Completed Dissertations

2023

Supporting the Fight: Combat Support Personnel in English Expeditionary Armies During the Hundred Years War
Ronald Braasch 
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

"According to the Law of the Marsh;" Medieval Wetland Drainage, Environmental Crisis, and the Invention of the Customs of Romney Marsh
Tobias Hrynick
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

The Delusion of Reform: Soviet Law, Forensic Psychiatry, and the Fate of Dissent after Stalin
Garret McDonald
Mentor: Dr. Asif Siddiqi

Creating the Worst Block in the City: East 100th Street, 1900-1970
Michael Mckenna
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Soyer

2022

Health in Late Medieval England: The Impact of Age, Sex and Income on the Lived Experience
Rachel Podd
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

The Invention of Catholicism: A Global Intellectual History of the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1780–1849
Glauco Schettini
Mentor: Drs. Silvana Patriarcha and Magda Teter

2021

The Medical Culture of Early Medieval Montecassino
Jeffrey Doolittle
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

Emancipating "The Unfortunates": The Anti-Slavery Society, The United States, The United Nations and the Decades-Long Fight to Abolish the Saudi Arabian Slave Trade
Nicholas deAntonis
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Dietrich

Europeans are Lovin' It? Coca Cola, McDonald's and the Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886–2015
Giulia Crisanti
Mentor: Drs. Silvana Patriarcha and Christopher Dietrich

Law, Order, and the Development of Policing Functions in Late Medieval English Cities
Samantha Sagui
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

2020

What Makes a Yeoman? Status, Religion, and Material Culture in Later Medieval England    
Louisa Foroughi
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

The Discovery of the Consumer: Economic Reform and Social Regulation, 1865-1904
Stephen Leccese
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Dietrich

A Clash of Ideals: Human Rights and Non-Intervention in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1977-1988
James Smith
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Dietrich 

2019

At the 'Roots' of Italian Identity: 'Race' and 'Nation' in the Italian Resorgimento, 1796-1870
Edoardo Marcello Barsotti
Mentor: Dr. Silvana Patriarca

The Making of Borough Customary Law in Medieval Britain
Esther Liberman Cuenca (Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston-Victoria)
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

Families on the Borderlands: Marriage and Kinship in Lower French Louisiana, 1700-1795
Jacqelyne Howard
Mentor: Dr. Salvador Acosta

Singing Out Between Tradition and Rebellion: Folk Music, Folk Womanhood and American Feminism in an Era of Social Change, 1954-1985
Christine Kelly (Assistant Dean, Student Professional Development, GSAS, Fordham
University)
Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Swinth

2018

The Friar's Companion: A Franciscan Observant Vademecum in Late Medieval Italy
M. Christina Bruno (Associate Director of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Mentor: Dr. Wolfgang Mueller

Seminaries of Identity: The Universities of Scotland and Ireland in the Age of British Revolution
Salvatore Cipriano Jr. (Assistant Director of Career Education, Graduate School Advising, and Pre-Law Advising, Boston College)
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Maginn

Sexual Violence, Interracial Relations, and Racism during the Allied Occupation of Italy: History and the Politics of Memory
Stephanie Depoala
Mentor: Dr. Silvana Patriarca

Rebellion and Reformation in Scotland: The Lords of the Congregation and the End of the Auld Alliance, 1547-1561
Jonathan Phillip Woods
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Maginn

2017

The Hospitals of Mainz, 1236-1367: Legal Privileges and Social Functions
Lucy Barnhouse (Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Wooster)
Mentor: Dr. Wolfgang Mueller

The Dragon and the Cloister: History and Rhetoric in the Writing of Stephen of Rouen
Elizabeth Grace Kuhl
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Paul

Forgotten Neighbors: The Challenge of Uruguay- United States Relations During the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1929-1945
Pedro Manuel Cameselle Pesce (Assistant Professor, Western Washington University)
Mentor: Dr. Hector Lindo-Fuentes

Contested Citizens: Irish and German Immigrants in New York City, 1880-1924
Elizabeth Jane Stack (Executive Director of the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, NY)
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Soyer

Recipes for Women's Healthcare in Medieval England
Kristin Uscinski (Instructor, Department of History, SUNY-Purchase)
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

2016

Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Perspectives: North Korea in the American Imagination, 1969-1983
Brandon Gauthier (Teacher, Derryfield School in New Hampshire)
Mentor: Dr. Michael E. Latham
Co-Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Swinth

A Re-Interpretation of the Power and Function of Late Medieval English Convocation
Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge (History Teacher, Woodward Academy, College Park, GA)
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

Violence and Terror: Imaginaries and Practices of Squadrismo in the Province of Ferrara, 1914-1922
Alessandro Saluppo (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padua and Visiting Researcher at the University of Oxford)
Mentor: Dr. Silvana Patriarca

