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Each year, ´óÏó´«Ã½ bestows PhD degrees on candidates who go on to enter a variety of career fields in the academic departments, public history avenues, among many other fields.  From 2000 through 2022, 99 students received ´óÏó´«Ã½ doctoral degrees in History.  Of the 99 recipients, 28 currently hold tenure-track appointments, 33 others hold full-time teaching or administrative appointments in educational institutions, and 38 others hold full-time positions in public history or cultural institutions or in a variety of employment settings.

2025

 
PhD Public History/American History 
Dissertation Title: The De Mau Mau Conspiracy: The Specter of Black Vietnam Veterans in the Exercise of Police Power, 1968-1974
Dissertation Director: Dr. Edin Hajdarpasic

Digital Oral History Archivist - Consultant, National Indo American Museum 

PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: In Living Memory: Curatorial Perspectives of Jewish Heritage in Holocaust Public Histories
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Assistant Professor of History & Public History, University of Nebraska at Kearney

2024

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

2023

2022

2021

2020

PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: “An Environmental Sleight of Hand": Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990
Dissertation Director: Dr. Elliott Gorn

Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator, Midwest Collaborative for Library Sciences,

PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation: Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Assistant Professor of Practice, History Department, Texas State University

2019

2018

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: “Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845
Dissertation Director: Dr. Kyle Roberts

L. Russell Feakes Associate Professor of the History of Global Christianity, New Brunswick Theological Seminary

2017

PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: She Shot Him Dead: The Criminalization of Women and the Struggle over Social Order in Chicago, 1871-1919
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Co-Founder and Public Historian,

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Love and Loyal Actions: Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Director of Research, Investigative Research Inc.

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500–1800
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Director, Historical Initiative, Sigma Chi Foundation

Otis Eliot Pope
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans
Dissertation Director: Dr. Christopher Manning

Upper School History Teacher, 

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Racial Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

JD Candidate, WashU Law

Marisol Rivera
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983
Dissertation Director: Dr. Christopher Manning

Assistant Professor of History/Political Science, Elgin Community College

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Pancho Gonzales' Racket: Citizenship and Celebrity in the Creation of Modern Tennis
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Social Studies Instructor, River Oaks Baptist School

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America
Dissertation Director: Dr. Michelle Nickerson

Associate Professor of History, San Antonio College

2016

Melissa Cushing-Davis
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: A Fire That Could Not Be Extinguished: Sovereignty and Identity in the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 1634-1994
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Operations Manager, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Cuneo Museum and Gardens

Anthony Di Lorenzo
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800
Dissertation Director: Dr. John Donoghue

Assistant Professor of American History, Savannah State University

Andrew Donnelly
PhD Classical History
Dissertation Title: Cooking, Cooking Pots, and Cultural Transformation in Imperial and Late Antique Italy
Dissertation Director: Dr. Leslie Dossey

Assistant Professor, Texas Tech Univeristy

Erin Feichtinger
Dissertation Title: Remains to be Seen: Execution and Embodiment in the Early English Atlantic World
Dissertation Directors: Dr. John Donoghue and Dr. Robert Bucholz

Best Practices Coordinator, Alliance for Better Omaha

Peter Kotowski
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: 'The Best Poor Man's Country?': William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania
Dissertation Director: Dr. John Donoghue

Director of Prospect Development, University of Denver

Jeffrey Wing
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Olympic Bids, Professional Sports, and Urban Politics: Four Decades of Stadium Planning in Detroit, 1936-1975
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Academic Advisor, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business

2015

Devin Hunter
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Growing Diversity: Urban Renewal, Community Activism, and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in Uptown Chicago, 1940-1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Assistant Professor of American and Public History, University of Illinois at Springfield

Daniel O'Gorman
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Institution and Identity: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the Pre-Conquest Century
Dissertation DIrector: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Independent Historian

Daniel Ott
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Producing a Past: Cyrus McCormick's Reaper from Heritage to History
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Historian and Western Regions Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Project

