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UH History PhD’s, 1974-present

2004
James Carter, “Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Making in Southeast Asia”. Advisor: Bob Buzzanco
Jan Crenshaw, “Special Sanctuary in Medieval England”. Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Cristos Frentzos, “From Seoul to Saigon: U.S.-South Korea Relations and the Vietnam War”
Hyun Ran Kim, “The Origins of Queen Elizabeth I’s Celibacy and Political Strategies: Experience, Education, and Tactics”. Advisor: Catherine Patterson
Lori Lehtola, “King Aethelstan: ‘Rightwys Kyng Borne of All Englond’”. Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Ron Milam, “Not a Gentleman’s War: Junior Officers in the Vietnam War”. Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Kimberley Weathers, “Fitting an Elephant through a Keyhole: America’s Struggle with National Health Insurance in the Twentieth Century”. Advisor: James Jones

2003
Donald Connelly, “Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship”. Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar
Barbara Hayward, “Winning the Race: Education of Texas Freedmen Immediately after the Civil War”. Advisor: Eric Walther
John Kearney, “El Hombre de Hechos, Porfirio Diaz and the Rise of the Mexican Liberal State: War, Development and Globalization in the First Mexican Century”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Irving Levinson, “Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Diane Martin, “The Crown’s Policy against Papal Provisions in the Reign of Richard II: The Statutes of Provisors and Premunire, 1377-1394”. Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Jaime Olivares, “The Creation of a Labor Aristocracy: The History of the Oil Workers in Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1925-1948”. Advisor: Thomas O’Brien

2002
Joyce Kievit, “Trail of Tears to Veil of Tears: The Impact of Removal on Reconstruction in Indian Territory”. Advisor: Steven Mintz
Charles Closman, “Modernizing the Water: Pollution and the Commercial Tradition in Hamburg, Germany, 1900-1961”. Advisor: Hannah Decker
Patricia Torpis, “In the House of Godwine: A Study in Eleventh-Century Personality and the Pursuit of Power”. Advisor: Sally Vaughn

2001
Austin Allen, “Containing Slavery, Imposing Sovereignty: Federalism, Corporate Law, and the Origins of the Dred Scott Case”. Advisor: Robert Palmer
Pamela Conn, “Losing Hearts and Minds: U.S. Pacification Efforts in Vietnam during the Johnson Years”. Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Joseph Douglass, “An Environmental History of American Caves, 1660-1900”. Advisor: Martin Melosi
Bernadette Pruitt, “’For the Advancement of the Race’: African-American Migration and Community-Building in Houston, 1914-1945”. Advisor: Linda Reed
Julia Sloan, “The 1968 Student Movement and the Crisis of Mexico’s Institutionalized Revolution”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Sethuraman Srinivasan, “The Struggle for Control: Technology and Organized Labor in Gulf Coast Refineries, 1913-1973”. Advisor: Joe Pratt

2000
Elizabeth ‘Scout’ Blum, “Pink and Green: A Comparative Study of Black and White Women’s Urban Environmental Activism in the Twentieth Century”. Advisor: Martin Melosi
Rebecca Durrer, “Changing British Imperial Ideology: Edward G. Wakefield and the Colonization of New Zealand”. Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Leigh Fought, “The Conservative Force: Louisa S. McCord, Slavery, and Antebellum Southern Womanhood, 1810-1879”. Advisor: Richard Blackett
Steven Prewitt, “’We Didn’t Ask to Come to This Party’: Self-Determination Collides with the Federal Government in the Public Schools of Del Rio, Texas, 1890-1971”. Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Jan Rosin, “Sovereignty and Civil Rights: The Burger Supreme Court and Alien Access”. Advisor: Martin Melosi
Daniel Walker, “Cultures of Control/Cultures of Resistance: Slave Society in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and Havana”. Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Priscilla Watkins, “Caen and the Expansion of Ducal Power in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Normandy: The Formation of an Urban Community”. Advisor: Sally Vaughn

