Recent Dissertations in History
1995-2006

J. Trent Alexander, "Great Migrations: Race and Community in the Southern Exodus, 1917-1970," 2001.
Advisor: Trotter

Keith R. Allen, "Eating Out in the Age of Industry: Public Policy Toward Food in Berlin, 1870-1950," 1997.
Advisor: Harsch

Glen Asner, "The Cold War and American Industrial Research, 1945-1972," 2006.
Advisor: Hounshell

Steven Maurice Beaudoin, "'A Neutral Terrain': Public Assistance, Private Charity and the State in Third Republic Bordeaux, 1870-1914," 1996.
Advisor: Stearns

Jennifer Bannister, "From Laboratory to Living Room: The Development of Television in the United States, 1920-1960," 2001.
Advisor: Hounshell

Liping Bu, "Foreign Students and the Emergence of Modern International Education in the United States, 1910-1970," 1996.
Advisor: Schlossman

Thomas C. Buchanan, "The Slave Mississippi: African-American Steamboat Workers, Networks of Resistance, and the Commercial World of the Western Rivers, 1811-1880," 1999.
Advisor: Stearns

Carolyn Leonard Carson, "Healing Body, Mind and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," 1996.
Advisor: Stearns

Donald Earl Collins, "'A Substance of Things Hoped for': Multiculturalism, Desegregation and Identity in African-American Washington, D.C., 1930-1960," 1997.
Advisor: Trotter

Stephan Curtis, "Rural Industry, Disease, and the Struggle for Health in Ninetenth Century Prussia and Sweden: A Comparaive Study in Iserlohn County and the Sundsvall Area," 2000.
Advisor: Lynch

Ria David, "Comparing Second-Generation Japanese and Jewish Americans in Business," 1999.
Advisor: Stearns

Etan Shalom Diamond, "A Sacred Suburban Subculture: The North American Orthodox Jewish Community, 1950-1985," 1996.
Advisor: Tarr

Zach Falck, "Controlling Urban Weeds: People, Plants and the Ecology of American Cities, 1888-2003," 2004.
Advisor: Tarr

Gerard Fitzgerald, "From Prevention to Infection: Intramural Aerobiology, Biomedical Technology, and the Origins of Biological Warfare Research in the United States, 1910-1955," 2003.
Advisor: Acker

Mary Frances Donley Forcier, " Coeducation and Institutional Policy at Datmouth College, Lehigh University, Smith College and Vassar College, 1945-1970," 2005.
Advisor: Schlossman

James Austin Gilchrist, "The Globalists: Ecumenical Protestants and the Search for a New World Order, 1941-1983," 1997.
Advisor: Schlossman

Robert E. Gleeson, "The Rise of Graduate Management Education in American Universities, 1908-1970," 1997.
Advisor: Schlossman

Hugh Scott Gorman, "From Conservation to Environment: The Engineering Response to Pollution Concerns in the U.S. Petroleum Industry, 1921-1981," 1997.
Advisor: Hounshell

Timothy John Haggerty, "Good and Valiant Soldiers: Civil War Service and the Life Course in Western Pennsylvania, 1865-1900," 1996.
Advisor: Stearns

Gina Lee Hames, "Honor, Alcohol and Sexuality: Women and the Creation of Ethnic Identity in Bolivia, 1870-1930," 1997.
Advisor: Langer

John Hendrix Hinshaw, "Dialectic of Division: Race and Power among Western Pennsylvania Steelworkers, 1937-1975," 1995.
Advisor: Trotter

Daniel U. Holbrook, "Technical Diversity and Technological Change in the American Semiconductor Industry, 1952-1965," 1999.
Advisor: Hounshell

Kent MacIntyre James, "Public Policy and the Postwar Suburbanization of Pittsburgh, 1945-1990," 2005.
Advisor: Tarr

David R. Jardini, "Out of the Blue Yonder: The RAND Corporation's Diversification into Social Welfare Research, 1946-1968," 1996.
Advisor: Hounshell

Robin Jenkins, "Rivets And Rights: African-American Workers and Shipbuilding in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1890-1948," 2004.
Advisor: Trotter

Brian Jensen, "Masters of Their Own Destiny: Allegheny County Government Reform Efforts 1929-1998," 2004.
Advisor: Tarr

John Jensen, "Bulwarks against a Human Tide: Government, Mariners, and the Rise of General Hospitals in the Midwest Frontier, 1800-1900," 2000.
Advisor: Acker

Vagel Charles Keller, Jr., "Forgotten Brownfields: Rural Industrial Districts in Pennsylvania, 1870-1930." 2005.
Advisor: Tarr

Rebecca Kluchin, "Fit to Be Tied?: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984," 2004.
Advisor: Hunter

Charles Lee, "Carnival of Blood?: African American Workers and the Building of the Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, 1897-1912." 2006.
Advisor: Trotter

Elizabeth Littell-Lamb, "'To Seek a Place in the Social Revolution': Xin Funu, Christian Women's Institutions, and Feminist Objectives in Republican China, 1911-1949," 2002.
Advisor: Sutton

Ancella Livers, "Defining Ourselves: Gender Construction and the Creation of a Black Community in Pittsburgh, 1925-1955," 1998.

