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: Bielakowski, Rae
Advisor: Galush, William J.
Dissertation title: "'You Are in the World': Catholic Campus Life at Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein College, and DePaul University, 1923-85"
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: DeMonte, Alexandra E.
Advisor: Hirsch, Susan E.
Dissertation title: “With Sisterhood: Catholic Feminist Activsm, 1953-1989”
Dissertator: Donnelly, Andrew J.
Advisor: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Dissertation title: “Food and Society in Late Antique and Early Medieval Italy”
Dissertator: Fritz, Angela
Advisor: Hirsch, Susan E.
Dissertation title: "Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women_s Work, 1912-52"
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: Grogan, L. Jon
Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore
Dissertation title: “Men of Passion: Tarleton Bates and the Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier”
Dissertator: Hoffman Ransford, Elizabeth M.
Advisor: Mooney-Melvin, Patricia
Dissertation title: “Sacred Spaces, Public Spaces: The Place of Churches in the Neighborhood Fabric of Chicago’s Uptown, 1889-1929”
Dissertator: Jolet, Brian
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy
Dissertation title: “Wet Chicago: Speakeasies, Informal Economies, and the Creation of New Deal Culture”
Dissertator: Kaufmann, Kevin
Advisor: Erenberg, Lewis A.
Dissertation title: "Rigorous Honesty: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Culture of Commitment, 1935-55"
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: 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: Matelski, Elizabeth M.
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: “The Color(s) of Perfection: The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970”
Dissertator: Myers, Jason R.
Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore
Dissertation title:"“A Land Fit for Heroes”?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914"
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: Reynolds, Maria
Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore
Dissertation title:“Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the People, the Park, and the Landscape”
Dissertator: Scott, Cord
Advisor: Erenberg, Lewis
Dissertation title:“Comics and Conflict: Perceptions of US Conflicts in Comic Books from World War II through Iraqi Freedom”
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: Shprintzen, Adam D.
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: “Poets of Bran and Pumpkins”: Vegetarians, Reform and the Waning of Radicalism in America, 1820-1910”
Dissertator: Stewart, Adam
Advisor: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Dissertation title: "American Zionism, 1930-50"
