PhD Dissertations Completed

2008

Rebecca Slitt (Instructor, Honors College, Hofstra University)
"Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Anglo-norman World, 1000-1300 "
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

2007

Caroline Dunn (Assistant Professor, Clemson University)
"Damsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England"
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

Tomas Zahora
"Alexander Neckman's Encyclopedias: Work at a Juncture-Point in Medieval Intellectual and Social History"
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

2006

Robert Markys (Assistant Professor, Bronx Community College)
"From Medieval Tutiorism to Modern Probabilism: ‘Spoils of Egypt’ and the Making of the Jesuit Conscience between Loyola and Pascal"
Mentor: Dr. W. David Myers

Lyndell O'Hara (Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences, Nyack College, Manhattan)
"Far Beyond Both her Nature and Her Sex: The Creation of a Puritan Hagiography in Old and New England, 1590-1720"
Mentor: Drs. Elaine Crane and Susan Wabuda

Michael Vargas (Assistant Professor, SUNY-New Paltz)
"Social Resources and Institutional Change in the Dominican Province of Aragon”
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

2004

Ildar H. Garipzanov (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bergen's Center for Medieval Studies, Norway)
"Rex Francorum -- Imperator Augustus -- gratia Dei rex: The 'Language' of Authority in the Carolingian World (751-877)"
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

Laura Morreale
"Chronicle and Community in Northern Italy, 1240-1360"
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Smail

Gilbert Stack  (Director of Accreditation and Assessment, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University)
"English Mint Administration, Moneyers and Monetary Reform in the Reign of Henry II, 1154-1189"
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

2003

Nicolas Agrait (Assistant Professor, Long Island University)
"Monarchy and Military Practice during the Reign of Alfonso XI 1312-50."
Mentor: Dr. Joseph O'Callaghan

Steve Spishak (Technology Program Director, National Association of Securities Dealers, and Owner of Liquid Symmetry Web Design)
"Urban Lordship in England: Lay Seigneurs in the West Midlands and Welsh March, 1066-1348"
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski                                                                                                                                               

2002

Elizabeth Kunz (Cornell University, Communications and Marketing, College of Architecture, Art and Planning)
"Hospitality, Conviviality and the English Gentry: Social Networks of the Landed Elite in Late Medieval Suffolk"
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

Lori Pieper (Researcher, Translator, Conjuring Arts Research Center, New York)
"St. Elizabeth of Hungary and the Franciscan Tradition"
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

2001

James Patterson (Associate Professor, Centenary College)
"Patriots or Outlaws: Irish Rebel Activity, 1798-1803”
Mentor: Dr. Nancy J. Curtin

Derek Rivard (Associate Professor, Cottey College)
"Sanctifying the World: Ritual Blessing and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion and Culture”
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

2000

Louis Hamilton (Assistant Professor, Drew University)
"The Power of Liturgy and the Liturgies of Power in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

Rosmarie Sunderland (retired)
"Huldrych Zwingli’s Reformation: Changes in Religious and Social Customs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Zurich and its Environs”
Mentor: Dr. W. David Myers 

David Sylvester (President of Corpus Christi College and St. Mark's College, Univeristy of British Columbia)
"Maritime Communities in Pre-Plague England: Winchelsea and the Cinque Ports”
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski 

Gilmar Visoni (Associate Professor, Queensborough Community College)
"Lyrical Dialectic as Historiographical Discourse in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruno”
Mentors: Dr. W. David Myers and Dr. Wayne Storey

1999

Gregory Beirich (Lecturer, California State University, Los Angeles, and CSU, Long Beach)
"Franciscan Apocalypticism and Reform: Ubertino de Casale’s Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu”
Mentor: Fr. Louis Pascoe, S.J. 

David Flaten (Assistant Professor, Tompkins Cortland Community College)
"Political Power, Sexuality, and the Family: King George II and the Politicians, 1727-1760”
Mentor: Dr. Nancy J. Curtin 

Paul Halsall (Web Consultant)

"Women’s Bodies, Men’s Souls: Sanctity and Gender in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Byzantium”
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski 

Nina Melechen (Visiting Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University)
"The Jews of Medieval Toledo: Their Economic and Social Contact with Christians, 1125-1391”
Mentor: Dr. Joseph O’Callaghan

1998

Daniel M. LaCorte (Associate Professor, Western Michigan University)
"Images of Abbot and Monastic Community in the Thought of Aelred of Rievaulx"
Mentor: Fr. Louis B. Pascoe, S. J.