Loretta Sullivan Lobes, "Hearts All Aflame: Women in the Development of New Forms of Social Service Organizations, 1870-1930," 1996.
Advisor: John Modell

James Longhurst, "'Don't Hold Your Breath, Fight For It!': Women's Activism and Citizen Standing in Pittsburgh and the United States, 1965-1975," 2004.
Advisor: Tarr

Brian Wells Martin, "The Limits of Sovereign Management: The Southwestern Power Administration's Relationship with Organized Labor," 1997.
Advisor: Tarr

Jason D. Martinek, "Mightier than the Sword: Working-Class Reading, Educational Politics, and American Socialists' Printed Culture of Dissent, 1897-1917." 2005.
Advisor: Sandage

Sabine Marx, "The Rise of Scientific Medicine in Trier, Germany, 1880-1914," 2002.
Advisor: Lindemann

Darrell Meadows, "The Planters of Saint-Domingue, 1750-1804: Migration and Exile in the French Revolutionary Atlantic," 2004.
Advisor: Lynch

Sherie Mershon, "Corporate Social Responsibility and Urban Revitalization: The Allegheny Conference on Community Development, 1943-1968," 2000.
Advisor: Tarr & Schlossman

Jodie Minor, "Defending the People's Interests: The British State, Politics, and Working-Class Organization, 1832-1884," 1997.
Advisor: Lynch

Michael Scott Neiberg, "Between Gun and Gown: A Social and Policy History of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, 1950-1980," 1996.
Advisor: John Modell

Liesl Miller Orenic, "'On the Ramp': Ground Service Workers in the American Airline Industry, 1930-1970," 2000.
Advisor: Trotter

Julia Roos, "Weimar's Crisis through the Lens of Gender: The Case of Prostitution," 2001.
Advisor: Lindemann & Harsch

Mark David Samber, "Networks of Capital: Creating and Maintaining a Regional Industrial Economy in Pittsburgh, 1865-1919," 1995.
Advisor: Hounshell

Asif Siddiqi, "The Rockets' Red Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination,1857-1957," 2004.
Advisor: Hounshell

Lisa Z. Sigel, "Sexual Imaginings: The Cultural Economy of British Pornography, 1800-1914," 1996.
Advisor: Stearns

Jonathan L. Silver, "Approaching the Pinnacle of Privilege: The History of Shady Side Academy, 1883-Present," 2004.
Advisor: John Modell

Michael Joshua Silverman, "No Immediate Risk: Environmental Safety in Nuclear Weapons Production, 1942-1996," 2000.
Advisor: Hounshell

Eugene Smith, "Within the Counterculture: The Creation, Transmission and Commercialization of Cultural Alternatives during the 1960s," 2001.
Advisor: John Modell & Schachter

Jeffrey Ryan Suzik, "'Building Better Men': Education, Training and Socialization of Working-Class Male Youth in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942," 2005.
Advisor: John Modell

Breandan Mac Suibhne, "Patriot Paddies: The Volunteers and Irish Identity in Northwest Ulster, 1778-86," 1999.
Advisor: Miller

Mark T. Tebeau, "Eating Smoke: Masculinity, Technology and the Politics of Urbanization, 1850-1950," 1997.
Advisor: Tarr

Michael Joseph Thompson, "The Val D'Aosta and Wales: Ethnonationalism and Federalism in the Creation of the European Union," 1995.
Advisor: Miller

Jennifer Ann Trost, "Gateway to Justice: A Social History of Juvenile Court and the Child Welfare Network in Memphis, Tennessee, 1910-1929," 1996.
Advisor: Schlossman

Susannah F. Walker, "For Appearances' Sake: African-American Women's Commercial Beauty Culture from 1920 to the 1970s," 2001.
Advisor: Trotter

Shiow-Huey Joan Wang, "'No Tickee, No Shirtee': Chinese Laundries in the Social Context of the Eastern United States, 1882-1943," 1997.
Advisor: Sutton

Xiuyu Wang, "China's Last Imperial Frontier: Statecraft and Locality in Qing Kham Tibet, 1890-1911." 2006.
Advisor: Sutton

David Wolcott, "Cops and Kids: The Police and Juvenile Delinquency in Three American Cities, 1890-1940," 2000.
Advisor: Schlossman

Carl Zimring, "Recycling for Profit: The Evolution of the American Scrap Industry," 2002.
Advisor: Tarr

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