Theses from 2024
THE ANATOMY OF INEQUALITY: MEDICINE, MOURNING, AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, Molly G. Decker
Reason Over Revelation: John Locke as Secular Rationalist, Benjamin P. Haines
The Dismal Science of Union: An Environmental History of Pro-Slavery Political Economy, Kennon Howell Keiser Jr.
Visions of Kultur: Reflections of German Émigrés during the Great War, Timothy Kemp
"In the Footsteps of Hercules": The Influence of Classical Antiquity on Eighteenth-Century Militaries, Scott Madere
Louisiana's Confederates: Soldiers and Civilians in the Civil War, Henry Brandon Motty
YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED: CULTURAL CONFLICT OVER PUBLIC EDUCATION IN KENTUCKY, 1904-1989, Emily Muhich
Between Olympus and Golgotha: Adolf von Harnack, Werner Jaeger, and the Cultural Politics of Humanism and Higher Education in the Weimar Republic, Robert L. Powers
Grass, Scrap, Burn: Labor, Environment and Memory at Whitney Plantation, 1865-1992, Ashley Rogers
"Matter Tending to Sedition": Edwardian Theater and the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, Alexandra R. Whitley
Civil War/Global War: the U.S., China, and Britain in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Zhenman Ye
Dissertations from 2023
Two Island Nations: Commerce, Culture, and Anglo-Japanese Relations in the Nineteenth Century, Sabrina Rae Cervantez
New Orleans Nativism: Catholics in the Anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party, Sidney C. Gahagan
Sportsman's Paradox: Conservationism and Social Progress in Modern Louisiana, Jacob T. Gautreaux
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank in the Land of the Pharaoh: United States and Confederate Veterans as Agents of American, Confederate, and Egyptian Empire, Jeffery Hardin Hobson
The Silhouettes of Words. Concepts and Discourse in the Pantheismusstreit, 1782-1789, Caleb Longacre
Theses from 2022
Fathers of the Union: American Founding Memory in Northern Civil War Political Rhetoric, Kaitlyn R. Bailey
"A Different Kind of Tie": The Personal and Political Affinities of America's Leadership Class, 1765-1820, James Gifford Bishop
"Better. Not Perfect. Better": The Lumber Industry and the Migration of Louisiana Black Labor and White Capital to Northern California, 1926 - 1955, Jeffery William Crawford
War and Peace: Grant's Peace Policy in Indian Territory and the Upper Plains, Abigail Gardner
'A Powerful Auxiliary': The U.S. Army and Slave Revolts in the American South, 1803-1835, Andrew Luke Hargroder
The Limits of Financial Equity: The Federal Reserve, the Depression of 1921, and the End of Wilsonian Progressivism, Terril Hebert
"Unnatural Lusts and Vile Solicitations": Same-Sex Sex in the Civil War, Kellie Hedgers
Democracy and the Patrician Interest: The Scottish Enlightenment and Economic Nationalism in the Life of James Wilson, Stephen Paul Marsalis
World War II, Displacement, and the Making of the Postwar Ukrainian Diaspora, 1939-1951, Jennifer Lauren Popowycz
Setting Up Shop Down South: Gay Visibility and Identity Formation at a New Orleans Bookstore, Katelyn N. Spencer
Reel Transgressions: Global Business, National Film, and Female Filmmakers in Twentieth Century Mexico and Cuba, James Ralph Wilkey III
"Man of the Machine": Ernst Jünger's Philosophy of Technology and the Spiritualization of the ��������������������������������, Andrea L. Wisniewski
Theses from 2021
The Evolution of an Idea: Happiness in Restoration England, 1660-1685, Benjamin P. Haines
Beyond the Armada: The Anglo-Spanish War from the Caribbean Perspective (1585-1604), Rosa Maria Lazaro Lugo
In The Beginning: Kentucky And The Failure Of The Nation's First Anti-Evolution Bills, Emily Muhich
