Ph.D. Recipients
MacArthur Genius Grant
Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza (PhD, 1995) is a 2020 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” Dr. Rivera Garza is an award-winning, prolific author, and Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at UH. (Photo courtesy John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation).
Book Award
Dr. Felipe Hinojosa (PhD, 2009) receives the Tache Inaugural Book Award for, "Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio" (UT Press, 2021).
Book Award
Dr. Sonia Hernández (PhD, 2006) is awarded the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award from the ILR School of Cornell University. For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021) anchors anarcho-syndicalism in the Gulf of Mexico as a powerful way to understand transnational political and labor networks.
2023
- Derek Ide, "The Anticolonial International: Black Internationalism and the Palestinian Revolution, 1965-73"
Advisor: Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan - Alex Paul, "Unwilling Doughboys: The U.S. Army’s Foreign-Born Conscripts in World War I"
Advisor: Jimmy Schafer - Darah Vann, "Roman Rape Culture: The Pervasiveness of Sexual Violence in Augustan Era Rome"
Advisor: Kristina Neumann - Ezell Wilson, "Inhabiting Pará, Brazil: Landscapes of Resistance, 1750-1850"
Advisor: Philip Howard
2022
- Timothy Vale, "Lone-Star Strong: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Transformation of Texas’s LGBTQ Communities"
Advisor: Jimmy Schafer
2021
- Quentin Adams, "Laudianism in the North: The Impact of Laudianism in the Archdeaconry of Nottingham”
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Teacher, Second Baptist School, Houston, TX - Ramiro Contreras, "Mexican Inclusion and Exclusion in Houston from 1900-1940"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Instructional Designer at Circle - Matthew Finnie, "The Dry Bones Speak: Hero Cult and the Staging of Heroes in Ancient Athens"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Lecturer in Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio - Gary Girod, "The Rise of the Information State: Domestic Surveillance in France and Britain during World War I"
Advisor: Sarah Fishman - Kim Goodling, “Privateering in the American Revolution: Its Effectiveness, Its Annoyance, and the British Assault on Connecticut”
Advisor: Matthew Clavin - Francesca Guerri, “The Friendship Network of Matilda of Tuscany: Reconstructing Matilda’s Motivation and Ideology through the Lens of Her Individual Relationships”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Assistant Professor of European History, University of St. Thomas - Kevin Johnson, “An Inglorious War: The US Civil War, Guerrilla Fighting and the American Plains Indians”
Advisor: Raúl Ramos - Alberto Wilson III, “Pan American Cities: Sunbelt Development and Mexican Community Formation in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, 1945-1994”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Latinx History, Wichita State University
2020
- Anna Marie Anderson, “Brothers in Arms? African Americans and Jewish American Prisoners of War in World War II Europe"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Texas Central College, Corinth; Faculty Fellow, Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA) for 2021-2022 - Lindsay Drane, "Too Poor to Eat: A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Research Manager at Hunger Free America and ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Recipient - Ela Miljkovic, "The Air of the City: Atmospheric Dialogues in the Making of Landscape in Mexcio City"
Advisor: Richard Mizelle
Current Position: Stevens Historical Research Associates, Boise, ID - Timothy Quevillon, "From Palestine to Howard Beach and Houston: Meir Kahane, Moshe Cahana, and the Anti-Colonialism of American Civil Rights Struggle"
Advisors: Mark Goldberg and Leandra Zarnow
Current Position: Instructional Professor, Kansas State University - Tara Sewell-Lasater, "Becoming Kleopatra: Royal Marriage, Incest, and the Path to Female Rule"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Assistant Director of University Studies at Montana State University
2019
- Crescida Jacobs, “Biography of Mabel of Belleme (1030-1082)”
Advisor: Sarah Fishman
Current Position: Professor of History and Humanities, Houston Community College Northwest College - Alex LaRotta, "Young, Gifted, and Brown: The History of San Antonio's West Side Sound"
- Advisors: Monica Perales and Mark Goldberg
Current Position: Houston Community College; 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Research Scholar Fellowship, Columbia University - Eric McDonald, "Violent Identity: Elite Manhood and Power in Early Barbados"
Advisor: Todd Romero
Current Position: Southern New Hampshire University - Curtis Mooney, "From Moral to Immoral Treatment: The Failure to Fund the Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill in Texas and the Nation, 1860-2018"
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Retired; Research materials are at TMC in a special archive - Gianncarlo Muschi, "Peruvian Immigration to the United States"
Advisor: Natalia Milanesio
Current Position: Independent Scholar/Austin Independent School District (Barbara Jordan Early College Prep School Elementary School) - Mallory Neil, "Curating the Nation: Gender, Class and Empire at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Assistant Director of Experiential Learning/PhD Plus Graduate Career Advisor, University of Virginia
2018
- Deanne Ashton, “The Industrialization of English Brewing in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann - Rikki Bettinger, "Imperial Counterparts: North Atlantic Women's Travels in the Caribbean and Mexico, 1800-1860"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Associate Director of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards, University of Houston - Daniel Mendiola, "Constructing Imperial Spaces: The Spanish and Mosquito Conquests of Eighteenth-Century Central America"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Vassar College - Samantha Rodríguez, “Carving Spaces for Feminism and Nationalism: Texas Chicana Activism in the Matrix of Social Unrest, 1967-1978”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Professor of History and Humanities, Houston Community College - Joseph L. Thompson, "Something Like a Failed War: Major League Baseball's Unwinnable Conflict against Drugs"
Advisors: James Kirby Martin and Linda Reed
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston
Publication: Co-authored, Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas (Arcadia Publishing, 2017) - Ty Welborn, “Lone Star Crusader: Antonio Maceo Smith and the Texas Civil Rights Movement”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Program Director of History, Phoenix College
2017
- Ally Castillo, “Constructing Race: The Catholic Church and the Evolution of Racial Categories and Gender in Colonial Mexico, 1521-1700”
Advisor: Susan Kellogg - Sandra Davidson, “Propaganda, Pressure, and Patriotism: The Texas Council of Defense and the Politics of Gender, Race, and Class during World War I”
