Past Ph.D.s

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

  • 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

  • Nikiforova, Irina
    “Turing Award Scientists: Contribution and Recognition in Computer Science”
    Advisor: Mary Frank Fox
    Date awarded: August 3, 2012

  • 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

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

  • Yoon, Jungwon
    “Exploring Regional Innovation Capacities of PR China: Toward the Study of Knowledge Divide”
    Advisor: Willie Pearson, Jr.
    Date awarded: December 17, 2011

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Stoneman, Timothy
    “Capturing Believers: International Radio, Religion, and Reception, 1931-1970”
    Advisor: John Krige
    Date awarded: May 6, 2006

  • Hawley, Elizabeth Haven
    “American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840-1890”
    Advisor: Andrea Tone
    Date awarded: December 17, 2005

  • Kumar, Prakash
    “Facing Competition: The History of Indigo Experiences in Colonial India, 1897-1920”
    Advisor: John Krige
    Date awarded: December 11, 2004

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

  • 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

  • Sharp, Leslie
    “Women Shaping Shelter: Technology, Consumption, and the Twentieth Century House”
    Advisor: Andrea Tone
    Date awarded: May 1, 2004

  • 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

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

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

  • Lands, LeeAnn
    “Class, Race, and the Workers’ City: Atlanta, 1880 to 1922”
    Advisor: Ronald Bayor
    Date awarded: May 5, 2001

  • 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

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