Dissertations from 2014
More Than Met the Eye: Industry in the Antebellum Gulf South, Michael Sean Frawley
The 'Happiest Corner' of London: Bethnal Green, 1881-1951, Audrey Gray
Richard, son of York: the life and northern career of Richard III, Clara E. Howell
The Pulpit and the Nation: Clergymen, Political Culture, and the Creation of an American National Identity, Spencer W. McBride
The Birth of a Drone Nation: American Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Since 1917, Garrett Dale McKinnon
The Romano-Parthian Cold War: Julio-Claudian Foreign Policy in the First Century CE and Tacitus' Annales, John J. Poirot
Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization, Mona Cristina Rocha
Theses from 2013
"A woman for many imperfections intolerable": Anne Stanhope, the Seymour family, and the Tudor court, Caroline Elizabeth Armbruster
British women and orientalism in the early nineteenth century : a study of Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali's "Observations on the Mussulmauns of India", Katherine Blank
Two histories, one future : Louisiana sugar planters, their slaves, and the Anglo-Creole schism, 1815-1865, Nathan Buman
Queenship, intrigue and blood-feud: deciphering the causes of the Merovingian civil wars, 561-613, Brandon Taylor Craft
Res Voluntaria, Non Necessaria: The Conquest and Forced Conversion of the Saxons under Charlemagne, Alexander Scott Dessens
Rube tube : CBS, rural sitcoms, and the image of the south, 1957-1971, Sara K. Eskridge
Fulcrum of the Union: The Border South and the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861, Michael Dudley Robinson
"A simple zeal and earnest love to the truth" : the religious journeys of Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Katherine Parr, Queen of England, Megan Elizabeth Spruell
Dissertations from 2012
British identity and the German other, William F. Bertolette
Building the Big Chief: Charles Garnier and the Paris of his time, Paige Bowers
Collective security or world domination: the Soviet Union and Germany, 1917-1939, Mark Davis Kuss
Fashioning the future: the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1948, Meghann Lanae Landry
Imperial consensus: the English press and India, 1919-1935, David Lilly
Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840, Adam Jeffrey Pratt
Rebels, settlers and violence: rebellion in western Munster 1641-2, Christopher Sailus
Alfred von Waldersee, monarchist: his private life, public image, and the limits of his ambition, 1882-1891, Wade James Trosclair
Shades of grey: slaveholding free women of color in antebellum New Orleans, 1800-1840, Anne Ulentin
"Pure Americanism": building a modern St. Louis and the reign of Know Nothingism, Vanessa Varin
Canning foods and selling modernity: the canned food industry and consumer culture, 1898-1945, Kristi Renee Whitfield
"A Damned Set of Rascals" the Continental Army vs. the Continental Congress: tensions among revolutionaries, Megan Wilson
Dissertations from 2011
The northern clergy and the Pilgrimage of Grace, Keith Altazin
"Are you better off"; Ronald Reagan, Louisiana, and the 1980 Presidential election, Matthew David Caillet
"The prince and his people": a study of Edwardian propaganda, 1547-1549, Allison Claire Cooper
"The faults of a Virginian": John Marshall and republican legal culture, Nathan Thomas Hall
The influence of humanism on English social structures through the actions of Thomas Linacre and John Colet, Erin Michelle Halloran
"The Bald Knobbers of Southwest Missouri, 1885-1889: A Study of Vigilante Justice in the Ozarks.", Matthew James Hernando
The long road home: Alfred Andersch, Hans Werner Richter, and the German search for meaning in catastrophe, Aaron Dennis Horton
Providing for the common defense: internal security and the Cold War, 1945-1975, Marc A. Patenaude
Theses from 2010
The poisonous wine from Catalonia: rebellion in Spanish Louisiana during the Ulloa, O'Reilly, and Carondelet administrations, Timothy Paul Achee
The rise of the surgical age in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a case study of the Mississippi State Sanatorium, Ashley Baggett
In the shadow of Josephinism: Austria and the Catholic Church in the Restoration, 1815-1848, Scott M. Berg
Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860, Robert Christopher Childers
"You can never convert the free sons of the soil into vassals": Judah P. Benjamin and the threat of union, 1852-1861, Geoffrey David Cunningham
Resurrecting the martyrs: the role of the Cult of the Saints, A.D. 370-430, Collin Garbarino
Edmund Burke and his impact on the British political, social and moral response during the French Revolution (1790-1797), Guy Brendan Gonzalez
The History of Holy Rosary Institute, Don J. Hernandez
Medieval sources in the early work of Pablo Picasso, Erin Elizabeth Horton
"Teach us incessantly": lessons and learning in the antebellum Gulf South, Sarah L. Hyde
German enemy aliens and the decine of British liberalism in World War I, Ansley L. Macenczak
The courtship of providence and patriotism: the founders' perceptions of American religion, Spencer Welles McBride
The reunification of American Methodism, 1916-1939: a thesis, Blake Barton Renfro
"Unspottyd lambs of the Lord": Presbyterianism and the people in Elizabethan London, Katherine E. Sawyer
"Beat the drum ecclesiastic": Gilbert Sheldon and the settlement of Anglican orthodoxy, Heather D. Thornton