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Project Manager, Center for Public History, University of Houston - Brett Olmstead, “Los Mexicanos de Michigan: Claiming Space and Creating Community Through Leisure and Labor, 1920-1970”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Humble High School
2016
- Tracy Butler, "Selling Mexico: Race, Gender & American Influence in Cancun, 1970-2000"
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: Adjunct for History and WGSS, University of Houston - Carlos L. Cantú, "Self-Determined Education and Community Activism: A Comparative History of Navajo, Chicana/o, and Puerto Rican Institutions of Higher Education in the Era of Protest"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Independent Researcher - Sandra Enriquez, "El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!': Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas"
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public History Emphasis, University of Missouri, Kansas City - Christopher Haight, "From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Houston Community College - Benjamin Hoffman, "A College for the Community? : A Comparison of the Histories of an Urban (San Antonio College) and Rural (Navarro College) Community College in Texas"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware - Allison Robinson, "Troubling Gender: Southern Women, State Carceral Policy, and the Myth of the Pedestal"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Consultant, The Alexander Group - John Huntington, "Right-Wing Paranoid Blues: The Role of Radicalism in Modern Conservatism"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Houston Community College
Publication: Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) - Frances Ann Marcinkiewicz-Joseph, "Demetrius I of Bactria: An Analysis of Hellenistic Royal Power Through Numismatic Evidence"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Independent Researcher, The Hague, Netherlands - Andrew Joseph Pegoda, "If You Do Not Like The Past, Change It: The Real Civil Rights Revolution, Historical Memory, and the Making of Utopian Pasts"
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Lecturer, WGSS, University of Houston - Juan Galvan Rodriguez, "Historical Memory, Proto-Nationalism, And Nationalism in Mexico: Southwestern Puebla From 1519 To 1862"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, Lone Star College-Kingwood - Julie Sarpy, "Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders and the Case for Feudal Constraint"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Liaison Librarian at Nova Southeastern University, Miami, Florida - Katie Streit, "Beyond Borders: A History of Mobility, Labor and Imperialism in Southern Tanzania"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Franklin College (Indiana) - Savannah Williamson, "Caring for Human Property: A Medical Biography of American Slavery, 1808-1865"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and DEI Coordinator (Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), Sul Ross University
Grant: Co-PI, NSF STEM grant, 2020-2026 (to develop, implement, revise, organize a minimum of twelve training modules—pertaining to equity, inclusion, and diversity—for faculty mentors and students in STEM fields who intend to become educators) - Jeffrey Womack, "Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy. 1895-1925"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Instructor, Penn State Brandywine
Publications: Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, an Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
2015
- James Arlington, "The Art of Manipulation: Agents of Influence and the Rise of the American Security State, 1914-1960"
Advisor: Gerald Horne
Current Position: Spanish Teacher, Wichita Falls Independent School District - Brittany Hancock, "The Neighborhood Union and the Transformation of the West Side of Atlanta"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Central Texas College - Daniel LeClaire, "A New Period of Great Guns: Edward Boxer, the Ordnance Select Committee, and the Weapons Development Process in mid-19th c. England"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Historian, 71st Training Wing, Vance AFB
Publications: The British Military Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: The Great Gun Question and the Modernization of Ordnance and Administration (McFarland, 2019). - Guillermo Nakhlé, "Economics in History: The Apologetic Science in Argentina, 1913-1953"
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: Profesor Asociado, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
2014
- Jordan Bauer, "Sunbelt Growing Pains: Urban Environmental Politics in North Carolina's Research Triangle, 1950-2000"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Credentialed Course Instructor, History, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Ira Lee Berlet, "Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863"
Advisor: Eric Walther - Maria Corsi, "Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14 centuries"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Archivist at the Massad Family Research Center and Assistant Archivist of the Hilton College Archives, University of Houston
Publications: Urbanization in Viking Age and Medieval Denmark: From Landing Place to Town (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). - Mahdi Domitrovich, "An Examination of Prevailing Economic Thought as a Neglection of Ethics and Historical Analysis"
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Teacher, Houston Independent School District - Natalie M. Garza, "Mexico Flotante: Migration, Culture, and National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College Central - John Goins, "Confronting Itself: The AIDS Crisis and the LGBT Community in Houston"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Kyle T. Goyette, "Southern Discomfort: The Equal Rights Amendment, the New Right, and the Southernization of American Politics"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young - Clarissa Hinojosa, "'A Man Moste Meet': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1582"
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Independent scholar and adjunct instructor, Austin, TX - Alejandra Jaramillo, "Litigious Paupers: Natives and Colonial Demands in Tlaxcala, 1545-1800"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Professor, History, San Jacinto College North Campus - Michael Phifer, "Property, Power, and Patriarchy: The Decline of Women's Property Right in England after the Black Death"
Advisor: Robert Palmer - Natalie Schuster, "Political Disasters: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief, 1927-2005"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
2013
- Julie Cohn, "Biography of a Technology: The North American Power Grid Through the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Research Historian at the UH Center for Public History
