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List of doctoral students starting from 2000s; when info available, we have listed current position

2009

William Epps (High School Teacher, Emery/Weiner School, Houston, TX)
Supervised by: Mark Lawrence

Brandon Marsh (Assistant Professor, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA)
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Andrew Paxman (Assistant Professor, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS)
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown

Margaret Peacock (Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Supervised by: Joan Neuberger


2008

Lauren Apter
Dissertation: Disorderly Decolonization: The White Paper of 1939 and the End of British Rule in Palestine
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Cornelius Conover (Visiting Professor, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL)
Dissertation:  A saint in the empire: Mexico City’s San Felipe de Jesús, 1597-1820
Supervised by: Ann Twinam

Sara Fanning (Assistant Professor, Texas Women's College, Denton, TX)
Dissertation: Haiti and the US: African American Emmigration and the Recognition Debate
Supervised by: James Sidbury

Timothy Forest (Visiting Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA)
Dissertation: Kith but NOT Kin? Highland Scots, Imperial Resettlement, and the Negotiating of Identities on the Frontiers of the British Empire in the Interwar Years
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Matt Heaton (Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA)
Dissertation: Stark Roving Mad: The Repatriation of Nigerian Mental Patients and the Global Construction of Mental Illness, 1906-1960
Supervised by: Toyin Falola

Christopher Hill (Visiting Professor, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY)
Dissertation: Gilbert Foliot and the Two Swords: Law and Political Theory in Twelfth-Century England
Supervised by: Jan Meisel

Adrian Howkins (Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
Dissertation: Frozen Empires: a history of the Antarctic sovereignty dispute between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939-1959
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Shereen Ilahi (Assistant Professor, North Central College, Naperville, IL)
Dissertation: Empire of Violence: Stragegies of British Rule in India and Ireland in the Aftermath of the Great War
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Laresh Jayasanker (Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Sameness in Diversity: Food Culture and Globalization in the San Francisco Bay Area and America, 1965-2005
Supervised by: Neil Foley

Roger Louis Martinez (Burton Post-doctoral Fellowship, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA)
Dissertation: From Sword to Seal: The Ascent of the Carvajal Family in Spain (1391-1516)
Supervised by: Ann Twinam

Mohammad Raisur Rahman (Assistant Professor of South Asian History, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC)
Dissertation: Islam, Modernity, and Educated Muslims: A History of Qasbahs in Colonial India
Supervised by: Gail Minault

Juan Romero (Post-doctoral Fellow in Arabic Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
Dissertation: The Iraqi Revolution of 1958 and the Search for Security in the Middle East
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Paul Rubinson (Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL)
Containing Science: The U.S. National Security State and Scientists' Challenge to Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War
Supervised by: Mark Lawrence


2007

Saad Abi-Hamad (Assistant Professor, Texax Tech, Lubbock, TX)
Dissertation: Dueling Perceptions: British and Egyptian Interactions, 1882-1919
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Norwood Henry Andrews, III
Dissertation: Sunbelt Justice: Politics, The Professions, and the History of Sentencing and Corrections in Texas since 1968
Supervised by: David Oshinsky

Kenneth Aslakson (Assistant Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY)
Dissertation: Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans's Three-Caste Society
Supervised by: James Sidbury

Michael Bednar (Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO)
Dissertation: Becoming Rajput: Symbiosis, Identity, and the Cultural Frontier, 1300-1500
Supervised by: Cynthia Talbot

Emily Berquist (Assistant Professor, California State University--Long Beach, Long Beach, CA)
Dissertation: Imagining the New World: Bishop Martínez Compañon and the Enlightenment in Peru
Supervised by: Susan Deans-Smith

Karl Brown (Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Regulating Bodies: Everyday Crime and Popular Resistance in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956
Supervised by: Mary Neuburger

Aldo Garcia Guevara (Assistant Professor in Latin American history , Worcester State College , Worcester, Massachusetts)
Dissertation: Justice, Policing, and Military Rule in El Salvador, 1932-72
Supervised by: Virginia Burnett

Ann Genova (Assistant Professor of History, Roanoke College, Salem, VA)
Dissertation: Oil and Nationalism in Nigeria, 1970-1980
Supervised by: Toyin Falola

