PhDs Awarded 2007-2008

HAYES, John H. (MT, Duke) "Backwoods Prophets, Cornpone Mystics, and Peckerwood Poets of the Religious"; temporary instr., U Georgia

JUSTICE, George W (BA, U Georgia) “Conventional Wisdom: Georgia State Conventions and the American Transformation of Nationalism”; temporary instr., U Georgia

MAYSILLES, David Duncan  (JD, Duke) “Ducktown”

WAY, Albert G. (MA, U Mississippi) ""Burned to be Wild: Science, Society, and Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine""; temporary instr., U Georgia

WILLIAMS, Keira V. (MA, Tulane) "'In a Lake of Fire': Cultural Constructions of the Susan Smith Case, 1994-1995"; faculty, Loyola U

Dissertator: Breeding, Bruce
Advisor: Robert Pratt
Dissertation title: “'Right in the Eyes of God': Hoxie, Arkansas, and the First Defense of the Brown Decision”

Dissertator: Burkart, Carl P.
Advisor: James Cobb
Dissertation title: “Crossing the Color Line: Immigrants and Race in the Urban South”

Dissertator: Crowson, Amy
Advisor: Allan Kulikoff
Dissertation title: "Competing Convictions: Race, Class & Gender in Alabama Courtrooms, 1840-1865”

Dissertator: Engel, Mary Ella
Advisor: John Inscoe
Dissertation title: “ Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth Century Georgia”

Dissertator: Forts, Franklin
Advisor: James Cobb
Dissertation title: "Troubled Manhood: The Construction of African-American Masculinity, 1965-2000 ”

Dissertator: Gigantino, James
Advisor: Allan Kulikoff
Dissertation title:"The Garden of America:" Tracing Economics and Social Marginality in Revolutionary New Jersey"

Dissertator: Grem, Darren
Advisor: James Cobb
Dissertation title:"The Blessings of Business: Christian Entrepreneurs and the Politics and Culture of Sunbelt America"

Dissertator: Hill, John Paul
Advisor: James Cobb
Dissertation title: "Beyond the Smile: The Racial Views of A. B. "Happy" Chandler”

Dissertator: Holliman, Irene V.
Advisor: Bryant Simon
Dissertation title: “Urban Renewal in the 'City Too Busy': Transforming Downtown Atlanta, 1945-2000"

Dissertator: Holmes, William
Advisor: Bryant Simon
Dissertation title: “'The Great Equalizer’: Community and Divisions in Gay Birmingham, Alabama, 1962-99”

Dissertator: Huff, Christopher
Advisor: Robert Pratt
Dissertation title: "With a Rebel Yell: Social and Political Activism in Atlanta, 1960-1980"

Dissertator: Lenz, Gilbert
Advisor: David Roberts
Dissertation title: “A Hole in the New Order: Nazi Plans to Invade Switzerland during World War II”

Dissertator: Lin, Mao
Advisor: William Stueck
Dissertation title: “Guns and Butter: Sino-AMerican Relations and the Diplomacy of Modernization, 1966-1981”

Dissertator: Luckett, Robert
Advisor: Robert Pratt
Dissertation title: "Joe T. Patterson and the Mississippian's Dilemma”

Dissertator: Manganiello, Christopher
Advisor: Paul Sutter
Dissertation title: "Dam Crazy with Wild Consequences: Water Conservation in the Upper Savannah River Watershed, 1890-1990"

Dissertator: Miller, Leslie
Advisor: Kathleen Clark
Dissertation title: “The Power of the Privileged: The Model of the White Middle Class Family and the Education of American Children, 1820-1920”

Dissertator: Miyata, Ichiro
Advisor: Bryant Simon
Dissertation title:""Setting Atlanta in Motion" Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority and the Making and Unmaking of a Middle Class City, 1946-1996"

Dissertator: Myers, Barton
Advisor: John Inscoe
Dissertation title: "Controlling Chaos: Unionists, Military Policy, and Irregular Warfare in Confederate North Carolina"

Dissertator: Nash, Steven
Advisor: John Inscoe
Dissertation title: “ The Extremist Conditions of Humanity: Emancipation, Conflict, and Progress in Western North Carolina, 1865-1880”

Dissertator: Roady-Lawson, Jennifer
Advisor: Robert Pratt
Dissertation title: "Building Schools, Constructing Race, Resisting White Supremacy: Education in Leon County, Florida after Brown”

Dissertator: Shefsiek, Kenneth
Advisor: Allan Kulikoff
Dissertation title: "The Creation and Preservation of a Hudson Valley Community ”

Dissertator: Smith, Robert Neil
Advisor: James Cobb
Dissertation title: “Justice in Georgia in the 1920s”

Dissertator: Smith, Solomon K.
Advisor: Allan Kulikoff
Dissertation title: "“A profound secret in the breast of a very few:" The Emergence of Industrial Activities in the Chesapeake Region During the Eighteenth-Century"

Dissertator: Song, Min
Advisor: William Stueck
Dissertation title: "Economic Normalization: Sino-American Relations from 1971 to 1980”