Ph.D. Students at Marquette have written dissertations on a wide variety of topics in American and European history. Many are revised into books鈥揾ere are a few of the recent dissertations turned into books:
History Dissertation Examples
Abigail Bernhardt: "On Sides: Reading Irish National Identities Through Soccer, 1920-1998". Advisor: Timothy McMahon
Alissa Condon: "'Equal Citizens in a Free State?' Irish Veterans of World War I".
Advisor: Timothy McMahon
Matthew Douglas: "The Huguenot Experience: Gender, Violence, and the Courts in N卯mes, 1685-1788". Advisor: Julius Ruff
William Fliss: "I'm Mad as Hell and I鈥檓 Not Going to Take it Anymore: The Public Career of Virgil Blum, SJ". Advisor: Steven Avella
Sam Harshner:"Pope's Day and Masculinity: An Ideology of the American Revolution". Advisor: A. Kristen Foster
Ben Nestor: 鈥�Einsatzgruppe C in the District Galicia: Ideology, Situational Violence and Mass Murder鈥�. Advisor: Peter Staudenmaier
Margaret Nettesheim Hoffmann: "Generous Citizens of Wealth: Capitalism and Private Philanthropy in Milwaukee c. 1861-1930". Advisor: Alison Efford
Olga Shchennikova: "Soviet Environmentalism: The Moral Revolt of the Intelligentsia, 1964-91". Advisor: Alan Ball
Kevin Wienke: 鈥淭he Dog Question: Race, Class, and Canines in the Nineteenth-Century United States鈥�. Advisor: Alison Efford
Peter Borg: Milwaukee's White Urban Churches during the Age of Surburbanization, (2020). Directed by Dr. James Marten
Cory Haala: Midwestern Liberalism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-92 (2020). Directed by Dr. Steven Avella.
Michael Pulido: Transmitting Revolution: Radio, Rumor, and the 1953 East German Uprising, (2017). Directed by Dr. Julius Ruff and Dr. Peter Staudenmaier.
Aaron Hyams: Long Journeys to a Middle Ground: Indians, Catholics, and the Origins of a New Deal in Montana and Idaho, 1855-1945 (2016). Directed by Dr. Steven Avella.
Matthew Costello: (2016). Directed by Dr. Kristen Foster.
Bethany Harding: 鈥淏reaking Up, and Moving Westward鈥�: The Search for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828, (2015). Directed by Dr. Kristen Foster.
McKayla Sutton: "Illuminating the Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, and the Promotion of the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme", (2014). Directed by Dr. Timothy McMahon.
Timothy Lay: 鈥淏y Jingo鈥�: the Manifestation of Militarism as a British Cultural Phenomena, 1878-1902, (2014). Directed by Dr. Timothy McMahon.
Dominic Faraone: Urban Rifts and Religious Reciprocity: Chicago and the Catholic Church, 1965-1996, (2013). Directed by Dr. Steven Avella.
