News from the Field: Recent Dissertations and Dissertations in Progress

Recent Dissertations

Bryan, Derrel James, EdD. "A Legal and Historical Study of Parental Choice: Implications for Public Education." University of South Florida, 2004

de Schweinitz, Rebecca Lyn, PhD. "'If They Could Change the World': Children, Childhood, and African-American Civil Rights Politics."University of Virginia, 2004

Dzon, Mary Christine, PhD. "The Image of the Wanton Christ-Child in the Apocryphal Infancy Legends of Late Medieval England." University of Toronto, 2004

Hill, Janice M., PhD."Building a Nation of Nation-Builders: Youth Movements, Imperialism and English Canadian Nationalism, 1900-1920." York University, 2004

Huber, John B., EdD. "The Accessibility of American Catholic Secondary Schools to the Various Socioeconomic Sevels of Catholic Families in the 21st Century." University of San Francisco, 2004

Johansson, Kent Sven Patric, PhD. "Child Mortality During the Demographic Transition: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Rural Population in Southern Sweden, 1766-1894. "Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2004

Leppanen-Guerra, Analisa Pauline, PhD. "The Child Lost in the Garden of Time': Childhood and the Fourth Dimension in the Works of Joseph Cornel.l" University of California, Irvine, 2004

Lohmeyer, Jan W., PhD. "The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod School System: A Historical Perspective and Comparative Study." University of New Orleans, 2004

Mandell, Elisa C., PhD. "The Birth of Angels: Posthumous Portraits of Infants and Children in Mexican Art." University of California, Los Angeles, 2004

Mason, Frederick Daniel, PhD. "Straightening Children and Reconstructing Men: Medical Discourse on Physical Therapies and People with 'Disabilities,' 1885-1920." The University of Western Ontario, 2004

Nolan, Lucinda A., PhD. "Sophia Lyon Fahs: A Theology and Philosophy of Transformative Religious Education." Fordham University, 2004

Pearson, Susan J., PhD. "The Rights of the Defenseless': Animals, Children, and Sentimental Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century America. " The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Rybakova, Maria, PhD. "The Child-snatching Demons of Antiquity: Narrative Traditions, Psychology and Nachleben."  Yale University, 2004

Sheehan Mc Hugh, P. A., EdD. "A Sociocultural and Historical Exploration into Discourses of Discipline in Two Early Childhood Inclusive Classrooms. "State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004

Unger, Steven, DPA. "The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978: A Case Study." University of Southern California, 2004

Vasconcellos, Colleen A., PhD. "'And a Child Shall Lead Them?': Slavery, Childhood, and African Cultural Identity in Jamaica, 1750-1838." Florida International University, 2004

Wridt, Pamela J., PhD. "Childhoods in Place and Placeless Childhoods: An Historical Geography of Young People in Yorkville and East Harlem, 1940-2000." City University of New York, 2004

Dissertations in Progress

Aird, Sheila Marie.  Howard University, "The Forgotten Ones: Enslaved Children and the Formation of a Labor Force in the British West Indies"

Allen, Benjamin Mark.  University of Texas-Arlington, "'Children of the Sun': Spiritual Bridges along the Spanish Frontier, 1500-1820"

Anuik, Jonathan.  University of Saskatchewan, "Metis Children and the Christian Educational Agenda--The Formation of a Metis Childhood Identity in 19th-Century Northwest North America"

Audet, Caroline.  University of Arizona "Colonizing Children, Colonizing Families: Youth and Youth Organizations in Colonial Tunisia, 1918-40"

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

Birk, Megan E.  Purdue University "Children in the Country: 19th-Century Solutions for Rural, Dependent Children"

Brian, Amanda.  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Bonds of Empire: Growing Children in the Kaiserreich, 1871-1918"

Bullard, Katharine.   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Imperial Children: Race, Citizenship, and Child Welfare"

Carriere, Michael.  University of Chicago, "'I Now Pronounce You Children of a New Age': Columbia University, Democracy, and Economy in New York City, 1960-98"

