List of doctoral students starting from 1980s; when info available, we have listed current position
1989
Catherine Catalfamo
Dissertation: The Thorny Rose: The Americanization of an Urban, Immigrant, Working Class Regiment in the Civil War: A Social History of the Garibaldi Guard: 1861-1964
Supervised by: George B. Forgie
Paul Charney (Assistant Professor- History, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD)
Dissertation: The Destruction and Reorganization of Indian Society in the Lima Valley, Peru, 1532- 1824
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown
Judith Doyle
Dissertation: Out of Step: Maury Maverick and the Politics of the Depression and the New Deal
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould
Louis Gomolak
Dissertation: Prologue: LBJ's Foreign-Affairs Background, 1908-1948
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
John Robson
Dissertation: Henry Jackson, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment and the Détente
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Yuri Slezkine
Dissertation: Russia's Small Peoples: The Policies and the Attitudes Towards the Native Northerners, 17th Century-1938
Supervised by: Sheila M. Fitzpatrick, Sidney Monas
1988
James Boyden (Department Chair, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA)
Dissertation: The Curve of Fortune: Ruy Gomez de Silva and the House of Pastrana, 1516-1573
Supervised by: Carolyn P. Boyd
Jesus Francisco De La Teja (Professor- History, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX)
Dissertation: Land and Society in 18th Century San Antonio de Bexar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson
Mariano Diaz Miranda
Dissertation: Dilemmas in the Brazilian Sugar Industry, 1850-1900 : the Obsession with Exports and the Failure of Foreign Investors in Pernambuco
Sally Hunter Graham (Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA)
Dissertation: Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy (deceased, 1996)
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould
George Horton Kelling
Dissertation: British Policy in Cyprus 1939-1955
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis
Richard McCaslin
Dissertation: Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1962
Supervised by: Louis T. Ellis
Joan Supplee
Dissertation: Provincial Elites and the Economic Transformation of Mendoza, Argentina,1880-1914
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould, Jonathan C. Brown
Ellen Thompson
Dissertation: Episcopalians Against War: Individual Conscience and Institutional Reform
Supervised by: Guy H. Miller
1987
Brian Roger Duchin
Dissertation: The New Look: President Eisenhower and the Political Economy of National Security
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Gilberto Ramirez, Jr.
Dissertation: The Reform of the Argentine Army, 1890-1904
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown
Eric Christian Rust (Professor of History, Baylor University, Waco, TX)
Dissertation: Crew 34: German Naval Officers Under and After Hitler
Supervised by: Carolyn P. Boyd, Gaines Post, Jr.
1986
Pierre Cagniart
Dissertation: The Life and Career of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Through His Consolship in 88 B.C.: A Study in Character and Politics
Supervised by: M. Gwyn Morgan
Earl Richard Downes
Dissertation: The Seeds of Influence: Brazil's ''Essentially Agricultural'' Old Republic and the United States, 1910-1930
Supervised by: Richard Graham
James Alan Marten (Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI)
Dissertation: Drawing the Line: Dissent and Disloyalty in Texas, 1856-1847
Supervised by: Robert H. Abzug
Joan Ellen Meznar
Dissertation: Deference and Dependence: The World of Small Farmers in a Northeastern Brazilian Community, 1850-1900
Supervised by: Richard Graham
Craig H. Roell
Dissertation: Confronting the Consumer Culture: The American Piano Industry, 1890-1940
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould
Albert Holmes Tillison, Jr.
Dissertation: Political Culture and the Social Conflict in the Upper Valley of Virginia, 1740-1789
Supervised by: Philip L. White
1985
Henry William Brands, Jr. (Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The Eisenhower Administration and the Cold War
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Michael Eugene Jones
Dissertation: Provinces of Iron and Rust: The End of Roman Britain
Supervised by: Janet A. Meisel
Teresita Martinez Vergne
Dissertation: An Experiment in Capitalism: Central San Vincente, 1873-1892
Supervised by: Richard Graham
Robert Allen Wooster
Dissertation: The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903
Supervised by: John Sunder
1984
Ana Maria Dos Santos
Dissertation: Agricultural Reform and the Idea of ''Decadence'' in the State of Rio de Janiero, 1870-1910
Supervised by: Richard Graham
Sandra Idonia Garrett
Dissertation: Crises in the Lives of Elizabethan Women
Supervised by: Patricia S. Kruppa
Michael Lowery Gillette (Director, Texas Council for the Humanities, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The NAACP in Texas, 1937-1957
Supervised by: Joe B. Frantz
Martha Clayton Skeeters
Dissertation: The Clergy of Bristol, c.1530-c.1570
Supervised by: Myron P. Gutmann, Brian P. Levack
Douglas Alan Washburn
Dissertation: The Bourbon Reforms: A Social and Economic History of the Audiencia of Quito, 1760- 1809
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson
1983
Mary Anne Braunagel-Brown
Dissertation: The Pineapple of Philanthropy: Aspects of Philanthropy and Charity in Early Nineteenth- Century Paris
Supervised by: Nancy Nichols Barker
Miguel Enrique Soto Estrada
Dissertation: The Monarchist Conspiracy in Mexico, 1845-1846
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson
Louise Erwin Heenan
Dissertation: Russia's Fatal Blunder: The Summer Offensive 1917. Diplomatic, Military, Political and Social Aspects
