Doctoral Dissertations Awarded
Information order:
PhD Student's Name:
Dissertation Title:
Date Conferred:
Committee Chair:
Summers, Festus Paul
"The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: A Study in the Civil War"
1933
Charles H. Ambler
Bushong, Millard Kessler
"A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia"
1941
Charles H. Ambler
Barns, William Derrick
"The Granger and Populist Movement in West Virginia, 1873-1914"
1947
Charles H. Ambler
Caruso, John Anthony
"Henry Gassaway Davis and the Pan American Railway"
1949
Benjamin Keen
McClelland, Robert Crawford
"The Soviet Union in American Opinion, 1933-1942"
1950
William D. Barns
Jones, James G.
"West Virginia in World War II"
1952
Festus P. Summers
Sheeler, John Reuben
"The Negro in West Virginia Before 1900"
1954
Festus P. Summers
Wilkins, Robert Poole
"North Dakota and the European War 1914-1917: A Study in Public Opinion"
1954
William D. Barns
Smith, Gerald Wayne
"West Virginia Congressional Opinion on the Tariff 1865-1895"
1954
Festus P. Summers
McVeigh, Donald Rusk
"Charles James Faulkner, Reluctant Rebel"
1955
Festus P. Summers
Thoenen, Eugene David
"The Petroleum Industry in West Virginia 1860-1900"
1956
Festus P. Summers
Moore, George Ellis
"Slavery as a Factor in the Formation of West Virginia"
1957
Festus P. Summers
Pease, Louise McNeill (Mrs.)
"The Great Kanawha in the Old South, 1671-1861: A Study in Contradiction"
1959
Festus P. Summers
Turner, William Patrick, Jr.
"From Bourbon to Liberal: The Life and Times of John T. McGraw"
1960
Festus P. Summers
Whitehurst, George William
"Quarantine the Aggressor: Roosevelt's Attempt at Collective Security in 1937"
1962
Wesley M. Bagby
Lord, Charles Amon
"The West Virginia Education Association, 1865-1961"
1963
Festus P. Summers
Morris, Robert L.
"The Wheeling Dailey Intelligencer and the Civil War"
1964
Festus P. Summers
Shaffer, Dallas B.
"Mr. Lincoln and West Virginia"
1965
Festus P. Summers
Bell, Leland Virgil
"Anatomy of a Hate Movement: The German American Bund, 1936-1941"
1968
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Moss, Jean Kathleen Dietz (Mrs.)
"The Family of Love in England"
1969
Mortimer Levine
Maxwell, John Allen
"Social Democracy in a Divided Germany"
1969
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Gould, Alan Brant
"Secretary Walter L. Fisher and the Return to Constructive Conservations, Problems of the Conservation Movement, 1909-1913"
1969
William D. Barns
Woodward, Isaiah Alfonso
"Arthur Ingraham Boreman: A Biography"
1970
William D. Barns
Stealey, John Edmund, III
"The Salt Industry of the Great Kanawha Valley of Virginia: A Study in Ante-bellum Internal Commerce"
1970
William D. Barns
Coffey, William Ellis
"Rush Dew Holt, The Boy Senator"
1970
James W. Hess
Massay, Glenn Frank
"Coal Consolidation: Profile of the Fairmont Field of Northern West Virginia, 1852-1903"
1970
William D. Barns
Frescoln, Katharine Pitman
"Thomas Randolph, An Elizabethan in Scotland"
1971
Mortimer Levine
Ferling, John Ernie
"Joseph Gulloway and the Philosophy of Loyalism"
1971
Elizabeth Cometti
Sturm, Theodore Paul
"The Social Gospel in the Methodist Church of Pittsburgh, 1865-1920"
1971
William D. Barns
Allen, Bernard Lee
"John Dewey's Views on History, 1859-1952"
1971
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Haines, Billy Lee
"The Role of the Baron of Maua in the Economic Development of Nineteenth Century Brazil"
1972
John A. Caruso
Larner, John William, Jr.
"The Kootenay Plans (Alberta) Land Question and Canadian Indian Policy, 1799-1947"
1972
William D. Barns
Peters, Harold Dean
"Citizen Genet and the American West, 1793-1794"
1972
William D. Barns
Walker, Charles Emerson
"The Role of Karl Nesselrodde in the Formulation and Implementation of Russian Foreign Policy 1850-1856"
1973
Kurt Rosenbaum
Florian, Robert B.
