Ph.D.s Awarded
2008-2009
Martin Beisswenger, "Inventing" Eurasia: The Life and Ideas of Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895 - 1968)
Sean Brennan, “The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg 1945-1949"
Grant Brodrecht, 'Our Country:' Northern Evangelicals and the Nation in the Civil War and its Aftermath
Benjamin FItzpatrick, "Negroes for Sale": The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky"
Gavin Foster, "The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the
Irish Civil War"
Micaela Larkin, "Labor's Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions and Entreprenerial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917-1972"
Michael Lee, American Revelations: Biblical Interpretation and Criticism in Early America.
Matthew Salafia,
Searching for Slavery: Slavery and Freedom in
the Ohio River Valley Borderland, 1787-1850.
David Swartz, "Left Behind" The Evangelical Left and the Limits of Evangelical Politics"
Tammy Van Dyken, In the Sweet Bye and Bye"
2007-2008
Grant Brodrecht, "Our Country': Northern Evangelicals and The Union During The Civil War and Reconstruction"
Angel Cortes, "Student Idealist and the Spector of Natural Science, 1870 - 1910"
Steve Schroeder, "Reconcilliation in Occupied Germany, 1944 - 1954"
Ben Secunda, "In the Shadow of the Eagle's Wings: The effects of removal on the unremoved Potawatomi"
2006-2007
Sarah Davis-Secord, “Sicily and the Medieval Mediterranean: Communication Networks and Inter-regional Exchange,” directed by Olivia Remie Constable
Michael DeGruccio, “Unmade: Manhood and Self-Making in the American Civil War,” directed by Gail Bederman
Timothy Gloege, “Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Creation of Corporate Fundamentalism, 1880-1930,” directed by George Marsden
Andrew Orr, "'La Grande Muette': Gender, Race, and Anti-Republicanism in the French Army, 1918-1934," directed by Thomas Kselman
Justin Poche, "Religion, Race and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938-1970," directed by R. Scott Appleby
2005-2006
Jonathan Couser, “Mixing the Chalice: the Formation of Christian Identity in Early Medieval Bavaria,” directed by Thomas Noble
Jonathan DenHartog, “Patriotism and Piety: The Religious Dimension of Federalist Political Culture,” directed by George Marsden
Matthew Grow, “Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Reform,” directed by George Marsden
Tomasz Rzeznik, “Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Philadelphia, 1880-1950,” directed by John McGreevy
Samy Zaka, “Education and Civilization in the French Third Republic: the University of Saint-Joseph, 1875-1914,” directed by Thomas Kselman
2004-2005
Margaret Abruzzo, "Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate," directed by James Turner.
Darren Dochuk, "From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Southernization of Southern California, 1939-1969," directed by George Marsden.
Laura Dull, "Writing Legitimacy: Gender and Conduct in the Book of the Knight of the Tower," directed by Kathleen Biddick.
Kristin Kobes DuMez, "The Forgotten Woman's Bible: Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, Madeline Southard, and the Construction of a Woman-Centered Protestantism in America, 1870-1930," directed by George Marsden.
Patrick Gillen, "The Intellectual Origins and Original Understanding of the Religious Liberty Provisions," directed by J. Philip Gleason.
Tiffany Grade, "Warfare, the Royal Image, and National Identity: Succession and Propaganda During the Hundred Years War, 1337-1422," directed by Olivia Remie Constable and D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton.
Angela Gugliotta, "Hell with the Lid Taken Off: A Cultural History of Air Pollution - Pittsburgh," directed by Christopher Hamlin.
Claudrena Harold, "The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942," directed by Richard Pierce.
Frederick Jordan, "Between Heaven and Harvard: Protestantism and the American Boarding School Experience, 1778-1940," directed by George Marsden.
Jonathan Lyon, "Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, CA. 1100-1204," directed by John Van Engen.
Patrick Mason, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence Against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865-1910," directed by Scott Appleby.
Mark McCarthy, "Religious Conflict and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Orthodoxy and the Protestant Challenge, 1812-1905," directed by Gary Hamburg.
Owen Phelan, "The Formation of Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians," directed by Thomas Noble.
John Turner, "Selling Jesus to Modern America: Campus Crusade For Christ, Evangelical Culture, and Conservative Politics," directed by George Marsden.