The Self-Fashioning of a King: Charles I and His Appeal to an Elizabethan Style of Politics and Religion, 1624-1629., Jessica Ann Payne
Between Olympus and Golgotha: Adolf von Harnack, Werner Jaeger, and the Crisis of Philology and Theology in the Weimar Republic, Robert L. Powers
Between Olympus and Golgotha: Adolf von Harnack, Werner Jaeger, and the Crisis of Philology and Theology in the Weimar Republic, Robert L. Powers
The Technocrats' War: Winning the Hearts of the Chilean Armed Forces During the Cold War (1964-1973), Pedro Leandro Ramos Velez
The King of Witchcraft: Scotland's Witchcraft Crisis and Religious Politics Under King James VI, Tristan Rimmer
Lewd and Lascivious: French Quarter Clean-up Campaigns by Business and Civic Organizations in 1950s New Orleans, Fernando Rodriguez
Time and Tide: Sixteenth-Century Expressions of Temporality in the Writings of Richard Hakluyt, Jennifer Hope Tellman
"Good Citizens": London's German Colony, 1860-1914, Erik Paul Wagner
Garden of Ruins: Military Occupation and State Power in Civil War Louisiana, Johnathan Matthew Ward
Staging Reformation: Religious Theater in England, 1525-1553, Alexandra R. Whitley
Theses from 2020
There's No Place Like Home: Arlene Francis and Domesticity in Doubt, Caroline Argrave
Bernard Palissy: Early Career - Securing Patronage and Mimicking Nature in a Moment of Crisis, Karissa Bailey
Liminal Liberation: Courtesans and Embodied Anxieties in Sixteenth-Century Venice, Mandonesia Carter
The Strange Death of American Democracy: Judicial Supremacy and the New Constitutional Politics, 1910-1916, Logan Istre
That Diabolical Sect: Anti-Masonry, Religion and the Making of American Citizenship 1825-1850, Andrew William Johnson
Between the Judean Desert and Gaza: Asceticism and the Monastic Communities of Palestine in the Sixth Century, Austin McCray
The Life and Death of Kate Townsend: Gender and Power in New Orleans Prostitution, 1858-1883, Lindsay Ann Silver
James I: Monarchial Representation and English Identity, Elizabeth Maria Taylor
Reshaping an Earthly Paradise: Land Enclosure and Bavarian State Centralization (1779-1835), Gregory DeVoe Tomlinson
Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Evelyn Lenora Wilson
Dissertations from 2019
The Value of Benevolence: Wealth, Philanthropy, and Police Power Before the Civil War, Thomas Ewing Barber
Between Regulation And Repression, Tradition And Innovation: How The Royal College Of Physicians Of London Negotiated Its Place In The Early Modern Medical Field, Erin Michelle Halloran
The New British Christianity of C.S. Lewis, Thomas Kemp
The Ties that Bind: The Meaning of Attachment in State Constitutional Revision, 1820-1845, Allison J. Morvant
The Jeffersonian Huey Long: The Rise of Southern Socialism, Ali Katherine Nabours
Politics and Religion During the Rise and Reign of Anne Boleyn, Megan E. Scherrer
Eleanor Lansing Dulles and the Fate of Berlin: 1953-1989, Chad Everett Shelley
Sowing the Wild Oats: Scandal and Crisis in the Louisiana Grain Industry, Chandler Taylor
Material Girls: Gender, Consumerism, and Economic Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, Emily J. Wells
Dissertations from 2018
Jews and the Sources of Religious Freedom in Early Pennsylvania, Jonathon Derek Awtrey
Unquenchable Enthusiasm for the American Way and American Life: Prescribing, Promoting, and Praising Conservative Values of Japanese Americans During Internment, Kallie Nycole Credeur
The 'Happiest' Corner of London: Bethnal Green, 1550-1945, Audrey Lynne Gray
At the Edge of Humanity: American Indian Legal Identity and the Development of American Citizenship, Zachary Charles Isenhower
Una Soldado en Cada Hija: An Analysis of Women's Illicit Participation in the Mexican Revolution, Edrea Maria Mendoza Quintero
Percepción y Periodismo: Bohemia in 1950s Cuba, Jeffrey E. O'Brien
