Ph.D. Recipients

2010-2017

2017

Ally Castillo, “Constructing Race: The Catholic Church and the Evolution of Racial Categories and Gender in Colonial Mexico, 1521-1700.”
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Brett Olmstead, “Los Mexicanos de Michigan: Claiming Space and Creating Community Through Leisure and Labor, 1920-1970.”
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Humble ISD
Sandra Davidson, “Propaganda, Pressure, and Patriotism: The Texas Council of Defense and the Politics of Gender, Race, and Class during World War I.”
Advisor: Nancy Young

2016

Sandra Enriquez, "El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!': Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas."
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: University of Missouri, Kansas City
Katie Streit, "Beyond Borders: A History of Mobility, Labor and Imperialism in Southern Tanzania."
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Jeffrey Womack, "Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy. 1895-1925."
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Andrew Joseph Pegoda, "If You Do Not Like The Past, Change It: The Real Civil Rights Revolution, Historical Memory, and the Making of Utopian Pasts."
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: The University of Houston
Julie Sarpy, "Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders and the Case for Feudal Constraint."
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Tracy Butler, "Selling Mexico: Race, Gender & American Influence in Cancun, 1970-2000."
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: University of Houston
Benjamin Hoffman, "A College for the Community? : A Comparison of the Histories of an Urban (San Antonio College) and Rural (Navarro College) Community College in Texas."
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Allison Hughes-Robinson, "Troubling Gender: Southern Women, State Carceral Policy, and the Myth of the Pedestal."
Advisor: Nancy Young
Current Position: Houston Community College
Savannah Williamson, "Caring for Human Property: A Medical Biography of American Slavery, 1808-1865."
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Stephen F. Austin State University
Frances Ann Marcinkiewicz-Joseph, "Demetrius I of Bactria: An Analysis of Hellenistic Royal Power Through Numismatic Evidence"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Texas Womens University
Carlos Cantu, "Miguel Self-Determined Education and Community Activism: A Comparative History of Navajo, Chicana/o, and Puerto Rican Institutions of Higher Education in the Era of Protest."
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
John Huntington, "Right-Wing Paranoid Blues: The Role of Radicalism in Modern Conservatism."
Advisor: Nancy Young
Current Position: Houston Community College
Juan Galvan Rodriguez, "Historical Memory, Proto-Nationalism, And Nationalism in Mexico: Southwestern Puebla From 1519 To 1862"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Christopher Haight, "From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement."
Advisor: Nancy Young
Current Position: Houston Community College

2011

Alberto Rodriguez,“The Making of the Modern Lower Rio Grande Valley: Situating and Reframing Race, Class, Ethnicity in Urbanizing South Texas, 1930-1960.”
Advisors: Raul Ramos & Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M Kingsville

2010

John M. Barr, “The Anti-Lincoln Tradition in American Life.”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lone Star College
F. James Bingley, Jr., “Becoming American: The Welsh Mormon Journey.”
Advisor: Karl Ittman
Holle Canatella, “Scripsit amica manus: Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in England and France, ca. 1050-1200”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lock Haven University
Courtney DeMayo, “The Cathedral School at Reims and the Early Capetian State, 969-1031”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University
Lauran Kerr-Heraly, “Race, Gender and African American Women Doctors in the Twentieth Century”
Advisor: James Schafer
Current Position: Teacher of History and Gender Studies, TASIS The American School in England
Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss,"Down and Out in Old JD: Urban Public Hospitals, Institutional Stigma and Medical Indigence in the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Sarah Fishman and Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
Current Position: History Learning Strategies Instructor, University of Houston-Downtown
Timothy O'Brien, “Sam Lightnin' Hopkins: Houston Bluesman, 1912-1960.”
Advisor: Linda L. Reed
Gregory Peek, “Upland Southerners, Indiana Political Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Benjamin Pugno, "The integration of classical medicine with Christian conversion and monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Columbus State Community College

