PhD
Pursuing the Doctorate in History at UIC
The graduate faculty offers training at the Ph.D. level for a select number of advanced graduate students. Admission is restricted to those students who, in the opinion of the graduate faculty, have demonstrated the potential to make a significant contribution to scholarship. All incoming Ph.D. students must consult with a faculty adviser to plan an appropriate program of study. It is particularly important that students make the necessary arrangements to obtain an adequate preparation in the one major and two minor fields in which they are to be examined. The graduate faculty expects full-time students to take their preliminary examinations during their second year and to defend their dissertation at some point within the next four years. The Graduate College requires students to complete their Ph.D. degree within seven years of their admission to the Ph.D. program, and within five years after passing the preliminary examination.
Students entering the Ph.D. Program with a master's degree from another department or discipline may be required to complete additional coursework which is specified upon admission.
Note: Any exceptions to these requirements must have the support of the student's faculty adviser and the approval of the Graduate Advisory Committee
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Letter to Graduate Students
Dear Prospective Graduate Student:
Thank you for visiting our webpage and for your interest in the graduate program in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My name is Malgorzata Fidelis, and I have the pleasure and privilege to serve as the Director of Graduate Studies. Our department has long been noted for cutting-edge scholarship on race, labor, gender, empires, and migration among other topics. We are particularly strong in African American, Gender and Sexuality, Urban, and Intellectual History. Beyond the Modern The United States, we specialize in Latin American, Eastern European, Russian, South Asian, and African History. Our two graduate concentrations, Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World (WRGUW) and Encounters, Ethnographies, and Empires offer a strong grounding in transnational and interdisciplinary approaches while fostering a productive dialogue across regions and conceptual frameworks. For more information on our graduate concentrations and key areas of strength see. https://hist.uic.edu/academics/graduate-studies/phd/
As a relatively small program, we offer a close collaboration between our outstanding faculty and graduate students in scholarship and teaching. For faculty profiles please visit our Profile Page.
The deadline to apply to our Ph.D. program is December 15. Each year, we typically admit 6-7 Ph.D. students and dedicate ourselves to providing a professional, challenging, and personalized program that will make our graduates competitive for academic and nonacademic positions worldwide. We especially welcome applicants from underrepresented groups and students, who follow unconventional paths towards graduate education.
All admitted students will gain experience in the classroom as Teaching Assistants, and some will serve as teachers of record as well. Excellent teaching increases the job market. While teaching at UIC, you will develop unique skills interacting with students from diverse cultural and social backgrounds at our cosmopolitan university, whose diversity reflects its surrounding urban area.
When you apply to our Ph.D. program, your materials will be carefully reviewed by the Graduate Advisory Committee in conjunction with the specialists in your field. If you are admitted, you will be offered a guaranteed multi-year funding package, which includes a tuition waiver, a stipend, and a TA-ship. In addition, we provide awards and fellowships to support researching and writing of your dissertation. You can also expect a robust set of professional development workshops and assistance in applying for grants and jobs. You will have a chance to present your work and learn about the work of others in the department and the field at weekly brown bags.
All of our graduate students have access to amazingly rich libraries and archives in the city of Chicago. Our own Richard M. Daley Library at UIC features Special Collections and University Archives that house rare books and published and unpublished documents related to the history of Chicago. Additionally, our students utilize collections at the Newberry Library, University of Chicago Library, Northwestern University Library, and the Center for Research Libraries.
We pride ourselves on our strong graduate placement record. Recent placements include tenure-track positions at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, University of Texas, Arlington, University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University, Utah State University, Macalester College, and Wheaton College. Some of our graduates secured prestigious positions in independent research institutions, private academies and secondary schools, libraries, archives, community colleges, and higher education administrative positions.
I invite you to explore our website. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me or reach out to our faculty directly.
Yours sincerely,
Malgorzata Fidelis
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
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Requirements for the PhD
- Earn a grade of A or B in History 501: Introduction to the Graduate Study of History. This course is ordinarily taken in the first year of graduate study. This requirement can be waived for students who took History 501 as UIC MA candidates or who completed an equivalent course in another History MA program.
- Earn a grade of A or B in History 591: Preparation for Preliminary Examinations and Dissertation Prospectus (eight credit hours).
- Earn a grade of A or B in two research seminars. Research seminars require preparation of a major research paper based on primary sources. (Students entering the program with an MA degree in History may be exempted from one of the research seminars.)
- Complete 64 credit hours in graduate-level courses (400 or 500 level) beyond the MA (includes 48 hours of thesis research, see below…). At least 12 of these credit hours must be in courses that are taught at the 500 level by members of the graduate faculty in the Department of History. No student may receive graduate credit for a course at the 100, 200, or 300 level. Should a student enroll in a 400-level course, which is also open to advanced undergraduates, the instructor has the right to require the student to undertake extra work or to demonstrate a higher standard of proficiency.
- Students must take 16 of these credit hours prior to the preliminary examination. The remainder may be earned in History 599: Thesis Research, in which the student enrolls while preparing the dissertation.
- Maintain a grade point average of at least 3.00.
- Successfully complete any colloquia required for the student’s major or minor fields. Students majoring in the history of colonial America and the United States are required to pass the two-semester historiographical colloquium series History 551A and 551B. Students majoring in other fields are required to complete colloquia on appropriate topics. To find out which colloquia are required, students should consult their faculty adviser. The faculty adviser can waive all or part of these requirements if the student already obtained an MA in history.
- For students in the WRGUW Concentration, of the two required minor fields for students concentrating in WRGUW, at least one will address none- U.S. or comparative topics. In addition to their department-based course requirements, students concentrating in WRGUW entering with a BA must satisfactorily complete four WRGUW-themed courses (HIST 593, 16 hours), while those entering with an MA must complete three such courses (12 hours). Participation in the WRGUW Concentration involves no increase in the total credit hours needed to graduate. Students work closely with their advisors in designing their program of study. Completion of all requirements for the Ph.D. is necessary to graduate with a Concentration in WRGUW.
