, 1558-1625"; Adviser: Peter Lake

Dissertation Title:

"Magistrates and the Law: Judicial Authority and Capital Cases in the Yongzheng Era, 1722-1735"

Dissertation Title:

"German and the Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism, 1870-1939"

Dissertation Title:

"The Sons of Mars and the Heirs of Rustam: Military Ideology, Ambition, and Rebellion in South India (1746-1812)"

Dissertation Title:

"American Steamboat Gothic: Natural Histories of Commerce and Collective Action Within the Ohio River Basin, 1819-1879"

Dissertation Title:

"Distributions in Postwar Mathematics"

Dissertation Title:

"Redefining American: The Shifting Politics of Immigration Policy at the End of the Twentieth Century"

Dissertation Title:

"Persons Dwelling in the Borderland: Responsibility and Criminal Law in the Late-Nineteenth-Century British Empire"

Dissertation Title:

"Liberalism in Numbers Only: Science, Politics, and State Power in Postwar Global Fisheries Management"

Dissertation Title:

"City of Dreams, Land of Longing: Czernowitz and Bukovina at the Crossroads of Empire"

Dissertation Title:

"The Poor Always with You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1879"

Dissertation Title:

"These United States: A History of the Fracturing of America"

Dissertation Title:

"Medicine on the Battlefield: the History of Military Media in Modern Japan"

Dissertation Title:

"Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700"

Dissertation Title:

"Nominally Rational: Systematic Nomenclature and the Structure of Organic Chemistry, 1889-1940"

Dissertation Title:

"Aging in Bondage: Slavery, Debility, and the Problem of Dependency in the Old South"

Dissertation Title:

"Insurgent Diplomacy: The Internationalized Revolutions of Nicaragua and El Salvador, 1976-1992"

Dissertation Title:

"Sound, Violence, and the Period Ear in Thirteenth-Century France"

Dissertation Title:

"The Fourth Amendment, Cars, and Freedom in Twentieth-Century America"

Dissertation Title:

"The Commercial Machine: Reforming Imperial Commerce in the Spanish Atlantic, c. 1740-1808"

Dissertation Title:

"South Atlantic Corporatism: Development, Law, and Citizenship in Brazil and Portugal, 1919-1945"

Dissertation Title:

"The Rape of Tokyo: Legends of Mass Sexual Violence and Exploitation During the Occupation of Japan"

Dissertation Title:

"Mutiny's Bounty: Anthropologists, Pitcairn Islanders, and the Making of a Natural Laboratory on the Edge of Britain's South Seas Empire"

Dissertation Title:

"Knowing Islam: The Entangled History of Western Academia and Modern Islamic Thought"

Dissertation Title:

"Quarantine, Contagion, and Imaginative Geography in the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1870"

Dissertation Title:

"A Method Only: The Evolving Meaning of Science in the United States, 1830-1910"

Dissertation Title:

"The Latin American Experience with Development: Social Sciences, Economic Policies, and the Making of a Global Order, 1944-1971"

Dissertation Title:

"Being Urban: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta (1800-1930)"

Dissertation Title:

"'A Fable like a Historic': Literary Politics in Early Stuart Britain, 1603-1642"

Dissertation Title:

A "Model" System: Race, Education, and Politics in the Nation's Capital, 1932-1972

Dissertation Title:

“Felonious Transactions: Slave Economies and Localized Law in South Carolina, 1787-1860”

Dissertation Title:

"Praying for Deliverance: Childbirth and the Cult of the Saints in the Late Medieval Mediterranean"

Dissertation Title:

"Feathers, Fertilizer and States of Nature: Uses of Albatrosses in the US-Japan Borderlands"

Dissertation Title:

"Police Matters: Law and Everyday Life in Rural Madras, c.1900-1960"

Dissertation Title:

"Dissecting the Inner Life: Body and Soul, Medicine and Metaphor in the Carolingian Era"