2000-2009

2009

Clifton Caskey, “Building Hilter’s Jets: Using Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies to Examine a Branch of the Nazi Armaments.”
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Daniel Donalson, “Prosecuting The Sedition Act in Texas 1918-1921.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt
Felipe Hinojosa, Making Noise Among The "Quiet In The Land": Mexican Americans And Puerto Rican Ethno-Religious Identity In The Mennonite Church, 1932-1982.
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Texas A & M University at College Station
Theresa Jack, "It's Hell In A Texas Pen" Life And labor In The Texas Prison System, 1849-1929.”
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Phillip Sinitiere, “The Sad Tendency of Division And Contention In Churches: Church Schism, Ecclesiastical Discord, And Clergy Dismissal In Colonial New England”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Publications: with Shayne Lee, ed. Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (New York University Press, 2009)
Teresa Tomkins-Walsh, “A Concrete River Had To Be Wrong: Environmental Standing On Houston's Bayou's 1935-1999.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi
David Urbano, “When The Smoke Lifted: The 1857-1858 ‘Cart War' of South Texas."
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel

2008

Tahseen Ali,“Revolutionary Violence & Subversion: Reexamining the Role of Subhas Chandra Bose & armed Struggle Against The British Raj in India.”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann.
Current Position: Adjunct, Houston Community College and the University of Houston.
Gary B. Bryant,“Working Women in the Confederate South: White Southern Women in the Paid Labor Force during the Civil War.”
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, Houston Community College
Graham Cox, "What Irony! Nuremberg and the Negro Problem."
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Adjunct University of Houston and Houston Community College.
Christina Edelen,“Music and Morality in Seventeenth Century England.”
Advisor: Cathy Patterson.
Current Position: Professional Musician, The Netherlands.
Jesse Esparza, “Schools of Their Own: The San Felipe Independent School District and Mexican American Educational Autonomy, Del Rio, Texas, 1928-1972”
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas State University
Trinidad Gonzales,“The World of Mexico Texanos, Mexicanos and Mexico Americanos: Transnational and National Identities In The Lower Rio Grande Valley During The Last Phase of United States Colonization, 1900 to 1930.”
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Assistant Professor, South Texas College
Isaac Hampton,“The Journey of African American Officers Through The Vietnam Era.”
Advisors: Robert Buzzanco and Gerald Horne.
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University.
Joe Janssens,“Maneuver Warfare & Military Economy In The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Amy O'Neal,“Pragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation, Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles."
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Current Position: Director of Assessment and Accreditation Services, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston
Robert Thompson,“Soil and Slaves: An Environmental History of Northeastern North Carolina, 1584-1860.”
Advisor: Kathleen Brosnan.
Current Position: Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of American Environmental History.

2007

LaGuana Gray, “They Just Keep Running the Line": Southern Black Women in the Poultry Processing Industry, 1960-2006.”
Advisor: Landon Storrs.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Texas--San Antonio.
Katy Lopez, “The Cougar Revolution.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Position: Assistant Curator of Education, Blaffer Gallery, UH
Publications: Cougars of Any Color (McFarland Publishing, 2008).
Chris Smith, “American Rebels: Soldier Protest in the Early American Military, 1754- 1815.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Adjunct, Houston Community College.

2006

Douglas Bryson, “Chihuahua, the United States, and the Origins of a Revolution.”
Advisor: John Hart.
Current Position: Teacher, Austin High School.
Sonia Hernandez, “Mexicanos and Mexicanas in a Transitional Borderland, 1880-1940.”
Advisor: John Hart.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station
Thomas McKinney, “Superhighway Deluxe: Houston's Gulf Freeway.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Research Historian, HRA Gray & Pape, LLC.
Angela Murphy, “Abolition, Irish Freedom, and Immigrant Citizenship: American Slavery and the Rise and Fall of the American Associations for Irish Repeal.”
Advisor: Richard Blackett.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas State University.
Courtney Shah, "’This Loathsome Subject’: Sex Education in Progressive-Era America.”
Advisor: Landon Storrs.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lower Columbia College.
Publications: Revising manuscript for publication.
Beverly Tomek, “Seeking a Manageable Population: Limitation, Colonization, and Black Resistance in Pennsylvania’s Antislavery Movement.”
Advisor: Richard Blackett.
Current Position: Instructor, University of Houston-Victoria.
Publications: Manuscript under consideration for publication, New York University Press.
Roy Vu, “Rising from the Cold War Ashes: Construction of a Vietnamese American Community in Houston, 1975-2005.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Position: Professor, North Lake College, Liberal Arts Division.
Publications: Revising manuscript for publication.