Kirby Pringle
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Waiting on Hollywood: The Tale of an Italian Bit Player
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Instructor, Bakersfield College, Prison System Inmate Scholars Program

Joel Yoder
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Herbert Spencer and His American Audience
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Independent Historian 

2014

Audra Bellmore
Associate Professor and Curator, Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections, University of New Mexico
Adjunct Professor, Museum Studies Program, University of New Mexico
Chair, Regents Historic Preservation Committee, University of New Mexico

Dissertation: "English Cottage Style Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological, and Social Innovation"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Steven J. Catania
Online Training Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation:"Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bucholz

John Krenzke
Associate Professor of History, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach Campus 

Dissertation: "Change is Brewing: The Industrialization of the Brewing Industry in England, 1550-1750"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Kelly O'Connor
Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director, History Department, ´óÏó´«Ã½ 

Dissertation: "The Fashionable Life: Fashion Imagery and the Construction of Masculinity in America, 1960-2000" 
Advisor: Dr. Susan Hirsch

Stella Ress
Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana 

Dissertation: "Will You Love Me in December, As You Do in May?: Gold Diggers, Sugar Daddies, & Age-Disparate Relationships in the US, 1890-1950"
Advisors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Patrica Mooney-Melvin

2013

Domenico R. Ferri
Assistant Professor of History, Co-Chairperson, Social and Applied Sciences Department, Harold Washington College 

Dissertation: "Funk the Power: Unassimilated Blackness and Sound in the Post-King Era, 1968-1985"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Elizabeth Fraterrigo

Patrick R. Mallory
Academic Dean, Business and Social Sciences, Meramec Campus of St. Louis Community College 

Dissertation: "The Game They All Played: Chicago Baseball 1876-1906"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Lecturer, History, Lake Forest College

Dissertation: "Feeling Like a Crusader: Crusader Affect and Crusade Theology 1095-1291"
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Jennifer Searcy
Director, Great Lakes Naval Museum, Great Lakes, IL
Dissertation: "The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago"
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Manning

Megan Stout Sibbel
Curator and Chief Historian, Salisbury House and Gardens, Des Moines, IA
Dissertation: "Sisters of the South: Roman Catholic Nuns in African American Communities, 1935-1970"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Albert W. Vogt III
Co-Founder, Of Historical Interest (a history consulting firm)
Dissertation: "The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928-1968"
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Manning

2012

Alexandra DeMonte Michaelides
User Experience Researcher at Flywheel, Bay Area, CA; Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts, San Franciso, CA
Dissertation: "Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1992"
Advisors: Dr. Timothy Gilfoye and Dr. Susan Hirsch

Associate Professor of US and Public History, North Park University
Dissertation: "Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Susan Garneau
Adjunct Professor, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chiago, IL; Instructor, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA
Dissertation: "Imprisoning Chicago: Incarceration, the Chicago City Council, Prisoners, and Reform, 1832-1915"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Thomas A. Greene
Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia
Dissertation: "Emotional Standards, Liturgical Celebration and the Monks of Saint-Germain (Auxerre), 840-908"
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Brian Jolet
Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
Dissertation: "Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy, 1919-1933"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Managing Partner, ORA Dental Studio-Gold Coast, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Transnational Nationalism & the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Ronald P. Martin
Director of Admissions, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Flowers in Chicago: Counterculture in Chicago in the 1960s"
Advisors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2011

Stephen C. Bruner
Dissertation: "Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism:  Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission"
Advisor: Dr. Anthony Cardoza

Kevin Kaufmann
Undergraduate Research Program Manager, Center of Experiential Learning, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Rigorous Honesty: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1960"
Advisors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Harold Platt

Elizabeth Matelski
Assistant Professor of History, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Dissertation: "The Color(s) of Perfection:  The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as  (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Maria F. Reynolds
Historic Interpreter and Curator, Staatsburgh State Historic Site, Staatsburg, NY
Dissertation: "Doing History in the Adirondacks:  Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Cord A. Scott
Professor, University of Maryland Global Campus
Dissertation: "Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom (US Naval Institute Press, 2014).

