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Recent Emory Ph.D. Dissertations

2008

Conner, Robin. “Gendered Garrisons:  Masculinity, Femininity, and Class Identity in the Post-Civil War Western Army, 1865-1898” (Odem)

Lewis, Mollie. “Con Men, Crooks, and Cinema Kings: Popular Culture and Jewish Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905-1930” (Lesser)

Ouellette, Cathy. “Two Times Brazilian: Rio Grande do Sul and the Making of the Nation, 1891-1930” (Lesser)

Stewart, Caitlin. “Religious Diplomacy: American Protestants and a Jewish State, 1933-1979” (Allitt)

 

2007

Arrington, Andrea. “Power, Culture, and Colonial Development around Victoria Falls, 1880-1910” (Crais)

Bosnos, Karen. “Treason and Traitors in Norman and Anglo-Norman History, c. 1066-1135” (White)

Krebs, Daniel. “Approaching the Enemy: German Captives in the American War of Independence, 1776-1783” (Melton)

McGrath, Kate. “Medieval Anger: Rage and Outrage in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman and Northern French Historical Narratives” (White)

Starostina, Natalia. “Engineering the Empire of Images: The Representations of Railways in Interwar France” (Amdur)

 

2006

Bradley, Kevin. "The Development of the London Underground, 1840-1933: The Transformation of the London Metropolis and the Role of Laissez-Faire in Urban Growth" (Finn)

Briggs, Jonathyne. "Anarchie en France: Hypermodernity and French Popular Music, 1958-1981" (Amdur)

Coulibaly, Sylvia. "Kelly Miller, 1895-1939: Portrait of an African American Intellectual" (Carter)

Davis, Marni. " 'On the Side of Liquor': American Jews and the Politics of Alcohol, 1870-1936" (Prude)

Houghtby, Jeffrey. " 'Les Beins Communaux': Common Lands, Property Rights, and Agrarian Modernization in Early Modern Burgundy, 1550-1789" (Beik)

Kaschak, Brian. "Religion and the Search for Political Order in Early Modern Nimes: The Conseil de Ville, Confessional Conflict, and Political Culture, c. 1476-c.1715" (Beik)

Mbajekwe, Carolyn. "A Vision for Black Colleges in a Post-Brown America: Benjamin E. Mays, Frederick D. Patterson, and the Quest for a Cultural Pluralism-Based Definition of Collegiate Desegregation" (Davis)

O'Grady, Paul. "Vital Arteries: A History of the Streets of New York, 1783-1863" (Prude)

 

2005

Grieco, Viviana. "Politics and Public Credit: The Limits of Abslutism in Late Colonial Buenos Aires" (Bakewell)

Johnson, Cynthia. "Marrying and Dying in Medieval Occitania: A Case-Study Approach to Dowries, Disputes, and Devolution in Twelfth-Century Southern France" (White)

Latimore, Carey. "Always a Minority: Richmond Area Free Blacks in the Civil War Era" (Roark)

Leslie, Theresa. " 'Orate pro Nostris': The Mortuary Roll Ritual and Its Texts" (White)

Pruitt, Dwain. " 'Nantes Noir': Living in the City of Slavers" (Miller)

Thompson, H. Paul. "Race, Temperance, and Prohibition in the Postbellum South: Black Atlanta, 1865-1890" (Roark)

 

2004

Burke, Diane. "On Slavery's Borders: Slavery and Slaveholding on Missouri's Farms, 1821-1865" (Fox-Genovese)

Dee, Darryl. "The Practice of Absolutism: Franche-Comte in the Kingdom of France, 1674-1715" (Beik)

Enright, Amy. "The Politics of Education Municipal Colleges and Political Culture in Early Modern Champagne" (Beik)

Luskey, Brian. "The Marginal Men: Merchants' Clerks and Society in the Northeastern United States, 1790-1860" (Prude)

Perri, Michael. "The Spanish Conquest of the Pearl Coast and the Search for the Province of the Meta" (Bakewell)

Rickman, Johanna. "The Aristocracy and Illicit Sexuality in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England, 1560-1630" (Strocchia)

Shumway, Rebecca. "Between the Caste and the Golden Stool: Transformations in Fante Society in the 18th Century" (Mann)

Yarbrough, Fay. " 'those Disgracefull and unnatural Matches': Interracial Sex and Cherokee Society in the Nineteenth Century" (Fox-Genovese)

 


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