Jeff Rutherford (Assistant Professor, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV)
Dissertation: Soldiers into Nazis? The German Infantry's War in Northwest Russia, 1941-1944
Supervised by: David Crew

Inna Shtakser (Visiting Professor, Russian History, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, BC, Canada)
Supervised by: Joan Neuberger

Stefanie Wichhart (Assistant Professor of History, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY)
Dissertation: Intervention: Britain, Egypt, and Iraq during World War II
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Nancy Zey (Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX)
Supervised by: Robert Abzug


2006

Stephen Andrew Berrey (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Dissertation: Against the Law: Violence, Crime, State Repression, and Black Resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley

Alan Gomez (Assistant Professor, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ)
Supervised by: Emilio Zamora

Heather Gumbert (Visiting Assistant Professor of History , Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA)
Dissertation: East German Television and the Unmaking of the Socialist Project, 1952-1965
Supervised by: David Crew

Faik Gur (Assistant Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Supervised by: Abe Marcus

Miguel Levario (Assistant Professor, Texax Tech, Lubbock, TX)
Supervised by: Emilio Zamora

Anna Taylor (Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics, Notre Dame, South Bend, IN)
Dissertation: Poetry, Patronage, and Politics: Epic Saints' Lives in Western Francia, 800-1000
Supervised by: Martha Newman and Alison Frazier


2005

Roby Barrett (President, CCOMM Corporation and Adjunct Professor of History, Texas A and M Commerce
Dissertation: Come Quickly Sweet: Muslims: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East 1958-1963
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Adriana Ayala (Vice Provost and Chair of Liberal Studies, National Hispanic University, San Jose, CA)
Dissertation: Negotiating race relations through activism women activists and women's organizations in San Antonio, Texas during the 1920s.
Supervised by: Ricardo Romo

Timothy Ryan Buckner (Assistant Professor, Troy State, Troy, AL)
Dissertation: Constructing Identities on the Frontier of Slavery, Natchez, Mississippi, 1760-1860
Supervised by: James Sidbury

Ernesto Boland Capello (Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT)
Dissertation: City Fragments: Space and Nostalgia in Modernizing Quito, 1885-1942
Supervised by: Mauricio Tenorio

Christian Charles Jennings (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI)
Dissertation: Scatterlings of East Africa: Revisions of Parakuyo Identity and History, c.1830-1926
Supervised by: John Lamphear

Kent Russell Lohse (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN)
Dissertation: Africans and their Descendants in Colonial Costa Rica, 1600-1750
Supervised by: Susan Deans-Smith, Sandra Lauderdale Graham

Rebecca Anne Montes (Assistant Professor, Mendocino Community College, Mendocino, CA)
Dissertation: Working for American Rights: Black, White, and Mexican-American Dockworkers in Texas during the Great Depression
Supervised by: Neil Foley

Frances Lourdes Ramos (Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)
Dissertation: The Politics of Ritual in Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico, 1695 -1775
Supervised by: Susan Deans-Smith

John Edward St. Lawrence, III (Academic Advisor, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The Liber Miraculorum of Simon de Montfort: Contested Sanctity and Contesting Authority in Late Thirteenth-Century England
Supervised by: Martha Newman

Robert Leland Smale (Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO)
Dissertation: Above and Below: Peasants and Miners in Oruro and Northern Potosi, Bolivia (1899-1929)
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown

Clinton Robert Starr (Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX)
Dissertation: Bohemian Resonance: The Beat generation and Urban Countercultures in the United States during the Late 1950s and early 1960s
Supervised by: Janet M. Davis

Robert Allen Willingham (Assistant Professor, Roanoke College, Salem, VA)
Dissertation: Jews in Leipzig: Nationality and Community in the 20th Century
Supervised by: David Crew

2004

Katherine Gretchen Allocco, (John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY, New York, NY)
Dissertation: Intercessor, Rebel, Regent: The Political Life Of Isabella Of France (1292/6-1358)
Supervised by: Martha Newman

