1996-1997

Bryon Andreasen, “‘As Good A Right to Pray’: Protestant Democrats on the Northern Civil War Home Front,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Robert W. Johannsen

*Dissertation on file

Mara Dodge, “The Social Construction of Female Criminality: A History of Women’s Imprisonment in Illinois, 1860-1970,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisors: Margaret Strobel and Leo Schelbert

*Dissertation on file

Suzanne Cooper Guasco, “‘On the Alter of His Principles’: Edward Coles and the Crucible of Slavery,” The College of William and Mary.

Advisor: Chandos Michael Brown

Caroline Waldron Merithew, “ Prairie Immigrants: Class Formation, Racial Consciousness, and American Identity in the Illinois River Valley Coal Towns, 1894-1924,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

*Dissertation on file

Rowena Olegario, “Credit and Society in Nineteenth-Century America,” Harvard University.

Advisor: Stephan Thernstrom

Graham Peck, “The Social and Cultural Origins of Sectional Politics: Illinois from Statehood to Civil War,” Northwestern University.

Advisor: James Oakes

*Dissertation on file

Andrew C. Rieser, “Origins of the Liberal Creed: Public Culture and Private Desire at Chautauqua, 1874-1919,” University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Advisor: Paul S. Boyer

Amada I. Seligman, “Scaling Ghetto Walls: Race and Community on Chicago’s West Side, 1940-1970,” Northwestern University.

Advisor: Henry C. Binford

*Dissertation on file

1997-1998

Michael J. Bennett, “Bluecoats Afloat: The Common Union Soldier of the American Civil War,” St. Louis University.

Advisor: Mark E. Neely, Jr.

Wallace Best, “‘Passionately Human, No Less Divine’: Racial Ideology and Religious Culture in the Black Churches of Chicago, 1915-1955,” Northwestern University.

Advisor: Nancy MacLean

Tracey A. Deutsch, “The Politics of Mass Consumption: Gender, Retailing, and the State, 1920-1946,” University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Advisor: Coleen Dunlavy

Rosemary Holz, “The Birth Control Clinic: Women, Planned Parenthood, and the Birth Control Manufacturing Industry, Illinois, 1930-1975,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Leslie Reagan

*Dissertation on file

Lynnea Magnuson, “A Gendered Reading of Manifest Destiny,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Sonja Michel

Doris Malkmus, “Coeducation, Social Reconfiguration and the Settlement of Illinois,” University of Iowa.

Advisor: Kenneth Cmiel

Wendy Plotkin, “Deeds of Mistrust: Race, Housing, and Restrictive Covenants in Chicago, 1900-1950,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Perry R. Duis

Mark Santow, “Saul Alinsky and the Crisis on American Democracy,” University of Pennsylvania.

Advisor: Michael Katz

Andrew B. Smith, “Reels of Blood and Thunder: A History of the Chicago Western,” University of California at Los Angeles.

Advisor: Thomas S. Hines

Randi Jill Storch, “Shades of Red: The Communist Party and Chicago’s Workers, 1928-1939,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

*Dissertation on file

1998-1999

Brian S. Deason, “Eye of the Storm: A Political Biography of Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Advisor: Howard W. Allen

Dawn Rae Flood, “ Hard to Prove: Victims in Chicago Rape Trials, 1926-1966,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Leslie J. Reagan

*Dissertation on file

D. Bradford Hunt, “What Went Wrong with Public Housing? Federal Policymaking and Local Implementation in Chicago, 1934-1980,” University of California at Berkeley.

Advisor: Richard Abrams

Michael D. Jacobs, “Catholic Response to the Ku Klux Klan Incursion into the Midwest, 1921-1928,” Marquette University.

Advisor: Steven Avella

Charles Lumpkins, “The History of African Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois circa 1914-1945,” Pennsylvania State University.

Advisor: Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

John F. Lyons, “The Chicago Teachers Union and the Schools, 1937-1980,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Eric Arnesen

Lisa Gail Materson, “African American Women’s Involvement in Electoral Politics, 1913-1936,” University of California at Los Angeles.

