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Recent and Current Dissertations and Job Placements

Completed Dissertations, 1994-2018

Dissertations in Progress

Alissa Condon	“Equal Citizens in a Free State?”: Irish Veterans of World War I.	Timothy McMahon Director
Peter Borg	Milwaukee's White Urban Churches during the Age of Suburbanization	James Marten Director
Matthew Costello	Bones, Blood, and Soil: Reliquary, Pilgrimage, and the Memory of George Washington, 1799- 1865	Kristen Foster Director
Matthew Douglas	The Huguenot Experience: Gender, Violence and the Courts in Nîmes from 1685 until 1788	Julius Ruff Director
Aaron Hyams	Indians, Catholics, Bureaucrats, and the Making and Unmaking of the Indian New Deal	Steven Avella Director
Gayle Kiszely	In the World, but not of the World: Zion City, Illinois, a Christian Utopian Alternative to a Secular World	James Marten Director
Michael Pulido	Transmitting a Revolution: Nationalism and the 1953 East German Uprising	Julius Ruff/Peter Staudenmaier Co-Directors
Olga Shchennikova	Soviet Environmentalism: The Moral Revolt of the Intelligentsia, 1964-1991	Alan Ball Director

2010s

Kenneth Shonk UW-LaCrosse	“Irish Blood, English Heart”: Gender,Society, Power, and Renascent Republicanism in the Formation of the Irish Republic, 1926-1938	2010	Timothy McMahon Director
Monica Witkowski Mount Mary University, Milwaukee	Women, the Law, and Aberrant Behavior in Colonial Maryland, 1648- 1734	2010	John Krugler Director
Patrick Steele Concordia University, Mequon, WI	Strategic Air Warfare and Nuclear Strategy: The Formulation of Military Policy in the Truman Administration, 1945-1950	2010	Steven Avella Director
Julie Tatlock Mount Mary University, Milwaukee	Gender and the Courts in London ,1815-1834	2010	Carla Hay Director
Aaron Stockham Waterford School, Salt Lake City	Lack of Oversight: The Relationship Between the FBI and the United States Congress, 1907-1975	2011	Athan Theoharis Director
John FrenchPrairie School, Racine, WI	Irish-American Identity, Memory, and Americanism during the Eras of the Civil War and First World War	2012	James Marten Director
Monica Gallamore Lecturer, University of Central Oklahoma	Introducing the Incomparable Hildegarde: The Sexuality, Style, and Image of a Forgotten Cultural Icon	2012	Thomas Jablonsky Director
Adam Stueck Director, White Pillars Museum, De Pere, WI	A Place Under Heaven: Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence in Colonial New France, 1609-1730	2012	Kristen Foster Director
Christopher Chan MLIS student, UW Milwaukee	Mass Consumption in Milwaukee: 1920-1970	2013	Steven Avella Director
Dominic Faraone Catholic Charities Fort Wayne, IN	Urban Rifts and Religious Reciprocity: Chicago and the Catholic Church, 1965-1996	2013	Steven Avella Director
Charissa Keup The Bishops School, La Jolla, CA	Girls in “Trouble”: A History of Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Midwest, 1946-1964	2013	Thomas Jablonsky Director
Timothy Lay Lee University, Cleveland, TN	“By Jingo”: the Manifestation of Militarism as a British Cultural Phenomena, 1878-1902	2014	Timothy McMahon Director
Jeffrey Ramsey Student Affairs Specialist, Herzing University	Big Man on Campus: Reaction and Resistance to Title IX in the Big Ten Conference	2014	Thomas Jablonsky Director
McKayla Sutton, Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Carroll University, Waukesha, WI	"Illuminating the Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, and the Promotion of the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme"	2014	Timothy McMahon Director
Bethany Harding, Instructor and Advisor, National Louis University, Chicago, IL	“Breaking Up, and Moving Westward”: The Search for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828	2015	Kristen Foster Director
Karalee Surface, Honors Advisor, Marquette University	In Harm's Way: Wisconsin Workers and Disability from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression	2015	Thomas Jablonsky Director

2000s

Delbert CareyUW-Platteville	Le Chemin de Fer de l’Est: The Railroad Company of the East and its Effects on Industrialization (1845- 1937)	2000	Julius Ruff Director
John Donovan	Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John S. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994)	2000	Ralph Weber Director
Michael Jacobs UW-Baraboo	Holy War: Catholic Response to the Ku Klux Klan Incursion into the Upper Midwest, 1919-1928	2001	Steven Avella Director
Baskara Wardaya Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia	The United States Foreign Policy Towards Indonesia, 1954-1964	2001	Steven Avella Director
David Pigott BYU-Idaho	Autonomy and Antagonism in Early Modern France: The Protestants of Bergerac, 1545-1685	2001	Julius Ruff Director
Patricia Richard Metropolitan State College of Denver	The Home to the Camp: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort	2001	James Marten Director
Kathryn Galchutt Concordia University, New York	Lutherans and Race: The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968	2002	Steven Avella Director
Timothy Wood Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO	Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord: Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-55	2003	John Krugler Director
Karen Kehoe St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA	“Not a Moment for Delay”:Benevolence in Wisconsin during the Civil War	2003	James Marten Director
Edward Schmitt UW-Parkside	A Humane Struggle: Robert Kennedy and the Problem of Poverty in America	2003	Robert Hay Director
Robert Donnelly Gonzaga University, Spokane	Corrupting Portland: Municipal Corruption, Organized Crime, and the Teamsters Union in a Post-World War II City	2004	Athan Theoharis Director
Richard Gardiner Columbus (Georgia) State University	The Presbyterian Rebellion: An Analysis of the Perception that the American Revolution was a Presbyterian War	2005	John Krugler Director
Paul Ferguson U. S. Army Joint Munitions Command, Rock Island, IL	In Pursuit of Their Leisure: Entertainment and Recreation in Ethnic Milwaukee, 1878-1929	2006	Thomas Jablonsky Director
William Prigge South Dakota State University	The Latvian Purges of 1959: A Revision Study	2006	Alan Ball Director
Martin Quirk Rock Valley College, Rockford, Illinois	From Pioneers to Wheat Kings: The Development of A Regional Identity in Western Kansas 1886-1939	2006	James Marten Director

