Northern Illinois University
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Our current Ph.D. students are doing research in these areas. 

• LeNie Adolphson, “Health Care in the Black Metropolis: A History of Provident Hospital.”
  Director: Beatrix Hoffman
• John Alcade, “The Language of Citizenship: Italian Immigrants and English Fluency in the Courthouse, 1875-1921.”
  Director: James Schmidt
• Ian Burns, “In Service of Ireland: The Irish Volunteers, 1913-16.”
  Director: Sean Farrell
• Edward Byrd, “Cut It Out and Cut Us In.”
  Director: Stanley Arnold
• Alexander Craver, “The Forgotten Transformation: Synthetic Rubber and the Soviet Union.”
  Director: Andy Bruno
• JoAnn LoSavio, “Modern Mandala: A Transnational History of Southeast Asian Youth from Burma, Malaya, and Thailand in Great Britain and the United States, 1950-1970.”
  Director: Trude Jacobsen
• Kevin Luginbill, “Building an Imperial World: Imperial Ideologies and the Politics of the Tariff Reform Movement in the British Empire, 1900-14.”
  Director: Sean Farrell
• Matthew Maletz, “Revolution by Education: Indians and the Guatemalan State, 1944-54.”
  Director: Anne Hanley
• Robert Marach, “Textbooks and Traitors: Civil War Veterans and Patriotic Education.”
  Director: James Schmidt
• Alexander Sosenko, “The Human Faces of Dissident-Socialism: The Stuggle for Human Rights in Soviet Ukraine.”
  Director: Andy Bruno
• Journey Steward, “Immigrants or Prostitutes? Panic over White Slavery in France, Britain and the United States.”
  Director: Sean Farrell
• Elizabeth Unrah, “Lutherans and Sexuality, 1963-1982.”
  Director: Amanda Littauer
• Megan Van Gorder, “The Many Motherhoods of Mary Bickerdyke: Reexamining the Image of Women’s Experience in the Civil War Era.”
  Director: James Schmidt