- For students in the Encounters Concentration, those entering with a BA must satisfactorily complete four Encounters courses (HIST 594, 16 hours), while those entering with an MA must complete three such courses (12 hours). For students concentrating in Encounters, of the minor fields required of Ph.D. students, one will be World History, and students concentrating in Encounters must take a graduate course in World History. Participation in the Encounters Concentration involves no increase in the total credit hours needed to graduate. Students work closely with their advisors in designing their program of study. Completion of all requirements for the Ph.D. is necessary to graduate with a Concentration in Encounters.
- Demonstrate reading knowledge of one foreign language. This requirement is usually met by passing the Foreign Language Exam. The requirement may be waived for students who received an MA in history from UIC.
- Successfully pass Preliminary Examinations in one major field and two minor fields.
- Successfully pass an oral dissertation prospectus defense. Students must prepare a dissertation prospectus, and defend it before a committee consisting of the student’s adviser and at least two other dissertation committee members.
- Complete and defend a dissertation that is an original and significant contribution to historical scholarship.
- Note: Any exceptions to these requirements must have the support of the student’s faculty adviser and the approval of the Graduate Advisory Committee.
- Note: Students will receive credit at the Ph.D. level for any requirements that they have fulfilled at the MA level.
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Foreign Language Requirement for Graduate Study at UIC
Graduate students at the M.A. and Ph.D. programs must demonstrate a reading knowledge of one language other than English. The purpose of this requirement is different for students who will be working extensively with foreign-language sources while in graduate school than for students who will not, so the History Department has designed two paths to a fulfillment of the requirement. Students are to select one of the two paths in consultation with their advisors.
FAQs about the Foreign Language Examination
Path I. This path is intended for Ph.D. students who will be working extensively (i.e. on a daily or weekly basis) with foreign-language primary and secondary sources in their research for the dissertation. The goal is to ensure that these students are adequately prepared to comprehend, analyze, and translate sources in at least one of the primary languages in which they will be working. Students on Path I must successfully pass a written exam, which comprises translating a passage of college-level prose, roughly one page in length, into standard English. Students are given two hours to complete the exam, for which they are allowed use of a dictionary. The text is selected and the exam is read by a two-member faculty committee (either from inside or outside of the History Department) appointed by the Director of Graduate Studies. A passing grade is given for an exam that demonstrates graduate-level proficiency in translating the text both in its specific details and in its overall meaning, not by translating it word for word but by conveying the sense of each sentence clearly and correctly. If a student fails the exam, it may be twice retaken.
Path II. This path is designed for Ph.D. students who will not regularly depend on foreign-language sources for their research, as well as for all students in the terminal-M.A. program. The goal is to ensure that these students possess a basic ability to understand written work in at least one language other than English, sufficient to allow them to read primary and secondary sources with a general level of comprehension when they encounter them. Such familiarity with, if not fluency in, another language is an increasingly important qualification for teaching, scholarship, and participation in the profession for all historians today, especially given the transnational turn of historical scholarship in all fields and the multilingual diversity of high-school and college history students. This requirement is intended to encourage a broad acquaintance with non-English sources and perspectives, providing a gateway for scholars of British and U.S. history in particular to pursue lines of inquiry that cross the English-language border. Students on Path II may fulfill the language requirement either by passing a written exam or by taking a course:
- The written exam for Path II calls for paraphrasing rather than translating a passage of college-level prose, roughly one page in length, and then answering a brief series of guided questions about the text. Students are given two hours to complete the exam, for which they are allowed use of a dictionary. The text is selected and the exam is read by a two-member faculty committee (either from inside or outside of the History Department) appointed by the Director of Graduate Studies. A passing grade is given for an exam that demonstrates basic comprehension of the main ideas and overall meaning of the text. If a student fails the exam, it may be twice retaken.
- Alternatively, students on Path II may fulfill the requirement by completing and receiving a grade of “A” or “B” in a relevant language course. This can be either a graduate-level readings course (e.g., French 401: Reading French for Graduate Students, or German 400: German for Reading Knowledge) or a 104-level undergraduate language course (i.e., the intermediate level corresponding to the fourth semester of college language instruction).
All graduate students must complete the language requirement no later than the semester prior to taking the Comprehensive or Preliminary Exams. In special cases, students may request postponements or waivers of the language requirement, in consultation with their advisors, by petitioning the Graduate Advisory Committee. Such waivers may be granted, for example, to Ph.D. students who are native non-English speakers or whose research plans require special training in a skill comparable to learning a language, such as quantitative analysis. Students in the terminal-M.A. program may be granted waivers if no foreign language is directly relevant to their studies.
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Preliminary Exams for PhD Students
The Exam
- The purpose of the Ph.D. preliminary examination is to give students the opportunity to demonstrate a superior understanding of four areas of historical inquiry.
- Preliminary Exams consist of three written examinations, one in a major field and two in minor fields. The two minor fields must be distinct in time and/or space from the major field. Students wishing to take a minor field offered by another department within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must petition the Graduate Advisory Committee for approval.
- The Department of History administers preliminary examination twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. The major field exam takes five hours; the minor field tests take four hours each. Exams are held during a single week, with each examination scheduled on a different day. Exams are graded in one of three ways: pass with distinction (for a performance of outstanding merit), pass, or fail. Preliminary exams are evaluated by committees appointed by the Director of Graduate Studies. Ordinarily, the major field test is evaluated by three faculty members and each of the minor field tests by two faculty members.
- Students who fail all or part of any portion of the preliminary examination may take that portion a total of three times. Students will be reexamined only on those portions of the examination that they failed. Should a student fail a minor field, the student may choose to be examined again in a different minor field. The student may exercise this option only once. Students who fail any portion of the exam will not be eligible for teaching assistantships. Students who fail any part of the written exam three times will have their status in the program automatically reviewed by the GAC, with dismissal from the program a possible outcome. Students who fail one or more portions of the exam may petition to retake the exam before the next regularly scheduled exam period.
Preparing for Exams
Major field exams are generally based on colloquia readings and topics covered during the past three years. The faculty in each major field construct a standard bibliography of important works in the field organized according to the most important themes in the field areas of inquiry that any student would be expected to master (e.g. French Revolution in modern Europe; slavery in the U.S.). The list includes recommended readings for each theme. Each student prepares an individualized major field list derived largely from this longer bibliography. Each theme should be covered, but not every work in every category need be on each student’s list. Lists will require regularly updating (approximately every three years). Students are responsible for developing their own minor field reading lists in conjunction with their advisers and other faculties in the minor field area.
