2015 Graduates
- Simon Balto
“’The Law Has a Bad Opinion of Me’”: Policing and Politics in Twentieth-Century Black Chicago”
Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer, advisor - Sean Bloch
“When Time Stopped: Violence, History, and the Political Imaginary in the Kenya-Somali Borderlands”
Professor James H. Sweet, advisor - Roberto Jose Carmack
“’A Fortress of the Soviet Home Front’”: Mobilization and Nationality in Kazakhstan during World War II”
Professor Francine Hirsch, advisor - Vaneesa Marie Cook
“Thy Kingdom Community: Spiritual Socialists and Local to Global Activism, 1920-1970”
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, advisor
Represented by Professor Michael Gambone, Kutztown University - Skye Doney
“Moving Toward the Sacred: German Pilgrimage Practices, 1832-1937”
Professor Rudy J. Koshar, advisor - Ariana Horn
“Paved with Good Intentions: The Rise and Fall of the “Human Relations” Movement in Milwaukee, 1934-1980”
Professor Charles L. Cohen, advisor - Dan G. Hummel
“A Covenant of the Mind: American Evangelicals, Israel, and the Construction of a Special Relationship, 1948-1980”
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, advisor
Represented by Professor Charles L. Cohen - James Shelley McKay
“Crusading for Capitalism: Christian Capitalists and the Ideological Roots of the Conservative Movement”
Professor William J. Reese, advisor - Jessica Moore
“Procopius of Caesarea and Historical Memory in the Sixth Century”
Professor Marc Kleijwegt, advisor
Represented by Professor Leonora Neville - Terrence Peterson
“Counterinsurgent Bodies: Social Welfare and Psychological Warfare in French Algeria, 1956-1962”
Professors Laird Boswell & Mary Lou Roberts, advisors
The History Department’s Graduate Program also congratulates its graduates who could not be present for the ceremony:
- Melissa Anderson
“For ‘the Love of Order’: Race, Violence, and the French Colonial Police in Vietnam, 1860s-1920s”
Professor Thongchai Winichakul, advisor - Geneviève Dorais
“Indo-America and the Politics of APRA Exile, 1918-1945”
Professors Florencia Mallon and Steve Stern, advisors - Ariel Eisenberg
“‘Save Our Streets and Shelter Our Homeless’: The Homeless Crisis in New York City in the 1980s”
Professor William Cronon, advisor - Anne Giblin
“From the Inside-out: Social Networks of Migration from Japan’s Tohoku Region, 1872-1937”
Professors Louise Young and Sarah Thal, advisors - Katherine Guenoun
“‘Between Synagogue and Society’: Jewish Women in Nineteenth-Century France”
Professors Mary Lou Roberts and Laird Boswell, advisors - Sinae Hyun
“Indigenizing the Cold War: Nation-Building by the Border Patrol Police of Thailand, 1945-1980”
Professor Thongchai Winichakul, advisor - Camarin Porter
“De subiecto theologiae: Gerardus Odonis, Peter Auriol, and the Nature of Theological Knowledge and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century”
Professor Karl Shoemaker, advisor - Javier Samper Vendrell
“Youthful Perversity: Adolescence and Homosexuality in the Weimar Republic”
Professor Lou Roberts, advisor - Jenna Schulz
“Borderlands of the Mind: Shaping Identity through the Anglo-Scottish Border, 1558-1660”
Professor Johann Sommerville, advisor - Casey Stark
“Vesta, her Virgins and the Worship of her Cult during the Roman Imperial Period”
Professor Marc Kleijwegt, advisor - Irina Tamarkina
“Memories of Authority and Community in Miaphysite & Chalcedonian Narratives of the 5-6th Centuries”
Professor Leonora Neville, advisor