Dissertation Workshops 2018-2019
Elissa Berwick (Comparative Politics and Methodology, MIT): “Substate nationalism and the scope of redistribution: Evidence from Spain”
Louis Gerdelan (History): “Prophecies of doom or the doom of prophecy? Debates over the astrological prediction of disasters in the Atlantic world, c.1650-1700”
Ian Kumekawa (History): “Lugers and Londonderry: World War I, Ireland, and the origins of modern British gun control”
Deirdre DeBruyn Rubio (Islamic Studies, Religion and Society): “Sacred/secular space: The politics of space and interfaith for French Muslim communities in Paris”
Mikko Silliman (Education Policy & Program Evaluation): “Can schools help close immigrant-native gaps in later outcomes?”
Mina Mitreva (History): “Anarcho-syndicalism from Wilhelmine to Weimar Germany, 1914-1930”
Lucas Melvin Mueller (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), MIT): “Risk on the negotiation table: Contaminants, global commodity trade, and experts after empire”
Note: Unless otherwise noted, all graduate students are Ph.D. candidates at Harvard University.
Dissertation Workshops 2017-2018
Brandon Bloch (History): "Conscientious Objection and the Revaluation of Resistance: West Germany, 1949-1961"
Josh Ehrlich (History): "The Anglicist-Orientalist Controversy Revisited: Education and the Ends of the Company State in British India"
James McSpadden (History): “National Parliamentarians on the International Stage: Private Diplomacy and Political Cooperation in Interwar Europe”
Andrew Bellisari (History): "Twelve Anxious Men: Re-Examining Algeria's Transition to Independence"
Brandon Bloch (History): "The Law of Reconciliation: German Protestants and International Law in a Divided World, 1957-1965"
Yukako Otori (History): "Family Passports: Migration and Traffic in Children in the 1920s"
Joshua Ehrlich (History): "Knowledge and the East India Company State, 1785-1795"
Dissertation Workshops 2016-2017
Elizabeth Cross (History): "The Pen and the Sword: Visions of Revanche and the Problem of Company Governance in the French Indian Ocean"
Tomasz Blusiewicz (History): “Überseehafen Rostock: East Germany’s Window to the World under Stasi Watch, 1961-1989”
Rachel Friedman (Government): “The Collectivization of Risk and the Early Welfare State”
Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Government): “Adam Smith and Max Scheler on Sympathy”
Jamie McSpadden (History): “A Radical Change? Female Parliamentarians’ Influence on European Politics, 1918-1940”
Joshua Ehrlich (History): "Wellesley and the Politics of Fort William College"
Lydia Walker (History): "Politics of Plaint: Nagas, Namibians, and the United Nations System of the early 1960s"
Kristen Loveland (History): “Replacing God: Reproductive Technologies in German Religious and Legal Thought in the 1980s”
Liat Spiro (History): “Drafting Empire: American and German Capital Goods and the Mission Industrialisatrice in the Shandong-Kyushu Corridor, 1880-1914”
Andrew Bellisari (History): “Yesterday’s Enemies: Decolonization and the Role of the Mixed Ceasefire Commissions in French Algeria”
Brandon Bloch (History): “Institutionalizing Protestant Ethics: Families, Schools, and the West German Basic Law, 1949-1957
Dissertation Workshops 2015-2016
Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Government): “Great Expectations: Henri Bergson and the Morality of Uncertainty”
Tae-Yeoun Keum (Government): “An Enlightenment Fable: Leibniz and the Boundaries of Reason”
Elizabeth Cross (History): “The French Revolution of the Compagnie des Indes: 1789-1792”
Lydia Walker (History): “In the Shadow of Katanga”
John Harpham (Government): “From Freedom to Slavery”
Colleen Anderson (History): “Cosmic Visitors: The Space Race in East and West Germany, 1957-1969”
Guillaume Wadia (History): “The Deep State and the Imperial Spring, 1934-1937”
Tomasz Blusiewicz (History): “Contraband, bribes, drugs and big bucks: Why was Solidarność born on the Polish Baltic Coast?”
Jamie McSpadden (History): “Constructing and Contesting an Interwar Parliamentary International: The Inter-Parliamentary Union and Conférence parlementaire internationale du commerce”
Dissertation Workshops 2014-2015
Kristen Loveland (History), "Reproducing Dignity: German and American Law and the Politics of Reproductive Technologies at the Millennium"
Carolin F. Roeder (History), "Geographies of Alpine Knowledge: 1857-1932"
Sarah Shortall (History), "The Weapons of the Spirit: Catholic Theology and the Resistance to Nazism"
James R. Martin (History), "The Origins of International Economic Governance: Food, Finance, and Shipping during the First World War, 1916-1920"
Mircea Raianu (History), "Between Paternalism and Technocracy: The Tata Iron and Steel Company and the Circulation of Expertise in the British Empire, 1900-1950"