PhD Outcomes by Year

2024

Lucas Bensley
Dissertation: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970
Director: Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle

2023

Emily Arledge
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA 
Dissertation: Enshrining Memory: The Production of an American Catholic Past
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Cate LiaBraaten
Assistant Professor of Public History, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Dissertation: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Depression-Era World’s Fairs, Imagined Pasts, and Hopeful Futures
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson

Katie Macica
Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dissertation: Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2022

Matt Amyx
Adjunct Instructor, History Department and Arrupe College, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: “Detrimental Influences”: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Nathan Ellstrand
Postdoctoral DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Research Partner Fellow, History Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Dissertation: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson

Sean Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Public History and American Indian History, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
Dissertation: A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Ella Wagner

Historian/Archivist, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Dissertation: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson

2021

2020

Chelsea Denault
Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator, Midwest Collaborative for Library Sciences, Lansing, MI
Dissertation: “An Environmental Sleight of Hand:" Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990
Advisor: Elliott Gorn

Ruby Oram
Assistant Professor of Practice in Local and Community History, Texas State University, San Marcos Campus, San Marcos, TX
Dissertation: Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Hope Shannon
Marketing and Engagement Manager, American Historical Association, Washington, DC
Dissertation: Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Modern Metropolitan Chicago
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2019

Meagan McChesney
Curator, Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, IL
Contract Researcher at U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
Dissertation: Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in the Great Lakes Region, 1969-2010
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Nicole Perez
Accreditation Services Associate, Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: 'The Audacity to Dream': Black Suburbanization in Metropolitan Detroit, 1920-90
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson

Joshua Wachuta
Freelance Public Historian and Web Designer
Dissertation: All and More That Was Owed: American Indians and Settler Capitalism on the Upper Mississippi, 1805-1890
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

2018

Nathan Jeremie-Brink
The L. Russell Feakes Assistant Professor of the History of Global Christianity, New Brunswick Theological Seminary,  New Brunswick, NJ
Dissertation: “Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845
Advisor: Kyle Roberts

2017

Rachel Boyle
Public Historian and Co-Founder, Omnia History
Dissertation: "She Shot Him Dead: The Criminalization of Women and the Struggle over Social Order in Chicago, 1871-1919"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Amy Oberlin
Senior Associate of Investigations and Disputes, Kroll Associates, Inc., New York, NY
Dissertation: "Love and Loyal Actions: Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760"
Advisor: Robert Bucholz

Noah Phelps
Director of Information Management, Sigma Chi Foundation, Evanston, IL
Dissertation: "Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500–1800"
Advisor: Robert Bucholz

O. Eliot Pope
Upper School History Teacher, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans"
Advisor: Christopher Manning

Chris Ramsey
Team Manager, Hudson Legal, New York, NY
Dissertation: "Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Racial Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Marisol Rivera
Adjunct Lecturer, History, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Assistant Professor of History/Political Science, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Dissertation: "Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983"
Advisor: Christopher Manning

Gregory Ruth
Social Studies Department Co-Chair, Asia Pacific International School, Seoul, South Korea
Dissertation: "Pancho Gonzales' Racket: Citizenship and Celebrity in the Creation of Modern Tennis"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Amelia Serafine
Instructor (Tenure Track), History, San Antonio College, Alamo Colleges, San Antonio, Texas
Dissertation: "Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America"
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson

2016

Melissa Cushing-Davis
Operations Manager, Cuneo Museum and Gardens, Loyola University Chicago, Vernon Hills, IL
Dissertation: "A Fire That Could Not Be Extinguished: Sovereignty and Identity in the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 1634-1994"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Anthony Di Lorenzo
Assistant Professor of American History, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
Dissertation: "A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800"
Advisor: John Donoghue

Andrew Donnelly
Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M-Commerce, Commerce, TX
Dissertation: "Cooking, Cooking Pots, and Cultural Transformation in Imperial and Late Antique Italy"
Advisor: Leslie Dossey

Erin Feichtinger
Metropolitan Community College Board of Governors, District 2, Omaha, NE; Best Practices Coordinator, Alliance for Better Omaha
Dissertation: "Remains to be Seen: Execution and Embodiment in the Early English Atlantic World"
Advisors: John Donoghue and Robert Bucholz

Peter Kotowski
Director of Prospect Development, University of Denver, Denver, CO (remote)
Dissertation: "The Best Poor Man's Country?: William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania" 
Advisor: John Donoghue