Ethan Van Blue (Lecturer, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
Dissertation: Hard Times In The New Deal: Racial Formation And The Cultures Of Punishment In Texas And California In The 1930s
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley

Sandra Margaret Frink (Assistant Professor of History, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL)
Dissertation: Spectacles Of The Street: Performance, Power, And Public Space In Antebellum New Orleans
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley

Gregory Sowles Hammond (Visiting Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
Dissertation: Women Can Vote Now: Feminism and the Women's Suffrage Movement in Argentina, 1900-1955
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown

David Lauderback (Associate Professor, Austin Community College, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The U.S. Army School of the Americas : Mission and Policy during the Cold War
Supervised by: Michael B. Stoff and Robert A. Divine

Patrick Weldon Lowery-Timmons (Assistant Professor of Justice Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA)
Dissertation: The Politics of Punishment and War: Law's Violence During the Mexican Reform, Circa 1840 to 1870
Supervised by: Virginia Burnett

Patricia Martinez (Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN)
Dissertation: ''Noble'' Tlaxcalans: Race and Ethnicity in Northeastern New Spain, 1770-1810
Supervised by: Susan Deans-Smith

Andrew Michael McFarland (Visiting Professor, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA)
Dissertation: Creating a National Passion: Football, Nationalism, and Mass Consumerism in Modern Spain
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis, Carolyn P. Boyd

Michelle Bernita Reid (Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA)
Dissertation: Negotiating A Slave Regime: Free People of Color in Cuba, 1844-1868
Supervised by: Oloruntoyin O. Falola, Aline Helg

Holly Zumwalt Taylor (Research Associate, Center for Studies in Texas History-UT Austin, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Neither North Nor South: Sectionalism, St. Louis Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War, 1846-1861
Supervised by: Ron Tyler

John William Troutman (Visiting Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana)
Dissertation: ''Indian Blues'': American Indians and the Politic of Music, 1890-1935
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley


2003

Manuel Callahan (Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA)
Dissertation: Mexican Border Troubles: Social War, Settler Colonialism, And The Production Of Frontier Discourses, 1848-1880
Supervised by: David Montejano, Emilio Zamora

Ryan Joseph Carey (Assistant Professor, Simons Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA)
Dissertation: Building A Better Oregon: Geographic Information And The Production Of Space, 1846-1906
Supervised by: William H. Goetzmann

Timothy Eugene Crane
Dissertation: When Madness Ruled The Hour: Unionists And Confederates In Civil War Texas
Supervised by: George B. Forgie

Gregory Todd Cushman (Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS)
Dissertation: The Lords Of Guano: Science And The Management Of Peru's Marine Environment, 1800-1973
Supervised by: Bruce Hunt

Leilah Claire Danielson (Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ)
Dissertation: Not By Might: Christianity, Nonviolence, And American Radicalism, 1919-1963
Supervised by: Robert H. Abzug

Andrew Justin Falk (Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA)
Dissertation: Staging The Cold War: Negotiating American National Identity In Film And Television
Supervised by: Michael B. Stoff

Cynthia Ann Gladstone (Academic Advisor, Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: High Crimes: The Law Of Treason In Late Stuart Britain
Supervised by: Brian P. Levack

Kevin David Roberts (Founder and Headmaster, Pope John Paul Academy, Lafayette, LA)
Dissertation: Slaves and Slavery in Louisiana: The Evolution of Atlantic World Identities, 1791-1831
Supervised by: James Sidbury

Steve James Salm (Chair, Department of History, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA)
Dissertation: ''The Bukom Boys'' Subcultures and Identity Transformation in Accra, Ghana
Supervised by: Oloruntoyin O. Falola

Douglas Sofer (Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Maryville College, Maryville, TN)
Dissertation: El Pueblo and La Rosca: A Political Dialogue in Colombia, 1944-1958
Supervised by: Aline Helg


2002

Theresa Ann Case (Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX)
Dissertation: Free Labor On The Southwestern Railroads: The 1885-1886 Gould System Strikes
Supervised by: James Sidbury, Kevin G. Kenny

Jeffrey Alan Dettmann (Information Analyst, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Anti-Chinese Violence In The American Northwest: From Community Politics To International Diplomacy, 1885-1888
Supervised by: David Montejano