2005

Jay Casey, “U.S. Military Cartoonists in World Wars I and II.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Postion: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas–Fort Smith.
Publications: Revising manuscript for publication.
Ellen Rogan Brunet, “St. Dunstan's Political Career.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Current Position: Instructor, Houston Community College.
Douglas Erwing, “Federalism and the U.S. Constitution.”
Advisor: Robert Palmer.
Current Position: Attorney-at-Law
Ronald Traylor, “Barrett Station, Texas: A Reflection of the Black Experience in Texas.”
Advisor: Eric Walther.
Current Position: Instructor, Department of History, Southeast Louisiana University.

2004

James Carter, “Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Making in Southeast Asia.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Drew University .
Publications: Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Jan Crenshaw, “Special Sanctuary in Medieval England.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Current Position: Head Librarian, San Jacinto College, North Library.
Christos Frentzos, “From Seoul to Saigon: U.S.-South Korea Relations and the Vietnam War.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Austin Peay University.
Publications: Revising manuscript for publication.
Hyun Ran Kim, “The Origins of Queen Elizabeth I’s Celibacy and Political Strategies: Experience, Education, and Tactics.”
Advisor: Catherine Patterson
Current Position: Instructor, English and History, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Lori Lehtola, “King Aethelstan: ‘Rightwys Kyng Borne of All Englond’.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Current Position: Adjunct, University of St. Thomas.
Ron Milam, “Not a Gentleman’s War: Junior Officers in the Vietnam War.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University.
Publications: Revising manuscript for publication.
Kimberley Weathers, “Fitting an Elephant through a Keyhole: America’s Struggle with National Health Insurance in the Twentieth Century.”
Advisor: James Jones.
Current Position: Online instructor, University of Maryland, University College.

2003

Donald Connelly, “Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Joint & Multinational Operations, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.
Publications: Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Barbara Hayward, “Winning the Race: Education of Texas Freedmen Immediately after the Civil War.”
Advisor: Eric Walther.
Current Position: Professor of History, Tomball College.
John Kearney, “El Hombre de Hechos, Porfirio Diaz and the Rise of the Mexican Liberal State: War, Development and Globalization in the First Mexican Century.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Instructor, Lonestar College
Irving Levinson, “Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American.
Publications: Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848 (Texas Christian University Press, 2005).
Diane Martin, “The Crown’s Policy against Papal Provisions in the Reign of Richard II: The Statutes of Provisors and Premunire, 1377-1394.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Houston Baptist University.
Jaime Olivares, “The Creation of a Labor Aristocracy: The History of the Oil Workers in Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1925-1948.”
Advisor: Thomas O’Brien.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College--Central.

2002

Joyce Kievit, “Trail of Tears to Veil of Tears: The Impact of Removal on Reconstruction in Indian Territory.”
Advisor: Steven Mintz.
Current Position: Director, H-AmIndian, Arizona State University.
Charles Closman, “Modernizing the Water: Pollution and the Commercial Tradition in Hamburg, Germany, 1900-1961.”
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of North Florida.
Publications: Revising manuscript for publication.
Patricia Torpis, “In the House of Godwine: A Study in Eleventh-Century Personality and the Pursuit of Power.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Current Position: Adjunct, University of St. Thomas.

