Jolivette Anderson-Douoning, PhD, Dissertation: "Mrs. Goldleana's Ledger: Louisiana Learning in Shreveport's Hollywood Neighborhood on Ledbetter Street 1945-1975" (Professor Jennifer Freeman Marshall)
Ryan Schnurr, PhD, Dissertation: "Where There's Smoke: Fire Narratives from the Long American Century" (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Melvin Villaver, PhD, Dissertation: "Harmonic Resurgence: Reclaiming the Godino Twins' Journey through Hip Hop" (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Spring 2023
Allison Paige Frazier, PhD, Dissertation: "Drag Cuisines: The Queer Ontology of Veganism" (Professor Bill Mullen)
Fall 2022
Ariel Smith, PhD, Dissertation: "Black Food Trucks Matter: A Qualitative Study Examining the (Mis)Representation, Underestimation, and Contribution of Black Entrepreneurs in the Food Truck Industry" (Professors Stephanie Masta and Rayvon Fouche)
Summer 2022
Maria Mears, PhD, Dissertation: "Mascots, Monuments, and Memorialization: The Collective Memory of Chief Illiniwek" (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Malik Raymond, PhD, Dissertation: "Reverence, Variance, Deviance, and Convergence in Black Women's Eco-Spiritualities" (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Megan Williams, PhD, Dissertation: "Vibrational Reprieves: Black Women's Soul Food Narratives as Aesthetic Sites of Erotic and Sexual Agency" (Professor Marlo David)
Spring 2022
Rachel Bonini, PhD, Dissertation: "Imagineered Imperial Tourism: Disney & U.S. Empire in Hawai'i" (Professor Monica Trieu)
Fall 2020
Virginia Pleasant, PhD, Dissertation: "There's More than Corn in Indiana: Smallholder and Alternative Farmers as a Locus of Resilience" (Professor Laura Zanotti)
Summer 2020
Stephen Horrocks, PhD, Dissertation: "Insulin Pump Use and Type 1 Diabetes: Connecting Bodies, Identities, and Technologies" (Professor Sharra Vostral)
Annagul Yaryyeva, PhD, Dissertation: "Russian Immigrants: Transnationalism in the Context of U.S.-Russia Relations Since 2014" (Professor Bill Mullen)
Fall 2019
Jingyi Liu, PhD, Dissertation: "Storytelling and the National Security State of America: Korean War Stories from Cold War to Post-911" (Professor Bill Mullen)
Keturah Nix, PhD, Dissertation: "Is the Veil On or Off?: Uncovering America's Racial Tensions Through the Symbolization of Booker T. Washington." (Professor Venetria Patton)
Summer 2019
Olon Dotson, PhD, Dissertation: "Fourth World Nation: A Critical Geography of Decline." (Professor Bill Mullen)
Spring 2019
Katje Armentrout, PhD, Dissertation: "Notes on the State of American Agriculture: Young Farmers and "The Farm" After the 1980 Farm Crisis." (Professor Sharra Vostral)
Esmé Barniskis, MA (Professor Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler)
Christpher Munt, PhD, Dissertation: "A Century in the Baths": Allan Berube, Spatial Politics and the History of Gay Bathhouses in the United States" (Professor Marlo David)
Pamela Sari, PhD, Dissertation: "Politics of the (Most) High: Transnational Networks between Gospel of the Kingdom Megachurch (Indonesian Mennonite Synod) in Central Java, Indonesia and Pentecostal/Charismatic Institutions in the United States" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Jennifer Sdunzik, PhD, Dissertation: "Mapping Whiteness: Uncovering the Legacy of All-White Towns in Indiana" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Arslan Jumaniyazov, PhD, Dissertation: "Americans Discover Central Asia: Russian Studies, Sovietology, and Orientalism." (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Hana C. Lee, PhD, Dissertation: "Re-examining the ‘Heartland’: Korean American religious and ethnic identity formations in the Midwest" (Professors Susan Curtis and Monica Trieu)
Abby L. Stephens, PhD, Dissertation: "Unusual Archives and Unconventional Autobiographies: Interpreting the experience of Rural Iowa Women, 1940-1985" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Summer 2018