Jeffrey Wing
Academic Advisor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dissertation: "Olympic Bids, Professional Sports, and Urban Politics: Four Decades of Stadium Planning in Detroit, 1936-1975"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

2015

Devin V. Hunter
Assistant Professor of American and Public History, University of Illinois at Springfield
Dissertation: "Growing Diversity: Urban Renewal, Community Activism, and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in Uptown Chicago, 1940-1970"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Daniel O'Gorman
Independent Historian
Dissertation: "Institution and Identity: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the Pre-Conquest Century"
Advisor: Barbara Rosenwein

Daniel Ott
Historian and Western Regions Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Project, Minneapolis, MN 
Dissertation: "Producing a Past: Cyrus McCormick's Reaper from Heritage to History"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Kirby Pringle
Instructor, Bakersfield College, Prison System Inmate Scholars Program, Bakersfield CA
Dissertation: "Waiting on Hollywood: The Tale of an Italian Bit Player"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
To be published as Waiting on Hollywood: The Tale of an Italian Bit Player (University Press of Mississippi, 2018)

Joel Yoder
Independent Historian 
Dissertation: "Herbert Spencer and His American Audience"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

2014

Audra Bellmore
Associate Professor and Curator, Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Adjunct Professor, Museum Studies Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Chair, UNM Regents Historic Preservation Committee, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Dissertation: "English Cottage Style Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological, and Social Innovation"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Steven J. Catania
Online Training Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation:"Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century"
Advisor: Robert Bucholz

John Krenzke
Associate Professor of History, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach Campus, Norfolk, VA
Dissertation: "Change is Brewing: The Industrialization of the Brewing Industry in England, 1550-1750"
Advisor: Robert Bucholz

Kelly O'Connor
Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director, History Department, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "The Fashionable Life: Fashion Imagery and the Construction of Masculinity in America, 1960-2000" 
Advisor: Susan Hirsch

Stella Ress
Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
Dissertation: "Will You Love Me in December, As You Do in May?: Gold Diggers, Sugar Daddies, & Age-Disparate Relationships in the US, 1890-1950"
Advisors: Lewis Erenberg and Patrica Mooney-Melvin

2013

Domenico R. Ferri
Assistant Professor of History, Co-Chairperson, Social and Applied Sciences Department, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL 
Dissertation: "Funk the Power: Unassimilated Blackness and Sound in the Post-King Era, 1968-1985"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg and Elizabeth Fraterrigo

Patrick R. Mallory
Academic Dean, Business and Social Sciences, Meramec Campus of St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation: "The Game They All Played: Chicago Baseball 1876-1906"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Jilana Ordman
Lecturer, History, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Dissertation: "Feeling Like a Crusader: Crusader Affect and Crusade Theology 1095-1291"
Advisor: Barbara Rosenwein

Jennifer Searcy
Director, Great Lakes Naval Museum, Great Lakes, IL
Dissertation: "The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago"
Advisor: Christopher Manning

Megan Stout Sibbel
Curator and Chief Historian, Salisbury House and Gardens, Des Moines, IA
Dissertation: "Sisters of the South: Roman Catholic Nuns in African American Communities, 1935-1970"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Albert W. Vogt III
Co-Founder, Of Historical Interest (a history consulting firm)
Dissertation: "The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928-1968"
Advisor: Christopher Manning

2012

Alexandra DeMonte Michaelides
User Experience Researcher at Flywheel, Bay Area, CA; Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts, San Franciso, CA
Dissertation: "Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1992"
Advisors: Timothy Gilfoye and Susan Hirsch

Sarah E. Doherty
Associate Professor of US and Public History, North Park University
Dissertation: "Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Susan Garneau
Adjunct Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Chiago, IL; Instructor, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA
Dissertation: "Imprisoning Chicago: Incarceration, the Chicago City Council, Prisoners, and Reform, 1832-1915"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Thomas A. Greene
Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia
Dissertation: "Emotional Standards, Liturgical Celebration and the Monks of Saint-Germain (Auxerre), 840-908"
Advisor: Barbara Rosenwein

Brian Jolet
Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
Dissertation: "Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy, 1919-1933"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Dejan Kralj
Managing Partner, ORA Dental Studio-Gold Coast, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Transnational Nationalism & the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Ronald P. Martin
Director of Admissions, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Flowers in Chicago: Counterculture in Chicago in the 1960s"
Advisors: Lewis Erenberg and Patricia Mooney-Melvin

