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List of doctoral students starting from 1970s; when info available, we have listed current position

1979

Mary Patricia Abernethy
Dissertation: The French Administrative Information System: An Evaluation Based on the Reports of the Procureurs Generaux during the Second Empire
Supervised by: Nancy Nichols Barker

Donald Lloyd Gibbs
Dissertation: Cuzco, 1680-1710: An Andean City Seen through its Economic Activities.
Supervised by: Jay Lehnertz

Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa
Dissertation: Settlers and Sojourners in the Chaparral: A Demographic Study of Borderlands Town in Transition, Loredo, 1775-1870
Supervised by: John E. Sunder

Leah Brooke Tucker
Dissertation: The Houston Business Community, 1945-1965
Supervised by: Joe B. Frantz

David Charles Unger
Dissertation: The Roots of Red Cydeside: Economic and Social Relations and Working Class Politics in the West of Scotland, 1900-1914
Supervised by: Standish Meacham

1978

Evan Marcus Anders (Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX)
Dissertation: Bosses under Siege: The Politics of South Texas during the Progressive Era
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould

Elton Lee Daniel
Dissertation: Iran's Awakening: A Study of Local Rebellions in the Eastern Provinces of the Islamic Empire 126-227 A.H. (743-842 A.D.)
Supervised by: Hafez F. Farmayan

Rae Jean Dell Flory
Dissertation: Bahian Society in the Mid-Colonial Periods: The Sugar Planters, Tobacco Growers, Merchants, and Artisans of Salvador and the Reconcavo, 1680-1725
Supervised by: Richard Graham, James M. Lockhart

Frank Louis Halla, Jr.
Dissertation: El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico: A Study of a Bi-Ethnic Community, 1846-1881
Supervised by: Barnes F. Lathrop

William Philip Hewitt
Dissertation: The Czechs in Texas: A Study of the Immigration and the Development of Czech Ethnicity, 1850-1920
Supervised by: Norman D. Brown

Raymond Wesley Smilor
Dissertation: Confronting the Industrial Environment: The Noise Problem in America, 1893-1932
Supervised by: Richard H. Pells

Steven Curtis Topik
Dissertation: Economic Nationalism and the State in an Undeveloped Country: Brazil, 1889-1930
Supervised by: Richard Graham

1977

Kenneth Ray Bain
Dissertation: Roll on, Zion: The United States and the Palestine Question, 1945-1947
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

John Lewis Bullion (Professor, University of Missouri- Columbia, Columbia, MO)
Dissertation: Honor, Trade and Empire: Grenville's Treasury and ''The American Question,'' 1763- 1765
Supervised by: Philip L. White

Gail Louise Savage Clark
Dissertation: The Exercise of Power: The Influence of the Civil Service on English Educational Policy, 1919-1939
Supervised by: Standish Meacham

David Lawrence Fritz
Dissertation: The Philippine Question: American Civil/Military Policy in the Philippines, 1889-1905
Supervised by: William Braisted, Lewis L. Gould

James Richard Herzberg
Dissertation: American Economic Policies Towards Japan, 1931-1941
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

Paul Stroman Lofton, Jr.
Dissertation: A Social and Economic History of Columbia, South Carolina, during the Great Depression, 1929-1940
Supervised by: Robert C. Cotner

William Joseph Olson
Dissertation: Some Aspects of Anglo-Iranian Relations, 1914-1919: A Study in Great Power Politics in Regional Affairs
Supervised by: Hafez F. Farmayan

Robert Kingsley Peters
Dissertation: Texas: Annexation to Secession
Supervised by: Barnes F. Lathrop

Andrew Anthony Tijerina
Dissertation: Tejanos and Texas: The Native Mexicans of Texas, 1820-1850
Supervised by: Joe B. Frantz

Charles Reagan Wilson
Dissertation: Conceivability and Necessity
Supervised by: William H. Goetzmann

1976

Robert Martin Alexius
Dissertation: The Army and Politics in Porfirian Mexico

Vernon Carl Allsup
Dissertation: The American G.I. Forum: A History of a Mexican American Organization.
Supervised by: Clarence G. Lasby

