Recent History Ph.D. Graduates
boston college
2012-2013
| Aniruddha Bose | Dissertation Title: "The Port of Calcutta (1860-1910): State Power, Technology, and Labor" Advisor: Prasannan Parthasarathi |
| Ian Delahanty | Dissertation Title: "Immigrants in a Time of Civil War: The Irish, Slavery, and the Union, 1845-1865" Advisor: Kevin Kenny |
| Katherine Hubler | Dissertation Title: "Man's Duty to Woman: Men and the First Wave of German Feminism, 1865-1919" Co-Advisors: Paul Breines and Devin Pendas |
| Austin Mason | Dissertation Title: “Listening to the Early Medieval Dead: Religious Practices in Eastern Britain, 400–900 CE” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College |
| Darren McDonald | Dissertation Title: "Crisis of Faith: Jimmy Carter, Religion, and the Making of U.S.-Middle East Foreign Policy" Advisor: Seth Jacobs |
| Ted Miller | Dissertation: "Mavericks of the Metroplex: Dallas Republicans, the Southern Strategy, and the American Right, 1952-1964" Advisor: Lynn Lyerly |
| John Spiers | Dissertation Title: "Managing Growth: Suburbanization and Environmental Protection in Metropolitan Washington Since 1970" Advisor: Marilynn Johnson |
2011-2012
| Hidetaka Hirota | Dissertation Title: "Nativism, Citizenship and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1837-1883" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College |
| 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 Instructor, Marian Court College |
2009-2010
| Jason Cavallari | Dissertation Title: "Upcast Eyes: Medico-Legal Discourse, Spectacle, and Deviance in France, 1870-1914" Advisor: Paul Breines Position: Associate Director, University Fellowships Committee, 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" |
| 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 |
| 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) |
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 |