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Ph.D. Dissertation Topics

Dissertations in Progress

  • CHEN, Zhihong (BA, Peking University ; MA, University of Oregon ) “Going to the Frontier: Chinese Intellectuals' Reconceptualization of Chinese Geography and Peoples During the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937)”
  • FURTADO, Michael (BA, University of Oregon ; MA, University of Oregon ) “Islands of Castile: The Sea and the Realm in Late Medieval Castile ”
  • GOOD, Polly (BS, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; MA, George Washington University ) “Shakers, Religious Freedom, and Political Culture in the Early American Republic ”
  • HESTER, Torrie (BA, California State University, Los Angeles; MA, University of Victoria, B.C.) "Deportation: The Origins of a National and International Power"
  • LI, Guannan (BA, Peking University ; MA, Peking University ) “Reviving China--A Civilizing Enterprise in Chinese Revolution: GMD's Social and Cultural Engineering and Colonial Modernity, 1927-1937”
  • RUCKABERLE, Jurgen (BA, University of Tuebingen ; MA, University of Oregon ) “ U.S. Consumer Activism in the 1960s and 1970s”
  • SCHLIMGEN, Veta (BA, University of Montana ; MA, University of Oregon ) “From Insular Subjects to Colonial Aliens: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Filipino Americans, 1902-1952”
  • SHINTANI, Kiyoshi (BA, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor ; MA, Doshisha University ) “The Gospel of Good Cooking: Culinary Reformers and the Making of Consumer Culture, 1876-1916 ”

Recent Dissertation Topics

2005-2006

  • DAVIDSON, Hugh (BA, Adams State College; MA University of Wyoming) "Bent to Nature: Bend, Oregon As A Case Study In Twentieth-Centruy Property Development"
  • DUNCAN, Jennifer (BA, University of Georgia; MA, Oregon State University) "The Editrice in France since the MCF: Editions des Femmes and the opening of the Publishing Industry to Women."
  • McKENZIE, Beatrice (BA, Blackburn College; MA, Johns Hopkins University) "American at Birth: U.S. Citizenship in Nation and Empire 1898-1934"

2004-2005

  • CERMAK, Bonni (BA, Western Washington University; MA, Western Washington University) "In the Interest of Justice: Legal Narratives of Sex, Gender, Race, and Rape in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, 1920-1960."
  • KIM, Jaeyoon (BA, Chonnam National University; MA, San Diego State University) "The Red Turban Rebellion and the Emergence of Ethnic Consciousness of the Hakkas in Nineteenth Century China."

2003-2004

  • CHUN, Jayson (BA, Georgetown University; MA, University of California, Santa Barbara) "A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots? A Social History of Television in Postwar Japan"
  • CUNNINGHAM, Eric (BA, University of Colorado; MA, University of Oregon) "Visions of a Place Beyond Time: Nishida's Historical World and the Problem of Overcoming Modernity"

2002-2003

  • BOYER, William (BA, University of California, Davis; MA, University of Oregon) "Oregon Politics and the Evolution of the Populist Movement in Portland, 1890-1898"
  • HATFIELD, Kevin (BA, University of Oregon; MA, Utah State University) "'We Were Not Tramp Sheepmen:' Resistance and Identity in the Oregon Basque Community, Accustomed Range Rights and the Taylor Grazing Act, 1890-1945"
  • IWATA, Taro (BA, Kansai Gaidai University; MA, University of Hawaii) "Crowding In, Crowding Out: Race, Citizenship, and Geopolitics in Hawai'i, 1900-1941"
  • PEBWORTH, Michael (BA, Indiana University; MA, University of Oregon) "Evergreen Struggle: Federal Wilderness Preservation, Populism and Liberalism in Washington State, 1953-1985."
  • RAWSON, Tim (BA, Luther College; MA University of Alaska, Fairbanks) "In Common with all Citizens: Fish, Native Americans, Sportsmen, and Conservation in Oregon and Washington."

2001-2002

  • WHALEY, Gray (BA, Rutgers University; MA, SUNY Albany) "Oregon from Illahee: American Colonization and Native Resistance on Southwest Oregon Frontier, 1790-1870."

2000-2001

  • JENSEN, Timothy (BA, University of Washington; MA, Western Washington University) "The Wares: Three Generations of American Unitarians."
  • HILL, Kimloan T.V. (BA, University of Missouri at St. Louis; MA, University of Oregon) "A Western Journey, An Enlightened Path: Vietnamese Linh Tho, 1915-1930."
  • RUSH, Joseph Ian (BA, Pennsylvania State University; M. Litt. University of St. Andrews) "Commerce and Labor in Medieval England: The Impact of the Market Economy on Workers' Diet and Wages, 1275-1315."

 

 

 

 

 

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