Kathy Callahan Morehead State University	Women, Work, and Crime: The Case of London 1783-1815	2006	Carla Hay Director
John McCarthy Robert Morris University	Decentralization and the Postwar American City: The Case of Milwaukee	2006	Thomas Jablonsky Director
Christopher Miller UW-Milwaukee IT, College of Ed	Forging the Iron Ring: Suburban Incorporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1870-1920	2007	Thomas Jablonsky Director
Daryl Webb Cardinal Stritch University	Milwaukee Children in the Great Depression	2007	James Marten Director
Paula Dicks	The Strange Case of Adolf Beck: Mass Media, Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform in Edwardian England	2007	Carla Hay Director
Wayne Riggs Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL	Religion in Britain During the Great War: A Comparative Study of the Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the Ro. Catholic Church	2008	Carla Hay Director
David Schroeder Martin Luther College New Ulm, MN	More than a Fraction: The Life and Work of Justice Pierce Butler	2008	Steven Avella Director
Thomas Sobbotke Mukwonago, WI, High School (ret.)	The Imperial Enterprise: Anglo- American Reaction to the Spanish American and Boer Wars, 1898- 1902	2008	Carla Hay Director
Jodi Eastberg Alverno College, Milwaukee	West Meets East: British Perceptions of China as Demonstrated in the Life and Works of Sir George Thomas Staunton, 1781-1859	2009	Carla Hay Director
Jason Hostutler China Agricultural University	Smokestacks and Steeples: An Analysis of the Milwaukee Catholic Church in the Industrial Era, 1870- 1930	2009	Thomas Jablonsky Director
Ann Ostendorf Gonzaga University Spokane, WA	Antebellum Music Culture of the Southern Mississippi River and the Creation of an American National Identity	2009	Kristen Foster Director
Enaya Othman Marquette University Foreign Languages	“The American Friends Mission in Ramallah, Palestine: A Case Study of American-Arab Encounter, 1869- 1948”	2009	Steven Avella Director
John Vietoris Lewis University, Romeoville, IL	Religion and Race: Interaction Between the Catholic Church and the African-American Community in Milwaukee, 1908-1968	2009	Steven Avella Director
David Bruce UW-Parkside	Biography of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845	2009	Carla Hay Director
Julie Leonard Fontbonne Academy, Milton, MA	A Window Into Their Lives: The Women of the Faubourg St.-Antoine, 1725-1765	2009	Julius Ruff Director

1990s

Linda Bos Mount Mary College, Milwaukee	The Drummer Changed Cadence: The Impact of the Dissident Movement on the Churches in the 1960s	1994	Athan Theoharis Director
Daniel Heimmermann Provost, U. of Texas, Permian Basin	Work and Corporate Life in Old Regime France: The Leather Artisans of Bordeaux, 1740-1791	1994	Julius Ruff Director
Stephen Leahy Shantou University, China	Polonia’s Child: the Public Life of Klement J. Zablocki, 1912-1983	1994	Athan Theoharis Director
Kevin Abing Milwaukee County Historical Society	A Fall From Grace: The Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, 1839- 1862	1995	James Marten Director
Paul Beck Wisconsin Lutheran College	Fort Ridgely and the Settlement of the River Valley, 1853-1867	1996	James Marten Director
Monique Septon	Les Femmes et Le Poison:L’Empoissonnement Devant les Jurisdictions Criminelles en Belgique, 1794-1914	1996	Julius Ruff Director
Laura Abing Marquette University	Old Sturbridge Village: An Institutional History of a Cultural Artifact	1997	John Krugler Director
Mary Duarte Cardinal Stritch University	Public Opinion, the Opposition, and the Shaping of the LiverpoolAdministration’s Policy TowardsFrance, 1814-1818	1997	Carla Hay Director
Charles Gallagher., S. J. Boston College	Patriot Bishop: The Public Career of Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley, 1937- 1967	1997	Steven Avella Director
Patrick Jung Milwaukee School of Engineering	Forge, Destroy and Preserve the Bonds of Empire: Euro Americans, Native Americans, the Metis on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1634-1856	1997	James Marten Director
Edward Woell Western Illinois University	Counterrevolutionary Catholicism in Western France: the Battle of Belief at Machecoul, 1774-1914	1997	Julius Ruff Director
Ricardo Herrera U.S. Army War College	Guarantors of Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier and the Military Ethos of Republicanism, 1775-1861	1998	Robert Hay Director
Michael Besch Concordia University, Mequon (ret.)	Navy Second to None: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I	1999	Ralph Weber Director
Dariusz Ciemniewski Marquette University	The Other Polonia: Polish Rural Settlements in Central and Northern Wisconsin, 1850-1920	1999	Steven Avella Director
Beverly Mueller	The Depiction of Religion in Eighteenth Century English Literature from Swift to Johnson	1999	Carla Hay Director
John Savagian Alverno College, Milwaukee	Agrarian Reformers and Their Contribution to a Conservation Ethic in Antebellum America	1999	Robert P. Hay Director
Jessica Sheetz- Nguyen University of Central Oklahoma	“Just Desserts”: Public and Private Institutional Responses to Poverty in Victorian London: Space, Gender and	1999	Carla Hay Director

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