Graduate Alumni

The University of Texas History Department has been training doctoral students since the 1920s. In that time, the department has granted over six hundred PhDs, including those earned by such distinguished historians as Walter Prescott Webb (1931), Carlos Eduardo Castaneda (1932), Nettie Lee Benson (1949), Forrest McDonald (1955), Richard Graham (1961), and John Lewis Gaddis (1968). 

Clicking on any of the dates below will bring up a list of all students who earned doctorates from the UT History Department that year, along with the titles of their dissertations and, where available, the names of their supervising professors. Where available, we have also listed information on the current position or past career of each former student. If you have any corrections, additions, or updated information on anyone who has earned a UT History PhD—perhaps including yourself—please send it along to our Graduate Coordinator, Marilyn Lehman, at m.lehman@mail.utexas.edu. 

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