Michelle E. Carreon, PhD, Dissertation: "A Solidarity Economy on the Border: Examining Historical and Contemporary Case Studies in El Paso, Texas as De Facto Contributors to a U.S.-based Movement" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Jaimalene J. Hough, PhD, Dissertation: "Virgin Land: Young Women and Sexual Citizenship in the Contemporary United States" (Professor Sharra Vostral)
Ping Qui, PhD, Dissertation: "Contested 'Chineseness' in Transnational Narratives: Works by Post-1979 Chinese/American Immigrant Writers Ha Jin and Geling Yan" (Professor Bill Mullen)
Spring 2018
Jonathan R. Freeman, PhD, Dissertation: "Artists and Activism: Black Voices of Resistance and the Cultural Boycott of South Africa." (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Leon, Rocio: MA (Professor Monica Trieu)
Bethany A. Scettrini, MA (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Fall 2017
Kera N. Lovell, PhD, Dissertation: "Radical Manifest Destiny: Mapping Power over Urban Green Space in the Age of Protest, 1968-1988" (Professor Nancy Gabin)
Summer 2017
Lisa Young, PhD, Dissertation: "Lethal Housing: Reading Restrictive Covenants and Urban Black Women's Grassroots Health Activism, 1930-1980" (Professor Venetria Patton)
Spring 2017
Andrea Y. Adomako, MA (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Salvador Peraza Gutierrez, MA (Professors Dawn Marsh and Shannon McMullen)
Aria Halliday, PhD, Dissertation: "Fashioning Black Barbies, Princesses, and Sexual Expression for Black Girls: The Multivisuality of Nicki Minaj" (Professors Rayvon Fouche and Shannon McMullen)
Michelle Lee, MA (Professor Monica Trieu)
Megan M. Williams, MA (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Summer 2016
Arthur Banton, PhD, Dissertation: "Running for Integration: CCNY, and the promise of interracial cooperation through Basketball." (Professor Susan Curtis)
Lisa M. Beringer, PhD, Dissertation: "The Invisible Man Paradox" (Professor John Duvall)
Maureen L. Marsh, PhD, Dissertation: "Knitting Rebellion" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Aubrey M. Thamann, PhD, Dissertation: "Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Study of Funeral Directors in Indiana" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Spring 2016
Sascha Angermann, MA (Professor Bill Mullen)
Rachel E. Bonini, MA (Professor Christian Knoeller)
Fall 2015
Stephanie A. Allen, PhD, Dissertation:"Marginal & Forbidden: Black Lesbians, Contemporary American Culture, & the Politics of Representation" (Professors Venetria Patton and Bill Mullen)
Kathryn E. Hamm, MA (Professor Susan Curtis)
Walter G. Moore, PhD, Dissertation: "This is Not a Dissertation: (Neo) Neo-Bohemian Connections" (Professor Lance Duerfahrd)
Spring 2015
Eliot R. Blackburn, MA (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Heather C. Moore, PhD, Dissertation: "I'm The One You Need to be Worried About": The Archetypal Representations of Black Male Students" (Professor Anne Knupfer)
Antonio T. Ramos, MA (Professor Alfred Lopez)
Mindy H. Tan, PhD, Dissertation: "Canvas Politics: Norman Lewis and the Art of Abstract Resistance" (Professor Leonard Harris)
Fall 2014
Jessica E. Birch, PhD, Dissertation: "Blood, Tears, and Sweat: An Intersectional Excavation of the Literary Vampire in Neoliberal Discourse" (Professor Bill Mullen)
Kapri P. Krowley, MA (Professor Rayvon Fouche)
Jingyi Liu, MA (Professor Bill Mullen)
Chelsea M. Stripe, PhD, Dissertation: "Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation" (Professor Bill Mullen)
Spring 2014
Jenean Cox, MA (Professors Mangala Subramaniam and Monica Trieu)
Shivohn N. Garcia, PhD, Dissertation: "Fiddling About: The Life and Love of Pura Teresa Belpre and Clarence Cameron White" (Professor Susan Curtis)
Aria S. Halliday, MA (Professor Venetria Patton)
Stephen K. Horrocks, MA (Professor Bill Mullen)
Maria Daniela Z. Jimenez, MA (Professor Bill Mullen)
