Recent History Ph.D. Graduates
boston college
| 2011-2012 | 2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 |
| 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 |
| 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 |
| 1999-2000 | 1998-1999 | 1997-1998 | 1996-1997 |
2011-2012
| Hidetaka Hirota | Dissertation Title: "Nativism, Citizenship and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1837-1883" Advisor: Kevin Kenny |
| David McCowin | Dissertation Title: "'For Faith and for Freedom': American Catholic Manhood and the Holy Name Society in Boston, 1870-1960" Advisor: James O'Toole |
| Megan Myers | Dissertation Title: "Moving Terrorists from the Streets to a Diamond-Shaped Table: The International History of the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1969-1999" Advisor: James Cronin |
2010-2011
| Laura Baines-Walsh | Dissertation Title: "Adapting to Dixie: The Southernization of Nineteenth Century Lutherans in the North Carolina Piedmont" Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College |
| Llana Barber | Dissertation Title: "Latino Migration and the New Global Cities: Transnationalism, Race, and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000" Advisors: Marilynn Johnson; Davarian Baldwin Position: Assistant Professor, SUNY Old Westbury (tenure track) |
| Jill Bender | Dissertation Title: "Fears of 1857: The British Empire in the Wake of the Indian Rebellion" Advisor: Prasannan Parthasarathi Position: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro (tenure track) |
| Amanda Bidnall | Dissertation Title: “‘The Birth Pangs of a New Nation:’ West Indian Artists in London, 1945-1965” Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Instructor, Simon Fraser University |
| Christina Brophy | Dissertation Title: "Keening Community: Mná Caointe, Women, Death, and Power in Ireland" Advisor: Kevin O'Neill Position: Instructor, Triton College |
| John Dennehy | Dissertation Title: "James Sullivan and the Birth of Massachusetts Republicanism" Advisor: Alan Rogers |
| Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan | Dissertation Title: "Ethnic Patriotism: Boston's Irish and Jewish Communities, 1880-1929" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University |
| Gregory Walsh | Dissertation Title: "Splintered Loyalties: The Revolutionary War in Essex County, New Jersey" Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: Adjunct Professor, Boston College |
2009-2010
| Jason Cavallari | Dissertation Title: "Upcast Eyes: Medico-Legal Discourse, Spectacle, and Deviance in France, 1870-1914" Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College |
| Jeffrey Malanson | Dissertation Title: "Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852" Advisor: David Quigley Position: Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (tenure track) |
| Carrie Schultz | Dissertation Title: "'Let the Little Children Come to Me': Catholic Children's Moral and Religious Development in the United States, 1920-1965" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Adjunct Professor, Boston College |
| Kenneth Shelton | Dissertation Title: "The Way Cast Up: The Keithian Schism in an English Enlightenment Context" Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly |
2008-2009
| Brooke Barbier | Dissertation Title: "Daughters of Liberty: Young Women's Culture in Early National Boston" Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly Position: Instructor, Stonehill College |
| Bethany Jay | Dissertation Title: "The Representation of Slavery at Historic House Museums: 1853-2000" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Assistant Professor, Salem State College (tenure track) |
| Michael Mezzano | Dissertation Title: "'Not the race of Dante': Southern Italians as Undesirable Americans" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College |
| Robert Niebuhr | Dissertation Title: "The Search for a Communist Legitimacy: Tito's Yugoslavia" Advisor: Larry Wolff |
| Sarah Nytroe | Dissertation Title: "Religion and Memory in American Public Culture, 1890-1920" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Assistant Professor, DeSales University (tenure track) |
| Sally Shockro | Dissertation Title: "Reading Bede as Bede Would Read" Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Professor, Merrimack College (tenure track) |
| Bethany Tanis Kilcrease | Dissertation Title: "The 'Great Church Crisis,' Public Life, and National Identity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain" Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Assistant Professor, Aquinas College (tenure track) |
2007-2008
