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Society for the History of Children and Youth

Recently Completed Dissertations and Dissertations in Progress
Compiled by Colleen Vasconselles

Ahn, Junehui.  “'You're my friend today, but not tomorrow': Learning Middle-Class Sentiments and Emotions Among Young American Children.”  PhD, University of Michigan, 2007.  

Johnson, Karen J.  “Materializing Childhood: An Historical Archaeology of Children in Roman Egypt.”  PhD, University of Michigan, 2007.  

Bates, Rebecca.  “Cultivating the British Nation, Saving the English Laborer: A Study of Working-Class Childhood, Labor, and Philanthropy, 1830-1924.”  PhD, University of Kentucky, 2007.

Booth, Catherine Mary.  “Fairy Stars and the Mother Lode: Children as Aesthetic, Economic, and Sentimental Commodities in California Gold Rush Theatre.”  PhD, University of California-Urvine, 2007.

Gorshkov, Boris.  “Factory Children: Child Industrial Labor in Imperial Russia, 1780-1917.”  PhD, Auburn University, 2007.

Hull, Alice Paige Elizabeth.  “Lessons in Heritage: Southern Children Inherit the Lost Cause.”  PhD, University of Mississippi, 2007.

Jones, Catherine.  “Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Post Emancipation Virginia.”  PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007.

Jorae, Wendy.   “Children of Chinatown: Constructions of Race and Childhood in San Francisco's Early Chinatown, 1850-1920.”  PhD, University of California-Davis, 2007.

Michelmore, Mary Christina.  “Taxing State/Welfare State: How the Politics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the Federal Income Tax Shaped Modern America, 1960-80.”  PhD, University of Michigan, 2007.

Nardi, Patricia M.  “Mothers at Home: Their Role in Child-Rearing and Instruction in Early Modern Europe.”  PhD, City University of New York, 2007

Perez, Kimberly E.  “Fancy and Imagination: Cultivating Sympathy and Envisioning the Natural World for the Modern Child.”  PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2007.

Peters, Shawn.  “Like Jonestown in Slow Motion: Religion-Based Medical Neglect of Children and the Law.”  PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.

Petite, Patricia Kathryn.  “Cultural Values in Tribal Early Childhood.”  EdD, University of Minnesota, 2007.

Sribnick, Ethan G.  “Rehabilitating Child Welfare: Children and Public Policy, 1945-80.”  PhD, University of Virginia, 2007.

Webb, Daryl A.  “Milwaukee Children in the Great Depression.”  PhD, Marquette University, 2007.

Weikle-Mills, Courtney Anne.  “The Child Reader and American Literature, 1700-1852.”  PhD, The Ohio State University, 2007.

Dissertations In Progress

Dissertator:  Sheila Marie Aird, Howard University
Dissertation title: “The Forgotten Ones: Enslaved Children and the Formation of a Labor Force in the British West Indies”
Advisor: Selwyn H. H. Carrington

Dissertator: Elena Albarran, University of Arizona
Dissertation title: “Children of the Revolution: Constructing the Mexican Citizen, 1920-40”
Advisor: William Beezley

Dissertator: Jonathan Anuik, University of Saskatchewan
Dissertation title: “Métis Children and the Christian Educational Agenda--The Formation of a Métis Childhood in the West”
Advisor: James R. Miller

Dissertator: Megan E. Birk, Perdue University
Dissertation title: “Children in the Country: 19th-Century Solutions for Rural, Dependent Children”
Advisor: R. Douglas Hurt

Dissertator: Ellen Boucher, Columbia University
Dissertation title: “An Imperial Investment: British Child Emigration to Southern Rhodesia and Australia, 1900-67”
Advisor: Susan Pedersen

Dissertator: Amanda Brian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation title: “Bonds of Empire: Growing Children in the Kaiserreich, 1871-1918”
Advisor: Peter Fritzsche

Dissertator: Kathryn Bridge, Victoria University
Dissertation title: “A Whole New Voice: The Pioneer Child in Western Canada, 1849-1920”
Advisor: Lynne L. Marks

