The Department of History prides itself on the quality of research undertaken by our graduate students. Some of their recent theses are listed below.

2023

• Haley Wells, "From Homilies to Little Saint Hugh: Antisemitism in Medieval Literature.” Advisor: Andrew Baer

2022

• Kamau Bamidele, “Inventing the African America.” Advisor: Andrew Baer

2021

• Shelia Blair, “Non-Human Agency in Environmental History.” Advisor: Andrew Baer

2020

• Tammy Blue, "The Evolution of Racism Through the Lens of Lynching Rhetoric and Memory." Advisor: Andrew Baer.

2019

• Logan Barrett, "The Civil Rights Struggle for Black Economic Opportunity in Birmingham." Advisor: Andrew Baer.
• Mary Katherine Armbrester, "Our Friendship and Our Enmity: British Imperialism and the 1921 Cairo Conference." Advisor: Andre Millard.

2017

• Stephanie Keller Womack, "From Despised Temporary Governor to First Elected Governor of Louisiana: The Vindication of William Charles Cole Claiborne." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.
• Christopher Long, "Mounting Mermaids on Alligators: Establishing the Georgia Continental Line." Advisor: Brian Steele.

2016

• Michael Barrett, "Racial Segregation: Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in Birmingham, Alabama, 1950-1960.” Advisor: Colin Davis.
• Nadejda Bontcheva-Loyaga, "Latin American Immigration to the Deep South: Community Responses in Birmingham Metro Area, Al (1995-2010)." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.

2015

• Tyler M. Malugani, "The Business of Forgetting: How Atlanta became a Future-oriented City, 1865-1895." Advisor: Colin Davis.

2014

• Thomas C. Mclemore, "Cooking With Caste Iron: Food System Modernization In Birmingham, 1910-1964." Advisor: Robert Corley.
• Jennifer E. Stitt, "Duty for Today, Hope for the Morrow: Alexander Crummell's Communitarian Ideal." Advisor: Brian Steele.

2013

• Terri Hicks, "Oak Hill Cemetery, A Reflection of Early Birmingham: 1871-1913." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.

2012

• Samuel "Yana" Davis, "The Odyssey of the Lotus: The Evolution and Journal of Buddhism's Most Egalitarian Teaching from Asia to America." Advisor: John E. Van Sant.
• Susan Elizabeth Hunter, "Subsistence Homesteads in Jefferson County: A Successful 'Experiment'?" Advisor: Robert G. Corley.
• Scott Kennedy, "Vote, People, Vote!: W. C. Patton, the NAACP, and the Birmingham Black Community." Advisor: Raymond A. Mohl.
• Jessica Newman, "Berry G. Jackson, alias Berry Clyatt: Murder Witness and Murderer." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.

2011

• JohnMark Allen Edwards, "From Brown to Blake: Race change and the Birmingham City Schools, 1963-1983." Advisor: Tennant McWilliams.
• Cheyenne N. Haney, "Dreams of a Far Away Land, Japanese Immigration to Peru, 1899-1950." Advisor: John E. Van Sant.
• Joshua S. Hodge, "Reconstructing the Southern Populists: Alabama Farmers before Political Revolt, 1884-1889." Advisor: Brian Steele.
• Forrest C. McSweeney, "Contracts, Consent, and Fate: Framing the Chinese Civil Service Examinations as Mechanisms of Social Conditioning and Political Domination." Advisor: John E. Van Sant.

2010

• Kaye Nail, "Birmingham's Jewish Women and Social Reform, 1880-1980." Advisor: Raymond A. Mohl.