Dissertations in Progress

Jeff Bain Conkin, "Religious Practices in Nineteenth-Century Louisville, Kentucky" Advisor: George Marsden

Heath Carter, "Religion and the Industrial Order in Chicago, 1865-1905" Advisor: Mark Noll

James M. Donahue, Fighting for a Godly, Global Order: Protestant Transnationalism and the League of Nations, 1908 - 1948. Advisor: Doris Bergen

Danielle Du Bois Gottwig, Before the Culture Wars: Conservative Protestants and the Family, 1920-1970. Advisor: George Marsden

Melinda Grimsley-Smith, Lunatic Asylums for the Poor in Ireland, 1817-1900: The Politics of Professionalization. Advisor: Christopher Hamlin

Amber Handy, The Specula Principum of Northwestern Europe, A.D. 650-1000: The Evolution of a New Ethical Rule. Advisor: Thomas F. X. Noble

Tuan Hoang, "These Big and Burly Foreigners:" Americans and the United States in the Eyes of Urban South Vietnamese, 1963 - 1973. Advisor: Wilson Miscamble, CSC

Michael Kelly, “Master-Sin: Sacrilege in Early Modern England” Advisor: Brad S. Gregory

John McCormack, "Wounded Faith: Monarchy and Memory in the
French Wars of Religion, 1559-1629" Advisor: Brad Gregory

Sarah Miglio, Civilizing the World: The Progressive Religion and
Politics of Chicago, 1890-1925. Advisor: George Marsden

Erin O'Donnell Miller, To Make Us Blacker Than We Are": Identity in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania. Advisor: Thomas P. Slaughter

Nicholas Miller, "The Religious Roots of the First Amendment" Advisor: Mark Noll

Stephen Molvarec, Carthusian Self-conception and the World. Advisor: John Van Engen

Christopher Osborne, Written into the West: Print, Personality, and the Envisioned Western Country, 1780-1830. Advisor: Thomas P. Slaughter

Suzanne Tralongo Orr,Caging the Red Menace": Russian Immigration and Anti-Radicalism during the First Red Scare in Chicago, 1917 - 1921. Advisor: Gail Bederman

Glen Ryland, Translating Africa: Rhenish Missionaries and German Notions of Race, 1828 to 1939. Advisor: Doris Bergen

John Scofield, Saint or Heretic? The Reception of Birgitta of Sweden from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries. Advisor: John Van Engen

Bryan Smith, Flesh, Blood, and Visions — an exploration of the inner lives (and cultural contexts) of select Americans animated by dreams, visions, and voices. Advisor: Thomas P. Slaughter

Charles Strauss, "The Religious Impulses and Domestic Politics of U.S. Development in Guatemala, 1943-1988."

Andrea L. Turpin, "Gender and Religion in the American Academy, 1837-1917" Advisor: James Turner

Damian Zurro, "Lay Brothers, Lay Workers: The Cistercian Conversi in the World of Twelfth Century Labor" Advisor John Van Engen