Ph.D.'s Awarded 1979 -
2009
Theodore Foss
A Jesuit Encyclopedia for China: A Guide to Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description... de la Chine (1735)
Summer 1979
Joanna E. Frueh
The Rossetti Woman Winter
1981
Kineret S. Jaffe
The Creation and Communication of Expressive Art: A Dilemma for
the Romantic Artist and Audience
Winter 1981
Alcyone M. Scott
Thomas Mann and the Dionysian: Humanist on Trial
Spring 1981
Avner Cohen
Doubt, Anxiety and Philosophical Salvation: A Study of Meta-Philosophical
and Psychological Themes in the History of Scepticism
Summer 1981
William W. Quinn,
Jr.
The Only Tradition: Philosophia Perennis and Culture in the Writings
of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Rene Guenon
Autumn 1981
Ellen Keck Stauder
Form Cut Into Time: Pound's Understanding of Music
Spring 1982
Anne E. Feldman
Reichardt's Lieder: A Microcosm of Emerging German Cultural Definitions
of Self
Summer 1982
Margaret R. Olin
Alois Riegl and the Crisis of Representation in Art Theory: 1880-1905
Autumn 1982
Laura L. Doan
Aesthetic Reconciliation in the Age of Austerity: The Impact of
the Second World War on the English Novel and Creative Arts:
1945-1965
Spring 1983
Elinor W. Gadon
An Inconographical Analysis of the Early Krsnabhakti in Gujurat
Balagopalastuti
Winter 1984
Joseph Scott Lee
Humanity as Comedy in George Bernard Shaw's Plays
Winter 1984
Evelyn D. Asch
"The Unknown Public": Middle-Class Reactions to Popular Literature
in Victorian Britain
Spring 1984
Elena Folkerts-Landau
The Economics of Live Opera and Ballet Performance: Theory and
Application
Spring 1984
Victoria Kennick
Urubshurow
Symbolic Process on the Buddhist Path: Spiritual Development in
the Biographical Tradition of Milarepa
Spring 1984
Daniel M. Bluestone
Landscape and Culture in 19th-Century Chicago
Autumn 1984
William J. Hartley
Politics and Culture in Antioni Gramsci: Quaderni del carcere
Spring 1985
Mark L. Perry
The Baha'i Faith in Chicago: 1920-1040
Spring 1986
Carol Burnside
W. Robertson Smith and Louis Dumont: Fundamental Institutions and
Ideology
Spring 1987
Mary Louise Doherty
A Ritual Analysis of Encounter Groups and Experimental Drama in
the Sixties
Spring 1987
Tucker Edmond Landy
Mastering Nature: The Theologico-Political Origins of the Idea
Autumn 1987
Salley Promey
Spiritual Spectacles: Shaker Gift Images in Religious Context
Autumn 1988
Suzi Naiburg Asher
The Appalling Other in Henry James: A Jungian Approach to his Dreams
and Fiction
Summer 1989
Leah R. Baer
Cultural Change: A Study of Changes in the Objects and Rituals
of Iranian Jews
Spring 1990
Milton Eder
Pluralizing Orientalism: A Century of Bhagavad Gita Translations
in Historical Perspective
Spring 1990
Ann E. Faulkner
A Study of the Episcopal Liturgy : 1949-1989
Spring 1990
Esther Schely-Newman
Self and Community in Historical Narratives: Tunisian Immigrants
in an Israeli Moshav
Spring 1991
Lisa Roberts
From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum
Spring 1992
Jeffrey Kaplan
Revolutionary Millennarianism in the Modern World: From
Christian Identity to Gush Emunim
Spring 1993
Margaret Cary Colarelli
Of Mind and Manner: Association and Digression in the
Seasons, The Task, and the Prelude
Winter l996
Ujjval Krishnakant
Vyas
The Intellectual Foundations of Philip Johnson
Summer l996
Brent Cottam Orton
Humanist, All Too Humanist: The Aestheticization of Humanity in
Schiller, Nietzsche, and Mann
Summer 1997
Robert E. Somol,
Jr.
Misreading the Avantgarde in Contemporary Architecture
Autumn 1997
Michael D. Phillips
Nationalism in Cultural Change in Belize
Winter 1998
Stewart L. Winger
Lincoln's Religious Rhetoric: American Romanticism and the Antislavery
Impulse
Summer 1998
Roderick Luis Coover
Visualizing Cultures: The Tropologies of Montage and the Ethnographic
Image
Spring 1999
Phillip M. Thompson
The Searchers: Twentieth Century Catholic Intellectuals and the
Transformation of the Church's Engagement with Science and
Technology
Spring 1999
Richard H. Schmitt
The Form of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus with a New Translation
of Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung
Winter 2000
Christopher Lehrich
Hermetic Hermeneutics: Language, Magic, and Power in Cornelius
Agrippa's De occulta philosophia
Autumn 2000
Po-Kan Chou
The Translation of The Dazhidulun: Buddhist Evolution in China
in the Early Fifth Century
Autumn 2000
R. Scott Hanson
City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in
Flushing, Queens--New York City, 1945-2000
Spring 2002
Mary Bachvarova
From Hittite to Homer: The Role of Anatolians in the Transmission
of Epic and Prayer Motifs from the Near East to the Greeks
Summer 2002
Heather Hindman
Stability in Motion: Expatriate Women in Kathmandu, Nepal
Spring 2003
Nancy Hogan
Photographing the Dead
Spring 2004
Ruth J. Chojnacki
Indigenous Apostles: Maya Catholic Catechists Working the Word
in Highland Chiapas
Summer 2004
Jessica N. Buben
E=mc2: Image Equivalency and Pop-Metaphysics
Spring 2005
Elizabeth Kessler
Spacescapes: Romantic Aesthetics and the Hubble Space Telescope Images
Winter 2006
Hillel Braude
The Invisible Thread: Intuition in Medical and Moral Reasoning
Spring 2006
Rosemary Polanco
Los Hijos De Maria: Dominican Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS in New York City
Summer 2006
Joshua Kaplan
Does Necessity Know No Bounds?: The Transnational Human Rights Movement and the Logic of the State in Israel/Palestine
Autumn 2006
Chad Redwing
Dictatorial Violence, The Body Politic and the Politics of the Body: Dismembering and Remembering in Chilean Literature, Cinema and Public Spaces
Spring 2007
Talya Salant
Bodies of Risk: Breast Cancer and the Cultural Politics of Prevention
Spring 2007
Myles Chilton
Global Cities/Urban Subjects: The Literary Rearticulation of Identity
Summer 2007
Christopher Simmons
Diffusing Authorship Into System: Thomas Harper Ince, the Emergence of the American Feature and the Incean Society Film, 1911-1924
Summer 2007
Lynn Cunningham
A Mind-Altering Substance: A Study of Symbolic Attributes of Hair
Autumn 2007
Ruth E. Friedman
"Here Comes Newer Comfort": The Transformation of Comfort from Foxe to Bunyan
Spring 2008
Hyrum La Turner
Roger Bacon's Faith in Science
Spring 2008
Neil Verma
Theater of the Mind: The American Radio Play and Its Golden Age, 1934-1956
Autumn 2008
Tanji Gilliam
That Crack In The Concrete: Hip-Hop, Politics and The Archive in Black Urban Video Culture, 1989-2004
Spring 2009
Mark S. James
Racing Thoughts: Anti-Intellectualism in the Fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois
Spring 2009
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