Publications: The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (MIT Press, 2017) - Kristen Contos Krueger, "From Problem Girls to Welfare Queens: Teenage Pregnancy and Public Policy, 1950-1980"
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Adjunct Professor of History, Lonestar College Cy-Fair - Kelsie Jackson, "Such a Tornado: The Life and Times of James Thomson Callander, Scandalmonger"
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Project Manager of Grants, Research, and Innovation, J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts, Texas Tech
2012
- Debbie Z. Harwell, "'Like a Long-Handled Spoon': How Wednesdays in Mississippi United Women Across Regional, Racial, and Religious Lines"
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston; Editor of Houston History Magazine
Publications: Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 (University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for Best Book in Southern Women’s History presented by the Southern Association for Women Historians, 2015. - Bernice Heilbrunn, "Faith as Motive for Reform: Emil G. Hirsch and Chicago Jewish Progressives"
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
2011
- Alfonso R. Lopez, "The Visions and Rites of the Mayan Ancestors in Yucatan: A Historical Account of the Continuity of Mayan Cosmovision Among the Milperos of the Chilam Balam Route”
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: History Professor, Austin Community College - Alberto Rodriguez,“The Making of the Modern Lower Rio Grande Valley: Situating and Reframing Race, Class, Ethnicity in Urbanizing South Texas, 1930-1960”
Advisors: Raul Ramos & Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Associate Professor and Coordinator of Publications for the Institute for Architectural Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Editor of the Journal of South Texas; Series Editor at University of Oklahoma Press - Jason Theriot, “Building America’s Energy Corridor: Oil and Gas Development and the Louisiana Wetlands”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Jason P. Theriot Consulting, LLC; Former Energy Policy Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2010
- John M. Barr, “The Anti-Lincoln Tradition in American Life”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Professor of History, Lone Star College-Kingwood
Publication: Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present (LSU Press, 2014); Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award, 2014 - F. James Bingley, Jr., “Becoming American: The Welsh Mormon Journey”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann - Angela Calder, "More than a Centerfold: Gender and the Politics of Playboy Magazine in Modern America"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Drew University - Holle Canatella, “Scripsit amica manus: Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in England and France, ca. 1050-1200”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Lock Haven University - Courtney De Mayo Pugno, “The Cathedral School at Reims and the Early Capetian State, 969-1031”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Creator and Executive Director of the Owen Center for Teaching and Learning, and Assistant VP for Academic Affairs, Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH); Crain's 2019 Notable Women in Education - Lauran Kerr-Heraly, “Race, Gender and African American Women Doctors in the Twentieth Century”
Advisor: James Schafer
Current Position: Professor of History, Houston Community College - Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss,"Down and Out in Old JD: Urban Public Hospitals, Institutional Stigma and Medical Indigence in the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Sarah Fishman and Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
Current Position: Director of the University Honors Program, University of Houston-Downtown - Gregory Peek, “Upland Southerners, Indiana Political Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Associate Teaching Professor of History, Penn State University - Benjamin Pugno, "The Integration of Classical Medicine with Christian Conversion and Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of Humanities, Columbus State Community College
2009
- Clifton Caskey, “Building Hitler’s Jets: Using Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies to Examine a Branch of the Nazi Armaments”
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Self Employed, Instructor of History, English/ESL - Daniel Donalson, “Prosecuting The Sedition Act in Texas 1918-1921”
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Houston Community College Southeast
Publication: The Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War 1: Using Wartime Loyalty Laws for Revenge and Profit (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012) - Felipe Hinojosa, "Making Noise Among The 'Quiet In The Land': Mexican Americans And Puerto Rican Ethno-Religious Identity In The Mennonite Church, 1932-1982"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Texas A & M University at College Station
Publications: Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (University of Texas Press, Historia USA Series, January 2021); Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2014) - Theresa Jach, "It's Hell In A Texas Pen" Life And labor In The Texas Prison System, 1849-1929”
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: History Professor, Houston Community College Northwest
Publication: Huntsville Penitentiary (Arcadia Publishing [Images of American Book Series], 2013) - Phillip Sinitiere, “The Sad Tendency of Division And Contention In Churches: Church Schism, Ecclesiastical Discord, And Clergy Dismissal In Colonial New England”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Professor at the College of Biblical Studies (Houston, TX)
Publications: Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity (New York University Press, 2015); Editor, Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W.E.B.Du Bois (Northwestern University Press, Critical Insurgency Series, 2019); Co-editor with Christopher Cameron, Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Essays on a Moment and Movement (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021); Co-editor with Amy Helene Kirschke, Protest and Propaganda: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History (University of Missouri Press, 2014); Co-editor with J. Russel Hawkins, Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after Divided by Faith (Oxford University Press, 2013); Co-author with Shayne Lee, Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (New York University Press, 2009) - Teresa Tomkins-Walsh, “A Concrete River Had To Be Wrong: Environmental Standing On Houston's Bayou's 1935-1999”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Principal at Historical Conservation Guild - David Urbano, “When The Smoke Lifted: The 1857-1858 ‘Cart War' of South Texas"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: History Instructor, Victoria Independent School District
2008