Advisor: Ellen DuBois

Chandra M. Miller, “Motivations and Attitudes of Union and Confederate Soldiers in the Civil War,” Harvard University.

Advisor: William E. Gienapp

Stephen J. Provasnik, “The Quest for Perfection: The Making of the School and the State, 1870-1920,” University of Chicago.

Advisor: Carl F. Kaestle

*Dissertation on file

Mark R. Wilson, “The Business of Civil War and the Transformation of Political Economy: The Midwest and the Union, 1848-1877,” University of Chicago.

Advisor: Kathleen Neils Conzen

1999-2000

Mark A. Cyr, “‘The Valley of Shadows’: Religion, Law and Politics in Antebellum Illinois,” Washington University.

Advisor: Iver Bernstein

Andrew J. Diamond, “Hoodlums, Rebels, and Vice Lords: Youth Gangs and the Politics of Race in Chicago, 1919-1973,” University of Michigan.

Advisor: Terrance J. McDonald

Elizabeth Green, “Unraveling a Pastime: Needlework and Needlework Literature, 1870-1910,” Northern Illinois University.

Advisor: Barbara M. Posadas

*Dissertation on file

Elisa Miller, “Education for What? Home Economics, Woman, and American Higher Education, 1890-1935,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Sonya Michel

Timothy B. Neary, “Crossing Parochial Boundaries: African-Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago, 1919-1954,” Loyola University of Chicago.

Advisor: Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Oleta Prinsloo, “The Case of ‘the Dyed-in-the-Wool Abolitionists’ in Marion County, Missouri in the early 1840s: An Examination of a Slaveholding Community’s Response to Radical Abolitionism,” University of Missouri-Columbia.

Advisor: Susan Flader

Nicole Ranganath, “Wedding Women to Tradition: Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora 1965-1990,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Leslie J. Reagan

2000-2001

Rachael Bohlmann, “Drunken Husbands, Drunken State: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s Remaking of American Families and Public Communities in Chicago, 1874-1933,” University of Iowa.

Advisor: Linda K. Kerber

Jeffrey A. Brune, “Agrarian Vestiges: Rural Migrants and the Rise of Chicago, 1871-1929,” University of Washington.

Advisor: Richard S. Kirkendall

Jonathan S. Coit, “The Discourse of Racial Violence: Race, Gender, Politics and Crime in Chicago, 1914-1923,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Kathryn J. Oberdeck

Sean Harris, “From Moral Healing to Mental Hygiene: The Commitment, Institutionalization, and Aftercare of the Mentally Ill in Illinois from 1870-1930,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Leo Schelbert

Daniel J. Lerner, “Visions of a Sporting City: ‘Shadowball’ and Black Chicago, 1890-1955,” Michigan State University.

Advisor: Maureen Flanagan

Alan G. Shackford, “The American Bottom, Crossroads of Early America,” Indiana University.

Advisor: R. David Edmunds

Peter J. Ufland, “The Politics of Race in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, 1864-1890,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Michael Perman

2001-2002

Pamela L. Baker, “The National Road and the Promise of Improvement, 1802-1841,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Daniel Scott Smith

Susan Roth Breitzer, Class, Ethnicity, and Community: The Jewish Labor Movement of Chicago, 1886-1928,” University of Iowa.

Advisor: Shelton Stromquist

Lionel Kimble, Jr., “Combating the City of Neighborhoods: Employment, Housing, and Civil Rights in Chicago, 1940-1955,” University of Iowa.

Advisor: Robert F. Jefferson

Matthew R. Lindaman, “Heimat in the Heartland: A Trans-Atlantic German Migration,” University of Kansas.

Advisor: Carl Strikwerda

Russell McClintock, “Response to Secession: Northern Political Culture and the Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861,” Clark University.

Advisor: Drew McCoy

Paula J. Anders McNally, “Moral Education in One-Room Schools: Macoupin County as a Case Study, 1906-1940,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Advisor: Kay J. Carr

*Dissertation on file

Robert M. Owens, “Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison, the Hoosiers, and the Primacy of Indian Policy in the Early Republic,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Daniel Littlefield

*Dissertation on file

Jennifer L. Weber, “The Civil War and Northern Society,” Princeton University.