2011

Stephen C. Bruner
Dissertation: "Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism:  Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission"
Advisor: Anthony Cardoza

Kevin Kaufmann
Undergraduate Research Program Manager, Center of Experiential Learning, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Rigorous Honesty: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1960"
Advisors: Lewis Erenberg and Harold Platt

Elizabeth Matelski
Assistant Professor of History, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Dissertation: "The Color(s) of Perfection:  The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Maria F. Reynolds
Historic Interpreter and Curator, Staatsburgh State Historic Site, Staatsburg, NY
Dissertation: "Doing History in the Adirondacks:  Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Cord A. Scott
Professor, University of Maryland Global Campus
Dissertation: "Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg
Published as Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom (US Naval Institute Press, 2014).

Adam D. Shprintzen
Associate Professor of History, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Dissertation: "Abstention to Consumption: The Development of American Vegetarian Identity, 1817-1917"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 (UNC Press, 2015).

2010

Angela Fritz
Administrator, Division of Collections and State Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
Dissertation: "Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, A Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952"
Advisor: Susan Hirsch

L. Jon Grogan
VP, Lead Sourcing Specialist, PNC Financial Group
Dissertation: "From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and the Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford
Writer and Editor, Ransford and Associates
Dissertation: "Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Jason R. Myers
Content Strategist and Copywriter, Plum Voice, Denver, CO
Dissertation: "'A Land Fit for Heroes'?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski
Published as The Great War and Memory in Irish Culture, 1918 -2010 (Academica Press, 2012).

2009

Rae M. Bielakowski
Freelance Writer/Editor
Dissertation: "You Are in the World: Catholic Campus Life at Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein College, and De Paul University, 1924-1950"
Advisor: William Galush

Jennifer R. Bridge
Public Affairs Team Lead, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Tourist Attractions, Souvenirs, and Civil War Memory in Chicago, 1861-1915"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Kirsten M. DeVries
Associate Instructor of English, Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, VA
Dissertation: "Episcopal Identity in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 397-700"
Advisor: Barbara Rosenwein

Marc A. Dluger
Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director, Public History and Historic Preservation Certificate Program, Northern Virginia Community College
Dissertation:  "A Regimental Community: The Men of the 82nd Illinois Infantry Before, During, and After the American Civil War"
Advisor: Theodore  Karamanski

Alfonzo Greene, Jr.
Associate Professor of History, Oakwood University
Dissertation: "[Black] Regional Conferences in the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) Compared with United Methodist [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Annual Conferences with White SDA Conferences, 1940-2001"
Advisors: Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Paula Pfeffer

Troy Henderson
Michigan Iron Industry Museum, Neguanee, MI
Dissertation: "Shanty-boys, Lumberjacks, and Loggers: A Social and Cultural History of the Upper Great Lakes Woodsworkers"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Frances Howard Mitilineos
Instructor of History, Oakton Community College
Dissertation: "Christians and Jews in Thirteenth-Century England: Confrontation and Cooperation 1189-1290"
Advisor: Barbara Rosenwein

2008

J. Derek Halvorson
President, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA
Dissertation: "Religion and Reformation: Johannes Justus Lansperger, O. Cart. (1489/90-1539) and the Sixteenth-Century 'Religious' Question"
Advisor: Robert Bireley, SJ

Michael Nicholsen
Associate Professor (tenure-track), Oakton Community College
Dissertation: "'Auld Sod' and New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868-1999"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

Angela Schlater
Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Flaming Youth: Gender in 1920s Hollywood"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

Claudette Tolson
Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA
Dissertation: "The Excluded and the Included: Chicago, White Supremacy and the Clubwomen's Movement, 1873-1915"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Alan Zola
Instructor, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Dissertation: "Radbertus's Monastic Voice: Ideas about Monasticism at Ninth-Century Corbie"
Advisor: Barbara Rosenwein

2007

Patrick Jennings 
Chief, Programs and Education, National Museum of the United States Army
Dissertation: "Clio's Drumbeat: Gathering and Using History in Wartime"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Cranston Knight
Founder/Executive Director, Global Voices International: A Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Institute
Adjunct Professor of History, St. Augustine College
Board Member of the Chicago United Nations organization
Dissertation: "When War was no longer unthinkable: American Perception of and reaction to Japan prior to Pearl Harbor"
Advisor: Paula Pfeffer