Examination questions are often historiographical and analytical and are not necessarily restricted to topics covered in particular graduate courses. For this reason, it is extremely important for students to consult those members of the graduate faculty who are responsible for examination fields in order to become familiar with expectations. Students are strongly encouraged to consult previously written tests, as well as a range of course syllabi. Previously written tests in most fields, as well as many course syllabi, are available for inspection and photocopying in the Graduate Secretary’s office.
Exam readers will be selected within the first two weeks of each semester for that semester’s exam, and the identity of the readers for each field will be made known to the students at that time. Conversely, readers will also receive the names and contact information for all exam takers in their fields.
Students are strongly encouraged to meet with the chairs of their exam committees. In large fields (such as U.S. history) committee chairs may prefer to organize one general meeting for all exam takers rather than meeting individually with a relatively large number of students.
It is possible to petition to take the major field examination in an area not included in the History Department’s official list. Students who wish to explore this option must consult with the Director of Graduate Studies.
Minor field examinations are based on reading lists compiled by the student in consultation with two faculty members who specialize in that area. Students should develop minor fields in consultation with their advisers.
Students may petition to take minor field exams in areas not included in the History Department’s approved list. The petition must be endorsed by at least two faculty members who are competent to administer the exam. In certain circumstances, one or both faculty members may come from outside the Department of History. All petitions for special fields must be submitted for approval to the Graduate Advisory Committee. Petitions for special fields must be submitted at least one semester prior to the examination.
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The Dissertation in History at UIC
Dissertation Prospectus and Prospectus Defense
Following successful completion of preliminary exams, students begin to develop dissertation proposals. Students must work closely with their advisors to prepare for an oral defense of the proposal. The student and the chair agree on a proposal committee consisting of at least three faculty members. The chair, who is usually the student’s mentor, must be a member of the graduate faculty. The chair is responsible for ensuring that the student prepares a dissertation prospectus for submission to the dissertation prospectus committee for discussion, comment, and approval. Should the student subsequently change topics, he or she must inform the committee of this fact in writing and submit a new prospectus.
The dissertation prospectus is a prospective description that students write about their proposed dissertations. It typically contains four parts:
- The topic or question that is to be investigated, and the conclusion(s) that is (are) expected to be reached.
- The base of sources that will be used as evidence. If oral interviews are to be conducted, then the prospectus will show how these will be conducted in a way that is consistent with professional ethics and UIC regulations.
- The state of the question in scholarly publications, and the dissertation’s relationship to it.
- The way(s) in which the conclusion(s) of the dissertation will constitute(s) an advance in knowledge.
The prospectus will be 20-25 pages in length (including bibliography). In order to demonstrate good academic progress toward the degree, the doctoral student will normally defend the prospectus orally, in front of the committee, within six months of passing preliminary exams, and not more than 12 months thereafter. The committee evaluating the prospectus will normally include at least three people who are likely to serve on the dissertation defense committee.
The prospectus does not increase the student’s time to complete the dissertation, because the work undertaken to complete the prospectus is work that needs to be done to write the dissertation.
When the prospectus has been successfully defended, the student becomes a doctoral candidate. The eventual dissertation may differ from the prospectus through addition, subtraction, or modification, but to the extent that the dissertation follows its prospectus, it cannot be substantially criticized or rejected for having done so. In other words, the successfully defended prospectus constitutes a compact between the student and the department as to what kind of product will be deemed acceptable to the department.
Dissertation Research
Candidates should work closely with their advisers and keep their dissertation committees informed of their progress. It is the responsibility of dissertation adviser to decide when the candidate is to submit all or part of the work-in-progress to the other members of the dissertation committee. Students should register their dissertations with the American Historical Association so that they can be listed in Dissertations in Progress.
If for some reason the student’s original mentor no longer wishes to supervise a candidate’s dissertation, the faculty member must inform both the candidate and the Director of Graduate Studies in writing. If a candidate wishes to change mentors, the candidate must secure the consent of another member of the graduate faculty and notify the current mentor and the Director of Graduate Studies in writing. If a mentor is for any reason unable to supervise a candidate, the candidate, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies, is responsible for securing an appropriate alternative.
When the candidate in the judgment of the mentor, is nearing completion of the dissertation, the proposal defense committee will be broadened to include a total of five members. The committee is nominated by the student’s mentor and approved by the Dean of the Graduate College. Graduate College regulations mandate that the dissertation defense committee consists of five faculty members, at least two of whom must be tenured members of the graduate faculty, and at least one of whom must have an appointment outside the Department of History. At the request of the adviser, the Graduate Secretary will schedule the dissertation defense.
Dissertation Defense
The dissertation defense is oral and focuses on the dissertation’s finding, methods, and significance. In attendance are the members of a specially constituted dissertation defense committee. The dissertation defense is ordinarily scheduled approximately within five weeks after the mentor and a second reader have given the dissertation their tentative approval. This time period is intended to give the remaining members of the committee sufficient time to evaluate the dissertation.
The committee may accept the dissertation as it stands, rejects it outright, or accept it conditionally pending certain revisions. The revisions can range from minor editorial changes to a major recasting of a substantial portion of the text. Ordinarily, the committee delegates to the mentor the responsibility for ensuring that these conditions are met. All dissertations must meet the format and stylistic requirements of the Graduate College.