Advisor: James M. McPherson

2002-2003

Sarah Boyle, “‘Creating a Union of the Union’: The Place of Regionalism in the Development of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1880-1900,” State University of New York at Binghamton.

Advisor: Kathryn Kish Sklar

Steve Burnett, “‘Cheat You Fair’: Maxwell Street and Chicago’s Working Poor, 1912-1968,” Carnegie Mellon University.

Advisor: Joe William Trotter

Linda Carlisle, “Elizabeth Packard and Boundaries of Gender, Religion and Sanity in Nineteenth Century America,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Advisor: John Y. Simon

Cheryl Ganz, “A Century of Progress: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Perry R. Duis

Steve Hageman, “‘This is a Terrible Thing’: Race, Class, and Gender on Chicago’s Southwest Side, 1950-1970,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

Michael T.M. McCoyer, “Mestizaje Meets the Color Line: Mexicans and Racial Formation in the Chicago-Calumet Region, 1917-1960,” Northwestern University.

Advisor: Henry C. Binford

Caroline Rolland-Diamond, “Student Activism in Chicago in the Vietnam War Era, 1965-1973,” Universite De Paris 1 (The Sorbonne).

Advisor: Andre Kaspi

Michael Sherfy, “Narrating Black Hawk: Constructing and Reconstructing a Native American Historical Subject, 1832-2002,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Frederick E. Hoxie

2003-2004

Jennifer Harbour, “Shining in the Shadow of Men and War: African-American Women’s Philanthropy and Political Culture in Civil War Chicago and St. Louis, 1863-1870,” University of Iowa.

Advisor: Leslie A. Schwalm

Michael D. Innis-Jimenez, “Persisting in the Shadow of Steel: Community Formation and Survival in Mexican South Chicago, 1919-1939,” University of Iowa.

Advisors: Malcolm Rohrbough and Shelton Stromquist

Christopher E. Jaffe, “‘Us and Them’: The Changing Boundaries of Acceptance and Exclusion for Incoming Ethnic Religious, and Racial Groups in Rockford, Illinois, 1880-1945,” Northern Illinois University.

Advisor: Barbara M. Posadas

Robert M. Morrissey, “Bottomlands, Borderlands: Empire and Identity in the Eighteenth Century Illinois Country,” Yale University.

Advisor: John Mack Faragher

Emily B. Zuckerman, “EEOC v. Sears,” Rutgers University at New Brunswick.

Advisor: Steven F. Lawson

2004-2005

Kenya Davis-Hayes, “Lessons of Place: A Case Study on the Creation of Physical and Curricular Segregation, 1910-1920,” Purdue University.

Advisor: Vernon J. Williams, Jr.

Cheryl Hudson, “Making the Modern Citizen: Political Culture in Chicago, 1890-1930,” Vanderbilt University.

Advisor: Don H. Doyle

Dana Weiner, “Racial Radicals, Principles Enacted: The Struggle Against Inequality, Prejudice, and Slavery, 1829-1870,” Northwestern University.

Advisor: Stephanie McCurry

2005-2006

Rene Luis Alvarez, “Minority Education in the Urban Midwest: Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1920-1990,” University of Pennsylvania.

Advisor: Michael B. Katz

John A. Ayabe, “Evangelicals and the Antimission Crisis: A Study of Religious Identity in the Central Mississippi Valley, 1820-1840,” Saint Louis University.

Advisor: Lewis Perry

Denise R. Johnson, “GI Jane Remembered: Central Illinois Women Who Served Their Country During World War II,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Advisor: Kay J. Carr

Stacy Pratt McDermott, “ A Legal Conduit of Community Power: Grand and Petit Jury Service in Antebellum Midwest,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Vernon Burton

Sarah Rose, “No Right to Be Idle: Work, Citizenship, and the Invention of Disability, 1880-1930,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Susan Levine

Anne Stephenson, “Rebuilding Bungalows: Home Improvement and the Historic Chicago Bungalow Initiative,” University of Chicago.

