Dissertations Defended in 2023

three people standing in front of a bookshelf

Left to Right: Tara Zahra, Benjamin Van Zee, Leora Auslander

four people standing in front of a wall of books

Left to Right: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Emily Kern, Emma Kitchen, Robert Richards

five people standing in front of a window

Left to Right: Jacob Eyferth, Johanna Ransmeier, Kenneth Pomeranz, Yuan Tian, Boqun Zhou

Left to Right: Susan Burns, Zeynep Tezer, Hakan Karateke, Jonathan Lyon

Mariana Brandman, 2/27/23, "Take Back the Mic: The Rise of Feminist Stand-Up Comedy in American Culture"
Daina Coffey, 7/11/23, “‘Build a Fence Around Los Angeles”: Labor, Unemployment, and Survival in the City of Angels, 1929-1941”
Serena Covkin, 10/16/23, “Fighting in Court: Women, War, and the Law in Twentieth-Century America”
Timothy Crimmins, 10/23/23, “From Rehabilitation to Incapacitation: Social Scientists, Crime, and Incarceration in the 1960s and 1970s”
Nicholas Foster, 5/1/23, “Country on Fire: The Virtuous Producer in the Era of Finance Capitalism”
Andrew Halladay, 1/13/23, "A Distant Throne: The British Sovereign in the Mirror of Indian Nationalism, 1919-36"
Emma Kitchen, 5/23/23, “The Aurochs Through Time: A History of Integrating Timescales and Disciplines in the Study of the Ancestral Cow”
Yujie Li, 5/15/23, “Wheels and Sweat: Muscle-Powered Transportation in the Everyday Life of Maoist China, 1949-1979”
Yasser Nasser, 10/31/23, “Creating New Asia: Sino-Indian Friendship and the Promise of Asian Solidarity in the Early Cold War, 1947-1962”
Hanna Manente Nunes, 7/25/23, “Stolen, Contested, Networked: A Material Culture History of Modern São Paulo”
Corbin Page, 6/16/23, “Legal Perversions: The Creation of the Sexual Carceral State”
Stephanie Painter, 4/7/23, “Women’s Violent Crime and a Crisis of Weak Patriarchy in Late Imperial China”
Zeynep Tezer, 5/23/23, “The Poet Smiles to the Fool: Critical Discourse and Marginalization in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1550-ca. 1650”
Yuan Tian, 6/15/23, “Western Privileges in Chinese Eyes: A Social History of Extraterritoriality in Qing China Sichuan”
Benjamin Van Zee, 5/17/23, “The Underdog Imperialist: Poles, Germans, and Interwar Emigrant Colonialism"