Jonathan Charles Brown (Professor, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The Commercialization of Buenos Aires: Argentina's Economic Expansion in the Era of Traditional Technology, 1776-1860.
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann

Theodore Albert Cline
Dissertation: The Chancellorship of General Kurt von Schleicher: December 1932- January 1933.
Supervised by: Oliver H. Radkey

Frank Dale Cunningham
Dissertation: The Army and Universal Military Training 1942-1948.
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

Evelyn Hu DeHart (Professor- Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity, Brown University, Providence, RI)
Dissertation: Resistance and Survival: A History of the Yanqui People's Struggle for Autonomy, 1533- 1910.
Supervised by: Richard N. Sinkin

Bryan Irven Fugate, Jr.
Dissertation: Thunder on the Dnepr: The End of the Bitzkrieg Era, Summer, 1941.
Supervised by: Oliver H. Radkey

Richard Barry Lindley
Dissertation: Kinship and Credit in the Structure of Guadalajara's Oligarchy 1800-1830.
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson

Arthur James Mayer
Dissertation: San Antonio, Frontier Entrepot
Supervised by: Joe B. Frantz

Michael Alan McCormick
Dissertation: The Biological Theory of Auguste Comte.
Supervised by: Alexander Vucinich

Thomas Kenneth Niehaus
Dissertation: Population Problems and Land Use in the Writings of the Spanish Arbitristas: Social and Economic Thinkers, 1600-1650.
Supervised by: Thomas F. Glick, Walter W. Rostow

Bradley Robert Rice
Dissertation: The Rise and Fall of the Galveston-Des Moines Plan: Commission Government in American Cities, 1901-1920
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould

Louis Angel Rodero
Dissertation: The Coalesnence of Mexican Liberalism: The Constituent Congress of 1856-1857.
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson

Philip Owen Spann
Dissertation: Quintus Sertorious: Citizen, Soldier, Exile.
Supervised by: M. Gwyn Morgan

Mark David Szuchman
Dissertation: Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: Cordoba in the Liberal Era.
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann

John Mark Tutino
Dissertation: Creole Mexico: Spanish Elites, Haciendas, and Indian Towns, 1750-1810.
Supervised by: Jay F. Lehnertz, James M. Lockhart

Manuel Urbina, Jr.
Dissertation: The Impact of the Texas Revolution on the Government, Politics, and Society of Mexico, 1836-1846.
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson

1975

Don Wesley Alexander
Dissertation: Guerilla Warfare in Aragon: A Study of French counterinsurgent policy during the Peninsular War
Supervised by: Steven T. Ross

Dean Banks
Dissertation: Creating an ''American Dilemma'': The Impact of Nazi Racism upon American Intergroup Relations, 1933-1940, with Special Reference to Jewish-Americans, German-Americans and the Free-Speech Movement.
Supervised by: Robert C. Cotner

Robert Candler Bogard
Dissertation: Africanismo and Morocco: 1830-1912.
Supervised by: Thomas F. Glick

John Martin Brockman
Dissertation: Railroads, Radicals, and Democrats: A Study in Texas Politics, 1865-1900.
Supervised by: Barnes F. Lathrop

Patrick James Carroll
Dissertation: Mexican Society in Transition: The Blacks in Veracruz, 1750-1830.
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson

Robert Charles Ehrhart
Dissertation: The Politics of Military Rearmament, 1935-1940: The President, the Congress, and the United States Army
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

Thomas Holmes Flory
Dissertation: Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil: The Social and Political Dimensions of Judicial Reform, 1822-1848.
Supervised by: Richard Graham

Karen Daphne Keel Gould
Dissertation: The Psalter and Hours of Yolande of Soissons
Supervised by: Eleanor S. Greenhill

Phillip Lance Hadley
Dissertation: Mining and Society in Santa Eulalia Mining Complex, Chihuahua, Mexico: 1709-1750.
Supervised by: Richard N. Sinkin

Iyo Iimura Kunimoto
Dissertation: Japan and Mexico, 1888-1917.
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson

Albert Crawford Lewis
Dissertation: An Historical Analysis of Grassman's Ausde Hnungslehre of 1844.
Supervised by: Robert Palter

Martin Victor Melosi
Dissertation: The Pearl Harbor Controversy, 1941-1946
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