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PhDs Awarded 1972-Present
PhDs Awarded 2018
Maria Ritzema, Modern South Asia, Sri Lanka, Migration
Heather R. Wilpone-Welborn, “Revenue Revealed: A Race and Class Analysis of Federal Taxation, 1861-1877”
Dissertation Advisor: Jeffrey SklanskyAlex (Erin) Crawley, “Method in His Madness: Enacting Male Normativity in Holloway Sanatorium for Insane, 1880-1910”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert JohnstonPhDs Awarded 2017
Michal Wilczewski, “Broken Land: Everyday Life and the Reconstruction of the Polish Countryside, 1914-1939”
Dissertation Advisor: Keely Stauter-HalstedNicholas J. McCormick, “Windows into the Wild: Natural History Exhibition and Museum Education in Chicago, 1890-1940”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisChristopher C. Wright, “Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago During the Great Depression”
Dissertation Adviser: Leon FinkPhDs Awarded 2016
Peter B. Strickland, “Delegates to Marchers: Gender, Empire, and Popular Politics in the Forging of Ulster Unionism, 1892-1912”
Dissertation Adviser: James SackThomas E. Alter II, “Dirt Farmer Internationalists: The Meitzen Family, Three Generations of Farmer-Labor Radicals, 1848-1932”
Dissertation Adviser, Robert JohnstonJames V. Mestaz, “Fuerte River Histories and Ambivalent Mayo Modernity in Mexico, 1926-70”
Dissertation Adviser: Christopher BoyerBenjamin L. Peterson, “Building the Service Employees International Union: Janitors & Chicago Politics, 1911-68”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert JohnstonPhDs Awarded 2015
Jochen Arndt, “Missionaries, Africans and the Emergence of Xhosa and Zulu as Distinct Languages in South Africa, 1800-54”
Dissertation Adviser: Kirk HoppeAdrienne Phelps Coco, “Five Lives of Mollie Fancher: 19th Century Curiosity, Clairvoyant, Hysteric, Care Recipient, Invalid”
Dissertation Adviser: Susan LevinePhDs Awarded 2014
Wayne Ratzlaff, “Carl McIntire, the American Council of Christian Churches, and the Politics of Protestant Fundamentalism”
Dissertation Adviser: Rick FriedThomas F. Dorrance, “A New Deal every day: Civic Authority and Federal Policy in Chicago and Los Angeles, 1930-1940”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert JohnstonJohn J. Rosen, “Guardians of the Black Working Class: Labor and Racial Politics in Postwar San Francisco”
Dissertation Adviser: Leon FinkJenna Nigro, “Colonial Logics: Agricultural, Commercial, & Moral Experiments in the Making of French Senegal, 1763-1870”
Dissertation Adviser: Kirk HoppeCory A. Davis, “A Merchant’s Republic: The National Board of Trade and Commercial Capitalism in the U.S., 1840-1912”
Dissertation Adviser: Leon FinkJulie A. Fountain, “Modern Jobs for Modern Women: Female Military Service in Britain, 1945-62”
Dissertation Adviser: Ina Zweiniger-BargielowskaWilliam Chlumsky, “Setting Bounds to Passions: Federalist Communication Policy and the Making of the Sedition Act of 1798”
Dissertation Adviser: Michael PermanPhDs Awarded 2013
Amy C. Sullivan, “What Fear is Like: The Legacy of Trauma, Safety, and Security after the 1977 Girl Scout Murders”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert JohnstonKaren J. Johnson, “The Universal Church in the Segregated City: Doing Catholic Interracialism in Chicago, 1915-1963”
Dissertation Adviser: Kevin M. SchultzMichal Kwiecien, “Communism, Nationalism, and Identity in a Polish-German Borderland, 1945-1950”
Dissertation Adviser: Gosia FidelisAnne E. Parsons, “Re-Institutionalizing America: The Politics of Mental Health and Incarceration, 1945-1985”
Dissertation Adviser: Leon FinkDaniel Harper, “In the Shadow of Antitrust: Competition Policy and the Coal Trade of Toronto and Chicago, 1888-1940”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert JohnstonPhDs Awarded 2012
Catherin O. Jacquet, “Responding to Rape: Contesting the Meanings of Sexual Violence in the United States, 1950-1980”
Dissertation Adviser: John D’EmilioStephanie L. Baker, “Salud Colectiva: The Role of Public Health Campaigns in Building a Modern Mexican Nation, 1940s-1960s”
Dissertation Adviser: Christopher BoyerMichael J. Goode, “Gospel Order among Friends: Colonial Violence and the Peace Testimony in Quaker Pennsylvania, 1681-1722”
Dissertation Adviser: James SackLara L. Kelland, “Clio’s Foot Soldiers: Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and the Uses of Collective Memory”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert JohnstonPhDs Awarded 2011
James G. Mendez, “A Great Sacrifice: Northern Black Families and Their Civil War Experiences”
Dissertation Adviser: Michael PermanAllison O. Malcolm, “Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Protestant Nationhood in North America, 1830-1871”
Dissertation Adviser: Leon FinkPhDs Awarded 2010
Aaron M. Berkowitz, “Mr. Khrushchev Goes to Washington: Domestic Opposition to Nikita Khrushchev’s 1959 Visit to America”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard Fried and Eric ArnesenHiroshi Maeda, “Hospital Patients and Institutional Inmates in Chicago, 1880-1930”
Dissertation Adviser: Daniel SmithLauren H. Braun, “Italians, the Labor Problem, and the Project in Agricultural Colonization in the New South, 1884-1934”
Dissertation Adviser: Michael PermanSarah M. Goldberger, “Repatriating Yorktown: The Politics of Revolutionary Memory and Reunion”
Dissertation Adviser: Michael PermanNeici M. Zeller, “The Appearance of All, the Reality of Nothing: Politics and Gender in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1961”
Dissertation Adviser: Bruce CalderPh.D. Awarded 2009
Joseph Lapsley, “Rethinking Sex and Gender: The Intellectual Upheavals of the Sexual Revolution”
Dissertation Adviser: John D’EmilioSam Mitrani, “Order in the Metropolis: The Origins of the Chicago Police Department, 1850-1890”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JohnMatthew T. Popovich, “Boundaries of Progress: The Politics of Urban Annexation and Anti-Annexation, 1870-1930”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisJohn Reda, “Joining The Union: Land, Race, and Sovereignty in the Illinois Country, 1763-1825”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JohnRhoda Rosen, “Mapping Dystopia: Maps, Museums and the Nation”
Dissertation Adviser: Laura HostetlerMatthew D. Rothwell, “Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America”
Dissertation Adviser: Christopher BoyerPh.D. Awarded 2008
Jeffery Helgeson, “Striving in Black Chicago: Migration, Work and the Politics of Neighborhood Change, 1935-1965”