2001

Austin Allen, “Containing Slavery, Imposing Sovereignty: Federalism, Corporate Law, and the Origins of the Dred Scott Case.”
Advisor: Robert Palmer.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Houston--Downtown.
Publications: Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857 (University of Georgia Press, 2006).
Pamela Conn, “Losing Hearts and Minds: U.S. Pacification Efforts in Vietnam during the Johnson Years.”
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco.
Current Position: Chair, Social Studies, Cypress Creek High School
Joseph Douglas, “An Environmental History of American Caves, 1660-1900.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Professor, Volunteer State Community College.
Bernadette Pruitt, “’For the Advancement of the Race’: African-American Migration and Community-Building in Houston, 1914-1945.”
Advisor: Linda Reed.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University.
Julia Sloan, “The 1968 Student Movement and the Crisis of Mexico’s Institutionalized Revolution.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Cazenovia College.
Sethuraman Srinivasan, “The Struggle for Control: Technology and Organized Labor in Gulf Coast Refineries, 1913-1973.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Professor, Tomball College.

2000

Elizabeth ‘Scout’ Blum, “Pink and Green: A Comparative Study of Black and White Women’s Urban Environmental Activism in the Twentieth Century.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Troy University.
Publications: Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (University of Kansas Press, 2008).
Rebecca Durrer, “Changing British Imperial Ideology: Edward G. Wakefield and the Colonization of New Zealand.”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Faculty, The Oakwood School, Hollywood, California.
Leigh Fought, “The Conservative Force: Louisa S. McCord, Slavery, and Antebellum Southern Womanhood, 1810-1879.”
Advisor: Richard Blackett.
Current Position: Assistant Editor, US Grant Papers.
Publications: Southern Womanhood and Slavery (University of Missouri Press, 2003).
Steven Prewitt, “’We Didn’t Ask to Come to This Party’: Self-Determination Collides with the Federal Government in the Public Schools of Del Rio, Texas, 1890-1971.”
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel.
Current Position: Professor, Tomball College.
Jan Rosin, “Sovereignty and Civil Rights: The Burger Supreme Court and Alien Access.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Darryl Stevens, "The Menaul School: a Study of Cultural Convergence."
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel.
Daniel Walker, “Cultures of Control/Cultures of Resistance: Slave Society in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and Havana.”
Advisor: Susan Kellogg.
Current Position: Director, Center for Public History and the Arts, Riverside, California.
Publications: No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Priscilla Watkins, “Caen and the Expansion of Ducal Power in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Normandy: The Formation of an Urban Community.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Current Position: Adjunct, Houston Community College.
Publications: Manuscript accepted for publication by Brepols Press, Belgium, titled Saint Etienne of Caen: A Monastic Community in an Urban Environment: Its Social, Political, and Economic Context, 1063-1204.

1990-1999

1999

Michael Botson, “The Labor History of Houston’s Hughes Tool Company, 1901-1964: From Autocracy and Jim Crow to Industrial Democracy and Civil Rights.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Northwest.
Publications: Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company (Texas A&M University Press, 2005), won Fehrenbach Prize for Texas History.
Victoria Pasley, “Gender, Race, and Class in Urban Trinidad: Representations in the Construction and Maintenance of the Gender Order, 1950-1980.”
Advisor: Thomas O’Brien.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Clayton State University.
Publications: Manuscript under review.
Dwight Watson, “A Change Did Come: The Transformation of the Houston Police Department, 1930-1984.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Texas State University.
Publications: Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come (Texas A&M University Press, 2006).

1998

Gisela Ables, “Changing Images of the Arab World in the American Popular Mind.”
Advisor: Garth Jowett (School of Communication)
Current Position: Chair, Houston Community College-Northwest
Krisztina Robert, “Gendering Class, Patriotism, and Militarism: The Women’s Corps Movement in Britain during and after World War I.”
Advisor: Karl Ittmann.
Current Position: Lecturer, Roehampton University, London