Making a Scene: Comic Books, Punk Rock, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture, and Creating Democratic Spaces in Franco’s Spain, 1955-1984
Louie Dean Valencia-García (Assistant Professor of Digital History, Texas State University)
Mentors: Dr. Rosemary Wakeman and Dr. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

2015

"The Power to Define Reality": The Conservative Media's influence on American foreign policy 1964-1980
Laurence Jurdem (Independent Scholar in California)
Mentor: Dr. Michael Latham

Hawaii’s Twentieth Century Working Women: Labor feminists in their Own Right
Megan Monahan (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cedar Crest College)
Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Swinth

Seeds of Communist Triumph: How Truman and Eisenhower Set the Stage for U.S. Failure in Vietnam
James Reynolds
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Soyer
Co-Mentor: Dr. Michael Latham

Cuba Para Cristo: Protestant Evangelists, American Expansionists and Cuban Independentistas, 1860-1965
Nicola Singh (Assistant Professor of History, Albertus Magnus College)
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Soyer
Co-Mentor: Dr. Michael Latham

A Community at War: the Bronx and Crack Cocaine
Noel Wolfe (Assistant Professor of History and Legal Studies and the Program Director for the Legal Studies Program at Nazereth College in Rochester, NY.)
Mentor: Dr. Mark Naison

2014

American Empire and the Scientific Survey of Puerto Rico
Darryl Brock (Assistant Professor of Latino Studies, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College)
Mentor: Dr. Hector Lindo-Fuentes

The Monastic Choir Books of San Sisto in Piacenza and the Production of Liturgical Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Joanne Fillipone Overty
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

Burke and Britons: Edmund Burke and the Contested Emergence of an Imperial British Identity
Johnathan Pettinato (Instructor, Westchester Community College)
Mentor: Dr. Nancy Curtin

2013

A Franciscan Inquisitor's Manual and its Compositional Context: Codex Casanatensis 1730
Geoffrey Clement, OFM (Professor, Saint Francis College, Brooklyn NY)
Mentor: Dr. Gyug

'Give Us War In Our Time' America's Irish Communities at War in the Civil War Era
Ryan Keating (Assistant Professor of History, California State University, San Bernardino)
Mentor: Dr. Paul Cimbala

2012

Letter to Marque, the City Council, and the Protection of Privileges in Late Medieval Marseille, 1250-1423
Christopher Beck (Instructional Designer, Purdue University)
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski and Dr. Daniel Smail

Between Beguines and Burghers: Civic Authority and the Changing Fortunes of Beguines in German Towns
Heidi Febert † (Was Assistant Professor of History, Saginaw University, Michigan)
Mentor: Dr. Wolfgang Mueller

Between the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages: The Struggle for Ravenna in the Eighth Century
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen (Assistant Professor of History, Queensboro Community College, NYC)
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

2011

An Inconvenient Forum: Power, Politics and the English Common Law Courts in the Age of Mansfield
Michael Conforti
Mentor: Dr. Nancy J. Curtin

'La Nouvelle Maniere': The Birth of Fashion in the Fourteenth Century
Laurel Wilson (Affiliated Scholar, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

2010

Justice, Jurisdiction, and Choice: The Church Courts of Carpentras in the Fifteenth Century
Elizabeth Hardman (Associate Professor of History, Bronx Community College, CUNY)
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Smail

A Matter of Time: Church, Civic Administration, and the Idea of the Hour in Medieval France
Kenneth Mondschein (Writer, lecturer at American International College and Westfield State University)
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

 

  • 2009
    Politics and Emotion in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
    Jennifer Speed 
    Mentor: Dr. Daniel Smail

    2007
    The Tropological Universe: Alexander Neckam's Encyclopedias and the Natures of Things at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century
    Tomas Zahora 
    Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug 

    2005

    From Medieval Tutiorism to Modern Probabilism:  'Spoils of Egypt' and the Making of the Jesuit Conscience between Loyola and Pascal
    Robert A. Maryks 
    Mentor: Dr. W. David Myers

    "Far Beyond Her Nature and Her Sex:"  The Creation of A Protestant Hagiography in England, 1590-1640
    Lyndell O'Hara 
    Mentor: Dr. Susan Wabuda 

    2004
    Rex Francorum - Imperator Augustus - gratia Dei rex:  The "Language" of Authority in the Carolingian World (751-877)
    Ildar Garipzanov
    Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

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

    English Mint Administration, Moneyers and Monetary Reform in the Reign of Henry I
    Gilbert M. Stack
    Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski 

    2003
    "Monarchy and Military Practices During the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312-50)"
    Nicolas Agrait
    Mentor: Dr. Joseph F. O'Callaghan

    2002
    "Lordship of Towns in Medieval England:  Lay Seigneurs in the West Midlands and Welsh March Between the Conquest and the Plague"
    Steven Christopher Spishak
    Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

