Recent PhDs

2007-08

Johnson, James Clay (BA and MA: Wright State University) “Flights Past: Wright Brothers Legacy and Dayton, Ohio" Advisor: Szylvian, Kristin M.

DeBruler, Ray () “Frontier Michigan, 1763-1837: Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Three Lower Peninsula Locations” Advisor: Brandao, Jose A

Veldt, Stanley Mark () “Jewish-Christian Relations in the Earliest Centuries A.D.”
Advisor: Maier, Paul L.

2006-07

O'Brien, Maureen () “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" Advisor:

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"