1997

Bruce Beauboeuf, “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: W.S. Security, Oil Politics, and Petroleum Reserve Policies in the Twentieth Century.”
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Publications: Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U. S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005 (Texas A&M University Press, 2007).
Mark Carroll, “Families, Sex, and the Law in Frontier Texas.”
Advisor: Robert Palmer.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia Publications: Homesteads Ungovernable (University of Texas Press, 2001).
J. Kent McGaughy, “A Faction of One: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, 1732-1794.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Northwest. Publications: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Alissa Petrovich, “Revisioning Colbert: Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the Origins of French Global Imperial Policy, 1661-1683.”
Advisor: Bailey Stone.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Brazosport College.
Charles Robinson II, “The Antimiscegenation Conversation: Love’s Legislated Limits.”
Advisor: Steven Mintz.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Arkansas. Publications: Dangerous Liasons, published by University of Arkansas Press, 2003.
Paul Spellman, “Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Current Position: Division Chair, Communications and Fine Arts, Wharton County Junior College.
Publications: Forgotten Texas Leader: Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); Spindletop Boom Days (Texas A&M University Press, 2001); Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger (University of North Texas Press, 2003); Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger (University of North Texas Press, 2007).

1996

Jonathan Hook, “Ethnic Dynamism: Cultural Transition in the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Director of the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Dallas, Texas.
Publications: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians (Texas A&M University Press, 1997).
Melissa Hovsepian, “Considering the Other: The Effects of Otherness on the Processes of Contact, Conquest, and Cultural Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples.”
Advisor: Loyd Swenson.
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Houston--Downtown.
Ernest Obadele-Starks, “The Road to Jericho: Black Workers, the Fair Employment Practice Commission, and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1941-1947.”
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Texas A&M University.
Publications: Black Unionism in the Industrial South (Texas A&M University Press, 2000); Freebooters and Smugglers: Advancing the Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808 (University of Arkansas Press, 2007).
Amilcar Shabazz, “The Opening of the Southern Mind: The Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas, 1865-1965.”
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Associate Professor and Director of African-American Studies Program University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Publications: Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas (The University of North Carolina Press, 2004), won Fehrenbach Prize for Texas History.
Andrew Walmsley, “Thomas Hutchinson and the Decline of Royal Government in Massachusetts.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College--Central.
Publications: Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (New York University Press, 2000).

1995

Theresa McGinley, “A Cry for Human Rights: The Polish Displaced Persons Problem and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1951.”
Advisor: Kenneth Lipartito.
Current Position: Professor, Lone Star College--North Harris.
Publications: Published 25th anniversary history of North Harris County Community College
Michael Rice, “Nicaragua and the U.S.: Policy Confrontations and Cultural Interactions, 1893-1933.”
Advisor: Thomas O’Brien
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer, Western Carolina State University.
Cristina Rivera-Garza, “Bodies, Power, and Modernity in Mexico, 1867-1930.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Professor, Creative Writing, University of California—San Diego
Publications: Her collection of short stories, La guerra no importa (The War Doesn't Matter) won the National Prize in Mexico in 1987. Her first novel, Desconocer (Forgetting) was a finalist for the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1994.
Mark Saka, “Peasant Nationalism and Social Unrest in the Mexican Huasteca, 1848-1884.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart. Associate Professor, Sul Ross State University.
Jean Truax, ”The Making of the King, 1135: Gender. Family, and Custom in the Anglo-Norman Succession Crisis.”
Advisor: Sally Vaughn.
Publications: Submitting manuscript for publication

1994

Theo Billings,“The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.”
Advisor: John Ettling.
Karen Guenther, “A Quaker Community of the Pennsylvania Frontier: Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1737-1789.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor of History and Chair, Mansfield University.
Publications: Sports in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Historical Society, 2007).
Rememb'ring Our Time And Work Is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier (Susquehanna Univ. Press, 2005).
Tom Hughes, “The Other Air War: Elwood ‘Pete’ Quesasa and American Tactical Air Power in World War II Europe.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, U.S. Air University, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.
Publications: Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II (Free Press, 1995).
Betsy Powers, “From Cotton Fields to Oil Fields: Economic Development in a New South Community.”
Advisor: Cheryl Cody.
Current Position: Professor, Montgomery College.
Michael Wilson, “Historical Interpretations of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.”
Advisor: Bailey Stone
Current Position: Professor, Department of History, Maricopa Community College--Phoenix
William Kellar, “Make Haste Slowly: A History of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas.”
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Adjunct, University of Houston.
Publications: Make Haste Slowly (Texas A&M University Press, 1999).