"James Morton Callahan as a Diplomatic Historian"
1973
Mortimer Levine
Pavick, Thomas Peter
"An Economic History of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1850-1860"
1973
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
McGoldrick, James Edward
"Luther's English Disciples: The Reformation Thought of Robert Barnes and William Tyndale"
1974
Mortimer Levine
Fox, Harry Donald
"Thomas T. Haggerty and the Formative Years of the United Mine Workers of America"
1975
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Baas, Jacob Charles
"John Jay Jackson, Jr.: His Early Life and Public Career, 1824-1870"
1975
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Shorrock, John Beecher
"Harold Nicolson and Alfred Duff Cooper: The Historian as Politician in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-1939"
1975
Kurt Rosenbaum
Rosinsky, Larry Martin
"James Pilkington: The Study of an Elizabethan Bishop"
1975
Elizabeth K. Hudson
Smith, Douglas Clifford
"The West Virginia Human Rights Commission During the Gavett-McKinney
Era, 1961-1966"
1975
William D. Barns
Haid, Stephen E.
"Arthurdale, An Experiment in Community Planning, 1933-1947"
1975
William D. Barns
Talbott, Irvin Durward, Jr.
"Agricultural Innovation and Policy Changes in Kenya in the 1930s"
1976
Robert M. Maxon
Adams, Elizabeth C.
"Seventeenth-Century Attitudes toward the French Estates General"
1976
William T. Doherty, Jr.
MacDonald, Kenneth R.
"The Image of America: America in the English Press, 1685-1715"
1976
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Kershner, James W.
"Sylvanus Thayer: A Biography"
1976
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Daddysman, James W.
"The Matamoros Trade Route 1861-1865"
1976
Wesley M. Bagby
Waibel, Paul R.
"German Social Democracy in the Catholic Church -- 1945-1959"
1977
John A. Maxwell
Hunt, Carl M.
"Oyotunji Village: The Yoruba Movement in America"
1977
Robert M. Maxon
Lechnar, Michael J.
"Henry VIII's Bastard"
1977
Mortimer Levine
Lutz, Paul F.
"William Casey Marland: Governor of West Virginia 1953-57"
1977
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Jones, Daniel C.
"H.L. Menchken: New Deal Critic, 1933-1936"
1977
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Javersak, David T.
"The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly: The Formative Years,
1882- 1915"
1977
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Ehle, Rockne D.
"A.F. Pollard: A Historian"
1977
Mortimer Levine
Pore, Renate E.
"The German Social Democratic Women's Movement, 1918-1933"
1977
John A. Maxwell
Brown, Stephen W.
"John George Jackson: A Biography"
1977
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Tucker, Gary J.
"William E. Glasscock: Thirteenth Governor of West Virginia"
1978
William D. Barns
Hilgenberg, James F.
"The American Business Press and the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952"
1978
Jack L. Hammersmith
Christie, Sharon
"Richard Morison: An Analysis of His Life and Work"
1978
Mortimer Levine
Kemp, Janet K.
"Laurence Humphrey, An Elizabethan Puritan: His Life, and Political Ideas"
1978
Mortimer Levine
Ranson, Frederick D.
"The Great Unknown: Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio"
1978
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Seitz, Jacob R.
"A History of the Samia Location in Western Kenya 1890-1939"
1978
Robert M. Maxon
Bias, Charles V.
"A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and Its
Predecessors, 1784-1977"
1979
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Cullen, George E., Jr.
"Talking to a Whirlwind: The Loyalist Printers in America, 1763-1783"
1979
Edward M. Steel, Jr.
Gatrell, A. Steven
"Herman Guy Kemp: A Political Profile"
1979
William T. Doherty, Jr.
Watson, James A.
"Four English Constitutional Principles and the Press, 1700-1707"
1980
W. Reynolds McLeod
Ofcansky, Thomas Paul
"A History of Game Preservation in British East Africa, 1895-1963"
1981
Robert M. Maxon
Cricco, Patricia R.