Dalia M. Leonardo (Assistant Professor, CUNY Graduate Center)
"League Polemics and Monarchical Crisis: A Religious and Cultural Analysis of the Catholic League during the Reign of Henry III (1576-1589)
Mentor: Dr. Bryant T. Ragan

1997

Theresa M. Earenfight (Associate Professor, Seattle University)
"Queenship, Politics, and Government in the Medieval Crown of Aragon: The Lieutenancy of Maria of Castile, 1420-23 and 1432-53"
Mentor: Dr. Joseph F. O'Callaghan

Thomas C. Giangreco (Government Documents, Walsh Library, Fordham University)
"Reform, Renewal, and Renaissance: The Thought of Cola di Rienzo in Its Historical Context"
Mentor: Fr. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J. 

Joanne King Grafe (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Florida International University)
"Caritas Pirckheimer: Sixteenth-Century Chronicler"
Mentor: Dr. W. David Myers

Marianne F. LaPointe (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Stamford)
"Stuart Petitions and the Failure of 'Good Rule': Protests of Commoners over Administrative Corruption, 1603-1642"
Mentors: Fr. Albert J. Loomie S.J. and Dr. Susan Wabuda

Anton Xuereb (†)
"Angelo of Clareno: Structure and Argument in the Historia Septem Tribulationum" (awarded posthumously)
Mentor: Fr. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J.

1996

Christopher M. Bellitto (Assistant Professor, Kean University)
"Nicolas de Clamanges: Personal and Pastoral Reform in the Late Medieval Church"
Mentor: Fr. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J.

James J. Todesca (Associate Professor, Armstrong Atlantic State University)
"What Touches All: Coinage and Monetary Policy in Leon-Castile to 1230"
Mentor: Dr. Joseph F. O'Callaghan

1995

Ellen M. Russell
"James Alexander, 1691-1756"
Mentor: Dr. Robert F. Jones

1994

Judy Ford (Professor, Texas A&M University, Commerce)
"The Community of the Parish in Late Medieval Kent"
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

1993

Peter J. Hatlie (Director and Academic Dean, University of Dallas Rome Program)
"Abbot Theodore and the Studites: A Case Study in Monastic Social Groupings and Political Conflict in Constantinople (787-826)
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

1992

Beverly A. Dougherty (retired)
"The Statutes of the Yorkist Period, 1461-1485: Their Significance and Impact on the Development of the State"
Mentor: Dr. Joseph F. O'Callaghan

J. Pascal Gargiulo
Lucas Alaman, Mexican Conservatism, and the United States: A History of Attitudes and Policy, 1823-1853
Mentor: Dr. George Gill

Theresa M. Vann (Curator of Malta Study Center, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library)
"Castilian Royal Government of the Kingdom of Toledo, 1085-1252"
Mentor: Dr. Joseph F. O'Callaghan

1991

Marilyn Oliva (Adjunct Associate Professor, Fordham University, and Editorial Board, Medieval Prosopography)
"The Convent and the Community in the Diocese of Norwich from 1350 to 1540"
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

R. Fox Thurston (retired)
"The Tranquility of the Realm in Fifteenth-Century Castile (1406-1474)"
Mentor: Dr. Joseph F. O'Callaghan

1990

Joseph F. Meany, Jr. (Senior Historian New York State Museum)
“Merchant and Redcoat: The Papers of John Gordon Macomb July 1757 to June 1760.”
Mentor: Robert F. Jones

1989

George Pawliczko (Executive Director, American Institute of Banking of Greater New York)
"A Crucial Turning Point: The Council of Lviv 1946, Its Background and Consequences."
Mentor: Bernice Rosenthal

1988

Alexander L. Dvorkin (Professor and President of St-Iraneus of Lyon Center of Religious Studies, Moscow)
"Ivan the Terrible as a Religious Type."
Mentor: John Meyendorff

Paulette Lynn Pepin (Assistant Professor of Education, University of New Haven)
"Church-State Relations during the Reign of Fernando IV of Castile-León (1295-1312)."
Mentor: Joseph F. O'Callaghan

1987

Richard Emil Marchese
"The Role of St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510) in the Reform of the Church."
Mentor: John C. Olin

Rasa J. Mazeika (Director, Lithuanian Museum, Archives of Canada)
"The Role of Pagan Lithuania in Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Religious Diplomacy in East-Central Europe (1345-77)."
Mentor: John Meyendorff

1986

Francesco C. Cesareo (President of Assumption College, Worcester, MA.)
"Humanism and Reform in the Life and Work of Gregorio Cortese 1483-1548."
Mentor: John C. Olin

