Congratulations to our recent PhD Recipients - 2010-11

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Binzley, Ronald - Dissertation title: "Ganganelli's Disaffected Children: The Suppressed English Jesuit Province and The Shaping of American Catholicism, 1762-1817" Advisor: Charles L. Cohen

Burns, Catherine – Dissertation title: "American Identity and the Transatlantic Irish Nationalist Movement, 1912-1925" Advisor: Thomas J. Archdeacon

de Llobet, Ruth – Dissertation title: "Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse, and the Rise of Filipino Creole Consciousness in an Age of Revolution” Advisor: Alfred W. McCoy

Dobbins, Kerry – Dissertation title: "Infant Murder in Early Modern England: Realities and Perceptions"; asst. prof., McPherson College. Advisor: Johann P. Sommerville

Dresser, Todd – Dissertation title: "Nightmares of Rural Life: Fearing the Future in the Transition from Country Life to the Family Farm, 1890-1960" Advisor: William J. Cronon

Gehring, David – Dissertation title: "International Protestantism Unties 'The Catholique Knotte': Anglo-German Relations Under Elizabeth I"; post-doc, Durham University. Advisor: Johann P. Sommerville

Gilbert, David – Dissertation title: "'The Product of Our Souls': Ragtime, Race, and the Marketplace in James Reese Europe's New York" Advisor: Nan Enstad

Goldberg, Mark – Dissertation title: "The Health of Empires: Health Practices and Expansion in the Texas Borderlands, 1780-1861"; asst. prof., University of Houston. Advisor: Susan L. Johnson

Graves, Kori - Dissertation title: "Domesticating Foreign Affairs: The African-American Family, Korean War Orphans, and Cold War Civil Rights" Advisor: Nan Enstad

Greer, Brenna - Dissertation title: "Image Matters: Black Representation Politics and Civil Rights Work in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States"; asst. prof., Wellesley College. Advisor: Nan Enstad

LaCroix, Helen – Dissertation title: "In the Absence of Reconstruction: Race, Politics, and State Power in Kentucky, 1850-1872" Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz

Mahoney, Maureen – Dissertation title: "Fighting 'Addiction': African-American and Hispanic Activism and New York City's Illegal Drug Policies, 1946-1999" Advisor: Thomas J. Archdeacon

McGee, Holly – Dissertation title: "When the Window Closed: Gender, Race, and (Inter)Nationalism, the United States, and South Africa, 1920s-1960s"; visiting asst. prof., University of Cincinnati. Advisor: Brenda Gayle Plummer

Mink, Nicolaas – Dissertation title: "The Restaurant: Food, Power, and Social Change"; asst. prof., Knox College. Advisor: John Sharpless

Ryan, Carolyne  – Dissertation title: "Indigenous Possessions: Anthropology, Museums, and Nation-Making in Argentina, 1862-1943"; asst. prof., University of Wyoming-Laramie. Advisor: Florencia E. Mallon; Co-Advisor: Steve J. Stern

Steckman, Laura – Dissertation title: "Shaped by the State: Formation of Dayak Identity in Indonesia's Borneo"; Advisor: Alfred W. McCoy

Woodhouse, Keith – Dissertation title: "A Subversive Nature: Radical Environmentalism in the Late-Twentieth-Century United States"; post-doc, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA. Advisor: William J. Cronon