Carlos Puebla and the People's History of the Cuban Revolution (1956-1980), Juan Rodríguez-Cepero
Theses from 2017
The Slow Evolution of a Chimeric Field: Perceptions of Chymistry Through Early Learned Journals, 1665-1743, Amanda J. Arceneaux
A Vast Injustice: The Public Debate and Legislative Battle over Compulsory Eugenic Sterilization in Louisiana, 1924 -- 1932, Adelaide Hair Barr
Televising the American Nightmare: The Twilight Zone and Postwar Social Criticism, David Brokaw
Viking Nobility in Anglo-Saxon England: The Expansion of Royal Authority Through the Use of Scandinavian Accommodation and Integration, Lauren Marie Doughty
Bonaparte's Dream: Napoleon and the Rhetoric of American Expansion, 1800-1850, Mark Ehlers
An Elusive Peace: The Foreign Policy Challenges of the Clinton Administration in a Post-Cold War World, Jennifer Perrett Galiouras
A Tamed Nobility? An Evaluation of the Relationship between the English Monarchy and the Late Medieval Peerage, Elizabeth Paige Long
Theses from 2016
Facts Are Stubborn Things: The Foundation of Alfred Russel Wallace's Theories, 1823-1848, Sabrina Rae Cervantez
Policies of Loss: Coastal Erosion and the Struggle to Save Louisiana's Wetlands, Rebecca B. Costa
“What Credit Is That to You?” The Social Context Of Moneylending In Medieval England A Comparative Study 1340-1509, Elizabeth Ann Green
Challenging Roman Domination: The End of Hellenistic Rule and the Rise of the Parthian State from the Third to the First Centuries BCE, Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
Jockeying for Position: Horse Racing in New Orleans, 1865-1920, Matthew Saul Perreault
Boys on Blue Benches: Disfigured Veterans of the First World War, Brenna K. Pritchard
Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt, Robert Tiegs
Buying In and Selling Out: African-American Ownership of Record Labels in the Twentieth Century, Stuart Lucas Tully
God's Children without a Nation: German Missionaries, Settlers, and Africans in Southwest Africa, 1915-1960, Jason Michael Wolfe
Dissertations from 2015
Empire of Faith: Toleration, Confessionalism and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in the Habsburg Empire, 1792-1867, Scott Michael Berg
British Masculinity and Propaganda during the First World War, Evan M. Caris
To Begin Anew: Federalism and Power in the Confederate States of America, Geoffrey D. Cunningham
Collections Created During Conflict: Preserving the Memory of the First World War, Rachel Gifford
A Glorious Assemblage: The Rise of the Know-Nothing Party in Louisiana, Ryan M. Hall
"A Circle Form'd of Friends:" Candor, Contentiousness, and the Democratic Clubs of the Early Republic, Andrew Luke Hargroder
Political Conspiracy in Napoleonic France, Kelly Diane Jernigan
Nationalization and Regionalism in 1920s College Football, Bennett Jeffery Koerber
'Of Whims and Fancies': A Study of English Recusants under Elizabeth, 1570-1595, Michael David Lane
The Politics of Public Relations: Concepts of Image, Reputation and Authority in Henry VIII’s England, Lyndsi Lewis
The Pope and the Presidents: The Italian Unification and the American Civil War, Robert Attilio Matteucci, Jr.
Agnes in Agony: Damasus, Ambrose, Prudentius, and the Construction of the Female Martyr Narrative, Eric James Poche'
“Princes upon Stages”: the Theatricalization of Monarchy in the Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569, Kimberly Reynolds Rush
White Manhood in Louisiana During Reconstruction, 1865-1877, Arthur Wendel Stout
"The Lonely Romantic": Nature, Education, and Cultural Pessimism in the Early Works of Hermann Hesse, Erik Paul Wagner
Expertise and Disbelief: Post-1945 American Attitudes Toward the Authority of Knowledge, Terry Wagner
Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862, Andrew N. Wegmann