- Tahseen Ali,“Revolutionary Violence & Subversion: Reexamining the Role of Subhas Chandra Bose & Armed Struggle Against The British Raj in India”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Full-time Faculty, Houston Community College; Assistant Professor, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Publication: Implacable Foes: Subhas Bose, Secularism & the Struggle against World Imperialism and Gandhism (Prathak Shamabesh Publishers, 2022) - Gary B. Bryant,“Working Women in the Confederate South: White Southern Women in the Paid Labor Force during the Civil War”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Adjunct Instructor/Tutor, Lone Star College - Graham Cox, "What Irony! Nuremberg and the Negro Problem"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor, North Central Texas College
Publication: Seeking Justice for the Holocaust: Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019) - Christina Edelen,“Music and Morality in Seventeenth Century England”
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Professional Musician, The Netherlands. - Jesus Jesse Esparza, “Schools of Their Own: The San Felipe Independent School District and Mexican American Educational Autonomy, Del Rio, Texas, 1928-1972”
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University
Publication: Co-editor, The Truth in Our Stories: Immigrant Voices in Radical Times (Izard Ink, 2022) - Trinidad Gonzales,“The World of Mexico Texanos, Mexicanos and Mexico Americanos: Transnational and National Identities In The Lower Rio Grande Valley During The Last Phase of United States Colonization, 1900 to 1930”
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Instructor, South Texas College
Award: 2020 Winner of the Herbert Feis Award for Public History from the American Historical Association - Isaac Hampton,“The Journey of African American Officers Through The Vietnam Era”
Advisors: Robert Buzzanco and Gerald Horne
Current Position: Senior Historian and Command Curator at Air Force Global Strike Command, San Antonio, Texas
Publication: The Black Officer Corps: A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration through Vietnam (Routledge Press, 2013) - Joe Janssens,“Maneuver Warfare & Military Economy In The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915”
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: Founder, Revolution Publishing, LLC - Amy O'Neal,“Pragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation, Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Director of Assessment and Accreditation Services, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston - Robert Thompson,“Soil and Slaves: An Environmental History of Northeastern North Carolina, 1584-1860”
Advisor: Kathleen Brosnan
2007
- LaGuana Gray, “They Just Keep Running the Line": Southern Black Women in the Poultry Processing Industry, 1960-2006”
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Texas-San Antonio
Publications: We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014). - Katherine Lopez, “The Cougar Revolution”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Publication: Cougars of Any Color: The Integration of University of Houston, Athletics, 1964-1968 (McFarland and Company, 2008) - Christopher J. Smith, “American Rebels: Soldier Protest in the Early American Military, 1754- 1815”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Liberty University
2006
- Douglas Bryson, “Chihuahua, the United States, and the Origins of a Revolution”
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Teacher, Austin High School - Sonia Hernandez, “Mexicanos and Mexicanas in a Transitional Borderland, 1880-1940”
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate Placement Director, Texas A&M University, College Station
Publications: Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014); "For a Just and Better World": Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021) - Thomas McKinney, “Superhighway Deluxe: Houston's Gulf Freeway”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stephen F Austin State University - Angela Murphy, “Abolition, Irish Freedom, and Immigrant Citizenship: American Slavery and the Rise and Fall of the American Associations for Irish Repeal”
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: Professor, Texas State University
Publications: The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2015); American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal (Louisiana State University Press, 2010) - Courtney Shah, "’This Loathsome Subject’: Sex Education in Progressive-Era America”
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lower Columbia College
Publications: Sex Ed, Segregated: The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive Era America (University of Rochester Press, 2015; Co-author, America in the Progressive Era, 1890–1917 (Routledge, 2021) - Beverly Tomek, “Seeking a Manageable Population: Limitation, Colonization, and Black Resistance in Pennsylvania’s Antislavery Movement”
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: Associate Provost of Curriculum & Student Success, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston-Victoria
Publications: New Directions in the Study of African-American Recolonization (University Press of Florida, 2017); Pennsylvania Hall: A “Legal Lynching” in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell (Oxford University Press, 2013); Colonization and its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania (New York University Press, 2011, 2012) - Roy Vu, “Rising from the Cold War Ashes: Construction of a Vietnamese American Community in Houston, 1975-2005”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Professor of History, Dallas College - North Lake Campus
Publication: Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Home Gardens (Texas A&M University Press, 2022); Lead Author and Co-Editor, Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics, Vols. 1 and 2 (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2018); Lead Author and Co-Editor, Our Finite Bounty: An Anthology of Sustainability Topics (Kendall Hunt, 2017)
2005
- Jay Casey, “U.S. Military Cartoonists in World Wars I and II”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Postion: Lecturer, Department of History, University of Oklahoma - Ellen Rogan Brunet, “St. Dunstan's Political Career”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College Southwest
- Douglas Erwing, “Federalism and the U.S. Constitution”
Advisor: Robert Palmer
Current Position: Lecturer, Honors College Faculty, University of Houston - Ronald Traylor, “Barrett Station, Texas: A Reflection of the Black Experience in Texas”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Instructor, Department of History, Southeastern Louisiana University
2004
- James Carter, “Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Making in Southeast Asia”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Drew University
Publications: Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) - Jan Crenshaw, “Special Sanctuary in Medieval England”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Former Head Librarian, Retired, San Jacinto College, North Library - Christos Frentzos, “From Seoul to Saigon: U.S.-South Korea Relations and the Vietnam War”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Professor, Austin Peay University
