The History Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's History Department doctoral and master's students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Alliance Apart: Anticommunism and the Anglo-American Relationship, 1948-1954, Edward Longe
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
On Sides: Reading Irish National Identities through Soccer, 1920-1998, Abigail Bernhardt
Believing in God and the Youthful Manhood of Our Time: Gender, Race, Empire and the Making of Irish Nationalism 1860-1882, Patrick M. Bethel
Born in Defiance: The Public Career of Virgil C. Blum, S.J., William M. Fliss
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
'Our Duty is to Furnish Such Education:' Black Children and Schooling in Baltimore City, 1828 - 1900, Lisa Rose Lamson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
"The Colored Problem:" Milwaukee's White Protestant Churches Respond to the Second Great Migration, Peter Borg
The Progressive Center: Midwestern Liberalism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, Cory Haala
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
India: A Historic Survey of the Social, Political and Economic Changes, Nand Singh
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
"The Age Demands It": Progressivism in Zion City, Illinois, a Conservative Protestant Theocracy, Gayle A. Kiszely
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Transmitting Revolution: Radio, Rumor, and the 1953 East German Uprising, Michael Palmer Pulido
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
"The Property of the Nation": Democracy and the Memory of George Washington, 1799-1865, Matthew Ryan Costello
Long Journeys to a Middle Ground: Indians, Catholics, and the Origins of a New Deal in Montana and Idaho, 1855-1945, Aaron David Hyams
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"Breaking Up, and Moving Westward": The Search for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828, Bethany Harding
In Harm's Way: Wisconsin Workers and Disability from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, Karalee Donna Surface
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Big Men On Campus: Administrative Response To Title Ix And The Development Of Women's Sports In The Big Ten Conference, 1972-1982, Jeffrey T. Ramsey
Illuminating The Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, And The Promotion Of The Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme, McKayla Kay Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Mass Consumption in Milwaukee: 1920-1970, Christopher Chan
Urban Rifts and Religious Reciprocity: Chicago and the Catholic Church, 1965-1996, Dominic E. Faraone
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Irish-American Identity, Memory, and Americanism During the Eras of the Civil War and First World War, John French
Introducing the Incomparable Hildegarde: The Sexuality, Style, and Image of a Forgotten Cultural Icon, Monica Gallamore
Girls "in Trouble": A History of Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Midwest, 1946-1964, Charissa Keup
A Place Under Heaven: Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence in Colonial New France, 1609-1729, Adam Stueck
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A Want of News in an Occupied Zone: Newspaper Content in Occupied Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing, Candice Addie Quinn
Lack of Oversight: The Relationship Between Congress and the FBI, 1907-1975, Aaron Stockham
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
"Irish Blood, English Heart": Gender, Modernity, and "Third Way" Republicanism in the Formation of the Irish Republic, Kenneth Lee Shonk, Jr.
Strategic Air Warfare and Nuclear Strategy: The Formulation of Military Policy in the Truman Administration, 1945-1950, Patrick William Steele
Gender and Crime, 1815-1834, Julie C. Tatlock
"Justice Without Partiality": Women and the Law in Colonial Maryland, 1648-1715, Monica C. Witkowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
"Ordinary Talents and Extraordinary Perseverance": The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, David Bruce
West Meets East: British Perceptions of China through the Life and Works of Sir George Thomas Staunton, 1781-1859, Jodi Rhea Bartley Eastberg
Smokestacks and Steeples: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relationship between the Catholic Church and Industrial Milwaukee ,1870-1929, Jason Hostutler
Smokestacks and Steeples: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relationship between the Catholic Church and Industrial Milwaukee, 1870-1929, Jason Houstutler
A Window into their Lives: The Women of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 1725-1765, Julie Elizabeth Leonard
Sounding America: Identity and the Music Culture of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860, Ann Ostendorf
Middle Ground in the Middle East: American Quakers & Palestinian Women at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, 1889-1948, Enaya Othman
Middle Ground in the Middle East: American Quakers & Palestinian Women at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, 1889-1948, Enaya Othman
More than a Fraction: The Life and Work of Justice Pierce Butler, David Schroeder
"A Golden Opportunity for Reaping a Harvest of Souls": A History of the Ministry to African American Catholics in Milwaukee, 1908-1963, John M. Vietoris
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Ecclesiastical Response in Britain to World War I: A Study of the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and the Roman Catholic Church, Wayne M. Riggs
The Imperial Enterprise: Anglo-American Reaction to the Spanish-American and Boer Wars, 1898-1902, Thomas M. Sobottke
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The strange case of Adolf Beck: Press Influence and Criminal Justice Reform in Edwardian England, Paula C. Dicks
Milwaukee's First Suburbs: A Re-Interpretation of Suburban Incorporation in Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee County, Christopher Mark Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
"A Great Promise and a Great Threat": Milwaukee Children in the Great Depression, Daryl Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Women, Crime, and Work: The Case of London 1783-1815, Kathy Callahan