Mark Long
Associate Dean for Academic Partnerships and Associate Professor of History, At Sea Education Association , Flamouth, MA
Dissertation: "Cultivating a New Order: Reconstructing Florida's Postbellum Frontier"
Advisor: Susan Hirsch

2006

Timothy N. Lacy
Director, Medical Student Learning Environment, Univeristy of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Faculty, History Department, Loyola University Chicago
Co-founder of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Teacher of Adult Education Seminars, The Newberry Library 
Dissertation: "Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler and Twentieth-Century America"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg
Published as, "The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Elizabeth Myers
Director of Special Collections, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Dissertation: "Burning Bras, Long Hairs & Dashikis:  The Personal Politics of American Culture, 1950-1975"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

Jan Olive-Full
Owner, Tallgrass Historians L.L.C.
Dissertation: "Hinterland or Heartland: Survival of the Midwest Small Town, 1850-1990"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Justin Pettegrew
Assistant Professor, Shorter College, Rome, GA
Dissertation: "Onward Christian Soldiers: The Transformation of Religion, Masculinity, and Class in the Chicago YMCA, 1857-1933"
Advisors: Lewis Erenberg

Jason Stacy
Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Dissertation: "Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman's Three Personas in the New Market Economy"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg
Published as Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (Peter Lang, 2008).

2005

Constance Buckley
Part-Time Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Searching for Fort Dearborn: Perception, Commemoration and Celebration of an Urban Creation Memory"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

David Groeninger
Instructor and Department Chair, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Dissertation: "Imagining Chicago: The Role of Newspaper Columnists in Creating a City of the Mind, 1890-1930"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

John Leazer 
Associate Professor of History, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Dissertation: "The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scottish Herring Fishery: The Effects of the 1707 Treaty of Union on the Scottish Economy and Early Modern Britain"
Advisor: Robert Bucholz

Catherine Maybrey
Career Coach, Catherine Maybrey Coaching Services, Hamilton, Onatario
Dissertation: "From Onanism to Orgasm: Masturbation, Medicine and Gender in America, 1646-1960"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Andrew Witt
Associate Professor of History, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
Dissertation: "Picking Up the Hammer': The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party with Emphasis on the Milwaukee Branch, 1966-1977"
Advisor: Paula Pfeffer
Published as The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977 (Routledge, 2007).

2004

Jerry L. Foust
Collections & Facilities Manager at Dumbarton House, Washington, D.C.; Adjunct Professor in Arts and Museums Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Dissertation: "Our Town, Their Town: Community and Tourism South Haven, Michigan, 1830-1930"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Elizabeth Fraterrigo
Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Entertainment for Men: Playboy, Masculinity and Postwar American Culture"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg
Published as Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Laura E. Milsk
Associate Professor of Historical Studies and Director, Museum Studies Program, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Dissertation: "Meet Me at the Station: The Culture and Aesthetics of Chicago's Railroad Terminals, 1871-1930"
Advisor: Susan Hirsch

Timothy B. Neary
Associate Professor of History, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Dissertation: "Crossing Parochial Boundaries: African-Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago, 1914-1954"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
Published as Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914–1954 (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Scott A. Newman
Dissertation: "Boundless Pleasures: Young Chicagoans, Commercial Amusements, and the Revitalization of Urban Life, 1900-1930"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

Temple Tsenes-Hills
Adjunct Professor, Department of Education, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
Dissertation: "I am the Utterance of My Name:  Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893"
Advisor: Susan Hirsch
Published as I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893 (IUniverse, 2006).

2003

Rev. William T. Corcoran, Jr.
Dean, Archdiocese of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Pastor, St. Elizabeth Seton Parish Orland Hills, IL
Dissertation: "Imagining a Future: The Reassertion of Irish Identity"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

Matthew P. Szromba
Associate Professor of History, Marian University, Fond du Lac, WI
Dissertation: "The Wicked Man shall not abide in my House: The Courts of the Verge and the English Monarchy, 1660-1760"
Advisor: Robert Bucholz

Anne Michele Wingenter
Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Rome Center, Rome, Italy
Dissertation: "The Dead are Passing: The Association of Mothers and Widows of the 'Fallen' in Fascist Italy"
Advisor: Anthony Cardoza

2002

Malachy R. McCarthy, O.S.B
Archvist, Claretian Missionaries Archives, Catholic Library Association, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Which Christ Came to Chicago: Catholic and Protestant Programs to Evangelize, Socialize and Americanize the Mexican Immigrant, 1900-1940"
Advisor: Willam Galush