Supervised by: Oliver H. Radkey
Alida Christine Metcalf
Dissertation: Families of Planters, Peasants, and Slaves: Strategies for Survival in Santana de Parnaiba, Brazil, 1720-1820
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson, Richard Graham
Emilio Zamora (Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Mexico Labor Activity in South Texas, 1900-1920
Supervised by: Juan Gomez-Quinones, Ricardo Romo
1982
Linda Jo Arnold
Dissertation: Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats in Mexico City: 1742-1835
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson
William Ralph Childs
Dissertation: Trucking and the Emergence of Federal Regulation, 1890-1940 A History of the Interactions of Technology, Business, Law, and Politics
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould
Gary William Gallagher (Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
Dissertation: Stephen Dodson Ramseur: A Biography
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould, Barnes F. Lathrop
Patrick Dale Gammill
Dissertation: The Evolution of Spectator Sports and the Emergence of the Garrison State: The Nixon Sports Campaign
Supervised by: Thomas L. Philpott
Sandra Lauderdale Graham (Associate Professor (retired), University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Protection and Obedience: The Paternalist World of Female Domestic Servants, Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1910
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann, Standish Meacham
Adriaan Cornelis van Oss
Dissertation: Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524-1821
Supervised by: Richard Graham, Stanley R. Ross
1981
William Stuart Callaghan
Dissertation: Obstacles to Industrialization: The Iron and Steel Industry in Brazil during the Old Republic
Supervised by: Richard Graham
David Charles Champagne
Dissertation: The Afghan-Iranian Conflict over Heart Province and European Intervention 1796-1863: A Reinterpretation
Supervised by: Hafez F. Farmayan, Patricia S. Kruppa
David Odell Damerall
Dissertation: The Modernization of Massachusetts: The Transformation of Public Attitudes and Institutions, 1689 to 1715
Supervised by: Michael G. Hall, Drew R. McCoy
Judith Ann Head
Dissertation: Russian Attitudes Toward Germany and Austria, 1909-1913
Supervised by: Oliver H. Radkey
Paul Jacob Hiltpold
Dissertation: Burgos in the Reign of Philip II: The Ayuntamiento, Economic Crisis, and Social Control, 1550-1600
Supervised by: Carolyn P. Boyd
Harold James Hopkins
Dissertation: Thomas Larkham's Tavistock: Change and Continuity in an English Town, 1600-1670
Supervised by: Brian P. Levack
Stephen Lee McFarland
Dissertation: The Crises in Iran, 1941-1947: A Society in Change and the Peripheral Origins of the Cold War
Supervised by: Hafez F. Farmayan
Allan Robert Purcell
Dissertation: The History of the Texas Militia, 1835-1903
Supervised by: Norman D. Brown, Lewis L. Gould
Gail Noble Raether
Dissertation: Italy and the Diplomacy of the Grand Alliance, 1943-1944
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Raymond Augustus Smith III
Dissertation: A Traveler's View of Revolutionary America
Supervised by: Philip L. White
Richard Randall Tansey
Dissertation: Economic Expansion and Urban Disorder in Antebellum New Orleans
Supervised by: Thomas L. Philpott
1980
David Block, III (Ibero-American Bibliographer, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY)
Dissertation: In Search of El Dorado: Spanish Entry into Moxos, a Tropical Frontier, 1550-1767
Supervised by: Jay. F. Lehnertz
Robert Marshall Blum
Dissertation: Drawing the Line: The Origin of the American Containment Policy in Southeast Asia
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Ted Galen Carpenter (Vice President- Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.)
Dissertation: The Dissenters: American Isolationists and Foreign Policy, 1945-1954
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Barry Mendel Cohen
Dissertation: Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov: His Life and Work
Supervised by: Sidney Monas
Emma Louise Moyer Jackson
Dissertation: Petticoat Politics: Political Activism among Texas Women in the 1920's
Supervised by: Norman D. Brown
Patricia Dolores Luan-Miller
Dissertation: U.S. Direct investment in Mexico, 1876-1978: An Historical, Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Supervised by: Nettie Lee Benson
Henry Ozelle Malone, Jr.
Dissertation: Adam Von Trott Zu Solz: The Road to Conspiracy against Hitler
Supervised by: Willard A. Fletcher, Clarence G. Lasby
Richard Todd McCulley
Dissertation: The Origins of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913: Banks and Politics during the Progressive Era, 1897-1913
Supervised by: Lewis L. Gould
Jesus Mendez
Dissertation: Argentine Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1943
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann
Fernando Agustin Ponce
Dissertation: Social Structure of Arequipa, 1840-1879
Supervised by: Thomas F. McGann
Joseph Charles Porter
Dissertation: John Gregory Bourke, Victorian Soldier Scientist: The Western Apprenticeship, 1869- 1886
Supervised by: William H. Goetzmann
William Farnam Sanford, Jr.
Dissertation: The American Business Community and the European Recovery Program, 1947-1952
Supervised by: Robert A. Divine
Richard Wayne Slatta
Dissertation: The Gaucho and Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Mark Calvin Smith (Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Knowledge for What: Social Science and the Debate over its Role in 1930's America
Joseph Earl Sweigart
Dissertation: Financing and Marketing Brazilian Export Agriculture: The Coffee Factors of Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1888
Supervised by: Richard Graham
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