| Deirdre Bryan | Dissertation Title: "A 'Peculiarly Fitting' Institute: The Origins of Marie Martin's Medical Missionaries of Mary" Advisor: Robert Savage Position: Director, Bradán Research Services |
| Adam Chill | Dissertation Title: "The Boundaries of Britishness: Boxing, Minorities, and Identity in Late-Georgian Britain" Advisor: Kevin O'Neill Position: Assistant Professor, Castleton State College (tenure track) |
| Jennifer Cote | Dissertation Title: “'Nobody Ever Paid Me for Anything:' Crafting a Professional Social Work Identity in Progressive-Era Boston" Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly Position: Assistant Professor, St. Joseph College (tenure track) |
| Ely Janis | Dissertation Title: "The Land League in the United States and Ireland: Nationalism, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Gilded Age" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (tenure track) |
| Mark Mullane | Dissertation Title: "The Function of 'Things Said' in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and its Anglo-Norman 'Re-writings'" Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Connecticut College |
| Patricia Reeve | Dissertation Title: “Cultural and Legal Representations of Imperiled Workers and Their Political Significance, Massachusetts (1842-1910)” Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Assistant Professor, Suffolk University (tenure track) |
2006-2007
| Michael Chapman | Dissertation Title: “Arguing Americanism: John Eoghan Kelly’s Franco Lobby, 1936-46” Advisor: Seth Jacobs Position: Associate Professor, Peking University |
| Anthony Daly | Dissertation Title: "“What We Strike Down There We Shake Here: Irish Issues and the Shaping of English Radical Politics, 1847-74” Advisor: Kevin O'Neill Position: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts (tenure track) |
| Mark Doyle | Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: “Fighting Like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Belfast, 1850-1870” Advisor: Kevin O'Neill Position: Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State (tenure track) |
| Nicholas Germana | Dissertation Title: “The Orient of Europe: The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity, 1760-1830” Advisors: Paul Breines and Devin Pendas Position: Assistant Professor, Keene State College (tenure track) Published: The Orient of Europe: The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) |
| Joanne Lloyd | Dissertation Title: "Beneath the 'City on the Hill': The Lower Orders, 1700-1850" Advisor: David Quigley Position: Independent Scholar |
| Shawn Lynch | Dissertation Title: “In Defense of True Americanism: The Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Radical Free Speech, 1915-1945” Advisor: Mark Gelfand Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Assumption College |
| Christian Samito | Dissertation Title: “Proof of Loyalty: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Redefinition of Citizenship During the Civil War Era” Advisors: David Quigley, Alan Rogers Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College Published: Fear Was Not in Him: The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A. (Fordham University Press, 2004) Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Fordham University Press, 1997) |
2005-2006
| Elizabeth MacDonald Bischof | Dissertation Title: “Against an Epoch: Boston Moderns, 1880-1905” Advisor: David Quigley Position: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Maine (tenure track) Published: Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 (Yale University Press, 2011). |
| Tracey-Anne Cooper | Dissertation Title: “Reconstructing a Deconstructed Manuscript, Community, and Culture: London, BL MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University (tenure track) |
| Andrew Finstuen | Dissertation Title: “Hearts of Darkness: American Protestants and the Doctrine of Original Sin, 1945-65” Advisor: James O’Toole Position: Director of International Honors Program and Assistant Professor of American Church History, Pacific Lutheran University Published: Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) |
| Niamh Lynch | Dissertation Title: “Live Ireland, Perish the Empire: Irish Nationalist Anti-Imperialism, c. 1840-1900” Advisors: Kevin Kenny, Kevin O'Neill Position: Director of Irish Institute, Boston College |
| Irina Mukhina | Dissertation Title: “Reshaping Lives, Reconstructing Identities: Ethnic Germans of the Soviet Union, 1941-46” Advisor: Roberta Manning Position: Assistant Professor, Assumption College (tenure track) Published: The Germans of the Soviet Union (Routledge, 2007) Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 2010) |