1993

Elizabeth O’Kane Lipartito, “The Misfortunes and Calamities of War: Civilians and Society in the American Revolution and After, 1775-1830.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, Florida International University.
Mark Steiner, “Abraham Lincoln and the Antebellum Legal Profession.”
Advisor: Robert Palmer.
Current Position: Professor, South Texas College of Law.
Publications: An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (Northern Illinois Press, 2006).
Ime Ukpanah, “Yearning to be Free: Inkundla ya Bantu [Bantu Forum] as Mirror and Mediator of the African Nationalist Struggle in South Africa, 1938-1951.”
Advisor: Les Switzer (School of Communication).
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University--West Campus.
Publications: The Long Road to Freedom (Africa World Press, 2005).

1992

Terry L. Rugeley, “Origins of the Caste War: A Social History of Rural Yucatan, 1800-1847.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Presidential Professor of History, University of Oklahoma (2008 recipient of the Regents Award for Superior Research).
Publications: Yucatan's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of Caste War (University of Texas Press, 1996); Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion & Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (University of Texas Press, 2001); Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century Yucatan (University of Oklahoma Press, 2001); Alone in Mexico: The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848 (University of Alabama Press, 2007); Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800-1880 (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Russell Alan Vardell, “Striving to Gather the Scattered: The Texas-Louisiana Synod and Its Predecessor Bodies.”
Advisor: Gerald J. Goodwin.
Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, Tarrant County College.

1991

Zhigong Ho, “Across the Pacific: American Pragmatism in China, 1917-1937.”
Hal Terry Shelton, “From Redcoat to Rebel: General Richard Montgomery in the American Revolution.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, San Jacinto College.
Publications: General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel (New York University Press, 1996).

1990

Christopher Castaneda, “Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipeline and the Competition for Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954.”
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Current Position: Professor and Chair, California State University--Sacramento.
Publications: Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipelines and Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954 (The Ohio State University Press, 1993); Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Co-authored with Clarance M. Smith; Builders: Herman and George R. Brown (Texas A&M University Press, 1998), co-authored with Joseph A. Pratt; Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000 (Twayne Publishers, 1999); Keeping the Promise: A History of the California Department of Justice (California Dept. of Justice, 2006).
Norman Caulfield, “Conflict and Accommodation: Mexican Labor and the State in the Twentieth Century.”
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Professor, Fort Hays State University.
Publications: Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA (Texas Christian University Press, 1998).
Norma Chudleigh, “James L. Autry: Hero without War.”
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Current Position: Genealogy consultant.
Ellin Jimmerson, “The Social Artist and the Picture Book Medium: 20th Century American Career Biographies.”
Advisor: Hyland Packard.
James McCaffrey, “Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Postion: Professor, University of Houston-Downtown.
Publications: Army of Manifest Destiny (New York University Press, 1994); This Band of Heroes: Granbury’s Texas Brigade, CSA (Texas A&M University Press, 1996); Wake Island Pilot (Potomac Books, 2005); The Army in Transformation, 1790-1860 (Greenwood Press, 2006).
James Patterson, “The Houston-Galveston Area Council: A Regional History of Intergovernmental Cooperation.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Southeast.

1980-1989

1989

Bruce A. Olson, “The Houston Light Guards: Elite Cohesion and Social Order in the New South, 1873-1940.”
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Position: Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Del Mar College.