    2001
    Hospitality, Conviviality and the English Gentry:  Social Networks of the Landed Elite in Late Medieval Suffolk
    Elizabeth Gibson Kunz
    Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

    "St. Elizabeth of Hungary and the Franciscan Tradition"
    Lori Pieper 
    Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug 

    2000
    "The Power of Liturgy and the Liturgy of Power in Eleventh-and-Twelfth Century Italy"
    Louis Iorio Hamilton
    Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug 

    "Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in the Wake of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798"
    James G. Patterson
    Mentor: Dr. Nancy Curtin

    "Sanctifying the World:  Ritual Blessings and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion and Society"
    Derek Andrew Rivard 
    Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug 

    "Huldrych Zwingli's Reformation:  Changes in Religious and Social Customs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Zuerich and its Environs"
    Rosmarie Sunderland
    Mentor: Dr. W. David Myers

    "Lyrical Dialectic as Historiographical Discourse in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruno"
    Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
    Mentor: Dr. W. David Myers 

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

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

    Women’s Bodies, Men’s Souls: Sanctity and Gender in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Byzantium
    Paul Halsall (Web Consultant, UK)
    Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

    The Jews of Medieval Toledo: Their Economic and Social Contact with Christians, 1125-1391
    Nina Melechen (Independent Scholar, Nashville, TN)
    Mentor: Dr. Joseph O’Callaghan

    1998

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

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

    1997

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

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

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

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

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

    1996

    Nicolas de Clamanges: Personal and Pastoral Reform in the Late Medieval Church
    Christopher M. Bellitto (Associate Professor, Kean University
    Mentor: Fr. Louis B. Pascoe, SJ

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

    1995

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

    1994

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

    1993

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

    1992

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

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

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

    1991

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

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

    1990

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

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

    1988

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

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

    1987

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

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

    1986

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

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

    1985

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

    1983

    Cavalier-Propaganda Stereotypes in Seventeenth-Century England
    Stephen J. Greenberg (Coordinator of Public Services, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Maryland)
    Mentor: John C. Olin

    1982

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

    1981

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

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

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

    Demetrius Cydones (c. 1324-c. 1397): Intellectual and Diplomatic Relations Between Byzantium and the West in the Fourteenth Century
    Kenneth A. Lill
    Mentor: Roger Wines

    1980

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    1976

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

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

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

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

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

    1975

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

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

    1974

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    1973

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

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

    John Acton and the Church of Pius IX
    Sister Kathleen C. Keating
    Mentor: James Hennessey, SJ

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The Social Welfare Program of Pope Gregory the Great
    John V. Wilkinson
    Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, SJ

    1972

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

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

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

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

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

    1971

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

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

    New York in Transition, 1783-1786
    Mary O’Connor English
    Mentor: Joseph R. Frese, SJ

    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
    Leo John Haczynski
    Mentor: Oscar Halecki

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

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

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

    1970

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

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

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

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

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

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

    1968

    Commendatory Abbeys and the Order of Citeaux; a Study of Papal-Gallican Rivalry

    Mother Madeleine Chi Sung-Chun, RSCJ
    Mentor: Douglas W. Houston

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

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

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

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

    Iconoclasm: A Study of the Hagiographical Evidence
    Aristeides Papadakis
    Mentor: Charles P. Loughran, SJ

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

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

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

    1967

    The Presidential Election of 1836
    Sister Mary Raimonde Bartus, FDC
    Mentor: John A. Carpenter

    Liturgy and Politics in Ninth Century Gaul
    Mother Marie De Chantal Bunting, OSU
    Mentor: Charles P. Loughran

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

    Frisia and the Frisians at the Time of St. Willibrord
    Henry C. Hoeben, SMA
    Mentor: Jeremiah F. O’Sullivan

    1966

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

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

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

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

    1965

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

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

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

    The Role of Dubois in French Foreign Affairs, 1715-1721
    Sister Mary Madeline Walsh, CSJ
    Mentor: A. Paul Levack

    1964

    Negro Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, 1540-1866
    Michael Donald Roethler, OSB
    Mentor: Robert V. Remini

    1963

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

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

    1962

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

    Thomas E. Watson and the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
    Brother Edward L. Cashin, FMS †
    Mentor: Vincent Hopkins, SJ

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

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

    1961

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

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

    Alexander Komuloviè, 1593-1598
    Rev. Venard Joseph Byrne, CP
    Mentor: Oscar Kalecki

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

    The English Cistercians: Taxation by King and Pope, 1216-1377
    Sister James Eugene Madden
    Mentor: Jeremiah O'Sullivan

    United States Naval Policy in the Pacific, 1930-1941
    Thaddeus Vincent Tuleja
    Mentor: A. Paul Levack