Elliott Burton Litsky
"The Murphy-Weygand Agreement: The United States and French North Africa (1940-1942)."
Mentor: Douglas W. Houston

1985

Delma S. Arrigoitia
"Jose de Diego: A Legislator in Times of Political Transition (1903-1918)."
Mentor: O. Carlos Stoetzer

1983

Stephen J. Greenberg (Coordinator of Public Services, History of Medicine 

Division, National Library of Medicine, Maryland)

"Cavalier-Propaganda Stereotypes in Seventeenth-Century England."
Mentor: John C. Olin

1982

Jerome J. Haggerty
"A History of the Ranger Battalions in World War II."
Mentor: George J. Gill

1981

Maryann Civitello
"The State Department and Peacemaking, 1917-1920: Attitudes of State Department Officials Toward Wilson's Peacemaking Efforts."
Mentor: George J. Gill

Donald Kagay (Professor, Albany State University)
"The Development of the Cortes in the Crown of Aragon, 1064-1327."
Mentor: Joseph F. O'Callaghan

Frances Kianka
"Demetrius Cydones (c. 1324-c. 1397): Intellectual and Diplomatic Relations Between Byzantium and the West in the Fourteenth Century."
Mentor: John Meyendorff

Kenneth A. Lill
"Kurt Bruening and Plans for Alcohol Fuel Production in the Weimar Republic."
Mentor: Roger Wines

1980

Brother John W. Klein
"The Role and Impact of Rockefeller Philanthropy during the Progressive Era."
Mentor: Robert F. Himmelberg

Anne M. Mannion (Associate Professor, Fordham University)
"Novalia: A Study in Cistercian Economic Policy and Practices from 1098 to 1215."
Mentor: Joseph F. O'Callaghan

Markian Pelech
"The Question of Representation in Prussia under the Grand Master Heinrich von Plauen (November 9, 1410-October 9, 1413)."
Mentor: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
 

1979

Charles P. Connor
"The American Catholic Political Position at Mid-Century: Archbishop Hughes as a Test Case."
Mentor: Francis Xavier Curran, S.J.

Richard James Donagher
"The Urban Bull Moose: A Case Study in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh."
 Mentor: Robert F. Himmelberg

Miriam Joyce Haron
"Anglo-American Relations and the Question of Palestine, 1945-1947."
Mentor: John P. Entelis

Annette Palmer
"The United States and the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1940-1945."
Mentor: Douglas W. Houston

Janush Rozankowski
"Theobald of Champagne: Count, Crusader, and King."
Mentor: Joseph F. O'Callaghan

1976

John L. Boojamra
"The Ecclesiastical Reforms of the Patriarch Athanasius of Constantinople (1289-1293; 1303-1309)."
Mentor: John Meyendorff

Vincent F. Bonelli
"The Response of Public and Private Philanthropy to the Panic of 1819 in New York City."
Mentor: Robert F. Jones

Donald J. Cannon
"The Fire Department of the City of New York, 1835-1898: A Study in Institutional Adaptability."
Mentor: Robert F. Himmelberg

Maria T. Eufemia
"The Influence of Republican Ideology on New Yorkers, 1775-1800: An Examination of the British Libertarian Tradition."
Mentor: Robert F. Jones

Lawrence Schaefer
"The King's Prerogative to Dissolve Parliament and the Dissolution Crisis of December 1783."
Mentor: Maurice R. O'Connell

1975

Angela Constantinides Hero
“The Unpublished Letters of Gregory Akindynos.”
Mentor: John Meyendorff

Paul Robert Ziegler
“Joseph Hume and the Whigs, 1830-1841: A Study of Inter-Party Cooperation.”
Mentor: Maurice R. O'Connell

1974

Thomas B. Andersen
“Patrocinium: The Concept of Personal Protection and Dependence in the Later Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages.”
Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, S. J.

Sister Helen Coldrick
“Daniel O’Connell and Religious Freedom.”
Mentor: Maurice R. O’Connell

Richard J. Grace
“Anglo-American Relations Regarding the Far East 1937-1941.”
Mentor: Robert Himmelberg

John M. Hamrogue
“John A. Andrew, Abolitionist Governor, 1861-1865.”
Mentor: John A. Carpenter

Roman Legedza
“The Sudeten Crisis of September 1938: An Inquiry Into German Motives and Objectives.”
Mentor: Roger A. Wines

Charles B. McNamara
“The Hébertists: Study of a French Revolutionary Faction in the Reign of Terror, 1793-94.”
Mentor: A. Paul Levack

Anna-Maria Moggio
“The Napoleonic Image in the Press of Toulouse, 1830-1848.”
Mentor: A. Paul Levack

Allan Nelson
The Parliamentary election Influence and Activities of the Third Duke of Portland, 1760-1780.”
Mentor: Maurice R. O’Connell

John T. Reilly
“The Confiscation and Sale of the Loyalist Estates and Its Effect on the Democratization of Landholding in New York, 1779-1800.”
Mentor: Robert F. Jones

1973

Martin J. Becker
“A History of Catholic Life in the Diocese of Albany, 1609-1864.”
Mentor: Francis Xavier Curran, S. J.

