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Each year, ŮͬÊÓƵbestows PhD degrees on candidates who go on to enter a variety of career fields in the academic departments, public history avenues, among many other fields.  From 2000 through 2022, 99 students received ŮͬÊÓƵdoctoral degrees in History.  Of the 99 recipients, 28 currently hold tenure-track appointments, 33 others hold full-time teaching or administrative appointments in educational institutions, and 38 others hold full-time positions in public history or cultural institutions or in a variety of employment settings.

2025

, Digital Oral History Archivist - Consultant, National Indo American Museum
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: The De Mau Mau Conspiracy: The Specter of Black Vietnam Veterans in the Exercise of Police Power, 1968-1974
Dissertation Director: Dr. Edin Hajdarpasic

, Assistant Professor of History & Public History, University of Nebraska at Kearney
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: In Living Memory: Curatorial Perspectives of Jewish Heritage in Holocaust Public Histories
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2024

PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

2023

, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, St. Vincent College
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Enshrining Memory: The Production of an American Catholic Past
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

, Assistant Professor of History, Austin Peay State University
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Depression-Era World’s Fairs, Imagined Pasts, and Hopeful Futures
Dissertation Director: Dr. Benjamin Johnson

Katie Macica, Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History, Department of History, University of Oregon
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2022

, Part-Time Instructor of History, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "Detrimental Influences: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

, Postdoctoral DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Research Partner Fellow, San Diego State University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Johnson

, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Alabama
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

, Curator, Content and Exhibits, Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, Washington, DC 
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920
Dissertation Director: Dr. Michelle Nickerson

2021

, Assistant Professor of History, North Park University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War
Dissertation Director: Dr. Michelle Nickerson

, Reparative Public Historian, Washington University in St. Louis
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: "We heard sometimes their earnest desire to be free in a free country": Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands, 1823-1930
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Kyle Roberts and Dr. Theodore Karamanski

, Associate Archivist, Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Reams, Revolutionaries and Radicals - The German American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1890
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

2020

, Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator, Midwest Collaborative for Library Sciences
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: “An Environmental Sleight of Hand": Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990
Dissertation Director: Dr. Elliott Gorn

, Assistant Professor of Practice, History Department, Texas State University
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation: Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

, Director of Engagement, American Historical Association
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Modern Metropolitan Chicago
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2019

, Curator of Collections, Winnetka Historical Society
Contract Researcher. U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in the Great Lakes Region, 1969-2010
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

, Accreditation Services Associate, Higher Learning Commission
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "The Audacity to Dream": Black Suburbanization in Metropolitan Detroit, 1920-90
Dissertation Director: Dr. Michelle Nickerson

, Freelance Public Historian and Web Designer
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: All and More That Was Owed: American Indians and Settler Capitalism on the Upper Mississippi, 1805-1890
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

2018

, L. Russell Feakes Associate Professor of the History of Global Christianity, New Brunswick Theological Seminary
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: “Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845
Dissertation Director: Dr. Kyle Roberts

2017

, Co-Founder and Public Historian,
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: She Shot Him Dead: The Criminalization of Women and the Struggle over Social Order in Chicago, 1871-1919
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

, Director of Research, Investigative Research Inc.
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Love and Loyal Actions: Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

, Director, Historical Initiative, Sigma Chi Foundation
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500–1800
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Otis Eliot Pope, Upper School History Teacher,
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans
Dissertation Director: Dr. Christopher Manning

, JD Candidate, WashU Law
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Racial Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Marisol Rivera, Assistant Professor of History/Political Science, Elgin Community College
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983
Dissertation Director: Dr. Christopher Manning

, Social Studies Instructor, River Oaks Baptist School
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Pancho Gonzales' Racket: Citizenship and Celebrity in the Creation of Modern Tennis
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

, Associate Professor of History, San Antonio College
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America
Dissertation Director: Dr. Michelle Nickerson

2016

Melissa Cushing-Davis, Operations Manager, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago, Cuneo Museum and Gardens
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: A Fire That Could Not Be Extinguished: Sovereignty and Identity in the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 1634-1994
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Anthony Di Lorenzo, Assistant Professor of American History, Savannah State University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800
Dissertation Director: Dr. John Donoghue