| Cecilie Reid | Dissertation Title: “American Internationalism: Peace Advocacy and International Relations, 1895-1916” Advisor: James Cronin Position: Assistant Director, Connors Family Learning Center, Boston College |
2004-2005
| Dolita Cathcart | Dissertation Title: “White Gloves, Black Rebels: The Decline of Elite Black National Political Leadership in Boston, 1870-1920” Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (tenure track) |
| Andrew Lowerre | Dissertation Title: “Placing Castles in the Conquest: Landscape, Lordship, and Local Politics in the South-Eastern Midlands, 1066-1100” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Archaeologist, English Heritage Published: "Placing Castles in the Conquest: Landscape, Lordship and Local Politics in the South-Eastern Midlands, 1066-1100," British Archaeological Report, British Series, 385 |
| Damien Murray | Dissertation Title: “Progressivism, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Emergence of Catholic Democratic Liberalism in Boston, 1900-24” Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Assistant Professor, Elms College (tenure track) Published: Romanticism, Nationalism, and Irish Antiquarian Societies, 1840-80 (National University of Ireland, 2000) |
| William Nancarrow | Dissertation Title: “Vox Populi: Democracy and the Progressive Era Judiciary, 1890–1916” Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: Associate Professor, Curry College |
| Edward Rugemer | Dissertation Title: “The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery” Advisor: Cynthia Lynn Lyerly Position: Assistant Professor, History and African American Studies, Yale University (tenure track) Published: The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2008) |
| Dolly Wilson | Dissertation Title: “'The True Sphere of Women'? Gender, Work, and Equal Pay in Britain, 1945-75” Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University (tenure track) |
2003-2004
| John Bieter | Dissertation Title: “Showdown in the Owyhees: Land, Myth, and Identity in the American West” Advisors: Marilynn Johnson, Kevin Kenny Position: Associate Professor and Director of Basque Studies, Boise State University Published: An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in the Idaho (co-author, University of Nevada Press, 2004) |
| Lawrence X. Clifford | Dissertation Title: “Tukhachevsky and Blitzkrieg” Advisor: Roberta Manning |
| Dikran Kaligian | Dissertation Title: “The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Under Ottoman Constitutional Rule, 1908-14” Advisor: Benjamin Braude Position: Managing Editor, The Armenian Review Published: Armenian Organization and Ideology under Ottoman Rule: 1908-1914 (Transaction Publishers, 2008) |
| R. Todd Romero | Dissertation Title: “Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England” Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: Assistant Professor, University of Houston (tenure track) Published: Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011) |
| Sandra Sandiford Young | Dissertation Title: “A Different Journey: John Brown Russwurm, 1799-1851” Advisor: Andrew Bunie Position: Associate Director, African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College |
2002-2003
| Stephanie Kermes | Dissertation Title: “New England’s America: Transatlantic Protestantism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in the Early Republic, 1789-1825” Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: Assistant Professor of Social Science, Boston University (tenure track) Published: Creating an American Identity: New England, 1789-1825 (Palgrave, 2008) |
| Krister Knapp | Dissertation Title: “To the Summerland: William James, Psychical Research, and Modernity” Advisor: Alan Lawson Position: Lecturer, Washington University |
| Lawrence Lamphere | Dissertation Title: “Paul Robeson, Freedom Newspaper, and the Black Press” Advisor: Andrew Bunie |
| Nadia Smith | Dissertation Title: "A 'Manly Study’? Irish Women Historians as Public Intellectuals, 1868-1949” Advisor: Kevin O’Neill Position: Instructor, Boston College Published: Dorothy Macardle: A Life (Dublin: Woodfield Press, 2007) A "Manly Study"?: Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949 (Palgrave, 2007) |
2001-2002
| James Bidwell | Dissertation Title: “In the Service of the State: The Bavarian Volksschul and Nation Building, 1800-1870” Advisor: John Heineman Position: Assistant Professor, Anna Maria College, Worcester, MA (tenure track) |