Stephen Daniel Mings
Dissertation: Strategies in Conflict: Britain and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1941-1943
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine, Steven T. Ross

William Edward Montgomery
Dissertation: Negro Churches in the South, 1865-1915

Elizabeth Anne Morgan
Dissertation: Robert S. Kerr: The Senate Career.
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould

Charles Francis O'Neil
Dissertation: The Search for Order and Progress: Brazilian Mass Education, 1915-1935.
Supervised by: Richard Graham

Robert Kenneth Peters
Dissertation: The Role of Elite in the Cultural Development of Revolutionary America.
Supervised by: Philip L. White

Donald Franklin Roth
Dissertation: ''Grace not Race'' Southern Negro Church Leaders, Black Identity, and Missions to West Africa 1865-1919.
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould

Bruce David Saunders
Dissertation: Herbert Baxter Adams and the Development of American Higher Education 1876-1901.
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould

David Grant Smith
Dissertation: The Mercantile Class of Portugal and Brazil in the Seventeenth Century: A Socio- Economic Study of the Merchants of Lisbon and Bahia, 1620-1690.
Supervised by: James M. Lockhart

Daniel Earl Spector
Dissertation: A History of the Persian Jews.
Supervised by: Hafez F. Farmayan

Stewart Edward Sutin
Dissertation: The Impact of Nazism on the Germans of Argentina.
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann

William Henry TeBrake
Dissertation: The Making of a Humanized Landscape in the Dutch Rijnland, 950-1350: Ecological Change in a Coastal Lowland
Supervised by: Paul W. English

Pat Dawson Ward (Professor of History, Baylor University, Waco, TX)
Dissertation: James F. Byrnes and the Council of Foreign Ministers, 1945-1946.
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

1974

Michele Alexis La Clergue Aldrich
Dissertation: New York Natural History Survey, 1836-1845
Supervised by: William H. Goetzmann

Frederic James Athearn
Dissertation: Life and Society in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico, 1692-1776.
Supervised by: Joe B. Frantz

John Clinton Brewer
Dissertation: Lend-Lease: Foreign Policy Weapon in Politics and Diplomacy, 1941-1945.
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

Maurice Philip Brungardt
Dissertation: Tithe Production and Patterns of Economic Change in Central Colombia, 1764-1833.
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann

Bruce Johnson Calder
Dissertation: Some Aspects of the United States Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann

Wilson Elbert Dolman III
Dissertation: The Public Lands of Western Texas, 1870-1900: The Conflict of Public and Private Interests.
Supervised by: Barnes F. Lathrop

William Royston Geise
Dissertation: The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865: A Study in Command
Supervised by: Barnes F. Lathrop

William Martin King
Dissertation: Ecuadorian Church and State Relations under Garcia Moreno 1859-1863.

Bobby Dave Lain
Dissertation: North of Fifty-Three: Army, Treasury Department, and Navy Administration of Alaska, 1867-1884.
Supervised by: John E. Sunder

William Morey Montgomery
Dissertation: Evolution and Darwinism in German Biology, 1800-1833.
Supervised by: Alexander Vucinich

William George Morris
Dissertation: The Korean Trusteeship, 1941-1947: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War.
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine

Richard Leverne Niswonger
Dissertation: Arkansas Democratic Politics 1896-1920

1973

Mary Caroline Estes Brennan
Dissertation: American and British Travelers in Mexico, 1822-1846

Noble David Cook (Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL)
Dissertation: The Indian Population of Peru, 1570-1620

Roger Allen Griffin (Professor, Austin Community College, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Connecticut Yankee in Texas: a Biography of Elisha Marshall Pease
Supervised by: Barnes F. Lathrop

1972

Martha Mitten Allen
Dissertation: Women in the West: A Study of Book Length Travel Accounts by Women Who Traveled in the Plains and Rockies with Special Attention to General Concepts That the Women Applied to the Plains, the Mountains, Westerners and the West in General

Garland Erastus Bayliss
Dissertation: Public Affairs in Arkansas, 1874-1896

David White Biddle
Dissertation: The Development of the Bureaucracy of the Islamic Empire During the Late Umayyad and Early Abbasid Period

Robert Wayne Butler
Dissertation: The Origins of the Liberal party in Venezuela: 1830-1848

Donald Alvin Dacy
Dissertation: The White Russian Movement: A Study of the Failure of Counter-Revolution, 1917-1920

David McEwen Dean
Dissertation: James Theodore Holly, 1829-1911, Black Nationalist and Bishop

James K. Hopkins (Professor and Department Chair, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX)
Dissertation: Joanna Southcott: A Study of Popular Religion and Radical Politics, 1789-1814

Ronald Burke Jager
Dissertation: The Democracy's Demise: Grover Cleveland's Rejected Supreme Court Nominations.