Andrew Donnelly, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
PhD Classical History
Dissertation Title: Cooking, Cooking Pots, and Cultural Transformation in Imperial and Late Antique Italy
Dissertation Director: Dr. Leslie Dossey

Erin Feichtinger, Best Practices Coordinator, Alliance for Better Omaha
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Remains to be Seen: Execution and Embodiment in the Early English Atlantic World
Dissertation Directors: Dr. John Donoghue and Dr. Robert Bucholz

Peter Kotowski, Director of Prospect Development, University of Denver
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: 'The Best Poor Man's Country?': William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania
Dissertation Director: Dr. John Donoghue

Jeffrey Wing, Academic Advisor, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Olympic Bids, Professional Sports, and Urban Politics: Four Decades of Stadium Planning in Detroit, 1936-1975
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

2015

Devin Hunter, Assistant Professor of American and Public History, University of Illinois at Springfield
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Growing Diversity: Urban Renewal, Community Activism, and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in Uptown Chicago, 1940-1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Daniel O'Gorman, Assistant Professor, Saint Martin's University
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Institution and Identity: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the Pre-Conquest Century
Dissertation Director: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Daniel Ott, Historian and Western Regions Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Project
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Producing a Past: Cyrus McCormick's Reaper from Heritage to History
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Kirby Pringle, Instructor, Bakersfield College, Prison System Inmate Scholars Program
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Waiting on Hollywood: The Tale of an Italian Bit Player
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Joel Yoder, Independent Historian 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Herbert Spencer and His American Audience
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

2014

Audra Bellmore, Associate Professor and Curator, Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections, University of New Mexico
Adjunct Professor, Museum Studies Program, University of New Mexico
Chair, Regents Historic Preservation Committee, University of New Mexico
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: English Cottage Style Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological, and Social Innovation
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Steven Catania, Online Training Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD Early Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

John Krenzke, Associate Professor of History, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach Campus 
PhD Early Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Change is Brewing: The Industrialization of the Brewing Industry in England, 1550-1750
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Kelly O'Connor, Advanced Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director, History Department, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Fashionable Life: Fashion Imagery and the Construction of Masculinity in America, 1960-2000"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Susan Hirsch

Stella Ress, Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "Will You Love Me in December, As You Do in May?": Gold Diggers, Sugar Daddies, & Age-Disparate Relationships in the US, 1890-1950
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Patrica Mooney-Melvin

2013

Domenico Ferri, Assistant Professor of History, Co-Chairperson, Social and Applied Sciences Department, Harold Washington College 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Funk the Power: Unassimilated Blackness and Sound in the Post-King Era, 1968-1985
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Elizabeth Fraterrigo

Patrick Mallory, Academic Dean, Business and Social Sciences, Meramec Campus of St. Louis Community College 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Game They All Played: Chicago Baseball 1876-1906
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

, Lecturer, History, Lake Forest College
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Feeling Like a Crusader: Crusader Affect and Crusade Theology 1095-1291
Dissertation Director: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Jennifer Searcy, Director, Great Lakes Naval Museum
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago
Dissertation Director: Dr. Christopher Manning

Megan Stout Sibbel, Curator and Chief Historian, Salisbury House and Gardens
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Sisters of the South: Roman Catholic Nuns in African American Communities, 1935-1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Albert W. Vogt III, Co-Founder, Of Historical Interest (history consulting firm)
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928-1968
Dissertation Director: Dr. Christopher Manning

2012

Alexandra DeMonte Michaelides, User Experience Researcher at Flywheel; Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1992
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Timothy Gilfoye and Dr. Susan Hirsch

, Associate Professor of US and Public History, North Park University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Susan Garneau, Adjunct Professor, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago; Instructor, Grand View University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Imprisoning Chicago: Incarceration, the Chicago City Council, Prisoners, and Reform, 1832-1915
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Thomas Greene, Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Emotional Standards, Liturgical Celebration and the Monks of Saint-Germain (Auxerre), 840-908
Dissertation Director: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Brian Jolet, Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy, 1919-1933
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

, Managing Partner, ORA Dental Studio-Gold Coast
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Transnational Nationalism & the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Ronald Martin, Director of Admissions, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Flowers in Chicago: Counterculture in Chicago in the 1960s
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2011

Stephen Bruner
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism:  Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission
 Dissertation Director: Dr. Anthony Cardoza

Kevin Kaufmann, Undergraduate Research Program Manager, Center of Experiential Learning, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Rigorous Honesty: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1960
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Lewis Erenberg and Dr. Harold Platt

Elizabeth Matelski, Assistant Professor of History, Endicott College
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Color(s) of Perfection:  The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as  (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Maria Reynolds, Historic Interpreter and Curator, Staatsburgh State Historic Site 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Doing History in the Adirondacks:  Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Cord Scott, Professor, University of Maryland Global Campus
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom (US Naval Institute Press, 2014).