| Michael Bonislawski | Dissertation Title: “Field Organizers and the United Electrical Workers: A Labor of Love, Struggle, and Commitment, 1935-1960” Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Salem State College |
| Daniel Breen | Dissertation Title: “Henry J. Friendly and the Pragmatic Tradition in American Law” Advisor: Alan Lawson Position: Assistant Professor, Newbury College (tenure track) |
| Heather Fryer | Dissertation Title: “Enclosed Worlds in Open Space: Federal Communities and Social Experience in the American West” Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Associate Professor, Creighton University Published: Perimeters of Democracy: Inverse Utopias and the Wartime Social Landscape in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2010) |
| Laura McNeil | Dissertation Title: “Land, Labor, and Liberation: Michael Davitt and the Irish Question in the Era of British Democratic Land Reform, 1878-1906” Advisor: Kevin O’Neill Position: Assistant Professor, Elms College (tenure track) |
| John Mackey | Dissertation Title: “Producing the Christian Body in Victorian England” Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Boston University |
| Suzanne McCormack | Dissertation Title: “'These Are Our Demands': Independent Diplomats and Antiwar Activists in the Vietnam-Era Peace Movement” Advisor: Carol Petillo Position: Assistant Professor, Community College of Rhode Island (tenure track) Published: Suzanne Kelley McCormack and Elizabeth R. Mock, editors; Hanoi Journal 1967 by Carol Cohen McEldowney (Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007) |
| Bridgette Sheridan | Dissertation Title: “Childbirth, Midwifery, and Science: The Life and Work of the French Royal Midwife Louis Bourgeois (1563-1636)” Advisor: Virginia Reinburg Position: Assistant Professor, Wheelock College (tenure track) |
| Mark Stansbury | Dissertation Title: “Collected Works. Spolia and Latin Textual Culture, 500-900” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway Published: Co-author, Servius’ Commentary on Book Four of Virgil’s Aeneid: An Annotated Translation (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004), with Christopher McDonough and Richard E. Prior |
| Thomas Wheatland | Dissertation Title: “Isolation, Assimilation and Opposition: A Reception History of the Horkheimer Circle in the United States, 1934-1979” Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Assistant Professor, Assumption College (tenure track) Published: The Frankfurt School in Exile (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, April 2009) |
2000-2001
| R. Bentley Anderson, S.J. | Dissertation Title: “'Norman Francis is a Negro': Race, Religion, and Catholic Higher Education in New Orleans, 1947-1957” Advisor: Andrew Bunie Position: Associate Professor, Saint Louis University Published: Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956 (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) |
| Robert Bellinger | Dissertation Title: “The Hope of the Race: African Americans at White Colleges and Universities, 1890-1915” Advisor: Andrew Bunie Position: Associate Professor and Director of Black Studies, Suffolk University |
| Bernard Carpenter | Dissertation Title: “A Punishment in Search of a Crime: Murder and the Death Penalty in Postwar Britain, 1945-1970” Advisor: James Cronin Position: Chair of History Department, Providence Academy (Minnesota) |
| Mary Conley | Dissertation Title: “From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Images and Identities of British Naval Men, 1870-1918” Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross Published: From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918 (Manchester University Press, 2009) |
| Doreen Drury | Dissertation Title: “'Experimentation on the Male Side': Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Pauli Murray's Quest for Love and Identity, 1910-1960” Advisor: Carol Petillo Position: Senior Lecturer, University of Massachusetts at Boston |
| Leeann Lane | Dissertation Title: “George William Russell (AE): Anglo-Irish Spokesman” Advisor: Kevin O’Neill Position: Head of the School of Humanities, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University |
| Kathryn Mapstone | Dissertation Title: “Anglo-Saxons in the Print and Polemic of Tudor England” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Professor and Chair of History and Social Sciences, Bunker Hill Community College |
| Mike Roberto | Dissertation Title: “Paradox and Practice: Karl Marx's Concept of Progress” Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Assistant Professor, North Carolina A&T State University (tenure track) |