Dissertation Adviser: Eric ArnesenRobert E. Hunter, “Fingers on the Button: American Atomic Policy in Mainstream File, Radio, and Television, 1945-1960”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedTed Aranda, “Democracy and Revolution: The Athenian Political System and the Anglo-American Constitutional Struggle”
Dissertation Adviser: James SackSarah F. Rose, “No Right to be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1850-1930”
Dissertation Adviser: Susan LevineJoshua A.T. Salzmann, “Safe Harbor: Chicago’s Waterfront and the Political Economy of the Built Environment, 1847-1918”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JohnGloria-Yvonne Williams, “A Passion for Social Equality: Mary McLeod Bethune’s Race Woman Leadership and the New Deal”
Dissertation Advisers: M. Strobel and Barbara RansbyElizabeth A. Collins, “Red-baiting Public Women: Gender, Loyalty, and Red Scare Politics”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedPh.D. Awarded 2007
Eric R. Smith, “Anti-Fascism, The United Front, and Spanish Republican Aid in the United States, 1936-1940”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedRaymond A. Lohne, “Founded at the Bier of Lincoln: A History of the Germania Club of Chicago, 1865-1986”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisSean J. Harris, “Found Insane in ‘The Holy Land’: Psychiatry and the African American Experience in Illinois, 1870-1910”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertPh.D. Awarded 2006
James Kollenbroich, “Our Hour Has Come: The Homosexual Rights Movement in the Weimar Republic”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyJosephine Faulk, “Bishop Fulbert of Chartres (1006-1028): A Political Biography”
Dissertation Adviser: Steven FanningAly Drame, “Planting the Seeds of Islam: Karantaba, A Mandinka Muslim Center in the Casamance, Senegal”
Dissertation Adviser: James SearingAnnette R. Chapman-Adisho, “Patriotic Priests: Constitutional Clery in the Department of the Cote d’Or during the French Revolution”
Dissertation Adviser: David JordanPeter Ufland, “The Politics of Race in the Midwest, 1864-1890”
Dissertation Adviser: Michael PermanJohn M. Rinehart, “The Making of a Christian Statesman: Woodrow Wilson’s Religious Thought and Practice, 1856-1910”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserAmy C. Schneidhorst, “It Wasn’t Just the Young: Mature Women’s Fight for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the Sixties”
Dissertation Adviser: John D’EmilioPh.D. Awarded 2005
Cheryl R. Ganz, “A New Deal for Progress: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisKeith R. Green, “A Fairy Tale World: The Myth of Childhood in Imperial Germany”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyMichael W. Johnson, “Imperial Commission or Orthodox Mission: Nikolai Il’minskii’s Work Among the Tartars of Kazan, 1862-1891”
Dissertation Adviser: James CracraftScott V. Lingenfelter, “Tradition & Modernity: Sergei Bulgakov’s Quest for a Christian Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia”
Dissertation Adviser: James CracraftDavid W. Veenstra, “The Civil Presidency: Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Renewal”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedPh.D. Awarded 2004
Carla Burnett, “Are We Slaves or Free Men?: Labor, Race, Garveyism, and the 1920 Panama Canal Strike”
Dissertation Adviser: Bruce CalderGwen Hoerr Jordan, “Creating A Women’s Legal Culture: Women Lawyers in Illinois, 1855-1939”
Dissertation Adviser: Eric ArnesenMarek Suszko, “The Zielona Gora Region, 1945-1956. A Communist Dumping Ground”
Dissertation Adviser: John KulczyckiLeonid T. Trofimov, “The Soviet Media at the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950”
Dissertation Adviser: Jonathan DalyAdrian S. Capehart, “The Migration of Africans to the United States since 1960: Contexts, Responses, and Communities”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertKarl E. Wood, “Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in Germany”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyNancy L. Turpin, “The Blue Ticket: Local Response to State Nationalism at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition”
Dissertation Adviser: David JordanPh.D. Awarded 2003
Justin P. Coffey, “Spiro Agnew and the Suburbanization of American Politics, 1918-1968”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedRalph Ashby, “Napoleon and the Defenders of France”
Dissertation Adviser: David JordanRobert P. Arnoldt, “After the War: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Vietnam Veteran in American Society”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserPamela L. Baker, “The National Road and the Promise of Improvement, 1802-1850”
Dissertation Adviser: Daniel Scott SmithEva Becsei Kilborn, “Going Against the Grain: Francis Peyton Rous (1876-1970) and the Search for the Cancer Virus”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertPhDs Awarded 2002
Ana Maria Kapelusz-Poppi, “Provincial Intellectuals from Michoacan and the Professionalization of the Post-Revolutionary Mexican State”
Dissertation Adviser: Mary Kay VaughanSteven McNeel, “Behold the Temple of Janus Shut in this Western World: Colonel Henri Bouquet Frontier Office, 1756-1765”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertEdward J.Behrend-Martinez, “‘She Wanted To Be Her Own Master’: Women’s Suits Against Impotent and Abusive Husbands in a Spanish Church Court 1650-1750”
Dissertation Adviser: Renato BarahonaLawrence Eldridge, “Chronicles of a Two-Front War: The African-American Press and the Vietnam War”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserLarry Lee Baker, Jr., “Politics, Privilege, and Political Culture: Dijon During the French Revolution”
Dissertation Adviser: David JordanBarbara L. Dobschuetz, “Fundamentalism and American Urban Culture: Community and Religious Identity in Dwight L. Moody’s Chicago, 1864-1914”
Dissertation Advisers: Leo Schelbert & Rima SchultzPaul B. Siegel, “Uptown Chicago: The Origins and Emergence of a Movement Against Displacement, 1947-1972”
Dissertation Adviser: Eric ArnesenPh.D. Awarded 2001
Anthony R. Maravillas, “Nixon in the Fifties”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedJason C. Digman, “Which Way to the Promised Land? Changing Patterns in Southern Migration, 1865-1920″
Dissertation Adviser: Eric ArnesenStanley Rose, “Urbanization in Seventeenth-Century Ghana”