Adam D. Shprintzen
Associate Professor of History, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Dissertation: "Abstention to Consumption: The Development of American Vegetarian Identity, 1817-1917"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 (UNC Press, 2015).

2010

Angela Fritz
PhD Public History/American History
Administrator, Division of Collections and State Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
Dissertation: "Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, A Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952"
Advisor: Dr. Susan Hirsch

L. Jon Grogan
VP, Lead Sourcing Specialist, PNC Financial Group
Dissertation: "From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and the Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Writer and Editor, Ransford and Associates
Dissertation: "Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Jason R. Myers
Content Strategist and Copywriter, Plum Voice, Denver, CO
Dissertation: "'A Land Fit for Heroes'?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski
Published as  (Academica Press, 2012).

2009

Rae M. Bielakowski
Freelance Writer/Editor
Dissertation: "You Are in the World: Catholic Campus Life at ´óÏó´«Ã½, Mundelein College, and De Paul University, 1924-1950"
Advisor: Dr. William Galush

Public Affairs Team Lead, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Tourist Attractions, Souvenirs, and Civil War Memory in Chicago, 1861-1915"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Kirsten M. DeVries
Associate Instructor of English, Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, VA
Dissertation: "Episcopal Identity in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 397-700"
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Marc A. Dluger
Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director, Public History and Historic Preservation Certificate Program, Northern Virginia Community College
Dissertation:  "A Regimental Community: The Men of the 82nd Illinois Infantry Before, During, and After the American Civil War"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore  Karamanski

Alfonzo Greene, Jr.
Associate Professor of History, Oakwood University
Dissertation: "[Black] Regional Conferences in the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) Compared with United Methodist [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Annual Conferences with White SDA Conferences, 1940-2001"
Advisors: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Paula Pfeffer

Troy Henderson
Michigan Iron Industry Museum, Neguanee, MI
Dissertation: "Shanty-boys, Lumberjacks, and Loggers: A Social and Cultural History of the Upper Great Lakes Woodsworkers"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Frances Howard Mitilineos
Instructor of History, Oakton Community College
Dissertation: "Christians and Jews in Thirteenth-Century England: Confrontation and Cooperation 1189-1290"
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

2008

President, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA
Dissertation: "Religion and Reformation: Johannes Justus Lansperger, O. Cart. (1489/90-1539) and the Sixteenth-Century 'Religious' Question"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bireley, SJ

Michael Nicholsen
Associate Professor (tenure-track), Oakton Community College
Dissertation: "'Auld Sod' and New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868-1999"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Angela Schlater
Senior Cross-Foundation Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Flaming Youth: Gender in 1920s Hollywood"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Claudette Tolson
Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA
Dissertation: "The Excluded and the Included: Chicago, White Supremacy and the Clubwomen's Movement, 1873-1915"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Alan Zola
Instructor, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Dissertation: "Radbertus's Monastic Voice: Ideas about Monasticism at Ninth-Century Corbie"
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

2007

Patrick Jennings 
Chief, Programs and Education, National Museum of the United States Army
Dissertation: "Clio's Drumbeat: Gathering and Using History in Wartime"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Cranston Knight
Founder/Executive Director, Global Voices International: A Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Institute
Adjunct Professor of History, St. Augustine College
Board Member of the Chicago United Nations organization
Dissertation: "When War was no longer unthinkable: American Perception of and reaction to Japan prior to Pearl Harbor"
Advisor: Dr. Paula Pfeffer

Mark Long
Associate Dean for Academic Partnerships and Associate Professor of History, At Sea Education Association , Flamouth, MA
Dissertation: "Cultivating a New Order: Reconstructing Florida's Postbellum Frontier"
Advisor: Dr. Susan Hirsch