Steven Gary Galpern (Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC)
Dissertation: Britain, Middle East Oil, And The Struggle To Save Sterling, 1944-1971
Supervised by: Wm. Roger Louis

Daniel Spencer Haworth (Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX)
Dissertation: Al Grito De Guerra!: War And The Shaping Of The Mexican Nation-State, 1854-1861
Supervised by: Mauricio Tenorio

John-Marshall Klein (Administrator of Latin American Fulbright Programs, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC)
Dissertation: Spaniards And The Politics Of Memory In Cuba, 1898 -1934
Supervised by: Aline Helg, Carolyn P. Boyd

Jason J. Lowery-Timmons
Dissertation: From Humility To Action: The Shifting Roles Of Nuns In Bourbon Mexico City, 1700-1821
Supervised by: Martha G Newman, Susan Deans-Smith

Joseph Michael Phillips (Assistant Professor, American Studies Department , Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
Dissertation: The Fire This Time: The Battle Over Racial, Regional, And Religious Identities In Dallas, Texas, 1860 – 1990
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley

Sara Melissa Pullum-Pinon
Dissertation: Conspicuous Display And Social Mobility: A Comparison Of 1850s Boston And Charleston Elites
Supervised by: Shearer D. Bowman

Elizabeth Lee Thompson (Deputy Director, The O'Donnell Foundation, Dallas, Texas)
Dissertation: Embracing its Benefits: Southerners Before the Federal Bankruptcy Courts and the Conservative Facets of Reconstruction
Supervised by: George B. Forgie

Joel Edward Tishken (Assistant Professor, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA)
Dissertation: Prophecy and Power in Afro-Christian Churches: A Comparitive Analysis of the Nazareth Baptist Church and the Elgise Kimbanguiste
Supervised by: Oloruntoyin O. Falola

Stephen Michael Ward (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Dissertation: Ours Too Was a Sturggle for a Better World: Activist Intellectuals and the Radical Promise of the Black Power Movement, 1962-1972
Supervised by: Oloruntoyin O. Falola


2001

Saheed Adeyinka Adejumobi (Associate Professor, Global African Studies and History, Seattle University, Seattle, WA)
Dissertation: Life More Abundant: Colonial Transition, The Yoruba Intelligentsia And The Politics Of Education And Social Welfare Reforms In Nigeria, 1940-1970
Supervised by: Oloruntoyin O. Falola

Luis Alberto Alvarez (Assistant Professor in History, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA)
Dissertation: The Power Of The Zoot: Race, Community, And Resistance In American Youth Culture, 1940-1945
Supervised by: David Montejano

Matt David Childs (Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
Dissertation: The Aponte Rebellion Of 1812 And The Transformation Of Cuban Society: Race, Slavery, And Freedom In The Atlantic World
Supervised by: Aline Helg

Irene-Viola Guenther (Professor, Houston Community College, Houston, TX)
Dissertation: Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women In The Third Reich
Supervised by: Peter C. Jelavich

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel (Assistant Professor, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA)
Dissertation: Deadweight Loss and The American Civil War: The Political Economy Of Slavery, Secession, And Emancipation
Supervised by: George B. Forgie, Shearer D. Bowman

Carol Ann Keller (Assistant Professor, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX)
Dissertation: Pundit And Pulpit: Teaching The Victorians-Harriet And James Martineau
Supervised by: Standish Meacham, David F. Crew

Eric Vaughn Meeks (Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ)
Dissertation: Border Citizens: Race, Labor, And Identity In South-Central Arizona, 1910 - 1965
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley

Robert Patrick Stephens (Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA)
Dissertation: The Drug Wave: Youth And The State In Hamburg, Germany 1945 - 1975
Supervised by: David F. Crew, Standish Meacham

Teresa Marie Thomas (Professor and Assistant Department Chair, History, Austin Community College, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: Crime And Order In San Antonio During The Civil War And Reconstruction
Supervised by: Norman D. Brown

Patrick John Walsh
Dissertation: Boosting Bohemia: Counterculture, Development, And Identity In The American West, 1900 -1990
Supervised by: Gunther W. Peck

