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Recent History Department PhDs
2008-09
Duke, Robert H. (BA, MA, Western Michigan). “Bilingual Education, Federalism, and the Political Culture of AmericanPublic Education,1964-1980.” Advisor: Faires, Nora.
2007-08
Johnson, James Clay (BA, MA, Wright State University). “Flights Past: Wright Brothers Legacy and Dayton, Ohio.” Advisor: Szylvian, Kristin M.
DeBruler, Ray (BS, Central Michigan; MA, Eastern Michigan). “Frontier Michigan, 1763-1837: Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Three Lower Peninsula Locations.” Advisor: Brandao, Jose A.
Veldt, Stanley Mark (BA, Cornerstone University; MA, Western Michigan). “Jewish-Christian Relations in the Earliest Centuries A.D.”
Advisor: Maier, Paul L.
2006-07
O'Brien, Maureen (BA, Benedictine College; MA, Western Michigan; MA, Notre Dame). “Power and Prayer as Reflected in 'A Mirror of Monastic Perfection': A Prosopographical Study of the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, 1043-1184.” Advisor: Elder, E. Rozanne.
2005-06
2004-05
Kain, Kevin (BA, North Carolina at Wilmington; MA Appalacian State). “Patriarch Nikon's Image in Russian History and Culture.”
Martin, Michael T. (BA, Iowa; MA Western Michigan). “Italian Homilary: Texts and Contexts.”
Yount, Andrea (BA, MA, Western Michigan). “William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Historic Preservation in Europe.”
2003-04
Curta, Lucia (BA, Bucharest; MA, Western Michigan). “Imagined Communities' in Showcases: The Nationality Rooms Program at the University of Pittsburgh (1926-1945).”
Jass, Stephanie (BA, Valparaiso; MA, Bowling Green State). “Recipies for Reform: Americanization and Foodways in Chicago Settlement Houses, 1890-1920.”
2002-03
Summitt, April R. (BS, Newbold; MA, Andrews). “The Other Frontier: John F. Kennedy and U.S.-Middle East Relations.”
Vichcales, Kevin B. (BA, Albion; MA, Western Michigan). “The Tragedy of Rivers: Building Authority over the British Water Environment.”
2001-2002
Carlson, Sharon (BS, MPA, Western Michigan). “Ladies' Library Associations in Michigan: Women, Reform, and Use of Public Space.”
Jones, Romauld Clifford (BA, Fitchburg State; MA, Andrews; DMin, New York Theological Sem). “Utopia Park, Utopian Church: James K. Humphrey and the Emergence of Sabbath-Day Adventists.”
2000-2001
Cartwright, Steven (BA, Michigan; MA, Western Michigan). “The Roman Commentaries of William of St. Thiery and Peter Abelard: A Theological and Methodological Comparison.”
Galler, Robert (BA, State U. of New York at Albany; MA, Yale Divinity School; MA, South Dakota). “Environment, Cultures, and Social Change on the Great Plains: A History of Crow Creek Tribal School.”
1999-2000
Eichinger, Juleen A. (BA, MA, Western Michigan). “Muggletonians: A People Apart.”
1998-1999
Curta, Florin (BA, Bucharest, Romania; MA, Western Michigan). “Making an Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case of the 'Early Slavs.'”
Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl (BA, Michigan; MA, Western Michigan). “For Shade and Comfort: Ornamental Plants and Concepts of Home in the Mid-19th-Century Midwest.”
1997-1998
Johnson, Charles T. (BA, Michigan State; MA, Western Michigan). “The National German-American Alliance, 1901-18.”