Dissertations Related to the History of Children and Youth

(compiled by Colleen A. Vasconcellos)

Recently Completed Dissertations

Gillispie, Linda, PhD.  "A Historical Analysis of Race on the Education of Black Children in Dayton, Ohio, During the Nineteenth Century."  University of Dayton, 2005.

Gopinath, Sumanth S., PhD. "Contraband Children: The Politics of Race and Liberation in the Music of Steve Reich, 1965-1966."  Yale University, 2005.

Green, Keith R., PhD.  "A Fairy Tale World: The Myth of Childhood in Imperial Germany."  University of Illinois-Chicago, 2005.

Hurlbut, Joanne E., PhD.  "Shaker Children:  Their Lives, Literatures and Literacies."  State University of New York-Albany, 2005.

O'Connor-Floman, Karen, PhD.  "The Naturalized Changeling in Victorian Literature of Childhood:  Fairy Raids on Realism."  The George Washington University, 2005.

Ringel, Paul, PhD.  "Conceiving Childhood:  Juvenile Magazines and the Acculturation of American Children, 1823-1918."  Brandeis University, 2005.

Rougeau, R. Nichole, PhD.  "Alice's Shadow:  Childhood and Agency in Lewis Carroll's Photography, Illustrations, and Alice Texts."  Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005.

Walsh, John Patrick, PhD.  "What Children Say:  Childhood in Francophone Literature of the French Antilles and North and West Africa."  Harvard University, 2005.

Wellen, Lauren A., EdD.  "The Influence of Lilian G. Katz on Early Childhood Education: An Oral History."  Northern Illinois University, 2005.

Wood, Elizabeth Jane, PhD.  "Objects Matter:  The Meaning of Objects from Childhood."  University of Minnesota, 2005.

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"

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"

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