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2020-2021

Katya Mouris, "From Reform to Reformation: Caritas Pirckheimer and the Convent of St. Klara, Nuremberg, Late 1490's to 1532."
Dissertation director: Dr. Nelson H. Minnich

Atlas (Tian) Xu, “Navigating Worthiness in America: White Attorneys, Black Pensioners, and Chinese Immigrants, 1862-1924.”
Dissertation director: Dr. Timothy Meagher

2019-2020
Carol Anderson, “Sacred Histories: Remembering the Christian Past in Medieval Tuscany (1100-1500)."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Assistant Editor, Speculum

Daniel Graham, "'Effected for Any Useful Purposes": The Birth of Research and Development in the Rubber Industry, 1790-1890."
Dissertation director: Dr. Laura E.N. Mayhall
Assistant Professor, Bowie State University

Jon Paul Heyne, "The Franciscans of the Holy Land: Religion and Politics of the Mediterranean in the Age of Queen Sancia."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Assistant Professor, University of Dallas

Amanda Banacki Perry, "Diplomatic Society: Gertrude Bell and British Imperial Diplomacy in Iraq, 1917-1926."
Dissertation director: Dr. Laura E.N. Mayhall

Austin Powell, "Charisma, Community, and Authority: Dominican Epistolary Practice in Italy, 1300-1500."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Postdoctoral Scholar in Classics, University of California - Davis

2018-2019
Tommy Patteson, “Coming to Terms with Complexity: A Lens for the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century.”
Dissertation director: Dr. Jerry Z. Muller

2017-2018
Brian Boosel O.S.B., "A Crisis of Amity in Early Modern France: Jansenism and the Friendship between Vincent de Paul and Abbé Saint-Cyran."
Dissertation director: Dr. Caroline R. Sherman
Assistant Professor, St. Vincent College

Patricia Tillman, "Cardinal Mindszenty, Anti-Communism, and American Catholicism From the Early Cold War to the Reagan Era."
Dissertation director: Dr. Árpád von Klimó
Instructor, Northern Virginia Community College

Ryan Carpenter, "Peace Through Strength: Pentagon Policymakers, the Reagan Buildup, and America's National Security Policy, 1981-1983." 
Dissertation director: Dr. Michael C. Kimmage
Special advisor for the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

2016-2017
Vanessa Corcoran, "The Voice of Mary: Later Medieval Representations of Marian Communication."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Academic Counselor, Office of the Dean of Georgetown College, Georgetown University

Martin Waldman, "Pavia's Twin: Power and Identity in Early Medieval Benevento (570-899 CE)."
Dissertation director: Dr. Jennifer R. Davis
Writing Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command

2015-2016
Kate Bush, "Sorelle Mie: The Sermons of Caterina Vigri and Franciscan Observantist Reform."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Holy Cross College

Laura Hohman, "Carolingian Sermons: Religious Reform, Pastoral Care, and Lay Piety."
Dissertation director: Dr. Jennifer R. Davis
Assistant Professor of History, Trevecca Nazarene University

Seth Smith, "A Church Apart: The Catholic Church in the Rural South, 1939-1990."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs, School of Arts and Sciences, The Catholic University of America

Julie Yarwood, "Citizens of Heaven: Conservative American Protestant Reactions to New Deal Legislation."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies, The University of Mary

James Zibro, "The Life of Paddy Yank: The Common Irish-American Soldier in the Union Army."
Dissertation director: Dr. Timothy Meagher
Teacher, Kent School, Kent, CT

2014-15
Robert Camilleri, "A Compromise of Principle:  Politics, Ideology, and the Crisis and Compromise of 1850."
Dissertation director: Dr. Stephen A. West
Director, Technical Support Office, Europe and Eurasia Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development

2013-2014
Javier Castro, "Becoming Patrician: Alejandro Galvis Galvis and the Liberal Party in Santander, 1916-31."
Dissertation director: Dr. Julia G. Young
Teacher, Maret School, Washington, DC

Robert Hand, "Textual Evidence for the Use of Military Astrology in Late Medieval Italy."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Co-founder, Arhat Media

Marie D'Aguanno Ito, "Orsanmichele - The Florentine Grain Market: Trade and Worship in the Later Middle Ages." (with distinction)
Dissertation director: Dr.  Katherine L. Jansen
Affiliate Faculty Member in the Department of History/Art History at George Mason University

Christopher Gildemeister, "An Analysis of the Portrayal of Catholicism on Prime-Time Network Entertainment Television, 1950-1980."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Senior Writer/Editor, Parents Television Council

2012-2013
Sarah Spalding, "Elisabeth of Schönau: Visions and Female Intellectual Culture of the High Middle Ages."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Assistant Dean, School of Business, Marymount University

2011-2012
Jay T. Harrison, "Franciscan Missionary Theory and Practice in 18th-Century New Spain: The Propaganda Fide Friars in the Texas Missions, 1690-1821."
Dissertation director: Dr. James D. Riley
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Hood College

Laura L. Trauth, "'So ill looked a place, among all the whore houses': Mapping Moral and Physical Cleanliness in London from the Mid-16th to the Mid-17th Century."
Dissertation director: Dr. L.R. Poos
Associate Professor of History, Community College of Baltimore County