Publications: Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, The Colonial Period to 1877 (Routledge, 2015); Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, 1865 to the Present (Routledge, 2013) - Hyun Ran Kim, “The Origins of Queen Elizabeth I’s Celibacy and Political Strategies: Experience, Education, and Tactics”
Advisor: Catherine Patterson
Current Position: Instructor in History and English Language, Republic of Korea - Lori Lehtola, “King Aethelstan: ‘Rightwys Kyng Borne of All Englond’”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: History Professor, Houston Community College - Ron Milam, “Not a Gentleman’s War: Junior Officers in the Vietnam War”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Publications: Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009); The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life (Praeger, 2016) - Kimberley Weathers, “Fitting an Elephant through a Keyhole: America’s Struggle with National Health Insurance in the Twentieth Century”
Advisor: James Jones
2003
- Donald Connelly, “Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar
Current Position: Associate Professor, Joint & Multinational Operations, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth
Publications: Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). - Barbara Hayward, “Winning the Race: Education of Texas Freedmen Immediately after the Civil War”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Professor of History, Tomball College - John Kearney, “El Hombre de Hechos, Porfirio Diaz and the Rise of the Mexican Liberal State: War, Development and Globalization in the First Mexican Century”
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: History Instructor, Houston Community College and Lone Star College - Irving Levinson, “Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848”
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: Professor, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Publications: Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848 (Texas Christian University Press, 2005). - Diane Lovell, “The Crown’s Policy against Papal Provisions in the Reign of Richard II: The Statutes of Provisors and Premunire, 1377-1394”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: President of Southwestern Oklahoma State University (Weatherford, OK) - Jaime Olivares, “The Creation of a Labor Aristocracy: The History of the Oil Workers in Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1925-1948”
Advisor: Thomas O’Brien
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College
2002
- Charles Closman, “Modernizing the Water: Pollution and the Commercial Tradition in Hamburg, Germany, 1900-1961”
Advisors: Hannah Decker and Martin Melosi
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida
Publications: Editor, War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age (TAMU Press, 2009) - Joyce Kievit, “Trail of Tears to Veil of Tears: The Impact of Removal on Reconstruction in Indian Territory”
Advisor: Steven Mintz
Current Position: Retired, Department of History, Colorado State University - Patricia Torpis, “In the House of Godwine: A Study in Eleventh-Century Personality and the Pursuit of Power”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Retired (Adjunct), University of St. Thomas
2001
- Austin Allen, “Containing Slavery, Imposing Sovereignty: Federalism, Corporate Law, and the Origins of the Dred Scott Case”
Advisor: Robert Palmer
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Houston-Downtown
Publications: Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857 (University of Georgia Press, 2006). - Pamela Conn, “Losing Hearts and Minds: U.S. Pacification Efforts in Vietnam during the Johnson Years”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Chair, Social Studies, Cypress Creek High School - Joseph Douglas, “An Environmental History of American Caves, 1660-1900”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College - Bernadette Pruitt, “’For the Advancement of the Race’: African-American Migration and Community-Building in Houston, 1914-1945”
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University
Publications: The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2013). - Julia Sloan, “The 1968 Student Movement and the Crisis of Mexico’s Institutionalized Revolution”
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: Professor and Director of General Education, Curry College - Sethuraman Srinivasan, “The Struggle for Control: Technology and Organized Labor in Gulf Coast Refineries, 1913-1973”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Professor, Lone Star College - Tomball
2000
- Elizabeth ‘Scout’ Blum, “Pink and Green: A Comparative Study of Black and White Women’s Urban Environmental Activism in the Twentieth Century”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor, Troy University
Publications: Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (University of Kansas Press, 2008). - Rebecca Durrer, “Changing British Imperial Ideology: Edward G. Wakefield and the Colonization of New Zealand”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Instructor of History Online Campus, Columbia College, Columbia, MO - Leigh Fought, “The Conservative Force: Louisa S. McCord, Slavery, and Antebellum Southern Womanhood, 1810-1879”
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: Assistant Editor, US Grant Papers; Associate Professor of History, LeMoyne College
Publications: Given Her Time: A Biography of Sally Hemings (Routlege, forthcoming 2023); Women in the World of Frederick Douglass (Oxford University Press, 2017); Southern Womanhood and Slavery (University of Missouri Press, 2003). - Steven Prewitt, “’We Didn’t Ask to Come to This Party’: Self-Determination Collides with the Federal Government in the Public Schools of Del Rio, Texas, 1890-1971”
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Professor, Lone Star College - Tomball - Jan Rosin, “Sovereignty and Civil Rights: The Burger Supreme Court and Alien Access”
Advisor: Martin Melosi - Darryl Stevens, "The Menaul School: a Study of Cultural Convergence"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel - Daniel Walker, “Cultures of Control/Cultures of Resistance: Slave Society in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and Havana”
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Director, Center for Public History and the Arts, Riverside, California
Publications: No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). - Priscilla Watkins, “Caen and the Expansion of Ducal Power in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Normandy: The Formation of an Urban Community”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Adjunct, Houston Community College
Publications: Manuscript accepted for publication by Brepols Press, Belgium, titled Saint Etienne of Caen: A Monastic Community in an Urban Environment: Its Social, Political, and Economic Context, 1063-1204.
