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

Committee:

Martha A. Sandweiss, adviser
Wendy Warren
Rachel Z. DeLue
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College, Columbia University

Location (Hybrid):

211 Dickinson (RSVP required) or Zoom

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

Committee:

David Bell, adviser
Linda Colley
Anthony Grafton
Yair Mintzker
William Sewell, Jr., University of Chicago

Location (Hybrid):

RSVP required

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

Committee:

Margot Canaday, adviser
Kevin Kruse
Emily Thompson
Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago
Karen M. Tani, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Location (Hybrid):

RSVP required

211 Dickinson (RSVP required) or Zoom

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

Committee:

Jeremy Adelman, co-adviser
Vera Candiani, co-adviser
Anthony Grafton
Kris Lane, Tulane University

Location (Hybrid):

211 Dickinson (RSVP required) or Zoom

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

Committee:

Max Weiss, adviser
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
M'hamed Oualdi, Sciences Po-Paris
Malika Zeghal, Harvard University

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

Committee:

Angela N. H. Creager, adviser
Katja Guenther
D. Graham Burnett
Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
Jennifer Morgan, The Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory

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

Committee:

William Chester Jordan, Adviser
Helmut Reimitz
Jack Tannous
Laura Weigert, Rutgers University

Location (Hybrid):

211 Dickinson Hall (RSVP required) or Zoom

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

Committee:

Stephen Kotkin, adviser
Jeremy Adelman
Ekaterina Pravilova
Adam Tooze, Columbia University

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

Committee:

Hendrik Hartog, co-adviser
Michael D. Gordin, co-adviser
Daniel Rodgers
Natasha Wheatley
James Q. Whitman, Yale University

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

Committee:

Stephen Kotkin, adviser
Jeremy Adelman
Philip G. Nord
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University