PhDs Awarded
Information order:
PhD Student’s Name, Date Conferred, Committee Chair
Dissertation Title
Festus Paul Summers, 1933, Charles H. Ambler
“The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: A Study in the Civil War”
Millard Kessler Bushong, 1941, Charles H. Ambler
“A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia”
William Derrick Barns, 1947, Charles H. Ambler
“The Granger and Populist Movement in West Virginia, 1873-1914”
John Anthony Caruso, 1949, Benjamin Keen
“Henry Gassaway Davis and the Pan American Railway”
Robert Crawford McClelland, 1950, William D. Barns
“The Soviet Union in American Opinion, 1933-1942”
James G. Jones, 1952, Festus P. Summers
“West Virginia in World War II”
John Reuben Sheeler, 1954, Festus P. Summers
“The Negro in West Virginia Before 1900”
Robert Poole Wilkins, 1954, William D. Barns
“North Dakota and the European War 1914-1917: A Study in Public Opinion”
Gerald Wayne Smith, 1954, Festus P. Summers
“West Virginia Congressional Opinion on the Tariff 1865-1895”
Donald Rusk McVeigh, 1955, Festus P. Summers
“Charles James Faulkner, Reluctant Rebel”
Eugene David Thoenen, 1956, Festus P. Summers
“The Petroleum Industry in West Virginia 1860-1900”
George Ellis Moore, 1957, Festus P. Summers
“Slavery as a Factor in the Formation of West Virginia”
Louise McNeill Pease, 1959, Festus P. Summers
“The Great Kanawha in the Old South, 1671-1861: A Study in Contradiction”
William Patrick Turner, Jr., 1960, Festus P. Summers
“From Bourbon to Liberal: The Life and Times of John T. McGraw”
George William Whitehurst, 1962, Wesley M. Bagby
“Quarantine the Aggressor: Roosevelt’s Attempt at Collective Security in 1937”
Charles Amon Lord, 1963, Festus P. Summers
“The West Virginia Education Association, 1865-1961”
Robert L. Morris, 1964, Festus P. Summers
“The Wheeling Dailey Intelligencer and the Civil War”
Dallas B. Shaffer, 1965, Festus P. Summers
“Mr. Lincoln and West Virginia”
Leland Virgil Bell, 1968, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“Anatomy of a Hate Movement: The German American Bund, 1936-1941”
Jean Kathleen Dietz Moss, 1969, Mortimer Levine
“The Family of Love in England”
John Allen Maxwell, 1969, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“Social Democracy in a Divided Germany”
Alan Brant Gould, 1969, William D. Barns
“Secretary Walter L. Fisher and the Return to Constructive Conservations, Problems of the Conservation Movement, 1909-1913”
Isaiah Alfonso Woodward, 1970, William D. Barns
“Arthur Ingraham Boreman: A Biography”
John Edmund Stealey, III, 1970, William D. Barns
“The Salt Industry of the Great Kanawha Valley of Virginia: A Study in Ante-bellum Internal Commerce”
William Ellis Coffey, 1970, James W. Hess
“Rush Dew Holt, The Boy Senator”
Glenn Frank Massay, 1970, William D. Barns
“Coal Consolidation: Profile of the Fairmont Field of Northern West Virginia, 1852-1903”
Katharine Pitman Frescoln, 1971, Mortimer Levine
“Thomas Randolph, An Elizabethan in Scotland”
John Ernie Ferling, 1971, Elizabeth Cometti
“Joseph Gulloway and the Philosophy of Loyalism”
Theodore Paul Sturm, 1971, William D. Barns
“The Social Gospel in the Methodist Church of Pittsburgh, 1865-1920”
Bernard Lee Allen, 1971, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“John Dewey’s Views on History, 1859-1952”
Billy Lee Haines, 1972, John A. Caruso
“The Role of the Baron of Maua in the Economic Development of Nineteenth Century Brazil”
John William Larner, Jr., 1972, William D. Barns
“The Kootenay Plans (Alberta) Land Question and Canadian Indian Policy, 1799-1947”
Harold Dean Peters, 1972, William D. Barns
“Citizen Genet and the American West, 1793-1794”
Charles Emerson Walker, 1973, Kurt Rosenbaum