Dissertation Adviser: James SearingSean J. Labat, “Creating Consensus: Chicago and the United States Foreign Relations During The Early Cold War, 1945-1950”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserChristopher J. Young, “Contests of Opinion: The Public Sphere in Post-Revolutionary America”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JohnPhDs Awarded 2000
Raymond M. Brod, “Maps as Weapons in the Conquest of Old American Northwest 1608 to 1829″
Dissertation Adviser: Gerald DanzerJohn C. Kinney, “Alcoholic Inebriety: A Study of Its Perceived Nature, Causation, and Treatment in America, 1857-1914″
Dissertation Adviser: Perry Duis
John Menet, “Aviation and the American Imagination During World War II”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisJohn Abbott, “Peasants in the Rural Public: The Bavarian Bauernbund, 1893-1933”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyMaria Teresa Fernandez-Aceves, “The Political Mobilization of Women in Revolutionary Guadalajara, 1910-1940”
Dissertation Adviser: Mary Kay VaughanFrederic M. Kopp, “Rocking the Federal Republic: Rebellious Youth and Music in West Germany, 1945-1990″
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyCadence A. Wynter, “Jamaican Labor Migration to Cuba, 1885-1930 in the Caribbean Context”
Dissertation Adviser: Bruce CalderPhDs Awarded 1999
Salvador Camacho, “The Modernization of Education and Science in Mexico 1982-1995: The Case of Aguascalientes”
Dissertation Adviser: Mary Kay VaughanBen A. Harshman, “Toward A Commercial Society”
Dissertation Adviser: James SackWendy Plotkin, “Deeds of Mistrust: Race, Housing, and Restrictive Covenants in Chicago, 1900-1953”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisArthur Christian Repp, “In Search of an Orthodox Way: The Development of Biblical Studies in Late Imperial Russia”
Dissertation Adviser: James CracraftStephen A. Brown, “When Middle-Class Ambition Met Southern Honor: A Cultural History of the Leo Frank Case”
Dissertation Adviser: Burton BledsteinBrian Moran, “Prison Reform in the United States Navy and the Dominican Republic: The Military Occupation and Prisons, 1900-1930”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserJohn L. Glover, “The Hope in this World and the Next: Maam Cerno and the Settlement of Darou Mousty, 1912-1947”
Dissertation Adviser: James SearingPh.D. Awarded 1998
Nicholas S. Ceh, “United States-Yugoslav Relations During the Early Cold War, l945-l957”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserThomas H. Cornman, “Securing a Faithful Ministry: Struggles of Ethnicity and Religious Epistemology in Colonial American Presbyterianism”
Dissertation Advisers: A. G. Roeber and Leo SchelbertTadeusz Debski, “A Battlefield of Ideas: Nazi Concentration Camps and Their Polish Prisoners”
Dissertation Advisers: Richard Levy and John KulczyckiJames Kollros, “Creating a Steel Workers Union in the Calumet Region, 1933 to 1945”
Dissertation Adviser: P. d’A. JonesVirgil Krapauskas, “Lithuanian Historiography: A Search for National Identity from Daukanta to 1904”
Dissertation Adviser: John KulczyckiJohn Morello, “Candidates, Consumers, and Closers: Albert Lasker, Advertising and Politics: 1900-1920”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JensenJacqueline H. Wolf, “Discarding Nature’s Plan: A Social History of Infant Feeding in Chicago, 1892-1938”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisPhDs Awarded 1997
Paul A. Buelow, “The Dispensary Comes to Chicago: Health Care and the Poor Before 1920”
Dissertation Adviser: Perry DuisRobin Carre, “The Decline of the Imperial Republic: Colonial Discourse and the Crisis of Liberalism in Interwar France”
Dissertation Adviser: William HoisingtonL. Mara Dodge, “Her Life has Been an Improper One: Women, Crime, and Prisons in Illinois, 1935-1933”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo Schelbert/Margeret StrobelThomas K. Murphy, “The Evolving Image of America in Europe: 1780-1850”
Dissertation Advisers: Stanley Mellon and David JordanMargaret Power, “Right Wing Women and Chilean Politics: 1964-1973”
Dissertation Adviser: Mary Kay VaughanPamela Smith-Iowa, “Great Things are to be Expected: A Look at European Ideas on Indigenous Medicine in Benin, Nigeria”
Dissertation Adviser: James Searing
Phyllis L. Soybel, “The Necessary Relationship: The Development of Anglo-American Cooperation in Naval Intelligence, 1939-1943”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserWilliam B. Whisenhunt, “Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Development of Law in Russia, 1826-1833”
Dissertation Adviser: James CracraftPh.D. Awarded 1996
George S. Pabis, “Restraining the Muddy Waters: Engineers and Mississippi River Flood Control, 1846-1881”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JohnSeptimus Paul, “Anglo-American Cooperation and the Development of the British Atomic Bomb, 1941-52”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertPadma I. Rangaswamy, “The Imperatives of Choice and Change: Post-1965 Immigrants from India in Metropolitan Chicago”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertGregory L. Schneider, “The Other Sixties: The Young Americans for Freedom and the Politics of Conservatism”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard FriedRichard A. Stacewicz, “Winter Soldiers” An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert MesserMary Todd, “Not in God’s Lifetime”: The Question of the Ordination of Women in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod”
Dissertation Adviser: A. Gregg RoeberPh.D. Awarded 1995
Maladho Siddy Balde, “The History of Fuuta-Jallon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century According to the Griots and the Elders”
Dissertation Advisers: Lansine Kaba and James SearingMichael Doorley, “The Friends of Irish Freedom: A Study of an Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertPh.D. Awarded 1994
David R. M. Beck, “Siege and Survival: Menominee Responses To An Encroaching World”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertKaren Friedman, “German/Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution 1941-1944”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyJoy M. Kammerling, “Andreas Osiander and the Jews of Nuremberg: A Reformation Pastor and Jewish Toleration in Sixteenth-Century Germany”
Dissertation Adviser: George HuppertAndre Partykevich, “My Prayer Went Unanswered”: Oleksander Lototsky and Ukrainian Autocephaly, 1917-1939″