2006

Director, Medical Student Learning Environment, Univeristy of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Faculty, History Department, ´óÏó´«Ã½
Co-founder of the Teacher of Adult Education Seminars, The Newberry Library 
Dissertation: "Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler and Twentieth-Century America"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as,  (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Elizabeth Myers
PhD Public History/American History
Director of Special Collections, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Dissertation: "Burning Bras, Long Hairs & Dashikis:  The Personal Politics of American Culture, 1950-1975"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Jan Olive-Full
Owner, Tallgrass Historians L.L.C.
Dissertation: "Hinterland or Heartland: Survival of the Midwest Small Town, 1850-1990"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Justin Pettegrew
Assistant Professor, Shorter College, Rome, GA
Dissertation: "Onward Christian Soldiers: The Transformation of Religion, Masculinity, and Class in the Chicago YMCA, 1857-1933"
Advisors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Jason Stacy
Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Dissertation: "Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman's Three Personas in the New Market Economy"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as  (Peter Lang, 2008).

2005

Constance Buckley
Part-Time Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Lecturer, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Searching for Fort Dearborn: Perception, Commemoration and Celebration of an Urban Creation Memory"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Instructor and Department Chair, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Dissertation: "Imagining Chicago: The Role of Newspaper Columnists in Creating a City of the Mind, 1890-1930"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

 
Associate Professor of History, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Dissertation: "The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scottish Herring Fishery: The Effects of the 1707 Treaty of Union on the Scottish Economy and Early Modern Britain"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bucholz

PhD Public History/American History
Career Coach, Catherine Maybrey Coaching Services, Hamilton, Onatario
Dissertation: "From Onanism to Orgasm: Masturbation, Medicine and Gender in America, 1646-1960"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Andrew Witt
Associate Professor of History, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
Dissertation: "Picking Up the Hammer': The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party with Emphasis on the Milwaukee Branch, 1966-1977"
Advisor: Dr. Paula Pfeffer
Published as  (Routledge, 2007).

2004

Jerry L. Foust
PhD Public History/American History
Collections & Facilities Manager at Dumbarton House, Washington, D.C.; Adjunct Professor in Arts and Museums Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Dissertation: "Our Town, Their Town: Community and Tourism South Haven, Michigan, 1830-1930"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Associate Professor, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Entertainment for Men: Playboy, Masculinity and Postwar American Culture"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as  (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Associate Professor of Historical Studies and Director, Museum Studies Program, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Dissertation: "Meet Me at the Station: The Culture and Aesthetics of Chicago's Railroad Terminals, 1871-1930"
Advisor: Dr. Susan Hirsch

Associate Professor of History, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Dissertation: "Crossing Parochial Boundaries: African-Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago, 1914-1954"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as  (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Scott A. Newman
Dissertation: "Boundless Pleasures: Young Chicagoans, Commercial Amusements, and the Revitalization of Urban Life, 1900-1930"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Temple Tsenes-Hills
Adjunct Professor, Department of Education, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
Dissertation: "I am the Utterance of My Name:  Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893"
Advisor: Dr. Susan Hirsch
Published as I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893 (IUniverse, 2006).

2003

Rev. William T. Corcoran, Jr.
Dean, Archdiocese of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Pastor, St. Elizabeth Seton Parish Orland Hills, IL
Dissertation: "Imagining a Future: The Reassertion of Irish Identity"
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Associate Professor of History, Marian University, Fond du Lac, WI
Dissertation: "The Wicked Man shall not abide in my House: The Courts of the Verge and the English Monarchy, 1660-1760"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Anne Michele Wingenter
Assistant Professor, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Rome Center, Rome, Italy
Dissertation: "The Dead are Passing: The Association of Mothers and Widows of the 'Fallen' in Fascist Italy"
Advisor: Dr. Anthony Cardoza

2002

Malachy R. McCarthy, O.S.B
Archvist, Claretian Missionaries Archives, Catholic Library Association, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Which Christ Came to Chicago: Catholic and Protestant Programs to Evangelize, Socialize and Americanize the Mexican Immigrant, 1900-1940"
Advisor: Dr. Willam Galush

2001

Associate Professor, Central College of Iowa, Pella, IA
Dissertation: "More than a 'Slaving Wife': The Limits and Possibilities of Womanhood for Conservative Protestant College Women in the 1920s and 1930s"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