"Witness and the Twelfth Century Monastic Renewal"
1981
Charles W. Connell
Mucklow, Timothy Jones
"William Warham: A Political Biography"
1982
Mortimer Levine
Pleysier, Albert Jan
"Anabaptism and the Henrician Reformation"
1982
Mortimer Levine
Pappas, Paul Constantine
"The United States and the Greek War for Independence, 1821-1828"
1982
Wesley M. Bagby
Mayle, Paul David
"Agreement in Principle: The Anglo-Soviet-American Alliance and the Tehran Conference of 1943"
1982
Wesley M. Bagby
MacDonald, Duncan Bruce
"The Struggle to Reform: John Hamilton and His Kirk, 1549-1560"
1983
Elizabeth K. Hudson
Howard, Thomas Weston
"The Early Career of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk"
1984
Mortimer Levine
Wainstock, Dennis Dean
"The 1968 Presidential Campaign and Election"
1984
Wesley M. Bagby
Lizza, Richard Patrick
"Some Dimensions of the Immigrant Experience: Italians in Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, West Virginia 1900-1930"
1984
William D. Barns
Monahan, W. Gregory
"Year of Sorrows: The Great Winter and Famine of 1709 in Lyon
and Saone Valley"
1985
Dennis H. O'Brien
Beyan, Amos J.
"The American Colonization Society and the Formation of Political, Economic, and Religious Institutions in Liberia, 1822-1900"
1985
Robert M. Maxon
Dawson, Francis N.
"The 1954 Geneva Conference: Eisenhower's Indochina Policy"
1985
Jack L. Hammersmith
Caruso, Camille A.
"Arts and Learning at the Court of Henry IV"
1986
Dennis H. O'Brien
Dean, William H.
"Sir Thomas Boleyn: The Courtier Diplomat, 1477-1539"
1987
Elizabeth K. Hudson
Kappel, Gary
"Air Diplomacy: British Policy and the Air Pact Proposal of 1935"
1987
John A. Maxwell
Mulcahy, Richard P.
"To Serve A Union: The United Mine Workers of America Welfare
and Retirement Fund, 1946-1978"
1988
Ronald L. Lewis
White, Duey Janette
"Complementary Context for the Life of St. Queen Radegunda"
1989
Charles W. Connell
Simmons, Robert H.
"Social Mobility, Sectionalism, and the Politics of Economic Development: Wheeling and the Hinterlnad, 1840-1865"
1990
Ronald L. Lewis
Kabourou, Aman Walid
"The Evolution of American Interests in British East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Region"
Robert M. Maxon
Wilson, Carol E.
"Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks, 1780-1865"
1991
Ronald L. Lewis
Robb, Frances C.
"Industry In The Potomac River Valley, 1760-1860"
1991
Ronald L. Lewis
Fennell, Charles C.
"The Battle at Culp's Hill"
1992
John A. Maxwell
Rasmussen, Barbara E.
"The Absentee Legacy in Virginia's West 1781-1915"
1992
Ronald L. Lewis
Slaven, Michael Duang
"Scapegoating, Secuality, and Theories of the body in the Parisian Frondes, 1648-1652"
1993
Robert E. Blobaum
Hennen, John Carlton Jr.
"The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925"
1993
Ronald L. Lewis
Ndege, Peter Odhiambo
"The Depression, the Colonial State and Trade in Kenya, 1929-1939"
1993
Robert M. Maxon
DelaCova, Antonio Rafael
"A Biography of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales"
1994
John C. Super
Simpson, George Lawrence Jr.
"Colonial Administration in Kenya's Northern Frontier District from 1909-1939/On the Frontiers of Empire: British Administration"
1994
Robert M. Maxon
Drobney, Jeffrey Andrew
"Lumbermen and Log Sawyers: The Transformation of Life and Labor in the North Florida Industry, 1830-1930"
May 1995
Ronald L. Lewis
Gooden, Randall Scott
"The Completion of a Revolution: West Virginia from Statehood through Reconstruction"
May 1995
Ronald L. Lewis
Barney, Sandra Lee
"Accepting the Findings of Medical Science: Gender, Class and the Political Economy of Health Care in Central Appalachia 1880-1935"
December 1995
Ronald L. Lewis
Heidenmann, Wolf Erich
"Right Radicalism and Immigration in the Federal Republic of Germany: a Study of the National Democratic Party of Germany, 1964-1994"
December 1995
John A. Maxwell
Smith-Akubue, Dorothy A.
"Evangelism and Western Education in Western Kenya: Church of God"
December 1995
Robert M. Maxon
Workman, Michael Edward
"Political Culture and the Coal Economy in the Upper Monongahela Region, 1776-1933"
December 1995
Ronald L. Lewis
Jenrette, Jerra L.