Dissertation Adviser: James CracraftThomas S. Price, “Palmettos and Property: Historical Memory and Political Culture in Early National South Carolina”
Dissertation Adviser: Michael PermanDavid Vervaet, “From Assimilation to Independence: The Evolue(e) Novelists and the Recovery of Alerian Identity, 1939-1962”
Dissertation Adviser: William HoisingtonPh.D. Awarded 1993
Cynthia K. Kosso, “Public Policy and Agricultural Practices: An Archaeological and Literary Study of Late Roman and Greece”
Dissertation Adviser: J. Davis (Classics)
Louis B. Kuppenheimer, “Albert Gallatin’s Vision of Democratic Stability: An Interpretive Profile”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertNeal R. McCrillis, “The Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage: Popular Conservatism, 1918-1929”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertMichaela Tomaschewsky, “Malwida von Meysenbug and the Cult of Humanism”
Dissertation Adviser: Marion MillerPh.D. Awarded 1992
Eugene Beiriger, “Churchill in the Ministry of Munitions: An Experiment in Government Industrial Policy”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertEdward Berggren, “Under the Sign of Enlightenment: Varieties of Reading Rousseau’s Pedagogical Texts”
Dissertation Adviser: David JordanClinton E. Stockwell, “A Better Class of People: Protestants in the Shaping of Early Chicago, 1833-1873”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliPh.D. Awarded 1991
Shirley Burton, “Obscenity in Victorian Chicago: Prosecution in the Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1873-1913”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertThekla Caldwell, “Women, Men, and Revival: Gender in the Third Awakening”
Dissertation Adviser: Daniel Scott SmithPh.D. Awarded 1990
Andrew A. Wiest, “The Dominance of the Flanders Coast in British Strategic Planning in World War I”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertJared Clark, “Industry, Society, and Policies in the Ruhr: National Liberalism in Dortmund, 1848-1913″
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyDavid Goodlett, “Proletarians on the Merry-Go-Round: The Yugoslav Press and Official Policy on Workers Emigration, 1963-1973”
Dissertation Adviser: Edward ThadenSteven McNeel, “Behold the Temple of Janus Shut in this Western World: Colonel Henri Bouquet Frontier Office, 1756-1765”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo Schelbert
Claiborne Skinner, “The Sinews of Empire: The Voyageurs and the Carrying Trade of the Pays d’en Haut, 1681-1754”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertPh.D. Awarded 1989
Douglas Bukowski, “According to Image: William Hale Thompson and tile Politics of Chicago, 1915-1931”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliAndrew R. Sarvis, “The Krefeld Silk Entrepreneurs: A Study in Bourgeois Solidarity”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard LevyPh.D. Awarded 1988
James E. Jennings, “Aeginetan Trade 650-457 B.C.: A Re-Examination”
Dissertation Adviser: R. LegonPh.D. Awarded 1987
Donald J. McKay, “Soviet Jewish Emigration to Chicago, 1970-1980”
Dissertation Adviser: Edward ThadenJames C. Mott, “Change and Continuity in American Voting Behavior, 1948-1952”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JensenGersham Nelson, “The Origin and Development of the Jamaican Peasants and Working Class, 1838-1979”
Dissertation Adviser: Bruce CalderGary K. Pranger, “Philip Schoff (1819-1893): Portrait of an Immigrant Theologian”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertWayne P. Schaefer, “Education in Morocco to Libya, 1925-1945”
Dissertation Adviser: William HoisingtonMarian J. Rubchak, “A Wellspring of Ukrainian National Consciousness: The Formation of the Lviv Stavropgyria Brotherhood, 1585-1632”
Dissertation Adviser: James CracraftPh.D. Awarded 1986
Janine C. Hartman, “The Politics of Decadence: The Social and Political Ideas of Sade, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Flaubert, 1789-1871”
Dissertation Adviser: Stanley MellonRobert N. Marty, “From Slave to Servical: Labor in the Plantation Economy of Sao Teme and Principe”
Dissertation Adviser: I. SundiataRita M. Rhodes, “Women and the Family in Post-Famine Ireland: Status and Opportunity in a Patriarchal Society”
Dissertation Advisers: Marion Miller and Leo SchelbertPh.D. Awarded 1985
Milan Andrejevich, “The Cultural Evolution of Bosnia-Hercegovina Conflict and Development during Kallay Era, 1882–1903”
Dissertation Adviser: Edward ThadenThomas C. Hendrix, “‘The Love of Liberty’: A Study of the Religious Factor in the 19th Century Settlement of Afro/Americans in Liberia”
Dissertation Adviser: I. SundiataMark A. Lause, “Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiJoseph Takougang, “Victoria: An African Township Under British Administration, 1916-1961”
Dissertation Adviser: I. SundiataPh.D. Awarded 1984
Christian D. Nokkentved, “Danes, Denmark and Racine 1837-1924: A Study of Danish and Overseas Migration”
Dissertation Advisers: Marion Miller and Leo ScelbertGwendolyn Robinson, “Class, Race, and Gender: A Transcultural Theoretical and Sociohistorical Analysis of Cosmetic Institutions and Practices to 1920”
Dissertation Adviser: Peter JonesPh.D. Awarded 1983
Donald H. Parkerson, “The People of Mid-Nineteenth Century New York: Family, Community, and Migration”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JensenN. Sue Weiler, “The Aged, the Family and the Problems of a Maturing Industrial Society: New York, 1900-1930”
Dissertation Adviser: Daniel Scott SmithPh.D. Awarded 1982
Stanley Gallas, “Lord Lyons and the Civil War, 1859-1864: A British Perspective”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard MillmanKurt E. Leichtle, “Edward Coles: An Agrarian on the Frontier”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiPh.D. Awarded 1981
Frances M. Feinerman, “Population and Prosperity: Messance and Expilly Challenge the Physiocrats, 1757-1770”
Dissertation Adviser: David JordanWilliam R. Biles, “Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago: Big City Boss in Depression and War”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliMansour Hasan Mansour, “The Spread and the Domination of the Maliki School of Law in North and West Africa, Eighth-Fourteenth Century”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert HessAderemi Samuel Olumuyiwa Fatoke, “British Colonial Administration of Somaliland Protectorate, 1920-1960”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert HessDominic C. Pacyga, “Villages of Packinghouses and Steel Mills: The Polish Worker on Chicago’s South Side, 1880 to 1921”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertElizabeth A. Payne-Moore, “‘Life and Labor’: Margaret Drier Robins and the Women’s Trade Union League”