“The Role of Karl Nesselrodde in the Formulation and Implementation of Russian Foreign Policy 1850-1856”
Robert B. Florian, 1973, Mortimer Levine
“James Morton Callahan as a Diplomatic Historian”
Thomas Peter Pavick, 1973, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“An Economic History of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1850-1860”
James Edward McGoldrick, 1974, Mortimer Levine
“Luther’s English Disciples: The Reformation Thought of Robert Barnes and William Tyndale”
Harry Donald Fox, 1975, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“Thomas T. Haggerty and the Formative Years of the United Mine Workers of America”
Jacob Charles Baas, 1975, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“John Jay Jackson, Jr.: His Early Life and Public Career, 1824-1870”
John Beecher Shorrock, 1975, Kurt Rosenbaum
“Harold Nicolson and Alfred Duff Cooper: The Historian as Politician in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-1939”
Larry Martin Rosinsky, 1975, Elizabeth K. Hudson
“James Pilkington: The Study of an Elizabethan Bishop”
Douglas Clifford Smith, 1975, William D. Barns
“The West Virginia Human Rights Commission During the Gavett-McKinney Era, 1961-1966”
Stephen E.Haid, 1975, William D. Barns
“Arthurdale, An Experiment in Community Planning, 1933-1947”
Irvin Durward Talbott, Jr., 1976, Robert M. Maxon
“Agricultural Innovation and Policy Changes in Kenya in the 1930s”
Elizabeth C.Adams, 1976, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“Seventeenth-Century Attitudes toward the French Estates General”
Kenneth R.MacDonald, 1976, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“The Image of America: America in the English Press, 1685-1715”
James W. Kershner, 1976, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“Sylvanus Thayer: A Biography”
James W. Daddysman, 1976, Wesley M. Bagby
“The Matamoros Trade Route 1861-1865”
Paul R. Waibel, 1977, John A. Maxwell
“German Social Democracy in the Catholic Church—1945-1959”
Carl M. Hunt, 1977, Robert M. Maxon
“Oyotunji Village: The Yoruba Movement in America”
Michael J. Lechnar, 1977, Mortimer Levine
“Henry VIII’s Bastard”
Paul F. Lutz, 1977, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“William Casey Marland: Governor of West Virginia 1953-57”
Daniel C. Jones, 1977, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“H.L. Menchken: New Deal Critic, 1933-1936”
David T. Javersak, 1977, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly: The Formative Years, 1882- 1915”
Rockne D. Ehle, 1977, Mortimer Levine
“A.F. Pollard: A Historian”
Renate E. Pore, 1977, John A. Maxwell
“The German Social Democratic Women’s Movement, 1918-1933”
Stephen W. Brown, 1977, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“John George Jackson: A Biography”
Gary J. Tucker, 1978, William D. Barns
“William E. Glasscock: Thirteenth Governor of West Virginia”
James F. Hilgenberg, 1978, Jack L. Hammersmith
“The American Business Press and the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952”
Sharon Christie, 1978, Mortimer Levine
“Richard Morison: An Analysis of His Life and Work”
Janet K. Kemp, 1978, Mortimer Levine
“Laurence Humphrey, An Elizabethan Puritan: His Life, and Political Ideas”
Frederick D. Ranson, 1978, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“The Great Unknown: Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio”
Jacob R. Seitz, 1978, Robert M. Maxon
“A History of the Samia Location in Western Kenya 1890-1939”
Charles V. Bias, 1979, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and Its Predecessors, 1784-1977”
George E. Cullen, Jr., 1979, Edward M. Steel, Jr.
“Talking to a Whirlwind: The Loyalist Printers in America, 1763-1783”