1999
- Michael Botson, “The Labor History of Houston’s Hughes Tool Company, 1901-1964: From Autocracy and Jim Crow to Industrial Democracy and Civil Rights.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Northwest.
Publications: Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company (Texas A&M University Press, 2005), won Fehrenbach Prize for Texas History. - Victoria Pasley, “Gender, Race, and Class in Urban Trinidad: Representations in the Construction and Maintenance of the Gender Order, 1950-1980.”
Advisor: Thomas O’Brien.
Current Position: Lecturer in History at the University of Houston - Dwight Watson, “A Change Did Come: The Transformation of the Houston Police Department, 1930-1984.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Retired from Texas State University.
Publications: Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come (Texas A&M University Press, 2006).
1998
- Gisela Ables, “Changing Images of the Arab World in the American Popular Mind.”
Advisor: Garth Jowett (School of Communication)
Current Position: Chair, Houston Community College-Northwest - Krisztina Robert, “Gendering Class, Patriotism, and Militarism: The Women’s Corps Movement in Britain during and after World War I.”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann.
Current Position: Lecturer, Roehampton University, London
1997
- Bruce Beauboeuf, “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: W.S. Security, Oil Politics, and Petroleum Reserve Policies in the Twentieth Century.”
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Publications: Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U. S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005 (Texas A&M University Press, 2007). - Mark Carroll, “Families, Sex, and the Law in Frontier Texas.”
Advisor: Robert Palmer.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia Publications: Homesteads Ungovernable (University of Texas Press, 2001).
Publications: Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001). - J. Kent McGaughy, “A Faction of One: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, 1732-1794.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Northwest. Publications: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). - Alissa Petrovich, “Revisioning Colbert: Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the Origins of French Global Imperial Policy, 1661-1683.”
Advisor: Bailey Stone.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Brazosport College. - Charles F. Robinson II, “The Antimiscegenation Conversation: Love’s Legislated Limits.”
Advisor: Steven Mintz.
Current Position: Interim Chancellor of the University of Arkansas (flagship campus)
Publications: Forsaking All Others: A True Story of Interracial Sex and Revenge in the 1880s South (University of Tennessee Press, 2010); Remembrances in Black: Personal Perspectives of the African American Experience at the University of Arkansas, 1940s-2000s (University of Arkansas Press, 2010); Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South (University of Arkansas Press, 2003). - Paul Spellman, “Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Current Position: Division Chair, Communications and Fine Arts, Wharton County Junior College.
Publications: Forgotten Texas Leader: Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); Spindletop Boom Days (Texas A&M University Press, 2001); Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger (University of North Texas Press, 2003); Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger (University of North Texas Press, 2007).
1996
- Jonathan Hook, “Ethnic Dynamism: Cultural Transition in the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Director of the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Dallas, Texas.
Publications: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians (Texas A&M University Press, 1997). - Melissa Hovsepian, “Considering the Other: The Effects of Otherness on the Processes of Contact, Conquest, and Cultural Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples.”
Advisor: Loyd Swenson.
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Houston--Downtown. - Ernest Obadele-Starks, “The Road to Jericho: Black Workers, the Fair Employment Practice Commission, and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1941-1947.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Publications: Black Unionism in the Industrial South (Texas A&M University Press, 2000); Freebooters and Smugglers: Advancing the Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808 (University of Arkansas Press, 2007). - Amilcar Shabazz, “The Opening of the Southern Mind: The Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas, 1865-1965.”
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Professor of History and Africana Studies, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Publications: Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas (The University of North Carolina Press, 2004), won Fehrenbach Prize for Texas History. - Andrew Walmsley, “Thomas Hutchinson and the Decline of Royal Government in Massachusetts.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College--Central.
Publications: Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (New York University Press, 2000).
1995
- Theresa McGinley, “A Cry for Human Rights: The Polish Displaced Persons Problem and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1951.”
Advisor: Kenneth Lipartito.
Current Position: Acting Associate Vice Chancellor of Lone Star Colleges in Harris County.
Publications: The History of the Lone Star College System: A Texas Success Story; Published 25th anniversary history of North Harris County Community College - Michael Rice, “Nicaragua and the U.S.: Policy Confrontations and Cultural Interactions, 1893-1933.”
