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Dissertations from 2023
Freedom’s Bonds: Black Women’s Intimate Relationships in the Reconstruction South, Heather R. Brinn, History
The City is Ours: Black Political Power and the Struggle Against Police Brutality in Postwar Newark, Andrew Grim, History
"We Poor Negro Women Have to Work": African American Women Domestic Workers in Texas, 1900-1940, Camesha Scruggs, History
From (Un)known to Known: Biography, Archives, and the Methods of Modern U.S. Women’s History, Gina Talley, History
From a Culture of Poverty to a Culture of Property: Preservation and Urban Crisis in the "City of Homes", Brian F. Whetstone, History
Dissertations from 2022
Grassroots Diplomacy, Warrior Femininity, and Intersectional Sisterhood during the French and American Wars in Vietnam (1945-1975), Adeline Broussan, History
Social Connections and Memory Dimensions: A Layered Portrait of a Twentieth-Century Art Network, Jenna Marie Febrizio, History
"The Capstone of My Education": Black Women, Student Power, and the Freedom Struggle in Higher Education, Brittany M. Frederick, History
Reclaiming the Past: The Legacy of National Socialism in Northern Germany, Sarah Lavallee, History
BEYOND THE SOUTH: THE TELFAIR FAMILY, SLAVERY, AND THE ANTEBELLUM ONE PERCENT, Charles A. Weisenberger III, History
Dissertations from 2021
STARS, BARS, AND STRIPES: A HISTORY OF INCARCERATED VETERANS SINCE THE VIETNAM WAR, Jason A. Higgins, History
Dissertations from 2020
EXPORTING THE 1978-79 REVOLUTION: PAN-ISLAMIC OR SECTARIAN, Mohammad Ataie, History
Sailing Illicit Voyages: Colonial Smuggling Operations between North America and the West Indies, 1714-1776, Carl A. Herzog, History
Dissertations from 2019
Hashtag Holocaust: Negotiating Memory in the Age of Social Media, Erica Fagen, History
A Generational Divide: The Reconstruction of American Party Politics, 1865-1912, Christopher Fobare, History
ABOLITION AND ACADEME: STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM AND EQUALITY AT BRITISH AND AMERICAN COLLEGES, 1742-1855, Michael E. Jirik, History
“GREETINGS, I AM AN IMMORTAL GOD!”: READING, IMAGINATION, AND PERSONAL DIVINITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY, 2ND – 5TH CENTURIES CE, Mark Roblee, History
Dissertations from 2018
A TANGLED WEB: QUAKERS AND THE ATLANTIC SLAVE SYSTEM 1625 – 1770., Kate Freedman, History
"No Seas Can Now Divide Us": Captains' Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New England Whalefishery, 1840-1870, Amanda L. Goodheart, History
Literary Culture in Early Christian Ireland: Hiberno-Latin Saints’ Lives as a Source for Seventh-Century Irish History, John Higgins, History
Creating a Symbol of Science: The Development of a Standard Periodic Table of the Elements, Ann Robinson, History
Dissertations from 2017
Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History, Dan Allosso, History
And Liberty For All: Geechee Culture and the Black Freedom Struggle in Liberty County, Georgia, 1752-1946, Felicia Jamison, History
The Socialist Devout: Religious Orders and the Making of an East German Catholic Community, Kathryn Julian, History
Fantasy Frontier: Old West Theme Parks and Memory in California, Amanda Tewes, History
Dissertations from 2016
Nixon's War on Terrorism: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Watergate, Daniel S. Chard, History
“If There Are Men Who Are Afraid to Die, There Are Women Who Are Not”: African American Women's Civil Rights Leadership in Boston, 1920-1975., Julie de Chantal, History
Rights in Property and Property in Rights: Privacy, Contract and Ownership of the Body in Anglo-American Political and Constitutional Thought, Gary L. Garrison, History
Theatre Women and Cultural Diplomacy in the Transatlantic Anglophone World (1752-1807), Sandra Perot, History
Dissertations from 2015
“Nantucket Women”: Public Authority and Education in the Eighteenth Century Nantucket Quaker Women’s Meeting and the Foundation for Female Activism, Jeffrey D. Kovach, History
"'We Began the Contest for Liberty Ill Provided': Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775-1783", Seanegan P. Sculley, History