A. Steven Gatrell, 1979, William T. Doherty, Jr.
“Herman Guy Kemp: A Political Profile”
James A. Watson, 1980, W. Reynolds McLeod
“Four English Constitutional Principles and the Press, 1700-1707”
Thomas Paul Ofcansky, 1981, Robert M. Maxon
“A History of Game Preservation in British East Africa, 1895-1963”
Patricia R. Cricco, 1981, Charles W. Connell
“Witness and the Twelfth Century Monastic Renewal”
Timothy Jones Mucklow, 1982, Mortimer Levine
“William Warham: A Political Biography”
Albert Jan Pleysier, 1982, Mortimer Levine
“Anabaptism and the Henrician Reformation”
Paul Constantine Pappas, 1982, Wesley M. Bagby
“The United States and the Greek War for Independence, 1821-1828”
Paul David Mayle, 1982, Wesley M. Bagby
“Agreement in Principle: The Anglo-Soviet-American Alliance and the Tehran Conference of 1943”
Duncan Bruce MacDonald, 1983, Elizabeth K. Hudson
“The Struggle to Reform: John Hamilton and His Kirk, 1549-1560”
Thomas Weston Howard, 1984, Mortimer Levine
“The Early Career of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk”
Dennis Dean Wainstock, 1984, Wesley M. Bagby
“The 1968 Presidential Campaign and Election”
Richard Patrick Lizza, 1984, William D. Barns
“Some Dimensions of the Immigrant Experience: Italians in Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, West Virginia 1900-1930”
W. Gregory Monahan, 1985, Dennis H. O’Brien
“Year of Sorrows: The Great Winter and Famine of 1709 in Lyon and Saone Valley”
Amos J. Beyan, 1985, Robert M. Maxon
“The American Colonization Society and the Formation of Political, Economic, and Religious Institutions in Liberia, 1822-1900”
Francis N. Dawson, 1985, Jack L. Hammersmith
“The 1954 Geneva Conference: Eisenhower’s Indochina Policy”
Camille A. Caruso, 1986, Dennis H. O’Brien
“Arts and Learning at the Court of Henry IV”
William H. Dean, 1987, Elizabeth K. Hudson
“Sir Thomas Boleyn: The Courtier Diplomat, 1477-1539”
Gary Kappel, 1987, John A. Maxwell
“Air Diplomacy: British Policy and the Air Pact Proposal of 1935”
Richard P. Mulcahy, 1988, Ronald L. Lewis
“To Serve A Union: The United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, 1946-1978”
Duey Janette White, 1989, Charles W. Connell
“Complementary Context for the Life of St. Queen Radegunda”
Robert H. Simmons, 1990, Ronald L. Lewis
“Social Mobility, Sectionalism, and the Politics of Economic Development: Wheeling and the Hinterland, 1840-1865”
Aman Walid Kabourou, 1991, Robert M. Maxon
“The Evolution of American Interests in British East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Region”
Carol E. Wilson, 1991, Ronald L. Lewis
“Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks, 1780-1865”
Frances C. Robb, 1991, Ronald L. Lewis
“Industry In The Potomac River Valley, 1760-1860”
Charles C. Fennell, 1992, John A. Maxwell
“The Battle at Culp’s Hill”
, 1992, Ronald L. Lewis
“The Absentee Legacy in Virginia’s West 1781-1915”
Michael Duang Slaven, 1993, Robert E. Blobaum
“Scapegoating, Secuality, and Theories of the body in the Parisian Frondes, 1648-1652”
John Carlton Hennen, Jr., 1993, Ronald L. Lewis
“The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925”
Peter Odhiambo Ndege, 1993, Robert M. Maxon
“The Depression, the Colonial State and Trade in Kenya, 1929-1939”
Antonio Rafael DelaCova, 1994, John C. Super
“A Biography of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales”
George Lawrence Simpson, Jr., 1994, Robert M. Maxon
“Colonial Administration in Kenya’s Northern Frontier District from 1909-1939/On the Frontiers of Empire: British Administration”
Jeffrey Andrew Drobney, May 1995, Ronald L. Lewis
“Lumbermen and Log Sawyers: The Transformation of Life and Labor in the North Florida Industry, 1830-1930”
Randall Scott Gooden, May 1995, Ronald L. Lewis
“The Completion of a Revolution: West Virginia from Statehood through Reconstruction”
Sandra Lee Barney, December 1995, Ronald L. Lewis
“Accepting the Findings of Medical Science: Gender, Class and the Political Economy of Health Care in Central Appalachia 1880-1935”
Wolf Erich Heidenmann, December 1995, John A. Maxwell
“Right Radicalism and Immigration in the Federal Republic of Germany: a Study of the National Democratic Party of Germany, 1964-1994”
Dorothy A. Smith-Akubue, December 1995, Robert M. Maxon
“Evangelism and Western Education in Western Kenya: Church of God”
Michael Edward Workman, December 1995, Ronald L. Lewis