Advisor: Thomas O’Brien - Cristina Rivera Garza, “Bodies, Power, and Modernity in Mexico, 1867-1930.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of the Creative Writing Program in Spanish, University of Houston
Publications: Dr. Rivera Garza is the author of dozens of publications. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, which was also a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in the United States. Her novel Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry) earned her the 1997 José Rubén Romero National Book Award, the 2000 IMPAC-CONARTE-ITESM Prize, and the 2001 International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award. Her collection of short stories, La guerra no importa (The War Doesn't Matter) won the National Prize in Mexico in 1987. Her first novel, Desconocer (Forgetting) was a finalist for the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1994.
***2020 Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant"
***2023 National Book Award Finalist
***2024 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography - Mark Saka, “Peasant Nationalism and Social Unrest in the Mexican Huasteca, 1848-1884.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: RGC Professor History, Sul Ross State University
Publications: For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca (University of New Mexico Press, 2013) - Jean Truax, “The Making of the King, 1135: Gender. Family, and Custom in the Anglo-Norman Succession Crisis.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Publications: Archbishops Ralph D'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec: Heirs of Anselm and Ancestors of Becket (Routledge, 2012); Aelred the Peacemaker: The Public Life of a Cistercian Abbot (The Liturgical Press, 2017)
1994
- Theo Billings,“The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.”
Advisor: John Ettling. - Karen Guenther, “A Quaker Community of the Pennsylvania Frontier: Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1737-1789.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor of History and Chair, Mansfield University.
Publications: Sports in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Historical Society, 2007).
Rememb'ring Our Time And Work Is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier (Susquehanna Univ. Press, 2005). - Tom Hughes, “The Other Air War: Elwood ‘Pete’ Quesasa and American Tactical Air Power in World War II Europe.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, U.S. Air University, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.
Publications: Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II (Free Press, 1995). - Betsy Powers, “From Cotton Fields to Oil Fields: Economic Development in a New South Community.”
Advisor: Cheryl Cody.
Current Position: Professor, Montgomery College. - Michael Wilson, “Historical Interpretations of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.”
Advisor: Bailey Stone
Current Position: Professor, Department of History, Maricopa Community College--Phoenix - William Kellar, “Make Haste Slowly: A History of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas.”
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Adjunct, University of Houston.
Publications: Make Haste Slowly (Texas A&M University Press, 1999).
1993
- Elizabeth O’Kane Lipartito, “The Misfortunes and Calamities of War: Civilians and Society in the American Revolution and After, 1775-1830.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin. - Mark E. Steiner, “Abraham Lincoln and the Antebellum Legal Profession.”
Advisor: Robert C. Palmer.
Current Position: Professor of Law Emeritus, South Texas College of Law Houston.
Publications: Lincoln and Citizenship (Southern Illinois University Press, 2021); An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (Northern Illinois Press, 2006).
- Ime Ukpanah, “Yearning to be Free: Inkundla ya Bantu [Bantu Forum] as Mirror and Mediator of the African Nationalist Struggle in South Africa, 1938-1951.”
Advisor: Les Switzer (School of Communication).
Publications: The Long Road to Freedom (Africa World Press, 2005).
1992
- Terry L. Rugeley, “Origins of the Caste War: A Social History of Rural Yucatan, 1800-1847.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Presidential Professor of History, University of Oklahoma (2008 recipient of the Regents Award for Superior Research).
Publications: Yucatan's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of Caste War (University of Texas Press, 1996); Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion & Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (University of Texas Press, 2001); Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century Yucatan (University of Oklahoma Press, 2001); Alone in Mexico: The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848 (University of Alabama Press, 2007); Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800-1880 (Stanford University Press, 2009). - Russell Alan Vardell, “Striving to Gather the Scattered: The Texas-Louisiana Synod and Its Predecessor Bodies.”
Advisor: Gerald J. Goodwin.
Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, Tarrant County College.
1991
- Zhigong Ho, “Across the Pacific: American Pragmatism in China, 1917-1937.”
- Hal Terry Shelton, “From Redcoat to Rebel: General Richard Montgomery in the American Revolution.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, San Jacinto College.
Publications: General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel (New York University Press, 1996).
1990
- Christopher Castaneda, “Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipeline and the Competition for Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954.”
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Current Position: Professor and Chair, California State University--Sacramento.
Publications: Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipelines and Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954 (The Ohio State University Press, 1993); Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Co-authored with Clarance M. Smith; Builders: Herman and George R. Brown (Texas A&M University Press, 1998), co-authored with Joseph A. Pratt; Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000 (Twayne Publishers, 1999); Keeping the Promise: A History of the California Department of Justice (California Dept. of Justice, 2006). - Norman Caulfield, “Conflict and Accommodation: Mexican Labor and the State in the Twentieth Century.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Professor, Fort Hays State University.
Publications: Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA (Texas Christian University Press, 1998). - Norma Chudleigh, “James L. Autry: Hero without War.”
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Current Position: Genealogy consultant. - Ellin Jimmerson, “The Social Artist and the Picture Book Medium: 20th Century American Career Biographies.”
Advisor: Hyland Packard. - James McCaffrey, “Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Postion: Professor, University of Houston-Downtown.