| Daniella Sarnoff | Dissertation Title: “In the Cervix of the Nation: Women in French Fascism, 1919-1939” Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Program Director, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Center |
| Michael Sullivan | Dissertation Title: “Cultural Medievalism: the Image of the Middle Ages in Modern French Thought, 1750-1870” Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Financial Planner, Merrill Lynch |
1999-2000
| Patricia Halpin | Dissertation Title: “The Religious Experience of Women in Anglo-Saxon England” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: History Teacher, Wayland High School (Massachusetts) |
| Lynn Hartnett | Dissertation Title: “Perpetual Exile: The Dynamics of Gender, Protest and Violence in the Revolutionary Life of Vera Figner (1852-1917)” Advisor: Roberta Manning Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Villanova University |
| Ann Holder | Dissertation Title: “Making the Body Politic: Narratives of Race, Sexuality and Citizenship in the United States, 1864-1909” Advisor: Judith Smith Position: Associate Professor, Pratt Institute |
| Tim Kenslea | Dissertation Title: “No Small Surrender: The Courtship and Engagement of Harry Sedgwick and Jane Minot” Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: History Teacher, Xaverian High School (Massachusetts) Published: The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic (University Press of New England, 2006) |
| William Leonard | Dissertation Title: “Vigor in Arduis: A History of Boston’s African-American Catholic Community, 1788-1988” Advisor: Andrew Bunie Position: Associate Professor, Emmanuel College |
| Michael Paul | Dissertation Title: “A Complicated Business: The Pentagon Talks, 1947--A Case Study in Anglo-American Cooperation in the Early Cold War” Advisors: Peter Weiler, Carol Petillo Position: Instructor, Framingham State College |
| Christine Senecal | Dissertation Title: “The Regional Aristocracy of Late Anglo-Saxon England” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Associate Professor, Shippensburg University |
| Kevin Spicer, CSC | Dissertation Title: “Choosing between God and Satan: The German Catholic Clergy of Berlin and the Third Reich” Advisor: John Heineman Position: Associate Professor, Stonehill College Published: Resisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler's Berlin (Northern Illinois University Press, 2004) |
| Karine Uge | Dissertation Title: “Politics of Narrative Production: Monastic Historiography in Flanders, Ninth-Eleventh Century” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Free University of Brussels Published: Creating the Monastic Past in Medieval Flanders (York, 2005) |
| John White | Dissertation Title: “The Knock Apparitions and Pilgrimage: Popular Piety and the Irish Land War” Advisor: Kevin O’Neill |
1998-1999
| Dora Dumont | Dissertation Title: “Politics and the Popolo Minuto: Collective Action in Bologna, 1796-1860” Advisor: James Cronin Position: Associate Professor & Chair of History Department, State University of New York at Oneonta |
| Peter Fraunholtz | Dissertation Title: “Senate Intervention and Local Control in Russia, 1917-1921: Grain Procurement Politics in Penza Province” Advisor: Roberta Manning Position: Librarian, Harvard University; Lecturer, Northeastern University |
| Christopher Hannan | Dissertation Title: “'After This Time of Trouble and War?’ Crisis and Continuity in the New England Anglo-Indian Community, 1660-1725” Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: Associate Professor, Massachusetts Maritime Academy |
| Scott McGee | Dissertation Title: “'Land in the Enlightened Imagination': From Astrobiology to Commodification--Agrarian Debates in 18th-Century Italy” |
| Steven O’Brien | Dissertation Title: “Blackrobe in Blue: The Naval Chaplaincy of John P. Foley, S.J., 1942-1946” Advisor: Thomas O’Connor Position: Instructor, Bridgewater State College |
| Wendy Pojmann | Dissertation Title: “Autonomy, Authority and the Politics of Parity: Women’s Associations in Post-War Italy” Advisor: James Cronin Position: Associate Professor, Siena College Published: Immigrant Women and Feminism in Italy (Ashgate, 2006) |
| Margaret Preston | Dissertation Title: “The Unobtrusive Classes of the Meritorious Poor: Gentlewomen, Social Control, and the Language of Charity in 19th-Century Dublin” Advisor: Kevin O’Neill Position: Associate Professor, Augustana College Published: Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin (Praeger, 2004) |
| Elizabeth Wengler | Dissertation Title: “Women, Religion, and Reform in 16th-Century Geneva” Advisor: Virginia Reinburg Position: Associate Professor, College of Saint Benedict |
| Thomas Whalen | Dissertation Title: “Evening the Score: John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race” Advisor: Thomas O’Connor Position: Associate Professor of Social Sciences, College of General Studies, Boston University Published: A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage (Ivan R. Dee, 2007) Dynasty’s End: Bill Russell and the 1968-69 World Champion Boston Celtics (Northeastern University Press, 2005) Kennedy Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race (Northeastern University Press, 2000) |
1997-1998
| John Ellis | Dissertation Title: “Unity and Diversity: Ethnicity and British National Identity, 1899-1918” Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Associate Professor, University of Michigan at Flint (tenure track) Published: Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969 (University of Wales Press, 2007) |
| Jack Every | Dissertation Title: “'In the Name of our Fathers': Abraham Lincoln and the Renaissance of America’s Founding Fathers” Advisor: Thomas O'Connor Position: Associate Professor, Community College of Rhode Island |
| Barry Knowlton | Dissertation Title: “The Linguistic Turn and the Discipline of History” Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Assistant Professor, Stonehill College |
| Erin O’Connor | Dissertation Title: “Dueling Patriarchies: Gender, Indians and State Formation in the Ecuadorian Sierra, 1860-1925” Advisor: Kevin O'Neill Position: Associate Professor, Bridgewater State College Published: Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830–1925 (University of Arizona Press, 2007) |
| Ronald Patkus | Dissertation Title: “A Community in Transition: Boston Catholics, 1815-1845” Advisor: Thomas O’Connor Position: Associate Director of the Libraries for Special Collections and Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Vassar College |
1996-1997
| Andrew Altman | Dissertation Title: “Motoring for the Masses? Cars and Class in Pre-1950 Britain” Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Founder, Andrew Altman Web Design |
| Anni Baker | Dissertation Title: “Unsere Amerikanischen Freude? Wiesbaden and the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam Era” Advisor: Carol Petillo Position: Associate Professor, Wheaton College Published: Life in the U.S. Armed Forces: (Not) Just Another Job (Praeger, 2007) American Soldiers Overseas: The Global Military Presence (Praeger, 2004) |
| Mary Frances (Smith) Giandrea | Dissertation Title: “Episcopal landholding, lordship and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Professor, American University (tenure track) Published: Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England (York, 2006) |
| Judith Giesberg | Dissertation Title: “‘The truest patriots’: the United States sanitary commission and women’s reform in transition, 1861-1865” Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly Position: Assistant Professor, Villanova University (tenure track) Published: Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women 's Politics in Transition (Northeastern University Press, 2000) |
| Judith S. Graham | Dissertation Title: “Domestic Duty: The Family Life of Samuel Sewall, 1675-1729” Advisor: Alan Rogers Position: Assistant Editor at the Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society Published: Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall (Northeastern University Press, 2000) |
| Nicholas Rowe | Dissertation Title: “Romans and Carthaginians in the eighteenth century: imperial ideology and national identity in Britain and France during the Seven Years’ War” Advisor: Larry Wolff Position: Head of School of Culture and Education, St. Augustine College |
Selected Earlier Graduates:
| Alexander Bloom | Chair and Professor of History, Wheaton College |
| William Chase | Chair and Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh |
| Michael B. Friedland | History Teacher, Seattle Urban Academy |
| Arch Getty | Professor, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Richard Immerman | Chair and Professor of History, Temple University |
| Violet Johnson | Chair and Professor of History, Agnes Scott College |
| Published: The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950 | |
| Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook | Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education, Claremont School of Theology |
| Mark O’Connor | Director, Honors Program, Boston College |
| James O’Toole | Professor, Boston College |
| Susan Vorderer | Associate Professor & Chair of History Department, Merrimack College |