“Political Culture and the Coal Economy in the Upper Monongahela Region, 1776-1933”
Jerra L. Jenrette, May 1996,
“There’s No Damn Reason for It – It’s Just Our Policy”: Labor-Management Conflict in Martinsburg, West Virginia’s Textile and Garment Industry”
George O. Ndege, May 1996, Robert M. Maxon
“Disease and Socio-Economic Change: The Politics of Colonial Health Care in Western Kenya, 1895-1939”
Edward Howard Winant, May 1996, Gregory A. Good
“The Hydraulics Revolution: Science and Technical Design of Urban Water Supply in the Enlightenment”
Yufeng Wang, May 1997, Wesley M. Bagby
“John S. Service and U.S.-China Relations, 1933-1945”
Denise Marie Wilson, May 1997, Mary Lou Lustig
“Vincennes: From French Colonial Vilagae to American Frontier Town, 1750-1820”
Michael Darryl Carter, December 1997, Mary Lou Lustig
“National Building and the Military: The Life and Career of Secretary of War Henry Knox, 1750-1806”
Jeffrey Blane Cook, December 1998, Ronald L. Lewis
“The Ambassador of Development: Aretas Brooks Fleming, West Virginia’s Palitical Entrepreneur, 1839-1923”
Jean McAlister Crumine-Bingle, May 1999, Robert E. Blobaum
“Labor for Bread: The Exploitation of Polish Labor in the Soviet Union During World War II”
Billy Joe Peyton, May 1999, Emory L. Kemp
“To Make the Crooked Ways Straight and the Rough Ways Smooth: The Federal Government’s Role in Laying and Building the Cumberland Road”
Yuegen Yu, May 1999, Gregory A. Good
“The Bond of An Enduring Relationship: United States-China Scientific Relations, 1949-1989”
Kevin John Cahill, August 1999, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis
“Fertilizing the Weeds: The New Deal’s Rural Poverty Program in West Virginia”
Kevan Frazier, August 2000,
“Big Dreams, Small Cities: John Nolen, the New South, And the City Planning Movement in Asheville, Roanoke, and Johnson City, 1907-1937”
Priscilla M. Shilaro, August 2000, Robert M. Maxon
“A Failed Eldorado: British Trusteeship, Luyia Land Rights and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930-52”
James R. Weiss, August 2000, Steven M. Zdatny
“The Metamorphosis of Jewish Identities in Nineteenth Century Russia, 1801-1894”
L. Diane Barnes, December 2000, Ronald L. Lewis
“Hammer and Hand in the Old South: Artisan Workers in Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1860”
Stephen Smith, December 2000, Ronald L. Lewis
“Secession, War and Rebirth: The Civil War in West Virginia’s South Branch Valley of the Potomac”
Charles Steele, December 2000, Robert E. Blobaum
“Brothers in Arms: Case Studies of Officer and NCO Integration in the New States of the Federal Republic of Germany”
Michael Wadyko, December 2000, Gregory A. Good
“Alexander Von Humboldt and Nineteenth-Century Ideas On the Origin of American Indians”
Anne Nangulu, May 2001, Robert M. Maxon
“Food Security and Coping Mechanisms in Kenya’s Marginal Areas: The Case of West Pokot”
Rebecca Bailey, August 2001, Ronald L. Lewis
“Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in Mingo County, 1793-1920”
Evanson Wamagatta, August 2001, Robert M. Maxon
“The Presbyterian Church of East Africa: An Account of Its Gospel Missionary Society Origins, 1895-1946”
Robert Anderson, December 2001, Mary Lou Lustig
“The Transformation of the Upper Ohio River Valley”
Thomas Carney, December 2001, Mary Lou Lustig
“A Religious Conflict in Education: The King’s College Controversy as a Historical Precedent to Separation of Church and State, 1752-1756”
Michael Gherke, December 2001, Mary Lou Lustig
“Dutch Women in New Netherland and new York in the Seventheenth Century”
Nameeta Mathur, December 2001, Robert E. Blobaum
“Women and Physical Culture in Modern Poland”
Joe H. Camp, Jr., May 2002, A. Michal McMahon
“Birch Rod to Arsenal: A Study of the naval Ordanance Plant at South Charleston, West Virginia and its Implications for Government Policy”
William D. McCarthy, May 2002, A. Michal McMahon
“Building the Beaver and Lake Erie Canal: The Politic of Public Improvements in Pennsylvania, 1783-1845”
Augustine P. Nigro, May 2002, A. Michal McMahon
“Landscaping the Lehigh: The Creation of a Middle Industrial Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania”
Deborah R. Weiner, May 2002, Ronald L. Lewis
“A History of Jewish Communities in the Central Appalachian Coalfields, 1870s to 1970s”
Opolot J. Okia, May 2002, Robert M. Maxon
“Forced Labor and Humanitarian Ideology in Kenya, 1911-1925”
Paul H. Rakes, April 2002, Ronald L. Lewis