Dissertator: Tarah Brookfield, York University
Dissertation title: “'Our Deepest Concern Is for the Safety of our Children and Their Children': Maternal Solutions to Cold War Fears in Canada and Abroad, 1950-80”
Advisor: Kathryn McPherson

Dissertator: Michael Carriere, University of Chicago
Dissertation title: “'I Now Pronounce You Children of a New Age': Columbia University, Democracy, and Economy in New York City, 1960-98”
Advisor: Neil Harris

Dissertator: Daphne R. Chamberlain, University of Mississippi
Dissertation title: “'...And a Child Shall Lead the Way': Children’s Participation in the Jackson, Mississippi, Freedom Struggle, 1947-67"
Advisor: Charles K Ross 

Dissertator: Jessa Chupik, McMaster University
Dissertation title: “The Institutional Confinement of 'Idiot' Children in 20th-Century Canada: The Case of the Orillia Asylum, 1900-35”
Advisor: Kenneth Cruikshank

Dissertator: Caroline Collinson, The Ohio State University
Dissertation title: “'The Littlest Immigrants': Adoption, Migration, and Exploitation of Border Crossing Children in the Americas”
Advisor: Judy Tzu-chun Wu

Dissertator: Jia-Chen Fu, Yale University
Dissertation title: “Society's Laboratories: Mapping Children's Health in Republican China, 1928-49”
Advisor: Jonathan D. Spence

Dissertator: Kevin L. Gooding, Purdue University
Dissertation title: “For the Children’s Souls: Interdenominational Competition and the Religious Education of Children in Indiana, 1801-50”
Advisor: Franklin T. Lambert

Dissertator: Justus G. Hartzok, University of Iowa
Dissertation title: “Children of Chapaev: The Russian Civil War Cult and the Creation of Soviet Identity, 1918-82”
Advisor: Paula Michaels

Dissertator: Moira Hinderer, University of Chicago
Dissertation title: “Making African American Childhood: Chicago, 1890-1930”
Advisor: Julie Saville

Dissertator: Bryn Varley Hollenbeck, University of Delaware
Dissertation title: “Making Space for Children: The Material Culture of Childhood in America, 1890-1950”
Advisor: Ritchie Garrison

Dissertator: Daniel Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: “Children of African American Soldiers and German Women Post-World War II”
Advisor: None given 

Dissertator: Karen Lucas, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: “The Immigration of Unaccompanied Children to the U.S. between the End of the Civil War and the Immigration Restrictions of 1924 and 1925”
Advisor: None given 

Dissertator: Tanya Maus, University of ChicagoDissertation title: “Child Saving: Psychology, Poverty, and Juvenile Reform in Late Meiji and Early Taisho Japan, 1895-1920"
Advisors: Tetsuo Najita and James Ketelaar 

Dissertator: Helen E. McLure, Southern Methodist University
Dissertation title: “'I Suppose You Think Strange the Murder of Women and Children': White-Capping and Lynching in the American West, 1870-1930”
Advisor: Sherry L. Smith

Dissertator: Leslie Miller, University of Georgia
Dissertation title: “The Power of the Privileged: The Model of the White Middle Class Family and the Education of American Children, 1820–1920”
Advisor: Bryant Simon

Dissertator: Valerie H. Minnett, Carleton University
Dissertation title: “The Prescription and the Cure: Children’s Bodies and Ideal Health in Canada, 1908-50”
Advisor: James Opp

Dissertator: Joselyn C. Morley, Carleton University
Dissertation title: “'Mother Dead, Father Living, A Very Useless Man': Children in Need, the Protestant Orphan's Home, and Municipal Welfare in Ottawa, 1915-29”
Advisor: Dominique Marshall

Dissertator: Heidi Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation title: “The Development of the Concept of Childhood in Modern Egyptian History”
Advisor: Nancy E. Gallagher

Dissertator: Sarah Mulhall, The Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation title: “Treated as a Child Should Be: New York City Orphan Asylums and 19th-Century Conceptions of Childhood”
Advisor: Toby Ditz