Leisure pursuits in ethnic Milwaukee, 1830-1930, Paul-Thomas Ferguson
The Presbyterian Rebellion: An Analysis of the Perception That the American Revolution Was a Presbyterian War, Richard Gardiner
The Reluctant City: Milwaukee's Fragmented Metropolis, 1920-1960, John McCarthy
From Pioneers to Wheat kings: The Development of Regional Image and Identity in Western Kansas, 1890-1929, Martin W. Quirk
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Corrupting Portland: Municipal Corruption, Organized Crime, and the Teamsters Union in a Post-World War II City, Robert C. Donnelly
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
"Not A Moment for Delay": Benevolence in Wisconsin During the Civil War Era, Karen A. Kehoe
A Humane Struggle: Robert Kennedy and the Problem of Poverty in America, Edward R. Schmitt
A humane struggle: Robert Kennedy and the problem of poverty in America, Edward Robert Schmitt
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era, Kathryn M. Galchutt
Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord: Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655, Timothy L. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Catholic Response to the Ku Klux Klan in the Midwest, 1921-8, Michael D. Jacobs
Autonomy and Antagonism in Early Modern France: The Protestants of Bergerac, 1545-1685, David A. Pigott
"The Home to the Camp:" Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort, Patricia L. Richard
A Cold War Shadow: United States Policy Toward Indonesia, 1953-1963, F. X. Baskara Tulus Wardaya
Submissions from 2000
Crusader in the Cold War: A biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908--1994), John Timothy Donovan
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
A Navy Second to None: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I, Michael D. Besch
The Other Polonia: Polish Rural Settlements in Central and Northern Wisconsin, 1850-1920, Dariusz A. Ciemniewski
"Just Deserts": Public and Private Institutional Responses to Poverty in Victorian London. Space, Gender, and Agency, Jessica Ann Sheetz
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Patriot Bishop: The Diplomatic and Episcopal Career of Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley, 1937-1967, Charles R. Gallagher
Guarantors of Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen As Soldier and the Military Ethos of Republicanism, 1775-1861, Ricardo Adolfo Herrera
Whether to the Haven or the Maelstrom?: The Rise and Development of Agrarian Reform Doctrine in Antebellum America, John C. Savagian
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Old Sturbridge Village: An Institutional History of a Cultural Artifact, Laura E. Abing
Influences on Anglo-French relations, 1814-1818, Mary T Duarte
Influences on Anglo-French Relations, 1814-1818, Mary T. Duarte
Forge, Destroy, and Preserve the Bonds of Empire: Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and Métis on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1634-1856, Patrick J. Jung
Counterrevolutionary Catholicism in Western France: The Battle of Belief At Machecoul, 1774-1914, Edward J. Woell
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Fort Ridgely and the Settlement of the Minnesota River Valley, 1853-1867, Paul N. Beck
Les Femmes et le Poison: L'empoisonnement Devant les Juridictions Criminelles en Belgique, 1795-1914, Monique I. Septon
Submissions from 1995
A fall from grace: Thomas Johnson and the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, 1839-1862, Kevin J. Abing
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Drummer Changed Cadence: The Impact of the Dissident Movement on the Churches in the 1960s, Linda Marie Bos
Le Chemin de fer de l'Est: The Railroad Company of the East and Its Effect on Industrialization (1845-1937), Delbert Patrick Thomas Carey
Work and Corporate Life in Old Regime France: The Leather Artisans of Bordeaux (1740-1791), Daniel Joseph Heimmermann
Polonia's Child: The Public Life of Clement J. Zablocki, Stephen M. Leahy
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
De-Christianizers and De-Christianization in the Gironde During the Year II, Kenneth R. Fenster
"A Program of Cooperation": The FBI, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, and the Communist Issue, 1950-1956, Christopher John Gerard
Dissent in the Upper Middle West During the First World War, 1917-1918, Robert L. Hachey
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Dublin's American Policy: Irish-American Diplomatic Relations, 1945-1952, Troy D. Davis
Evoking the Eagle: The July Monarchy's Use of Napoleonic Imagery, Walter R. Herscher
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Challenges to Cold War Orthodoxy: Women and Peace, 1945-1963, Susan F. Dion
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Humphrey J. Desmond, the Catholic Citizen and Catholic Liberalism, Richard Scheiber
The Duke of Wellington and the Army of Occupation in France, 1815-1818, Thomas Dwight Veve
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
United States Citizens vs. Mexico, 1821-1848, Peter M. Jonas
"Daughters of Eve": Female Offenders and the Criminal Justice System, St. Paul, 1858-1929, Cheryl Toronto Kalny
John Redmond and Irish nationalism, 1890-1910, Alan D Lane
John Redmond and Irish Nationalism, 1890-1910, Alan D. Lane
John Redmond and Irish Nationalism, 1890-1910, Alan D. Lane
Anglo-American Relations in the Era of European Supranational Unity, 1953-57, Wendell R. Mauter
Expressions of Nationalistic Sentiments in Early American Newspapers, 1776-1826, Charles A. Pilant
Expressions of nationalistic sentiments in early American newspapers, 1776-1826, Charles Alan Pilant
Great Lakes lumber on the Great Plains: The Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota, John N. Vogel
Great Lakes lumber on the Great Plains: The Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota, John Nunn Vogel
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The United States, Germany and the Problem of Convicted War Criminals, 1946-1955, Frank Michael Buscher
The diplomatic career of Sir Charles Bagot. The early years: London, Paris, Washington, St. Petersburg (1807-1824), James Stephen Krysiek
The Diplomatic Career of Sir Charles Bagot. The Early Years: London, Paris, Washington, St. Petersburg (1807-1824), James Stephen Krysiek