"There's No Damn Reason for It - It's Just Our Policy": Labor-Management Conflict in Martinsburg, West Virginia's Textile and Garment Industry"
May 1996
Barbara J. Howe
Ndege, George O.
"Disease and Socio-Economic Change: The Politics of Colonial Health Care in Western Kenya, 1895-1939"
May 1996
Robert M. Maxon
Winant, Edward Howard
"The Hydraulics Revolution: Science and Technical Design of Urban Water Supply in the Enlightenment"
May 1996
Gregory A. Good
Wang, Yufeng
"John S. Service and U.S.-China Relations, 1933-1945"
May 1997
Wesley M. Bagby
Wilson, Denise Marie
"Vincennes: From French Colonial Vilagae to American Frontier Town,
1750-1820"
May 1997
Mary Lou Lustig
Carter, Michael Darryl
"National Building and the Military: The Life and Career of Secretary of War Henry Knox, 1750-1806"
December 1997
Mary Lou Lustig
Cook, Jeffrey Blane
"The Ambassador of Development: Aretas Brooks Fleming, West Virginia's Palitical Entrepreneur, 1839-1923"
December 1998
Ronald L. Lewis
Crumine-Bingle, Jean McAlister
"Labor for Bread: The Exploitation of Polish Labor in the Soviet Union During World War II"
May 1999
Robert E. Blobaum
Peyton, Billy Joe
"To Make the Crooked Ways Straight and the Rough Ways Smooth: The Federal Government's Role in Laying and Building the Cumberland Road"
May 1999
Emory L. Kemp
Yu, Yuegen
"The Bond of An Enduring Relationship: United States-China Scientific Relations, 1949-1989"
May 1999
Gregory A. Good
Cahill, Kevin John
"Fertilizing the Weeds: The New Deal's Rural Poverty Program in West Virginia"
August 23, 1999
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf (co-CH), Ronald L. Lewis (co-CH),
Frazier, Kevan
"Big Dreams, Small Cities: John Nolen, the New South, And the City Planning Movement in Asheville, Roanoke, and Johnson City, 1907-1937"
August , 2000
Barbara J. Howe
Shilaro, Priscilla M.
"A Failed Eldorado: British Trusteeship, Luyia Land Rights and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930-52"
Ausgust , 2000
Robert M. Maxon
Weiss, James R.
"The Metamorphosis of Jewish Identities in Nineteenth Century Russia, 1801-1894"
August , 2000
Steven M. Zdatny
Barnes, L. Diane
"Hammer and Hand in the Old South: Artisan Workers in Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1860"
December 2000
Ronald L. Lewis
Stephen Smith
"Secession, War and Rebirth: The Civil War in West Virginia's South Branch Valley of the Potomac"
December 2000
Ronald L. Lewis
Steele, Charles
"Brothers in Arms: Case Studies of Officer and NCO Integration in the New States of the Federal Republic of Germany"
December 2000
Robert E. Blobaum
Wadyko, Michael
"Alexander Von Humboldt and Nineteenth-Century Ideas On the Origin of American Indians"
December 2000
Gregory A. Good
Nangulu, Anne
"Food Security and Coping Mechanisms in Kenya's Marginal Areas: The Case of West Pokot"
May 2001
Robert M. Maxon
Bailey, Rebecca
"Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in Mingo County, 1793-1920"
August 2001
Ronald L. Lewis
Wamagatta, Evanson
"The Presbyterian Church of East Africa: An Account of Its Gospel Missionary Society Origins, 1895-1946"
August 2001
Robert M. Maxon
Anderson, Robert
"The Transformation of the Upper Ohio River Valley"
December 2001
Mary Lou Lustig
Carney, Thomas
"A Religious Conflict in Education: The King's College Controversy as a Historical Precedent to Separation of Church and State, 1752-1756"
December 2001
Mary Lou Lustig
Gherke, Michael
"Dutch Women in New Netherland and new York in the Seventheenth Century"
December 2001
Mary Lou Lustig
Mathur, Nameeta
"Women and Physical Culture in Modern Poland"
December 2001
Robert E. Blobaum
Camp, Joe H., Jr.
"Birch Rod to Arsenal: A Study of the naval Ordanance Plant at South Charleston, West Virginia and its Implications for Government Policy"
May 2002
A. Michal McMahon
McCarthy, William D.