Richard Alan Kieckhefer
Dissertation: Repression of Heresy in Germany, 1348-1520

Robert Johnson Rosenbaum
Dissertation: Mexicano versus Americano: A Study of Hispanic-American Resistance to Anglo-American Control in New Mexico Territory, 1870-1900

Henry Conrad Schmidt
Dissertation: The Search for National Identity in Mexico 1900-1934

Robert Watson Sledge
Dissertation: A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1914-1939

Gregory Michael Tobin
Dissertation: Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains: A Historiographical Study

Robert Allan White
Dissertation: Gomes Freire de Andrade: Life and Times of Brazilian Colonial Governor, 1688-1763

Randall Bennett Woods
Dissertation: United States' Policy toward Argentina from Pearl Harbor to San Francisco

1971

Abbas Said AbuSalih
Dissertation: History of the Foreign Policy of Lebanon, 1943-1958

David Bergen Adams
Dissertation: The Tlaxcalan Colonies of Spanish Coahuila and Nuevo Leon: An Aspect of the Settlement of Northern Mexico

Meredith Blake Lentz Adams
Dissertation: The Morgenthau Plan: A Study in Bureaucratic Depravity

Everett Wayne Cutler
Dissertation: William H. Crawford: A Contextual Biography

Charles Augustus Duval, Jr.
Dissertation: The Forgotten Bolshevik: Jacob Mikhailovich Sverdlov, 1885-1917

Richard Kay Eubanks
Dissertation: The Diplomacy of Postponement: The United States and Russia's Western Frontier Claims During World War II

John Ellis Findling
Dissertation: The United States and Zelaya: A study in the Diplomacy of Expediency

Lawrence Corbett Goodwin
Dissertation: The Origin and Development of American Populism

Betty Jane Kissler
Dissertation: Venezuela-Guyana Boundary Dispute: 1899-1966

William Howard Moore
Dissertation: The Kefauver Committee and the Politics of Crime, 1950-1952

David Erland Vassberg
Dissertation: The Sale of Tierras Baldias in Castile During the Reign of Philip II

1970

Roger Lee Cunniff
Dissertation: The Great Drought: Northeast Brazil 1877-1880

John Schwald Innes
Dissertation: Revolution and Renaissance in Mexico: El Ateneo de la Juventud

Walter Kraft Lambert
Dissertation: New Deal Revenue Acts: The Politics of Taxation

Clara Maria Pioppi Lovett
Dissertation: Carlo Cattaneo and the Politics of the Risorgimento, 1820-1860

Charles William Macune, Jr.
Dissertation: A Test of Federalism: Political, Economic, and Ecclesiastical Relations between the State of Mexico and the Mexican Nation, 1823-1835

Johnny Mac McCain
Dissertation: Contract Labor as a Factor in the United States-Mexican Relations, 1942-1947

John Edgar McDaniel, Jr.
Dissertation: The Presidential Election of 1888

Adrian Michael McMahon
Dissertation: The Concept of Freedom and the Radical Abolitionists, 1860-1870

Fredrick William Rathjen
Dissertation: The Texas Panhandle Frontier

Jaime E. Rodriguez O.
Dissertation: Vicente Rocafuerte and Mexico, 1820-1832

Susan Cora Schneider
Dissertation: The General Company of the Cultivation of the Vine of the Upper Douro, 1756-1777: A Case Study of the Marquis of Pombal's Economic Reform Program

Ernest Stanislaus Sweeny
Dissertation: Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in Argentina, 1938-1962

Paul Joseph Vanderwood
Dissertation: The Rurales: Mexico's Rural Police Force, 1861-1914

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