1988

James Aldridge, “A Study of the Conflict between Private and Public Power Interests in Louisiana, 1950-1980.”
Advisor: Joseph A. Pratt.
Ibrahim Alsaeed, “The Origins and Meaning of America’s Special Relationship with Israel.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Myra Dorris Collie Hall, “Laura V. Hamner: A Woman before Her Time.”
Advisor: James Tinsley.
Sam W. Haynes, “The Somervel and Mier Expeditions: The Political and Diplomatic Consequences of Frontier Adventurism in the Texas Republic, 1842-1844.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Texas-Arlington.
Publications: Soldiers of Misfortune (University of Texas Press, 1997); James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse (Longman, 2001); and The Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in the British World (University of Virginia Press, 2010).
Mahmudul Huque, "Quest for Stability: The United States and Its Relations with India and Pakistan, 1947-1971."
Current Position: Professor, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Publications: The Role of the USA in the India Pakistan Conflict, 1947-71 (Academic Publishers, 1992); and History of the Subcontinent and Bengal, 1526-1947 (Ghazipur: Bangladesh Open University, 2002). [co-authored text in Bangla]
Marilyn Dubberley Rhinehart, “A Way of Work and a Way of Life: Coal Mining and Coal Miners in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926.”
Advisor: John O. King
Current Position: Vice President of Instruction, Johnson County Community College
Publications: A Way of Work and A Way of Life: Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926, ( Texas A&M Press, 1992).

1987

Priscilla Myers-Benham, “Texas City: Port of Industrial Opportunity.”
Advisor: Martin Melosi.

1986

Melodie Andrews, “’Myrmidons from Abroad’: The Role of the German Mercenary in the Coming of American Independence.”
Advisor: Robert V. Haynes.
Current Position: Professor, Minnesota State University at Mankato.

1985

Robert N. Schwartz, “U.S. Diplomatic Relations with Latin America, 1945-1960: The Unsettling Dichotomies of Security and Development.”
Advisor: Stanley Siegal
James B. Sullivan, “The Philosopher James K. Beibleman and American Civilization.”
Advisor: Loyd Swenson.

1984

Howard Beeth, “Outside Agitators in Southern History: The Society of Friends,1650-1800.”
Advisor: Gerald Goodwin.
Current Position: Professor of History, Texas Southern University Co-author Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (Texas A&M University Press, 1992).
Larry Cable, “Conflict of Myths: The Development of U.S. Counter-Insurgency Doctrine and the Roots of the Vietnamese Commitment, 1899-1965.”
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Past Position: University of North Carolina-Wilmington [Resigned]
Publications: Conflict of Myths (New York University Press, 1985); Unholy Grail (Routledge, 1991).
Allen R. Vogt, “’An Honest Fanatic’: The Images of the Abolitionist in the Antebellum and Historical Minds.”
Advisor: Edwin A. Miles.

1983

Diane L Heafer, “An Historiographical Study Of the Taney Court and the Dred Scott Decision.”
Advisor: Richard D. Younger.

1982

Marta Sue Zulauf, “Through the Sipapu: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Mesa Verde Anasazi.”
Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.

1980

Charles O. Cook, “Arkansas’s Charles Hillman Brough, 1876-1935: An Interpretation.”
Advisor: Allen Going.
Current Position: University of Houston, Honors College.
Clara Viator Dobay, “Essays in Mormon Historiography.”
Advisor: Richard D. Younger.

1974-1979

1978

Don E. Carleton, “A Crisis of Rapid Change: The Red Scare in Houston, 1945-1955.”
Advisor: John O. King.
Current Position: Director, University of Texas Center for American History.
Publications: Red Scare!: Right-Wing Hysteria Fifties Fanaticism and Their Legacy in Texas (Texas Monthly Press, 1985); Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience (University of Texas Press, 2002); A Breed So Rare: The Life of J.R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oilman, 1896-1992 (Texas State Historical Association, 1992).

1975

James C. Maroney, “Organized Labor in Texas, 1900-1929.”
Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.
Current Position: Professor, Lee College.

1974

Margaret Swett Henson, “Samuel May Williams, 1795-1858: Texas Entrepreneur.” [Deceased]
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Publications: Samuel May Williams, Early Texas Entrepreneur (Texas Press, 1976); The Cartwrights of San Augustine: Three Generations of Agrarian Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Texas (Texas State Historical Association, 1994); Lorenzo De Zavala: The Pragmatic Idealist, (Texas Christian University Press, 1996); Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac (Texas A&M University Press, 1982).