Yuki Yamazaki, "American Catholic Missions to Japanese in the United States: The Intersection of Religion, Cultures, Generation, Genders, and Politics, 1910-70."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Associate Professor of American Social History, Keiwa College, Shibata, Japan

2010-2011
Hanael Bianchi, "St. George's Day: A Cultural History."
Dissertation director: Dr. Laura E.N. Mayhall
Assistant Professor of History, Howard Community College

Stephanie J. Richmond, "Atlantic Connections: Gender and Antislavery Women in the United States and Britain."
Dissertation director: Dr. Laura E.N. Mayhall
Associate Professor of History and Program Coordinator, Norfolk State University

2009 - 2010
Melodie Harris Eichbauer,  "Circumstances and Limits of Ecclesiastical Coercion: Canonical Jurisprudence and Papal Policy in the 12th and 13th Centuries."
Dissertation director: Dr. Kenneth Pennington
Associate Professor of History, Florida Gulf Coast University

Stanislaw Hajkowski, "The Cultural Transition and the Attitude of Polish Immigrant Families towards Divorce and Parental Authority in the United States, 1931-40."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Co-ordinator of Polish chaplains in Ireland and Rector of St Audoen’s Church, Dublin, Ireland

Charles R. Kaczynski, "Band of Brothers: The Negotiation of Identity within the American Congregation of the Mission and Its New England Province, 1903-99."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Teacher, York Preparatory School, New York, NY

2008 - 2009
Constantine J. Skamarakas, "Peter Kalm's America: A Critical Analysis of his Journal."
Dissertation director: Dr. Ronald S. Calinger
Retired

Webster G. Tarpley, "Paolo Sarpi, His Networks, Venice, and the Thirty Years' War."
Dissertation director: Dr. Robert A. Schneider
Author and journalist

2007 - 2008
Thomas M. Baughn, "French Origins of American Constitutionalism."
Dissertation director: Dr. Robert A. Schneider
Historian, U.S. Marine Corps

2005 - 2006
Charles G. Bashara, "'This Holy Friendship': The Marian Assemblée of Toulouse and the Jesuit Formation of Clergy in Early Modern France, 1658-1762."
Dissertation director: Dr. Robert A. Schneider
Management and Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Justice

Carlos D'Avila, "The Mustard Seed in Montana: Father Eli W.J. Lindesmith and the Spirit of Order and Progress in the American West, 1880-1891."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Director, Business Management Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, "'Devoted to the Interest of the Italians': The Sisters of Charity and the Santa Maria Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890-1930."
Dissertation director: Dr. Gary L. Gerstle
Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, Valparaiso University

Andrew P. Moore, "French Observations of America: Intercultural Commentary in the Age of Revolution."
Dissertation director: Dr. Robert A. Schneider
Assistant Professor of Education, Notre Dame of Maryland University

2004 - 2005
William P. Fischer, "John C. Ford, S.J.: A Mid-Century Reformer Revisited, 1937-1969."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Agency Records Office, U.S. Department of State

Marco G. Prouty, "Cesar Chavez and the Catholic Civil War: 1965-1977."
Dissertation director: Dr. Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Former Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State

2003 - 2004
Carl E. Ashley, "Raymond Aron, International Politics and the Transatlantic Dialogue during the Cold War."
Dissertation director: Dr. Jerry Z. Muller
Chief, Declassification Division, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

Kathleen B. Ruppert, "'This Protestant Nation' (?): Religion in the Formation of British Imperial Identity, 1870-1914."
Dissertation director: Dr. Laura E.N. Mayhall
Teacher, McQuaid Jesuit High School, Rochester, NY

Evelyn K. Spratt, "Being French in America, 1780-1820."
Dissertation director: Dr. Robert A. Schneider
Associate Professor of Education, Notre Dame University of Maryland

2002 - 2003
John Owen Allen, "Tobacco, Slaves, and Secession: Southside Virginia on the Brink of the Great Rebellion."
Dissertation director: Dr. Jon L. Wakelyn

Susan P. Hudson, "The Paradox of Power and Prayer: The Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine, 1878-1908."
Dissertation director: Dr. Gary L. Gerstle

2001 - 2002
Raymond J. Batvinis, "In the Beginning: The Origin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Foreign Counterintelligence Program, 1936-1941."
Dissertation director: Dr. Harold Langley
Lecturer in counterintelligence, Institute of  Politics, and Executive Director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation

Sally M. Brasher, "Women of the Humiliati: A Moral Response to Medieval Civic Life."
Dissertation director: Dr. Katherine L. Jansen
Associate Professor of History, Shepherd University

2000 - 2001
Jeremy Bonner, "Faith of Our Fathers: Religion, Politics and Social Change in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1924-1940."
Dissertation director: Dr. Gary L. Gerstle
Independent scholar, Durham, United Kingdom

Thomas J. Finan, "National Identity and Nationalism in Medieval Ireland, 1215-1415."
Dissertation director: Dr. L.R. Poos
Associate Professor of History, St. Louis University