2001

Lori Witt
Associate Professor, Central College of Iowa, Pella, IA
Dissertation: "More than a 'Slaving Wife': The Limits and Possibilities of Womanhood for Conservative Protestant College Women in the 1920s and 1930s"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

2000

Jeffrey T. Brierton
Principal, Concordia University, Chicago, IL; Adjunct Professor in Educational Leadership, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "War on Two Fronts Vietnam and the Heartland: A Study of the Effect of the Vietnam War on an American Community 1965-1973"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Michael O'Malley
Dissertation: "Local Relief during the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850: The Case of County Mayo" 
Advisor: Janet Nolan

1999

Paul Connors
Administrator, School Fiscal Accountability Division, Michigan Department of Treasury, Lansing, MI
Dissertation: "America's Emerald Isle: A Social History of the Irish of Beaver Island, Michigan, 1856-1945"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

Dennis Cremin
History Professor, History Center Director, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Dissertation: "Building Chicago's Front Yard: Grant Park 1836 to 1936"
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Robert Karrow
Retired from Cartography Division, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "Intellectual Foundations of the Cartographic Revolution"
Advisor: Robert Bireley, S.J.

1997

Eric M. Reisenauer
Executive Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Professor of History, University of South Carolina, Sumpter, Sumpter, SC
Dissertation: "British-Israel: Racial Identity in Imperial Britain, 1870-1920"
Advisor: Jo Hays 

1996

David Blanke
Professor of History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
Dissertation: "Sowing the American Dream: Consumer Culture in the Rural Midwest, 1865-1900"
Advisor: Harold Platt
Published as Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest (Ohio University Press, 2000).

Catherine Candy
Associate Professor of History, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Dissertation: "The Occult Feminism of Margaret Cousins in Modern Ireland and India, 1878-1954"
Advisor: Janet Nolan

Mary J. Munsell Abroe 
Adjunct Lecturer in History, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Dissertation: "'All the Profound Scenes': Federal Preservation of Civil War Battlefields, 1861-1900"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski   

1995

Albert Slomovitz
Founder, Doctors of Equality: Reducing Racism and Prejudice, Atlant, GA
Dissertation: "'The Fighting Rabbis: A History of Jewish Military Chaplains, 1860-1945"
Advisor: William Galush

George Sochan
Professor of History and Government, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
Dissertation: "'The Cultural Role of Christianity in England, 1918-1931: An Anglican Perspective on State Education"
Advisor: Jo Hays

1994

Pietro Lorenzini
Adjunct Instructor of Criminal Justice, St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Tyranny of Stone: Economic Modernization and Political Radicalization in the Marble Industry of Massa-Carrara, 1859-1914"
Advisor: Anthony Cardoza

Erin McCarthy
Associate Professor, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Making Men: The Life and Career of Amos Alonzo Stagg, 1862-1933"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

John Morgan
Dissertation: "The Army of Catalonia Organization, Operations and Logistics, 1807-1814"
Advisor: Walter Gray

Kathleen Toerpe
Executive Director, JUST Door County, Door County, WI; Deputy CEO for Public Outreach and Education, Astrosociology Research Institute, Huntington Beach, CA
Dissertation: "'Small Fry, Big Spender: McDonald's and the Rise of a Children's Consumer Culture, 1955-1985"
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

1993

Mychal P. Angelos
Lawyer, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Herakleia Trachinia in the Archidamian War"
Advisor: George Szemler

1992

John Zimmerman
Dissertation: "'Church-State Relations in Antebellum Illinois"
Advisor: John Reardon

1991

Michael Murphy
Dissertation: "'Gerry Fitt: Ulster Politician"
Advisor: Lawrence McCaffrey

Andrew Wilson
Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Irish-America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968-1985"
Advisor: Lawrence McCaffrey

Anie Sergis
Instructor, Alliance Française de Chicago, Chicago, IL; Part-Time Faculty, Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL; Adjunct Faculty, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'Education in France During World War II"
Advisor: Walter Gray

1990

Brian Griffin
Adjunct History Faculty, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: "'The Irish Police, 1836-1914: A Social History"
Advisor: Lawrence McCaffrey

1989

Eileen McMahon
Professor, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Dissertation: "What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations 
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg
Published as What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations (University of Kentucky, 1995).