Dissertations in Progress

Sonya M. Barclay, "Reading The Social Landscape: A Lexicon of Rural Class in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1860."
Advisor: Sandage

Alex Bennett, "The Discovery and Treatment of Juvenile Drug Use in Post-World War II Los Angeles."
Advisor: Acker

Laurence M. Burke, II, "What To Do With the Airplane? Determining the Role of the Airplane in the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, 1908-1930."
Advisor: Hounshell

Katherine Chilton, "Gender, Labor, and Family during Slavery and the Transition to Freedom in the District of Columbia, 1820-1875."
Advisor: Hunter

Deirdre Clemente, "From Snobs to Slobs: Collegiate Culture and the Transformation of the American Wardrobe, 1900-1960."
Advisor: Sandage

Yan Gao, "Transforming the Water Regime: State, Society, and Ecology in the Middle Yangzi Region, 1796-1937."
Advisor: Sutton

Peter Gilmore, "Rebels and Revivals: Ulster Immigrants, Western Pennsylvania Presbyterianism and the Formation of Scotch-Irish Identity, 1770-1850."
Advisor: Miller

Lisa Margot Johnson, "Roots of Struggle: The African American Fight for Environmental Justice in the Post War Rural South, 1940-2000."
Advisor: Hunte

Ruth Kittner, "Becoming Buff and Blue: Identity Transformation in the Mediatized Territories, The Case of Uberlingen 1790-1820."
Advisor: Harsch

Jessica Klanderud, "Street Wisdom: African American Cultural and Community Transformations on the Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1918-1970."
Advisor: Trotter

Lindsay K. McKenzie, "Grinding Rogues Honest and Idle Men Industrious,' Convict Labor at Joliet Penitentiary, 1853-1933."
Advisor: Trotter

Cian McMahon, "Did the Irish Become White? Race and Migration in Ireland, Australia, and the United States, 1842-1877."
Advisor: Miller

Michelle Mock, "Home Cooking: American Kitchen Technologies from Producer to Consumer, 1900-1950."
Advisor: Sandage

Jason Thomas Morgan, "Paramilitaries and their Communities in Northern Ireland, 1968-1978."
Advisor: Miller

Shera A. Moxley, "Designer Drugs: The Quest for a Rational Therapeutics in the Biotechnology Era, 1973-1997."
Advisor: Acker

Mary Nash, "Living for the City: Music, Race and Labor in Chicago, 1930-1980."
Advisor: Trotter

Jessie B. Ramey, "Contested Childhood: Black and White Orphans, Poor Families, and Institutional Childcare in Pittsburgh, 1877-1929."
Advisor: Hunter

John Gordon Robertson "Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Opportunity?: Civil War Reenlistment and the Right to Rise."
Advisor: Sandage

Brian Robick, "Blight: An Examination of the Development of a Contested Concept in Pittsburgh and Hamilton, 1945–1990."
Advisor: Tarr

Susan V. Spellman, "Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers, Customers, and the Challenge to Small Business, 1860-1930."
Advisor: Sandage

David Struthers, "The World in a City: Transnational and Inter-Racial Organizing in Los Angeles, 1900-1930."
Advisor: Trotter

Oana Suditu, "Collective Farm and Peasant Household Economy in the Stalinist 1930s."
Advisor: Goldman

Germaine Williams, "(Re)Culturing the City: Race, Urban Development, and Arts Policy in Chicago, 1943-2009."
Advisor: Trotter and Schachter

Patrick Zimmerman, "Domesticated Nationalism: Asturian Regionalism and Cultural Politics since the Spanish Transition, 1974-2008."
Advisor: Maddox

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