Dissertations in progress
Dissertator: Bellmore, Audra
Advisor: Mooney-Melvin, Patricia
Dissertation title: "Concrete Houses: Arts and Crafts Cottage-Style Homes as Expressions of Architectural, Technological, and Social Innovation, 1889-1929"
Dissertator: Bruner, Stephen C.
Advisor: Cardoza, Anthony L.
Dissertation title: "Against All Odds: Leopoldo Franchetti, Ferdinando Martini, and the Persistence of the Ideas of Peasant Settlement and Private Concessions in Italian Colonialism"
Dissertator: Catania, Steven J.
Advisor: Bucholz, Robert O.
Dissertation title: "Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Constitutional Monarchy and Public Perceptions of Health"
Dissertator: Cushing Davis, Melisa
Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore
Dissertation title: "A Fire that Cannot be Extinguished: Sovereignty and Identity in the Pokagon Potawatomi Community, 1632 to 2010"
Dissertator: DeMonte Michaelides, Alexandra E.
Advisor: Hirsch, Susan E.
Dissertation title: “With Sisterhood: Catholic Feminist Activsm, 1953-1989”
Dissertator: Doherty, Sarah E.
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title:“Aliens Found in Waiting": The Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
Dissertator: Donnelly, Andrew J.
Advisor: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Dissertation title:“Food and Society in Late Antique and Early Medieval Italy”
Dissertator: Ferri, Domenico R.
Advisor: Fraterrigo, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: “Funk the Power: Unassimilated Blackness and Sound in the Post-King Era, 1968-1985"
Dissertator: Garneau, Susan
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: "Imprisoning Chicago: The Chicago City Council, Prisoners, and Reform in the Chicago City Jail, 1832-1914"
Dissertator: Greene, Thomas A.
Advisor: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Dissertation title: “Emotions and Religious Culture: The Carolingian Pastoral Ideal in the Archdiocese of Sens, 798-981”
Dissertator: Jolet, Brian
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: “Wet Chicago: Speakeasies, Informal Economies, and the Creation of New Deal Culture”
Dissertator: Kelleher, John P.
Advisor: Manning, Christopher
Dissertation title: "The Entrepreneur as Hero: Peter V. Ueberroth and Rise of Neoliberalism in the Reagan Era"
Dissertator: Kralj, Dejan
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: "Balkan Minds: The Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity and Community in Chicago, 1880-2000"
Dissertator: Krenzke, John
Advisor: Bucholz, Robert O.
Dissertation title: "Change is Brewing: The Industrialization of the Brewing Industry in England, 1550-1750"
Dissertator: Mallory, Patrick R.
Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore
Dissertation title: “The Game They All Played: Chicago Baseball, 1876-1906”
Dissertator: Martin, Ronald
Advisor: Erenberg, Lewis A.
Dissertation title: "Counter Culture/Hippies in Chicago in the 1960s"
Dissertator: O’Connor, Kelly
Advisor: Hirsch, Susan E.
Dissertation title: “The Fashionable Life: Fashion Imagery and the Construction of Masculinity in America, 1960-2000”
Dissertator: O’Gorman, Daniel M.
Advisor: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Dissertation title: “Institution and Identity: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the Pre-Conquest Century”
Dissertator: Ordman, Jilana
Advisor: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Dissertation title: “Feeling Like a Crusader: Crusader Affect and Crusade Theology 1095-1291”
Dissertator: Ress, Stella
Advisor: Erenberg, Lewis
Dissertation title: "'Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?': Gold Digggers, Sugar Daddies, & Age-Disparate Relationships in the US, 1890-1950"
Dissertator: Searcy, Jennifer
Advisor: Erenberg, Lewis
Dissertation title: “The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago, 1963-1969”
Dissertator: Stewart, Adam
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: "American Zionism, 1930-50"
Dissertator: Stout Sibbel, Megan
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: "Sisters of the South: Roman Catholic Nuns in African American Communities, 1935-1970"
Dissertator: Vogt, Albert
Advisor: Manning, Christopher
Dissertation title: “The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928-1968"
