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

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

Committee:

David Cannadine, co-adviser
Linda Colley, co-adviser
Hendrik Hartog
Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto

The Demographic State: Population, Global Biopolitics, and Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-71

Committee:

Gyan Prakash, adviser
Jeremy Adelman
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University

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

Committee:

Katja Guenther, co-adviser
D. Graham Burnett, co-adviser
Michael D. Gordin
Deborah Coen, Yale University

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

Committee:

Anthony Grafton, adviser
Yaacob Dweck
Carolina Mangone
Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Simon Ditchfield, University of York