Nicholas G. Itsines
“Patriarch Nicholas Mysticos and the Fourth Marriage of Leo VI, the Wise.”
Mentor: John Meyendorff

Sister Kathleen C. Keating
“John Acton and the Church of Pius IX.”
Mentor: James Hennessey, S. J.

Joseph R. Leahey
“The Influence of St. Bernard on Episcopal Elections in France, 1138-1153.”
Mentor: Joseph F. O’Callaghan

Theodore John Rivers
Contributions to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Lex Baiuvariorum: A Comparative Study of the Alamannic and Bavarian Codes.” Charles P. Loughran, S. J.

Raymond J. Russo
“The Political Process in New York State, 1816-1824: A Study in Political Morality and Changing Attitudes Toward the Party System.”
Mentor: John A. Carpenter

Philip R. Silvia
“The Spindle City: Labor, Politics and Religion in Fall River, Massachisetts, 1870-1905.”
Mentor: Robert Himmelberg

Bruce Taylor
“Emancipation in Barbados 1830-1850, A Study in Planter Accommodation.”
Mentor: O. Carlos Stoetzer

Constantine Tsirpanlis
“Mark Eugenicus and the Council of Florence: A Historical Re-Evaluation of His Personality.”
Mentor: John Meyendorff

John V. Wilkinson
“The Social Welfare Program of Pope Gregory the Great.”
Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, S. J.

1972

Ruth Brantl
“The Household of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury: A Study in the Twelfth Century English Episcopal Household.”
Mentor: Joseph F. O’Callaghan

Francis P. DeStefano
“Henry Seymour Conway and the Commons’ Cause, 1741-1784.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

John Nikol
“The Oxford Movement in Decline: Lord John Russell, the Tractarians and the Church of England, 1846-1852.”
Mentor: Maurice R. O’Connell

Robert Renz
“The Legal Position of the Soldier and Veteran in the Roman Empire.”
Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, S. J.

Daniel Weitz
“Famine and Plague as Factors in the Collapse of the Roman Empire in the Third Century.”
Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, S. J.

1971

Rose Pik Siu Chan
“The Great Powers and the Chinese Revolution, 1911-1913.”
Mentor: Douglas W. Houston

Howard L. English
“Great Britain and the Problem of Imperial Defense: The Far East, 1919-1923.”
Mentor: Douglas W. Houston

Mary O’Connor English
“New York in Transition, 1783-1786.”
Mentor: Joseph R. Frese, S. J.

Leo John Haczynski
 “The Problem of Eastern Galicia at the Paris Peace Conference: A Re-Examination in the Light of American Materials in the Archives of the United States.”
Mentor: Oscar Halecki

Thomas Michael Molloy
“The Irish Executive and the North Ministry, 1777-1782.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

Peter P. O'Keefe
“A History of the Metropolitan Office at Rheims from Hincmar (845-882) to the Romana Ecclesia of Innocent IV (1243-1254).”
Mentor: Joseph F. O’Callaghan

Edward Francis Sweet
“The Origin of the Democratic Party in Rhode Island, 1824-1836.”
Mentor: John A. Carpenter

1970

Janet Marguerite Leonard
“A Study of the Administration of John Aylmer, Bishop of London, 1577-1594.”
Mentor: Albert J. Loomie, S. J.

1969

John James Brennan
“England in the Foreign Policy of Francis I: 1515-1525.”
Mentor: Albert J. Loomie, S. J.

John J. Hanrahan
“The High Cost of Living Controversy, 1919-1920.”
Mentor: Robert J. Himmelberg

Francis Xavier Holbrook
“United States National Defense and Trans-Pacific Commercial Air Routes 1933-1941.”
Mentor: Edward J. Berbusse, S. J.