Peter Wallace, "'The Bond of Union': The Old School Presbyterian Church and the American Nation," directed by James Turner.
Samy Zaka, "Education and Civilization in the French Third Republic: The University of Saint-Joseph, 1875-1914," directed by Thomas Kselman.
2003-2004
Richard Bryan Bademan, "Church Questions, American Answers: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Protestant Challenges to Religious Subjectivity," directed by George Marsden.
Michael Kamen, "The Science of the Bible in Nineteenth-Century America: From 'Common Sense' to Controversy, 1820-1900," directed by James Turner.
Marcus Petrus Meuwese, "A Comparative Study of Intercultural Mediators in Dutch Brazil and New Netherland, 1600-1664," directed by Walter Nugent.
2002-2003
Jeffrey Dennis, "American Revolutionaries and Native Americans: The South Carolina Experience," directed by Gregory Dowd.
Troy Feay, "Mission to Moralize: Slaves, Africans, and Missionaries in the French Colonies, 1815-1852," directed by Thomas Kselman.
James P. McCartin, "The Love of Things Unseen': Catholic Prayer and the Moral Imagination in the Twentieth-Century United States," directed by John McGreevy.
Kurt W. Peterson, "Constructing the Covenant: The Evangelical Covenant Church and Twentieth-Century American Religious Culture, 1920-1970," directed by George Marsden.
David Hill Scott, "From Boston to the Baltic: New England, Encyclopedics, and the Hartlib Circle," directed by George Marsden.
2001-2002
David Stewart Bachrach, "Priests at War and Soldiers at Prayer: A History of Military Religion from the Concilium Germanicum (742) to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)," directed by John Van Engen.
Christine Caldwell, "Doctors of Souls: Inquisitions and the Dominican Order, 1231-1331," directed by John Van Engen.
Anthony P. Mora, "Meslillaros and Gringo Mexicans: Race and the (Re)construction of Mexican Identity in 19th Century," directed by Gail Bederman.
Mark Allen Jantzen, "At Home in Germany? The Mennonites of the Vistula Delta and The Constitution of a German National Identity, 1772-1880," directed by Doris Bergen.
2000-2001
Thomas E. Bergler, "Winning America: Christian Youth Groups and the Middle-Class Culture of Crisis, 1930-1965," directed by George Marsden.
Nicole Mische Gothelf, "Persecution, Identity, and Politics: The English Protestant Martyr Narrative and Oppositional Politics in Early New England and Pennsylvania," directed by Gregory Dowd.
Thomas Saunders Kidd, "From Puritan to Evangelical: Changing Culture In New England, 1689-1740," directed by George Marsden.
Anita Lou Specht, "Community and Care: "The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ and Their Hospitals, 1868-1930," directed by Jay Dolan.
William Lawrence Svelmoe, "A New Vision for Missions: William Cameron Townsend in Guatemala and Mexico, 1917-1945," directed by George Marsden.
Jeffrey Gregory Zane, "America, Only Less So? Seattle’s Central Area, 1968-1996," directed by Walter Nugent.
1999-2000
Joseph Whitfield Creech, Jr., "Righteous Indignation: Religion and Populism in North Caroline, 1886-1906," directed by Walter Nugent.
Carolyn Ann Edwards, "Noblewomen of Prayer: The Imperial Convents of Regensburg, 1000-1250," directed by John Van Engen.
John Henry Haas, Jr., "Making Morality Modern: Social Science, Culture Criticism and Sexual Ethics in America," directed by J. Philip Gleason.
Jane Colleen Hannon, "Saints and Patriots: Catholicism in the Bronx, 1920-1940," directed by R. Scott Appleby.
Jeanne Danielle Petit, "Building Citizens: Women, Men and the Immigration Restriction Debates, 1890-1929," directed by Gail Bederman.
Jonathon James Reyes, "Christopher Dawson and the Renewal of Christian Culture," directed by James Turner.
Paul Martin Savage, "History, Exempla, and Caritas in the Exordium Magnum," directed by John Van Engen.
Barbara Mann Wall, "Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Nuns, Nursing, and Hospital Development in the West and Midwest, 1865-1915," directed by Christopher Hamlin.