"To liberate communication": the Realist and Paul Krassner's 1960s, Terry Joel Wagner
Christian community and the development of an Americo-Liberian identity, 1824-1878, Andrew N. Wegmann
Berlin & the Origins of Detente: multilateral & bilateral negotiations in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963, Richard Dean Williamson
Dissertations from 2009
Attacking Jim Crow: black activism in New Orleans 1925-1941, Sharlene Sinegal DeCuir
The desegregation of New Orleans public and Roman Catholic schools in New Orleans, 1950-1962, Kristina D. McKenzie
The passion over perpetua: a new approach to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, Eric Poche
Sulpicius Severus and Martin of Tours: defending a mentor, securing a saint, Matthew Ryan Reed
Catholic missionaries in Africa: the White Fathers in the Belgian Congo 1950-1955, Kathryn Rountree
These savages are called the Natchez: violence as exchange and expression in Natchez-French relations, Kathrine Seyfried
Selling the ghetto: rap music and entrepreneurialism, Stuart Lucas Tully
Theses from 2008
To kill whites: the 1811 Louisiana slave insurrection, Nathan A. Buman
How the Mustang trampled the Luftwaffe: the role of the P-51 in the defeat of the German air force in World War Two, Robert W. Courter
The second coming of Paisley: militant fundamentalism and Ulster politics in a transatlantic context, Richard Lawrence Jordan
Mr. Kerry goes to Washington: Lord Lothian and the genesis of the Anglo-American alliance, 1939-1940, Craig Edward Saucier
The Case of Human Plurality: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Individualism in Enlightenment and Romantic Thinking, Joshua Luke Yoder
Theses from 2007
Nature, nurture, mythology: a cultural history of Dutch Orangism during the first stadholderless era, 1650-1672, Greg Alan Beaman
A non-traditional traditionalist: Rev. A. H. Sayce and his intellectual approach to biblical authenticity and biblical history in late-Victorian Britain, Roshunda Lashae Belton
French influence overseas: the rise and fall of colonial Indochina, Julia Alayne Grenier Burlette
Revelations from "Cheesecake Manor": Agatha Christie, detective fiction, and interwar England, Carron Stewart Fillingim
Reclaiming martyrdom: Augustine's reconstruction of martyrdom in late antique North Africa, Collin S. Garbarino
Grinning with the devil: the use of humor in race record advertisments, Justin Guidry
Brownsville revisited, Ricardo Purnell Malbrew
Religion beyond the empire: British religious politics in China, 1842-1866, Joshua Thomas Marr
Emigration to Liberia from the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903, Matthew F. McDaniel
Towards Nakba: the failure of the British mandate of Palestine, 1922-1939, Nicholas Ensley Mitchell
The education of Princess Mary Tudor, Katherine Lee Pierret Perkins
The cavalier in the mind of the South, 1876-1916, Adam Jeffrey Pratt
"Fame's eternal camping ground": Louisiana and Virginia Civil War cemeteries, Leanna Deveres Smith
A return to civilian leadership: New Orleans 1865-1866, Arthur Wendel Stout
The politics of improvement: internal improvements, sectionalism, and slavery in Mississippi 1820-1837, Sam Beardsley Todd
Free women of color and slaveholding in New Orleans, 1810-1830, Anne Ulentin
Political conspiracy in Napoleonic France: the Malet affair, Kelly Diane Whittaker
Theses from 2006
Playing at command: midshipmen and quarterdeck boys in the Royal Navy, 1793-1815, Samantha A. Cavell
Politics of the personal in the old north state: Griffith Rutherford in Revolutionary North Carolina, James Matthew Mac Donald
The McCarran Internal Security Act, 1950-2005: civil liberties versus national security, Marc Patenaude
Once proud princes: planters and plantation culture in Louisiana's northeast Delta, from the First World War through the Great Depression, James Matthew Reonas
All the world's a stage: pageantry as propaganda at the court of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569, Kimberly Kay Reynolds
Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West, Derek Stephen Zumbro
Dissertations from 2005
Problems of modernization in late imperial Russia: Maksim M. Kovalevskii on social and economic reform, Evgeny Badredinov
The relationship between the papacy and the Jews in twelfth-century Rome: papal attitudes toward biblical Judaism and contemporary european Jewry, Marie Therese Champagne
Civil War prisons in American memory, Benjamin Gregory Cloyd
Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England: an analysis of selected hagiography from Northumbria written in the years after the Council of Whitby, Carrie Couvillon
The Persian policies of Alexander the Great: from 330-323 BC, Nicholas Ed Foster
Anglian leadership in Northumbria, 547 A.D. through 1075 A.D., Jean Anne Hayes
A crisis of opportunity: the example of New Orleans and public education in antebellum Louisiana, Sarah Elisabeth Lipscomb
American disillusionment and the search for self-fulfillment in the 1970's: a cultural history of Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever, Joshua Elliot Lubin
Sufficient to make heaven weep: the American army in the Mexican War, Brian M. McGowan
The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844, Steven Heath Mitton
La madame et la mademoiselle: Creole women in Louisiana, 1718-1865, Katy Frances Morlas