1999
Michael Botson, “The Labor History of Houston’s Hughes Tool Company, 1901-1964: From Autocracy and Jim Crow to Industrial Democracy and Civil Rights”. Advisor: Joe Pratt
Victoria Pasley, “Gender, Race, and Class in Urban Trinidad: Representations in the Construction and Maintenance of the Gender Order, 1950-1980”. Advisor: Thomas O’Brien
Dwight Watson, “A Change Did Come: The Transformation of the Houston Police Department, 1930-1984”. Advisor: Joe Pratt

1998
Gisela Ables, “Changing Images of the Arab World in the American Popular Mind”. Advisor: Garth Jowett (School of Communication)
Krisztina Robert, “Gendering Class, Patriotism, and Militarism: The Women’s Corps Movement in Britain during and after World War I”. Advisor: Karl Ittmann

1997
Bruce Beauboeuf, “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: W.S. Security, Oil Politics, and Petroleum Reserve Policies in the Twentieth Century”. Advisor: Joe Pratt
Mark Carroll, “Families, Sex, and the Law in Frontier Texas”. Advisor: Robert Palmer
J. Kent McGaughy, “A Faction of One: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, 1732-1794”. Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Alissa Petrovich, “Revisioning Colbert: Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the Origins of French Global Imperial Policy, 1661-1683”. Advisor: Bailey Stone
Charles Robinson II, “The Antimiscegenation Conversation: Love’s Legislated Limits”. Advisor: Steven Mintz
Paul Spellman, “Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition”. Advisor: Stanley Siegal

1996
Jonathan Hook, “Ethnic Dynamism: Cultural Transition in the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas”. Advisor: Martin Melosi
Melissa Hovsepian, “Considering the Other: The Effects of Otherness on the Processes of Contact, Conquest, and Cultural Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples”. Advisor: Loyd Swenson
Ernest Obadele-Starks, “The Road to Jericho: Black Workers, the Fair Employment Practice Commission, and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1941-1947”. Advisor: Joe Pratt
Amilcar Shabazz, “The Opening of the Southern Mind: The Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas, 1865-1965”. Advisor: Linda Reed
Andrew Walmesley, “Thomas Hutchinson and the Decline of Royal Government in Massachusetts”. Advisor: James Kirby Martin

1995
Theresa McGinley, “A Cry for Human Rights: The Polish Displaced Persons Problem and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1951”. Advisor: Kenneth Lipartito
Michael Rice, “Nicaragua and the U.S.: Policy Confrontations and Cultural Interactions, 1893-1933”. Advisor: Thomas O’Brien
Rivera-Garza, Cristina, “Bodies, Power, and Modernity in Mexico, 1867-1930”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Mark Saka, “Peasant Nationalism and Social Unrest in the Mexican Huasteca, 1848-1884”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Jean Truax, “”The Making of the King, 1135: Gender. Family, and Custom in the Anglo-Norman Succession Crisis”. Advisor: Sally Vaughn

1994
Theo Billings, “The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston”. Advisor: John Ettling
Karen Guenther, “A Quaker Community of the Pennsylvania Frontier: Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1737-1789” Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Tom Hughes, “The Other Air War: Elwood ‘Pete’ Quesasa and American Tactical Air Power in World War II Europe”. Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar
Betsy Powers, “From Cotton Fields to Oil Fields: Economic Development in a New South Community”. Advisor: Cheryl Cody
Michael Wilson, “Historical Interpretations of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution”. Advisor: Bailey Stone
William Kellar, “Make Haste Slowly: A History of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas”. Advisor: Linda Reed

1993
Elizabeth O’Kane Lipartito, “The Misfortunes and Calamities of War: Civilians and Society in the American Revolution and After, 1775-1830”. Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Mark Steiner, “Abraham Lincoln and the Antebellum Legal Profession”. Advisor: Robert Palmer
Ime Ukpanah, “Yearning to be Free: Inkundla ya Bantu [Bantu Forum] as Mirror and Mediator of the African Nationalist Struggle in South Africa, 1938-1951” Advisor: Les Switzer (School of Communication)