Dissertator: Rachel Neiwert, University of Minnesota
Dissertation title: “Savages or Citizens? Children, Education, and the British Empire, 1899-1950”
Advisor: Anna K. Clark

Dissertator: Claire O'Brien, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale
Dissertation title: “'A Credit to Their Race': White Authors Look at African American Children, 1930-60”
Advisor: Kay J. Carr

Dissertator: Okezi Otovo, Georgetown University
Dissertation title: “Medicine, Maternity, and Modernization: Theories of Progress and Child-Rearing Institutions in Brazil, 1870-1940”
Advisor: Bryan McCann

Dissertator: N'Jai-An Patters, University of Minnesota
Dissertation title: “Deviants and Dissidents: Ideologies of Children's Sexuality, Boston, 1972-86”
Advisors: Elaine Tyler May and Kevin P. Murphy 

Dissertator: Lizbeth H. Piel, University of Hawai`i, Mânoa
Dissertation title: “Discovering the Mind of the Child: Modern Identity in Taisho Japan”
Advisor: Sharon A. Minichiello

Dissertator: Jessie B. Ramey, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation title: “Contested Childhood: Black and White Orphans, Poor Families, and Institutional Childcare in Pittsburgh, 1877-1939”
Advisor: Tera Hunter

Dissertator: Johanna Ransmeier, Yale University
Dissertation title: “'No Other Choice': The Sale of Women, Children, and Laborers in Late Qing and Republican China”
Advisor: Jonathan D. Spence

Dissertator: Andrew Ruis, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissertation title: “School Foodservice, Children's Nutrition, and Public Health in 20th-Century America”
Advisor: Judith W. Leavitt

Dissertator: Carrie T. Schultz, Boston College
Dissertation title: “'Let the Little Children Come to Me': Catholic Children's Moral Development in the United States, 1920-65”
Advisor: James O’Toole

Dissertator: Michal Shapira, Rutgers University
Dissertation title: “Subjects of Care: Reconstructing the Child and Psychology in War and Postwar Britain, 1940-60s”
Advisor: Bonnie G. Smith

Dissertator: Jennifer Sovde, Indiana University
Dissertation title: “Les enfants du paradis: Child Performers and Delinquency in the French Third Republic”
Advisor: Carl Ipsen

Dissertator: Laurel Spindel, University of Chicago
Dissertation title: “From Institution to Community: Changing Child-Caring Practices in Chicago, 1930-Present”
Advisor: William Novak
Dissertator: Andrew K. Sturtevant, College of William and Mary
Dissertation title: “Onontio's Children: French Detroit's Native Community”
Advisor: James L Axtell 

Dissertator: Jennifer Tappan, Columbia University
Dissertation title: “A Healthy Child Comes from a Healthy Mother: Mwanamugimu and Nutritional Science in Uganda, 1935-73”
Advisor: Marcia Wright

Dissertator: Alexis Tinsley, Brandeis University
Dissertation title: “Liberty’s Children: The Changing National Identity of Children in New England, 1700-1827”
Advisor: Jacqueline Jones

Dissertator: Rachel Villarreal, University of Arizona
Dissertation title: “Gladiolas for the Children of Sanchez: Revolutionary Rhetoric and Urban Renewal in Mexico City, 1946-68”
Advisor: William Beezley

Dissertator: Charles Wash, Howard University
Dissertation title: “Childhood in Brazil: Free and Enslaved Children in Salvador da Bahia, 1822-88”
Advisor: Selwyn H. H. Carrington

Dissertator: Kelly Whitmer, British Columbia University
Dissertation title: “The World of the Pietist Orphanage: Child-Centered Philanthropy, Science, and Schooling, 1680-1769”
Advisor: Christopher R. Friedrichs

Dissertator: Cassandra Woloschuk, Guelph University
Dissertation title: “Cities of Children: Pediatric Medicine in Canada, 1950-90”
Advisor: Catherine Carstair