Adam Shprintzen, Associate Professor of History, Marywood University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Abstention to Consumption: The Development of American Vegetarian Identity, 1817-1917
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 (UNC Press, 2015).

2010

Angela Fritz, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa 
PhD Public History/American History 
Dissertation Title: Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, A Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952
Dissertation Director: Dr. Susan Hirsch

L. Jon Grogan, VP, Lead Sourcing Specialist, PNC Financial Group
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and the Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

, Writer and Editor, Ransford and Associates
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Jason Myers, Content Strategist and Copywriter, Plum Voice
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: "A Land Fit for Heroes"?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski
Published as  (Academica Press, 2012).

2009

Rae Bielakowski, Freelance Writer/Editor
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: You Are in the World: Catholic Campus Life at ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago, Mundelein College, and De Paul University, 1924-1950
Dissertation Director: Dr. William Galush

, Public Affairs Team Lead, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Tourist Attractions, Souvenirs, and Civil War Memory in Chicago, 1861-1915
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Kirsten DeVries, Associate Instructor of English, Virginia Western Community College
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Episcopal Identity in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 397-700
Dissertation Director: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

Marc Dluger, Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director, Public History and Historic Preservation Certificate Program, Northern Virginia Community College
PhD American History
Dissertation Title:  A Regimental Community: The Men of the 82nd Illinois Infantry Before, During, and After the American Civil War
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Alfonzo Greene, Jr., Associate Professor of History, Oakwood University
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: [Black] Regional Conferences in the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) Compared with United Methodist [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Annual Conferences with White SDA Conferences, 1940-2001
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Dr. Paula Pfeffer

Troy Henderson, Michigan Iron Industry Museum, Neguanee, MI
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Shanty-boys, Lumberjacks, and Loggers: A Social and Cultural History of the Upper Great Lakes Woodsworkers
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Frances Mitilineos, Instructor of History, Oakton Community College
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Christians and Jews in Thirteenth-Century England: Confrontation and Cooperation 1189-1290
Dissertation Director: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

2008

, President, Covenant College
PhD Early Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Religion and Reformation: Johannes Justus Lansperger, O. Cart. (1489/90-1539) and the Sixteenth-Century "Religious" Question
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bireley, SJ

Michael Nicholsen, Associate Professor (tenure-track), Oakton Community College
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "Auld Sod" and New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868-1999"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Angela Schlater, Senior Cross-Foundation Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Flaming Youth: Gender in 1920s Hollywood
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Claudette Tolson, Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Perimeter College
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Excluded and the Included: Chicago, White Supremacy and the Clubwomen's Movement, 1873-1915
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Alan Zola, Instructor, College of DuPage
PhD Medieval European History
Dissertation Title: Radbertus's Monastic Voice: Ideas about Monasticism at Ninth-Century Corbie
Dissertation Director: Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

2007

Cranston Knight, Founder/Executive Director, Global Voices International: A Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Institute:
Adjunct Professor of History, St. Augustine College; Part-Time Instructor, History Department, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago; Board Member of the Chicago United Nations Organization
PhD American History 
Dissertation Title: When War Was No Longer Unthinkable: American Perception of and Reaction to Japan Prior to Pearl Harbor
Dissertation Director: Dr. Paula Pfeffer

Mark Long, Associate Dean for Academic Partnerships and Associate Professor of History, At Sea Education Association 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Cultivating a New Order: Reconstructing Florida's Postbellum Frontier
Dissertation Director: Dr. Susan Hirsch

2006

Patrick Jennings, Chief, Programs and Education, National Museum of the United States Army
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Clio's Drumbeat: Gathering and Using History in Wartime
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