Dissertation Adviser: Burton BledsteinLeslie Vincent Tischauser, “The Burden of Ethnicity: The German Question in Chicago, 1914-1941”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliMichael R. Trochim, “Retreat from Reform: The Fall of the Brazilian Empire, 1888-1889”
Dissertation Adviser: Bruce CalderPh.D. Awarded 1980
Norman R. Eder, “National Health Insurance, Social Politics and Medical Practices in Britain, 1913-1939”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertBarbara Kehoe, “The British Press and Nazi Germany”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertPeter J. O’Malley, “Mayor Martin H. Kennelly of Chicago: A Political Biography”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliJacqueline Peterson, “The People in Between: Indian-White Marriage and the Genesis of a Metis Society and Culture in the Great Lakes Region, 1680-1830”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiMichael R. Ralston, “Men in the Middle: Republican Politics in Lorraine During the Third French Republic, 1870-1914”
Dissertation Adviser: William HoisingtonPh.D. Awarded 1979
Hugo P. Learning, “Hidden Americans Maroons of Virginia and the Carolinas”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertBarbara Clinchy-Sciacchitano, “The Exile World of Alexander Herzen: A View of Russia and the West”
Dissertation Adviser: Ed ThadenDeborah G. White, “Ain’t I A Women? Female Slaves in the Antebellum South”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiPh.D. Awarded 1978
Kristen E. A. Borg, “Princess Lieven: A New Interpretation of Her Role and Image”
Dissertation Adviser: Stanley MellonStephen L. Hansen, “Principles, Politics, and Personalities: Voter and Party Identification in Illinois: 1850 to 1876”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiArnold R. Hirsch, “Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiJudith-Rae Ross, “Anglo-French Encounters: Images of the English Civil War in France, 1789-1848”
Dissertation Adviser: Stanley MellonPh.D. Awarded 1977
Rosemary Skinner-Keller, “Abigail Adams and the American Revolution: A Personal History”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiChristine McHugh, “Edward Bellamy and the Populists: The Agrarian Response to Utopia, 1888-1898”
Dissertation Adviser: Burton BledsteinDoris Racich, “Planning and Politics: British Reactions to the Economic Depression of the Interwar Years”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertPh.D. Awarded 1976
Paul F. Barrett, “Mass Transit, the Automobile, and Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930, Vols. I and II”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliCharles J. Balesi, “From Adversary to Comrade-In-Arms: West Africans and the French military 1885-1919”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert HessLouise Año Nuevo Kerr, “The Chicano Experience in Chicago: 1920-1970”
Dissertation Advisers: Peter d’A Jones and Richard JensenBarbara Kuhn-Campbell, “Prominent women in the Progressive Era: A Study of Life Histories”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiBarbara L. Farr, “The Development and Impact of Right-Wing Politics in Great Britain 1903-1932”
Dissertation Adviser: Bentley GilbertRichard D. Holbrook, “Baron D’Oppede and Cardinal Mazarin: The Politics of Provence from 1641 to 1660”
Dissertation Adviser: J. WolfPh.D. Awarded 1975
Hasia R. Diner, “In the Almost Promised Land: Jewish Leaders and Blacks, 1915-1935”
Dissertation Adviser: Leo SchelbertBlanche G. Hersh, “‘The Slavery of Sex’ Feminist-Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century America”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert ReminiAlberto Sbacchi, “Italian Colonialism in Ethiopia, 1936-1940”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert HessGhada Hoshem, “Egypt’s Civilizing Mission: Khedive Isma’il’s Red Sea Province, 1865-1885”
Dissertation Adviser: Robert HessZdenko Zlatar, “The Anti-Turkish Opposition in Seventeenth-Century Ragusa and Its Prohabsburg Policy in the Morean War, Vols. I and II”
Dissertation Adviser: George Huppert
Ph.D. Awarded 1973
Thomas R. Bullard, “From Businessman to Congressman, the Careers of Martin B. Madden”
Dissertation Adviser: Melvin HolliR. David Cudaback, “Victor DeBroglie and the French Constitutional Monarchy–A Liberal Peer and Diplomatic Under Louis-Philippe”
Dissertation Adviser: J. WolfMark W. Friedberger, “Cornbelt and River City: Social Change in a Midwest Community, 1885-1930”
Dissertation Adviser: Richard JensenDennis H.O’Brien, “Louis XIV’s Diplomatic Corps, 1648-1671”
Dissertation Adviser: J. WolfPh.D. Awarded 1972
Richard B. Bingham, “Louis XIV and the War for Peace: The Genesis of a Peace Offensive 1686-1690, Vols. I and II”
Dissertation Adviser: J. Wolf -
Timeline for Doctoral-track MA Students
This is a list of time-sensitive steps in the process of acquiring an M.A. on the way to the Ph.D. in the UIC Dept. of History. It is not a list of all degree requirements. Italics indicate that this is a logical semester in which to complete this item, although it is not necessary to do it during this semester. All calendar dates are approximate. For exact dates for each academic year, consult the Director of Graduate Studies.
First semester:
Take Hist 501.
Take colloquium in a major field. For students in U.S. history, take Hist 551(a).
First opportunity to apply for foreign language examination: Oct. 5.Second semester:
Apply for a teaching assistantship (even if guaranteed, complete application to indicate preferences, time constraints, etc.): April 1
For students in U.S. history, take Hist 551(b).
Take seminar in a major field, unless to be taken in the third semester.*
Apply for foreign language exam: Feb. 1.Third semester:
For students in U.S. history, take Hist 551(b), already taken.
Take seminar in a major field, unless already taken.*
Apply for foreign language exam: Oct. 5.Fourth semester:
Apply for foreign language exam: Feb. 1.
Apply for a Ph.D. program: Feb. 1
Apply for TAship (even if guaranteed, complete application to indicate time constraints, etc.): April 1Graduate with M.A. Become Ph.D. student.
*Students should be aware that the combination of a colloquium and a seminar taken in the same semester involves a lot of work, although it may be doable, depending on other commitments.