George Pililis
“The Beginnings of Christian Monachism.”
Mentor: Jeremiah O’Sullivan

William John Telesca
“Commendatory Abbeys and the Order of Citeaux; a Study of Papal-Gallican Rivalry.”
Mentor: Jeremiah O’Sullivan

1968

Mother Madeleine Chi Sung-Chun, R. S. C. J.
“The Chinese Question during the First World War.”
Mentor: Douglas W. Houston

Rafael Leon Cortada
“The Government of Spain under Joseph Bonaparte, 1808-1814.”
Mentor: A. Paul Levack

Herbert F. Janick
“Government for the People: The Leadership of the Progressive Party in Connecticut.”
Mentor: Robert F. Himmelberg

Rev. Bede Karl Lackner, S. O. Cist.
“The Eleventh Century Background of Citeaux.”
Mentor: Jeremiah F. O’Sullivan

James McLane Murphy, S. J.
“The Pitt Administration and the Irish Roman Catholics, 1791-1801.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

Aristeides Papadakis
“Iconoclasm: A Study of the Hagiographical Evidence.”
Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, S. J.

Rudolf J. Schleich
“Melchior Khlesl and the Habsburg Bruderzwist, 1605-1612.”
Mentor: Roger Wines

Eileen Koehler Soldwedel
“The Immediate Origins of the Constitution of the Year III.”
Mentor: A. Paul Levack

Sophie Anna Welisch
“The Sudeten German Question in the League of Nations.”
Mentor: Roger Wines

1967

Sister Mary Raimonde Bartus, F. D. C.
“The Presidential Election of 1836.”
Mentor: John A. Carpenter

Mother Marie De Chantal Bunting, O. S. U.
“Liturgy and Politics in Ninth Century Gaul.”
Mentor: Charles P. Loughran

Lawrence Arthur Desmond
“The Statute Legislation of Edward I and Its Effect Upon the English Cistercians to 1399.”
Mentor: Jeremiah F. O’Sullivan

Henry C. Hoeben, S. M. A.
“Frisia and the Frisians at the Time of St. Willibrord.”
Mentor: Jeremiah F. O’Sullivan

1966

Vincent Julian Capovski
“The Making of a Jacksonian Democrat: Levi Woodbury, 1789-1831.”

Sister Zoé Glenski
“Lord Ashley in the House of Commons.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

Thaddeus Vladimir Gromada
“The Slovak Question in Polish Foreign Policy, 1934-1939.”
Mentor: Casimir Cecys

Rev. Carl Andrew Volz
“Honorius of Autun: Honorius Augustodunensis—Twelfth Century Enigma.”
Mentor: Jeremiah F. O’Sullivan

1965

Rev. William Dennis Driscoll
“Benjamin F. Butler: Lawyer and Regency Politician.”
Mentor: Robert V. Remini

Joseph A. Eulie, Jr. 
“Politics and Administration in Ireland, 1760-1766.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

Walter Francis Mullen
“Rhode Island and the Imperial Reorganization of 1763-1766.”
Mentors: Rev. Joseph Frese, S. J. and Rev. Francis X. Curran, S. J.

Sister Mary Madeline Walsh, C. S. J.
“The Role of Dubois in French Foreign Affairs, 1715-1721.”
Mentor: A. Paul Levack

1964

Michael Donald Roethler, O. S. B.
“Negro Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, 1540-1866.”
Mentor:  Robert V. Remini

1963

Rev. Cornelius Philip Forster, O. P.
“Charles Townshend, A Study of His Political Conduct.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

Eugene Francis Vincent Kusielewicz
“The Teschen Question and the Paris Peace Conference: A Re-examination in the Light of Materials in the Archives of the United States.”
Mentors: Oscar Halecki and Ross J. S. Hoffman

1962

Leo Joseph Bocage
“The Public Career of Charles R. Crane.”
Mentor: A. Paul Levack

Brother Edward L. Cashin, F. M. S.
“Thomas E. Watson and the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia.”
Mentor: Vincent Hopkins, S. J.

Daniel J. Curran
“Hendrick B. Wright: A Study in Leadership.”
Mentor: Robert V. Remini

William Denis Griffin
“John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

1961

Rev. John William Bush, S. J.
“Napoleon III and the Redeeming of Venetia, 1864-1866.”
Mentor: Ross J. S. Hoffman

Avery John Butters
“New Hampshire History and the Public Career of Meshech Weare, 1713-1786.”
Mentor: Joseph R. Frese, S.J

Rev. Venard Joseph Byrne, C.P.
"Alexander Komulovič, 1593-1598.”
Mentor: Oscar Kalecki

Wasyl Lencyk
"The Eastern Catholic Church and Czar Nicholas I."
Mentor: Oscar Halecky