Publications: Army of Manifest Destiny (New York University Press, 1994); This Band of Heroes: Granbury’s Texas Brigade, CSA (Texas A&M University Press, 1996); Wake Island Pilot (Potomac Books, 2005); The Army in Transformation, 1790-1860 (Greenwood Press, 2006). - James Patterson, “The Houston-Galveston Area Council: A Regional History of Intergovernmental Cooperation”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor, Northwest College, Houston Community College
1989
- Bruce A. Olson, “The Houston Light Guards: Elite Cohesion and Social Order in the New South, 1873-1940.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Position: Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Del Mar College.
1988
- James Aldridge, “A Study of the Conflict between Private and Public Power Interests in Louisiana, 1950-1980.”
Advisor: Joseph A. Pratt. - Ibrahim Alsaeed, “The Origins and Meaning of America’s Special Relationship with Israel.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal. - Myra Dorris Collie Hall, “Laura V. Hamner: A Woman before Her Time.”
Advisor: James Tinsley. - Sam W. Haynes, “The Somervel and Mier Expeditions: The Political and Diplomatic Consequences of Frontier Adventurism in the Texas Republic, 1842-1844.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Texas-Arlington.
Publications: Soldiers of Misfortune (University of Texas Press, 1997); James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse (Longman, 2001); and The Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in the British World (University of Virginia Press, 2010). - Mahmudul Huque, "Quest for Stability: The United States and Its Relations with India and Pakistan, 1947-1971."
Current Position: Professor, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Publications: The Role of the USA in the India Pakistan Conflict, 1947-71 (Academic Publishers, 1992); and History of the Subcontinent and Bengal, 1526-1947 (Ghazipur: Bangladesh Open University, 2002). [co-authored text in Bangla] - Marilyn Dubberley Rhinehart, “A Way of Work and a Way of Life: Coal Mining and Coal Miners in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926.”
Advisor: John O. King
Current Position: Vice President of Instruction, Johnson County Community College
Publications: A Way of Work and A Way of Life: Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926, ( Texas A&M Press, 1992).
1987
- Priscilla Myers-Benham, “Texas City: Port of Industrial Opportunity”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
1986
- Melodie Andrews, “’Myrmidons from Abroad’: The Role of the German Mercenary in the Coming of American Independence.”
Advisor: Robert V. Haynes.
Current Position: Professor, Minnesota State University at Mankato.
1985
- Robert N. Schwartz, “U.S. Diplomatic Relations with Latin America, 1945-1960: The Unsettling Dichotomies of Security and Development.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal - James B. Sullivan, “The Philosopher James K. Beibleman and American Civilization.”
Advisor: Loyd Swenson.
1984
- Howard Beeth, “Outside Agitators in Southern History: The Society of Friends,1650-1800.”
Advisor: Gerald Goodwin.
Current Position: Professor of History, Texas Southern University Co-author Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (Texas A&M University Press, 1992). - Larry Cable, “Conflict of Myths: The Development of U.S. Counter-Insurgency Doctrine and the Roots of the Vietnamese Commitment, 1899-1965.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Past Position: University of North Carolina-Wilmington [Resigned]
Publications: Conflict of Myths (New York University Press, 1985); Unholy Grail (Routledge, 1991). - Allen R. Vogt, “’An Honest Fanatic’: The Images of the Abolitionist in the Antebellum and Historical Minds.”
Advisor: Edwin A. Miles.
1983
- Diane L Heafer, “An Historiographical Study Of the Taney Court and the Dred Scott Decision.”
Advisor: Richard D. Younger.
1982
- Marta Sue Zulauf, “Through the Sipapu: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Mesa Verde Anasazi.”
Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.
1980
- Charles O. Cook, “Arkansas’s Charles Hillman Brough, 1876-1935: An Interpretation.”
Advisor: Allen Going.
Current Position: University of Houston, Honors College. - Clara Viator Dobay, “Essays in Mormon Historiography.”
Advisor: Richard D. Younger.
1978
- Don E. Carleton, “A Crisis of Rapid Change: The Red Scare in Houston, 1945-1955”
Advisor: John O. King
Current Position: Director, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas
Publications: Red Scare!: Right-Wing Hysteria Fifties Fanaticism and Their Legacy in Texas (Texas Monthly Press, 1985); A Breed So Rare: The Life of J.R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oilman, 1896-1992 (Texas State Historical Association, 1998); Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience (University of Texas Press, 2002); Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company (University of Texas Press, 2007); Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics (Center for American History, 2008); Big Red: Memoirs of a Texas Entrepreneur and Philanthropist (The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 2010); Conversations with Cronkite (University of Texas Press, 2010)
1975
- James C. Maroney, “Organized Labor in Texas, 1900-1929”
Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.
Current Position: Professor, Lee College
1974
- Margaret Swett Henson, “Samuel May Williams, 1795-1858: Texas Entrepreneur.” [Deceased]
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Publications: Samuel May Williams, Early Texas Entrepreneur (Texas Press, 1976); The Cartwrights of San Augustine: Three Generations of Agrarian Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Texas (Texas State Historical Association, 1994); Lorenzo De Zavala: The Pragmatic Idealist, (Texas Christian University Press, 1996); Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac (Texas A&M University Press, 1982).