“Acceptable Casualties: Power, Culture, and History in the West Virginia Coalfields, 1900-1945”
David R. Buck, August 2002, Jack L. Hammersmith
“A Helping Hand?: The United States, ‘Questions of the Far East,’ & the Washington Conference, 1921-1922”
Brucella W. Jordon, May 2003, Robert M. Maxon
“International Dimensions of the Nineteenth Century Anti-Lynching Campaign”
Tae J. Park, August 2003, Jack L. Hammersmith
“In Support of New China: Origins of the China Lobby, 1937-1941”
Patrick G. Vaughan, December 2003, Robert E. Blobaum
“Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Political and Academic Life of a Cold War Visionary”
Marcelle R. Wilson, December, 2003, Mary Lou Lustig
“Loyalists: Economic, Gendered, and Racial Minorities Acting Politically for King and Country”
Philip W. Sturm, May 2004, Ronald L. Lewis
“Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia, 1785-1815: the Myth of the Southern Frontiersman”
Phillip A. Cantrell, November 2004, Jack L. Hammersmith
“A Talented and Energetic Young Man: John Foster Dulles and His Preparation for Statemanship, 1888-1937”
Mark A. T. Esposito, November 2004, Jack L. Hammersmith
“The Conditions of Trade are Constantly Changing: The UAW, American Trade Policy and the Transformation of the Global Automobile Industry, 1945-1973”
Eugene VanSickle, February 2005, Kenneth Fones-Wolf
“A Transitional Vision John H.B. Latrobe and Maryland’s African Colonizatio Movement”
John Mwaruvie, Summer 2005, Robert M. Maxon
“Political Economy of Railway Extensions in Kenya: The Case of Uasin Gishu Railway 1910-1930”
Richard Grimes, June 2005, Mary Lou Lustig
“The Emergence and Decline of the Delaware Indian Nation in Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Country, 1730-1795”
Shirley L. Stewart-Burns, June 2005, Ronald L. Lewis
“Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia”
Kevin T. Barksdale, October 2005, Ronald L. Lewis
“Upon The Shoulders of Giants: Deconstructing the State of Franklin”
Nicholas Makana, December 2005, Robert M. Maxon
“Changing Patterns of Indigenous Economic Systems: Agrarian Change and Rural Transformation in Bungoma District, 1930-1960”
Robert R. Leonhard, March 2006, A. Michal McMahon
“Enlightened Defense: The National Securite Policy of Thomas Jefferson”
Kenneth Deitreich, April 2006, Kenneth Fones-Wolf
“Honor Patriarchy and Disunion: Masculinity and the Coming of the American Civil War”
Paul Yandle, June 2006, Ronald L. Lewis
“The Relapse of Reconstruction: Railroad Building, Party Warfare and Prejudice in Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 1854-1888”
Deborah Hennen, July 2006, A. Michal McMahon
“Government Hesitancy Amids Industry Discord: Decline of the United States-Flag Merchant Marine after World War II”
, September 2006, Ronald L. Lewis
“Faith, Power, and Conflict: Miner Preachers and the UMWA in the Harlan County Mine Wars, 1931-1939”
James R. Jewell, November 2006, Kenneth Fones-Wolf
“Left Arm of the Republic: The Department of the Pacific During the Civil War”
John Boback, May 2007, Ronald L. Lewis
“Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749-1794.”
, May 2007, Ronald L. Lewis
“For Men and Measures”: The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Pinoeer J.R. Clifford.
Martin Shanguhyia, May 2007, Robert Maxon
“The State, Ecology, and Society in Western Kenya: Politics of Soil Conservation and Land Management in Vihiga, 1930-1950.”
Lou Martin, April 2008, Kenneth Fones-Wolf
“Working for Independence: The Failure of the New Deal in Politics in a Rural Industrial Place.”
Jennifer Egolf, 2008, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis “Keeping America American: the Great Depression, Government Intervention, and the Conservative Response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1922-1940”
Mark Myers, 2008, Ronald L. Lewis
“Deindustrialization and the Decline of Community in the Coalfields: McDowell County, West Virginia, 1950-2000”
Elizabeth Oliver Lee, 2008, Ronald L. Lewis
“Potomac’s Valley Shall Become a Domain we Create, ‘Commercialism and the South Branch Valley, 1750-1800”
Kennedy M. Moindi, 2008, Robert Maxon
“State Economic Policy and Development in Kenya: A Study of African Entrepreneurship in Kisii Township and Its Evirons, 1930-1978”
Charles Dusch, 2009, Ronald L. Lewis
“In Stonewall’s Shadow: Southern Commemorative Influences on the Great War in America”