, Director, Medical Student Learning Environment, University of Illinois College of Medicine; Part-Time Instructor, History Department, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago;
Co-founder of the Teacher of Adult Education Seminars, The Newberry Library 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler and Twentieth-Century America
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as,  (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Elizabeth Myers, Director of Special Collections, Smith College 
PhD Public History/American History 
Dissertation Title: Burning Bras, Long Hairs & Dashikis:  The Personal Politics of American Culture, 1950-1975
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Jan Olive-Full, Owner, Tallgrass Historians L.L.C.
PhD Public History/American History 
Dissertation Title: Hinterland or Heartland: Survival of the Midwest Small Town, 1850-1990
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Justin Pettegrew, Assistant Professor, Shorter College 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Onward Christian Soldiers: The Transformation of Religion, Masculinity, and Class in the Chicago YMCA, 1857-1933
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Jason Stacy, Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman's Three Personas in the New Market Economy
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as  (Peter Lang, 2008).

2005

Constance Buckley, Part-Time Faculty, Columbia College; 
Part-Time Instructor, History Department, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago;
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Searching for Fort Dearborn: Perception, Commemoration and Celebration of an Urban Creation Memory
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

, Instructor and Department Chair, College of Lake County 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Imagining Chicago: The Role of Newspaper Columnists in Creating a City of the Mind, 1890-1930
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

, Associate Professor of History, Carthage College
PhD Early Modern European History
Dissertation Title: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scottish Herring Fishery: The Effects of the 1707 Treaty of Union on the Scottish Economy and Early Modern Britain
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

, Career Coach, Catherine Maybrey Coaching Services
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: From Onanism to Orgasm: Masturbation, Medicine and Gender in America, 1646-1960
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

Andrew Witt, Associate Professor of History, Edgewood College 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: "Picking Up the Hammer": The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party with Emphasis on the Milwaukee Branch, 1966-1977
Dissertation Director: Dr. Paula Pfeffer
Published as  (Routledge, 2007).

2004

Jerry Foust, Collections and Facilities Manager, Dumbarton House.; Adjunct Professor in Arts and Museums Studies, Georgetown University
PhD Public History/American History 
Dissertation Title: Our Town, Their Town: Community and Tourism South Haven, Michigan, 1830-1930
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

, Associate Professor, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago 
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Entertainment for Men: Playboy, Masculinity and Postwar American Culture
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
Published as  (Oxford University Press, 2009).

, Associate Professor of Historical Studies and Director, Museum Studies Program, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Meet Me at the Station: The Culture and Aesthetics of Chicago's Railroad Terminals, 1871-1930
Dissertation Director: Dr. Susan Hirsch

, Associate Professor of History, Salve Regina University
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Crossing Parochial Boundaries: African-Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago, 1914-1954
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as  (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Scott Newman
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Boundless Pleasures: Young Chicagoans, Commercial Amusements, and the Revitalization of Urban Life, 1900-1930
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

Temple Tsenes-Hills, Adjunct Professor, Department of Education, Benedictine University 
PhD American History 
Dissertation Title: I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893
Dissertation Director: Dr. Susan Hirsch
Published as I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893 (IUniverse, 2006).

2003

Rev. William T. Corcoran, Jr., Dean, Archdiocese of Chicago; Pastor, St. Elizabeth Seton Parish
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Imagining a Future: The Reassertion of Irish Identity
Dissertation Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

, Associate Professor of History, Marian University 
PhD Early Modern European History 
Dissertation Title: The Wicked Man Shall Not Abide in My House: The Courts of the Verge and the English Monarchy, 1660-1760"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bucholz

Anne Wingenter, Assistant Professor, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago, Rome Center, Rome, Italy 
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: The Dead are Passing: The Association of Mothers and Widows of the 'Fallen' in Fascist Italy
Dissertation Director: Dr. Anthony Cardoza

2002

Malachy McCarthy, O.S.B, Archvist, Claretian Missionaries Archives, Catholic Library Association
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: Which Christ Came to Chicago: Catholic and Protestant Programs to Evangelize, Socialize and Americanize the Mexican Immigrant, 1900-1940"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Willam Galush

2001

, Associate Professor, Central College of Iowa 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: More than a "Slaving Wife": The Limits and Possibilities of Womanhood for Conservative Protestant College Women in the 1920s and 1930s
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

2000

Jeffrey Brierton, Principal, Concordia University; Adjunct Professor in Educational Leadership, Northeastern Illinois University 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: War on Two Fronts Vietnam and the Heartland: A Study of the Effect of the Vietnam War on an American Community 1965-1973
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Michael O'Malley
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Local Relief During the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850: The Case of County Mayo 
Dissertation Director: Dr. Janet Nolan

1999

Robert Karrow, Retired from Cartography Division, The Newberry Library 
PhD Early Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Intellectual Foundations of the Cartographic Revolution 
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Bireley, S.J.