Chalmers, Elizabeth.  University of Kentucky. "Children of the Occupation: French Children Living in German Occupied France during the First World War"

Chupik, Jessa.  McMaster University. "The Institutional Confinement of 'Idiot' Children in 20th-Century Canada: The Case of the Orillia Asylum, 1900-35"

Collinson, Caroline.  The Ohio State University "'The Littlest Immigrants': Adoption, Migration, and Exploitation of Border Crossing Children in the Americas"

Drixler, Fabian.  Harvard University. "Children of Fear: Population Policy and the End of the Low Fertility Regimes of Northern Japan, 1720-1920"

DuRocher, Kristina.  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Lessons in Black and White: Violence as an Education in Race, Gender, and Southern Identities for Children in Jim Crow South, 1880Ð1930"

Fu, Jia-Chen.  Yale University. "Society's Laboratories: Mapping Children's Health in Republican China, 1928-49"

Gallop, Rachel.  University of Minnesota. "Dirty Hippies, Earth Mothers, Love Children: California Counterculture in the Vietnam Era"

Gorshkov, Boris.  Auburn University "Factory Children: Child Industrial Labor in Imperial Russia, 1780-1917"

Green, Rachel.  University of Chicago. "'There will not be orphans among us!' Detdomovtsy, Foster Children, and Adoptees of the World War II Era"

Hartzok, Justus G.  University of Iowa/ "Children of Chapaev: The Russian Civil War Cult and the Creation of Soviet Identity, 1918-82"

Hinderer, Moira.  University of Chicago. "Making African American Childhood: Chicago, 1890-1930"

Jowers, Sandra.  Howard University."Ending the Educational Exile of Black Deaf Children in Washington: Miller v. District of Columbia Board of Education"

Kickler, Troy.  University of Tennessee. "Black Children, Northern Missionaries: The Freedmen's Bureau, and Southern Conservatives in Tennessee, 1965-70"

Lachaussee, Alice Hull.  University of Mississippi/ "Lessons in Heritage: Southern Children Inherit the Lost Cause"

Livschiz, Ann.  Stanford University. "Soviet Childhood as a Social, Cultural, and Political Institution, 1918-58"

May, Michele.  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "The Republic and Its Children: French Children's Literature, 1855-1900"

McKinley, Charles.  Brandeis University. "The Illegitimate Children of the Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 19th-Century French Anarchist Movement"

Miller, Leslie.  University of Georgia. "The Power of the Privileged: The Model of the White Middle Class Family and the Education of American Children, 1820-1920"

Morley, Joselyn C.  Carleton University. "'Mother Dead, Father Living, A Very Useless Man': Children in Need, the Protestant Orphan's Home, and Municipal Welfare in Ottawa, 1915-29"

Myers, Sharon.  New Brunswick. "The Governance of Childhood: The Discourse of State Formation and the New Brunswick Child Welfare Survey, 1927-30"

Ransmeier, Johanna.  Yale University, "'No Other Choice': The Sale of Women, Children, and Laborers in Late Qing and Republican China"

Ringel, Paul.  Brandeis University. "Conceiving Children: Children's Literature and the Shaping of American Cultures, 1865-1930"

Sribnick, Ethan.  University of Virginia. "The Transformation of Child Welfare: Children, Policy, and the State, 1945-80"

Stern, Gaius.  University of California, Berkeley ."Women, Children, and Senators Celebrating Pax Romana on the Ara Pacis"

Sundermann, Elisabeth.  University of California, Davis. "Identity Lessons: Nationalism and the Education of Schoolchildren in Postwar London"

Tinsley, Alexis.  Brandeis University."Liberty's Children: The Changing National Identity of Children in New England, 1700-1827"

Villarreal, Rachel.  University of Arizona. "Gladiolas for the Children of Sanchez: Revolutionary Rhetoric and Urban Renewal in Mexico City, 1946-68"

Wash, Charles.  Howard University. "Childhood in Brazil: Free and Enslaved Children in Salvador da Bahia, 1822-88"

Webb, Daryl A.  Marquette University. "Milwaukee Children in the Great Depression"