Clayton John Whisnant (Associate Professor, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC)
Dissertation: Hamburg's Gay Scene In The Era Of Family Politics, 1945 -1969
Supervised by: David F. Crew

Jacqueline Cassandra Woodfork (Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA)
Dissertation: Senegalese Soldiers In The Second World War: Loyalty And Identity Politics In The French Colonial Army
Supervised by: Oloruntoyin O. Falola


2000

Cameron Clark Addis (Associate Professor of History, Austin Community College, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The Religious And Political War Over Jefferson's Educational Vision, 1760-1845
Supervised by: Shearer D. Bowman

Mercedes Chen Daley
Dissertation: Colonial Political Culture In Eighteenth Century Panama: The Urriolas, Servants Of God, King, And State
Supervised by: Susan Deans-Smith

Bennett Francis Donovan (Information Analyst, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The Dimensions Of Christianization: Space, Time, And Ideology At The Abbey Of Sithiu, 649-961
Supervised by: Martha G Newman

Ramona Houston (Assistant Professor, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA)
Dissertation: Anglo Americans, African Americans, And Mexican Americans In The Desegregation of Texas, 1946-1957
Supervised by: Ricardo Romo

David Michael Imhoof (Associate Professor, Chair, Department of History, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA)
Dissertation: Guns, Opera, And Movies: Local Culture in Interwar Germany, Gottingen 1919-1938
Supervised by: David F. Crew

Sean Michael Kelley (Assistant Professor, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY)
Dissertation: Plantation Frontiers: Race, Ethnicity, And Family Along the Brazos River of Texas, 1821-1886
Supervised by: Shearer D. Bowman

Lisa Renee McClain (Assistant Professor, Boise State University, Boise, ID)
Dissertation: As One In Faith: The Reconstruction of Catholic Communities in Protestant England, 1559-1642
Supervised by: Brian P. Levack

Marc Christian McLeod (Assistant Professor, Seattle University, Seattle, WA)
Dissertation: Undesirable Aliens: Haitian and British West Indian Immigrant Workers in Cuba, 1898 to 1940
Supervised by: Aline Helg

Tina Laurel Meacham
Dissertation: The Population of Spanish And Mexican Texas, 1716-1836
Supervised by: Myron P. Gutmann, Susan Deans-Smith

Kimberly Jane Morse (Assistant Professor of History, Washburn University, Topeka, KS)
Dissertation: Aun En La Muerte Separados: Class, Clergy, And Society In Aragua De Barcelona, Venezuela, 1820-1875
Supervised by: Virginia G. Burnett

Kevin Louis Nibbe
Dissertation: The Greatest Opportunity: American Artists and The Great War, 1917-1920
Supervised by: William H. Goetzmann

Catherine Ann Nolan-Ferrell (Assistant Professor, University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX)
Dissertation: Negotiating Revolution: Rural Workers And Labor Organizing In Southern Chiapas, Mexico, 1880-1950
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown

Stuart Allen Rockoff (Resident Historian, Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, Jackson, MS)
Dissertation: Jewish Racial Identity in Pittsburgh and Atlanta 1890-1930
Supervised by: Neil F. Foley

John Raymond Sartin
Dissertation: Antecedents of The Huguenot ''State Within The State'' in bas Languedoc 1560-1574
Supervised by: Myron P. Gutmann

Kristen Anne Tegtmeier (Assistant Professor, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS)
Dissertation: Bleeding Borders: The Intersection of Gender, Race And Region in Territorial Kansas
Supervised by: James Sidbury

Maria Celina Tuozzo (Associate Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile)
Dissertation: Love And Crime In La Serena, Chile, 1915-1925: A Failing Patriarchy
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown

Teresa Miriam Van Hoy (Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX)
Dissertation: The Railroad As Public Utility And The Public: Land, Labor And Rail Services Southern Mexico, 1842-1908
Supervised by: Jonathan C. Brown

John Frank Waukechon, Texas Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Austin, TX)
Dissertation: The Forgotten Evangelicals: Virginia Episcopalians, 1790-1876
Supervised by: Shearer D. Bowman

 

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