Recent Ph.D.s

The list of PhDs is arranged in the order of date awarded, name, dissertation title, advisor (chair of the committee), and employment after graduation.

Gibson, Emily
“Flying the Flag: Gender and the Projection of National Progress Through Global Air Travel, 1930-1960"
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: May 5, 2017
Associate Historian, National Science Foundation

Jirout, Brian
“One Space Age Development for the World: The American Landsat Civil Remote Sensing Program in Use, 1953-2003"
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: May 5, 2017
Independent Scholar

Yao, Liang
“Consuming Science: A History of Soft Drinks in Modern China"
Advisor: Hanchao Lu
Date awarded: May 6, 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University, Beijing

An, Hyoung Joon
“National Aspirations, Imagined Futures, and Space Exploration: the Origin and Development of the Korean Space Program, 1958-2013"
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: December 11, 2015
Associate Research Fellow, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Korea

Atwaters, Sybrina
“Redefining the Sacred in 3D Virtual Worlds: Exploratory Analysis of Innovation and Knowledge Production through Religious Expression”
Advisor: Willie Pearson, Jr.
Date awarded: December 13, 2014
Life Development Director, Gifted Education Foundation

Ross, Gloria
“Race, Poverty, and Food Vulnerability in Atlanta, 1980-2010”
Advisor: Bill Winders
Date awarded: December 13, 2014
Research Analyst, Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Borello, Lisa
“Technological Discipline, Obese Bodies and Gender: A Sociological Analysis of Gastric Banding”
Advisor: Willie Pearson, Jr.
Date awarded: December 13, 2013
Researcher, Kansas State University

Callahan, Angel Long
“Satellite Meteorology in the Cold War Era: Scientific Coalitions and International Leadership 1946-1964”
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: December 13, 2013
Associate Historian, Naval Research Laboratory

Nikiforova, Irina
“Turing Award Scientists: Contribution and Recognition in Computer Science”
Advisor: Mary Frank Fox
Date awarded: August 3, 2012
Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

Hardy, Eric
“Policy Drought: Water Resource Management, Urban Growth, & Technological Solutions in Post-World War II Atlanta”
Advisor: Steve Usselman
Date awarded: December 17, 2011
Assistant Professor, Loyola University

Maharaj, D. Ashok
“Space for 'Development': US-Indian Space Relations 1955-1976”
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: December 17, 2011
Human Resources, TATA, Chennai, India

Yoon, Jungwon
“Exploring Regional Innovation Capacities of PR China: Toward the Study of Knowledge Divide”
Advisor: Willie Pearson, Jr.
Date awarded: December 17, 2011
Research Faculty, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

Zhou, Fang
“The Wheels that Transformed the City: The Historical Development of Public Transportation Systems in Shanghai, 1843-1937”
Advisor: Hanchao Lu
Date awarded: December 17, 2010
Associate Professor of History, Georgia Gwinnett College

Moon, Nathan
“The Amphetamine Years: A Study of the Medical Applications and Extramedical Consumption of Psychostimulant Drugs in the Postwar United States, 1945-1980”
Advisor: Andrea Tone
Date awarded: December 11, 2009
Researcher, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Tao, Yu
“The Earnings of Asian Computer Scientists and Engineers in the U.S.”
Advisor: Willie Pearson, Jr.
Date awarded: August 1, 2009
Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

McGahey, Christopher
“Harnessing Natures’ Timekeeper: A History of the Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Technological Community (1880-1950)”
Advisor: Steve Usselman
Date awarded: May 1, 2009
U.S. Patent Office

Zander, Patrick
“Right Modern: Technology, Empire, and the Britains’ Extreme Right Wing in the Fascist Era (1919-1940)”
Advisor: Jonathan Schneer
Date awarded: May 1, 2009
Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Gwinnett College

Phalkey, Jahnavi
“Big Science, State Formation, and Development: The Organisation of Nuclear Research in India, 1938-1959”
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: September 12, 2007
Director, Science Gallery, Bangalore, India

Scriven, Olivia A.
“The Politics of Particularism: HBCUs, Spelman College, and the Struggle to Educate African Americans in Science, 1950-1997”
Advisors: Willie Pearson, Jr., Steve Usselman
Date awarded: August 4, 2006
Senior Advisor for Academic Development, Spelman College

Stoneman, Timothy
“Capturing Believers: International Radio, Religion, and Reception, 1931-1970”
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: May 6, 2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Visiting Assistant Professor, GT- Lorraine, Metz, France

Hawley, Elizabeth Haven
“American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840-1890”
Advisor: Andrea Tone
Date awarded: December 17, 2005
Chair, Special and Area Collections Department
George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida

Kumar, Prakash
“Facing Competition: The History of Indigo Experiences in Colonial India, 1897-1920”
Advisor: John Krige
Date awarded: December 11, 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Associate Professor, History and Asian Studies, Penn State University

Shackleford, Benjamin A.
“Going National While Staying Southern: Stock Car Racing in America, 1949-1979”
Advisor: Steve Usselman
Date awarded: December 11, 2004
Senior Social Scientist, Internal Revenue Service

Toivanen, Hannes
“Learning and Corporate Strategy: The Dynamic Evolution of the North America Pulp and Paper Industry, 1860-1960”
Advisor: Steve Usselman
Date awarded: July 30, 2004
Senior Researcher, Lappeenrata University of Technology, Finland

Sharp, Leslie
“Women Shaping Shelter: Technology, Consumption, and the Twentieth Century House”
Advisor: Andrea Tone
Date awarded: May 1, 2004
Associate Vice Provost, Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology

Hild, Matthew
“Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late Nineteenth Century South”
Advisor: Robert McMath Jr.
Date awarded: August 2, 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia

Combes, Richard
“The Development of Technology-Based Industry in Atlanta”
Advisor: August Giebelhaus
Date awarded: May 4, 2002
Owner, RC Consulting, LLC

Tympas, Aristotelis
“The Computor and the Analyst: Computing and Power, 1880s-1960s”
Advisor: Steve Usselman
Date awarded: December 15, 2001
Lecturer, University of Athens, Greece

Lands, LeeAnn
“Class, Race, and the Workers’ City: Atlanta, 1880 to 1922”
Advisor: Ronald Bayor
Date awarded: May 5, 2001
Associate Professor of History, Kennesaw State University

Harris, Robin
“‘A New Representative of Southern Intellect: Julia Anna Flisch, A New Woman of the New South”
Advisor: Robert McMath Jr.
Date awarded: September 4, 1998
Associate Professor, Georgia College and State University

Morton, David
“The History of Magnetic Recording in the United States, 1888-1978”
Advisor: Bruce Sinclair
Date awarded: December 9, 1995
Research Historian, IEEE History Center