Dissertation Defenses, 2023-24

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Left to Right: Andrew Seber, Evelyn Kessler, Leora Auslander, and Nathalie Barton
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Left to Right: Seven Pincus, David Como (on screen), Elizabeth Hines, and Adrian Johns
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Left to Right: Adrienne Brown, Nathalie Barton, and Adam Green
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Left to Right: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Surabhi Pudasaini, Rochona Majumdar, Brodwyn Fischer, Leora Auslander
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Back row: Jacob Eyferth; Front row Left to Right: Kenneth Pomeranz, Jiakai Sheng, Susan Burns
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Left to Right: Karin Krause, Anthony Kaldellis, Clifford Ando, Brian Salas
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three people and another on zoom standing in a room with windows and books in the background
three people standing in front of windows
five people standing in front of a large portrait and bookshelves
four people standing in front of a large portrait and bookshelves
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Congratulations to the following students who defended their dissertations in 2023-2024.

Nathalie Barton
Title - The Terms of the Lease: The Struggle over the Landlord-Tenant Relationship in Urban America
Committee - Adam Green, Amy Dru Stanley, Destin Jenkins, and Adrienne Brown

Andrew Clement
Title - Remaking Religion: Secular Society and the Positive Sciences in Early Third Republic France
Committee - Jan Goldstein, Paul Cheney, and Adrian Jones

Serena Covkin
Title - Fighting in Court: Women, War, and the Law in Twentieth-Century America
Committee - Amy Dru Stanley, Kathleen Belew, Adam Green, James Sparrow, and Laura Weinrib

Timothy Crimmins
Title - From Rehabilitation to Incapacitation: Social Scientists, Crime, and Incarceration in the 1960s and 1970s
Committee - James Sparrow, Jane Dailey, and Angus Burgin

Elizabeth Hines
Title - Anglo-Dutch Commerce, Religion, and War, 1634-1652
Committee - Steven Pincus, Adrian Johns, and David Como

Nicholas Johnson
Title - American Keynesianism
Committee - Jonathan Levy, Joel Isaac, and James Sparrow

Caine Jordan
Title - Leonidas: Black Physicians and Public Health in the Jim Crow North
Committee - Adam Green, Michael Rossi, and Destin Jenkins

Evelyn Kessler
Title - Consent: Remaking the American Body, 1860-1920
Committee - Amy Dru Stanley, Leora Auslander, and Jonathan Levy

Yasser Nasser
Title - Creating New Asia: Sino-Indian Friendship and the Promise of Asian Solidarity in the Early Cold War, 1947-1962
Committee - Dipesh Chakrabarty, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mark Bradley, and Jacob Eyferth

Surabhi Pudasaini
Title - Manufacturing, Crafting, Tending: Making and Knowing in the 19th Century Gorkhali Polity
Committee - Dipesh Chakrabarty, Leora Auslander, Rochana Majumdar, and Brodwyn Fischer

Griffin Ridley
Title - Restoring Order: The Papal Monarchy, Republicanism, and Political Thought in Italy, 1220-1300
Committee - Johnathan Lyon, David Nirenberg, and Ada Palmer

Brian Salas
Title - The Strategides and Themes: A Quantitative Approach to the Byzantine Empire's Administrative Structure
Committee - Clifford Ando, Karin Krause, and Anthony Kaldellis

Andrew Seber
Title - Factory/Farm: Industrial Animals and the Other Environmental Movement
Committee - Kathleen Belew, Joseph Masco, and Leora Auslander

Jaikai Sheng
Title - Re-colonizing Shanghai: The Japanese Settlement in a Chinese Treaty Port, 1895-1937
Committee - Susan Burns, Jacob Eyferth, and Kenneth Pomeranz