1992
Terry L. Rugeley, “Origins of the Caste War: A Social History of Rural Yucatan, 1800-1847”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Russell Alan Vardell, “Striving to Gather the Scattered: The Texas-Louisiana Synod and Its Predecessor Bodies”. Advisor: Gerald J. Goodwin

1991
Zhigong Ho, “Across the Pacific: American Pragmatism in China, 1917-1937”. Advisor:
Hal Terry Shelton, “From Redcoat to Rebel: General Richard Montgomery in the American Revolution”. Advisor: James Kirby Martin

1990
Christopher Castaneda, “Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipeline and the Competition for Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954”. Advisor: Joe Pratt
Norman Caulfield, “Conflict and Accommodation: Mexican Labor and the State in the Twentieth Century”. Advisor: John Mason Hart
Norma Chudleigh, “James L. Autry: Hero without War”. Advisor: Joe Pratt
Ellin Jimmerson, “The Social Artist and the Picture Book Medium: 20th Century American Career Biographies”. Advisor: Hyland Packard
James McCaffrey, “Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War”. Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar
James Patterson, “The Houston-Galveston Area Council: A Regional History of Intergovernmental Cooperation”. Advisor: Martin Melosi

1989
Bruce A. Olson, “The Houston Light Guards: Elite Cohesion and Social Order in the New South, 1873-1940”. Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar

1988
James Aldridge, “A Study of the Conflict between Private and Public Power Interests in Louisiana, 1950-1980”. Advisor: Joseph A. Pratt
Ibrahim Alsaeed, “The Origins and Meaning of America’s Special Relationship with Israel”. Advisor: Stanley Siegal
Myra Dorris Collie Hall, “Laura V. Hamner: A Woman before Her Time”. Advisor: James Tinsley
Sam W. Haynes: “The Somervel and Mier Expeditions: The Political and Diplomatic Consequences of Frontier Adventurism in the Texas Republic, 1842-1844”. Advisor: Stanley Siegal
Marilyn Dubberley Rhinehart, “A Way of Work and a Way of Life: Coal Mining and Coal Miners in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926”. Advisor: John O. King

1987
Priscilla Myers-Benham, “Texas City: Port of Industrial Opportunity”. Advisor: Martin Melosi

1986
Melodie Andrews, “’Myrmidons from Abroad’: The Role of the German Mercenary in the Coming of American Independence”. Advisor: Robert V. Haynes

1985
Robert N. Schwartz, “U.S. Diplomatic Relations with Latin America, 1945-1960: The Unsettling Dichotomies of Security and Development”. Advisor: Stanley Siegal
James B. Sullivan, “The Philosopher James K. Beibleman and American Civilization”. Advisor: Loyd Swenson

1984
Howard Beeth, “Outside Agitators in Southern History: The Society of Friends, 1650-1800”. Advisor: Gerald Goodwin
Larry Cable, “Conflict of Myths: The Development of U.S. Counter-Insurgency Doctrine and the Roots of the Vietnamese Commitment, 1899-1965”. Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Allen R. Vogt, “’An Honest Fanatic’: The Images of the Abolitionist in the Antebellum and Historical Minds”. Advisor: Edwin A. Miles

1983
Diane L Heafer, “An Historiographical Study Of the Taney Court and the Dred Scott Decision”. Advisor: Richard D. Younger

1982
Marta Sue Zulauf, “Through the Sipapu: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Mesa Verde Anasazi”. Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.

1980
Charles O. Cook, “Arkansas’s Charles Hillman Brough, 1876-1935: An Interpretation”. Advisor: Allen Going
Clara Viator Dobay, “Essays in Mormon Historiography”. Advisor: Richard D. Younger

1978
Don E. Carleton, “A Crisis of Rapid Change: The Red Scare in Houston, 1945-1955”. Advisor: John O. King

1975
James C. Maroney, “Organized Labor in Texas, 1900-1929”. Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.

1974
Margaret Swett Henson, “Samuel May Williams, 1795-1858: Texas Entrepreneur”. Advisor: Stanley Siegal