Dissertations from 2014
Engineering Victory: The Ingenuity, Proficiency, and Versatility of Union Citizen Soldiers in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War, Thomas F. Army Jr, History
DISCOVERING BRAZIL IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRANCE, 1930-1964: FRANCO-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE ERA OF DECOLONIZATION, Andrew R. Dausch, History
ALL-AMERICAN VACATIONLAND: AFRICAN AMERICAN, PUERTO RICAN, AND ITALIAN RESORTS IN THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, 1920-1980, Laura A. Miller, History
The Oirad of the Early 17th Century: Statehood and Political Ideology, Richard P. Taupier, History
Dissertations from 2013
The Making of Ras Beirut: A Landscape of Memory for Narratives of Exceptionalism, Maria B. Abunnasr, History
Sweating Femininity: Women Athletes, Masculine Culture, and American Inequality from 1930 to the Present, Michella Mary Marino, History
Dissertations from 2012
Woodrow Wilson's Conversion Experience: The President and the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment, Beth Behn, History
Dissertations from 2011
Nationalism & The Politics Of Historical Memory: Charlemagne Peratle’s Rebellion Against U.S. Occupation Of Haiti, 1915-1986, Yveline Alexis, History
"The Lover’s Instructor": Courtship Advice In Anglo-America, 1640-1830, Carolyn May Barske, History
Dissertations from 2010
Seeking Shakers: Two Centuries of Visitors to Shaker Villages, Brian L. Bixby, History
Fighting For the Nation: Military Service, Popular Political Mobilization and the Creation of Modern Puerto Rican National Identities: 1868-1952, Harry Franqui, History
The Preservation Of Iroquois Thought: J. N. B. Hewitt’s Legacy Of Scholarship For His People, Kathryn Lavely Merriam, History
A Stitch In Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America, Aimee E. Newell, History
Becoming Union Square: Struggles For Legitimacy In Nineteenth-Century New York, Michael D Shapiro, History
Dissertations from 2009
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Parabolic drama and the question of absurdity, Michael Y Bennett
Before the Second Wave: College Women, Cultural Literacy, Sexuality and Identity, 1940--1965, Babette Faehmel, History
The cartography of borders in Ana Teresa Torres’s “Doña Inés Vs. Oblivion”, Maria Figuera
The abject of my affection: "Heimosexuality" in German texts and films, Kyle E Frackman
Der Wenderoman: Definition eines genres, Anne Hector
American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism In The Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed, History
On the threshold: Placing servants in modernist domesticity, Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Dissertations from 2008
A tutelazo limpio: A story of the struggle for identity and rights in Colombia and the demobilizing effect of the law, Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas
A life history of Dr. Nettie Webb: Possibilities and perspectives from a life committed to education, Paige M Bray
Allegory, history and fiction in the works of Alejo Carpentier and José Saramago, Gloria Alicia Caballero-Roca
La representación de la enfermedad y el dolor en la narrativa peninsular y latinoamericana desde el siglo XIX hasta el presente, Camelly Cruz-Martes
Brazilian women writers in English: Translation of culture and gender in works by Clarice Lispector, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Ana Maria Machado, Lilian Passos Wichert Feitosa
Coming into clover: Ireland and the Irish in early American cinema, 1895–1917, Peter Flynn
From infancy to death? An examination of the African burial ground in relation to Christian eighteenth century beliefs, Ruth Annette Mathis
The grace of effort: Studies in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean form, Nicole Catherine Matos
City of amalgamation: Race, marriage, class and color in Boston, 1890–1930, Zebulon V Miletsky
The hills of home : environmental identity in the rural north, 1815-1860/, Jill, Mudgett, History