"Building the Beaver and Lake Erie Canal: The Politic of Public Improvements in Pennsylvania, 1783-1845"
May 2002
A. Michal McMahon
Nigro, Augustine P.
"Landscaping the Lehigh: The Creation of a Middle Industrial Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania"
May 2002
A. Michal McMahon
Weiner, Deborah R.
"A History of Jewish Communities in the Central Appalachian Coalfields, 1870s to 1970s"
May 2002
Ronald L. Lewis
Okia, Opolot J.
"Forced Labor and Humanitarian Ideology in Kenya, 1911-1925"
May 2002
Robert M. Maxon
Rakes, Paul H.
"Acceptable Casualties: Power, Culture, and History in the West Virginia Coalfields, 1900-1945"
April 2002
Ronald L. Lewis
Buck, David R.
"A Helping Hand?: The United States, 'Questions of the Far East,' & the Washington Conference, 1921-1922"
August 2002
Jack L. Hammersmith
Jordon, Brucella W.
"International Dimensions of the Nineteenth Century Anti-Lynching Campaign"
May 2003
Robert M. Maxon
Park, Tae J.
"In Support of New China: Origins of the China Lobby, 1937-1941"
August 2003
Jack L. Hammersmith
Vaughan, Patrick G.
"Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Political and Academic Life of a Cold War Visionary"
December, 2003
Robert E. Blobaum
Wilson, Marcelle R.
"LOYALISTS: Economic, Gendered, and Racial Minorities Acting Politically for King and Country"
December, 2003
Mary Lou Lustig
Sturm, Philip W.
"Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia, 1785-1815: the Myth of the Southern Frontiersman"
May 2004
Ronald L. Lewis
Cantrell, Phillip A.
"A Talented and Energetic Young Man: John Foster Dulles and His Preparation for Statemanship, 1888-1937"
November 2004
Jack L. Hammersmith
Esposito, Mark A. T.
"The Conditions of Trade are Constantly Changing: The UAW, American Trade Policy and the Transformation of the Global
Automobile Industry, 1945-1973"
November 2004
Jack L. Hammersmith
VanSickle, Eugene
"A Transitional Vision John H.B. Latrobe and Maryland's African Colonizatio Movement"
February 2005
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
Mwaruvie, John
"Political Economy of Railway Extensions in Kenya: The Case of Uasin Gishu Railway 1910-1930"
Summer 2005
Robert M. Maxon
Grimes, Richard
"The Emergence and Decline of the Delaware Indian Nation in Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Country, 1730-1795"
June 2005
MaryLou Lusting
Stewart-Burns, Shirley L.
"Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia"
June 2005
Ronald L. Lewis
Barksdale, Kevin T.
"Upon The Shoulders of Giants: Deconstructing the State of Franklin"
October 2005
Ronald L. Lewis
Makana, Nicholas
"Changing Patterns of Indigenous Economic Systems: Agrarian Change and Rural Transformation in Bungoma District, 1930-1960"
December 2005
Robert M. Maxon
Leonhard, Robert R
"Enlightened Defense: The National Securite Policy of Thomas Jefferson"
March 2006
Michal McMahon
Deitreich, Kenneth
"Honor Patriarchy and Disunion: Masculinity and the Coming of the American Civil War"
April 2006
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
Yandle, Paul
"The Relapse of Reconstruction: Railroad Building, Party Warfare and Prejudice in Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 1854-1888"
June 2006
Ronald L. Lewis
Hennen, Deborah
"Government Hesitancy Amids Industry Discord: Decline of the United States-Flag Merchant Marine after World War II"
July 2006
Michal McMahon
Bush, Carletta A.
"Faith, Power, and Conflict: Miner Preachers and the UMWA in the Harlan County Mine Wars, 1931-1939"
September 2006
Ronald L. Lewis
Jewell, James R.
"Left Arm of the Republic: The Department of the Pacific During the Civil War"
November 2006
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
Boback, John
"Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749-1794."
May 2007
Ronald L. Lewis
Rice, Connie
"For Men and Measures": The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Pinoeer J.R. Clifford.
May 2007
Ronald L. Lewis
Shanguhyia, Martin
"The State, Ecology, and Society in Western Kenya: Politics of Soil Conservation and Land Management in Vihiga, 1930-1950."
May 2007
Robert Maxon
Martin, Lou
"Working for Independence: The Failure of the New Deal in Politics in a Rural Industrial Place."
April 2008
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