Advisor: Katherine Fischer Taylor

2006-2007

Thomas Bahde, “Race and Justice in the Heartland: Three Nineteenth-Century Lives,” University of Chicago.

Advisor: Kathleen Neils Conzen

Will Cooley, “Holding the Line: Status, Race and the Middle Class on Chicago’s Southside, 1945-1983,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

Bryan Nicholson, “The Price of Americanism: Youth, U.S. Nationalism, and the American Legion, 1935-1970,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

John Reda, “Joining the Union: Land, Race, and Sovereignty in the Illinois Country, 1763-1824,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Richard R. John

Joshua Salzmann, “”Safe Harbor: Chicago’s Waterfront and the Political Economy of the Built Environment, 1877-1920,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Richard R. John

2007-2008

Megan Birk, “At the Mercy of the State: Rural Child Welfare Institutes, 1865-1910,” Purdue University.

Advisor: R. Douglas Hurt

Marc Dluger, “A Regimental Community: The Men of the 82nd Illinois Infantry Regiment Before, During, and After the American Civil War,” Loyola University.

Advisor: Theodore J. Karamanski

Keith Erekson, “When People Do History: Indiana’s ‘Lincoln Inquiry’ and the Practice of History in America,” Indiana University.

Advisor: David Thelen

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, “The Rise of a Punishing Logic: The Punitive Turn in American Social Policy, 1968-1980,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: Mark Leff

Jason Kozlowski, “Will Globalization Play in Peoria? Class, Race and Nation in the Global Economy, 1948-1998,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

Michael Rosenow, “Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among Workers, 1877-1924,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Advisor: James R. Barrett

Matthew Sherman, “Presidential Assassinations: The Failure to Protect Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley,” Saint Louis University.

Advisor: Donald T. Critchlow

David Spatz, “Expressways and the Transformation of Metropolitan Chicago, 1939-1973,” University of Chicago.

Advisor: George Chauncey

2008-2009

Stephen A. Martin, “Native Diaspora: Shawnee and Delaware Communities in the Mississippi Valley, 1779-1825,” University of Oklahoma.

Advisor Joshua Piker

Matthew T. Popovich, “Boundaries of Progress: The Politics of Urban Annexation and the Anti-Annexation, 1870-1930,” University of Illinois at Chicago.

Advisor: Perry Duis

2009-2010

Shannon Smith Bennett, “A Different Civil War: Rioting in the Lower Midwest, 1860-1890,” Indiana University

Advisor: Eric Sandweiss

Mimi Cowan, “Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Gilded Age Chicago,” Boston College

Advisor: Kevin Kenny

Daniel Peart, “Popular Engagement with Politics in the United States During the Early 1820s,” University College London

Advisor: Iwan Morgan

Kerry L. Pimblott, “Soul Power: Black Power and African-American Christianity in Cairo, Illinois, 1967-1974,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Clarence Lang and Mark Leff

Felicity M. Turner, “Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America,” Duke University

Advisor: Laura Edwards

2010-2011

Thomas Dorrance, “Old Friends and New Deals: Reconfiguring Local Politics in 1930s Chicago and Los Angeles,” University of Illinois at Chicago

Advisor: Robert D. Johnston

Melissa Hayes, “Litigating Intimacy: The Legal Culture of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Illinois,” Northern Illinois University

Advisor: James Schmidt

Ryan W. Keating, “‘Give Us War in Our Time’: America’s Irish Communities in the Civil War Era,” Fordham University

Advisor: Paul A. Cimbala

Patrick A. Pospisek, “Galena, Illinois: The Rise and Fall of Frontier Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870,” Purdue University

Advisor: John Larson

Barton Price, “Evangelical Periodicals and the Making of America’s Heartland in the Nineteenth Century,” Florida State University

Advisor: John Corrigan

Alonzo M. Ward, “Before the Flood: African Americans and the Labor Movement in Illinois, 1865-1915,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua