Graduate Program
Dissertations in Progress
Frederick W. Gibbs, "Poison and Physicians in the late Middle Ages: A Study of Latin Poison Literature from 1300-1600." Advisor: Michael Shank.
Joshua Kundert, "Turning Coal into Black Gold: Synthetic Petroleum, Politics and the Nature of Oil." Advisor: Eric Schatzberg.
Matthew B. Lavine, "A Cultural History of Radiation In America, 1895-1945." Advisor: Richard Staley.
G. Blair Nelson, "The Science of the Unity and Antiquity of Humans in the American Religious Press, 1840-1880." Advisor: Ronald Numbers.
Andrew Ruis, "School Foodservice, Children’s Nutrition, and Public Health in Twentieth-Century America." Advisor: Judith Leavitt.
Stephen E. Wald, "Minds Divided: Science, Religion, and the Split Brain in American Thought." Advisor: Ronald Numbers.
Shannon Withycombe, "Bodies, Babies, and Blood: Meanings of Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America." Advisor: Judith Houck.