Beyond the Caribbean, the Afro Hispanic difference in continental Spanish American literature: Memory, transatlantic journey, slavery, and rebellion in three contemporary Afro Hispanic novels, Rosario Montelongo de Swanson
Specters of war: Reclamation, recovery, and return in southeast Asian -American literature and history, Bunkong Tuon
Mothers and motherhood in the Middle English romances, Ju Ok Yoon
Dissertations from 2007
Performing fiction: The inward turn of postcolonial discourse in anglophone Caribbean fiction, Carol Y Bailey
Historical erasure and cultural recovery: Indigenous people in the Connecticut River Valley, Margaret M Bruchac
The Northamerican metaphor: Film, literature, and society in the chronicles of Elisa Lerner, Cecilia Cuesta-Velez
Brussel - Bruxelles - Brussel: Brussels in the Flemish literary mirror from 1830 to 1932, Caroline M. P. C Dothee
Re -viewing the Holocaust through a new lens: Memory, language, and identity in the autobiographical texts of Cordelia Edvardson, Ruth Klüger, and Elizabeth Trahan, Lauren Levine Enzie
Children of the socialist paradise: Redefining social and esthetic values in post Cold -War Cuban cinema, Enrique Garcia
New history, new language: Biblical intertextuality in the poetry of Rahel Bluvshtain, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller
"Something energetic and spirited" :: Massachusetts Federalists, rational politics, and political economy in the age of Jefferson, 1805-1815/, Dinah, Mayo-Bobee, History
A mission to a mad county :: black determination, white resistance and educational crisis in Prince Edward County, Virginia/, Jill L. Ogline, History
Ontogeny and life history of shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur 1818): Effects of latitudinal variation and water temperature, Erika L Parker
Burnings and blessings :: the cultural reality of the supernatural across early modern spaces/, Thomas J. Rushford, History
Not even past: Race and commemoration in a southern city, Katherine D Walker
Dissertations from 2006
Living politics by awakening history: A critical approach to Walter Benjamin through Sigmund Freud, Alex Betancourt-Serrano
By a gentle force compell'd: An analysis of rape in eighteenth-century English fact and fiction, Stephen M Constantine
Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction, Sandra Caona Duvivier
Courage under fire: African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality, David A Goldberg
La humanización de lo perverso: Erotismo y subversión en la obra de Mayra Santos Febres, Jeandelize B Gonzalez Rivera
Mobility and home: Shifting constructions of gender, race, and nationality in Chinese diasporic literature, Shuchen Susan Huang
A poesia portuguesa dos anos 30 aos anos 70: Mário Henrique Leiria inédito, Tania A Martuscelli
Not in this family :: gays and the family of origin in North America, 1945-1990s/, Heather, Murray, History
Child abuse in contemporary children's literature: A critical multicultural analysis, Albertina Navarro Rios
Unpacking the suitcases they carried: Narratives of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations to the northeastern United States, Victoria Nunez
Towards a transnational aesthetics: Literary displacement and translation as a transnational narrative space, Seonjoo Park
American ideal: Theodore Roosevelt and the redefinition of American individualism, Paul M Rego
The "Negro market" and the Black freedom movement in New York City, 1930-1965, Julia L. Sandy-Bailey, History
Pledging transnational allegiances: Nationhood, selfhood, and belonging in Jewish American and Asian American immigrant narratives, Cathy J Schlund-Vials
“We're the people”: Realism, mass culture, and popular front pluralism, 1935–1946, Christopher R Vials
Der 20. Juli 1944 auf der Buehne, Susanne M Wagner
Dissertations from 2005
The psychodynamics of white racism: An historical exploration of white racial pathology as elicited by prizefighters Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali, Michal Louise Beale
Demonizing esotericism: The treatment of spirituality and popular culture in the works of Gustav Meyrink, Amanda Charitina Boyd