1998

Paul Connors, Administrator, School Fiscal Accountability Division, Michigan Department of Treasury 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: America's Emerald Isle: A Social History of the Irish of Beaver Island, Michigan, 1856-1945
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

Dennis Cremin, History Professor, History Center Director, Lewis University 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Building Chicago's Front Yard: Grant Park 1836 to 1936
Dissertation Director: Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin

1996

David Blanke, Professor of History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Sowing the American Dream: Consumer Culture in the Rural Midwest, 1865-1900
Dissertation Director: Dr. Harold Platt
Published as  (Ohio University Press, 2000).

, Associate Professor of History, University of New Orleans 
PhD World History
Dissertation Title: The Occult Feminism of Margaret Cousins in Modern Ireland and India, 1878-1954
Dissertation Director: Dr. Janet Nolan

Mary Munsell Abroe , Adjunct Lecturer in History, College of Lake County 
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: "All the Profound Scenes": Federal Preservation of Civil War Battlefields, 1861-1900
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski   

, Executive Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Professor of History, University of South Carolina, Sumpter 
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: British-Israel: Racial Identity in Imperial Britain, 1870-1920 
Dissertation Director: Dr. Jo Hays 

1995

Albert Slomovitz, Founder, Doctors of Equality: Reducing Racism and Prejudice 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: The Fighting Rabbis: A History of Jewish Military Chaplains, 1860-1945
Dissertation Director: Dr. William Galush

George Sochan, Professor of History and Government, Bowie State University 
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: The Cultural Role of Christianity in England, 1918-1931: An Anglican Perspective on State Education
Dissertation Director: Dr. Jo Hays

1994

Pietro Lorenzini, Adjunct Instructor of Criminal Justice, St. Xavier University 
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Tyranny of Stone: Economic Modernization and Political Radicalization in the Marble Industry of Massa-Carrara, 1859-1914
Dissertation Director: Dr. Anthony Cardoza

Erin McCarthy, Associate Professor, Columbia College 
PhD American History 
Dissertation Title: "Making Men: The Life and Career of Amos Alonzo Stagg, 1862-1933
Dissertation Director: Dr. Theodore Karamanski

John Morgan
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: The Army of Catalonia Organization, Operations and Logistics, 1807-1814
Dissertation Director: Dr. Walter Gray

Kathleen Toerpe, Executive Director, JUST Door County; Deputy CEO for Public Outreach and Education, Astrosociology Research Institute 
PhD Public History/American History
Dissertation Title: "Small Fry, Big Spender": McDonald's and the Rise of a Children's Consumer Culture, 1955-1985
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg

1993

Mychal Angelos, Lawyer
PhD Classical History
Dissertation Title: "Herakleia Trachinia in the Archidamian War Dissertation Director: Dr. George Szemler

1992

John Zimmerman
Dissertation Title: "Church-State Relations in Antebellum Illinois
Dissertation Director: Dr. John Reardon

1991

Michael Murphy
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Gerry Fitt: Ulster Politician
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lawrence McCaffrey

Andrew Wilson
Advanced Lecturer, History Department, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago 
PhD American History
Dissertation Title: Irish-America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968-1985
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lawrence McCaffrey

Anie Sergis, Instructor, Alliance Française de Chicago; Part-Time Faculty, Harold Washington Library; Adjunct Faculty, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago 
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: Education in France During World War II
Dissertation Director: Dr. Walter Gray

1990

Brian Griffin, Adjunct History Faculty, ŮͬÊÓƵ Chicago 
PhD Modern European History
Dissertation Title: The Irish Police, 1836-1914: A Social History
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lawrence McCaffrey

1989

, Professor, Lewis University
Dissertation Title: What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations 
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lewis Erenberg
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