2000

Jeffrey T. Brierton
Principal, Concordia University, Chicago, IL; Adjunct Professor in Educational Leadership, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "War on Two Fronts Vietnam and the Heartland: A Study of the Effect of the Vietnam War on an American Community 1965-1973"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Michael O'Malley
Dissertation: "Local Relief during the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850: The Case of County Mayo" 
Advisor: Dr. Janet Nolan

1999

Paul Connors
Administrator, School Fiscal Accountability Division, Michigan Department of Treasury, Lansing, MI
Dissertation: "America's Emerald Isle: A Social History of the Irish of Beaver Island, Michigan, 1856-1945"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Dennis Cremin
History Professor, History Center Director, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Dissertation: "Building Chicago's Front Yard: Grant Park 1836 to 1936"
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Robert Karrow
Retired from Cartography Division, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Intellectual Foundations of the Cartographic Revolution"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bireley, S.J.

1997

Executive Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Professor of History, University of South Carolina, Sumpter, Sumpter, SC
Dissertation: "British-Israel: Racial Identity in Imperial Britain, 1870-1920"
Advisor: Dr. Jo Hays 

1996

David Blanke
Professor of History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
Dissertation: "Sowing the American Dream: Consumer Culture in the Rural Midwest, 1865-1900"
Advisor: Dr. Harold Platt
Published as  (Ohio University Press, 2000).

Associate Professor of History, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Dissertation: "The Occult Feminism of Margaret Cousins in Modern Ireland and India, 1878-1954"
Advisor: Dr. Janet Nolan

Mary J. Munsell Abroe 
Adjunct Lecturer in History, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Dissertation: "'All the Profound Scenes': Federal Preservation of Civil War Battlefields, 1861-1900"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski   

1995

Albert Slomovitz
Founder, Doctors of Equality: Reducing Racism and Prejudice, Atlant, GA
Dissertation: "'The Fighting Rabbis: A History of Jewish Military Chaplains, 1860-1945"
Advisor: Dr. William Galush

George Sochan
Professor of History and Government, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
Dissertation: "'The Cultural Role of Christianity in England, 1918-1931: An Anglican Perspective on State Education"
Advisor: Dr. Jo Hays

1994

Pietro Lorenzini
Adjunct Instructor of Criminal Justice, St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Tyranny of Stone: Economic Modernization and Political Radicalization in the Marble Industry of Massa-Carrara, 1859-1914"
Advisor: Dr. Anthony Cardoza

Erin McCarthy
Associate Professor, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Making Men: The Life and Career of Amos Alonzo Stagg, 1862-1933"
Advisor: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

John Morgan
Dissertation: "The Army of Catalonia Organization, Operations and Logistics, 1807-1814"
Advisor: Dr. Walter Gray

Kathleen Toerpe
Executive Director, JUST Door County, Door County, WI; Deputy CEO for Public Outreach and Education, Astrosociology Research Institute, Huntington Beach, CA
Dissertation: "'Small Fry, Big Spender: McDonald's and the Rise of a Children's Consumer Culture, 1955-1985"
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

1993

Mychal P. Angelos
Lawyer, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Herakleia Trachinia in the Archidamian War"
Advisor: Dr. George Szemler

1992

John Zimmerman
Dissertation: "'Church-State Relations in Antebellum Illinois"
Advisor: Dr. John Reardon

1991

Michael Murphy
Dissertation: "'Gerry Fitt: Ulster Politician"
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence McCaffrey

Andrew Wilson
Lecturer, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Irish-America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968-1985"
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence McCaffrey

Anie Sergis
Instructor, Alliance Française de Chicago, Chicago, IL; Part-Time Faculty, Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL; Adjunct Faculty, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Education in France During World War II"
Advisor: Dr. Walter Gray

1990

Brian Griffin
Adjunct History Faculty, ´óÏó´«Ã½, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'The Irish Police, 1836-1914: A Social History"
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence McCaffrey

1989

Professor, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Dissertation: "What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations 
Advisor: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as  (University of Kentucky, 1995).

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